May 17th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    An introductory handbook/textbook for plastic surgery students. Tons of wild and informative diagrams. The Educational Foundation Of The American Society Of Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeons, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Worlds is set in modern times. It contrasts factory strikes, a businessman’s take-over and terrorist kidnap-pings. Its cast ranges from those who sit in the cabinet to those who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    The Thief’s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet’s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
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    “Wah Sash Kah Moqua: Or Thirty-Three Years Among The Indians is a book written by Mary Sagatoo and published in 1897. The book is a memoir of Sagatoo’s life as […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
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    “Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
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    Ezra Pound – whom T. S. Eliot has called “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time” – here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Revelator
    Ron Silliman – Revelator
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    Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It’s the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
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    What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Photomediations: A Reader
    Photomediations: A Reader
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Features interviews with Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe, Alice Notley and more. Talisman House, 1994 Softcover edition. Noticeable warp to book. Some discoloration to wraps/edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction

VINYL

  • Enhet För Fri Musik – Låt Oss Vada Genom All Ängslan Tillsammans
    Enhet För Fri Musik – Låt Oss Vada Genom All Ängslan Tillsammans
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released on Förlag För Fri Musik in 2015 A1 Jag Finns Här A2 Öppna Landskap A3 Bäckar Små A4 Född Att Dö B1 I Tron På Något Bättre B2 […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Luft (Mats Gustafsson & Erwan Keravec) – Inhale Volume I
    Luft (Mats Gustafsson & Erwan Keravec) – Inhale Volume I
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    ”The debut record of LUFT – is a two volume album of exceptional explorations within the bagpipe and reed universe —— unknown music of poetic beauty and high energy cascades. […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Finn Loxbo / Karin Johansson – Vent
    Finn Loxbo / Karin Johansson – Vent
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    In a rain forest of moments. the eye hears what the ear sees. through each moment of karin johansson’s and finn loxbo’s music runs the firm conviction that all points […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mad Professor ‎– Science And The Witch Doctor (Dub Me Crazy Part 9)
    Mad Professor ‎– Science And The Witch Doctor (Dub Me Crazy Part 9)
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Mad Professor’s Dub Me Crazy series stretched to a ninth volume with Science & the Witchdoctor. Though there is a stronger vocal presence here, including snippets from Kofi, [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Fateh = فتح ‎– Chants De La Résistance Palestinienne
    Fateh = فتح ‎– Chants De La Résistance Palestinienne
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Collects the songs of the Palestinian group Fatah Label: Le Chant Du Monde – LDX 74446 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: International
  • Sandra Cross & The Wild Bunch ‎– Stepping In Dubwise Country
    Sandra Cross & The Wild Bunch ‎– Stepping In Dubwise Country
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Dubs of Sandra Cross’s Country Life LP Label: Ariwa – ARILP031 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1987 VG/G+. Spine cracked 6″

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
    Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This is a rather relaxed recording featuring baritonist Gerry Mulligan and some of his top alumni (trumpeter Art Farmer, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Bill Crow, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vivian Weathers ‎– Bad Weathers
    Vivian Weathers ‎– Bad Weathers
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Vivian was a talented singer-songwriter who never realised his full potential. Leroy Smart’s popular ‘Pride and Ambition’ was written by Vivian, but he was not even credited on the record. […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Paranoid Time – RATLife
    Paranoid Time – RATLife
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A relentless scorched earth blast of speaker-shredding intensity from the machete-wielding Michigan madman.” – from the WCN CD reissue notes Label: Troniks – TRO-272 Format: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A  – Like A Frog In Winter
    V/A – Like A Frog In Winter
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In 2004 while residing in Providence, Dominic Fernow of Prurient and Hospital began compiling Like A Frog in Winter, in response to his perceptions that noise had become rather hi-fi, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Basement Tapes: A KSPC Compilation Of Live Recordings
    V/A – Basement Tapes: A KSPC Compilation Of Live Recordings
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Genre-spanning compilation from shows from the LA radio station. Features Mountain Goats, Solmania, Unwound and more. Label: KSPC Radio – KSPC-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Positive Force – Positive Force
    Positive Force – Positive Force
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    Sole album by the Pennsylvania soul/funk group. Eventually shifted into Positive Express Label: Sugar Hill Records – SH 248 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Disc low [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

CDs

BOOKS

  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    An introductory handbook/textbook for plastic surgery students. Tons of wild and informative diagrams. The Educational Foundation Of The American Society Of Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeons, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Worlds is set in modern times. It contrasts factory strikes, a businessman’s take-over and terrorist kidnap-pings. Its cast ranges from those who sit in the cabinet to those who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    The Thief’s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet’s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Wah Sash Kah Moqua: Or Thirty-Three Years Among The Indians is a book written by Mary Sagatoo and published in 1897. The book is a memoir of Sagatoo’s life as […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    Ezra Pound – whom T. S. Eliot has called “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time” – here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Revelator
    Ron Silliman – Revelator
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It’s the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Photomediations: A Reader
    Photomediations: A Reader
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Features interviews with Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe, Alice Notley and more. Talisman House, 1994 Softcover edition. Noticeable warp to book. Some discoloration to wraps/edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction