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  • Uriah Heep – …Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble… (Clear Vinyl)
    Uriah Heep – …Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble… (Clear V…
    $30.00 | , ,

    Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: VG+ Label: Earmark – 641006 Series: Nice Price (2) Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Clear vinyl Country: Italy Released: 2005

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Camel – Rain Dances
    Camel – Rain Dances
    $14.00 | , ,

    “The band’s fifth release, Rain Dances is Camel at its best, offering the most consistent and representative package in their saga. The addition of Caravan-cofounder Richard Sinclair [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
    Reginald Bakeley – On Gnoming
    $5.00 | , ,

    “On Gnoming”: Phooka editor Reginald Bakeley outlines the principles of hunting and cooking these small, malignant, and particularly tasty woodland creatures. A sidebar on defenses against trolls [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lewis Carroll’s Croquet Companion
    Lewis Carroll’s Croquet Companion
    $5.00 | , ,

    What introduction needs be made for Lewis Carroll, or even Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the affectionate alter ego of the man behind the nonsensical classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and [...]

    GENRE: Zine
  • Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
    Steven Mithen – After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-500…
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    20,000 BC, the peak of the last ice age―the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
    Hans Belting – The Invisible Masterpiece
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    The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of this metaphor borrowed from […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Smithson (University Of California Press)
    Robert Smithson (University Of California Press)
    $20.00 | , ,

    This fully illustrated book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson’s (1938-73) complex and influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
    The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy
    $20.00 | , ,

    A pre-cursor to contemporary chemistry and physics, alchemy began as the pursuit of knowledge, initially in China as a search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
    Matilda Olkinaite – The Unlocked Diary (Scarce)
    $45.00 | , ,

    What does it mean to open a murdered young poet’s diary 80 years after her death? This book is what would have been Matilda Olkinaitė’s early work, if it hadn’t […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories of the Supernatural
    Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories …
    $10.00 | , ,

    “I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower … And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
    Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
    $10.00 | , ,

    Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Shadows of War
    Robert Westall – Shadows of War
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    In ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
    Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
    $10.00 | , ,

    ‘Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men’s clocks, pipes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rump State – Psychic Sidekick
    Rump State – Psychic Sidekick
    $23.00 | , ,

    Mark Morgan (formerly of Sightings and Silk Purse) and Gaute Granli first met in Brooklyn at The Glove in 2017 while Granli was on tour from his home country of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nina Antonia – Flitting
    Nina Antonia – Flitting
    $4.00 | , ,

    Thus opens Flitting, a short Christmas story offered as a Fiddler’s Green holiday special. A darkly poetic telling of English changeling folklore set in the modern day, Flitting provides a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual for Futurists
    Hillel Schwartz – Century’s End : An Orientation Manual fo…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A “Future Shock” for the turn of the century, Century’s End contains a rich trove of facts that will delight readers whose job it is to know what moods will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural America
    Lucy R. Lippard – Mixed Blessings : New Art in a Multicultural A…
    $8.00 | , ,

    In America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
    Dark Nature: A Natural History of Evil
    $8.00 | , ,

    At a time when violence threatens to become epidemic and genocide takes the place of diplomacy in many regions of the world, it is no longer enough to simply dismiss […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
    Harry C James – Pages from Hopi History
    $8.00 | , ,

    “More than half a century of contact between the author and the Hopi people has resulted in an unusual opportunity for long informative talks with friends from the villages. These […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
    The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the …
    $9.00 | , ,

    The priests of ancient Egypt preserved a geometrical canon, a numerical code of harmonies and proportions, that they applied to music, art, statecraft, and all the institutions of their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
    Shamans Through Time: 500 Years on the Path to Knowledge
    $9.00 | , ,

    A survey of five centuries of writings on the world’s great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries. This collection of essays [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
    Peter Wollen – Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth-Cent…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
    Mircea Eliade – Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
    $9.00 | , ,

    Originally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lupo Cittá – Inverno
    Lupo Cittá – Inverno
    $23.00 | ,

    The title track for Lupo Città’s second LP, INVERNO (‘winter’ in Italian), was born in January 2023. Written in waking sleep at 4 am. Looking out the window at the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
    Julian Stallabrass – High Art Lite
    $10.00 | , ,

    The recent controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Sensation! Show has further inflated the already burgeoning media profiles of British artists like Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili, Sarah [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity
    Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and th…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the “natural” limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
    Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
    $10.00 | , ,

    Hugo Ball―poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic―was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture
    The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imaginal Realities
    Daniel C. Noel – The Soul of Shamanism: Western Fantasies, Imagi…
    $10.00 | , ,

    From the Merlin of Arthurian romances to Mircea Eliade’s academic researches, from Carlos Castaneda’s Don Juan to the archetypal images of Carl Jung, the figure of the shaman has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance of Ancient Scripts Including Runes, Greek, Ogham, Hebrew and Alchemical Alphabets
    Nigel Pennick – Magical Alphabets: The Secrets and Significance …
    $12.00 | , ,

    Using the premise that languages and the alphabets that comprise them are metaphorical microcosms of our world, Nigel Pennick demonstrates how various alphabets function as a metaphysical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Sleeves – The Sleeves
    The Sleeves – The Sleeves
    $23.00 | ,

    The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature. Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
    Mike Jay – The Atmosphere of Heaven: The Unnatural Experiments o…
    $10.00 | , ,

    The stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    $15.00 | , ,

    Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
    The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature
    $15.00 | , ,

    The Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present. The animal bride tale, the author argues, is an enduring expression […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred
    Gregory & Mary Bateson – Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemolo…
    $15.00 | , ,

    Angels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
    R.Crumb – The Book of Genesis
    $18.00 | , ,

    Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
    Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
    $18.00 | , ,

    Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an “artist-engineer-scientist,” a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
    Anish Kapoor: Unconformity and Entropy
    $20.00 | , ,

    Throughout his creative career, Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor has worked extensively with architects and engineers, and built a large body of public works that merge sculpture and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
    The Sublime (Documents Of Contemporary Art Series)
    $20.00 | , ,

    In the contemporary world, where technology, spectacle, and excess seemto eclipse nature, the individual, and society, what might be the characteristics ofa contemporary sublime? If there is any [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
    Louis Kaplan – The Strange Case Of William Mumler
    $20.00 | , ,

    The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts—or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
    Francis Bacon: Important Paintings from the Estate
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Francis Bacon’s first painting of a pope was Head VI of 1949, a head‑and‑shoulders image which already presented the inspired conflation between the Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World
    Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein Alter und das Alter der Welt : Your Age a…
    $20.00 | , ,

    Gagosian is proud to present an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer entitled Dein und mein alter und das alter der Welt (Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World). […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Pleasure Tax – Pleasure Tax
    Pleasure Tax – Pleasure Tax
    $22.00 | ,

    Pleasure Tax is Jeannine Lonardo (Equipment Pointed Ankh, Shutaro’s Roadhouse Band) Real life absurdity meets fevered hallucinations. Digital worms, psychotic realms, disconnect, bodies of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today
    Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to …
    $25.00 | , ,

    Smile of the Buddha explores the influences of Asian world-views and particularly Buddhism on the art of Europe and America in the modern era. In an informative and perceptive introduction […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
    The Mystical Now : Art and the Sacred
    $25.00 | , ,

    Argues that sacred art is not synonymous with art on religious subjects, and analyzes sixty-five twentieth-century works which display the intense and personal commitment characteristic of the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • A Book by Anselm Kiefer
    A Book by Anselm Kiefer
    $25.00 | , ,

    Offers a brief profile of the German artist, reproduces a book of his watercolors, which include seascapes and nudes, and discusses the themes of his work This book is in […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth
    Wahine Toa: Women of Maori Myth
    $25.00 | , ,

    An exploration of the stories of 8 women from Maori myths, in art works and texts. The artist intends her work to be visual representations of the myths, rather than […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor
    Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor
    $25.00 | , ,

    A sharp send-up of authoritarian hubris–in which bloated, self-satisfied, bare-bottomed public officials excrete a foul diet literally to be swallowed by the masses–the etching [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
    The Essential Writings of Frithjof Schuon
    $25.00 | , ,

    This collection brings together the essential writings of a master thinker whose work bridges philosophy, spirituality, and metaphysics. Through eloquent essays and reflections, it explores the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • In Quest Of The Absolute
    In Quest Of The Absolute
    $30.00 | , ,

    This volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography