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  • Robert Wang – Tarot Psychology
    Robert Wang – Tarot Psychology
    $18.00 | ,

    Volume I of the Jungian Tarot TrilogyThis illustrated companion to The Jungian Tarot deck applies Jungian principles of “active imagination” to the tarot archetypes, providing a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
    Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
    $29.00 | , ,

    Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • bell hooks – Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
    bell hooks – Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
    $16.00 | ,

    A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain’t I a Woman and All About Love‘There must be a revolution in the way we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    $16.00 | ,

    Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale
    The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Ac…
    $40.00 | , ,

    This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times, in which the influential philosopher, cultural theorist and occasional pornographer Georges Bataille [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gertrude Barrows Bennett – Claimed!
    Gertrude Barrows Bennett – Claimed!
    $14.00 | , ,

    Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from his sleep by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rebecca Tamas – The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual Year
    Rebecca Tamas – The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and the Ritual …
    $24.00 | , ,

    At festive gatherings celebrating summer’s peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wall-Paper
    $14.00 | , ,

    The original feminist horror story, about a woman driven to the brink – and beyond. In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • M.John Harrison – The End of Everything
    M.John Harrison – The End of Everything
    $19.00 | ,

    Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘n Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
    Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock ‘n Roll Gen…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A dazzling, no-holds-barred chronicle of the wild 1970s that transformed Hollywood, capturing the sex, drugs, genius, and chaos that ignited a cinematic revolution and changed movies forever. In [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jim Harrison – The Woman Lit By Fireflies
    Jim Harrison – The Woman Lit By Fireflies
    $7.00 | , ,

    Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Laurie Anderson – United States (as-is, no dustjacket)
    Laurie Anderson – United States (as-is, no dustjacket)
    $45.00 | , ,

    The companion art book/libretto for Anderson’s multi-media performance show/magnum opus. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
    Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
    $24.00 | ,

    Ornette Coleman’s career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African-American composer and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
    Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
    $16.00 | ,

    Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Renee Gladman – Event Factory
    Renee Gladman – Event Factory
    $8.00 | , ,

    A “linguist-traveler” arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the inhabitants to flee. Although fluent in the native language, she […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Talcott Parsons – The System of Modern Societies
    Talcott Parsons – The System of Modern Societies
    $8.00 | , ,

    Cybernetics informed work on sociology This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eric Rhode – Tower of Babel: Speculations on the Cinema (as-is, no dustjacket)
    Eric Rhode – Tower of Babel: Speculations on the Cinema (as-is, …
    $7.00 | , ,

    Eric Rhode’s examination of film and its’ cultural place, through the work 0f eleven directors. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arthur Marwick – The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States
    Arthur Marwick – The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, Fr…
    $10.00 | , ,

    If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, providing the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aihwa Ong – Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
    Aihwa Ong – Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
    Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, an…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers―from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henry Kyemba – A State of Blood
    Henry Kyemba – A State of Blood
    $20.00 | , ,

    For 6 years, Henry Kyemba was Idi Amin’s principal private secretary and later Minister of Health in 1970’s Uganda. If you want shivers sent up your spine, then this book […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
    The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
    $7.00 | , ,

    The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins, tracing humanity’s long-forgotten history into deep prehistory. This landmark work of feminist history shows that warfare and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
    Paul Bowles – The Sheltering Sky
    $7.00 | , ,

    In this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
    Camille Paglia – Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism…
    $10.00 | , ,

    A timely and lavishly comprehensive collection from the inimitable critical firebrand—hailed as “a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever” (The New York Times)—tackling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Drugs (Life Science Library)
    Drugs (Life Science Library)
    $7.00 | , ,

    Illustrated overview of the history and scientific effects of drugs, both legal and illicit. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries: Vol I
    Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russi…
    $20.00 | , ,

    The purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russian Contemporaries: Vol II
    Modernism in Russian Piano Music: Skriabin, Prokofiev, and Their Russi…
    $20.00 | , ,

    The purpose of this study is to review some of the techniques developed by Russian composers in the early part of the twentieth century, down to the active assertion of […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Oswald Spengler – The Decline Of The West
    Oswald Spengler – The Decline Of The West
    $30.00 | , ,

    Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Celtic Year: A Perpetual Solar And Lunar Calendar
    The Celtic Year: A Perpetual Solar And Lunar Calendar
    $100.00 | , ,

    A perpetual Solar and Lunar Calendar. The ancient festivals and the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Zodiac. Gorgeously illustrated. Light creasing from the fold of the calendar itself. Folds […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
    The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs
    $8.00 | , ,

    This unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level — from […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Twilight of the Celtic Gods: An Exploration of Britain’s Hidden Pagan Traditions
    Twilight of the Celtic Gods: An Exploration of Britain’s Hidden …
    $18.00 | , ,

    Twilight of the Celtic Gods is a fascinating account of Britain’s surviving Celtic tradition. This ground-breaking book – based on the authors’ combined research in the field [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emilio Salgari – The Mystery of the Black Jungle
    Emilio Salgari – The Mystery of the Black Jungle
    $10.00 | , ,

    India, 1851. Few can live in the Black Jungle, a desolate place teeming with wild dangerous beasts. Yet it is among its dark forests and bamboo groves that the renowned […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Henry Corbin – The Voyage and The Messenger: Iran and Philosophy
    Henry Corbin – The Voyage and The Messenger: Iran and Philosophy
    $8.00 | , ,

    This work, incorporating previously unpublished interviews and articles, retraces the quest of Henry Corbin into the imaginal realm of the unseen self, the domains of angels and numinous beings. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Walter Burkert – The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
    Walter Burkert – The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Infl…
    $10.00 | , ,

    The culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Walter Burkert offers […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Yosef ben-Jochannan – Black Man of the Nile
    Yosef ben-Jochannan – Black Man of the Nile
    $10.00 | , ,

    In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
    Jean Fautrier: 1898-1964
    $32.00 | , ,

    Jean Fautrier, one of France’s most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the Otages, his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Danilo Kis – A Tomb For Boris Davidovich
    Danilo Kis – A Tomb For Boris Davidovich
    $15.00 | , ,

    Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Composers on Music: An Anthology Of Composers Writings From Pakestrina to Copland
    Composers on Music: An Anthology Of Composers Writings From Pakestrina…
    $7.00 | , ,

    Features a wide array of essays written by composers as diverse as Satie, Carlos Chavez, Bartok and more. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Arthur C. Danto – Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy
    Arthur C. Danto – Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and M…
    $7.00 | , ,

      This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or light creasing/wear to the pages. The binding […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
    Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945
    $7.00 | , ,

    This new and augmented edition brings the history of the visual arts since the war forward to the events of the mid-1970’s, and, in particular, to the shift of attention […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Erich Von Daniken – Signs of the Gods
    Erich Von Daniken – Signs of the Gods
    $10.00 | , ,

    Were human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Morning Star: A Novel
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Morning Star: A Novel
    $10.00 | , ,

    One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andrew Edwards – Crowbar
    Andrew Edwards – Crowbar
    $15.00 | , ,

    Jay and Al, exiled Rhodesian mercenaries near the end of their rope, take a bagman job for a man in black named Cohen. Launched deep into the heavy syndicate, Jay […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lisa Saltzman – Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz
    Lisa Saltzman – Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz
    $30.00 | , ,

    Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz examines the legacy of German-Jewish culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Positioning Kiefer as a deeply learned artist who encounters and represents [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Camile Paglia – Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
    Camile Paglia – Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
    $8.00 | , ,

    The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    $7.00 | , ,

    Illustrated overview of the art of the Himalayan peoples This book is in Acceptable readable condition. It has been read and will show noticeable age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ted Gioia – The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture
    Ted Gioia – The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Cu…
    $7.00 | , ,

    Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia’s brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Stan Brakhage – Metaphors on Vision (2nd Edition)
    Stan Brakhage – Metaphors on Vision (2nd Edition)
    $100.00 | , ,

    “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • E.J Gold – American Book Of The Dead
    E.J Gold – American Book Of The Dead
    $7.00 | , ,

    With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 2
    Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 2
    $28.00 | ,

    HZB-030 241 pages, paperback 1st EDITION of 500 copies Tim Hiney and friends are back with another immensely entertaining volume of their acclaimed Where The Wild Gigs Were series delving […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction