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Samuel R. Delany – Big Joe
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An uproarious and scandalous Southern picaresque by the master Samuel R. Delany. A chance encounter with two older fellows at the movie theater has the young vagabond Ligie on his […]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
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“Sakevi Yokoyama’s artistic creations have consistently exuded brilliance, cryptic allure, and majestic qualities, while continually transcending the boundaries of conventional forms [...]
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Art/Photography
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Kathryn Harrison – Poison
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Francisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
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In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
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Non-Fiction
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Denis Johnson – Angels (1st Edition)
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“The most critically acclaimed, and first, of Denis Johnson’s novels, Angels puts Jamie Mays—a runaway wife toting along two kids—and Bill Houston—ex-Navy man, ex-husband, ex-con—on a [...]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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Dodged & Burned – Seminal Rock Photography 1976-1984 Brian Shanley
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It’s finally come to fruition. Chicago photographer & graphic designer Brian Shanley may best known for his work with Wax Trax! Records during the 1980s, but for the first time […]
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Sam Greenlee – Blues For An African Princess
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Early poetry chapbook by the author of The Spook Who Sat By The Door. Third World Press, 1971 Staplebound Chapbook, 1st edition/1st printing. Noticeable rubbing and discoloration to both wraps. [...]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
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Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]
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Non-Fiction
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Michel Foucault – Religion And Culture
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Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually [...]
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Non-Fiction
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Julia Kristeva – Tales Of Love
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Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the core emotions of the human psyche through a series of philosophical and literary texts. She focuses on the role of narcissism and idealization […]
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Non-Fiction
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Heiko Julien – I Am Ready To Die A Violent Death
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Heiko Julien’s cutting edge hybrid prose/poetry debut. CCM, 2013 Softcover Edition. Light general wear
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Elisabeth Croll – Feminism And Socialism In China
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First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of [...]
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Non-Fiction
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David J. Getsy – Queer Behavior
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Scott Burton (1939–89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J. Getsy argues […]
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Non-Fiction
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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
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Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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Arthur Rimbaud – The Spiritual Hunt
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A long lost poem purportedly by Rimbaud is finally made available in English. Referenced only in a few letters of Paul Verlaine, The Spiritual Hunt is Arthur Rimbaud’s forgotten masterwork, [...]
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Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
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Traces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.
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Non-Fiction
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Fluxus: A Creative Revolution 1962-2012
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In-depth catalog surveying the Fluxus movement Skira, 2012 Softcover Edition. Still wrapped, slight bowing apparent because of this
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Art/Photography
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
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Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
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Exhibited internationally including at the Georges Pompidue Centre’s L’image Des Mots exhibition, and as a solo exhibit at the Pieter Brattinga Gallery in Amsterdam. Copies of French Fries are [...]
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Art/Photography
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Animism In Art And Performance
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This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
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An anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
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Giovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]
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Art/Photography
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Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
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A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]
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Art/Photography
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Yvonne Rainer – Work 1961-73
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“Originally published in 1974 by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Yvonne Rainer’s Work 1961-73 documents the artist’s landmark early works at the intersection of dance, [...]
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Art/Photography
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William Wegman
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Large softcover catalogue published on the occasion of the William Wegman exhibition in the Rooseum – Center For Contemporary art, Malmo March 7 – May 10 1998. Rooseum, 1998 Softcover [...]
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Art/Photography
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Thomas Hine – Populuxe
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“The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]
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Non-Fiction
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This Quarter: Surrealist Number
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The Andre Breton edited edition of This Quarter, originally issued in 1932. An absolutely essential text of surrealism, featuring many of the movements key figures, such as Dali, Man Ray […]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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The Fluxus Constellation
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A general catalogue exploring key works and texts of the Fluxus movement. Neos Edizioni, 2002 Softcover edition. Upper corner near spine dinged/dented. Light wear to wraps.
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Richard Martin – Fashion And Surrealism
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Shows surrealistic paintings, photographs, clothing, and accessories, and discusses the art movement’s affect on dress design, window displays, and advertising. Rizzoli, 1987 Hardcover [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
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“This catalogue was published to commemoration of the inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center that took place on October 9, 2008. NOW JUMP, the title of the […]
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Art/Photography
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Nick Kaye – Site-Specific Art
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Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today’s installation and performance [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
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Luigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
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Donald Judd
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This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd’s practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
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Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco
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The Electric Muse Revisited
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Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
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Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
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The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
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From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
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International, Non-Fiction
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A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998
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An anthology of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten are internationally recognized poet/critics. Together they edited the highly influential [...]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
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Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
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In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
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SuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]
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Art/Photography
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Rewind: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s
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This anthology explores the pioneering period of the British video art form that has become a hallmark of contemporary art. Drawing on interviews, ephemera, archived tapes, and installations from [...]
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Art/Photography
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
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Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Non-Fiction
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
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In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Non-Fiction
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Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
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Perhaps best known for Rebel without a Cause, American filmmaker Nicholas Ray directed dozens of movies in the film noir genre, including In a Lonely Place, Johnny Guitar, and They […]
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Non-Fiction
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
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The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Non-Fiction
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
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Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
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Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
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Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
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From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made “Italian” a global synonym for […]
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Non-Fiction
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Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
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You’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
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Régis Bonvicino – Sky-Eclipse: Selected Poems
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Playful and depth-filled poetry by the Brazilian luminary. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.
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Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
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This gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
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James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
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The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
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