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  • Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
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    Forty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sybil Leek – The Complete Art Of Witchcraft (Very Rare)
    Sybil Leek – The Complete Art Of Witchcraft (Very Rare)
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    Packed with revealing anecdotes and information, this rich, enticing portrait of witchcraft presents the engrossing, fiery history of the ancient religion kept alive despite centuries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patricia Bosworth – Diane Arbus
    Patricia Bosworth – Diane Arbus
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    “In this book we follow Arbus’ progress as a photographer – coming to see how the work of others influenced her, and how the “New Documents” exhibit at the Museum [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Hitchcock/Truffaut
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    In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Focus On: Hitchcock (as-is)
    Focus On: Hitchcock (as-is)
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    “In this volume LaValley presents the most comprehensive look at Hitchcock to date, examining the man and his films from a three-fold approach; Hitchcock on Hitchcock, the Hitchcock [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
    Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
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    Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
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    Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
    The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
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    There was something uncanny about Charlie Chaplin. His fellow actors spoke of him as inhuman—automaton-like. His stiff, comic movements could be viewed as an attempt to parody the newly developed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William Benton – Birds
    William Benton – Birds
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    This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader
    Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader
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    Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life’s work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
    Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
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    During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
    Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
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    For more than three decades, Fred Ho has been a radical artist and activist. As a composer and baritone saxophonist, he is famed for creating a new music that fuses […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography Of Art Cinema
    Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography Of Art Cinema
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    Since 1974, German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has created a substantial body of films that explore a world of difference defined by the tension and transfer between settled and nomadic ways […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
    A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
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    In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chen I-chih – The Mysterious Hualien
    Chen I-chih – The Mysterious Hualien
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    Chen I-chih’s poetry has garnered numerous awards in his home country of Taiwan. Combining classical elements of Chinese poetry with modern images and subjects, his poems, even by their [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
    Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
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    The first publication in English of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s manifestos, published originally in 1925. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
    Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
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    This profound essay explores what separates photography from other artistic media. Murat Nemet-Nejat argues that photographic seeing is not a plastic experience, but a meditative one built around [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
    You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
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    YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE ALONE is a new biography of Nico, the mysterious singer best known for her work with the Velvet Underground and her solo album Chelsea […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
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    Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
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    The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956
    The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956
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    Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, ‘Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Burl Ives, etc., were also political activists with [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
    Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
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    Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • David Maisel: Black Maps
    David Maisel: Black Maps
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    Black Maps is the first in-depth survey of the major aerial projects by David Maisel, whose images of radically altered terrain have transformed the practice of contemporary landscape [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vwadek P. Marciniak – Towards a History of Consciousness: Space, Time, and Death
    Vwadek P. Marciniak – Towards a History of Consciousness: Space, Time, and Death
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    Towards a History of Consciousness: Space, Time, and Death offers a cogent and compelling discussion of the neglected topic of the history of consciousness. An analysis of our postmodern ontology [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
    Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
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    These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
    Howard Mandel – Future Jazz
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    Jazz has always been an experimental art form, pushing the boundaries of the mainstream, searching for the new. As Howard Mandel reveals in Future Jazz, jazz today is still reaching […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • An Amateur Flagellant – Experiences of Flagellation
    An Amateur Flagellant – Experiences of Flagellation
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    A bizarre piece of erotic fiction/history of flagellation. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
    Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
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    Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
    Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
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    The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term “poetic voice” emphasizes poetry’s reliance on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
    Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
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    This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wim Wenders – The Pixels of Paul Cezanne: And Reflections on Other Artists
    Wim Wenders – The Pixels of Paul Cezanne: And Reflections on Other Artists
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    The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced, shaped and inspired […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
    Lust For Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker
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    Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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    Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now, associated in our mind with blockbuster movies and massive conventions. But there’s much more to the story than the headline-making [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry
    Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry
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    Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
    Amit Chaudhuri – Finding the Raga
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    By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Alaap is Amit Chaudhuri’s singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Non-Fiction
  • Douglas A Martin – Acker
    Douglas A Martin – Acker
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    Martin’s lyric essay, written through Kathy Acker’s evocative prose, public statements, and private archives, follows Acker through New York’s downtown St. Mark’s Poetry Project scene, Black [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
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    The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • 100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud
    100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud
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    100 Years of Cruelty brings together responses to the Artaud question from some of the leading contemporary scholars working in the humanities today. The essays cover a wide variety of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
    Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
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    Just as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film
    Annette Michelson – On the Eve of the Future: Selected Writings on Film
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    The celebrated critic and film scholar Annette Michelson saw the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1950s and 1960s as radically redefining and extending the Modernist tradition of painting and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
    The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear
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    Here is the first book in English about Japan’s modern master of fear and horror. The book traces Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s humble beginning in the pink film industry through his evolution […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jim Ellis – Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations
    Jim Ellis – Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations
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    Best known as an iconoclastic, wildly inventive filmmaker, Derek Jarman was also an accomplished author, painter, and landscape artist. In Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations, Jim Ellis [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Cinema of Errol Morris
    The Cinema of Errol Morris
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    The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director’s films―from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to Morris’s early works like […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
    Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
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    Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Scales: Melographed by César Vallejo
    Scales: Melographed by César Vallejo
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    First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author’s […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lyn Hejinian – Oxota: A Short Russian Novel
    Lyn Hejinian – Oxota: A Short Russian Novel
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    Over the course of nearly a decade (1983–1991), author Lyn Hejinian visited the USSR seven times, staying frequently with her friends the poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and his wife Zina in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
    Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci
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    Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Nathanaël – Je Nathanael
    Nathanaël – Je Nathanael
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    In Je Nathanaël, first published in 2006, Nathanaël explores ways in which language constrains the body, shackles it to gender, and proposes instead a different way of reading, where words […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
    Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
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    This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ken Russell – Beethoven Confidential & Brahms Gets Laid
    Ken Russell – Beethoven Confidential & Brahms Gets Laid
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    Beethoven Confidential started life as a play that was developed into a screenplay for a film starring Jodie Foster and Glenda Jackson, with Anthony Hopkins as the deaf musical genius […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive