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Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartForty 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)
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPacked 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartRecent 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollaborators 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 [...]
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The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThere 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 [...]
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William Benton – Birds
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBeautiful 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDuring 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 […]
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Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince 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 […]
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A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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 [...]
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Chen I-chih – The Mysterious Hualien
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartChen 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 [...]
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Murat Nemet-Nejat – Peripheral Space of Photography
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYOU 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 […]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVolume 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 […]
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Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 […]
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The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSome 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)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThroughout 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 […]
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David Maisel: Black Maps
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBlack 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 [...]
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Vwadek P. Marciniak – Towards a History of Consciousness: Space, Time, and Death
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTowards 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThese 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJazz 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 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
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriters 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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 [...]
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Wim Wenders – The Pixels of Paul Cezanne: And Reflections on Other Artists
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartKathy 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
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartScience 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWriter, 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBy 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMartin’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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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 […]
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100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart100 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJust 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
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHere 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBest 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 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
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlternative 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 [...]
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Scales: Melographed by César Vallejo
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFirst 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver 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
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPioneering 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
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis 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
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBeethoven 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