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William Gaddis – JR
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination with junk-mail […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn exhibition catalogue of photos from the collection of Graham Nash The Nash Press, 1978 Softcover edition. Book is signed by Graham Nash. Noticeable amount of moisture damage and staining […]
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The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce)
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A facetious guide to emulating the look, speech patterns, thinking, and lifestyle of those who attend prep schools and are a part of high society” Workman Publishing, 1980 Softcover [...]
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The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“An anthology of erotic literature contains selections from leading writers of the genre including Henry Miller, Jean Genet, the Marquis de Sade, and Pauline Reage” Ballantine Books, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control And The Manson Family Murders (Scarce)
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“40 years after the infamous Tate-LaBianca murder case of August 1969, Creation Books presents a definitive account of those killings and their perpetrators, the Charles Manson Family. In [...]
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The Tupamaro Guerillas: The Structure And Strategy Of The Urban Guerrilla Movement
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA fascinating investigation and report on the Uruguayan guerilla group. Saturday Review Press, 1972 Softcover edition. Corner splaying on front wrap. General light wear/discoloration to wraps [...]
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Theodore John Kaczynski – Industrial Society And Its Future
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and […]
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Women See Men
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA collection of photographs of men, as taken by leading women photographers McGraw Hill, 1977 Softcover edition. Some discoloration and wear to wraps, edges of pages.
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Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Wood is nature’s greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time [...]
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R.D Laing – The Politics Of Experience
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A brilliantly original book from one of the 20th century’s most influential psychiatrists thatgoes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation to make a convincing [...]
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Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial [...]
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Raymond Thorp – Viper: Confessions Of A Drug Addict
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn early memoir of the London underground and drug market, circa 1940s-1950s. Robert Hale Limited, 1956 Hardcover edition. Crack in spine at page 83, causing a light sag to textblock. […]
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Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
$65.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908–63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting [...]
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Sally Mann – What Remains
$80.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Sally Mann’s powerful new body of work explores mortality, both the separation of the body from the soul and the scars left behind in the process. Mann masterfully utilizes the […]
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Roland Topor – The Tenant
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates [...]
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Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“”Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its [...]
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Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of The Sixties
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In all its forbidden glory, period “sleaze” erotica receives an investigation into the medium with extensive interviews and cover art. “In this entertaining and still-stimulating [...]
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Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA guide by the mycologist and psychedelic researcher who was also the victim of a famously unsolved murder/conspiracy. Herbal Medicine Research Foundation, 1981 Softcover 2nd edition. Wear to [...]
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Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, [...]
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Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic [...]
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Patti Smith – Just Kids
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]
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Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]
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Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]
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Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. “The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd [...]
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Don Delillo – Players
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind […]
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Don Delillo – Libra
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
$28.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]
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Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]
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Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was “someone who is interested in everything.” Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, [...]
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Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was […]
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Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in [...]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]
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Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]
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Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire’s poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August […]
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More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPicking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]
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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMasculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]
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Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]
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After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]
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Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]
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Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography