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  • Avant-Garde In The Eighties
    Avant-Garde In The Eighties
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    Exhibition catalog exploring avant-garde and multimedia art of the 1980s. Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, 1987 Softcover edition. Cracking and general wear to spine. Chipping to bottom edge of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • William Gaddis – JR
    William Gaddis – JR
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    “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!)
    The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
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    An 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce)
    The Official Preppy Handbook (Scarce)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
    The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
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    “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)
    The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control And The Manson Family Murders (Scarce)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Tupamaro Guerillas: The Structure And Strategy Of The Urban Guerrilla Movement
    The Tupamaro Guerillas: The Structure And Strategy Of The Urban Guerrilla Movement
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Theodore John Kaczynski – Industrial Society And Its Future
    Theodore John Kaczynski – Industrial Society And Its Future
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Todd Lawson – The Quran: Epic And Apocalypse
    Todd Lawson – The Quran: Epic And Apocalypse
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    “How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation? What is it about the text that inspires such devotion and commitment in the reader/believer? Todd Lawson explores how the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vocabula Amatoria: French-English Dictionary Of Erotica
    Vocabula Amatoria: French-English Dictionary Of Erotica
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    A usable and convenient French-English dictionary of terms commonly used in erotica. University Books Inc, 1966 Hardcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar  

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William S Burroughs – Cities Of The Red Night
    William S Burroughs – Cities Of The Red Night
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    “While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S Burroughs – Exterminator
    William S Burroughs – Exterminator
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    “Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S. Burroughs – Queer
    William S. Burroughs – Queer
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    “For more than three decades, while its writer’s world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
    William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
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    “Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Women See Men
    Women See Men
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    A 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.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
    Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Yale French Studies, Number 78: On Bataille
    Yale French Studies, Number 78: On Bataille
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    Amazing in-depth volume studying the work of Georges Bataille as a philosopher, sociologist and writer. Yale University Press, 1990 Softcover edition. Some discoloration to spine and upper edge [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
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    “The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海 Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The series, which Mishima began writing in 1964 and which was his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
    Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
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    “This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • R.D Laing – The Politics Of Experience
    R.D Laing – The Politics Of Experience
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
    Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Raymond Thorp – Viper: Confessions Of A Drug Addict
    Raymond Thorp – Viper: Confessions Of A Drug Addict
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    An 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. […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
    Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
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    “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
    Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sally Mann – What Remains
    Sally Mann – What Remains
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roland Topor – The Tenant
    Roland Topor – The Tenant
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
    Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
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    “”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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of The Sixties
    Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of The Sixties
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
    Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
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    “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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sy Montgomery – Secrets Of The Octopus
    Sy Montgomery – Secrets Of The Octopus
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    “The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic Disney+ special Secrets of the Octopus, narrated by Paul Rudd, this beautifully illustrated book explores the underwater world [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Under The Sign Of Saturn (1st Edition)
    Susan Sontag – Under The Sign Of Saturn (1st Edition)
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    “Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
    The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
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    “When informed by the movie JFK that thousands of documents about the president’s murder remain sealed, a distressed American public motivated Congress to create the Assassinations Records [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Body And The Dream: French Erotic Fiction, 1464 – 1900
    The Body And The Dream: French Erotic Fiction, 1464 – 1900
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    An anthology and survey of French erotica, featuring rare and classic texts. Quartet, 1984 Hardcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Complete Marquis De Sade Boxset
    The Complete Marquis De Sade Boxset
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    “Adorned with gripping cover art by Man Ray and translated by renowned scholar Dr. Paul J. Gillette, this dramatic collection of de Sade writings includes “Justine,” [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Cradle Of Erotica
    The Cradle Of Erotica
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    “This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Erotic Museum In Berlin
    The Erotic Museum In Berlin
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    “When we think of Berlin in the roaring twenties, many images stream forth, but the most endearing is of the Alexanderplatz, the heart of nighttime Berlin and capital of amusement […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Plants Of The Gods: Their Sacred, Healing And Hallucinogenic Powers
    Plants Of The Gods: Their Sacred, Healing And Hallucinogenic Powers
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    “Three scientific titans join forces to completely revise the classic text on the ritual uses of psychoactive plants. They provide a fascinating testimony of these “plants of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
    Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
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    “An account of the origins and growth of the peyote religion” Crowell, 1971 Hardcover edition. Some wear apparent to dustjacknonet under mylar. Some staining to upper edge of text block.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Klossowski (Very scarce catalog)
    Pierre Klossowski (Very scarce catalog)
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    ““That bodies speak has been known for a long time.” Gilles Deleuze on Pierre Klosswoski Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001) was a significant and influential philosopher, writer, translator and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Peter Sotos – Index (Very scarce)
    Peter Sotos – Index (Very scarce)
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    “Peter Sotos, the writer who ‘rapes a blank page’, whose pen is ‘the verbal knife of a sadist’, is now regarded as perhaps the most important modern writer on [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Peter Janney – Mary’s Mosaic
    Peter Janney – Mary’s Mosaic
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    “Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patrick Suskind – Perfume (as-is)
    Patrick Suskind – Perfume (as-is)
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    “An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
    Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
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    “This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pauline Reage – The Story Of O
    Pauline Reage – The Story Of O
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    “How far will a woman go to express her love? In this exquisite novel of passion and desire, the answer emerges through a daring exploration of the deepest bonds of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Patrick Suskind – Perfume
    Patrick Suskind – Perfume
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    “An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
    Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
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    The 1982 spring issue of Parabola, featuring contributions from Ursula Le Guin and Marguerite Yourcenar. Society For The Study Of Myth & Tradition, 1982 Softcover edition. Writing on front [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case And Conspiracy
    Others Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case And Conspiracy
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    “In Others Unknown, Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh’s lawyer in his trial for the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Office Building in Oklahoma City, provides the fullest possible account of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
    Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
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    An overview over occultism by the enigmatic Ophiel Peach Publishing Company, 1969 Hardcover edition. Some staining and tearing to dustjacket apparent under mylar.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Narcotics And Drug Addiction
    Narcotics And Drug Addiction
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    An early pharmacological and sociological study on narcotics. Philosophical Library, 1946 Hardcover edition. Dustjacket clipped. Noticeable staining and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction