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William Gass – On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$8.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis small but memorable treatise, written “for all who live in the country of the blue,” examines the color as state of mind, as Platonic Ideal, as a notoriously erotic […]
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Cormac McCarthy – The Crossing
$14.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Cormac McCarthy – Cities of the Plain
$14.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the […]
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Elie Humbert – C. G. Jung
$15.00 | Book, Used ItemsAn outstanding introduction to the spirit and practice of Jungian psychology. Analyzed by Jung, Humbert brings a unique understanding of Jung’s ideas, developed over many years within the [...]
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Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsSince its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of [...]
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Stephen King – Pet Sematary
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsWhen Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite […]
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Inden and Nicholas – Kinship In Bengali Culture
$14.00 | Book, Used ItemsKinship has been a central concern of authropology for more than a century. As a key element in the organization of every human society, kinship is also a major source […]
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Virgil J. Vogel – American Indian Medicine
$22.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. It discusses Indian theories of […]
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Richard M. Dorson – Handbook of American Folklore
$14.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis book is a landmark in folklore studies in the United States. It is a virtual cornucopia of riches, and features the work of sixty scholars and practitioners, representing a […]
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Michel Houellebecq – Annihilation
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsIt is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a […]
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David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
$15.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis deluxe paperback edition — featuring flaps, new cover art, and a new foreword by Tom Bissell — celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original publication of Infinite Jest. A [...]
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Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life
$25.00 | Book, Used ItemsFeaturing more than two hundred and fifty works, including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles and furniture, this essential volume traces the creative development of Josef and Anni [...]
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Andy Warhol – Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-64
$75.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn the age of mass media, American culture has displayed an unequaled fascination with both celebrities and disasters. Andy Warhol was one of the first artists to investigate these twin […]
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Amos Tutuola – The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsAfter four years of marriage, the brave hunter of the Rocky Town and his beautiful wife, Lola, are still without a child. Equipped with juju, sharpened machete, bow and poisonous […]
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Douglas R. Hofstadter – Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden B…
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll “Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, charity, range, wit, beauty, […]
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Glenn Peers – Subtle Bodies
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsThroughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But [...]
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Franz Schulze – Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography
$15.00 | Book, Used ItemsMies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. [...]
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Helmut Newton – Portraits
$30.00 | Book, Used ItemsA collection of celebrity portraits–of figures including Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Anthony Burgess, Brassai, Sophia Loren, Julian Schnabel, and Grace Jones–by the eminent and [...]
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Schneider and Boston – Scientists in Gaia
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe Gaia hypothesis suggests that life is an active participant in shaping the physical and chemical environment on which it depends. Scientists on Gaia is a multidisciplinary exploration of this [...]
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Michel Foucault – Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature
$16.00 | Book, Used ItemsAs a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this [...]
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Allan M. Armitage and Judy M. Laushman – Specialty Cut Flowers
$50.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis indispensable reference offers a unique perspective on cut-flower production, bringing together all the information growers need to propagate and cultivate these sought-after plants. Book is [...]
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William T. Vollmann – Uncentering the Earth
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just-published masterpiece, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in his hands. Placing the sun [...]
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Hito Steyerl – Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil …
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsHow can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They [...]
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Slavoj Zizek – For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Po…
$16.00 | Book, Used ItemsPsychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since [...]
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William T. Vollmann – The Ice-Shirt
$15.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once changed themselves into wolves. The Norse have advanced as implacably as a […]
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Tom Rockmore – On Heidegger’s Nazism and Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Used ItemsThat Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has [...]
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Marina Abramovic – Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented […]
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LP Hartley – The Go-Between
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsSummering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley’s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend’s beautiful […]
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Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsWhen the devil arrives in 1930s Moscow, consorting with a retinue of odd associates—including a talking black cat, an assassin, and a beautiful naked witch—his antics wreak havoc among the […]
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Eric Lunde – Prison Sex
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsOOP and scarce experimental novel from the polymath Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation […]
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Dorothy Parker – Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsDorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing. When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she […]
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Hellemans, Otten, Pranger – On Religion and Memory
$8.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine’s paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the […]
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J. Hoberman – Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21St Century C…
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsOne of the world’s most erudite and entertaining film critics on the state of cinema in the post-digital—and post-9/11—age. This witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film […]
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Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz – The Grail Legend
$16.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty […]
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Alan Garner – Red Shift (Out Of Print)
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn second-century Britain, Macey and a gang of fellow deserters from the Roman army hunt and are hunted by deadly local tribes. Fifteen centuries later, during the English Civil War, […]
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Brent S. Place – Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation o…
$12.00 | Book, Used ItemsReligion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production [...]
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Kurt Vonnegut – Three Complete Novels: Cat’s Cradle; God B…
$20.00 | Book, Used ItemsThree of Vonnegut’s best, together at last. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps, however binding will […]
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Roger D. Abrahams – African Folktales
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected [...]
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Roberto Bolano – The Savage Detectives
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsNew Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Arias and Hadis – Professor Borges: A Course of English Literatu…
$16.00 | Book, Used ItemsWriting for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor “A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English [...]
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Jeanette Leech – Fearless: Post-Rock 1987–2001
$25.00 | Book, Used ItemsIn 1994, the music critic Simon Reynolds coined a new post-rock. It was an attempt to give a narrative to music that used the tools of rock but did something […]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]
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Nick Tosches – In the Hand of Dante: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Used ItemsA dark, hallucinatory literary thriller that intertwines a modern underworld quest for a lost manuscript of The Divine Comedy with the violent, obsessive inner life of Dante Alighieri himself. [...]
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Slavoj Zizek – On Belief (Thinking in Action)
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsWhat is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all [...]
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
$15.00 | Book, Used ItemsThis volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” excerpts [...]
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E. P. Thompson – Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and th…
$8.00 | Book, Used ItemsE. P. Thompson’s long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian’s death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it […]
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J H Kwabena Nketia – The Music of Africa (as-is, markings)
$8.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as wide […]
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Luisa Valenzuela – Lizard’s Tail
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsThe Lizard’s Tail is a whip much favoured by Latin American torturers. It gives its name to this fictional biography of Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron’s minister of social well-being who [...]
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Harry Mathews – The Conversions
$10.00 | Book, Used ItemsAt a dinner party hosted by a wealthy New Yorker, a guest receives an ancient golden weapon as a prize. When the mysterious host of this party dies the next […]
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Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need to Believe (as-is, notes)
$7.00 | Book, Used Items“Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of ‘frightening’ either the […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction