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Frans De Waard – America’s Greatest Noise
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, […]
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Neumusik – The Complete Edition
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBook containing all six issues of the Neumusik fanzine which David Elliott edited between 1979-82 while at university. The ‘zine focussed on European, electronic and experimental music which had [...]
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A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
$50.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various […]
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Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive [...]
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Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key […]
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Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not […]
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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]
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Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]
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Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer […]
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Lucy Sante – Maybe the People Would Be the Times
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn her second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Lucy Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape […]
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Gabrielle Wittkop – Exemplary Departures
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartExemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five “exemplary” deaths in various exotic locations around the globe: a gentleman spy disappears with his [...]
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Remedios Varo – On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield Press introduced the writings of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo into English for the first time. These texts, never [...]
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Ray Johnson – The Paper Snake
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA sumptuous facsimile of a vertiginous artist’s book from the founder of the mail-art movement Long out of print and unavailable to wider audiences, The Paper Snake is an essential […]
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Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]
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Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul […]
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Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTo Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]
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Charlie Fox – This Young Monster
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to […]
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Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom being caught having their first orgasm by their mom’s best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring [...]
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Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]
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Wojciech Tochman – Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEquipped with the sensitivity known from his earlier reportages, in Roosters Crow, Dogs Whine, Wojciech Tochman addresses people with mental illnesses in Cambodia who are imprisoned in kennels, [...]
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Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]
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Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]
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Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAndy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]
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Jimmy Desana: Salvation
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSalvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic [...]
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Emmett Williams – Sweethearts
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA founding member of Fluxus and the concrete poetry movement, Emmett Williams (1925-2007) made several performances and poems that stand today as defining gems of those genres. Among them is […]
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Rene Daumal – Pataphysical Essays
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of [...]
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Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]
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Daniel Oberhaus – Extraterrestrial Languages
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIf we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been […]
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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]
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Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCarmelo Bene (1937–2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus’ Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ [...]
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Fernando Pessoa – Philosophical Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by “thousands of philosophies,” all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting [...]
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Pharmako/Gnosis, Revised and Updated: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDelving deep into the world of psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, Pharmako/Gnosis serves as a comprehensive and standalone guide. Celebrated by readers as a modern classic, this is a [...]
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Russell Hoban – Ridley Walker (expanded edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRiddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a […]
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Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the ringing of a disconnected bell to footsteps in the halls of an abandoned house and the whisper of an unexplained voice in the ear, uncanny sounds are often […]
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“A modern classic of Universal Sufism that explores the mystical dimensions of music-and the musical dimensions of mysticism. Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression [...]
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The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman Surrealist Research – Nikolas Schreck
$48.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is a preorder item that will ship around the first week of August, 2024. We apologize for any delays. Softcover reprint of this rare & much sought after close […]
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Mike Collino – Come The Maker Carcass
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJanuary 6, 2024 Edition of 100 Alien Passengers #97
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We Jazz Issue 09: Oisters
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cartThe ninth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Oisters. Featuring: Jason Moran, Carlos Garnett, Oren Ambarchi, Darius Jones, Black Fire Records, Robyn Steward, columnist Mats Gustafsson, reviews, and more. [...]
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We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The fifth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Amaryllis for Mary Halvorson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Mary Halvorson by Peter Margasak, Pi Recordings by Will Layman, [...]
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We Jazz Issue 04: The Call
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. The fourth issue of We Jazz Magazine, The Call for Horace Tapscott. All articles presented in English. Stories include Horace Tapscott by Andy Thomas, Tigran Hamasyan by Rui […]
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We Jazz Issue 03: Tetragon
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cart2022 release. This is the third issue of the new We Jazz Magazine, Tetragon for Joe Henderson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Joe Henderson by Daniel Spicer, International [...]
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We Jazz Issue 02: Pursuance
$26.00 | Book, Magazine, Print Add to cartWe Jazz follows the success of the sold out debut issue of their new magazine with issue number 2 (Fall 2021), entitled “Pursuance”. The cover story by Ashley Kahn features […]
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Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art–from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of [...]
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The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Writings of Austin Osman Spare is a collection of three books written by the famous artist and occult author. The three books included in this publication are Anathema of […]
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Laird Barron – The Imago Sequence
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTo the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the […]
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Harald Voetmann – Sublunar
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters– [...]
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Nelson Algren – A Walk On The Wild Side
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWith its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, Nelson Algren’s A Walk in the Wild Side […]
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]
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Fernanda Melchor – Paradais
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an [...]
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Noel Meek & Mattin – Homage to Annea Lockwood Book + CD
$21.00 | Book, CD Add to cartRecital presents a book and CD homage to the New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood (b. 1939). The unique concept for this album was conceived by artists Noel Meek (New […]
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Michel Leiris – Aurora and Cardinal Point
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and [...]
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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt once an artist’s book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on [...]
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John O’Brien – Leaving Las Vegas
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Forget the wack and overly sentimental movie, John O’Brien’s first novel is both a disturbing descent into hell and the best thing to come […]
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Mariana Dimópulos -Imminence
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled […]
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Live Audio Essays
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of Abu Hamdan’s disquieting audio-essay monologues on the soundscape of political life This volume compiles transcripts from performances and films by Beirut-based Lawrence Abu [...]
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Louis Aragon – Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897–1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates […]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]