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American Genre Painting : The Politics of Everyday Life
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDrawing on contemporary literature, popular culture, news, and census reports, Johns convincingly shows that antebellum American genre painting was not a simple recording of an Edenic American [...]
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Eileen Myles – A Working Life
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Alexandra Popoff – Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIf Vasily Grossman’s 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and before [...]
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Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]
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Live or Die : Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis publication combines the works of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) and American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941). At first, it may seem startling to see Nauman’s small but [...]
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Jack Burnham – Dissolve into Comprehension : Writings and Interv…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsInfluential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham-a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism. Jack Burnham is one of the few […]
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Disappearing-California C. 1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Gol…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas [...]
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Dirty Pictures : How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfi…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation […]
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Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg : Art, Happenings, and Cultural Polit…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical […]
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Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
$15.00 | Book, PrintA rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]
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Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
$18.00 | Book, PrintHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]
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Pierre Louys – Pybrac
$14.00 | Book, PrintA manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]
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Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
$18.00 | Book, Print“Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]
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Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
$15.00 | Book, PrintWhen published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]
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Michael W. Clune – White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin
$18.00 | Book, PrintHow do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the […]
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Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
$14.00 | Book, PrintThe hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]
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Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
$12.00 | Book, PrintA miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]
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Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
$23.00 | Book, PrintIn The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]
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Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
$20.00 | Book, PrintCarol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]
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Leon Feuchtwanger – The Oppermanns
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe Oppermann brothers consider themselves exemplary German citizens: cultured, liberal, proud contributors to society. One runs the trusted Oppermann furniture chain. One is an eminent surgeon. [...]
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Charles Neider – The Authentic Death Of Hendry Jones
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy. Hendry Jones isn’t quite Billy […]
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Lutz Seiler – Star 111
$20.00 | Book, PrintStar 111 (the name of a popular East German transistor radio) begins with the world turned upside down. It is the fall of 1989. The communist government of the GDR […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Thomas Pynchon – V.
$20.00 | Book, PrintAcclaimed writer Thomas Pynchon’s wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” [...]
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Harald Voetmann – Visions And Temptations
$16.00 | Book, PrintIn the eleventh century, in the city of Regensburg, Othlo of St. Emmeram lies on his sickbed and takes a journey through Heaven and Hell. Spurning carnal desire and earthly […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Marcel Benabou – Why I Have Not Written Any Of My Books
$14.00 | Book, PrintMarcel Bénabou is quick to acknowledge that his own difficulty in writing has plenty of company. Words stick and syntax is stubborn, meaning slips and synonyms cluster. A blank page […]
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Jan Kerouac – Baby Driver
$18.00 | Book, Print“Was it January or February? The coconut fronds waving, shining like green hair in the sun, gave no clue.” Fifteen-year-old Jan is pregnant, gamely living off rice and whatever fish […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
$31.00 | Book, PrintAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]
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Mary Shelley – Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers…
$23.00 | Book, PrintThe original 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has [...]
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Barry N Malzberg – Revelations
$19.00 | Book, PrintMarvin Martin is angry. Night after night, he strips the guests that appear on his talk show of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies, but how long has it been […]
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Eileen Myles – Cool for You
$17.00 | Book, Print“Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
$24.00 | Book, Print“When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]
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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
$34.00 | Book, Print“The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Simon Critchley – Mysticism
$19.00 | Book, PrintA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]
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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$30.00 | Book, PrintWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]
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Severo Sarduy – Cobra
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, PrintAltered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
$38.00 | Book, PrintIn fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Kathryn Harrison – Poison
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrancisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
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Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]
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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPraised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
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Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGiovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]
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Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
$70.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]
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Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction