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Anne Waldman – The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Iovis Trilogy, Anne Waldman’s monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Flann O’Brien – At Swim Two Birds
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. A wildly [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Sputtering And Distorted: A Reluctant History Of The BUFMS
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHidden but not forgotten, hinted at through piecemeal reference after the fact, the creative efforts of the members of this West-Coast-centric cadre of art mutants first took shape in the […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Experimental / Noise, Non-Fiction -
William S. Burroughs – Exterminator!
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 -
Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he’s a little slow and a little boring. But, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
The Poetics Of Gender
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Sean Harrington – The Disney Fetish
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Long considered a figurehead of family values and wholesome adolescence, the Disney franchise has faced increasing criticism over its gendered representations of children in film, its [...]
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Jacques Derrida – Acts Of Literature
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“First published in 1992. “Acts of Literature”, compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida’s writings on literary [...]
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Republic Of Images: A History Of French Filmmaking
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895—the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in [...]
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Judith Schalansky – An Inventory Of Losses
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Each disparate object described in this book―a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific―shares a common […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Darkroom 2
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Contributions by Judy Dater, Frank Gohlke, Emmet Gowin, Charles Harbutt, Lisette Model, Hans Namuth, Doug Prince, Aaron Siskind, Neal Slavin and Cole Weston,10 prominent photographers who [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From Native Americans’ use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with [...]
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Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOverview of lesser known Abstract Expressionists, from 1955-1960. Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984 Softcover edition. Noticeable wear to edges of dustjacket.
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Peter Jefferies – The Other Side of Reason
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHozac Books is proud to present another foundational brick in the pantheon of New Zealand underground music with Peter Jefferies – The Other Side of Reason, a career-spanning biography by […]
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Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the […]
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Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This striking and original book is an attempt to describe the true and false cultures of mass death in this century. On the battlefields of the World Wars, in the […]
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Niels Bohr – Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“These essays and speeches by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist date from 1934 to 1958. Rather than expositions on quantum physics, the articles are philosophical in nature, exploring the [...]
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John Gribbin – The Omega Point
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Is the universe infinitely expanding? Or at some point in the future will it finally reach its limit—and contract upon itself in one catastrophic reversal of the Big Bang? The […]
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Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Imagine being able to “walk” into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s science fact. Surgeons now rehearse [...]
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The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA selection of eye-witness reports from both Hiroshima & Nagasaki, categorized by proximity to blast radius. English Translation Group, 1989 Softcover edition. Some corner & edgewear to wraps.
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Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The first book to reveal the locations of nuclear weapons around the world and introduce the concept of the infrastructure behind war.” Harper & Row, 1989 Softcover edition. [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
$12.00 | 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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Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and […]
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Larry Kramer – Faggots
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA survey of incest & its meaning in literature. Julian Press, 1963 Hardcover edition. Wear & discoloration to dustjacket. Staining to upper edge of pages.
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From the Globe and Mail reviewer – “The life story of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a cautionary tale about the twin dangers of becoming a drug addict and writing […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This book traces the development of the major themes in the work of the essential modern poet-playwright, Antonin Artaud. As a young man, Artaud complained that he could neither find […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Moxley’s detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to marriage. Consistently focused on poetry and poets, it dwells [...]
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Celine: A Biography
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“”A very solid achievement, a book that deserves to be ready by anyone interested in modern French literature””The Financial Times. “McCarthy has written the best [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“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 […]
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Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The contents of this compendium, which presents a bit of the history of the racial prejudice against the Chinese, are organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, “Institutionalization of [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Megamurals & Supergraphics
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Mushrooms Of North America
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms, with pictorial keys and illustrated glossary.” Dutton, 1979 Softcover edition, third printing. [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartExhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.
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Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Dr. Timothy Leary’s passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. Flashbacks, Leary’s own account of his career as “an accomplished clinical [...]
GENRE: Memoir -
Gary Webb – The Killing Game
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. [...]
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Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Mind Control is a little known and a highly controversial topic today. Veteran author and investigator Jim Keith uncovers a surprising amount of information on the technology, [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Roland Barthes – Incidents
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping “with a view to publication,” Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“”Mae’s work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will […]
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Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the ’60s. Owsley “Bear” Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was […]
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Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Brings together the testimony of psychiatrists, theologians, an FBI agent, and two survivors of ritual abuse to provide a balanced look at the network of satanic cults in existence [...]
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Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they [...]
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Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug [...]
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Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
$20.00 | Book, Print Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cartFollowing the critically acclaimed first Annual, Korm Plastics is very proud to present The Second Annual, which has more pages and more authors and covers a wide selection of musical […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Genocide House by Robert Kloss In The Genocide House—the American—maelstrom—The world—delirium— Villages—slaughtered and burned—Cities eradicated—in atomic flame— Young women lie—yearning—in [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Alan Lomax – The Land Where The Blues Began
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930’s and ‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s [...]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“New York City, the 1960s: Inside a ramshackle studio known as The Factory, the post-war art world encountered the industrial revolution. For more than two years, Nat Finkelstein was on [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction