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  • Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
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    A monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jorge Luis Borges – The Book Of Imaginary Beings
    Jorge Luis Borges – The Book Of Imaginary Beings
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    “In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges’s 1957 compilation of 116 “strange creatures conceived through time [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
    Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
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    “These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kathy Acker – Blood And Guts In High School (as-is)
    Kathy Acker – Blood And Guts In High School (as-is)
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    “A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
    Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
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    “This is a book to delight the mind and the eye – the first collection of the poet Kenneth Patchen’s unique and remarkable “picture-poems.” As a creative form, the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
    Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
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    “A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
    Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
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    A bizarre tract linking contemporary Christian music to “satanic” rock music. Salem Kirban Inc, 1980 Softcover edition. Wear to edges of wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
    Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
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    “When Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was recruited to the stable of writers assembled by Catulle Mendès to supply L’Écho de Paris with material on a weekly basis, in July 1890, he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
    Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
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    “Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
    High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
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    “The Hood Museum of Art presents High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury, treating visitors to the largest survey of psychedelic rock posters organized in twenty-five [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
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    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harry Matthews – The Journalist
    Harry Matthews – The Journalist
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    “A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
    H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
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    A “combat guide” from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, as written by a former marine. Posterity Press, 2014 Softcover edition. Light general wear

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
    Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
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    The first book about Jonestown, as told by a journalist who was there and other key eyewitnesses. Berkley, 1978 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Writing on front page. Wear/discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
    Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
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    “Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure — delightful euphemisms. The fille de joie is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable and corrupt, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
    Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
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    “Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
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    “Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
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    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
    Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
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    “An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
    Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
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    “For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
    Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
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    ““The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857). Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
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    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Patti Smith – Just Kids
    Patti Smith – Just Kids
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    “It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
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    “Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
    Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
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    “They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
    William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
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    “Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
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    “Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
    Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
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    “Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
    Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
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    “Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
    Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
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    “Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. “The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Players
    Don Delillo – Players
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    “In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
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    “In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
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    “This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
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    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
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    A book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
    Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
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    “Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
    Susan Sontag – Where The Stress Falls
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    “Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was “someone who is interested in everything.” Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
    Susan Sontag – Illness As Metaphor And Aids And Its Metaphors
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    “In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of its time.” A cancer patient herself when she was […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
    Susan Sontag – Against Interpretation
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    “Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
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    “In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
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    “A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
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    “From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
    Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire’s poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
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    Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
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    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
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    A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography