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Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]
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Title TK
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Comprised of the artists and musicians Cory Arcangel, Howie Chen and Alan Licht, Title TK is a “band” that performs in music or art contexts. While they appear on stage […]
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Dennis Covington – Salvation On Sand Mountain
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For New York Times reporter Dennis Covington, what began as a journalistic assignment-covering the trial of an Alabama pastor convicted of attempting to murder his wife with poisonous [...]
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Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]
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Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful […]
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Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]
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Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]
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Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author’s own childhood experiences and [...]
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)
$150.00 | 10", Book, Box Set, Print, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cartLimited edition of 300 copies encased in a chocolate and silver Solander box. Included is the signed and numbered hardback edition of the book ‘Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]
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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]
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Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]
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Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]
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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYears after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLong before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]
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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]
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Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]
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Lydia Davis – Essays Two
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]
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Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]
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Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]
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Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]
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Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEgyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]
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Harry Matthews – Tlooth
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a […]
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Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 2)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the […]
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Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, ?”Mulligan Stew”?takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist [...]
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Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon […]
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John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery’s translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery’s own prose writings and [...]
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Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]
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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]
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Donald Judd (October Files)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDonald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]
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We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of […]
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Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
$175.00 | Print, Book Add to cartHanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]
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Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
$350.00 | Book, Painting, Print Add to cartGrove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]
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Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]
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Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPoems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]
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Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVictimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]
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Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]
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Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]
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Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive