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Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsEulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to […]
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Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
$25.00 | Book, PrintStructured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
$23.00 | Book, PrintMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery [...]
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Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]
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Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
$29.00 | Book, PrintThe internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]
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Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
$13.00 | Book, PrintA Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]
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James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
$24.00 | Book, PrintAvailable for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]
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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$17.00 | Book, PrintMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]
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Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
$17.00 | Book, PrintIn the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]
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Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
$32.00 | Book, PrintMichel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]
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Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]
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Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
$18.00 | Book, PrintA tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
$28.00 | Book, PrintTwentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]
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Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
$35.00 | Book, PrintIn Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
$27.00 | Book, PrintThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
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Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
$35.00 | Book, PrintFirst published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]
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Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
$25.00 | Book, PrintMeditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]
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Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
$15.00 | Book, PrintWritten in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]
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Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
$23.00 | Book, PrintMademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, PrintThis combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]
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George Berger – Story Of Crass
$22.00 | Book, PrintCrass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]
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BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
$18.00 | Book, Print‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]
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Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
$30.00 | Book, PrintAn indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$22.00 | Book, PrintFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]
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Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
$16.00 | Book, PrintIn these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]
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Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
$18.00 | Book, PrintJane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]
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Natsuo Kirino – Out
$18.00 | Book, PrintThis mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
$16.00 | Book, PrintA special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]
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Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
$23.00 | Book, PrintWhen it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]
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Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
$22.00 | Book, PrintIn America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]
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Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsToo Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]
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Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]
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S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]
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Do Not Sell At Any Price
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBefore MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]
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Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGreat photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]
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Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRobert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]
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Values Of Design
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
$80.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhotography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]
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Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
$100.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDeveloped in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]
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Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not […]
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Cheyney Thompson: Passages
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of the first book-length publications on contemporary artist Cheyney Thompson, whose work is known for its radically forward-looking intellectualism and formal rigor. Cheyney Thompson’s (b. [...]
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Leaning On The Moment: Interviews From Parabola
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing interviews with Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell & others. Parabola Books, 1986 Hardcover Edition. Some staining to upper edge of pages. Some scuffing/discoloration to dustjacket
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Rocker Magazine Issue 12
$14.00 | Magazine, PrintROCKER is a digest published in beautiful Richmond, VA, USA. It focuses on noise, ambient, and experimental music. on the cover: Stefan Aune In this issue: interviews with • New […]
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Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
$19.00 | Book, PrintThe first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]
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Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
$26.00 | Book, PrintRainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]
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Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
$29.00 | Book, PrintExploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, PrintSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
$21.00 | Book, PrintThe role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]
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Ryann Donnelly – Body High
$15.00 | Book, PrintHow do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]
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Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
$15.00 | Book, PrintA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction