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Alexander Von Humboldt : The Complete Drawings from the American Trave…
$60.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spain’s colonies in the New World. Over the course of […]
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Bruce Grant – In the Soviet House of Culture : A Century of Pere…
$17.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the […]
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Revolution of the Eye : Modern Art and the Birth of American Televisio…
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in […]
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The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now
$13.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and […]
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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 [...]
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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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Bio Art : Altered Realities
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn an era of fast-paced technological progress and with the impact of humans on the environment increasing, the concept of “nature” itself seems called into question. Bio Art explores [...]
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Bill Viola
$22.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first monograph of one of contemporary art’s most powerful creative minds and perhaps the most successful multi-media artist working today. Bill Viola began producing video works in the early [...]
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Thomas Crow – The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped–and was shaped by–West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most [...]
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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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Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
$19.00 | Book, PrintAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today. It’s 1924, […]
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Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
$18.00 | Book, PrintEqual parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literature André Breton described Maldoror as “the [...]
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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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Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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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Camille Roy – Honey Mine: Collected Stories
$18.00 | Book, PrintHoney Mine unfolds as both excavation and romp, an adventure story that ushers readers into a lesbian writer’s coming of age through disorienting, unsparing, and exhilarating encounters with sex, [...]
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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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Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children
$18.00 | Book, PrintNobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention Of Morel
$15.00 | Book, PrintJorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a […]
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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 […]
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Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
$18.00 | Book, PrintPierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]
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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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Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and …
$19.00 | Book, PrintFor the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]
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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. […]
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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 [...]
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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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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy M…
$25.00 | Book, PrintPresenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction