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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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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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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 […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
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 […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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. […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
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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Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
$30.00 | Book, PrintWith the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
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Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
$25.00 | Book, PrintThe landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]
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Severo Sarduy – Cobra
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
$16.00 | Book, PrintAltered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
$38.00 | Book, PrintIn fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]
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Kathryn Harrison – Poison
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrancisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
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A Most Dangerous Method: The Story Of Jung, Freud And Sabina Spielrein
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
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Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]
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C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPraised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTraces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.
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Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
$35.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]
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Animism In Art And Performance
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]
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Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-i…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]
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Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsGiovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]
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Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
$70.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]
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William Wegman
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLarge softcover catalogue published on the occasion of the William Wegman exhibition in the Rooseum – Center For Contemporary art, Malmo March 7 – May 10 1998. Rooseum, 1998 Softcover [...]
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Thomas Hine – Populuxe
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
$30.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsLuigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]
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Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFew narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]
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The Electric Muse Revisited
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFolk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]
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Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsSuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPerpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]
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Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]
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Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]
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Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRestoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsYou’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]
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Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNo James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]
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Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]
GENRE: International, Non-Fiction -
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFeaturing some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]
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Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAn unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]
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Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIt is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]
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Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHow the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]
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Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African E…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]
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Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of […]
GENRE: International