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  • Arthur Rimbaud – A Season In Hell
    Arthur Rimbaud – A Season In Hell
    $6.00 | , ,

    Although he stopped writing at the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) possessed the most revolutionary talent of the past hundred years, and his poetry and prose have increasingly [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Aleister Crowley – The Book of Thoth
    Aleister Crowley – The Book of Thoth
    $10.00 | , ,

    Used for many years by students of the occult for study of the tarot and as a key to all Western mystery traditions, The Book of Thoth is on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae
    Camille Paglia – Sexual Personae
    $7.00 | , ,

    Is Emily Dickinson “the female Sade”? Is Donatello’s David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
    William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch
    $8.00 | , ,

    Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers, then into Interzone, a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Klossowski – The Baphomet
    Pierre Klossowski – The Baphomet
    $32.00 | , ,

    Pierre Klossowski’s last novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, THE BAPHOMET was awarded the Prix des Critique when first publsihed in France in 1965. The author, who has […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marquis de Sade – The Crimes of Love
    Marquis de Sade – The Crimes of Love
    $8.00 | , ,

    Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    Himalayan Art: Wall-Painting and Sculpture (as-is)
    $7.00 | , ,

    Illustrated overview of the art of the Himalayan peoples This book is in Acceptable readable condition. It has been read and will show noticeable age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Ted Gioia – The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture
    Ted Gioia – The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Cu…
    $7.00 | , ,

    Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia’s brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches
    Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches
    $40.00 | , ,

    An abundance of extraordinary sculptures considered “obscene” by today’s standards may be found on churches in Britain, Ireland, France and Spain. This book examines their [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Barrett – Death of the Soul
    William Barrett – Death of the Soul
    $5.00 | , ,

    Traces the development of philosophical thought from the seventeenth century to today, and explores why questions of the soul figure so little in the minds of present-day technocratic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stan Brakhage – Metaphors on Vision (2nd Edition)
    Stan Brakhage – Metaphors on Vision (2nd Edition)
    $100.00 | , ,

    “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • E.A Wallis Budge – Amulets and Superstitions
    E.A Wallis Budge – Amulets and Superstitions
    $8.00 | , ,

    By far the most thorough, most fascinating coverage of amulets and superstitions is the present book by Dr. E. Wallis Budge. In it he presents a wealth of information on […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Deborah Curtis – Touching from a Distance
    Deborah Curtis – Touching from a Distance
    $8.00 | , ,

    The only in-depth biographical account of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Revered by his peers–Bono described his voice as “holy”–and idolized by [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Raga Guide: A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas
    The Raga Guide: A Survey Of 74 Hindustani Ragas
    $45.00 | , , , ,

    “In music-speak, ragas are essentially scalar melody forms — something like scales or melodic modes in Western music. However, North Indian ragas do differ from Western modes and [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, International, Non-Fiction
  • Michel Houellebecq – Serotonin
    Michel Houellebecq – Serotonin
    $9.00 | , ,

    Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Adam Parfrey – Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind
    Adam Parfrey – Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind
    $20.00 | , ,

    A sobering, occasionally amusing, and altogether compelling look at the impulses that have fueled the rising pitch of Armageddon, this startling book explores the arcane but significant phenomena [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
    $8.00 | , ,

    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. When [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maurice Blanchot – Infinite Conversation (as-is)
    Maurice Blanchot – Infinite Conversation (as-is)
    $10.00 | , ,

    In this landmark volume, Blanchot sustains a dialogue with a number of thinkers whose contributions have marked turning points in the history of Western thought and have influenced virtually all [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jane Gallop – Intersections: A Reading Of Sade With Bataille, Blanchot, And Klossowski
    Jane Gallop – Intersections: A Reading Of Sade With Bataille, Bl…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Four writers—the first, an eighteenth-century Frenchman whose works still retain their power to shock, scandalize, and instruct; the others, three twentieth-century Frenchmen, heirs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ernst Junger – On The Marble Cliffs
    Ernst Junger – On The Marble Cliffs
    $8.00 | , ,

    Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • E.J Gold – American Book Of The Dead
    E.J Gold – American Book Of The Dead
    $7.00 | , ,

    With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • C.G Jung – Answer To Job (50th Anniversary Edition)
    C.G Jung – Answer To Job (50th Anniversary Edition)
    $8.00 | , ,

    Jung has never pursued the “psychology of religion” apart from general psychology. The unique importance of his work lies rather in his discovery and treatment of religious, or [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 2
    Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 2
    $28.00 | ,

    HZB-030 241 pages, paperback 1st EDITION of 500 copies Tim Hiney and friends are back with another immensely entertaining volume of their acclaimed Where The Wild Gigs Were series delving […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 1
    Where The Wild Gigs Were – Vol 1
    $28.00 | ,

    HZB-013 235 pages, paperback 3rd EDITION of 400 copies When Tim from Dagger zine approached us about his book idea covering long-loved “spaces” held sacred for countless music fans, we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
    Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
    $45.00 | , ,

    Banks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the “Grown-Up Goth.” Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
    Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary …
    $10.00 | , ,

    In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
    Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
    $8.00 | , ,

    The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
    Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
    $8.00 | , ,

    The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
    Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
    $18.00 | , ,

    Where did musical minimalism come from―and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
    $50.00 | , ,

    A documentation and critical examination of Sol LeWitt’s influential Incomplete Open Cubes. With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
    Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
    $15.00 | , ,

    The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)
    Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hard…
    $7.00 | , ,

    A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they “sell out” and find mainstream […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • The Way Of Cartouche Set (as-is, no box, wear/discoloration)
    The Way Of Cartouche Set (as-is, no box, wear/discoloration)
    $40.00 | ,

    A manual and card set by English occultist Murry Hope on a method of divination based on the ancient Egyptian religion and using hieroglyphic images known as cartouches. Hope explains […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • John Neumeier – Traum Wege
    John Neumeier – Traum Wege
    $60.00 | , ,

    Photobook of the work of the choreographer John Neumeier Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and wraps,  however […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty – The Structure Of Behavior
    Maurice Merleau-Ponty – The Structure Of Behavior
    $30.00 | , ,

    At the time of his death in May 1961, Maurice Merleau-Ponty held the chair of Philosophy at the College de France. Together with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, he […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu – Free Exchange
    Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu – Free Exchange
    $15.00 | , ,

    Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke’s frank and open dialogue on contemporary art and culture ranges widely, from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity. Among [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work
    Martha Graham in Love and War: The Life in the Work
    $15.00 | , ,

    Often called the Picasso, Stravinsky, or Frank Lloyd Wright of the dance world, Martha Graham revolutionized ballet stages across the globe. Using newly discovered archival sources, award-winning [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics
    Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics
    $10.00 | , ,

    This anthology connects recent debates in feminist theory to debates in traditional philosophical aesthetics. Among the topics covered are: gender totemism; the oppositional gaze in terms of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barbara Catoir – Conversations with Antoni Tapies
    Barbara Catoir – Conversations with Antoni Tapies
    $10.00 | , ,

    The author has condensed hundreds of hours of her conversations with Spain’s leading contemporary artist, and neatly assembled them in thematic chapters. Book is in Very Good condition and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
    An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
    $10.00 | , ,

    An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict’s student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martha Graham – Blood Memory: An Autobiography
    Martha Graham – Blood Memory: An Autobiography
    $10.00 | , ,

    The innovative choreographer describes her childhood, her days with the Denishawn Dance Company, her tragic marriage, her own company, and her work with such artists as Chaplin, Louise Brooks, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Christine Lindey – Art in the Cold War : From Vladivostok to Kalamazoo 1945-1962
    Christine Lindey – Art in the Cold War : From Vladivostok to Kal…
    $9.00 | , ,

    This book, which covers new ground, is a study of high and low art, official and unofficial, in the Soviet Union and the West in the Cold War years, 1945–62. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steve Diet Goedde: The Beauty of Fetish (Signed/inscribed!)
    Steve Diet Goedde: The Beauty of Fetish (Signed/inscribed!)
    $60.00 | , ,

    “Fashion magazines are a deliberate reference point for Steve Diet Goedde in his gorgeous “The Beauty of Fetish,” a collection of shots of women in bondage and fetish gear that [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft
    The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft
    $25.00 | , ,

    The publication in 2001 of The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft was a landmark. For the first time, all of Lovecraft’s 500 or more poems-including […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
    Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty
    $50.00 | , ,

    Marilyn Minter is famed for her glossy, hyper-realistic paintings, photographs and video works―seductive images that borrow the language of fashion and advertising photography, exploring the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Marilyn Minter: All Wet
    Marilyn Minter: All Wet
    $15.00 | , ,

    New feminist portraiture from Marilyn Minter, in dialogue with ancient Greek art and Impressionism. American visual artist Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has long cultivated a space between the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Suki Schorer – Balanchine Pointework (Studies in Dance History)
    Suki Schorer – Balanchine Pointework (Studies in Dance History)
    $30.00 | , ,

    An in-depth overview of Balanchine Pointework with many illustrations as well. Book is in Like New condition and shows very light general wear. *Image in the listing is stock. There […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Photographs (Signed!)
    Joel-Peter Witkin: Photographs (Signed!)
    $120.00 | , ,

    One of the first monographs of Witkin’s work. Published in 1985. Book is in Very Good condition and shows light general wear. There may be slight shelfwear to edges and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs (Signed!)
    Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs (Signed!)
    $40.00 | , ,

    Signed exhibition catalog of the surrealist photographer’s work This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, or […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Denise Burt – Seeing New Music
    Denise Burt – Seeing New Music
    $25.00 | , ,

    Over the last 10 years, Copenhagen-based graphic designer Denise Burt has been on a unique discovery of contemporary classical music through her work designing covers for hundreds of art music [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic