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  • Nikolas Schreck – The Manson File (as-is, scarce)
    Nikolas Schreck – The Manson File (as-is, scarce)
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    “Summing up 25 years of Nikolas Schreck’s research into the Charles Manson phenomenon, this Book of Revelations illuminates unknown dimensions of Manson as philosopher, musician, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Chaplin – I Couldn’t Smoke The Grass Off My Father’s Lawn (Scarce)
    Michael Chaplin – I Couldn’t Smoke The Grass Off My Father’s Lawn (Scarce)
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    Michael Chaplin’s, son of Charlie Chaplin, memoir of his time grooving with the mod set. Ballantine Books, 1967 Mass-Market Paperbacks edition. Noticeable discoloration to both wraps and [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Mary Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
    Mary Gaitskill – Bad Behavior
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    “Now a classic, Bad Behavior made critical waves when it first published, heralding Gaitskill’s arrival on the literary scene and her establishment as one of the sharpest, erotically [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
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    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Manson: In His Own Words
    Manson: In His Own Words
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    “We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as “the most dangerous man alive.” But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
    Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
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    “It’s only natural that rock and roll — “the devil’s music” — and Satanism should be intimately linked. Lucifer Rising explores this unique cultural confluence. Divided into three parts, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hubert Selby – The Demon
    Hubert Selby – The Demon
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    “Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr’s lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds — a good marriage, a good corporate job […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
    How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
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    A guide to avoid the draft, written during Vietnam. Grove Press, 1967 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Stamp and old sticker on front wrap.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Isamu Michi – Neo-Aum Sermons
    Isamu Michi – Neo-Aum Sermons
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    “In the form of fifty-five concise sermons, Isamu Michi presents an overview of the practice, worldview and ideology of Neo-Aum – from the tenants guiding its loyalists to its [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History Of The Freak Film
    Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History Of The Freak Film
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Freakshows – human anomalies presented for spectacle – have flourished throughout recorded history. The birth of the movies provided a further outlet for these displays, which [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
    Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
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    “It is the 1920s in New York City and an epidemic known as Jes Grew is sweeping the nation—a dancing plague, irresistible, joyful, and undeniably Black. Naturally, the powers-that-be are [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Crystal World (Book Club Edition)
    J.G Ballard – The Crystal World (Book Club Edition)
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    “J. G. Ballard’s fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
    Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
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    “The street-wise, sexually liberated Gin has blagged and bribed her way into the decidedly insalubrious dwellings of New York for the past three years. Now, besieged by financial troubles [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
    J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
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    “The Wind from Nowhere, 1st published in ’61 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jerry Weissman – The Zodiac Killer
    Jerry Weissman – The Zodiac Killer
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    “A novel based on the still-unsolved San Francisco murders of 1968-69.” Pinnacle Books, 1979 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Wear & discoloration to edges of wraps.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
    Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
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    “Tells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature” Dutton, 1984 Hardcover 1st edition. Corner clipped on [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
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    A monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jorge Luis Borges – The Book Of Imaginary Beings
    Jorge Luis Borges – The Book Of Imaginary Beings
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    “In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís with Jorge Luis Borges’s 1957 compilation of 116 “strange creatures conceived through time [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
    Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
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    “These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kathy Acker – Blood And Guts In High School (as-is)
    Kathy Acker – Blood And Guts In High School (as-is)
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    “A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
    Kenneth Patchen – Hallelujah Anyway
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    “This is a book to delight the mind and the eye – the first collection of the poet Kenneth Patchen’s unique and remarkable “picture-poems.” As a creative form, the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
    Knut Hamsun – Growth Of The Soil
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    “A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Krystle Cole – Lysergic (Scarce)
    Krystle Cole – Lysergic (Scarce)
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    “In Lysergic, Krystle Cole describes the events that occurred in her life within the time period of 2000 to 2003. Krystle explains her involvement with Gordon Todd Skinner and William […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
    Lowell Hart – Satan’s Music Exposed
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    A bizarre tract linking contemporary Christian music to “satanic” rock music. Salem Kirban Inc, 1980 Softcover edition. Wear to edges of wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
    Jean Lorrain – Princesses Of Darkness And Other Exotica
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    “When Jean Lorrain (1855-1906) was recruited to the stable of writers assembled by Catulle Mendès to supply L’Écho de Paris with material on a weekly basis, in July 1890, he […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
    Jean Lorrain – Errant Vice
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    “Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
    High Societies: Psychedelic Rock Posters Of Haight-Ashbury
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    “The Hood Museum of Art presents High Society: Psychedelic Rock Posters of Haight-Ashbury, treating visitors to the largest survey of psychedelic rock posters organized in twenty-five [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    $200.00 | , , Add to cart

    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Harry Matthews – The Journalist
    Harry Matthews – The Journalist
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    “A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce, The Journalist explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them. The [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
    H. John Poole – Militant Tricks
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    A “combat guide” from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, as written by a former marine. Posterity Press, 2014 Softcover edition. Light general wear

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
    Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account
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    The first book about Jonestown, as told by a journalist who was there and other key eyewitnesses. Berkley, 1978 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Writing on front page. Wear/discoloration to wraps [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics Of Space
    Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics Of Space
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    “Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of irresistibly [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
    Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth
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    “First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Flesh Of The Gods: The Ritual Use Of Hallucinogens
    Flesh Of The Gods: The Ritual Use Of Hallucinogens
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    “For centuries, hallucinogens have been of great significance in the ideology and religious practices of primitive societies. In fact, the use of psychotropic plants to achieve states of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
    Fille De Joie: The Book of Courtesans, Sporting Girls, Ladies of The Evening….
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    “Fille de joie, lady of the evening, lady of pleasure — delightful euphemisms. The fille de joie is seen variously as mysterious, remote, and incredibly sinful; desirable and corrupt, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Fantastic Architecture (Something Else Press Edition)
    Fantastic Architecture (Something Else Press Edition)
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    “Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins’ legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
    Earth Sheltered Housing Design: Guidelines, Examples And References
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    “Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    $110.00 | , , Add to cart

    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cosey Fanni Tutti – Art Sex Music
    Cosey Fanni Tutti – Art Sex Music
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    “Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
    Burgo Partridge – A History Of Orgies
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    “An orgy, the dictionary tells us, is “a wild gathering, marked by promiscuous sexual activity, excessive drinking, etc.” Burgo Partridge tells us precisely what that has meant down through [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Buckminster Fuller To Children Of Earth
    Buckminster Fuller To Children Of Earth
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    “Buckminster Fuller is the inventor of the geodesic dome… but hew is so much more. Explorer of the big comprehensive patterns operating in universe, Buckminster Fuller knows that the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ernst Juenger – On The Marble Cliffs
    Ernst Juenger – On The Marble Cliffs
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    “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 of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ed Sanders – The Family
    Ed Sanders – The Family
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    “In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Avital Ronell – Crack Wars
    Avital Ronell – Crack Wars
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    “Avital Ronell asks why “there is no culture without drug culture.” She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud’s cocaine, Baudelaire’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aldous Huxley – The Doors Of Perception
    Aldous Huxley – The Doors Of Perception
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    “Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
    Anal Pleasure & Health: A Guide For Men And Women
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    “For many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body’s most wondrous creations–elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
    Arturo Graf – Art Of The Devil
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    ““The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857). Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive