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Rudolf Steiner – The Secret Stream : Christian Rosenkreutz and R…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDuring the early seventeenth century, Europe was suddenly embroiled in controversy after the publication of the first Rosicrucian texts. Ever since, Rosicrucianism has been at the center of [...]
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Amir D. Aczel – The Mystery of the Aleph
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history’s most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the Aleph tells the story of Georg […]
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The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAncient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. […]
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Kabbalah: Three Thousand Years Of Mystic Tradition
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsHebrew scholar and author of “Dead Sea The Untold Story” turns his attention to the enthralling history of Kabbalah–depicting how it has developed through three millennia to [...]
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Milo Christie – Pulsey’s Epithet
$15.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, PrintA rare paper imprint release from Gerrit Hatcher’s Kettle Hold Records imprint “Little Appropriately Priced Library” 80 page perfect bound book.
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“This catalogue was published to commemoration of the inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center that took place on October 9, 2008. NOW JUMP, the title of the […]
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Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
$300.00 | Book, Painting, PrintGrove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Light staining and faint ink marks to coves. Mild wear & discoloration to edges of wraps and […]
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Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer – French Fries
$500.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsExhibited internationally including at the Georges Pompidue Centre’s L’image Des Mots exhibition, and as a solo exhibit at the Pieter Brattinga Gallery in Amsterdam. Copies of French Fries are [...]
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Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPart of Silliman’s Alphabet series/long-form poem. Generator, 1993 Staple-bound chapbook. Cornerwear, light discoloration and creasing to wraps.
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Cornelia Parker – Verso
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]
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Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground (extremely…
$40.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Guerrillas, fugitives and other members of the “underground” must exploit existing resources to communicate secretly. This book tells you how they use improvised microfilm, [...]
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Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night (scarce edition)
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsNowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]
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Richard Wollheim – Painting as an Art
$20.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim’s encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws on his three great [...]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Cosmos
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz “one of the great novelists of our century.” Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by the [...]
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Luce Irigaray – je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIrigaray offers the clearest available introduction to her own work. Focusing on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, she lays out what for her has become the central problem for [...]
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John Meyendorff – Christ in Eastern Christian Thought
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThis major study of Byzantine Christology is at the same time a study of the Orthodox understanding of man and his salvation. Focusing on the concept of hypostasis or “person,” […]
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Negotiating History: German Art and the Past
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsOverview of German art movements and their relationship to the cultural history of Germany This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]
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The Mirror of the Gods: How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the P…
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsBy the end of the 15th century, the remains of the ancient gods littered the landscape of Western Europe. Christianity had erased the religions of ancient Greece and Rome and […]
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Agnus Dei: L’art romànic i els artistes del segle XX (CATALAN LA…
$15.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsA lushly illustrated overview of how angels have been depicted in art. IN CATALAN LANGUAGE This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Homage to Pythagoras: Rediscovering Sacred Science
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsThese articles, both scholarly and sympathetic to the Pythagorean perspective, are proof of the contemporary interest in Pythagoras’ philosophy as a living reality. Homage to Pythagoras is [...]
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Celebration: Studies in Festivity and Ritual
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used ItemsIncludes material on ceremonial masks, Western Ashkenazic torah binders, Canela initiation festivals, potlatch ceremonies, Chamula carnivals, early 19th-century Protestant radicals, Penitentes, [...]
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The Traveler’s Key to Northern India
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsDescribes the historical background and religious significance of temples, shrines, palaces, and pilgrimage sites, and includes information on their art, architecture and legends This book is in [...]
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S. Giedion – The Eternal Present: Volume I: The Beginnings of Ar…
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Professor Giedion, well known as an historian of architecture, is concerned in this latest work with a problem that in his view has come more and more into the the […]
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The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taugh…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, goes the ancient saying. This concept is at the root of the computational worldview, which basically says that very complex […]
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Louis Marin – To Destroy Painting
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe work of the eminent French cultural critic Louis Marin (1931-92) is becoming increasingly important to English-speaking scholars concerned with issues of representation. To Destroy Painting, [...]
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The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsPhilosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The Forbidden Image traces the [...]
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Arnold I Davidson – Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemo…
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn a book that moves between philosophy and history, and with lasting significance for both, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the […]
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Bojana Mojsov – Osiris: Death and Afterlife of a God
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris [...]
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F.M Cornford – From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origi…
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis exploration of early Western philosophy traces the religious roots of science and systematic speculation. Cornford, a distinguished historian of ancient philosophy, combines deep classical [...]
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Julio Cortazar – 62: A Model Kit
$16.00 | Book, Print‘A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs’ New York TimesIn a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit [...]
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Kurt Schwitters – Myself and My Aims: Writings on Art and Critic…
$50.00 | Book, PrintKurt Schwitters was a major protagonist in the histories of modern art and literature, whose response to the contradictions of modern life rivals that of Marcel Duchamp in its importance […]
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Joanna Moorhead – The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father’s cousin, Prim, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her [...]
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Paul Elie – The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in…
$24.00 | Book, PrintEnter the figures Paul Elie calls “crypto-religious.” Here is Leonard Cohen writing “Hallelujah” on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardo’s The Last Supper in […]
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Leon Genonceaux – The Tutu
$22.00 | Book, PrintThe nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]
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M. John Harrison – The Course Of The Heart
$16.00 | Book, PrintOn a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded […]
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Daphne Oram – An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics
$29.00 | Book, Book / Paper Goods, PrintDaphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a […]
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Ryu Murakami – From the Fatherland with Love
$20.00 | Book, PrintAn ambitious, epic dystopian novel – part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed [...]
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsZeus and the other gods of shining Olympus were in reality divine only by popular consent. Over the course of time Olympian luster diminished in favor of religious experiences more […]
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Burren Archaeology: A Tour Guide
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Burren in County Clare contains one of the more dense concentrations of archaeological remains in Ireland. Its monuments illustrate the story of human activity since it was first settled […]
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language, Theory, Mythology, …
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThis book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and [...]
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America, the Sorcerer’s New Apprentice: The Rise of New Age Sham…
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsReincarnation, Eastern mysticism, channeling, psychic phenomena. Is America at the threshold of a glorious new age of enlightenment? Or have we, in our search for higher levels of human [...]
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Henry Corbin – Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), [...]
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Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArtists and writers reconsider the relationship between the body and electronic technology in the twenty-first century through essays, artworks, and an encyclopedic “Abecedarius of the New [...]
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Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetra in Ancient Egypt
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsArchaeologies of Social Life is a fascinating new perspective on everyday life in ancient Egypt. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
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Michael Slavin – The Book of Tara
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Book of Tara is written by local and respected historian, Michael Slavin, and examines the many aspects and beliefs associated to the sacred Hill of Tara itself and why […]
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Lucian Krukowski – Art and Concept: A Philosophical Study
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsAddressing the important and timely question of what it is to know something as an artwork, this volume explores the relationship between works of art and the concepts, evaluations, descriptions, [...]
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Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsTwelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman’s earlier work [...]
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Bruce Mau – Massive Change
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMassive Change is a modern, illustrated primer on the new inventions, technologies, and events that are affecting the human race worldwide. This book is part of a broader research project […]
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Moshe Idel – Messianic Mystics
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn this stimulating book one of the world’s leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience. Moshe Idel calls upon his profound [...]
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The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe amazing surprise New York Times bestseller, filled with “breathtaking glimpses into worlds that heretofore have been little explored” (Foreward) They say that history is written [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction