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  • Live Skull ‎– Dangerous Visions
    Live Skull ‎– Dangerous Visions
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    “Emerging in the early 80s at the end of New York’s legendary No Wave scene alongside Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull reshaped the aggression of burned-out post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Petr Kotik – Many Many Women
    Petr Kotik – Many Many Women
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    “Reader, you and I are about to share a delicious secret. The disc you’re holding (or perhaps listening to by now) contains a classic of 1970s underground music – a […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Chronicle Church* ‎– Mystery / Bionic Movement
    The Chronicle Church* ‎– Mystery / Bionic Movement
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    Label: Pashlo Records – PH-1006, Pashlo Records – PH-1007 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Stereo, Rainbo Pressing Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Funk VG+ / GEN

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Mohamed Tounsi – Alah Maana / Rihat Leblad
    Mohamed Tounsi – Alah Maana / Rihat Leblad
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    Tunisian Folk music Label: El Kadra – EKA 250 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: Tunisia Released: VG/Gen. Low end VG with some noticeable surface noise and label wear. No pic sleeve.

    GENRE: International
  • Sonic Youth – Master=Dik / Beat On The Brat
    Sonic Youth – Master=Dik / Beat On The Brat
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    “A slight hiccup in our production? This is the infamous EP that Blast First label head Paul Smith begged us not to release. It has long been reviled or misunderstood […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Rachid Mesbahi – Yama Aazizene
    Rachid Mesbahi – Yama Aazizene
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    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: La Voix Du Globe – VDG 103.185 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45RPM, Single Country: France Released: undated VG+/Gen. Some light marks & some surface noise, but [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Slimane Azem – Diminou / Our Irouh Our Yeqime
    Slimane Azem – Diminou / Our Irouh Our Yeqime
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    Algerian Chaabi music. Label: La Voix Du Globe – 101 973 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45RPM Country: France Released: 1972 G+/Gen. Noticeable light marks & surface noise throughout both sides. No [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Mauricio Kagel – Kölner Ensemble Für Neue Musik – Der Schall (Für Fünf Spieler)
    Mauricio Kagel – Kölner Ensemble Für Neue Musik – Der Schall (Für Fünf Spieler)
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    “A work written for 54 instruments and 5 players — one that comes across vaguely like a free improvisation, and which certainly has plenty of musical elements in common with […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • The Spacious Mind – Sleepy Eyes And Butterflies
    The Spacious Mind – Sleepy Eyes And Butterflies
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    90’s Swedish Prog ripper. Label: Gates Of Dawn – GOD 001 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Jeanette – Errayeh Goulou
    Jeanette – Errayeh Goulou
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    Algerian Chaabi Label: Oasis Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: Algeria G+/Generic

    GENRE: International
  • Lounès Kheloui – Fakiyi Dhasouagh
    Lounès Kheloui – Fakiyi Dhasouagh
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    Label: Disques Bordj El Phen – BEP-67 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Mono Country: Algeria Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: African   A side plays G+, B […]

    GENRE: African
  • Bensmir Missoum – Baghi Nahdjar / Maghbouna Nhar Laid
    Bensmir Missoum – Baghi Nahdjar / Maghbouna Nhar Laid
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    Label: Sabraphone – N°24SB, Sabra – N°24SB Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: Algeria Released: Genre: Folk, World, & Country Notoiceable light marks & surface noise across both [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Atmani-  Atsane Athatchali
    Atmani- Atsane Athatchali
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    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: Oasis Disques Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: France Released: VG/Gen.

    GENRE: International
  • Boudjema L’Ankiss* – Ahou-Lia / Ya-Taleb
    Boudjema L’Ankiss* – Ahou-Lia / Ya-Taleb
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    Label: La Voix Du Globe – VG 6221 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: France Released: Genre: Folk, World, & Country Some noticeable light marks & label wear. No pic sleeve.

    GENRE: African
  • Slimane Azem – Azguer Yakel Egmas / Lahbab Elouaktha
    Slimane Azem – Azguer Yakel Egmas / Lahbab Elouaktha
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    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: Pathe 45 804 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: France Released: VG/Gen.

    GENRE: International
  • Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
    Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
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    “Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
    Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
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    “This striking and original book is an attempt to describe the true and false cultures of mass death in this century. On the battlefields of the World Wars, in the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Gribbin – The Omega Point
    John Gribbin – The Omega Point
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    “Is the universe infinitely expanding? Or at some point in the future will it finally reach its limit—and contract upon itself in one catastrophic reversal of the Big Bang? The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
    Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
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    “Imagine being able to “walk” into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s science fact. Surgeons now rehearse [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
    The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
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    A selection of eye-witness reports from both Hiroshima & Nagasaki, categorized by proximity to blast radius. English Translation Group, 1989 Softcover edition. Some corner & edgewear to wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
    Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
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    “The first book to reveal the locations of nuclear weapons around the world and introduce the concept of the infrastructure behind war.” Harper & Row, 1989 Softcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
    Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
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    “How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
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    “Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
    Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
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    A survey of incest & its meaning in literature. Julian Press, 1963 Hardcover edition. Wear & discoloration to dustjacket. Staining to upper edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
    The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
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    “From the Globe and Mail reviewer – “The life story of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a cautionary tale about the twin dangers of becoming a drug addict and writing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
    Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
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    “Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
    Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
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    “John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
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    “Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
    Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
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    “This book traces the development of the major themes in the work of the essential modern poet-playwright, Antonin Artaud. As a young man, Artaud complained that he could neither find […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
    Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
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    “Moxley’s detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to marriage. Consistently focused on poetry and poets, it dwells [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Celine: A Biography
    Celine: A Biography
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    “”A very solid achievement, a book that deserves to be ready by anyone interested in modern French literature””The Financial Times. “McCarthy has written the best [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
    Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
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    “Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of ‘frightening’ either the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
    The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
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    Label: Congress – CG-211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop Style: Soul Media Condition:G+ Solid G+ with surface noise noticeable. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pages – If I Saw You Again
    Pages – If I Saw You Again
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    Label: Epic – 8-50639 Format: 7″ Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG Notable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • El Coco – Afrodesia
    El Coco – Afrodesia
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    Label: AVI Records ‎– AVI-249-S Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Willie Bobo – Always There
    Willie Bobo – Always There
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    Label: Columbia ‎– 3-10862 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul Media: VG Light marks along both sides, and label wear.

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Load – Now We’ll Say We Tried / She Calls My Name
    The Load – Now We’ll Say We Tried / She Calls My Name
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    Label: Owl – 2551 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: May 1974 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & wear.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
    Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
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    Label: Del-Fi Records – 4214 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Styrene Country: US Released: 1963 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
    Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
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    Label: Cookin’ Records (2) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues Media: G+ Noticeable scuffing and marks, along with […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
    Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
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    Label: American Arts – AA-2 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media: VG A side plays low-end VG with some surface […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
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    “Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
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    “War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
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    “Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Megamurals & Supergraphics
    Megamurals & Supergraphics
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    “The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Mushrooms Of North America
    Mushrooms Of North America
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    “A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms, with pictorial keys and illustrated glossary.” Dutton, 1979 Softcover edition, third printing. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
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    “Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
    Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
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    Exhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
    Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
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    “Dr. Timothy Leary’s passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. Flashbacks, Leary’s own account of his career as “an accomplished clinical [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
    Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
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    “Mind Control is a little known and a highly controversial topic today. Veteran author and investigator Jim Keith uncovers a surprising amount of information on the technology, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Roland Barthes – Incidents
    Roland Barthes – Incidents
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    “In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping “with a view to publication,” Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction