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  • Tabou Combo – Indestructible…
    Tabou Combo – Indestructible…
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    Funk-tinged compas from one of Haiti’s longest-running groups. Label: Mini Records – MRS 1056 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1976 VG+/VG+. Light marks/wear

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha – Rāgas And Tālas
    Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha – Rāgas And Tālas
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “As is usually the case with Shankar, the music is quite accessible to Western ears. The jor section of the piece “Dhun” is quite tuneful, for example. And the brevity […]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Kartick Kumar – Sitar Music Of India
    Kartick Kumar – Sitar Music Of India
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Tranquil and meditative ragas from Kartick Kumar Label: Deutsche Grammophon – 136 551 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Germany Released: 1968 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Deben Bhattacharya ‎– The Popular Folk Music Of India
    Deben Bhattacharya ‎– The Popular Folk Music Of India
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    A collection of field recordings made in the 1950s and 1960s by the late Indian ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya Label: Vee Jay Records – VJS 6402 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo […]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
    The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
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    An exhibition catalogue of photos from the collection of Graham Nash The Nash Press, 1978 Softcover edition. Book is signed by Graham Nash. Noticeable amount of moisture damage and staining […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
    The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
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    “An anthology of erotic literature contains selections from leading writers of the genre including Henry Miller, Jean Genet, the Marquis de Sade, and Pauline Reage” Ballantine Books, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    $225.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海 Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The series, which Mishima began writing in 1964 and which was his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Topor – The Tenant
    Roland Topor – The Tenant
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    “The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Cradle Of Erotica
    The Cradle Of Erotica
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    “This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]

    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
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
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    “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
  • Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
    Matt Furie – Boy’s Club #2 (Very Rare)
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    Issue #2 of Matt Furie’s comic strip of anthropomorphic animals. Buenaventura Press, 2008 Comic magazine edition. Light wear to spine and corners.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges (1969 Pressing, looks G+/plays VG)
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges (1969 Pressing, looks G+/plays VG)
    $165.00 | , , Add to cart

    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Groupe Les Chleu-Chleu ‎– Haiti, Mon Pays
    Groupe Les Chleu-Chleu ‎– Haiti, Mon Pays
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Mid 60s Compas gold. Beautiful saxophone on this. VG/VG

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 20eme Anniversaire
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 20eme Anniversaire
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • L’Immortel Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 33è Anniversaire
    L’Immortel Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 33è Anniversaire
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    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Orchestre Septentrional – Noël Des Copains
    Orchestre Septentrional – Noël Des Copains
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    VG/VG+ Vinyl has light marks that are lightly audible.

  • Super Ensemble Webert Sicot ‎– Cadence Rampa
    Super Ensemble Webert Sicot ‎– Cadence Rampa
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Early 60s Weber Sicot. Legendary Compas sax player. VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Raoul Guillaume Et Son Groupe ‎– A Musical Trip To Haiti
    Raoul Guillaume Et Son Groupe ‎– A Musical Trip To Haiti
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Fantastic 1960 LP from Raoul Guillaume… Compas & earlier stylings of carribean music. The origins of jazz & how latin rhythms bled into the Americas. Record smokes. VG/VG+ Vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 35ème Anniversaire
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 35ème Anniversaire
    $55.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Webert Sicot and Son Super Ensemble – Sons and Couleurs D’Haiti
    Webert Sicot and Son Super Ensemble – Sons and Couleurs D’Haiti
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Sons & Couleurs D’Haiti” by Webert Sicot & Son Super Ensemble is a landmark album in the realm of Haitian music. Led by the talented saxophonist, composer, and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
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    “Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
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    “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. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
    Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion
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    “Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over thirty years. She has consistently broken fresh ground in cultural analysis and provocatively engaged a wide [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
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    “In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
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    “A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – Les Mains Sales (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
    Jean-Paul Sartre – La Nausee (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
    Baudelaire – Les Fleurs Du Mal (FRENCH EDITION)
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    “Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire’s poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
    Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
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    “By the time of their third LP, Pearls Before Swine’s mainstay Tom Rapp hadn’t changed much in his approach. He was still singing inscrutable folk-rock-psychedelic songs with a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Orplid ‎– Geheiligt Sei Der Toten Name
    Orplid ‎– Geheiligt Sei Der Toten Name
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Ambient neo-folk Label: Eis Und Licht – rex regum 240399 Format: CD, EP, Reissue, 2nd Edition Country: Germany Released:1999 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
    Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
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    Tribal dark ambient filled with occult influences. Label: Athanor – ATNR 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
    Black Zone Myth Chant – Bad Decisions
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    Included with Embryo Zine Issue #2 Label: Natural Sciences – none Format: CDr, Album Country: UK Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Grunt – Petturien Rooli
    Grunt – Petturien Rooli
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    “Recorded between 2007-2009, making it longest recording task of project so far. Presenting some of the new sides of Grunt, but with the touch known from before. Album contains no […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– Peepland: The Complete Singles
    Intrinsic Action ‎– Peepland: The Complete Singles
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Compiles all of the official and authorized vinyl releases by Intrinsic Action.” Label: BloodLust! – B!052 Format: CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2006 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– III
    Intrinsic Action ‎– III
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    “Re-mastered re-release of the third I.A. cassette, originally issued in 1987. The core recordings consist of the band’s third live show, ever. Includes two bonus SCTL tracks. [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “”Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” sayeth Jesus in Matthew […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Ramones – Too Tough To Die
    Ramones – Too Tough To Die
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    “With the Ramones’ original drummer, Tommy Erdelyi, producing, the group returns to simple, scathing punk rock on Too Tough to Die. The group takes the big guitar riffs of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Our Neighbors Suck – Isolation
    Our Neighbors Suck – Isolation
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Most of the songs by the Arizona-based band are in the medium-paced punk vein, with a few slower or more rapid-fire. The production sound is thick here and, combined with […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Social Unrest – Rat In A Maze
    Social Unrest – Rat In A Maze
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “SOCIAL UNREST has been one of my favorite Bay Area bands since they formed, and this EP reveals why. The mix is a bit too piercing on the high end, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Scream – Still Screaming [Radio Station Promo w/ ad]
    Scream – Still Screaming [Radio Station Promo w/ ad]
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Before their current role as a Nirvana footnote, Scream was actually one of Dischord’s best bands. Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981 by singer Peter Stahl, his brother Franz on […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Toxic Reasons – Kill By Remote Control
    Toxic Reasons – Kill By Remote Control
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Live, the TOXICS seem intent on following DOA into a rock-oriented rut, but this album is filled with sharp songs that lock in firmly on your memory. Most of them […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore