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  • The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: The Report of the British Medical Association’s Board of Science and Education
    The Medical Effects of Nuclear War: The Report of the British Medical Association’s Board of Science and Education
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    A non-biased guidebook on what the medical effects of nuclear attack would be on the general populace. British Medical Association, 1983 Softcover edition. Some rubbing and discoloration to both [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
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    “Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, [...]

    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
  • Larry Kramer – Faggots
    Larry Kramer – Faggots
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    “Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • The Complete Guide To The Street Drug Game
    The Complete Guide To The Street Drug Game
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    A guide drug legality, use & drug-dealer culture. Lyle Stuart, 1980 Softcover edition, third printing. Some wear to edges of wraps & spine. Staining at edges of pages. Crack in […]

    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 Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
    The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
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    “First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
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    “Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
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    “The contents of this compendium, which presents a bit of the history of the racial prejudice against the Chinese, are organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, “Institutionalization of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
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    “Architectural designs accompany a discussion of the various aspects of and recent improvements in building homes and businesses underground” Self-published, 1977 staple-bound [...]

    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
  • The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
    The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
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    “Examines the use of male and female imagery in the Bible and argues that the Bible does not describe God in only masculine terms” Crossroad, 1991 Softcover edition. Light [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
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    “A self-help book that is targeted for three major groups. First, the contents of the book is designed to encourage those that are incarcerated to utilize the positive resources that […]

    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
  • David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
    David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
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    “Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – The Killing Game
    Gary Webb – The Killing Game
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    “Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
    Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
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    “This biography of the Constructivist leader Laszlo Moholy-Nagy illustrates his difficult yet victorious struggle for a total approach to seeing-teaching-creating. The account encompasses [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
    Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
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    “Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    “In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
    Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
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    “No other writer of the fin-de-siècle period undertook a more elaborate exploration of perversities and abnormalities than Jean Lorrain, and no one else went as far afield in the search [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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
  • The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
    The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
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    “”Mae’s work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
    The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
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    “The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit. Complete Suicide Manual) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi. He is the writer on the problem of [...]

    GENRE:
  • Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
    Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
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    “Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
    Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
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    “Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the ’60s. Owsley “Bear” Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
    Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
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    “An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
    Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
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    “Brings together the testimony of psychiatrists, theologians, an FBI agent, and two survivors of ritual abuse to provide a balanced look at the network of satanic cults in existence [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
    Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
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    “In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
    Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
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    “Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
    Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
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    “Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Snuggly Satanicon
    The Snuggly Satanicon
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    “The current volume, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, brings together fourteen stories composed in the thriving tradition of “literary Satanism” that was pioneered [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
    Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
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    Sealed copy! South Indian – various tracks of flute music, vocal & classical, ragas, etc Label: Request Records – SRLP 8076 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US NM/VG+  Sealed

    GENRE: Indian
  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
    Ustad Amjad Ali Khan* ‎– Raga Priyadarshini – A Tribute
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    Wonderful sarod & tabla raga. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 3117, His Master’s Voice – ECSD 3117 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: India Released: 1984 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
    Debu Chaudhuri – Debu’s Sitar – India’s Debu – Sitar Maestro
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    A impressionistic sitar album. Fantastic and immersive. Label: ABK Productions – ABK2001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Amjad Ali Khan – Prisoner Of Conscience
    Amjad Ali Khan – Prisoner Of Conscience
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    Incredible sarod ragas. 2 side lengths – Tilak Kamod & Shahana. Label: His Master’s Voice – ECSD 2864, His Master’s Voice – ECSD. 2864 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • Pandit Narayanrao Vyas – Enchanting Music From Pandit Narayanrao Vyas
    Pandit Narayanrao Vyas – Enchanting Music From Pandit Narayanrao Vyas
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    Melodious and serene vocal ragas. Label: All India Radio – PMLP 3023, His Master’s Voice – PMLP. 3023 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: India Released: 1984 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian