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  • Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History
    Stairways To Heaven: Drugs In American Religious History
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    “From Native Americans’ use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
    Action/Precision: The New Direction In New York
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    Overview of lesser known Abstract Expressionists, from 1955-1960. Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984 Softcover edition. Noticeable wear to edges of dustjacket.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Pre…
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus Artist)
    Gyorgy Galantai – Space & Time (Hungarian Mail Art / Fluxus…
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    Here’s another one with the Fluxus vibes. Sounds like a dude scraping a piece of metal in a circular motion sometimes softly, sometimes more aggressively. György Galántai (born June 17, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
    Master/Slave Relationship – Soundtrack To Black Leather Bondage
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    Label: Cause And Effect Format: Cassette, Album, C60 Country: US Released: 1987 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial Does not include re-sealable pouch with a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ booklet.  

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
    Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
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    “In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
    Childsplay: The Art Of Allan Kaprow
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    “Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
    Gerald Jenkins – It’s After The End Of The World
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    “A Picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic / magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writin…
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art And Mathematics
    Matilde Marcolli – Lumen Nature: Visions Of The Abstract In Art …
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    Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos.This is a book about art—and a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Richard Thompson – Beeswing
    Richard Thompson – Beeswing
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    In this moving and immersive memoir, Richard Thompson, international and longtime beloved music legend, recreates the spirit of the 1960s, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
    Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
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    A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On & By: Andy Warhol
    On & By: Andy Warhol
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    Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: John Cage
    October Files: John Cage
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    An extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Bernd Witth?ser ? Lieder Von Vampiren, Nonnen Und Toten
    Bernd Witth?ser ? Lieder Von Vampiren, Nonnen Und Toten
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    Reissue of a krautrock/freak folk from Walter Wegmüller associates Label: Wah Wah Records – LPS063 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Spain Released: 2009 NM/VG+. Sealed [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The Past
    Amon D??l II* ? Meetings With Menmachines Unremarkable Heroes Of The P…
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    Underrated album by UK Amon Duul affiliates. Label: Abstract Sounds – ABT049CD Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+ Image may not be from actual item.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Wild Ones ? Encore
    The Wild Ones ? Encore
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    Solid group sounds album Label: Express – ETP-80119 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1980 VG+/VG+, includes liner  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
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    City Pop 12″ with some solid melodies and grooves Label: Niagara Records – 15AH 1515 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Mini-Album Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Jacks – Greatest Hits
    Jacks – Greatest Hits
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    Compilation of early Japanese group-sounds/psych band’s best tracks. Label: Express – ETP-8179 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo Country: Japan Released: VG+/VG with some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • H.P. Lovecraft -H.P. Lovecraft
    H.P. Lovecraft -H.P. Lovecraft
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    Chicago based acid rock. Fuzzed out and dark. 1967 US Pressing on Philips, PHS-600-252 G+/VG Vinyl plays VG to G+ throughout. Some light popping here & there, but overall a […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Invaders ? Test Card
    The Invaders ? Test Card
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    UK power-pop that verges on post-punk Polydor – 2383 589 1980 UK Media Condition – NM Sleeve Condition -VG+, very light ringwear and edge wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop