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  • V/A – Rock Bop Boogie… To The Hula Hop!
    V/A – Rock Bop Boogie… To The Hula Hop!
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    Rockabilly comp focused on early and obscure Sun tracks Label: Sun – LP 1021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1985 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – King-Federal Rockabillys
    V/A – King-Federal Rockabillys
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    Rockabilly comp highlighting the King and Federal labels. Charlie Fathers slams. Label: King Records – KING-5016X Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG+. Light [...]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Rock It!
    V/A – Rock It!
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    Rockabilly comp featuring Carl Cherry and Buddy Howard. Label: Legend – 1002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: France Released: 1993 Light sleeve discoloration. Crack at upper seam

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Psycho Serenade
    V/A – Psycho Serenade
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    Bizarre comp of garage rock, rockabilly and novelty oddities. The Five Du-Tones track is a particular highlight. Label: Beware – BEWARE 666 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Rebel Rock-A-Billy-Rock Vol.1
    V/A – Rebel Rock-A-Billy-Rock Vol.1
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    Early Rockabilly comp featuring Tommy Moreland and Leon James Label: Jim Jam Records – WLJJ 8991 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Netherlands Released: 1993 VG+/VG+. Light marks and some [...]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A  ‎– Hot Rockin’ Picks
    V/A ‎– Hot Rockin’ Picks
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    Early Rock N Roll/Cajun Pop comp featuring Gene Terry and Charles Page. Label: Goldband Records – GCL-118 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1984 VG+/VG+. Bottom left corner [...]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Rarest Rockabilly And Hillbilly Boogie
    V/A – Rarest Rockabilly And Hillbilly Boogie
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    A comp of rare Rockabilly tracks, featuring Jimmie Dale and Buddy Shaw Label: Ace – CH 44 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Country: UK Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Some edgewear and […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A ‎– More Primitive Sound
    V/A ‎– More Primitive Sound
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    Rockabilly comp featuring many rarer tracks by Jerry Woodard and Wayne Newman Label: White Label Records – WLP 8833 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Netherlands Released: 1981 VG+/VG+. [...]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Rock & Roll Girls
    V/A – Rock & Roll Girls
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    Early Rock N Roll comp focusing on the women of Rockabilly, such as Claire Cook and Linda & The Epics Label: White Label Records – WLP 8866 Format: Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Savage Kick Volume Four
    V/A – Savage Kick Volume Four
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    Early Rock N Roll comp featuring Phil Flowers and The Valiants Label: Savage Kick – SK 504 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release, Mono Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Sleeve has […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Savage Kick Volume 9
    V/A – Savage Kick Volume 9
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    Early Rock N Roll comp featuring Les Cooper and Eddie Clearwater Label: Savage Kick – SK509 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Released: VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleevewear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Savage Kick Vol 6
    V/A – Savage Kick Vol 6
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    Early Rock N Roll comp featuring Little Luther and Big Maybelle Label: Savage Kick – SK506 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Light marks/wear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Desperate Rock N’ Roll Volume Nine
    V/A – Desperate Rock N’ Roll Volume Nine
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    Rockabilly comp featuring The Viceroys and The Notes Label: Flame – FLAME 009 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Light marks and sleevewear/discoloration

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Volume Eight
    V/A – Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Volume Eight
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    Rockabilly comp featuring Prince Arky and Willie B. Label: Flame – FLAME 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Missing A Side label. Light marks/wear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A – Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 3
    V/A – Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 3
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    Rockabilly comp featuring tracks from Kip Tyler and Gus Jenkins Label: Flame – FLAME 003 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Light marks/wear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A  ‎– Desperate Rock’n Roll Volume Ten
    V/A ‎– Desperate Rock’n Roll Volume Ten
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    Rockabilly comp featuring Dennis Smith and Sandman Howard. Label: Flame – FLAME 010 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released:1988 VG+/VG+. Light marks/wear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • V/A  ‎– Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 6
    V/A ‎– Desperate Rock ‘N’ Roll Vol. 6
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    Rockabilly comp featuring tracks by Clyde Arnold and The Sly Fox. Label: Flame – FLAME 006 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleevewear

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Al…
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    Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William Benton – Birds
    William Benton – Birds
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    This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. On the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility I
    Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing G…
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    During World War I, German soldiers shot down carrier pigeons for fear the birds were carrying enemy communiqués; in Mexico, the United States, and other countries, mules were used for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War
    A Conspiracy of Images: Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of t…
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    In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
    Vicente Huidobro – Manifest/Manifestos
    $8.00 | , ,

    The first publication in English of the great Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s manifestos, published originally in 1925. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit…
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    Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement
    Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music fr…
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    The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in God’s Water explores how songs and singers helped African […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
    Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors (German Text)
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    Throughout her career, Cindy Sherman (*1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has been interested in the derailed and deviant sides of human nature, noticeable both in her selection of subject […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
    Maurice Blanchot – Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual…
    $10.00 | , ,

    These articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
    Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files
    $15.00 | , ,

    Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them—to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
    Lesley Wheeler – Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance …
    $9.00 | , ,

    The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term “poetic voice” emphasizes poetry’s reliance on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
    Remainders of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age…
    $9.00 | , ,

    This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to the present as reflections of a growing anxiety about the decline of US hegemony. Post-apocalyptic novels [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    $10.00 | , ,

    The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
    Julie Hecht – Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman
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    Just as Andy Kaufman subverted traditional forms of comedy, Julie Hecht, with her deadpan wit and highly original style, subverts the traditional form of the profile with her acclaimed nonfiction [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
    Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
    $8.00 | , ,

    This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia
    NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst-an Event of the Fi…
    $20.00 | , ,

    The generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
    James Lee Byars : The Rest is Silence
    $17.00 | , ,

    Published on the occasion of the exhibition James Lee Byars: The Rest Is Silence, 27 April – 24 June 2006 at Michael Werner Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Mary […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
    Peter McGough – I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Goi…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York’s Lower East Side of the 1980s […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
    Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949-1979
    $12.00 | , ,

    Brazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
    Fredric Jameson – The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986
    $8.00 | , ,

    A collection of Jameson’s essays related to literary theory. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
    Kamala Tiyavanich – In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchant…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life. This work ingeniously [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
    Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test & The Power Of Seeing
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    A popular misconception of the controversial Rorschach test, which requires subjects to interpret a series of ten inkblots, is that there are no wrong answers. For professional psychologists, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
    Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe
    $9.00 | , ,

    Multi-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
    Paul Davies – The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien I…
    $8.00 | , ,

    Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
    Jonathan Strauss – Human Remains: Medicine, Death, and Desire in…
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    “The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
    Verena A Conley – Helene Cixous
    $8.00 | , ,

    “Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
    $8.00 | , ,

    “It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired—iconic […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
    An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Paul Bowles’s seductive, terrifying, exquisitely detached fictions have inspired writers and iconoclasts from the Beats to the present day. In this brilliant and definitive [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
    Diane Wakoski – The Emerald City of Las Vegas
    $8.00 | , ,

    “Dedicated to America’s mythic city, Diane Wakoski discusses risk, betrayal, and history in this third volume of her Archaeology of Movies and Books. Wakoski skillfully weaves together [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
    Carol Off – Bitter Chocolate: Anatomy of an Industry
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
    Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
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    “Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
    Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cine…
    $10.00 | , ,

    “In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
    Kembrew McLeod – Downtown Pop Underground
    $10.00 | , ,

    “The 1960s to early ’70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and filmmaking. The Downtown […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction