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  • Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
    Robert Desjarlais – Sensory Biographies: Lives & Deaths amo…
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    Robert Desjarlais’s graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns on the Mafia Coast
    Barbie Latza Nadeau – Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs, & Guns o…
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    Chasing the money from kidnapped Nigerian hair braiders to ISIS gunrunners, this is the story of modern slavery in Europe and how the plight of those most in need is […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo
    Allen F Roberts – Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial …
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    A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • George Hayduke – Revenge
    George Hayduke – Revenge
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    Depicts pranks that can be used to humiliate, defame, insult, or trick individuals or organizations on whom one seeks revenge Lyle Stuart, 1982 Softcover Edition. Some discoloration to wraps and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
    Lewis Spence – An Encyclopedia Of Occultism
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    Since its intitial publication in 1920, this book has remained the supreme arbiter in all matters of dispute concerning the occult. Contains 2,500 entries and articles summarizing the entire [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dzyan ‎– Electric Silence
    Dzyan ‎– Electric Silence
    $150.00 | , ,

    On their third and final album, Dzyan refined their sound even further into improvisation and exotic sounds. Electric Silence offers other-worldly music of incredible beauty and strangeness, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Various Artists – Jodie Drake / Christopher Jane / Edwards & Deviliers / Claude Blouin
    Various Artists – Jodie Drake / Christopher Jane / Edwards & Devi…
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    Killer library music record from the always dependable CBC Radio Canada Label: CBC Radio Canada – LM-405 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Canada Released: 1974 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
    Janina Wellmann – Biological Motion: A History Of Life
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    “Biological Motion studies the foundational relationship between motion and life. To answer the question, “What is Life?,” prize-winning historian of science Janina Wellmann engages in a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
    Florian Fuchs – Civic Storytelling
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    “Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to explain […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
    Colin McGinn – The Power Of Movies: How Screen And Mind Interact
    $7.00 | , ,

    “How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
    Caroline Arni – Of Human Born: Fetal Lives 1800-1950
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    At a time when the becoming of a human being in a woman’s body has, once again, become a fraught issue—from abortion debates and surrogacy controversies to prenatal diagnoses and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mighty Baby ‎– Mighty Baby (Check Cover Condition)
    Mighty Baby ‎– Mighty Baby (Check Cover Condition)
    $260.00 | , ,

    This record has been outfitted with an additional store-designed, 1/1 cover, because we felt as a classic album it deserved more than a G sleeve. Please note the grading for […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
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    Forty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • V/A – Blowin’ Through Yokohama!
    V/A – Blowin’ Through Yokohama!
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    Heavy soul and early rock n roll comp, featuring an insane track by The Payments. Label: Atomic Passion – AP 1958 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: US Released:1996 […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • V/A – Rock Bop Boogie… To The Hula Hop!
    V/A – Rock Bop Boogie… To The Hula Hop!
    $12.00 | , ,

    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
    $10.00 | , ,

    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!
    $12.00 | , ,

    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
    $30.00 | , ,

    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
    $15.00 | , ,

    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
    $12.00 | , ,

    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
    $16.00 | , ,

    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
    $15.00 | , ,

    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
    $15.00 | , ,

    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
    $15.00 | , ,

    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
    $15.00 | , ,

    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
    $16.00 | , ,

    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
  • 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…
    $10.00 | , ,

    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
    $8.00 | , ,

    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
  • 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…
    $18.00 | , ,

    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…
    $10.00 | , ,

    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…
    $10.00 | , ,

    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)
    $20.00 | , ,

    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
    $9.00 | , ,

    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
  • 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
    $10.00 | , ,

    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…
    $10.00 | , ,

    “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