May 17th Newsletter

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  • Raymond Thorp – Viper: Confessions Of A Drug Addict
    Raymond Thorp – Viper: Confessions Of A Drug Addict
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    An early memoir of the London underground and drug market, circa 1940s-1950s. Robert Hale Limited, 1956 Hardcover edition. Crack in spine at page 83, causing a light sag to textblock. […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Michael Chaplin – I Couldn’t Smoke The Grass Off My Father’s Lawn (Scarce)
    Michael Chaplin – I Couldn’t Smoke The Grass Off My Father’s Lawn (Scarce)
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    Michael Chaplin’s, son of Charlie Chaplin, memoir of his time grooving with the mod set. Ballantine Books, 1967 Mass-Market Paperbacks edition. Noticeable discoloration to both wraps and [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Patti Smith – Just Kids
    Patti Smith – Just Kids
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    “It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • 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
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – Autumn
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    “From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • 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
  • 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
  • Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
    Terence McKenna – True Hallucinations
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    “This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
    Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
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    Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
    Gabrielle Wittkop – Murder Most Serene
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    In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
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    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
    Martin Bax – The Hospital Ship
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    Originally published in 1976, Martin Bax’s seminal cult novel is back in print after three decades. From harbours around the world, the hospital ship picks up casualties, emergency cases of [...]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
    Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
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    Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
    Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
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    A man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
    Joan Lindsay – Picnic at Hanging Rock
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    A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena