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  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The Mind Of Watts
    Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The Mind Of Watts
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    Thomas Pynchon writes on the Watts riots of 1965. Mouldwarp, undated staple-bound zine. Light discoloration/wear.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
    Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
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    In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stephen LaBerge – Lucid Dreaming
    Stephen LaBerge – Lucid Dreaming
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    The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night’s rest. With the art of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
    Georges Bataille – Literature And Evil
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    ”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
    Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
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    Poems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – Le Livre Blanc
    Jean Cocteau – Le Livre Blanc
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    Le Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
    Jean Cocteau – Opium: The Diary Of A Cure
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    The literary and cinematic legend gives his no-holds-barred account of a dangerous addiction In this classic study Cocteau vividly describes his extraordinary experiences while taking opium, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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    Neither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
    Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
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    It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
    The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature
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    A survey of erotic literature throughout history. William Morrow, 1976 Hardcover edition. Light discoloration/wear to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Anthony Pagden – Worlds At War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East And West
    Anthony Pagden – Worlds At War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East And West
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    Spanning two and a half millennia, Anthony Pagden’s mesmerizing Worlds at War delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” between East and West that has always been […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ziga Vodovnik – A Living Spirit Of Revolt
    Ziga Vodovnik – A Living Spirit Of Revolt
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    “The great contribution of Žiga Vodovnik is that his writing rescues anarchism from its dogma, its rigidity, its isolation from the majority of the human race. He reveals the natural […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – Travels With Herodotus
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – Travels With Herodotus
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    Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
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    In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – Imperium
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – Imperium
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    The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
    Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
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    In 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Cocteau – The White Book
    Jean Cocteau – The White Book
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    Le Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marion L. Starkey – The Devil In Massachusetts
    Marion L. Starkey – The Devil In Massachusetts
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    This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey’s sense of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Structure Of Magic II
    The Structure Of Magic II
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    These seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elias Canetti – Crowds And Power
    Elias Canetti – Crowds And Power
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    Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
    Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
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    Jenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
    Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
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    The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Varlam Shalamov – Sketches Of The Criminal World
    Varlam Shalamov – Sketches Of The Criminal World
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    In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
    Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
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    When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
    Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
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    Engraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s national […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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    The meaning that any event has depends upon the “frame” in which we perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning. Reframing is not new. Reframing appears […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
    Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
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    NLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
    Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
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    The Gnostic Gospels is a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
    Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
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    In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
    The Stalin – Kubi Dake Atsureki
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    4 track unreleased studio EP recording from their Mushi era. The fact these tracks exist, and are as good and as high quality as they are truly the stuff dreams […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vaxine / The Last Survivors – Split 7
    Vaxine / The Last Survivors – Split 7
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    A perfect pairing of the globe’s top raw punk bands on this 5 track studio EP by Vaxine from NYC and The Last Survivors from Tokyo. 2 bands who live […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tiikeri – Tee Se Itse E.P.
    Tiikeri – Tee Se Itse E.P.
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    Tiikeri are back with a brand new self released 7″ EP, losing none of the steam from their prior material. Tiikeri is a band steeped in it’s love for 70s […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tiikeri – Punk On Rakkaus -EP
    Tiikeri – Punk On Rakkaus -EP
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    New repress of the instantly sold out debut 7″ by this Finnish band. Punk Is Love! Just for you, here’s a love song (to ’70s punk from Finland and the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ignorantes – Demo Buena Onda
    Ignorantes – Demo Buena Onda
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    The first in a series of reissues of their material on General Speech. Ignorantes started in Chile over 10 years ago, and during that time their sound has grown to […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sham 69 ‎– The Game
    Sham 69 ‎– The Game
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    Sham 69’s last & most underrated album Label: Polydor – POLD 5033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
    The Møb* – Let The Tribe Increase
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    “One of the seminal anarcho-punk albums, includes the bonus tracks from the Mirror Breaks 7” and a previously unheard version of Stay.” Label: Overground Records – OVER 122LP Format: [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pussy Galore – Right Now!
    Pussy Galore – Right Now!
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    “Making their intentions clear with the indescribably manic garage stomper “Pig Sweat,” which kicks off this 1987 album, Pussy Galore proceeds to mash it up dumpster style with [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A  ‎– Son Of Oi !
    V/A ‎– Son Of Oi !
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    5th in the series of classic Oi compilation albums Label: Syndicate Records – synLP3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1983 VG+/VG+. Large corner crease on upper left corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
    Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
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    Death to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Killdozer – Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
    Killdozer – Intellectuals Are The Shoeshine Boys Of The Ruling Elite
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    “So very perfectly American: a title that could have come from one of Frank Zappa’s albums, a cover photo with references to Elvis and Brainerd, MN, and a concluding remake […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
    Plasmatics – Meet The Plasmatics
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    An early EP from the chaotic punk band. Label: Vice Squad – VS-106ESP Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: US Released: 1979 VG/VG

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Offenders – Endless Struggle
    Offenders – Endless Struggle
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    The second & final album from the Texas hardcore band. Absolutely rips. Label: Rabid Cat Records – RAB-OFF-005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bhopal Stiffs – E.P.A.
    Bhopal Stiffs – E.P.A.
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    Hardcore from Chicago, circa 1980’s. Label: Roadkill Records – RDK-002 Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP, Green Center Labels Country: US Released: 1988 VG+/VG. Some fraying along the spine [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Carry On Oi!!
    Carry On Oi!!
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    Oi comp featuring tracks from Blitz and The Business Label: Secret Records – SEC 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1981 VG/VG. Some light marks. Sleeve shows some […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
    The 4 Skins* ‎– The Good, The Bad & The 4 Skins
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    ” Recorded with the first stable line-up after numerous changes, fronted by legendary vocalist Panther (who stepped in after the original singer Gary Hodges’ defection), this is violent, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Damned – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
    The Damned – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
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    A career spanning compilation of some of The Damned’s best tracks. Label: MCA Records – MCA2-8024 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Propaganda – Russia Bombs Finland
    V/A – Propaganda – Russia Bombs Finland
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    Finnish hardcore comp featuring Bastards and Nato Label: Propaganda – PRO-005 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Sampler. Country: Finland Released: 1982 VG/VG+. Some noticeable light marks. General light [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Freeze – Rabid Reaction
    The Freeze – Rabid Reaction
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    “Thought by many to be the quintessential full-length by The Freeze, 1986’s “Rabid Reaction” is ten tracks that clock in at around 25 minutes. The Freeze were an integral [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
    Nihilistics ‎– Nihilistics
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    The NYC hardcore band’s hard-hitting debut album Label: Brain Eater – EATER 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1983 VG+/VG. Sleeve shows some noticeable edgwear and corner [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
    Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
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    Poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Michael Salu – Red Earth
    Michael Salu – Red Earth
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    Conversing with Dante, Yoruba metaphysics and probabilistic computation, Red Earth is an expansive text and the source material for Michael Salu’s broader interdisciplinary artistic study, where [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
    Rédoine Faïd – Outlaw
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    Memoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, Rédoine Faïd, of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jeremy Bentham – Panopticon [fragments]
    Jeremy Bentham – Panopticon [fragments]
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    For almost a quarter of a century, utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham attempted to acquire funding and goverment assistance in building an unorthodox prison of ambiguous surveillance and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Streetdrugs: Drug ID Guide 2013
    Streetdrugs: Drug ID Guide 2013
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    “This book is a guide for parents, police officers, universities, health departments and many others who are looking for accurate information on the negative health effects of drugs as well [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
    Whole Spy Catalog: A Resource Encyclopedia for Researchers, Pi’S, Spies, and Generally Nosy People
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    “A resource encyclopedia for Researchers, PI’s, Spies, and Generally Nosy People. The ultimate guide for finding information and intelligence on anything.” Lapin, 1995 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
    The CIA’s Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, And Covert Action (scarce)
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    A guidebook to the inner and outer workings of the CIA throughout history. Westview Press, 1988 Softcover edition. Light general wear, some scuffing along bottom edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Trance: Formation Of America
    Trance: Formation Of America
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    “This is the documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O’Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction