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Arabian Fairy Tales

Anthology of traditional stories from the Arab world. Editor Amina Shah, later known as Amina Maxwell-Hudson, was a British anthologiser of Sufi stories and folk tales, and was for many […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

J. David Truby – Women At War

$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Treatise on the effectiveness of women in combat utilizing examples from history. Paladin Press. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Sander L. Gilman – Making the Body Beautiful

$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Patrick Modiano – After the Circus

$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Set in mid-sixties Paris, After the Circus traces the relationship between the narrator, a young man not quite of legal age whose parents are absent, and the slightly older, enigmatic […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Millicent Dillon – You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles

$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

At the center of Millicent Dillon’s provocatively titled You Are Not I burns a mystery. The ever elusive Paul Bowles indirectly captured Dillon’s attention. When in Tangier, Morocco, [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Larry Townsend – The Leatherman’s Handbook II

$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

This completely new sequel to the Leatherman’s Handbook reveals all the secrets of the underground world of leather and S&M practices. Near Fine. Sharp and crisp copy. Appears unread. [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Larry Townsend – The Leatherman’s Handbook

$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Possibly the ur-text of the gay S&M leather scene. Includes statistics, guidelines, suppliers, behavioral standards, etc. With cover homage to Scorpio Rising (perhaps?). Freeway Press [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

The Way Of The Knife: The CIA, A Secret Army And A War At The Ends Of …

$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Ed Sanders – The Family: The Story Of Charles Manson’s Dun…

$30.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Ed Sanders’s unnerving and detailed look at the horror dealt by Manson and his followers is a classic of the true-crime genre. The Family was originally published in 1971 and […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Death’s Men: Soldiers of the Great War

$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

A look at the First World War through the eyes of the men who fought in it. Originally published in 1978. This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Roberto Arlt – The Seven Madmen

$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

First published in 1929, The Seven Madmen perfectly captures the conflict of Argentine society at a crucial moment in its history. Arlt’s exploration of the still mysterious city of Buenos [...]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Elmore Leonard – Rum Punch

$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Pretty working-girl Jackie Burke is in a tight spot. She’s just been picked up at Palm Beach International with fifty grand and some blow stashed in her flight bag. Lucky […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern …

$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Our age is obsessed by the idea of conspiracy. We see it everywhere- from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, from the assassination of Kennedy to the death of Diana. In this […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Leo Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Confession (Scarce…

$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer in January […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Wyndham Lewis – The Vulgar Streak

$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Vincent Penhale, a young British man trying to enter the upper class in 1938, begins to become aware of his Fascist sympathies. Book is in Very Good condition and shows […]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

Wyndham Lewis – The Revenge For Love

$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

Published in the shadow of the Spanish Civil War, “The Revenge for Love” is a political thriller attacking the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s. [...]

GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive

The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs

$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items

From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday’s Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

The Ravi Shankar Project ‎– Tana Mana

$25.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl

“On his first release for Private Music, Ravi Shankar combined the traditional instruments of Indian music (sitar, sarod, tabla, etc.) with synthesizers and heavy sampling keyboard usage. [...]

GENRE: Hindustani, International

The P J Murphy Quintet – The P J Murphy Quintet [mysterious Wisc…

$40.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl

Intriguing garage-rock from Wisconsin. Lo-fi rumbling takes on standard garage material made transcendent with almost ethereally high vocals on top. A sleeper. Label: Leaf – L-6475 Format: Vinyl, [...]

GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk

Gorô Yamaguchi* – A Bell Ringing In The Empty Sky: Japanese Shakuhachi…

$10.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl

Solo shakuhachi bamboo flute music. Tranquil. Label: Nonesuch – H-72025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+

GENRE: International

Sondi Sodsai ‎– Sondi

$20.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl

Exotica/lounge-kitsch album from Miss Thailand 1959. Label: Liberty – LST 7110 Format: Vinyl, LP, Repress, Stereo Country: US Released: 1959 VG/VG. old price gun sticker on cover. small [...]

GENRE: International, Soundtracks / Library Music

Stevie Wonder ‎– Innervisions

$25.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl

“When Stevie Wonder applied his tremendous songwriting talents to the unsettled social morass that was the early ’70s, he produced one of his greatest, most important works, a rich [...]

GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco

RX-101 – Serenity 2xLP

$26.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl

Label Description: RX-101 has quietly been making waves in the IDM/electronic music underground for the past few years, through a series of archival releases — material recorded in the late-90s, [...]

GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic

Komet – Rausch LP

$32.00 | LP, Vinyl

Komet // Frank Bretschneider is one of the founders of the esteemed raster-media label. This album – originally a CD released on 12k in 2000, features clean sine-tones and […]

GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

Spacemen 3 – Revolution or Heroin

$30.00 | LP

Screen printed LP jackets, riso inserts. Recorded live in The Mean Fiddler, London – 22.10.1987. Against all predictions, the fight to release these recordings has finally been won. We [...]

GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych

Lowfish – Grey With Beaks LP

$23.00 | LP, Vinyl

After a recent, acclaimed EP on Madrid’s Analogical Force label, Suction Records is thrilled to announce “Grey With Breaks,” the 8th full-length album by Lowfish. The electro veteran, who’s been [...]

GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic

John Wiese – Seven Of Wands 2LP

$28.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl

Gilgongo Records presents the highly anticipated debut vinyl edition of John Wiese’s acclaimed album, Seven of Wands. Uniquely beautiful, immersive, and transportive, it utilizes strategies and [...]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

Mr Dibbs x Brett Fullerton – Everything Burns Everybody Bleeds L…

$33.00 | LP, Vinyl

NO DONKEYS, NO ELEPHANTS… NO GODS, NO MASTERS…

GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics

SS-20 – More Government Now

$35.00 | LP, LP - NEW, Vinyl

This debut LP comes across with a good measure of honesty and credibility — and that would be enough, but there are some catchy melodies mixed in with the fine […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Sissy Spacek / Smegma – Ballast

$18.00 | LP, LP - NEW, Vinyl

Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, and Ju Suk Reet Meate (three original members) are joined by Rock ’N’ Roll Jackie (35 years in the band), John Wiese (approximately 10 years), […]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

Fontaine SMC – I Was A Soldier EP

$18.00 | 12", Vinyl

Label Description: A roundup of positive nostalgia from Fontaine SMC: two french artists and friends who share the same vision of electronic music. They have several project under other names, [...]

GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk

Neutral – Live Pa Autodidaktik LP

$12.00 | LP, Vinyl

What our staff has to say: “Neutral live tape – now reissued on wax via Happiest Place. Disturbing “true industrial” sound. No flexing – akin to throbbing gristle or buried […]

GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk

Nostalgie Éternelle – Face á l’incertitude EP

$16.00 | 12", LP - NEW, Vinyl

Label Description: Nostalgie Éternelle might sound like a new name on our shameless label but in fact they are 2/3 of Sauerstofff and with Face á l’incertitude EP they keep […]

GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk

Useless Idea / Seven Nights Alone – Split EP

$14.00 | 12", Vinyl

Label Description: It’s been more than a year since our last release on Suction Records, and we’re excited to be back with the introduction of a new artist to the […]

GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic

Order Of Nine Angels – Mark Of The Beast LP

$16.00 | LP, LP - NEW, Vinyl

Debut album and first release from Order Of Nine Angels since 2013’s ‘Black Triangle Void’. This album is a massive jump from earlier recordings by this project of J. Wood […]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

E-Saggila – Corporate Cross

$10.00 | 2xLP, LP - NEW, Vinyl

E-Saggila is an enigmatic cult producer in electronics, constructing soaring calm from dynamic turbulence as the era of domesticated destruction and creation arrives. Conceived by Iraqi-born, [...]

GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic

Hive Mind – Elysian Alarms Remixes LP

$15.00 | LP, Vinyl

Functioning as both a remix of Greh Holger’s latest Hive Mind album that rewards those familiar and a standalone compilation of new material curated by him that requires no previous […]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

Joy Guidry – Amen

$23.00 | LP, Vinyl

AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer / producer Joy Guidry. Representing a major step up in her ability to fully realize and embody a sound and concept, […]

GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz