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Graeme Thomson – I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease and General Misadventure, as Related in Popular Song
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat do the gangsta rap devotee, the grizzled blues fanatic, the bearded folk fan, the goth and the indie kid have in common? Ask and they will all say the […]
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis’s,and the Remaking of Modern Music
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is […]
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Steven Miller – War After Death: On Violence and Its Limits
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar after Death considers forms of violence that regularly occur in actual wars but do not often factor into the stories we tell about war, which revolve invariably around killing […]
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Drugs of the Dreaming: Oneirogens: Salvia divinorum and Other Dream-Enhancing Plants
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOneirogens are plant and animal substances that have long been used to facilitate powerful and productive dreaming. From the beginning of civilization, dreams have guided the inner and outer life [...]
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Geoffrey Pimm – The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from an age governed principally by religion and [...]
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Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century despots enjoyed unprecedented print runs to (literally) captive audiences. The titans of the [...]
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In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFor fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]
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Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil [...]
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Bokutotsusô: Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartMusô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari became an international film classic, its director, Robert Wiene, was disparaged and even forgotten. Wiene’s oeuvre, however, exhibits a surprising [...]
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Simon Kuper – Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
$10.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartFew Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake’s. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency […]
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Edmund Levin – A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months later, Russian police arrested Mendel Beilis, a [...]
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Roberto Bolano’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe
$9.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSince the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading [...]
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Joan Halifax – Shaman
$8.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartSummarizes forms of shamanism in various cultures, looks at its origin, and compares the methods shamans use to gain a vision of other realities Thames & Hudson, 1990 Softcover edition. […]
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Fartherest Place: The Music Of John Luther Adams
$7.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe artistic heir of sonic artists such as John Cage and James Tenney, John Luther Adams is one of the most significant and highly regarded contemporary American composers. The Farthest […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
E.Graham Howe – She And Me (as-is)
$12.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For those interested in the sociological, psychological and religious problems of today, this new book by Dr. Graham Howe is of the greatest importance. Dealing with many subjects and, in [...]
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David Herrerias – The Book Of Q’ab-itz
$25.00 | Book, New Arrivals, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Book of Q’ab iTz appears as the vessel for the sorcerer, for contained within is the evidence of a practitioner who has dedicated the past few years to the […]
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Lynn Higgins – New Novel, New Wave, New Politics
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartUntil now, writings on the celebrated movements in literature and film that emerged in France in the mid-1950sthe New Novel and New Wavehave concentrated on their formal innovations, not on [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema As Heresy
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe major Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was also a poet, novelist, essayist, and iconoclastic political commentator. Naomi Greene reveals to English-speaking readers the diverse talents [...]
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Joseph Beuys: The Reader
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTwentieth-century artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)—legendary and self-mythologizing, enigmatic and controversial—remains an important influence on artists today. Beuys embraced radically [...]
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Peter Greenaway: Interviews
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn these twenty-one interviews, filmmaker Peter Greenaway expresses his film aesthetic and discusses his combat with the dominant Hollywood style of filmmaking. His films have run unmistakably [...]
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Politics, Writing, Mutilation: The Cases Of Bataille, Blanchot, Roussel, Leiris
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFive twentieth-century French writers played, and continue to play, a pivotal role in the development of literary-philosophical thinking that has come to be known in the United States as [...]
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Coomaraswamy: Traditional Art And Symbolism
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCompiles Ananda K. Coomaraswamy‘s papers on Indian art and symbols. Princeton University Press, 1986 Softcover edition. Some noticeable splaying to corners of wraps. Discoloration to wraps [...]
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Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, [...]
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Answer Me! The First Three
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCompiles the first three issues of Jim Goad’s infamous shock zine, Answer Me! Scapegoat Publishing, 2006 Softcover edition. Some noticeable wear/creasing to wraps, particularly at corners
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Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
$25.00 | LP, Markdowns, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cartEthnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]
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She Follows No Progression: A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Reader
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartShe Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)’s work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters, and the [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
$40.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]
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Rainer J. Hanshe – Dionysos Speed
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAs the digitization of every aspect of existence grows more pervasive and absolute, from the monitoring of thought to the tracking even of genitals, the central nervous system of the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Giovanbattista Tusa – Terra Cosmica
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGiovanbattista Tusa takes the commitment of lending his voice to the voiceless further, reaching the depth that the Anthropocene demands from us. He finds the words that won’t fill the […]
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Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOn 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]
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Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]
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Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartKyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIt was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
The Liberated Film Club
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Liberated Film Club—running from its birth to its death, 2016 to 2020—would guarantee a wide wing-span for critical conversation. Screening “Liberated film” (a loose category designed to [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980-1984
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Day the Country Died features author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper (Burning Britain) exploring in minute detail the influential, esoteric, UK anarcho punk scene of the early Eighties. [...]
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Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRevolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960-1990 examines how political violence and resistance was represented in arthouse and cult [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBetween 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]
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Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
$34.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]
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Ian Penman- Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death. Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. […]
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Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOther Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges. This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and [...]
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David Toop – Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr. Johns Gris-Gris
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTwo-Headed Doctor is a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper’s Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris [...]
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Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFar from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]
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Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]
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Adrian Martin – Filmmakers Thinking
$29.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFilmmakers Thinking begins from a simple premise: that we do not take the ongoing reflections of filmmakers about their medium, their art and their craft, seriously enough. Every day, everywhere, [...]
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Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur’an, Mi’raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“In these critical times nothing could be more valuable for the West than a rediscovery of its true spiritual heritage: books which were once the treasures of people, now rare […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction