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  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
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    A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
    $28.00 | ,

    Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    $35.00 | ,

    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
    $27.00 | ,

    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    $35.00 | ,

    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary
    Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
    $25.00 | ,

    Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    $15.00 | ,

    Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    $23.00 | ,

    Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    $24.00 | ,

    This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
    Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphy…
    $14.00 | ,

    The founding text of pataphysics (“the science of imaginary solutions”), and one of the most quietly influential novels of the 20th century Alfred Jarry is best known as the author [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • George Berger – Story Of Crass
    George Berger – Story Of Crass
    $22.00 | ,

    Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    $18.00 | ,

    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    $30.00 | ,

    An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    $22.00 | ,

    Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the Sands of North Africa
    Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
    $18.00 | ,

    The Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    $16.00 | ,

    In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
    Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
    $18.00 | ,

    Jane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natsuo Kirino – Out
    Natsuo Kirino – Out
    $18.00 | ,

    This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
    Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
    $16.00 | ,

    A special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
    Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
    $23.00 | ,

    When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
    Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
    $13.00 | ,

    Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde
    Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
    $22.00 | ,

    In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pjusk ‎– Salt Og Vind
    Pjusk ‎– Salt Og Vind
    $18.00 | , ,

    “With Salt og Vind Pjusk retums from an eight year album hiatus. This release is also the first seeing Pjusk as a solo project consisting of Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik. Salt […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Makaya McCraven ‎– Universal Beings E&F Sides
    Makaya McCraven ‎– Universal Beings E&F Sides
    $10.00 | , ,

    “An addendum to Makaya McCraven’s critically-acclaimed 2018 release Universal Beings, which The New York Times said “affirms the drummer and beatsmith’s position as a [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jan Martin Smørdal, Øystein Wyller Odden ‎– Kraftbalanse
    Jan Martin Smørdal, Øystein Wyller Odden ‎– Kraftbalanse
    $10.00 | , ,

    “SOFA MUSIC continues to release the work of the extraordinary Norwegian composer Jan Martin Smørdal. Recently he was awarded the prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize for his creative [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ingar Zach / Michele Rabbia ‎– Musique Pour Deux Corps
    Ingar Zach / Michele Rabbia ‎– Musique Pour Deux Corps
    $12.00 | , ,

    “SOFA MUSIC and FULL RHIZOME-SONORO are pround to present the new album of Ingar Zach/Michele Rabbia – Musique pour deux corps (SOFA589). Born with the same passion for sound, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archer ‎– Sudden Dusk
    Archer ‎– Sudden Dusk
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Sudden Dusk is the recorded debut of Archer, a working band comprised of four singular voices on the international improvised music scene. Guitarist Terrie Ex may be best known for […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • MJ Lenderman And The Wind – Live And Loose!
    MJ Lenderman And The Wind – Live And Loose!
    $50.00 | , ,

    Recorded live at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, IL and Lodge Room in Los Angeles, CA Label: Dear Life Records – DLR 049 Format: Cassette, Limited Edition Country: Released: 2023 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • David Gilden ‎– Texas Pillbox 18 CD Boxset
    David Gilden ‎– Texas Pillbox 18 CD Boxset
    $140.00 | ,

    All the Gilden you could ever want. 6/1/1973 – 4/6/2008 18 CDs housed in six six-panel 3CD A5 Digipaks, housed in a slipcase with fold-out insert. 300 copies were produced. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
    Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
    $8.00 | , ,

    Too Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lady Murasaki – The Tale Of Genji
    Lady Murasaki – The Tale Of Genji
    $20.00 | , ,

    Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
    Max Planck – Scientific Autobiography And Other Papers
    $12.00 | , ,

    In this fascinating autobiography from the foremost genius of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
    Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
    $8.00 | , ,

    We live in an electronic world, saturated with electronic sounds. Yet, electronic sounds aren’t a new phenomenon; they have long permeated our sonic landscape. What began as the otherworldly [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • William Gibson – Neuromancer (scarce Easton Press edition)
    William Gibson – Neuromancer (scarce Easton Press edition)
    $50.00 | , ,

    Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
    S Alfonso Williams – The Interlocutor
    $15.00 | , ,

    In The Interlocutor, S. Alfonso Williams takes the reader on an immersive journey through his unique blend of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and politics. His poetic style has a rhythm that breathes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Do Not Sell At Any Price
    Do Not Sell At Any Price
    $10.00 | , ,

    Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • V/A – Authentic Goods Boxset
    V/A – Authentic Goods Boxset
    $72.00 | ,

    “Set housed in a manila rigid board box embossed with the Qingdao Market logo. All tapes include new LED printing on shell. Each tape is based on: 1. Macintosh Plus […]

    GENRE: Synthwave / Electronic
  • John Coltrane ‎– Standard Coltrane
    John Coltrane ‎– Standard Coltrane
    $17.00 | , ,

    “John Coltrane had yet to move into his modal post-bop phase in 1958 when he recorded a session for Prestige Records on July 11 with trumpeter/flügelhornist Wilbur Harden, pianist Red […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Pulsinger / Fennesz – In Four Parts (Tribute To John Cage)
    Pulsinger / Fennesz – In Four Parts (Tribute To John Cage)
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Equipped with a modular synthesizer, guitar, and electronics, Patrick Pulsinger and Christian Fennesz present an homage to the master of all things silent: John Cage. The pieces on this [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Goddaughter ‎– Goddaughter
    Goddaughter ‎– Goddaughter
    $12.00 | , ,

    Edition of 50. Label: Blue Can Crossing – BCC02 Format: Lathe Cut, 7″, Limited Edition, Clear Vinyl Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • William Parker – The Music Of William Parker: Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World (Volumes 1–10)
    William Parker – The Music Of William Parker: Migration Of Silence Int…
    $50.00 | ,

    “That William Parker is a bassist, composer and bandleader of extraordinary spirit and imaginative drive is common knowledge among any with an interest in the progressive jazz scene of the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
    Black Fire! New Spirits: Images Of A Revolution
    $30.00 | , ,

    At the start of the 1960s, jazz entered a unique period of revolution as African-American musicians redefined the art form in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, Afro-centric rhythm […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
    Geoff Dyer – The Ongoing Moment
    $10.00 | , ,

    Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. Focusing on the ways in which canonical figures like Alfred Stieglitz, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Terrorists* ‎– Justice / Riis Park
    The Terrorists* ‎– Justice / Riis Park
    $9.00 | , ,

    Ska-punk, in the vein of Specials, Clash, etc. Label: Max’s Kansas City Records – MKC-1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some creasing and small tear

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
    Robert Irwin: All The Rules Will Change
    $50.00 | , ,

    Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Values Of Design
    Values Of Design
    $25.00 | , ,

    Dual-language (Chinese/English) investigation into the design of every-day objects. Lavishly illustrated. Design Society/Victoria & Albert, 2017 Softcover Edition. Dent to upper left corner [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
    Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 (scarce)
    $80.00 | , ,

    Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
    Roni Horn: Going North Boxset (scarce)
    $100.00 | , ,

    Developed in collaboration with the artist, this two-volume monograph is a comprehensive survey of Roni Horn’s art. A leading figure in contemporary art, Roni Horn addresses wide ranging issues [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sly & Robbie ‎– The Sixties, Seventies + Eighties = Taxi
    Sly & Robbie ‎– The Sixties, Seventies + Eighties = Taxi
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Taxi is Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare’s own label and production company, and this 1981 collection is something of a statement of purpose for the pair. The mathematical title is [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Iris Chacón ‎– Iris Chacón
    Iris Chacón ‎– Iris Chacón
    $28.00 | , ,

    Groovy Latin funk from the Puerto Rican icon, Iris Chacón Label: Borinquen – AAD-1315 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Puerto Rico Released: 1977 VG/VG. Noticeable light marks. Sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Latin, Soul / Funk / Disco