May 17th Newsletter
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  • Alla Rakha – Tabla!
    Alla Rakha – Tabla!
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    A solo example of Tabla mastery from Ravi Shankar’s frequent accompanist Label: World Pacific – WPS-21458 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: undated US pressing VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Prakash Vadehra* – Magic Flutes Of North India
    Prakash Vadehra* – Magic Flutes Of North India
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    Volume 3 of Decca’s Music Of India series. Features tabla and drone accompaniment Label: Decca – DL 75099 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG/VG. Drillhole. Some [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Eric Dolphy And Booker Ervin With The Mal Waldron Sextet – The Quest
    Eric Dolphy And Booker Ervin With The Mal Waldron Sextet – The Quest
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    “The seven originals not only feature altoist Dolphy (who makes a rare appearance on clarinet during “Warm Canto”) but tenor-saxophonist Booker Ervin, Ron Carter (on cello) and [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani
  • Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986 Pressing)
    Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986 Pressing)
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    “Even though Master of Puppets didn’t take as gigantic a leap forward as Ride the Lightning, it was the band’s greatest achievement, hailed as a masterpiece by critics far [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Metallica – Kill ‘Em All (1st UK Press 1983)
    Metallica – Kill ‘Em All (1st UK Press 1983)
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    “The true birth of thrash. On Kill ‘Em All, Metallica fuses the intricate riffing of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Diamond Head […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Metallica – The $5.98 E.P. Garage Days Re-Visited
    Metallica – The $5.98 E.P. Garage Days Re-Visited
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    “Following Cliff Burton’s death, Metallica took some time off and initiated new bassist Jason Newsted with a raw, unpolished EP of covers originally recorded by Diamond Head, [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Avant-Garde In The Eighties
    Avant-Garde In The Eighties
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    Exhibition catalog exploring avant-garde and multimedia art of the 1980s. Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, 1987 Softcover edition. Cracking and general wear to spine. Chipping to bottom edge of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade & Afterlife
    Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade & Afterlife
    $38.00 | , Add to cart

    When placed next to each other, dueling concerns enrich each other and push the envelope into new, newer, and newest envelopes of a different color. Step inside this magnetic garden […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
    Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
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    Includes everything that is in the script and nothing that is not in the script. A record made by Capricorns especially for Capricorns. Featuring the All-Marijuana Scarecrow. Released October 1, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Bright Flight
    Silver Jews – Bright Flight
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    The first thing I remember about the recording of Bright Flight is that when we opened the door to Hum Depot’s roller rink of a basement studio, the console was […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Early Times
    Silver Jews – Early Times
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    Well, “Salad Days” was taken and “Wild Turkey” sounds like an insult. These field recordings capture the birth of the Jews, from way back in the days of the Silver […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
    Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
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    David Berman and Co. tear through 10 more numbers, loving you to the max the whole time. Jews fans rejoice, your master is back. released October 18, 2005

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
    The Graham Nash Collection (as-is, signed!)
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    An exhibition catalogue of photos from the collection of Graham Nash The Nash Press, 1978 Softcover edition. Book is signed by Graham Nash. Noticeable amount of moisture damage and staining […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
    The Olympia Reader: Selections From The Traveller’s Companion Series
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    “An anthology of erotic literature contains selections from leading writers of the genre including Henry Miller, Jean Genet, the Marquis de Sade, and Pauline Reage” Ballantine Books, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
    William T. Vollmann – Rising Up And Rising Down
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    “Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
    Wood Works: Sustainability, Versatility, Stability
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    “Wood is nature’s greatest resource, embedded in the history, culture and life of humans worldwide. And it is ingenious as building material: remarkably malleable and at the same time [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    Yukio Mishima – Sea Of Fertility Tetralogy (1st American Edition, Complete Set)
    $225.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Sea of Fertility (豊饒の海 Hōjō no Umi) is a tetralogy written by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The series, which Mishima began writing in 1964 and which was his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
    Princeton Field Guides: Caterpillars Of Eastern North America
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    “This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
    Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under The Nazis
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    “Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • 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
  • Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
    Remedios Varo – Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
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    “While the reputation of Remedios Varo (1908–63) the surrealist painter is now well established, Remedios Varo the writer has yet to be fully discovered. Her writings, which were never [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
    Rob Chapman – Psychedelia And Other Colours
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    “In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sally Mann – What Remains
    Sally Mann – What Remains
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    “Sally Mann’s powerful new body of work explores mortality, both the separation of the body from the soul and the scars left behind in the process. Mann masterfully utilizes the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roland Topor – The Tenant
    Roland Topor – The Tenant
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    “The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose presence saturates [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
    Shirley Jackson – The Lottery
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “”Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of The Sixties
    Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of The Sixties
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    “In all its forbidden glory, period “sleaze” erotica receives an investigation into the medium with extensive interviews and cover art. “In this entertaining and still-stimulating [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
    Steven H Pollock – Magic Mushroom Cultivation (Incredibly rare)
    $60.00 | , , Add to cart

    A guide by the mycologist and psychedelic researcher who was also the victim of a famously unsolved murder/conspiracy. Herbal Medicine Research Foundation, 1981 Softcover 2nd edition. Wear to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors (1st Edition)
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    “Considers the metaphors with which acquired immune deficiency syndrome is cloaked, the presentation of the illness as a plague, and its bearing on the way society views disease, sexuality, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
    The Assassinations: Probe Magazine On JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcom X (as-is)
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    “When informed by the movie JFK that thousands of documents about the president’s murder remain sealed, a distressed American public motivated Congress to create the Assassinations Records [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Body And The Dream: French Erotic Fiction, 1464 – 1900
    The Body And The Dream: French Erotic Fiction, 1464 – 1900
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    An anthology and survey of French erotica, featuring rare and classic texts. Quartet, 1984 Hardcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Cradle Of Erotica
    The Cradle Of Erotica
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    “This book examines African and Asian sexual behavior. It is a sequel to The Jewel in the Lotus, a survey of the sexual culture of the East. An immensely readable […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
    Peyote: An Account Of The Origins And Growth Of The Peyote Religion
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    “An account of the origins and growth of the peyote religion” Crowell, 1971 Hardcover edition. Some wear apparent to dustjacknonet under mylar. Some staining to upper edge of text block.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Sotos – Index (Very scarce)
    Peter Sotos – Index (Very scarce)
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Peter Sotos, the writer who ‘rapes a blank page’, whose pen is ‘the verbal knife of a sadist’, is now regarded as perhaps the most important modern writer on [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
    Penelope Shuttle & Peter Redgrove – The Wise Wound
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    “This is a book of many questions and some answers. What is this menstruation that half the world undergoes? Has it any use, or any purpose? Which is it, blessing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
    Parabola: Dreams & Seeing
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    The 1982 spring issue of Parabola, featuring contributions from Ursula Le Guin and Marguerite Yourcenar. Society For The Study Of Myth & Tradition, 1982 Softcover edition. Writing on front [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
    Ophiel – The Art And Practice Of The Occult
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    An overview over occultism by the enigmatic Ophiel Peach Publishing Company, 1969 Hardcover edition. Some staining and tearing to dustjacket apparent under mylar.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Narcotics And Drug Addiction
    Narcotics And Drug Addiction
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    An early pharmacological and sociological study on narcotics. Philosophical Library, 1946 Hardcover edition. Dustjacket clipped. Noticeable staining and wear to dustjacket apparent under mylar. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    Michelle Remembers: The True Story Of A Year-Long Contest Between Innocence And Evil (as-is, rare)
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Michelle Remembers is a book published in 1980 co-written by Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his psychiatric patient (and eventual wife) Michelle Smith. A best-seller, Michelle [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    Marc Saporta – Composition No.1 (Very rare)
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    “VE3 is a re-imagining of a book originally published in the 1960s. The book is the first ever “book in a box”, called Composition No.1 by Marc Saporta. When we […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Manson: In His Own Words
    Manson: In His Own Words
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    “We have called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as “the most dangerous man alive.” But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
    Lucifer Rising: Sin, Devil Worship & Rock’N’Roll
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    “It’s only natural that rock and roll — “the devil’s music” — and Satanism should be intimately linked. Lucifer Rising explores this unique cultural confluence. Divided into three parts, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hubert Selby – The Demon
    Hubert Selby – The Demon
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr’s lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds — a good marriage, a good corporate job […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
    How To Stay Out Of The Army: A Guide To Your Rights Under The Draft Law
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    A guide to avoid the draft, written during Vietnam. Grove Press, 1967 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Stamp and old sticker on front wrap.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
    Ishmael Reed – Mumbo Jumbo (Scarce edition)
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    “It is the 1920s in New York City and an epidemic known as Jes Grew is sweeping the nation—a dancing plague, irresistible, joyful, and undeniably Black. Naturally, the powers-that-be are [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
    Iva Pekarkova – Gimme The Money
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    “The street-wise, sexually liberated Gin has blagged and bribed her way into the decidedly insalubrious dwellings of New York for the past three years. Now, besieged by financial troubles [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
    J.G Ballard – The Drowned World & The Wind From Nowhere (Book Club Edition)
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    “The Wind from Nowhere, 1st published in ’61 is the debut novel by English author J.G. Ballard. Prior to this, his published work had consisted solely of short stories. The […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
    Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego (1st Edition)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Tells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature” Dutton, 1984 Hardcover 1st edition. Corner clipped on [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
    Jenny Saville: Catalog (English/Italian Edition)
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    A monograph containing a selection of Jenny Saville’s paintings, along with writings on her work in English & Italian. MACRO, 2005 Softcover edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
    Junichiro Tanizaki – Two Novels: The Key & Diary Of A Mad Old Man
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    “These two modern classics by the great Japanese novelist Junichiro Tanizaki, both utilize the diary form to explore the authority that love and sex have over all. In The Key, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive