December 20th Newsletter

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  • Coil ‎– Scatology (1985 UK pressing, includes affixed postcard and OG inner)
    Coil ‎– Scatology (1985 UK pressing, includes affixed postcard and OG inner)
    $200.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Coil’s first official full-length album, Scatology, is one of the essential landmarks in the group’s discography and, moreover, one of the ’80s industrial scene’s [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A shambling wreck of an album, Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it’s the slow, sinking [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Annette Peacock – I’m The One
    Annette Peacock – I’m The One
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    Bizarro genre-hopping jazz-rock from Annette Peacock. Way ahead of its time, even now. Label: RCA – RCA-6025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1972 VG+/VG+. Light wear to sleeve/obi.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
    Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
    $130.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Legendarily named after DJ John Peel’s nickname for his nanny, the duo Trader Horne were one of those wonderful, short-lived footnotes of musical history with which the [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – A Lowtides Rising… (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music)
    V/A – A Lowtides Rising… (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Featuring: Peter Wright, CJA and Annamarie, Sleep. Pumice, Kieran Monaghan (mr sterile), Swagger Jack, Birchville Cat Motel, Richard Francis, 1/3 Octave Band, Tim Cornelius (Sandoz Lab Techs), [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Arlean Brown ‎– Sings The Blues In The Loop
    Arlean Brown ‎– Sings The Blues In The Loop
    $120.00 | , , Add to cart

    “If you wandered into a smoky South Side club in Chicago during the early ’70s, there’s a good chance you’d have been met by the raw, unvarnished truth of Arelean […]

    GENRE: Rhythm & Blues
  • Forward Music Quintet – Glory & Betrayal
    Forward Music Quintet – Glory & Betrayal
    $200.00 | , , Add to cart

    Private Darkwave/Coldwave from Greece. Label: Forward Music Organisation – FMO 002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Greece Released: 1985 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
    Sakevi Yokoyama – Oppressive Liberation Spirit: Vol I
    $150.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “Sakevi Yokoyama’s artistic creations have consistently exuded brilliance, cryptic allure, and majestic qualities, while continually transcending the boundaries of conventional forms [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
    Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
    $70.00 | , , , Add to cart

    A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
    Now Jump: Inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center
    $45.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “This catalogue was published to commemoration of the inaugural Festival of the Nam June Paik Art Center that took place on October 9, 2008. NOW JUMP, the title of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    Frank Stanford – The Singing Knives
    $65.00 | , , , Add to cart

    THE SINGING KNIVES, originally published in 1971 by Broughton’s Mill Mountain Press, is Frank Sanford’s first collection of poetry. Reprinted by his own press, Lost Roads Publisher, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Healing Flower Color Cards
    The Healing Flower Color Cards
    $100.00 | , Add to cart

    77 card deck that combines Dr. E. Bachs Flower medicine and color therapy meditation with outstanding plant and flower drawings to make anyone a flower botanist. AGM Aktiengesellschaft [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Dzyan ‎– Electric Silence
    Dzyan ‎– Electric Silence
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    On their third and final album, Dzyan refined their sound even further into improvisation and exotic sounds. Electric Silence offers other-worldly music of incredible beauty and strangeness, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 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
  • 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
  • Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    Herman Broch – The Sleepwalkers: A Triology (1st English Edition)
    $200.00 | , , Add to cart

    “With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    Curzio Malaparte – Kaputt (1st Edition)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    Cormac McCarthy – Suttree (Scarce Vintage Contemporaries Edition)
    $110.00 | , , Add to cart

    “From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    Arno Schmidt – The Egghead Republic (Scarce)
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Charles Henry Winer, a journalist who in the year 2008 travels across the hominid zone, a post-nuclear wasteland in the western united states, to visit IRAS (the International Republic of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Stooges ‎– The Stooges (1969 Pressing, looks G+/plays VG)
    The Stooges ‎– The Stooges (1969 Pressing, looks G+/plays VG)
    $165.00 | , , Add to cart

    “While the Stooges had a few obvious points of influence — the swagger of the early Rolling Stones, the horny pound of the Troggs, the fuzztone sneer of a thousand […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Radio Birdman ‎– Radios Appear [1978 USA pressing]
    Radio Birdman ‎– Radios Appear [1978 USA pressing]
    $90.00 | , , Add to cart

    “This is primal (and prime) Radio Birdman, with Deniz Tek and Rob Younger firmly ensconced in the eye of this guitar-fueled hurricane. Tek’s originals are pretty strong, especially [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
    Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
    $175.00 | , Add to cart

    Hanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
    $350.00 | , , Add to cart

    Grove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
    $125.00 | , , Add to cart

    Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
    William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
    $140.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
    Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques Of The Underground
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Guerrillas, fugitives and other members of the “underground” must exploit existing resources to communicate secretly. This book tells you how they use improvised microfilm, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
    Loving Man: A Photographic Guide To Gay Male Lovemaking
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    One of the first sex-ed & health guides for gay men. Hark Publishing, 1976 Hardcover edition. Some sagging from spine and wear to boards. Discoloration to edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction