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Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
$275.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami’s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group [...]
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Yoko Tawada – Where Europe Begins
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey [...]
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Andrey Platonov – The Foundation Pit
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In Andrey Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, a team of workers has been given the job of digging the foundation of an immense edifice, a palatial home for the perfect future […]
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Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart““Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals [...]
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Victor Serge – Unforgiving Years
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first [...]
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William T. Vollmann – The Dying Grass
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“In this fifth installment in his acclaimed Seven Dreams series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of [...]
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William T. Vollmann – Fathers And Crows
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The story of the wars of belief between the French Jesuits and the Iroquois in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Canada – from the author of Europe Central, winner of the National […]
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William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
$140.00 | Book, Print, Used Items 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’ [...]
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India Folk Tales
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA children’s guide to Indian folk tales. Amazing art plates. Peter Pauper Press, 1968 Hardcover edition. Light wear/tear to dustjacket apparent under mylar.
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Jovette Marchessault – Lesbian Triptych
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Jovette Marchessault’s Lesbian Triptych is an anthology of three stories – “Night Cows,” “A Lesbian Chronicle from Medieval Quebec” and “The Angel [...]
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Sri Chinmoy – The Silence Of Death
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSri Chinmoy’s poetry ruminating on death. AUM Press, 1973 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Some wear and discoloration to wraps.
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Anne Waldman – The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Iovis Trilogy, Anne Waldman’s monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the [...]
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Flann O’Brien – At Swim Two Birds
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. A wildly [...]
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Anne De Marcken – It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ― […]
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Eric Bogosian – Notes From Underground
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This volume features two of Bogosian’s more unsettling works. Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who wants desperately to be [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Exterminator!
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, [...]
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Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he’s a little slow and a little boring. But, […]
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Judith Schalansky – An Inventory Of Losses
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Each disparate object described in this book―a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific―shares a common […]
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Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, […]
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Jim Thompson – Pop. 1280
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn’t solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the […]
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Ameena Meer – Bombay Talkie
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This paperback original takes a wry look at two families, two generations, and two cultures. At the center of the story is Sabah, a second-generation American seeking to understand her [...]
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Larry Kramer – Faggots
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Graphically sexual and one of the best-selling gay novels of all time, Faggots is the story of Fred Lemish, who at thirty-nine has built up his body into a fatless […]
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The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“First published in German in 1804, under the nom de plume “Bonaventura,” The Nightwatches of Bonaventura is a dark, twisted, and comic novel, one part Poe and one part Beckett. […]
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Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker’s most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, [...]
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Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Through essays, poetry, stories, and images, writers and artists offer their perceptions of how we fit into the world and where we might be headed. The theory of evolution connects […]
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The Snuggly Satanicon
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The current volume, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, brings together fourteen stories composed in the thriving tradition of “literary Satanism” that was pioneered [...]
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Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Genocide House by Robert Kloss In The Genocide House—the American—maelstrom—The world—delirium— Villages—slaughtered and burned—Cities eradicated—in atomic flame— Young women lie—yearning—in [...]
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Thomas Bernhard – Correction
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]
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Joyce Mansour – In the Glittering Maw
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first English-language collection focused on the later works of Joyce Mansour, an Arab-Jewish Surrealist poet who was exiled from Egypt in the 1950s and settled in Paris. Mansour’s late […]
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Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, [...]
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M.S Coe – The Formation of Calcium
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMiddle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and moved to Florida. With the husband she’s grown to hate firmly […]
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Lynne Tillman – Weird Fucks
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction A young woman drifts through dimly lit bars and rented rooms, reporting from the erogenous zones of New York and […]
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Mike Corrao – Leopold’s Labyrinth
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLeopold’s Labyrinth puts the reader at the center of a story where they take shape as a recluse residing in the digitally-constructed environments of the future—the cybergothic landscape of the [...]
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Bruno K. Ӧijer – The Trilogy
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBruno K. Öijer, bestselling author and fierce social critic, has reached an iconic status in Sweden. He broke through as a rebellious young poet in the early 1970s with a […]
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Pedro Almodóvar – The Last Dream
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMaking his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories [...]
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Bo Huston – Horse And Other Stories
$25.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Bo Huston’s sensitive, stately prose translates gay underclass experience with such authenticity yet acumen that it seems the work of a first rate double agent. Horse brings to the [...]
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Breakthrough Fictioneers
$36.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“This massive anthology of works compiled by Kostelanetz, features artists from a range of disciplines who use both text and images to experiment with the formal and conceptual qualities of [...]
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Kenneth Patchen – But Even So
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA collection of Patchen’s “picture-poems”, which combine surreal childlike doodles and concrete poetry into a synthesized art form. New Directions Publishing, 1968 Softcover [...]
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Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]
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Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]
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Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cart1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]
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Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]
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Sergio De La Pava – A Naked Singularity
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the […]
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Troy James Weaver – Visions
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by [...]
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Pierre Senges – Ahabs (Sequels)
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe reader will find here the true aftermath of the adventures of Ahab, self-described captain, survivor of his last fight against a giant fish. We will see how this retiree […]
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Gabriele Tinti – Bleedings – Incipit Tragoedia
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBleedings – Incipit Tragoedia is a series of poems Tinti composed in the spring of 2020. The epigraphic collections of the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, and the National [...]
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Jan Wolkers – Turkish Delight
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartUpon its original publication in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was […]
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Mathias Enard – Zone
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The novel of the decade, if not of the century.”–Christophe Claro Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for [...]
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Alice Notley – Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop Alice [...]
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Claire Donato – Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe first major book from a longtime legend in underground literature; known by citation and word of mouth, but only now emerging with a work that will earn a broad […]
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Richard John Parfitt – Stray Dogs
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTurner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets […]
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Vitezslav Nezval – Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWritten in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl’s maturation […]
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Giallo Fantastique
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and [...]
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Blake Butler – Aannex
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIncorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker’s maze-map meant to have already been [...]
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Clarence Cooper Jr – Black: Three Short Novels
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. “The Dark Messenger” is a short, sizzling novel in which a [...]
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Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well [...]
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Charles Willeford – Cockfighter
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCharles Willeford’s violently masculine southern noir, loosely modeled on The Odyssey. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1991 paperback edition. Creasing to front cover, along with some [...]
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Anna Kavan – Julia And The Bazooka
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAnna Kavan’s darkest and most desperate collection of stories, published posthumously. W.W Norton, 1970 paperback edition. Large crease to front cover. Corner & edgewear to wraps. Pages [...]
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William H. Gass – The Tunnel
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Thirty years in the making, William Gass’s second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story [...]
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Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]
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