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  • Slimane Azem – Baba Ghayou
    Slimane Azem – Baba Ghayou
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    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: Pathe Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45RPM Country: France Released: A side plays VG, B plays G+

    GENRE: International
  • Lounès Kheloui – Fakiyi Dhasouagh
    Lounès Kheloui – Fakiyi Dhasouagh
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    Label: Disques Bordj El Phen – BEP-67 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo, Mono Country: Algeria Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: African   A side plays G+, B […]

    GENRE: African
  • Boutaïba Saïdi* – El Koubida (warp, plays through)
    Boutaïba Saïdi* – El Koubida (warp, plays through)
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    Label: Sawt-Hilali – SH 142 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: France Genre: Folk, World, & Country   Large warp, plays through but is noticeable for a few rotations. No […]

    GENRE: African, International
  • Bensmir Missoum – Baghi Nahdjar / Maghbouna Nhar Laid
    Bensmir Missoum – Baghi Nahdjar / Maghbouna Nhar Laid
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    Label: Sabraphone – N°24SB, Sabra – N°24SB Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: Algeria Released: Genre: Folk, World, & Country Notoiceable light marks & surface noise across both [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Atmani-  Atsane Athatchali
    Atmani- Atsane Athatchali
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    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: Oasis Disques Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: France Released: VG/Gen.

    GENRE: International
  • Boudjema L’Ankiss* – Ahou-Lia / Ya-Taleb
    Boudjema L’Ankiss* – Ahou-Lia / Ya-Taleb
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: La Voix Du Globe – VG 6221 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: France Released: Genre: Folk, World, & Country Some noticeable light marks & label wear. No pic sleeve.

    GENRE: African
  • Slimane Azem – Azguer Yakel Egmas / Lahbab Elouaktha
    Slimane Azem – Azguer Yakel Egmas / Lahbab Elouaktha
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    Algerian Kabyle music. Label: Pathe 45 804 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: France Released: VG/Gen.

    GENRE: International
  • Bug Bus Piano ‎– Out Under Streets
    Bug Bus Piano ‎– Out Under Streets
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    The chronicle continues, deepening the legend… Out Under Streets serves as a milestone in the profuse and vastly intangible catalog of Bug Bus Piano – a decade into the cult […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
    Richard Ross – Waiting For The End Of The World
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    “Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
    Gil Elliot – Twentieth Century Book Of The Dead
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    “This striking and original book is an attempt to describe the true and false cultures of mass death in this century. On the battlefields of the World Wars, in the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Niels Bohr – Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge
    Niels Bohr – Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge
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    “These essays and speeches by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist date from 1934 to 1958. Rather than expositions on quantum physics, the articles are philosophical in nature, exploring the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Gribbin – The Omega Point
    John Gribbin – The Omega Point
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    “Is the universe infinitely expanding? Or at some point in the future will it finally reach its limit—and contract upon itself in one catastrophic reversal of the Big Bang? The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
    Howard Rheingold – Virtual Reality
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    “Imagine being able to “walk” into your computer and interact with any program you create. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s science fact. Surgeons now rehearse [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Downwind: A People’s History Of The Nuclear West
    Downwind: A People’s History Of The Nuclear West
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    “Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William James – The Varieties Of Religious Experience
    William James – The Varieties Of Religious Experience
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    “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
    The Witness of These Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Vol I
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    A selection of eye-witness reports from both Hiroshima & Nagasaki, categorized by proximity to blast radius. English Translation Group, 1989 Softcover edition. Some corner & edgewear to wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
    Nuclear Weapons Databook: Volume IV – Soviet Nuclear Weapons
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    “The first book to reveal the locations of nuclear weapons around the world and introduce the concept of the infrastructure behind war.” Harper & Row, 1989 Softcover edition. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mac Blackout, Landon Caldwell & Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer  – Between Infinities
    Mac Blackout, Landon Caldwell & Nicholas Yeck-Stauffer – Between Infinities
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    “Somewhere there is the unhappened. Somewhere, if there is a somewhere. Unhappened – as in – on the way. There was a path to get there. We don’t magically emerge […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
    Susan Sontag – AIDS and Its Metaphors
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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
  • Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
    Louis Crompton – Homosexuality & Civilization
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    “How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Larry Kramer – Faggots
    Larry Kramer – Faggots
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity
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    “Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of the 1970s generation of British film [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
    Violation Of Taboo: Incest In The Great Literature Of The Past And Present
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    A survey of incest & its meaning in literature. Julian Press, 1963 Hardcover edition. Wear & discoloration to dustjacket. Staining to upper edge of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
    The Nightwatches Of Bonaventura
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    “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. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
    The Opium-Eater: A Life Of Thomas De Quincey
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    “From the Globe and Mail reviewer – “The life story of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is a cautionary tale about the twin dangers of becoming a drug addict and writing […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
    Martin Gayford – Modernists & Mavericks
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    “Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves. The development of [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
    Ben Ratliff – Coltrane: The Story Of A Sound
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    “John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    Kathy Acker – Great Expectations
    $7.00 | , , 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, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
    Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
    Antonin Artaud: Poet Without Words
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    “This book traces the development of the major themes in the work of the essential modern poet-playwright, Antonin Artaud. As a young man, Artaud complained that he could neither find […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
    Jennifer Moxley – The Middle Room
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    “Moxley’s detailed and lushly-written memoir is set largely in San Diego and follows her life thus far from childhood to marriage. Consistently focused on poetry and poets, it dwells [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Celine: A Biography
    Celine: A Biography
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “”A very solid achievement, a book that deserves to be ready by anyone interested in modern French literature””The Financial Times. “McCarthy has written the best [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
    Julia Kristeva – This Incredible Need To Believe
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    “Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of ‘frightening’ either the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Tony Talent – Gotta Tell Somebody (About My Baby)
    Tony Talent – Gotta Tell Somebody (About My Baby)
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Vando – VAN 3001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul   Media Condition: G+ Some large marks & scuffs, […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Arthur K. Adams* – I’m Lonely For You
    Arthur K. Adams* – I’m Lonely For You
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Modern Records (2) – 45xM 1050 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG Looks like G+ but […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Rose Hargrove – Once A Day
    Rose Hargrove – Once A Day
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: AFCO Records – AFDJ-523 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues, Soul Media Condition: VG

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Albert Washington And His Kings* – Ramble / You Gonna Miss Me
    Albert Washington And His Kings* – Ramble / You Gonna Miss Me
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: VLM Records – none Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1963 Genre: Blues Media Condition: VG Noticeable light marks/wear

    GENRE: Blues
  • “Sonny Boy” Williamson* – Keep It To Yourself / The Key
    “Sonny Boy” Williamson* – Keep It To Yourself / The Key
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Checker – 847 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1956 Genre: Blues Style: Chicago Blues Media Condition: G+ Noticeable light marks/wear

    GENRE: Blues
  • Gloria Gaynor – This Love Affair
    Gloria Gaynor – This Love Affair
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Polydor – PD 14472, Polydor – 2066 922 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul, Disco Media Condition: G+ Looks […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Moments – You Really Got Me / Money Money
    The Moments – You Really Got Me / Money Money
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: World Artists (4) – 1032 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition: G+ Looks G+ but plays closer to VG

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Insights – Jumpshot / Falling
    Insights – Jumpshot / Falling
    $80.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: AMG – 6031-25 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition: VG+ Looks VG, plays VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Good Feelins – I’m Captured
    The Good Feelins – I’m Captured
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Liberty – 55981 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: Jul 1967 Genre: Rock Style: Garage Rock Media Condition: VG Looks G+, plays closer to VG. Drillhole […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Johnny And The Debonaires ‎– The Bonecracker
    Johnny And The Debonaires ‎– The Bonecracker
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Fenway Records – 1711 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: Dec 1961 Genre: Rock Media Condition: VG+ Looks G+, but plays G+. Drill in label.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
    Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
    $50.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: ERA Records – 3072 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1962 Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul Media Condition: VG Looks G+, but plays closer to […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Marvin Smith – Time Stopped / Have More Time
    Marvin Smith – Time Stopped / Have More Time
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Brunswick – 55299 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: Aug 1966 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: G+  

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Eddie Palmieri ‎– Spirit Of Love
    Eddie Palmieri ‎– Spirit Of Love
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Epic – 8-50643 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Latin, Funk / Soul Style: Disco Media Condition: VG+ Record plays low end […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
    The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
    $70.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Congress – CG-211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop Style: Soul Media Condition:G+ Solid G+ with surface noise noticeable. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Freddie Gorman – Take Me Back / Can’t Get It Out Of My Mind
    Freddie Gorman – Take Me Back / Can’t Get It Out Of My Mind
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Ric-Tic Records – RT-102 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: Mar 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG Looks very rough, close […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
    Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Win Or Lose – WL-221 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono, SP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG+ In between […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pages – If I Saw You Again
    Pages – If I Saw You Again
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Epic – 8-50639 Format: 7″ Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG Notable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • El Coco – Afrodesia
    El Coco – Afrodesia
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: AVI Records ‎– AVI-249-S Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Willie Bobo – Always There
    Willie Bobo – Always There
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Columbia ‎– 3-10862 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul Media: VG Light marks along both sides, and label wear.

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Load – Now We’ll Say We Tried / She Calls My Name
    The Load – Now We’ll Say We Tried / She Calls My Name
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Owl – 2551 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: May 1974 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & wear.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
    Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Del-Fi Records – 4214 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Styrene Country: US Released: 1963 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Prince Phillip Mitchell* – You’re All I Got In The World
    Prince Phillip Mitchell* – You’re All I Got In The World
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Atlantic – 3506 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG+  

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Tommy Trojan ‎– Leo I Am / Love Has The Power
    Tommy Trojan ‎– Leo I Am / Love Has The Power
    $200.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: JC Records (3) – JC 100 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition:VG+ Some noticeable light marks, but plays through VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
    Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Cookin’ Records (2) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues Media: G+ Noticeable scuffing and marks, along with […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
    Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
    $125.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: American Arts – AA-2 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media: VG A side plays low-end VG with some surface […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • G.I.S.M. – “Repami Kakuon Group Rush 911” DVD
    G.I.S.M. – “Repami Kakuon Group Rush 911” DVD
    $46.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    Thoughts are disrupted. P.P.P.project + BEAST ARTS presents “Reppai Kissoku Gun Tonyuu 911” has been decided to be released on DVD.  On September 11th, 2018, the film “Reppai [...]

    GENRE:
  • The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Moxie Records – MM 1044 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative