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  • Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
    Immanuel Velikovsky – Oedipus And Akhnaton
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    “Was Oedipus, the parricide who sired children by his mother, a product of the subconscious mind as Freud thought? Was he a mythological figure? Or was he a real, historical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
    Ethan Hoffman – Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
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    “Gathers photographs of prison inmates, guards, and visitors, and provides a detailed look at prison life and selected individuals” University Of Missouri Press, 1986 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
    Edwin Black – War Against The Weak
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    “War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States, helped found and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
    Michael Kirby – Happenings (1st Edition)
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    “Here is the first book about the most exciting new theatre-and-art form of this decade. It contains a comprehensive introduction; the working scripts of the fourteen most significant [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
    Cheng-Tsu Wu – Chink: A Documentary History Of Anti-Chinese Prejudice In America
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    “The contents of this compendium, which presents a bit of the history of the racial prejudice against the Chinese, are organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, “Institutionalization of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
    Malcolm Wells – Underground Designs
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    “Architectural designs accompany a discussion of the various aspects of and recent improvements in building homes and businesses underground” Self-published, 1977 staple-bound [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • New American Nudes
    New American Nudes
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    Survey of American nude photography of the late 70’s & early 80’s. Morgan & Morgan, 1981 Softcover edition. Some scuffing to wraps, light wear at edges.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Megamurals & Supergraphics
    Megamurals & Supergraphics
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    “The mural movement is one of the most positive and beautiful legacies of the spirit and change of the 60’s. Psychadelic art never survived, but street painting did, and now […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Mushrooms Of North America
    Mushrooms Of North America
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    “A comprehensive guide to finding, identifying and collecting edible wild mushrooms, with pictorial keys and illustrated glossary.” Dutton, 1979 Softcover edition, third printing. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Le Corbusier – Journey To The East
    Le Corbusier – Journey To The East
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    “This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
    Larry Dean Olsen – Outdoor Survival Skills
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    “Outdoor Survival Skills has taught three generations of wilderness adventurers how to survive in nature without expensive purchased equipment, instead drawing on knowledge of the land and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
    The Divine Feminine: The Biblical Imagery Of God As Female
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    “Examines the use of male and female imagery in the Bible and argues that the Bible does not describe God in only masculine terms” Crossroad, 1991 Softcover edition. Light [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
    How To Survive And Excel In Prison (Within And Without)
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    “A self-help book that is targeted for three major groups. First, the contents of the book is designed to encourage those that are incarcerated to utilize the positive resources that […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
    Thomas Macauly: Sculptural Views On Perceptual Ambiguity
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    Exhibition catalog from the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition on the minimal sculptural work of Thomas Macauly. Dayton Art Institute, 1986 Softcover edition. Light corner & edgewear.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
    Timothy Leary – Flashbacks (1st edition)
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    “Dr. Timothy Leary’s passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. Flashbacks, Leary’s own account of his career as “an accomplished clinical [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Dada Performance
    Dada Performance
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    “One of the most controversial and ironic of twentieth-century modernisms, Dada swept through the arts after the shock of World War I, when poets, painters, filmmakers, and performers [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
    David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
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    “Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – The Killing Game
    Gary Webb – The Killing Game
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    “Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
    Moholy-Nagy: Experiment In Totality
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    “This biography of the Constructivist leader Laszlo Moholy-Nagy illustrates his difficult yet victorious struggle for a total approach to seeing-teaching-creating. The account encompasses [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Renee Riese Hubert – Surrealism And The Book
    Renee Riese Hubert – Surrealism And The Book
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    “This is the first book-length study of the unique collaborations between surrealist painters and authors that resulted in illustrated books. Hubert examines the interrelationships between [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Paul Scheerbart – The Perpetual Motion Machine
    Paul Scheerbart – The Perpetual Motion Machine
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    “In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History Of LSD
    Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History Of LSD
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    “Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
    Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control
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    “Mind Control is a little known and a highly controversial topic today. Veteran author and investigator Jim Keith uncovers a surprising amount of information on the technology, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
    Jean Lorrain – Masks In The Tapestry
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    “Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ten such tales: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
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    “In his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
    Jean Lorrain – The Soul-Drinker
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    “No other writer of the fin-de-siècle period undertook a more elaborate exploration of perversities and abnormalities than Jean Lorrain, and no one else went as far afield in the search [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roland Barthes – Incidents
    Roland Barthes – Incidents
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    “In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping “with a view to publication,” Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
    The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations Of Fascism In America
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    “”Mae’s work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
    The Complete Manual Of Suicide (Japanese Language Text!)
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    “The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit. Complete Suicide Manual) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi. He is the writer on the problem of [...]

    GENRE:
  • Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
    Jim Keith – Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
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    “Here stands the New Man. His conception of reality is a dance of electronic images fired into his forebrain, a gossamer construction of his masters, designed so that he will […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
    Owsley And Me: My LSD Family
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    “Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the ’60s. Owsley “Bear” Stanley met her in Berkeley in 1965, when LSD was […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
    Edges Of The Rainbow: LGBTQ Japan
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    “An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese society. The LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
    Out Of Darkness: Exploring Satanism & Ritual Abuse
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    “Brings together the testimony of psychiatrists, theologians, an FBI agent, and two survivors of ritual abuse to provide a balanced look at the network of satanic cults in existence [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook
    Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook
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    “Remote viewing is not simply using psychic ability to obtain information. It is using scientific protocol to develop and extend that ability so that ordinary people can learn to do […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
    Gary Webb – Dark Alliance
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    “In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
    Nicholas Schou – Orange Sunshine (1st edition)
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    “Dubbed the “Hippie Mafia,” the Brotherhood began in the mid-1960s as a small band of peace-loving, adventure-seeking surfers in Southern California. After discovering LSD, they [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
    Albert Hofmann – LSD: My Problem Child
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    “Credited with synthesizing and discovering the psychedelic effects of LSD, Hofmann traces the path of the drug from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Snuggly Satanicon
    The Snuggly Satanicon
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
    Korm Plastics “The Second Annual”
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    Following the critically acclaimed first Annual, Korm Plastics is very proud to present The Second Annual, which has more pages and more authors and covers a wide selection of musical […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
    Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
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    *Ships Late Dec* English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • GIFTNÅLEN no 1
    GIFTNÅLEN no 1
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    Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, ecoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
    Robert Kloss – The Genocide House
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    The 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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature
    Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature
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    “In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar Wilde Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Mabille – Mirror Of The Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining Of Myth
    Pierre Mabille – Mirror Of The Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining Of Myth
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    “A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world • Long considered one of the most significant and original books to have come […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Alan Lomax – The Land Where The Blues Began
    Alan Lomax – The Land Where The Blues Began
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    “A self-described “song-hunter,” the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930’s and ‘40s, armed with primitive recording equipment and a keen love of the Delta’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Dane Rudhyar – The Rebirth Of Hindu Music
    Dane Rudhyar – The Rebirth Of Hindu Music
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    “The Rebirth of Hindu Music is a book written by the renowned philosopher and musician, Dane Rudhyar. In this book, Rudhyar explores the rich history and cultural significance of Hindu […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
    Andy Warhol: The Factory Years
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    “New York City, the 1960s: Inside a ramshackle studio known as The Factory, the post-war art world encountered the industrial revolution. For more than two years, Nat Finkelstein was on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Earthcare: An Anthology In Environmental Ethics
    Earthcare: An Anthology In Environmental Ethics
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    “This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
    Pablo Escobar And Colombian Narcoculture
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    “In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Bernhard – Correction
    Thomas Bernhard – Correction
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • River Of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge And The Technological Wild West
    River Of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge And The Technological Wild West
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    “Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell’s Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eros: An Erotic Journey Through The Senses
    Eros: An Erotic Journey Through The Senses
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    An approachable study on eroticism in art. Crescent Books, 1988 Hardcover edition. Light scuffing to dustjacket and discoloration to ends of pages.

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
    Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
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    An awareness and preparedness guide from the anti-nuclear Progressive Foundation. Progressive Foundation, 1980. Some rubbing & cornerwear to wraps, along with some foxing to pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
    Kathy Acker – Literal Madness
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    “Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
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    “San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey
    Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey
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    “For our 15th book release, we present WICKED GAME: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey by author Michael Goldberg. Another incredibly in-depth look into the dark side of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol 2
    The White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol 2
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “The White Label Promo Preservation Society returns with another collection of essays celebrating albums that fell short of cracking Billboard’s top 100, but belong in the libraries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
    Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
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    In the late ‘70s and early to mid 1980s, San Francisco was a creative incubator, bringing forth all manner of new music acts. Ground zero for the scene was the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “Hozac Books is proud to present An Ideal For Living- A Celebration of the E.P. (Extended Play) by Corey du Browa & friends. An impressive first overview & history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll: Photographs By Marty Perez 1976-2019
    Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll: Photographs By Marty Perez 1976-2019
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    “Marty Perez is a Chicago-based photographer who has been documenting the parallels between the worlds of underground rock as well as some of the biggest stars of pop music, from […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography