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Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]
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Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other [...]
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Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, [...]
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Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis book reassesses Miles Davis’ “electric period” and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase – which encompasses the entire [...]
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Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]
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Cosey Fanni Tutti – Re-Sisters: The Lives & Recordings of Delia Derbyshire Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who [...]
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Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]
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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartYears after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]
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Material Noise: Reading Theory as Artist’s Book
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Material Noise, Anne Royston argues that theoretical works signify through their materiality—such nonsemantic elements as typography or color—as well as their semantic content. Examining works [...]
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Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSoma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]
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Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the Darkside
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite horror stories for this new anthology, with each writing a critical introduction for the story of their choice. Edited by novelist and […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Jerusalem!: The Real Life of William Blake
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart‘And did those feet in ancient time …’ The hymn ‘Jerusalem’, with its famous words by William Blake, stirs our hearts with its evocation of a new holy city built [...]
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From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLong before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]
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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics & Literature
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead, they were fundamentally linked? In her clear, insightful, laugh-out-loud funny debut, Once Upon a Prime, [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]
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Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]
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Samuel R. Delaney – Occasional Views, Volume 1: More About Writing & Other Essays
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSamuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His “prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American [...]
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John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo one knows more about everything―especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling―than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics [...]
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Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]
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Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]
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Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]
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Lydia Davis – Essays Two
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]
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Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEarly science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior [...]
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Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]
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Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAs the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]
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Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]
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Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]
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Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEgyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]
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Harry Matthews – Tlooth
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 2)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, ?”Mulligan Stew”?takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Rikki Ducornet – Complete Butcher’s Tales
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, […]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery’s translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery’s own prose writings and [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry & Plays of Jack Spicer.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBe Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan & Avant-Pop America.
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTakayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American [...]
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Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, & Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical [...]
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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]
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Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde.
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Paper Revolutions, Sarah James offers a radical rethinking of experimental art in the former East Germany (the GDR). Countering conventional accounts that claim artistic practices in the GDR [...]
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Donald Judd (October Files)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDonald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]
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Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, “war on terror,” drone program, Guantánamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. […]
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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper […]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]
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Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created—a world that perishes or decays over time—and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard […]
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We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of […]
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Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy—Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Lab, and Nocilla Experience—presents multiple narratives of people and places that [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive -
Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Frans De Waard – America’s Greatest Noise
$21.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe next book on Korm Plastics contains no photographs of the artists, no list of released records, no pictures of record sleeves, and no footnotes. It is not a hardcover, […]
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Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
$175.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHanuman 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)
$350.00 | Book, Painting, Print Add to cartGrove 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 -
Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
$18.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartA selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge
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Gallery Of Photography: Vision
$12.00 | Print, Zine Add to cartA pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration
GENRE: Art/Photography -
James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
$6.00 | Print, Zine Add to cart“Written by Merton’s friend Jim Forest and drawing heavily upon their extensive correspondence, this booklet explores Merton’s beliefs about Christians and war, his life as a monk and his [...]
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D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
$20.00 | Print, Zine Add to cart“A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]
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Jean Genet – May Day Speech
$20.00 | Print, Used Items, Zine Add to cartTranscript of Jean Genet’s May Day Speech, given in support of Bobby Seale after his imprisonment. City Lights, 1970 staple-bound zine. Some light wear and discoloration.
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Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent’s charismatic priest Urban [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction