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  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
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    At 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
    Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
    Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War
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    The 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
    Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis
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    This 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 [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
    Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cosey Fanni Tutti – Re-Sisters: The Lives & Recordings of Delia Derbyshire Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti
    Cosey Fanni Tutti – Re-Sisters: The Lives & Recordings of Delia Derbyshire Margery Kempe & Cosey Fanni Tutti
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
    Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again
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    Neon 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
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    Years 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 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Material Noise: Reading Theory as Artist’s Book
    Material Noise: Reading Theory as Artist’s Book
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
    Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen
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    Soma 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the Darkside
    Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the Darkside
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    A 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
    Jerusalem!: The Real Life of William Blake
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    ‘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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
    From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions
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    Long 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
    Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation
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    The 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
    Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
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    This 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics & Literature
    Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections between Mathematics & Literature
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    We 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, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
    Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
    Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer
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    When 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. […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Samuel R. Delaney – Occasional Views, Volume 1: More About Writing & Other Essays
    Samuel R. Delaney – Occasional Views, Volume 1: More About Writing & Other Essays
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    Samuel 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
    John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
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    No 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A 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 […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
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    A 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
    Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
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    Angela 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, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lydia Davis – Essays Two
    Lydia Davis – Essays Two
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    In 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
    Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction
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    Early 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
    Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti
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    As 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
    Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons
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    From 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
    Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution
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    Sex 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
    Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
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    Egyptian 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Harry Matthews – Tlooth
    Harry Matthews – Tlooth
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    This 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)
    Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 2)
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    This 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.
    Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
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    Widely 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
    Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
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    In 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
    Rikki Ducornet – Complete Butcher’s Tales
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    In 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.
    John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
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    Collected 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.
    Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry & Plays of Jack Spicer.
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    Be 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.
    Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
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    In 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.
    Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan & Avant-Pop America.
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    Takayuki 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, & Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945.
    Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, & Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945.
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
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    From 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde.
    Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde.
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    In 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Donald Judd (October Files)
    Donald Judd (October Files)
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    Donald 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
    Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
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    The 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. […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
    Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
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    This 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
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    In 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, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
    Gerhard Richter – This Great Allegory: On World-Decay And World-Opening In The Work Of Art
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    An 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 […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
    We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
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    We 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 […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
    Agustin Fernandez Mallo – The Nocilla Trilogy
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    A 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
    Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
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    Reclaiming 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 [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Frans De Waard – America’s Greatest Noise
    Frans De Waard – America’s Greatest Noise
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    The 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, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Non-Fiction
  • 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
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    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)
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    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
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
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    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
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    A 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
    James H. Forest – Thomas Merton’s Struggle With Peacemaking
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – May Day Speech
    Jean Genet – May Day Speech
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    Transcript 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.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
    Aldous Huxley – The Devils Of Loudun
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    In 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