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  • An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
    An Introduction To Modern Architecture (as-is)
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    “An explanation of what ‘modern’ architecture is all about, describing also the stages by which it has reached its present degree of development. With plans and diagrams and 48 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
    Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: Essentials For Students
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    An introductory handbook/textbook for plastic surgery students. Tons of wild and informative diagrams. The Educational Foundation Of The American Society Of Plastic And Reconstructive Surgeons, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
    Edward Bond – The Worlds with The Activist Papers
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    “The Worlds is set in modern times. It contrasts factory strikes, a businessman’s take-over and terrorist kidnap-pings. Its cast ranges from those who sit in the cabinet to those who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
    Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass
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    “Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
    Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal
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    The Thief’s Journal is perhaps Jean Genet’s most authentically autobiographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
    Mary Sagatoo – Wah Sash Kah Moqua
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    “Wah Sash Kah Moqua: Or Thirty-Three Years Among The Indians is a book written by Mary Sagatoo and published in 1897. The book is a memoir of Sagatoo’s life as […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
    Peter Burger – Theory Of The Avant-Garde
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    “Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties, and discusses hermeneutics, ideology, aesthetic categories, and the autonomy of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
    Ezra Pound – The Confucian Odes
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    Ezra Pound – whom T. S. Eliot has called “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time” – here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Revelator
    Ron Silliman – Revelator
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    Revelator is the opening poem in a major sequence entitled Universe. It’s the jumping off point for a work that, were Ron Silliman to live long enough, would take him […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
    Pauline Oliveros – Quantam Listening
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    What is the difference between hearing and listening? When do you stop hearing the sound? When does memory begin? Is sound intelligent? Does sound have consciousness? Beginning in the 1960s, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Photomediations: A Reader
    Photomediations: A Reader
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    Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
    Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews (as-is, scarce)
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    Features interviews with Clark Coolidge, Susan Howe, Alice Notley and more. Talisman House, 1994 Softcover edition. Noticeable warp to book. Some discoloration to wraps/edges of pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdness)
    Rocco Di Pietro – The Comedy Of The Real (Self-Published weirdness)
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    “This is a novel about metaphysics and philosophy in the form a biography.” Self-Published (via lulu books), 2023 Softcover edition. General light wear

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
    Ron Silliman – Jones (Very rare chapbook)
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    Part of Silliman’s Alphabet series/long-form poem. Generator, 1993 Staple-bound chapbook. Cornerwear, light discoloration and creasing to wraps.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Salome Voegelin – The Political Possibility Of Sound
    Salome Voegelin – The Political Possibility Of Sound
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    eThe essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Theodor Adorno – Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays On Modern Music
    Theodor Adorno – Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays On Modern Music
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    Adorno’s own selection of his essays and journalism from more than three decades of music writing. This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet’s […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Slavoj Zizek – How To Read Lacan (as-is)
    Slavoj Zizek – How To Read Lacan (as-is)
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    The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thoedor Adorno – Hegel: Three Studies
    Thoedor Adorno – Hegel: Three Studies
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    This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno’s critical theory. The first study focuses on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • William Carlos Williams – In The American Grain
    William Carlos Williams – In The American Grain
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    Although admired by D. H. Lawrence, this modern classic went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is “a fundamental book, essential if one proposes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William H. Gass – On Being Blue (as-is)
    William H. Gass – On Being Blue (as-is)
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    On Being Blue is a book about everything blue—sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things—and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Daly – DaDaDa
    Catherine Daly – DaDaDa
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    An information-age critique of information and process, this poetry trilogy treats such interrelated themes as identity and authority and strategies beyond Dadaist appropriation and postmodern [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chain 6: Letters
    Chain 6: Letters
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    Issue six of Chain, featuring contributions from William Burroughs, Ron Silliman, Norma Cole and more. Chain, 1999 Softcover edition. Some discoloration/wear to wraps.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
    Cinema And Art As Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
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    As Jacques Derrida wrote in 1995, while considering Archive Fever, nothing is less reliable or less clear today than the word “archive”. Nevertheless, the historic-cultural dimension of the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Craig Dworkin – No Medium
    Craig Dworkin – No Medium
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    In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • D.T Niane – Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali
    D.T Niane – Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali
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    This is Sundiata, the epic tale of a man ‘great among kings’ who, through his legendary deeds and exploits, came to father an empire. For over 800 years, this story […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
    Early Cinema: Space, Frame Narrative
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    In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ernst Bloch – The Spirit Of Utopia
    Ernst Bloch – The Spirit Of Utopia
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    “I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start. These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch’s first major work, The Spirit of Utopia, written mostly in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Georg Lukacs – History And Class Consciousness (as is, scarce)
    Georg Lukacs – History And Class Consciousness (as is, scarce)
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    This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács’ early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henri Lefebvre – Metaphilosophy
    Henri Lefebvre – Metaphilosophy
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    In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Horkheimer & Adorno – Dialectic Of Enlightenment (as-is)
    Horkheimer & Adorno – Dialectic Of Enlightenment (as-is)
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    Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Laurie Brown – Recent Terrains: Terraforming The American West
    Laurie Brown – Recent Terrains: Terraforming The American West
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    In this book of sixty black-and-white panoramas, photographer Laurie Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark, compelling images reveal a [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lisa Fishman – 24 Pages And Other Poems
    Lisa Fishman – 24 Pages And Other Poems
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    Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other—whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Luigi Nono: The Suspended Song
    Luigi Nono: The Suspended Song
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    An amazing, in-depth analysis of Luigi Nono’s cantata The Suspended Song. Harwood Academic/Contemporary Music Review, 1999 Softcover edition. Some wear to edges and corners.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Lisa Jarnot – Ring Of Fire
    Lisa Jarnot – Ring Of Fire
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    Ring of Fire is a book of experimental lyric poetry in the tradition of American Poetry beginning with Walt Whitman and continuing through the Beat Generation, the New York School, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michael Lesy – Wisconsin Death Trip
    Michael Lesy – Wisconsin Death Trip
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    Wisconsin Death Trip is a 1973 historical nonfiction book by Michael Lesy, originally published by Pantheon Books. It charts numerous sordid, tragic, and bizarre incidents that took place in and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Nathaniel Dorsky – Devotional Cinema
    Nathaniel Dorsky – Devotional Cinema
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    Kathleen Tyner (author of Literacy in A Digital World), writes of this book as follows: “Devotional Cinema, reprised from filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky’s lecture on religion and cinema at Princeton [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patrick Farmer – Close Eclogues On Tiptoe, Vol 1.
    Patrick Farmer – Close Eclogues On Tiptoe, Vol 1.
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    Close Eclogues on Tiptoe is an epistolary experiment that recalls the author’s visit to Mass an exhibition by the artist Lotti V Closs in 2016. Drawing on the ‘character’ inherent in Closs’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mad Professor ‎– Science And The Witch Doctor (Dub Me Crazy Part 9)
    Mad Professor ‎– Science And The Witch Doctor (Dub Me Crazy Part 9)
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    “Mad Professor’s Dub Me Crazy series stretched to a ninth volume with Science & the Witchdoctor. Though there is a stronger vocal presence here, including snippets from Kofi, [...]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Fateh = فتح ‎– Chants De La Résistance Palestinienne
    Fateh = فتح ‎– Chants De La Résistance Palestinienne
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    Collects the songs of the Palestinian group Fatah Label: Le Chant Du Monde – LDX 74446 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: France Released: VG+/VG+

    GENRE: International
  • Sandra Cross & The Wild Bunch ‎– Stepping In Dubwise Country
    Sandra Cross & The Wild Bunch ‎– Stepping In Dubwise Country
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    Dubs of Sandra Cross’s Country Life LP Label: Ariwa – ARILP031 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1987 VG/G+. Spine cracked 6″

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
    Gerry Mulligan ‎– Night Lights [1967 Stereo]
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    “This is a rather relaxed recording featuring baritonist Gerry Mulligan and some of his top alumni (trumpeter Art Farmer, trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Bill Crow, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Vivian Weathers ‎– Bad Weathers
    Vivian Weathers ‎– Bad Weathers
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    “Vivian was a talented singer-songwriter who never realised his full potential. Leroy Smart’s popular ‘Pride and Ambition’ was written by Vivian, but he was not even credited on the record. […]

    GENRE: Reggae / Dub
  • Paranoid Time – RATLife
    Paranoid Time – RATLife
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    “A relentless scorched earth blast of speaker-shredding intensity from the machete-wielding Michigan madman.” – from the WCN CD reissue notes Label: Troniks – TRO-272 Format: [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A  – Like A Frog In Winter
    V/A – Like A Frog In Winter
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    “In 2004 while residing in Providence, Dominic Fernow of Prurient and Hospital began compiling Like A Frog in Winter, in response to his perceptions that noise had become rather hi-fi, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Positive Force – Positive Force
    Positive Force – Positive Force
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    Sole album by the Pennsylvania soul/funk group. Eventually shifted into Positive Express Label: Sugar Hill Records – SH 248 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG. Disc low [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Watsonian Institute – E.D.P. – Extra Disco Perception
    Watsonian Institute – E.D.P. – Extra Disco Perception
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    Tight grooves from Johnny Guitar Watson’s backing group. Label: DJM Records – DJM-27 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Yellow Labels Country: US Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some rubbing/wear

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Richard Evans – Richard Evans (Promo)
    Richard Evans – Richard Evans (Promo)
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    Heavy and deep jazz-funk from the former Sun Ra Arkestra and Soulful Strings bassist. Label: Horizon – SP-735 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 1979 VG+/VG. Sleeve has […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Malo – Malo (Promo)
    Malo – Malo (Promo)
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    “Malo’s debut album remains their best and best-known work, primarily for the inclusion of the hit single “Suavecito.” That track managed to make a Chicago-like pop-soul [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Poncho Sanchez Conducted and Arranged by Clare Fischer Featuring Gary Foster and Alex Acuña – Straight Ahead (Pa’lante)
    Poncho Sanchez Conducted and Arranged by Clare Fischer Featuring Gary Foster and Alex Acuña – Straight Ahead (Pa’lante)
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    Tight Latin jazz/funk from the Mexican-American conga player Label: Discovery Records – DS-813 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1980 VG+/VG+. Light wear. B-side has some heavy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin
  • Poncho Sanchez ‎– Poncho
    Poncho Sanchez ‎– Poncho
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    Poncho Sanchez’s debut album. Heavy breaks, Label: Discovery Records – DS-799 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. WOL. Edgewear and sleeve rubbing

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Latin