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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)

$150.00 | 10", Book, Box Set, Print, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart

Limited edition of 300 copies encased in a chocolate and silver Solander box. Included is the signed and numbered hardback edition of the book ‘Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]

GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative

The Damned – The History Of The World Part I

$15.00 | 7", Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart

The first single from The Damned’s 1980 album, The Black Album. Label: Chiswick Records – CHIS 135 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG.

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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 […]