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USED & ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS + DVDS
WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
Directed by Dušan Makavejev
1971
CRITERION COLLECTION - Used
$18—
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A sexual encounter between a Yugoslav beautician (Milena Dravic) and a champion Russian skater (Ivica Vidovic) demonstrates the theories of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.
Propaganda Magazine
No.16: Spring 1991 Edition
$100—
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Rare & clean copy, light wear to front and back cover due to age. Includes articles featuring the works of Psychic TV, Cocteau Twins, Danzig, Ministry, with cover portrait of Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction.
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Directed by Jaromil Jireš
Czech - Criterion Collection
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A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored (featured on our previous episode), and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Disc includes a recent interview with Czech film scholar Peter Hames (one of our most adored writers on the cinema). Includes a 12 page booklet with film stills + other exclusive details, including an essay by the beloved critic Jana Prikryl. In Czech with English subtitles. Keep in mind -this is a BLUE-RAY disc!
Fantastic Planet
Directed by Rene Laloux
French - Criterion Collection
Adaptation from Roland Topor’s novel of the same title.
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Haunting—an unforgettable masterpiece. Visually bewildering work of science fiction that further explored the counterculture movement of the 1970’s. A psychedelic score that which one cannot escape once experienced, composed by the nefarious Alain Goraguer; gorgeous, broodingly nostalgic, and a Cannes-awarded 1973 film.
3 Tragedies of Federico García Lorca
1941 -New Directions Paperback. Ninth printing.
$7—
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Three plays on motherhood, ritual, and a tale of five repressed daughters. Contains: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Bernarda Alba. Lorca's sympathy with women is notable; a connection within his own existence as a gay man in a time influenced heavily by Catholic conservatism. Prologue by the poet's brother, Francisco García Lorca. Clean used copy, small inscription on acknowledgment page.
Goethe's Faust: Part One & Part Two - The absurd tale of Faust first revealed itself to Goethe in his younger years, and became his life's work -completed by the time he was 51. He was a ripe 81 years when he finished Part Two. And as Goethe once stated about his Faustian works; they form an integrated whole which "permanently preserves the period of development of a human soul." Penguin classics paperbacks -Part one: Clean, no markings, general wear from age; Part two: Pencil markings on title page, spine is cracked.
Cosmic Price Guide
Krautrock Records by Ulrich Klatte
Dual Language; German & English
3rd Edition - Near Fine Condition - Slight wear; light bumping on spine, small scratch to front cover). Pictorial boards, glazed cover, no interior markings.
$45
From Birth Control and Ash Ra Tempel, to Conny Plank, Medusa, CAN, and Embryo + more —An A-Z guide to rare and collectable KRAUTROCK records. 448 pages of essential KRAUTROCK collecting data covering label numbers, current Mint values and additional information on virtually every well-known, less-known and totally obscure KRAUTROCK record. A total of more than 2500 brilliant coloured pictures of original albums — anin-depth impression of the magnificent KRAUTROCK cosmos.
Erasurehead
Directed by David Lynch - Criterion Collection
$22 - Sealed
A dream of dark and troubling things . . .
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director David Lynch, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
“Eraserhead” Stories, a 2001 documentary by Lynch on the making of the film.
New 2K digital restorations of six short films by Lynch: Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), and Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995), all with video introductions by Lynch.
Astral Projection: The Out-of-Body Experience
Denning & Phillips
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$15 - GOOD CONDITION - PB
1994 - Second Edition
The very design of each chapter―as well as the illustrations, photos, charts, etc.―make it easy for one to learn the techniques required to explore and maintain astral projection. This guide allows for one to examine what astral projection is, and what it indeed is no; what can happen within your experience, and what is just a fantasy. As a result one discovers that astral projection can be safe, comforting, and exhilarating. Includes step by step methods for leaving your physical body and safely exploring the astral plane.
Garden, Ashes
Danilo Kiš
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$6 - GOOD CONDITION - PB
1994 - Second Edition
Binding is tight, no markings.
From young Andi Scham's memories emerges the story of his father, who recedes from life in Yugoslovia and then disappears in the Holocaust. Andi's search for him is a story that "claims you like a symphonic poem" (Library Journal). Translated by William J. Hannaher.
Color for Philosophers: Unweaving the Rainbow
C.L. Hardin
$11 - Used - PB
1988
Some minor bumping due to age. Clean, no markings. Lightly dog-eared.
Black + White and Color illustrations throughout. Plentiful chapters such as The Structure of Phenomenal Hues; Object Metamerism (a phenomenon where two objects with different reflection or transmission spectra appear to possess the same color under a specific light source); Adaptation, and Contrast; Ontology of Color. The author concludes that, since color doesn't fit anywhere in our science (as presently conceived), it therefore follows that color doesn't exist -- or is, at best, an illusion. This expanded edition of C. L. Hardin's ground-breaking work on color features a new chapter, Further Thoughts: 1993, in which the author revisits the dispute between color objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of color vision, and brings to bear new data on individual variability in color perception.
The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality & Anxiety
Wilhelm Reich —Translated from the German by Marion Faber, with Derek and Inge Jordan
$12 - NEAR FINE CONDITION - PB
Original Publication: Sexpol Verlag – 1937. Re-published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux – 1982
No markings, clean. Like New.
The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety is composed of three essential contributions from this period: “The Orgasm as an Electrophysiological Discharge,” “Sexuality and Anxiety,” and “The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety.” Reich’s detailed report on the physiological experiments undertaken in Norway in 1935-36 in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory. They were compiled by Reich in 1945 and are presented here for the first time with his notes and corrections.
Water Birds of California
Howard L. Cogswell
Illustrations by Gene Christman
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$8 - Used Condition- HC
University of California Press, 1977
Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing. Cover is faded but lovely still. Previous owner’s name in pencil on cover.
This chunky guide is illustrated throughout and heavily researched in the field of ornithology. Howard was an interesting guy. During the depression, he fled his home-town and eventually hitchhiked across the country to wind up in Southern California. Soon after he became a founding member of the Ohlone Audubon Society and worked regularly with the Point Reyes and San Francisco bird observatories. He was also a pilot an aerial photographer, as well as an expert bird bander. Between 1970 and 1982, he worked for the East Bay Regional Park District- during which time he was instrumental in the restoration of salt evaporation ponds, to marshlands, in the lower San Francisco Bay.
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Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories
Hervé Guibert
$14 - LIKE NEW - PB
Released in 2020 through Semiotext(e) & Native Agents.
Lightly handled. Fresh off the shelf. No markings.
Hervé Guibert published twenty-five books before dying of AIDS in 1991 at age 36. An originator of French "autofiction" of the 1990s, Guibert wrote with aggressive candor, detachment, and passion, mixing diary writing, memoir, and fiction. Best known for the series of books he wrote during the last years of his life, chronicling his coexistence with illness, he has been a powerful influence on many contemporary writers.
Written in Invisible Ink maps the writer's artistic development, from his earliest texts—fragmented stories of queer desire—to the unnervingly photorealistic descriptions in Vice and the autobiographical sojourns of Singular Adventures. Propaganda Death, his harsh, visceral debut, is included in its entirety. The volume concludes with a series of short, jewel-like stories composed at the end of his life. These anarchic and lyrical pieces are translated into English for the first time by Jeffrey Zuckerman.
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Géza Róheim
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$30 - Used Condition - PB
1974 - First Harper Torchbook Edition - Translation copyright 1934
No foxing. Boards have mild shelf wear. Dust jacket has moderate edge-wear, aged, with minor tears and chipping
Results of fieldwork 1929-31 in Central Australia; notes on demons, fear of attacks (Aranda, Luritcha, Ngatatara) definitions of relative dreams, double evil beings of Aranda, Luritcha, Ngatatara, Pindupi, Yumu, Matuntara; stories and their interpretation; comparison of these beliefs with those of Indo-European peoples; death magic, death anxiety of natives; kangaroo bad magic of Pitchentara & Mularatara, other forms of aggressive magic; dreams of sorcerers, legends, sorcerers initiation; theory that the demons form the basis of religion; nature of Central Australian totemism & its relation to the demons of the area; initiation, tabular representation giving description of ceremony, myth & song (with translation). Géza Róheim (Hungarian: Róheim Géza) was a psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and ethnologist.
PERSIAN PHRASE BOOK: War Department
Persian Language Words and Expressions
$25 - GOOD CONDITION - PB
1944
Some minor bumping or creases due to age. No markings.
Dissemination of restricted matter. Persian language words, expressions, traffic signals, and pronunciations for military public relations agencies.
RARE/OUT OF PRINT
ONE: The Homosexual Magazine
Various authors
Bound in red buckram, stamped in gold. Library Bound Edition, includes all 12 issues from 1955.
$1,400 - NEAR FINE CONDITION - LIMITED PRESSING HC
No markings, clean, cover almost flawlessly aged.
ONE was the first widely distributed publication for gay and lesbian americans. features articles, editorials, short stories, poetry, book reviews, and letters to the editor. ONE often ran daring covers like “Let’s Push Homophile Marriage” (circa 1960), served as a political lightning rod and national organizing force, motivating gay people to demand the civil rights afforded to their straight brethren.
RARE/OUT OF PRINT
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962
Theodor W. Adorno
$40 - NEAR FINE CONDITION - PB
No markings, clean. Like New.
Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicologist Adorno—Moments musicaux, containing essays written between 1928 and 1962, and Theory of New Music, a group of texts written between 1929 and 1955. Collected in their entirety for the first time in English, the insightful texts in Night Music show the breadth of Adorno’s musical understanding and reveal an overlooked side to this significant thinker.
RARE/OUT OF PRINT
QUAINT STORIES OF SAMURAIS: The Glorious Stories of Homosexuality
SAIKAKU IBARA — TRANSLATED BY KEN SATO
$275 - GOOD CONDITION - LIMITED PRESSING PB
1928 - 1 of 500
No markings, spine slightly worn (tear at top), water damage on back sleeve.
QUEER JAPANESE EROTICA CIRCA 1600: A collection of stories on Samurais and the Samurai tradition in Japan, mostly portraying gay love stories and anecdotes among the Samurai, drawing mostly from Ihara's "Glorious Stories of Homosexuality." Saikaku Ihara was a 17th century Japanese poet and writer, originating the Floating World style, as well as responsible for many works chronicling amorous affairs.
ALL ABOUT H. HATTERR
G.V. DESANI
$8 - NEAR FINE CONDITION - PB
No markings or creases. Like new.
WHEN All About H. Hatterr was first published in 1948, it received almost universally favorable critical notices. It was immediately successful, and seemed likely to establish its author as a first-rank novelist. But because of the strange interactions of whimsical public tastes and the mechanics of the modern publishing world, it slipped into literary limbo, becoming another in the long list of "underground classics."
With its republication it has returned above ground. Whether it will remain there, like the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Malcolm Lowry, similarly once-lost-but-now-redeemed, is still to be seen.
The Ways of White Folks
Stories by Langston Hughes
$9 - Tenth Edition - Good Condition - PB
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Vintage Classics 1990 - Originally published 1933
No markings, slight wear to front and back cover. Some dogeared pages.
One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
$11 - Near Fine Condition - PB
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2013 - First Paperback Edition
No markings, strong spine. Like new.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
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MORNING GLORY - SECTION
$30
Morning Glory Crop -the convolvulaceae who’s said to be a delicacy for deer, and spider mites. This wondrous creature is known as an invasive species to some, but we don’t find this to be such an unfortunate fact. Like it’s sister crop top in the series, SENSUAL, drawing is inspired by 18th century plant illustrations.
ETHEREAL POPPIES CROP
$30
Poppies decorated the tomb of Tutankhamun, and were often represented in Egyptian jewelry. Lady Mutemwia adorned her crown with poppies and the lotus. The poppy is also a symbol of rebirth —during harvest, seeds were collected in a way to symbolize the further existence of the deceased.
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MORNING GLORY - SENSUAL
$30
A single sensual section of the bewildering Morning Glory -which has five fused petals, five epipetalous stamens, and five sepals. Five is the number which represents planet Mercury. In numerology the number five also represents humankind -symbolizing the head which controls the four limbs.
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CROCHET WINTER BEANIE HAT
$46
For Dogs and Humans, too. Handmade. Snuggle with your huney, or get to work in the garden with true comfort. Available in Chestnut (pictured), Salmon Pink, and Variegated Turquoise. One size fits all.
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$38 each
MALE NUDE RAINBOW (above)
Ever find yourself dreaming of that one true love? Someone who makes you laugh, and has rainbow pubic hair? Well, look no further. We’ve got you covered. Kind of. Can be hung nicely in your boudoir or amidst a trailing Golden Pothos (plant not included).
TRICHOCEREUS PACHANOI (below)
Also known as the San Pedro Cactus, The Echinopsis pachanoi is native to Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. A widely cultivated fellow, as this psychoactive mescaline-containing cacti (in the genus Trichocereus) displays glorious blooms.
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