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Two Henry Miller box sets The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy (Grove Press, 1965), $150and The Henry Miller Trilogy (Grove Pres...
05/11/2026

Two Henry Miller box sets

The Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy (Grove Press, 1965), $150

and The Henry Miller Trilogy (Grove Press, 1961) $75

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First edition of Delillo's second novel, pairing college football with nuclear war$100, in-store only
05/10/2026

First edition of Delillo's second novel, pairing college football with nuclear war

$100, in-store only

Sampling of some of the cooler mass markets hitting the shelves this evening 🙂Terminal Beach and The Box Man are $30 eac...
05/06/2026

Sampling of some of the cooler mass markets hitting the shelves this evening 🙂

Terminal Beach and The Box Man are $30 each

The rest are not priced yet

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An Anthology of New York Poets, edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro, Vintage, 1970. With cover by Joe Brainard. Icon...
05/06/2026

An Anthology of New York Poets, edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro, Vintage, 1970. With cover by Joe Brainard. Iconic and scarce!

Second pic: from the helpfully provided Index of First Lines in the back

$100, in-store only

The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies, Praeger, 1972. With sections on Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Carl A...
05/06/2026

The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies, Praeger, 1972. With sections on Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Walter De Maria, and Michael Heizer, and filled with beautiful photographs by Gianfranco Gorgoni.

Only $20 as this copy is in sub-par condition. In-store only

Just yesterday someone asked if we had flip books, and today what should come over the counter but this little Bruce Nau...
05/04/2026

Just yesterday someone asked if we had flip books, and today what should come over the counter but this little Bruce Nauman from 2001 ...

$40, in-store only

Agent Provocateur by David Young, Coach House Press, edition of 1000, 1976. A noirish detective story featuring collages...
05/03/2026

Agent Provocateur by David Young, Coach House Press, edition of 1000, 1976. A noirish detective story featuring collages by the author and dedicated to Marcel Duchamp?! Wow.

$25, in-store only

Love her or hate her, or maybe just bewildered by some of her opinions, she's Pauline Kael. First edition! $75, in-store...
04/23/2026

Love her or hate her, or maybe just bewildered by some of her opinions, she's Pauline Kael. First edition!

$75, in-store only

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, First Third Editions, 2013, number 727 of 1323. $200, in-store only.Music pioneer, artist and ...
04/20/2026

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, First Third Editions, 2013, number 727 of 1323. $200, in-store only.

Music pioneer, artist and body evolutionist, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has never let art, life or evolution stand in the way of imagination. As a Fluxus and Dada-inspired per­formance artist with COUM Transmissions, the post-hippie Breyer P-Orridge determined to revolutionise everyday life. By the late ’70s, Breyer P-Orridge was fronting Throbbing Gristle, a defiantly anti-rock experiment that launched the entirely new genre of Industrial Music. TG also pioneered a self-determining model for independent music-making that still flourishes today.
Breyer P-Orridge’s next project, the music and arts collec­tive Psychic TV, explored a deep interest in fetishism, magick and ritual, with an emphasis on body art. A prime mover in the 80’s Modern Primitives subculture, from which the latter-day mass trend for tattooing and piercing emerged, Breyer P-Orridge has since taken body politics several stages further with pandrogeny, a ‘third gender’ project launched in the late 90’s with wife and life-partner Lady Jaye. After Jaye ‘dropped her body’ in 2007, Genesis remains even more devoted to pandrogeny, which s/he insists is more about consciousness than the body.
This monograph is a testament to a life spent exploring the outer limits of creative expression – often landing the artist in deep controversy. Working with artist Leigha Mason, Genesis mined h/er personal archives for many of the 350+ photographs included, and added insightful personal commentary throughout. A detailed forward in the form of a Q&A with rock journalist Mark Paytress explores the cultural importance of the work of this self-styled ‘cultural engineer.'

Ryu (not to be confused with Haruki) Murakami's debut novel, Almost Transparent Blue, 1976, which won him the prestigiou...
04/16/2026

Ryu (not to be confused with Haruki) Murakami's debut novel, Almost Transparent Blue, 1976, which won him the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. This is the first English paperback edition from 1981. Someone really needs to reprint this, but until they do, it's very scarce and thus $50, in-store only.

Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of s*x, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, yet the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and halluci-nation, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in pas-sivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty.
As Ryu Murakami's first novel, written when he was twenty-three, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize in 1976 and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.

Just Another As***le no. 7: Thought Objects. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca. The final installment in the series...
04/16/2026

Just Another As***le no. 7: Thought Objects. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca. The final installment in the series, including photos by Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, David Wojnarowicz, Jeff Wall, Jack Goldstein, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Peter Hujar etc. etc. Basically if you were hip and in NYC in 1987 you're in this book lol. I didn't even get to the essays: contributors include Cookie Mueller, Lynn Tillman and Gary Indiana. Phew!

All yours for a mere $60. As always, in-store only

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