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Keizo Kitajima
Tokyo-Koza

2026, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 36.2 x 29.8 cm.
Published by Little Big Man / Los Angeles

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Gravitating toward nocturnal spaces and marginalized communities, Kitajima uses the night as both subject and metaphor for identity, desire and transformation

Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima's (born 1954) two series, Photographs of Okinawa (1975–79) and Tokyo 1979, share a deep continuity in spirit and approach, revealing the foundations of his raw, immersive photographic language. Both series emerge from Kitajima's direct participation in the worlds he depicts—whether amid the humid streets and bars of post-reversion Okinawa or the restless nightlife of Tokyo's underground. Shot in stark black and white with harsh flash, the images expose moments of vulnerability and intensity within Japan's shifting social landscape. Although each series was originally self-published separately, Kitajima later announced that their intentions and conclusions are the same. This publication collides the two series together in oversize format, with images as raw and fresh as when first photographed some 50 years ago.

Limited edition of 1000 copies.

File under: Keizo Kitajima Little Big Man / Los Angeles Japanese Photography Photography

Bomb
Poetry by Clark Coolidge & Collages by Keith Waldrop

2000, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 25.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Granary Books / New York

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First edition, out–of–print.

A landmark first-time collaboration between poet Clark Coolidge and writer/scholar/artist Keith Waldrop, Bomb is a meditation on a book of photographs that documents the Manhattan Project. Coolidge's 30-page poem begins with epigraphs by Democritus, Gregory Corso and André Breton with Paul Eluard, and continues in an elliptical, glancing narrative style that lucidly investigates a subject often too traumatic to consider directly: the impact of the atomic bomb on our everday lives. As Coolidge puts it, the general tendency has been to "put the bomb in a glass vase/add dust and forget." Like all of Coolidge's work, Bomb is sharp, stark and rhythmic; the poet here tangles with the dreamlike oddness of the photographs at hand in fits and starts of highly textured language. Keith Waldrop's series of collages are literal reworkings of the original pictures: deep blacks and bright whites excavated from the book, remade here in the image of the poem.

Designed by Emily Y. Ho.

VG–NF copy. First ed. of 1500 copies.

File under: Keith Waldrop Clark Coolidge Keith Waldrop Granary Books / New York Poetry Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

The Best of Bizarre
A John Willie Magazine, 1946-1956

1989, English
Hardcover (leather bound), 160 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
Numbered Ed. of 2000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Glittering Images / Florence

$240.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare copy of this deluxe, limited edition 1989 collection of John Willie's trailblazing fetish work, The Best of Bizarre, published by the mighty Glittering Images, Florence. Individually stamp–numbered (1573 of 2000) and bound in gold–gilded, illustration–plated red "leather"(?) hardcover, this beautifully designed and profusely illustrated book, edited by Riccardo Morrocchi, Stefano Piselli, and Marco Giovannini, features the iconic illustrations, photography and a wonderful selection of articles by John Willie (famous for Bizarre and The Adventures of Sweet Gwen), alongside an illustrated index of the original magazine issues. A stunning edition. English language throughout.

John Alexander Scott Coutts (1902–1962), better known by the pseudonym John Willie, was an artist, fetish photographer, cartoonist, specialty shoe designer, and the publisher and editor of the first 20 issues of the trail–blazing fetish magazine Bizarre. John Willie was not just a pivotal underground artist; he was a visionary who redefined the cultural boundaries of his time. Through Bizarre magazine and his creation of Sweet Gwendoline, he provided a space for people with unconventional desires to find community, expression, and acceptance in a society that often sought to repress them. His work balanced humor, fantasy, and artistry, pushing fetish culture into the limelight in a way that was both daring and sophisticated. His work has inspired countless artists ever since.

Very Good copy with foxing to block edges and light foxing to top of cover inlay.

File under: John Willie Glittering Images / Florence Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline
by John Willie

1974, English
Hardcover, 150 pages, 29 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Belier Press / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Rare 1974 hardcover volume published by Belier Press, New York, collecting in large format the illustrated comic strip stories of John Willie's iconic Sweet Gwendoline. A masterpiece of pioneering fetish illustration, Sweet Gwendoline follows a naïve, curvaceous blonde damsel in distress who repeatedly finds herself tied up, alongside Secret Agent U-89 and the villain Sir Dystic D'Arcy.Legacy, first serialized in Robert Harrison's girlie magazine Wink from June 1947 to February 1950, and became a cult classic and a major influence on modern fetish subculture and alternative comics. This first English edition was hugely popular and was later translated to French, German and Italian editions, and re–printed many times. The book opens with a foreword, biography, bibliography and John Willie correspondence, followed by the collected Sweet Gwendoline comic works, and a beautiful section to close of full–colour reproductions of John Willie's watercolour fetish works.

John Alexander Scott Coutts (1902–1962), better known by the pseudonym John Willie, was an artist, fetish photographer, cartoonist, specialty shoe designer, and the publisher and editor of the first 20 issues of the trail–blazing fetish magazine Bizarre. John Willie was not just a pivotal underground artist; he was a visionary who redefined the cultural boundaries of his time. Through Bizarre magazine and his creation of Sweet Gwendoline, he provided a space for people with unconventional desires to find community, expression, and acceptance in a society that often sought to repress them. His work balanced humor, fantasy, and artistry, pushing fetish culture into the limelight in a way that was both daring and sophisticated. His work has inspired countless artists ever since.

G–VG copy with tanning and foxing to block edges. First edition, fourth print.

File under: John Willie John Willie Belier Press / New York Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Painting Counterculture Eros

Nightmare USA : The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
by Stephen Thrower

2007, English
Hardcover, 528 pages, 25 x 28.9 cm
Published by FAB Press / UK

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Running to 528 large-format pages, Nightmare USA is a veritable encyclopedia of grindhouse cinema - it's one of the most acclaimed genre film books ever published, and after having Sold Out three times over already, it's finally back in print!

From Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill) to Eli Roth (Hostel), the young guns of modern Hollywood just can't get enough of that exploitation film high. That's because, between 1970 and 1985, American Exploitation movies went berserk. With censorship relaxed, and the gate to excess wide open, horror offered a vibrant alternative to the mainstream of American cinema. Luridly titled wonders like The Headless Eyes, Scream Bloody Murder and Hitch Hike to Hell were everywhere, from the drive-ins of Texas to the grindhouses of New York. Massively popular around the world, American exploitation movies added immensely to the richness of the nation's cinema.

Built on five years of research, Nightmare USA explores the development of America's subterranean horror film industry, spotlighting some of the wildest films imaginable from an era unchecked by censorship or 'good taste.' Ranging from cult favourites like I Drink Your Blood to stylish mind-benders like Messiah of Evil and shockers like Don't Go in the House, Nightmare USA goes where no other in-depth study has gone before, revealing the fascinating true stories behind classics and obscurities alike. Author Stephen Thrower has explored the attics and cellars of American cinema, delved beneath the floorboards, peered between the walls, searching for the strangest, most exotic cine-lifeforms... Nightmare USA is the reader's guide to what lies beyond the mainstream of American horror, dispelling the shadows to meet the men and women behind fifteen years of screen terror: the Exploitation Independents!

This massive overview of the Horror genre's development through the 1970s and 1980s features: In-depth EXCLUSIVE interviews with twenty-five grindhouse movie makers, many of whom are discussing their work for the first time ever in print, including David Durston (I Drink Your Blood), Robert Endelson (Fight for Your Life), Frederick Friedel (Axe), Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains); and Joseph Ellison (Don't Go in the House). Over 175 individual films reviewed, with full cast and crew credits. Vast quantities of previously unpublished stills, posters, press-books, plus behind-the-scenes photographs from the filmmakers' own collections.

File under: Stephen Thrower FAB Press / UK Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Theory / Essay Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
by Jasper Sharp

2025, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 416 pages, 26 x 19.8 cm
Published by FAB Press / UK

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Back in print at last! Exclusively re-issued in hardcover. First published in 2008, this is the Updated and Amended re-issue of Behind the Pink Curtain, the definitive study of Japan's pinku eiga film genre.

Behind the Pink Curtain takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the country’s distinctive sex film movements.

Jasper Sharp’s definitive study focuses on one of the most notorious sectors of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink Film, or pinku eiga genre, and the closely related Roman Porno films produced by Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988. From the early ’60s onwards major Japanese film studios and independent producers alike have kept up a conveyor belt level of output of pornographic features intended purely for cinema release. Up until the 2010s, just short of 100 such titles were shot on 35mm every year intended for screening in a specialist network of adult cinemas across the nation. Many such films have been released on home video in the West or screened at international film festivals, while a significant number of Japan’s most noted filmmakers today cut their teeth in this industry.

Based on extensive interviews with many of the leading figures in the field, Behind the Pink Curtain is a colourful and exhaustive exposé of Japan’s most vibrant and prolific filmmaking sector.

Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Jasper Sharp is a writer and filmmaker based in the UK and co-founder, with Tom Mes, of Midnight Eye (www.midnighteye.com), the first online resource on Japanese cinema in the English language. His other books include The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film (2003, with Mes), The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011) and The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds (Alchimia, 2015). His doctorate degree from the University of Sheffield was on the subject of 'Japanese Widescreen Cinema: Commerce, Technology and Aesthetics.'

File under: Koji Wakamatsu Masao Adachi Jasper Sharp FAB Press / UK Film / Video Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Counterculture Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Fetishism / BDSM

A Moratorium on New Construction
by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

2026, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 238 pages, 15 x 10.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

To build is to destroy, writes Charlotte Malterre-Barthes. From steel bolts to concrete blocks to wood flooring to polyester insulation panels, every single component of the built environment is the product of extractive processes. Driven by greedy economies, the global enterprise of space production expands, impacting climate, earth, water, humans, and non-humans everywhere. However housing is both a human right and the mandate of design disciplines: How to navigate the need for housing versus the destructive practice of construction?

To pause new construction-even if momentarily, creates a radical thinking framework for alternatives to the current regime of space production and its suspect growth imperative. Engaging with unsettling questions, A Moratorium on New Construction envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock. From housing redistribution to reinviting value generation, from anti-extractive measures to profound structural changes, from curricula reforms to purging the exploitative culture of the office, an entire rewiring of design processes and construction lays ahead. Somewhere between a thought experiment and a call for action, A Moratorium on New Construction is a leap of faith to envision a less extractive future, made of what we have: Not demolishing, not building new, but building less, building with what exists, inhabiting it differently, and caring for it.

File under: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Sternberg Press / Berlin Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

OUT OF ACTIONS: Between Performance and The Object, 1949-1979
by Paul Schimmel

1998, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 31 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, edited by Paul Schimmel, published in 1998. with essays by Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, and Paul Schimmel.

Published to coincide with the first major museum exhibition to examine the complex relationship linking the creative process, action or performance, and works of art in the postwar period. Featuring nearly one hundred and fifty artists and collaboratives from approximately twenty countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and North and South America—including figures associated with the New York School, Nouveaux Realistes, Fluxus, Viennese Actionists, Hi Red Center, Arte Povera, the Gutai group, happenings, process art, and performance art—the exhibition centered on how the possibilities and implications of using time and process as elements of art were realized by a number of international movements during this influential thirty-year period.

Covering three decades of significant and original art, this lavishly illustrated book features work by more than one hundred artists from across the world who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era.

Includes the work of: Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Araeen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Jerzy Beres, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle & Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Rhett Delford Brown, Günter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, VALIE EXPORT, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Jochen Gerz, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Hi Red Center, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maler, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Cusi Masuda, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujín, Jan Mlčoch, Linda Montano, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Hélio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope.L, Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Ságlová, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Štembera, Wolfgang Stöerchle, Jirō Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijević, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, Zaj.

Their work encompasses sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and the ephemera that arises from the performance, as well as documentary film and video stills.

Published in conjunction with a major touring exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process, in essays by acclaimed art historians. Covering an unprecedented range of material, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated.

With 450 illustrations, 200 in colour.

VG copy with light wear and "The Grid" written in red marker on the block side (?).

File under: Joseph Beuys Chris Burden John Cage Lygia Clark Yves Klein John Latham Bruce Nauman Hélio Oiticica Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Robert Rauschenberg Niki de Saint Phalle Carolee Schneemann Atsuko Tanaka Jean Tinguely Marina Abramovič Jerzy Bereś Zorka Saglova Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Rasa Todosijevic Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Araeen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Mark Boyle & Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Rhett Delford Brown Günter Brus James Lee Byars Marc Camille Chaimowicz Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista VALIE EXPORT Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Jochen Gerz Gilbert & George Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Leeson Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Hi Red Center Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Jürgen Klauke Milan Knížák Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maler Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Cusi Masuda Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Marta Minujín Jan Mlčoch Linda Montano Charlotte Moorman Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Orlan Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope.L Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Ora Sherk Shōzō Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Jirō Takamatsu Mark Thompson Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Thames and Hudson / London Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sound / Music Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Dada Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Painting Drawing

Feminist Avant-Garde
Art of the 1970s in the Verbund Collection, Vienna

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 672 pages, 29 x 24 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Now available again in an expanded edition and featuring a variety of work from artists both well-known and under the radar, this volume explores the pioneering achievements of the Feminist Avant-Garde.

For art history, the 1970s represent the beginning of women subverting culturally and socially established constructions and traditional norms. Second-wave feminism, with its slogan "The personal is political", challenged the one-dimensional roles assigned to women--mother, housewife, and spouse. During this period, women artists radically questioned their duties and created a plurality of self-determined representations of themselves. Rejecting traditional male-dominated techniques, such as painting, these artists made use of new media, such as photography, film, video, and performance. The outcome was artwork which was radical, poetic, ironic, bitter, cynical, and heartfelt. This book features more than seventy international female artists, including works by Martha Rosler, Mary Beth Edelson, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, and Ulrike Rosenbach. Editor Gabriele Schor used the term Feminist Avant-Garde in order to emphasize the role that these artists played in the last four decades. This new edition has been enriched with twenty-five new artists–Emma Amos, Dara Birnbaum, Rose English, Natalia LL, among others–as well as up-to-date research on feminist exhibitions, catalogues, and periodicals. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating texts by leading scholars.

Features the work of: Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Annekke Barger, Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Renate Bertlmann, Teresa Burga, Marcella Campagnano, Judy Chicago, Linda Christanell, Lili Dujourie, Mary Beth Edelson, Renate Eisenegger, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Iveković, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justesen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Katalin Ladik, Brigitte Lang, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Karin Mack, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Lorraine O’Grady, Orlan, Gina Pane, Letítia Parente, Ewa Partum, Friederike Pezold, Margot Pilz, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Suzanne Santoro, Carolee Schneemann, Lydia Schouten, Cindy Sherman, Penny Slinger, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter...

File under: Helena Almeida Eleanor Antin Annekke Barger Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Renate Bertlmann Teresa Burga Marcella Campagnano Judy Chicago Linda Christanell Lili Dujourie Mary Beth Edelson Renate Eisenegger Valie Export Esther Ferrer Lynn Hershman Leeson Alexis Hunter Sanja Iveković Birgit Jürgenssen Kirsten Justesen Ketty La Rocca Leslie Labowitz Katalin Ladik Brigitte Lang Suzanne Lacy Suzy Lake Karin Mack Ana Mendieta Rita Myers Lorraine O’Grady Orlan Gina Pane Letítia Parente Ewa Partum Friederike Pezold Margot Pilz Ulrike Rosenbach Martha Rosler Suzanne Santoro Carolee Schneemann Lydia Schouten Cindy Sherman Penny Slinger Annegret Soltau Hannah Wilke Martha Wilson Francesca Woodman Nil Yalter Gabriele Schor Prestel / Munich Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sociology / Politics Gender Studies / Sexuality Photography Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Film / Video

Oriette Wood
Trashvestites

2026, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 20 x 14 cm
Published by Oriette Wood / Naarm

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‘Trashvestites’ is the zombified pursuit of femininity. Contextualised by the trans experience, this mini-zine is an overstuffed sociocultural projection of womanhood put through the apparatus of abjection, vulgarity, and the Monstrous. These collages are digitally torn from cross-dressing forums and soft core porn archives, then soiled and screen-printed in CMYK.

File under: Oriette Wood Oriette Wood / Naarm Eros LGBTQ+ Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Australian Art Posters / Prints

The Station Hill Blanchot Reader
The books of Maurice Blanchot

1999, English
Softcover, 526 pages, 23 x 15 cm
Published by Station Hill Press / Barrytown

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This essential reader from Station Hill (Blanchot’s longtime publisher in the United States) is six books in one, and the first and only collection of Maurice Blanchot’s celebrated fiction and critical/philosophical writing.

Regarded both on the European continent and in America as one of the truly great authors of French Post-Modernism, Blanchot’s reputation and readership in English has already established him as a modern classic. The Blanchot Reader brings together a substantial collection of critical and philosophical writings (The Gaze of Orpheus) and the only edition in print in English of his major works of fiction (Thomas the Obscure, Death Sentence, Vicious Circles, The Madness of the Day, When the Time Comes and The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me). General readers and students alike will seek out these essential works by the writer Susan Sontag referred to as an unimpeachably major voice in modern French literature.

Maurice Blanchot is now recognized as a major twentieth century philosopher whose influence extends to the works of Derrida, Foucault, Levinas, Lacan and others.

File under: Maurice Blanchot Station Hill Press / Barrytown Philosophy Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Philosophy / Psychoanalysis Fiction / Poetry

On the Verge of Nothing: Pessimism’s Impossible Beyond
by Gary J. Shipley

2021, English
Softcover,‎ 202 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia

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"Gary Shipley’s On the Verge of Nothing moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we begin from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley’s ciphers – Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art – pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading On the Verge of Nothing, the primordial philosophical question of “how to live” now takes on contours that are colder, more detached, and yet, somehow, deeply engaged."– Eugene Thacker, author of Infinite Resignation

"Beginning insistently with the end of thought, this panegyric of the pointless offers a withering post-pessimistic ethics and aesthetics of diversionary tactics for life in the void. Territories traversed include dreams and delusions, the limits and purpose of self-consciousness, human animality, and the paradox of feeling-thinking. Gary J Shipley’s lucid, often pitiless diagnoses; rigorous, informed, and tight arguments; bons mots and essential apercus – larded with a rich compost of quotation (Pessoa, Lispector, Cioran, Kafka, etc.) – pursue a relentless thrashing of thought, sketching both a Bartlett’s and a Baedeker of our inevitable doom. These essays, aphorisms, fragments, and quotations have been shored not against but amidst ruin. Experimental, exploratory soundings and performances, a fantasia for the end of the world: this word horde is an essential drug for addicts of the impossible."–Stuart Kendall, author of Georges Bataille

"Pessimism is the tenor of our times, even if it is rarely fully embraced. Gary J. Shipley’s important book not only embraces pessimism, it offers a way to make life liveable not in the modality of morose resignation, but with enthusiasm. This is an achievement, even for pessimists who regard all achievement as ultimately futile."–Scott Wilson, author of The Order of Joy (from the Foreword)

File under: Gary J. Shipley Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Philosophy Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

The Moon Down To Earth: A Novel
by James Nulick

2026, English
Softcover, 284 pages, 20.5 x 13 cm
Published by Anxiety Press / Chicago

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Beautiful people always get what they want.

Elizabeth Salas, single, middle-aged, and mostly confined to her room, lives in a faceless city in the American Southwest. She has little hope for the future. And then a young man named Jace Jason walks through the door…

Epic in scope, The Moon Down to Earth is filled with living, breathing characters rarely seen in modern novels today.

Look no further for the great American novel. James Nulick has lusted, labored and agonized to deliver just that. The Moon Down to Earth does more to remind us what the form is capable of than any in recent memory. With its almost unbearably intimate and probing portrayals of its richly inhabited characters, through their rolling, cascading thoughts, Nulick situates us in their deepest interiors and implicates us in their crimes. Río Seco is a Hispanic neighborhood in North Hill, a barrio evocative of the essence of the American Southwest. Moon follows eight coexisting lives as they navigate the quotidian and confront uncomfortable truths about themselves and the world, our world, which their humanity must reckon with. It so completely submerges us in the milieux that you can smell the dirt and desert dust. It never objectifies, never panders, it interrogates and provokes, it’s the kind of book that’ll light up parts of your brain you haven’t used in a very long time. It’s an experience like no other which will jolt a reader into recognition of what it is to be alive and human in 21st century America, with all its dimmed promises and tragic dimensions, its numbing vibrations, ebbings and flowings, its coruscating, convulsing noise and seductively unspeakable pinched nerve promises. Mystifying in its testament to our universal condition with respect to alien longings, Moon may as well have been programmed by an extraterrestrial on an ancient technology in some lost future long ago. Intoxicating and hallucinatory, The Moon Down to Earth stimulates in such a way as to lay bare everything you’re hiding. It reads you as you read it. Don’t miss this singular experience of sharing time on this rock together and alone. Nulick has put it all here in this extraordinary feat of revelation, defiant in its sensitivity and tireless determination to challenge the limits of writing.

Novels need human beings, and if there’s something James Nulick’s novel The Moon Down to Earth has, it is human beings, in all their multifold, messy complexity. By the end I felt as if I knew them intimately, from their musical tastes to the smell of their pillows. These desperate women and men aren’t just living on the edge, they’re dissolving in the singularity, the lapsarian wasteland of 21st century America, but Nulick allows a frail, fungal numinosity to glow through the cracks.—James Champagne, author of Harlem Smoke

James Nulick’s writing is tender and knowing as he explores, in The Moon Down to Earth, the inner lives of outsiders, the longings and disappointments, the fantasy and reality of pure quotidian existence. It is achingly beautiful in its description of the desires and disappointments of the neglected and the invisible.—Steve Finbow, author of The Mindshaft

James Nulick’s The Moon Down to Earth is a multi-narrative, unconventional, exciting novel in the spirit of William T. Vollmann—moving, sad, and at times, humorous. The Moon Down to Earth gives us hope for the future of the American novel.—Brandon Hobson, author of The Removed

In The Moon Down to Earth, the definitions of conventional beauty and acceptable desire are ripped open and turned inside out. James Nulick’s characters felt utterly alive to me. This is a fantastic novel that will stay with me a long time.—Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else

With The Moon Down to Earth, James Nulick has succeeded in crafting some of the most perfectly sublime stand-alone sentences I have ever seen in a modern American novel.—Mike Kleine, author of Kanley Stubrick

James Nulick’s prose in The Moon Down to Earth is extraordinary, once harsh and tender, flaying and consoling, yet also enlivened by wit and erudition. The results are deeply revealing of the body’s incantatory rhythms, the somatic thought-forms. In this manner he delves with his reader to the limit of his characters’ souls.—Jonathan Lethem

The Moon Down to Earth is a hypnotic and frightening exploration of psychosis, though not without moments of strange warmth and tenderness. The hopes and desires of its various narrators—a bed-ridden social worker, a cosmos-minded pizza courier, a widower thirsting for sex and death—twist out toward each other like the tips of fractals before curling inward and collapsing. Here, Nulick beautifully captures the sheer psychedelia of human existence, and the myriad ways we devour each another.—B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space

There is a sentence in James Nulick’s The Moon Down to Earth that I copied by hand so I could practice writing something more beautiful than I am currently capable of.—Christopher Zeischegg, author of The Magician

File under: James Nulick Anxiety Press / Chicago Fiction / Poetry

Valencia
by James Nulick

2015, English
Softcover, 302 pages, 12.7 x 20.32 cm
Published by Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia

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A man checks into a hotel in a Mediterranean city on the banks of the Turia. He is far from home. He holds few possessions. Enough clothing for a week, money for drink. A few essential paperbacks, a cigar box of old photographs. He intends to commit suicide. But somewhere along the way he gets lost in the churn of memory.

Valencia is an elegiac and hallucinatory meditation on beauty, loss, and how memory is deceitful, even when photographs are involved.

The things we carry come from an infinite sadness. That sadness is the death of childhood.

Did you ever stumble across a writer who seems to have lived your life and inhabited your dreams, your darkest moods? This happened to me, and I hope it will happen to you as you read through the mesmerizing pages of James Nulick’s Valencia… Nulick has inherited, from Zola, from Celine, from Burroughs maybe, something of the sweetness that lingers when everything extant has died of rot. His book will live forever in the literature of truth and waste.—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle

The prose of Valencia is delicately simple yet densely poetic. Its voice is haunting. I couldn’t help being reminded by every line I read in James Nulick’s novel of Garcia Lorca’s famous “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias” and its chilling refrain: At five o’clock in the afternoon.—Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy against the Human Race

File under: James Nulick Nine-Banded Books / West Virginia Fiction / Poetry

Kickstand
by James Nulick

2025, English
Softcover, 478 pages, 20.5 x 13 cm
Published by Anxiety Press / Chicago

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Kickstand assembles all of James Nulick’s short fiction into one handsome volume, made widely available for the very first time. Includes the new stories King Richard, Kickstand, and The Gift.

"Deceptively symphonic, unafraid."—Blake Butler

"A mashup of Nabokov and Larry Clark."—Emily Drabinski, OUT

"The North American Julio Cortázar."—Matías Bragagnolo

"A writer's writer."—Dennis Cooper

"A refined literary dark horse."—Gabriel Hart, Los Angeles Review of Books

File under: James Nulick Anxiety Press / Chicago Fiction / Poetry

Landscape Within Landscape

2026, English
Softcover, 316 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by And Other Stories / UK

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Now published for the first time outside of Australia, Landscape with Landscape was Gerald Murnane’s fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. It offers a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, ‘The Battle of Acosta Nu’, is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes.

File under: Gerald Murnane And Other Stories / UK Australian Fiction Fiction / Poetry

SHATTERED FORMS: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism
by Allen S. Weiss

1992, English
Softcover, 158 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by State University of New York Press / New York

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Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement and dissociation that inspired both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became the object of the new art - experimental, avant-garde, modernist - which arose from the fragmented codes, the shattered forms of everyday communication. But what of those artists whose works, and often whose deliria, are the manifestations of sheer eccentricity, of social isolation and marginalization, or of madness? In this book Weiss investigates the origins of the unrestricted contemporary artistic field, seeking its sources in those works hitherto absent from the official histories of art - works that constitute art's dark interior, its disturbing netherworld. Secluded, occluded, excluded, Art Brut nevertheless extends the limits of artistic creativity and aesthetic discourse, regardless of whatever anxieties such works may produce. Shattered Forms explores the relations between Art Brut, the psychopathology of expression, and avant-garde Modernism, attempting to show how the consideration of Art Brut should lead to a revision of our theoretical and museological paradigms.

Illustrated throughout with works by Rosemarie Koczy, Pascal Maisonneuve, Michel Nedjar, Vojislav Jakić, Oswald Tschirtner, Philipp Schöpke, "Max," Michel Nedjar, Katherina, Adolf Wölfli, August Neter, Comte de Tromelin.

Allen S. Weiss is a writer, translator, editor, and curator in the fields of Aesthetics, Art History, Cinema Studies, and Comparative Literature. He edited Art Brut: Madness and Marginalia (a special issue of Art & Text); co-edited Psychosis and Sexual Identity and Portraits from the Outside: Figurative Expression in Outsider Art; and wrote The Aesthetics of Excess, published by SUNY Press.

Very Good copy, light age.

File under: Rosemarie Koczy Pascal Maisonneuve Michel Nedjar Vojislav Jakić Oswald Tschirtner Philipp Schöpke Max Katherina Adolf Wölfli August Neter Comte de Tromelin Allen S. Weiss State University of New York Press / New York Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Philosophy Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
by Katherine Park

2010, English
Softcover, 424 pages, 23 x 15.24 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian physicians and surgeons began to open human bodies in order to study their functions and the illnesses that afflicted them, culminating in the great illustrated anatomical treatise of Andreas Vesalius, in 1543.

Katharine Park traces these two closely related developments through a series of case studies of women whose bodies were dissected after their deaths: an abbess, a lactating virgin, several patrician wives and mothers, and an executed criminal. Drawing on texts and images, she explores the history of women’s bodies in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries in the context of family identity, religious observance, and women’s health care.

Secrets of Women explodes the myth that medieval religious prohibitions hindered the practice of human dissection in medieval and Renaissance Italy, arguing that female bodies, real and imagined, played a central role in the history of anatomy during that time. The opened corpses of holy women revealed sacred objects, while the opened corpses of wives and mothers yielded crucial information about where babies came from and about the forces that shaped their vulnerable flesh.

“It will radically change the way we think about the (male) history of the anatomized body.” –Nature
In the process, what male writers knew as the “secrets of women” came to symbolize the most difficult challenges posed by human bodies — challenges that dissection promised to overcome. Thus Park demonstrates the centrality of gender to the development of early modern anatomy through a study of women’s bodies and men’s attempts to know them and, through them, to know their own.

Winner of the 2007 History of Science Society Rossiter Prize and the 2009 American Association for the History of Medicine Welch Medal.

“Park’s meticulously documented book is medical historiography at its best … . She has shed light on a notion — ‘the secrets of women’ — that should have long ago been recognized as deserving far more attention than has been paid to it.” —The New Republic

“Park’s book will undoubtedly prove to be an important contribution to the history of anatomy. For the first time, it extensively discusses the history of anatomy from the viewpoint of the corpse and, because of its particular focus on women’s bodies, it will radically change the way we think about the (male) history of the anatomized body.” —Nature

“This is a fascinating and astute discussion with an exciting thesis, taking the subject of dissection out of the medical school and situating it origins in practices of everyday life.” —Times Literary Supplement

File under: Katherine Park Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Gender Studies / Sexuality Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

1968, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Olympia Press / New York

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Very rare 1st Olympia Press edition of S.C.U.M by Valerie Solanas, published in New York shortly after her arrest for the shooting of Andy Warhol.

"Warhol...the ultimate voyeur...felled by S.C.U.M...."–Time

S.C.U.M Manifesto is a legendary radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms first published in 1967 as a mimeographed edition of 2,000 copies. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of S.C.U.M, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol by shooting him at The Factory in 1968. This event brought significant public attention to the Manifesto and Solanas herself.

Published by the legendary French publisher Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press, with a foreword by Girodias, and a commentary by Paul Krassner.

VG copy with no spine creases, well–bound, light wear to board extremities, toned pulp pages. An uncommonly well preserved copy.

File under: Valerie Solanas Paul Krassner Maurice Girodias Olympia Press / New York Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

S.C.U.M Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas

1971, English
Softcover, 52 pages, 18 x 12 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Olympia Press / Paris

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Rare 1st Olympia Press UK edition of S.C.U.M by Valerie Solanas.

S.C.U.M Manifesto is a legendary radical feminist manifesto by Valerie Solanas, a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms first published in 1967 as a mimeographed edition of 2,000 copies. It argues that men have ruined the world, and that it is up to women to fix it. To achieve this goal, it suggests the formation of S.C.U.M, an organization dedicated to overthrowing society and eliminating the male sex. The Manifesto was little-known until Solanas attempted to murder Andy Warhol by shooting him at The Factory in 1968. This event brought significant public attention to the Manifesto and Solanas herself.

This edition was published when legendary French publisher Maurice Girodias’ Olympia Press briefly relocated to Britain and came out the year Solanas’ left prison for attempted murder.

With a foreword by publisher Maurice Girodias and an introduction by radical feminist critic and essayist, Vivian Gornick.

VG some general light wear.

File under: Valerie Solanas Vivian Gornick Maurice Girodias Olympia Press / Paris Feminism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Thus Were Their Faces
by Silvina Ocampo

2015, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 13 x 20.5 cm
Published by The New York Review of Books / New York

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Introduction by Helen Oyeyemi
A new translation from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston
Preface by Jorge Luis Borges

Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writer “better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Jorge Luis Borges flatly declared, “Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature.”

Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world’s most individual and finest.

"She lived a little in the shadow of her sister Victoria on the one hand and of her husband Bioy Casares and Borges on the other. She was an extravagant woman when writing her stories, short and crystalline, she was perfect."—Cesar Aira

"Ocampo wrote with fascinated horror of Argentinean petty bourgeois society, whose banality and kitsch settings she used in a masterly way to depict strange, surreal atmospheres sometimes verging on the supernatural."—The Independent

"Few writers have an eye for the small horrors of everyday life; fewer still see the everyday marvelous. Other than Silvina Ocampo, I cannot think of a single writer who, at any time or in any language, has chronicled both with such wise and elegant humor."—Alberto Manguel

"Silvina Ocampo is, together with Borges and Garcia Marquez, the leading writer in Spanish."—Jorge Amado

File under: Jorge-Luis Borges Silvina Ocampo Helen Oyeyemi The New York Review of Books / New York Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Paris Peasant
By Louis Aragon

2011, English
Softcover, 228 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Published by Exact Change / Boston

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Translated and with an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor.

Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author.

Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, “a mythology of the modern.” The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: café menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire.

André Breton wrote of this work: “no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city. . . .”

File under: Louis Aragon Simon Watson Taylor Exact Change / Boston Fiction / Poetry Surrealism

Story of The Eye
by George Bataille

1979, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 127 pages, 13.5 x 22 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Marion Boyars / London

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Wonderful first English hardcover edition of George Bataille's Story of the Eye, published by Marion Boyars, London, in 1979. Translated by Joachim Neugroschal with accompanying essays by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes.

"The caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing." - G.B.

A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. Called a "metaphysician of evil, Bataille wrote the 1928 novella "Story of the Eye (French: L'histoire de l'œil) as a psychoanalytical task. In this explicit erotic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye', which was first published in Bataille's own journal Critique, shortly after Bataille's death in 1962. Barthes' analysis focuses on the centrality of the eye to this series of vignettes, and notices that it is interchangeable with eggs, bulls' testicles and other ovular objects within the narrative. He also traces a second series of liquid metaphors within the text, which flow through tears, cat's milk, egg yolks, frequent urination scenes, blood and semen.

Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death.

Good—VG ex-libris copy with light library wear to end blanks, small stamp to colophon in original G—VG dust jacket, no library markings, preserved under mylar wrap. Scarce in this edition with dust jacket present. General reading wear and tanning with age. There is a fierce feminist critique of Susan Sontag's essay in the margins that is an isolated attack Sontag. The rest is left unscathed.

File under: Georges Bataille Susan Sontag Roland Barthes Marion Boyars / London Surrealism Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry

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