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Flower Slave, August 1984
Treasured Queen Edition / Namio Harukawa's World

1984, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 100 pages, 26 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Sanwa / Tokyo

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Very rare special August 1984 issue of Flower Slave, with cover feature "Namio Harukawa's World". This gorgeous, over-sized gloss cult fetish magazine published by Sanwa, Tokyo, is devoted entirely to "The Queen", sadistic mistresses and dominatrix goddesses of femdom enlightenment — packed from cover to cover with saturated full-colour photographic Japanese femdom shoots of many varieties, including western reproductions, Japanese queen profiles, illustrated fetish stories, video features, and amazing pictorial instructional male torture articles. This special issue is also a major early publication celebrating the world of femdom master illustrator Namio Harukawa, including his original cover and dust jacket artwork and lavish colour fold-outs of his incredible illustrations. The whole magazine embodying Harukawa's erotic fantasy world, this title has become an important part of his published history.

Namio Harukawa (1947—2020), a pseudonymous Japanese fetish artist best known for his masterful pencil works depicting female domination ("femdom"), with erotic asphyxiation through facesitting appearing as a frequent subject of his art. Born 1947 in Osaka, Japan, Harukawa’s distinctive penname combines the name of film actress Harukawa Masumi with an anagram of Naomi, the sadistic heroine in Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s novel "Chijin no ai / A Fool’s Love". While in high school, Harukawa began contributing work to the readers’ column of leading postwar Japanese SM pulp magazine "Kitan Club". Since then, Harukawa’s drawings of male masochism have lovingly portrayed noble, voluptuously beautiful women and the men who serve them as human furniture. An extraordinary and prolific artist who remained committed to the regime of “absolute Ganmen Kijo Shugi (facesitting principle)” throughout his artistic life, Namio Harukawa passed away on April 2020, he was 72 years old.

Very Good copy in illustrated dust jacket.

File under: Namio Harukawa Sanwa / Tokyo Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

SM Kitan September 1977

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

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SM Kitan September 1977 issue. A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was the SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. This issue features the work of some of the best names in Japanese SM art. Regular contributors included Ran Akiyoshi, Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

File under: Sun Publishing / Japan Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Japanese Photography Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

SM Kitan October 1977

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

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SM Kitan October 1977 issue. A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was the SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. This issue features the work of some of the best names in Japanese SM art. Regular contributors included Ran Akiyoshi, Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

File under: Sun Publishing / Japan Periodicals Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

SM Kitan November 1977

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Publishing / Japan

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SM Kitan November 1977 issue. A cult classic of vintage Japanese BDSM and Kinbaku (Japanese bondage), SM Kitan was the SM magazine published by the great Sun Publishing house, and was formerly known as S&M Abhunter (changing its name to SM Kitan from August 1975). Heavy with wonderful artwork galleries in colour and bw, glossy bondage photo-features, illustrated fetish fiction, manga, fold-outs, and much more. This issue features the work of some of the best names in Japanese SM art. Regular contributors included Ran Akiyoshi, Sotaro Aki, Tadao Chigusa, Namio Harukawa, Yoko Ozuma, Reiko Kita, Akiyoshi Akiyoshi, Hakuzan Shiraishi, Shoji Oki, Namio Harukawa, Akira Kasuga, and Gekko Hayashi (Gojin Ishihara).

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

File under: Sun Publishing / Japan Eros Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Periodicals Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser

2025, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 480 pages, 24.2 x 16.7 cm
Published by Penguin Putnam / New York

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'Haunting, elegant and fiercely intelligent'—OBSERVER
'A great writer can make art of the most grotesque material, and Fraser does'—WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Lyrically luminescent'—NEW YORK TIMES

A terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

As Murderland indelibly maps the lives and careers of Bundy and his infamous peers in mayhem—the Green River Killer, the I-5 Killer, the Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler, even Charles Manson—Fraser’s Northwestern death trip begins to uncover a deeper mystery and an overlapping pattern of environmental destruction. At ground zero in Ted Bundy’s Tacoma stood one of the most poisonous lead, copper, and arsenic smelters in the world, but it was hardly unique in the West. As Fraser’s investigation inexorably proceeds, evidence mounts that the plumes of these smelters not only sickened and blighted millions of lives but also warped young minds, including some who grew up to become serial killers.

A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.

'Breathlessly propulsive . . . Fraser's prose is lyrical, elegiac'—JOYCE CAROL OATES, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

'Extraordinarily well-written and genre-defying . . . a moody masterpiece'—NEW YORKER

'Murderland reads like a true crime thriller'—SUNDAY TIMES

File under: Caroline Fraser Penguin Putnam / New York Crime / Violence Theory / Essay

The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment
by Christopher Hibbert

1963, English
Softcover, 558 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Penguin Books / London

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First 1963 softcover edition.

From the burning of witches and the disembowelling of traitors...
The long, lurid story of crime, detection, conviction, and punishment; of murder as a lust and murder as a trade; of mutilation, torture, lynching, and flogging; of guillotine, gallows, and gas; of outlaws in the forest and gangsters in the streets; of police work, from Vidocq to Scotland Yard and the F.B.I.; of trial by ordeal and trial by jury; and of the slow, measured steps of progress and reform
...to forensic science and prisons without bars

Good copy with light general wear/age/toning.

File under: Christopher Hibbert Penguin Books / London Crime / Violence Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare

The Screwball Asses and Other Texts
by Christian Maurel

2025, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 17.7 x 11.4 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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A foundational work of queer theory.

First published anonymously in the notorious "Three Billion Perverts" issue of Félix Guattari's journal Recherches—banned by French authorities upon its release in 1973—The Screwball Asses was erroneously attributed to Guy Hocquenghem when it was first published in English in 2009. This second edition of that translation, with a new preface by Hocquenghem biographer Antoine Idier that clarifies the different theoretical positions within France's Front Homosexuel d'Action Révolutionaire, returns the text to its true author: writer, journalist, and activist Christian Maurel.

In this dramatic treatise on erotic desire, Maurel takes on the militant delusions and internal contradictions of the gay-liberation movement. He vivisects not only the stifled mores of bourgeois capitalism, but also the phallocratic concessions of so-called homophiles and, ultimately, the very act of speaking desire. Rejecting any “pure theory” of homosexuality that would figure its “otherness” as revolutionary, Maurel contends that the ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process. It is only when nondesire and the desire of desire are enacted simultaneously through speech and body that homosexuality can finally be sublimated under the true act of “making love.” There are thousands of sexes on earth, according to Maurel, but only one sexual desire. The Screwball Asses is a revelatory disquisition.

Introduction by Antoine Idier
Translated by Noura Wedell

File under: Guy Hocquenghem Antoine Idier Noura Wedell Christian Maurel Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Eros Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

Katan Amano
Katan Doll Retrospective

1992, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 23.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Treville / Tokyo

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Scarce first hardcover edition of Katan Amano's collection of works, published by Treville in Japan in 1992. Japanese doll and puppet artist Katan Amano (1953—1990) is well known in Japan for her tender and haunting doll works. Amano was staff at Tokyo's Pygmalion Doll Studio in the 1980's and during her short life created a universe of Hans Bellmer and Alice inspired dolls. These elegantly beautiful, otherworldly ball-jointed children are Amano's vehicles for an arresting and primal vision. She died in 1990 in a motorcycle accident. This gorgeous book is lavishly illustrated with the finest examples of her award-winning dolls shot by her collaborator Ryoichi Yoshida. In addition to her incredible doll works, the book also features her Hieronymus Bosch and Lewis Carroll inspired sculptural creatures, grotesque-baroque objects and dark fantasy paintings, all lavishly reproduced on gloss stock. A small amount of text in Japanese.

Near Fine copy in NF dust jacket.

File under: Katan Amano Ryoichi Yoshida Treville / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction

Trevor Brown
Alice

2010, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 80 pages,‎ 20.8 x 24.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo

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First 2010 hardcover edition, long out-of-print. Brown's art book published by Treville on the occasion of the Alice Exhibition with Trevor Brown and doll artist Yuriko Yamayoshi, 31 March-11 April 2010 at the Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo. This collection of Brown's uniquely perverse, disturbing and now iconic paintings revolves around the theme of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Published only in Japan, where the English artist has resided since 1994.

Trevor Brown (b. 1959) is an illusive and prolific artist who's work explores paraphilias, such as lolicon, ero guro, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence and violence collide in Brown's confronting images. Early features on his art appeared in Adam Parfrey's Apocalypse Culture II, Shade Rupe's Funeral Party 2, and in Jim Goad's ANSWER Me! zine, garnering him wide notoriety across the provocative underground publishing scene of the 1980s—90s. He's contributed artwork to many album covers of Whitehouse, Coil, John Zorn, and many more, illustrated for Coup de Grace, an edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Der Antichrist, the covers of Timeless magazine, and more recently illustrated the cover of the Gothic & Lolita Bible (a subculture in which Brown has many dedicated fans) in Japan, where the the artist has lived since 1994 and where his work has been published in many art book editions.

VG copy, some light wear, block-edge markings.

Alice Exhibition with Yuriko Yamayoshi

http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/gallery/100331alice/index.html

31 March-11 April 2010 at the Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, TOKYO

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Publication date
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Editions Treville
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 March 2010
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4309908683
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-4309908687
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 466 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.8 x 24.8 x 1.4 cm

File under: Trevor Brown Treville / Tokyo Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Three Fantasies
by John Cowper Powys

1985, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 186 pages, 22.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Carcanet Press / Manchester

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With an afterword by Glen Cavaliero. First 1985 hardcover edition of this collection of three stories, "juvenilia of John Cowper Powys' old age", all of which are hitherto unprinted. Three stories make use of surrealism to tell the tales of two armchairs, the strange people of the Go Peninsula, and Yok Pok and his younger sister.

John Cowper Powys (1862-1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929.

VG copy. VG DJ light wear.

File under: John Cowper Powys Carcanet Press / Manchester Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare

Maiden Castle
by John Cowper Powys

1966, English
Hardcover, 500 pages, 20 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / average
Published by Macdonald / London

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1966 hardcover edition of Powys' Maiden Castle, the fourth in the series of novels called 'the only novels produced by an English writer that can be fairly compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky' (—George Steiner, The New Yorker), published by Macdonald, London.

Extravagant, exuberant and introspective, 'Maiden Castle' reveals characters that struggle with perplexities of love, desire and faith while the looming fortress of Maiden Castle exerts an otherworldy force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives. '[Powys] gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, enduring courage' - Henry Miller

John Cowper Powys (1862-1963) was an English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929.

Average-Good copy. Foxing/marking to block edges and cover, otherwise Good throughout. Remnants of poor dust jacket inserted.

File under: John Cowper Powys Macdonald / London Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry

Fetish Fashion
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1990, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 206 pages, 13.6 cm x 19.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Seikyūsha / Tokyo

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First hardcover edition of "Fetish Fashion", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1990, an in-depth exploration of the eroticisation and transformation of the body through fetish fashion that revolutionised the world of sexuality, from SM Bizarre, Transvestism, Rubber/latex, mistresses and dominatrixes, bondage clubs, male and female castration, restraints, piercing, the fascist artificial body, medical fetish/medical art (including Romain Slocombe), and much more, all subjects illustrated in b/w. Merzbow is a noise project created in Tokyo, Japan in 1979 under the direction of noise technician Masami Akita. As well as a legendary underground noise artist, Akita is a prolific writer in Japan and frequently writes on the arts, music, erotica, esoterica, modern architecture, and animal rights, with articles on emerging subcultures and underground extreme cultures appearing in publications like SM Sniper, Studio Voice and Fool's Mate. His development of the Merzbow aesthetic ran parallel with a series of investigative books in which he catalogued and introduced a vast amount of hermetic types of music, sexual practices and autonomous creativity to a fairly conservative (but not close-minded) Japanese audience. "Fetish Fashion" is one of these very books.

First edition, Japanese text, fine copy with fine illustrated dust jacket.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Art Sound / Music Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fashion Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Eros LGBTQ+

Sadao Hasegawa
Paradise Visions

1996, Japanese
Softcover, 84 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Kochi Studio / Japan

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First edition of the incredible and exceptionally rare and collectible book on Japanese artist Sadao Hasegawa's (1945—1999) amazing male nude erotic artwork — a blend of fantasy, Asian folklore, and the homoeroticism of Yukio Mishima. Beautifully designed and printed, fully illustrated from cover to cover on heavy stock paper with metallic detailing, this long out-of-print monographic volume was the only book collection to be published only years before Hasegawa’s suicide in 1999, and has become a treasure to collector's ever since. Inspired by Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima, beauty, eroticism and death are recurring themes in Hasegawa’s work, his unique vision incorporating Japanese, Indian, South-East Asian and African mythology, combined with homo-erotic depictions of hyper-masculine men, in acts of BDSM, juxtaposed with lush tropical flowers, strings of pearls, birds and animals that float through the margins of dreamy, ecstatic scenes. Hasegawa cited Tom of Finland, photographer Tamotsu Yato and his travels to Bali and Thailand as influences on his work.

Perfect As New copy, beautifully preserved.

File under: Sadao Hasegawa Kochi Studio / Japan Eros Drawing Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Painting Art LGBTQ+

Sadao Hasegawa
1978—1983

2014, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Gallery Naruyama / Tokyo

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Rare Japanese softcover catalogue on Japanese artist Sadao Hasegawa's (1945—1999) amazing homo-erotic artwork — a blend of fantasy, Asian folklore, sado-masochism, and the homoeroticism of Yukio Mishima. Published by Gallery Naruyama in 2014 on the occasion of a survey of Hasegawa's technicolour works spanning 1978—1983, profusely illustrated on gloss stock with only text a short biography. features 48 artworks, many unpublished elsewhere.

Inspired by Nobel Prize nominee Yukio Mishima, beauty, eroticism and death are recurring themes in the self-taught Hasegawa’s work. His unique vision incorporates Japanese, Indian, South-East Asian and African mythology, combined with homo-erotic depictions of men in acts of sado-masochism, juxtaposed with lush tropical flowers, strings of pearls, birds and animals that float through the margins of dreamy, ecstatic scenes. After Hasegawa’s suicide in Bangkok, Thailand, in 1999, his family was going to dispose of the artists archive but discovered a portrait of Mishima painted on a stone, accompanied by a note requesting that the works be bequeathed to Gallery Naruyama, Tokyo, where the artist’s estate is today.

"When I was a child, I was alone with kūsō (daydreams and wild imagination). Always I went to the fields and the woods. I liked talking to animals and plants. In my imagination, I changed into birds and insects and flowers... These childhood experiences are the basis for my pictures." Sadao Hasegawa (In Touch for Men)

Good—Very Good with light cover wear and pinching to spine.

File under: Sadao Hasegawa Gallery Naruyama / Tokyo LGBTQ+ Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Eros

Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music
by Nicolas Ballet

2025, English
Softcover, 640 pages, 24 x 16.99 cm
Published by Intellect Ltd / US

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Industrial music has long been recognized for its sonic innovations, but the radical visual culture that accompanied this underground movement has remained largely unexplored. Shock Factory: The Visual Culture of Industrial Music presents the first comprehensive examination of how industrial artists created a coherent aesthetic language across multiple media—from xerox art and mail art to installation and performance—fundamentally challenging modernist utopias while prophetically anticipating contemporary discourse about media manipulation and technological control.

Emerging in mid-1970s Britain from the post-punk underground before expanding globally throughout the 1980s, artists like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Test Dept, Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Coil, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, Whitehouse, Merzbow, Hijokaidan, Hunting Lodge, Controlled Bleeding, Hafler Trio, Z'EV, Nocturnal Emissions, 23 Skidoo, Clock DVA, Master/Slave Relationship, and Monte Cazazza developed sophisticated visual strategies that matched their abrasive soundscapes with equally confrontational imagery.

At 640 pages, this award-winning monograph reveals how industrial artists systematically appropriated reprographic techniques—particularly xerox art and photocollage—to create disturbing visual narratives investigating mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry, and totalitarianism. Through détournement strategies borrowed from Situationist theory, they exposed the coercive mechanisms of mass media and technological society, creating a visual vocabulary that challenged viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about modern power structures. What emerges is a movement that perceptively anticipated contemporary concerns about surveillance, media manipulation, and collective psychological control. Industrial artists' exploration of these themes through deliberately provocative imagery served not as mere provocation but as sophisticated critique of the very media systems they inhabited. Their radical aesthetic choices—degraded reproduction quality, found imagery manipulation, shock tactics—created hybrid forms that defied traditional categorization while establishing independent networks that bypassed conventional art world structures.

Shock Factory positions industrial music's visual culture within broader art historical narratives, revealing connections to Dada, Surrealism, and conceptual art while demonstrating the movement's unique contributions to contemporary visual culture. The book arrives at a moment when questions about technology, media manipulation, and social control have never been more urgent, demonstrating how these artists' radical visual strategies continue to offer valuable insights for our digital age.

For scholars of contemporary art, music history, and media studies, this book provides essential documentation of an overlooked movement that significantly influenced subsequent artistic developments. For readers interested in underground culture and avant-garde aesthetics, Shock Factory reveals the sophisticated visual thinking that accompanied one of the most innovative musical movements of the past half-century.

"A history of industrial music needed to be written. Nicolas Ballet has accomplished this. Thoroughly. This is the book's greatest strength. It explores the significance of noise as a reflection of a world in decay and screaming as a need. And doing it so it reveals a significant connection between industrial music and contemporary art. This is also what makes it an essential book: its contribution to dismantling categories and rethinking history from mixed creative territories."—David G. Torres

Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and assistant curator at the Centre Pompidou in the New Media Department. He is the author of books and articles exploring the visual and sonic contributions of countercultures and experimental artistic practices.

File under: Nicolas Ballet Intellect Ltd / US Sound / Music Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Fetishism / BDSM Surrealism Dada Occult / Esoterica Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Eros Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Even When It Makes No Sense — The Broken Flag Story
by Steve Underwood

2024, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 224 x 17 cm
Published by Korm Plastics / Netherlands

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English cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary interest was radical music, noise and power electronics. They first released music by label boss Gary Mundy’s project, Ramleh, but later also by Le Syndicat, MB, Controlled Bleeding, Giancarlo Toniutti and various Mundy solo projects.

Steve Underwood’s text appeared in a 2010 magazine, As Loud As Possible, but it is expanded here with additional interviews; updates; a reprint of two issues of Broken Flag’s fanzine, Even When It Makes No Sense; and reproductions of many of the label’s cassette covers.

File under: Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Ramleh Kleistwah Gary Mundy Mauthausen Orchestra Swastika Kommando Controlled Bleeding Uncommunity Giancarlo Toniutti Le Syndicat Irritant Toll Ferial Confine Sigillum S. Agog Con-Dom Skullflower Steve Underwood Korm Plastics / Netherlands Sound / Music Art

As Loud As Possible 1
The Noise Culture Magazine

2010, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by As Loud As Possible / UK

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Quickly out-of-print, inaugural and solitary volume of the UK noise music magazine, As Loud As Possible, published in 2010 and edited by Chris Sienko and Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound). Not surprisingly an instant collector's item, this first ambitious issue (names after the Incapacitants 1995 album) is packed with articles, interviews and reviews with both "seminal and newly emerging sound artists that specialize in atonal sonic brutality." Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Broken Flag (Maurizio Bianchi, Unkommuniti, Mauthausen Orchestra, Satori, Controlled Bleeding, Irritant, JFK, Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.), Con-Dom Sigillum S, Agog, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vortex Campaign, Le Syndicat, Krang....), No Fun, Putrefier, Sewer Election, The Haters, The Rita / Sam McKinlay, Zone Nord / Jean-Luc Angles (Blowhole, Prick Decay, Small Cruel Party), Cheapmachines, Climax Denial, Interchange fanzine, Alien Brains / Storm Bugs / Anti-Messthetics, and much more...

Contents: “Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock: “Artaud, Aktionkunst, Abreaction and Eb.er” : texts by Alice Kemp, accompanied by new drawings from Rudolf Eb.er, and a detailed “Aktiongraphy”; The Broken Flag Story: An extensive indepth interview with Gary Mundy, covering the career of Ramleh, the complete output of his legendary Broken Flag record label, and also featuring new interviews with the artists responsible for those releases, including: Maurizio Bianchi, Unkommuniti, Mauthausen Orchestra, Satori, Controlled Bleeding, Irritant, JFK, Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.), Con-Dom Sigillum S, Agog, Giancarlo Toniutti, Vortex Campaign, Le Syndicat, Krang and many more, plus unseen artwork and photographs; No Fun: Festival curator Carlos Giffoni talk about the New York festival's past, present and future, and covers his work with the No Fun Productions label. The Politics of HNW: The Rita’s Sam McKinlay talks about the obsessive nature of the harsh-head. Includes a list of Sam's essential Wall Noise picks spanning the past two decades. An excellent introduction to wall-riding; 30 Years of The Haters: G.X. Jupitter - Larsen provides a personal history, as well as a delineation of his ideas, methods, and tricks accrued over three decades. The inside story from the man who has made entropy his life's work. Putrefier: An interview with Mark Durgan, covering his twenty years in the UK's wilderness, from Birthbiter's heyday to the present-day. Includes reminiscences from Andy Bolus about their infamous duo project, Olympic Shit Man! Sewer Election: Sweden's loudest, Dan Johansson talks about his music, ideas, art and running a tape label. Interview by Mikko Aspa of Grunt; Zone Nord: An album -by- album look at the discography of this retired French noise legend, including brief commentary from Mr Zone Nord himself, Jean-Luc Angles; Apraxia: An interview with Patrick Barber, the man behind the label. Covers the output of this legendary label who released Blowhole, Prick Decay, Small Cruel Party and others in the early '90s; Cheapmachines: An interview with London sound-sculpter and all-'round sonic chameleon Phil Julian.
Climax Denial: An interview with this Milwaukee-based Power Electronics lecher, including an album-by-album analysis; Alien Brains, Storm Bugs and Anti-Messthetics: A study of the non-careers of two early eighties UK outfits that were very much connected. Includes input from some of the key players, plus lots of vintage artwork; Interchange: A look at this influential UK fanzine from the mid-80s, plus an interview with its creator, John Smith. Tunnel Canary: G. X. Jupitter - Larsen tells us about his first memories in Vancouver of this volatile bunch. IDES: An overview of the primary output of this American tape label, and an interview with its owner, Nicole Chambers; Classic Albums: A regular feature dedicated to both in-depth analysis and memories of overlooked but not forgotten gems from yesteryear. Issue #1 features articles on The Lemon Kittens (We Buy A Hammer For Daddy), XX Committee (Network) and RJF (Greater Success In Apprehensions & Convictions). A collection of thoughts and interviews, including an exclusive interview with ex- XX front-man, Scott Foust. Opinion Columns: A regular feature from a rotating pool of participatory players with the music they ponder. Includes John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Mikko Aspa (Grunt), Steve Underwood (Harbinger Sound), Hicham Chadly (Nashazphone), Jonas Kellagher (Segerhuva), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Mark Wharton (Idwal Fisher) amongst others. Covering artists including Masonna, Vomir, and The Black Phelgm, and ranging from Bizarre Uproar all the way to Christian bluegrass bluegrass music! Extensive reviews section. Back cover artwork by Richard Rupenus (The New Blockaders).

Very Good copy with light wear.

File under: Broken Flag The Haters Leibstandarte SS MB (Maurizio Bianchi) MB (Maurizio Bianchi) Maurizio Bianchi (M.B.) Maurizio Bianchi (MB) Le Syndicat Krang Giancarlo Toniutti Vortex Campaign Sigillum S Agog Sigillum S. Con-Dom Unkommuniti Mauthausen Orchestra Satori Controlled Bleeding Irritant JFK Mauro Teho Teardo (M.T.T.) Lemon Kittens Blowhole Prick Decay Small Cruel Party Zone Nord Masonna Vomir The Black Phelgm Wolf Eyes Burning Star Core Idwal Fisher The Rita Sam McKinlay Putrefier Sewer Election Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck Alien Brains Storm Bugs Cheapmachines Climax Denial Chris Sienko Steve Underwood Gary Mundy Sam McKinlay As Loud As Possible / UK Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater

Yoshida Style Ball Jointed Doll Making Guide
by Ryo Yoshida

2006, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket/obi), 135 pages, 26.2 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hobby Japan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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Japanese artist Ryo Yoshida is a pioneer of ball-jointed dolls, a writer, and a photographer who has worked on Katan Amano's doll photography. Profusely illustrated, this valuable sculptor's book is made up of all the practical lessons Yoshida has cultivated in his own classroom at Doll Space Pygmalion in Jiyugaoka (est. 1983) and has expanded from his popular serialized step-by-step HOW TO lessons in the monthly magazine Hobby Japan. A teaching aid and art book, many doll photographs with an emphasis on intricate and detailed materiality are included that you would not find anywhere else. It also contains photographic galleries of examples of Mr. Yoshida's works. At the end of the book is a list of Japanese shops where you can purchase hard-to-find doll-related materials. This is a long-awaited book for doll fans and those who aspire to create dolls and human figures.

"These days, many young people enjoy customizing and making their own dolls. There are many products featuring characters from animations & games in the market, and dolls are found even in art scenes. Dolls are not only for girls, but it has been growing a more popular hobby beyond the OTAKU world. This book is based on the serial HOW TO articles "RYO YOSHIDA Ball Jointed Doll Making Guide" in Monthly HOBBY JAPAN for 19 months since Oct-2004 issue. I have added more explanations and photographs to help especially beginners understand techniques of doll making. Please start making your original doll. I wish that this book may help you. I am sure that making your own doll will bring you joy and happiness of handicraft."—Ryo Yoshida (Introduction)

Very Good copy.

File under: Ryo Yoshida Hobby Japan / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Ryo Yoshida
Articulated Doll: Anatomy of the Ball-Jointed Maiden

2002, Japanese / English
Hardcover (w. die-cut dust jacket and boards), unpaginated, 26.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Pan-Exotica / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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First 2002 limited hardcover edition of celebrated Japanese doll artist Ryo Yoshida's Articulated Doll artist's book, with the original die-cut dust-jacket and cloth boards to reveal the eyeball. Lavishly illustrated with Yoshida's exquisite dolls, this unique book explores the anatomy of ball-jointed dolls through the eyes of the artist and author, who, like the practices of Simon Yotsuya and Hans Bellmer before him, creates elaborate and beautiful photographs of the dolls in various poses. Like fellow contemporary Japanese doll artist Katan Amano, Yoshida's fetishistic and macabre 1990's work is steeped in gothic and decadent reference. The photographs are divided into the following themes: Good Friends, Young Kimono-Clad Girls, Girls, Nightmare, The Anatomy of Beauties, Alice's Adventures, Siesta, Girl in the Case, Fetish, Belle de Jour, Articulated Girl, Masochists, Captive, Femme Fatale, Nymphomania.

Includes bilingual (Japanese/English) biography and essay "Dissection Play" written by Ryo Yoshida.

Fine—As New copy.

File under: Ryo Yoshida Pan-Exotica / Tokyo Art Sculpture / Installation Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

50 Drawings to Murder Magic
by Antonin Artaud

2016, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 27.8 x 21.4 cm
Published by Seagull Books / London

$39.00 - In stock -

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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Edited with a Preface by Évelyne Grossman

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is rooted in the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums, struggling with schizophrenia and the demonic, persecutory visions it unleashed. Set down in a dozen exercise books written between 1946 and 1948, these pieces trace Artaud’s struggle to escape a personal hell that extends far beyond the walls of asylums and the dark magicians he believed ran them.

The first eleven notebooks are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures, pierced bodies, and enigmatic machines, some revealing the marks of a trembling hand, others carefully built up from firm, forceful pencil strokes. The twelfth notebook, completed two months before Artaud’s death in 1948, changes course: it’s an extraordinary text on the loss of magic to the demonic—the piece that gives the book its title.

“Artaud matters,” wrote John Simon in the Saturday Review years ago. Nearly seventy years after his death, that remains true—perhaps more than ever.

"A gloriously reproduced edition . . . . There is something in this text that speaks to the creative process--especially to the degree to which so much of what the writer or artist commits to the page (or canvass) extends from a place beyond conscious attention, to be received actively but without specific intention."—Rough Ghosts

File under: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Donald Nicholson-Smith Évelyne Grossman Seagull Books / London Surrealism Dada Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Drawing Poetry Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

The Marquis de Sade
An Essay by Simone de Beauvoir

1972, English
Softcover, 170 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New English Library / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Lovely 1972 New English Library paperback edition of The Marquis de Sade, an essay by Simone de Beauvoir. This is a remarkable book by and about one of the most controversial figures in history, written by the famous French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, de Beauvoir. The essay is accompanied by ten selections from De Sade's writing, including previously unpublished pieces from such masterworks as 120 DAYS IN SODOM.

"De Sade has given his name to a perversion that is especially prevalent today. Simone de Beauvoir, in a shattering yet sober and supremely informed analysis of his work, insists that this strange man's imagination should become more widely known. Only by revealing and disseminating de Sade's long-banned words will the original ignorance that creates perversion be cleared."

Very Good copy with light wear, toned pages.

File under: Simone De Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir Marquis de Sade The Marquis de Sade New English Library / London Theory / Essay Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Eros Fetishism / BDSM

Return to Bondage

?, English
Softcover, 70 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Rubberwear Press / Nunawading

$45.00 - In stock -

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Privately-published, printed and distributed by Rubberwear Press in Nunawading, Return to Bondage is an anonymous Australian SM erotic novel, cheaply produced and stapled, typewritten and mimeographed, undated (presumably late 1970s-1980s), and written for "Rubber Lovers", "Bondage Fans", "Disciplinarians".

Good—Very Good copy, rusted staples, previous shop stickers, closed tear to back cover.

File under: Rubberwear Press / Nunawading Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

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