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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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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

The Best of Bondage Vol. 3 No. 4

1976, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 27.4 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tao Productions / Hollywood

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Scarce copy of this 1976 volume of The Best of Bondage, published by Hollywood's Tao Productions. With editorial by prolific erotica author A. de Granamour, packed cover to cover with b/w female bondage photography, with features Wayward Wife Learns the Ropes. Mary Minds the Apartment. Wilma's Weekly Wash (laundry room bondages). Netting a Cute Karate-Hep Curator. Toni's Tuesday Torment.

Very Good copy, light wear.

File under: A. de Granamour Tao Productions / Hollywood Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Eros Counterculture

MURPHY
by Samuel Beckett

1973, English
Softcover, 158 pages, 19.5 x 13 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Picador / USA

$15.00 - Out of stock

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1973 Picador edition of MURPHY by Samuel Beckett, with cover art by John Holmes. First published in 1938 and reissued by Picador in 1973, this early Beckett novel is a bleakly hilarious tour through madness, metaphysics, and the daily slog of simply existing.

"Followed to England by a riotous collection of Irish eccentrics, Murphy ventures disastrously from the calm of his rocking chair in a Kensington mews. He falls in love with Celia, a prostitute. Fascinated by Eastern • mysticism, he pursues swamis and fortune-tellers. His eventual employment as an orderly in a mental hospital leads to a devastatingly ironic conclusion.

Historically, Murphy forms a bridge between the novels of James Joyce and the new literature of the post-war world, in which Beckett's work occupies such a prominent place. Murphy, though revolutionary in its perceptions, is also exuberantly readable. Though imbued with its author's characteristic pessimism, it is a comic masterpiece."

"One of the greatest prose-writers of the century'—THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

"Can scarcely be matched by another living writer'—NEW STATESMAN

Very Good copy.

File under: Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett Picador / USA Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art

Episodic 4.5 (double issue): consacré à la ville / l’urbanisme à l’ère du numérique
w/ compilation mini-CD (Sister Iodine, Mika Vainio, Oval)

1998, French
Softcover (+ mini-cd), 142 pages, 18 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Episodic / Paris

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Rare copy of the 1998 double issue of French art/media theory zine Episodic, with this issue (4.5) including 3-track 3" mini-cd with multimedia section including a Sim City prop, plus exclusive abstract/experimental/minimal tracks by Sister Iodine, Mika Vainio (of Pan Sonic) and Oval. Each issue was built around a specific theme (or publishing principle), combining a variety of media and fields. This double issue — consacré à la ville / l’urbanisme à l’ère du numérique (dedicated to the city / urban planning in the digital age). The epitome of glitch graphic design. Berlin, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Dordogne, Grenoble, Helsinki, Kobe, Lille, Londres, Los Angeles, Montreuil, Nantes, New York, Ostende, Paris, São Paulo, Saint Pétersbourg, Sim-City, Stockholm, Venise… › Accession-à-la-douceur-de-vivre, Boris Achour, Yann Beauvais, Blockhaus DY 10, Guy Chevalier, Décé, Le fournil, Olivier Francès, Walter Friedman, Alexander R. Hickox, Laura Keller, Rubens Machado, Miles Kingsley McKane, Claire Maugeais, Jean-Claude Moineau, Nicolas Moulin, Jean-Christophe Nourisson, Oxymore, Yves Pélissier, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié…

VG copy w/ mini-cd

File under: Oval Pan Sonic Episodic / Paris Periodicals Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay Sound / Music

20,000 A.D.
by Edward Sanders

1967, English
Softcover, 100 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by North Atlantic Books / Vermont

$40.00 - In stock -

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First edition of 20,000 A.D., a collection of poetry from the 1960s—70s by founder of Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, and the Fugs, Ed Sanders, published by North Atlantic Books, Vermont, in 1976. Deeply influenced by the work of Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, and Allen Ginsberg, Sanders helped bridge the concerns of Beat poetry and the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Sanders discussed his approach to investigative poetry: “Nonfiction is a kind of map of fragments of information sequenced together, like an elegant baklava with layers of meaning,” he alleged. “You have to think of different arrays of sequencing information … You have to make an apt choice, or an artistic choice, or an aesthetic choice about what you put in—and what you leave out. It’s an art form when to say no. Especially in investigative poetry, it’s a mission.”

Very Good copy, light tanning.

File under: Ed Sanders North Atlantic Books / Vermont Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Poetry

The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion
by Ed Sanders

1973, English
Softcover, 348 pages, 17. 5 x 11.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Panther / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First Panther edition of Ed Sanders' unnerving true-crime genre classic, The Family, published in 1973. "The first complete, authoritative account of the career of Charles Manson. A terrifying book."—New York Times Book Review

"A Feast of Evil! Engaging in extortion, murder and satanism, borrowing ideas from a variety of weird religious cults, and spicing the resulting devil's brew liberally with drugs and bizarre sex, Charles Manson, veteran of the American prison system, established a commune in the California desert with himself as head guru. Ostensibly searching for a new form of community awareness and spirituality, Manson in fact formed his devoted band of young disciples into a literally murderous gang.

Ed Sanders, having explored the demonic world of Manson and the horrific background of the Sharon Tate killings in detail and at considerable personal risk, gives the first valid explanation of how the whole terrifying affair started and proceeded to its inexorable, bloody finale. He also chillingly and convincingly shows how the Family's extraordinary adventures are not the isolated phenomena they were presented as by the news media, but are very much part of our own sick culture."

Edward Sanders (b. 939) is an American poet, singer, activist, author, publisher and longtime member of the rock band the Fugs.

Good—Very Good copy with wear to and light creasing to covers, toned pages.

File under: Ed Sanders Charles Manson Ed Sanders Panther / London Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Brus, Muehl, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler: Writings of the Vienna Actionists

1999, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 21.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atlas Press / London

$200.00 - In stock -

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First 1999 edition of the long collectible English-language anthology of Writings of the Vienna Actionists, published by the legendary Atlas Press.

Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. These four artists from the sixties created a form of performance art which has become legendary for the extreme violence of its expression. Fined, gaoled, forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day only to now be hailed as one of Europe's most outstanding contributions to post-war art. This anthology of their writings and documentation, brought together with the collaboration of the artists, Brus, Nitsch and Muehl, illustrates their intentions for the first time and shows how they established and explored a new territory for art.

Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. "Four artists who, during the Sixties, became notorious for pushing the definition of art to an extreme which has yet to be surpassed.

Variously fined, gaoled, and forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day, only to be hailed in recent years as one of the most outstanding and unique contributions to post-war art in Europe. Exaggeration and myth still obscure their activities, however, and their actual motives for an art centred on the examination of taboos, the "hidden" secrets of the body, the aesthetics of destruction and the possibilities of regeneration have remained elusive. Subsequent generations of artists have claimed them as their forefathers or unscrupulously borrowed their ideas (but without approaching the intensity of their actions), and while international exhibitions have reclaimed their work for the visual arts, their writings have remained largely unpublished since they first appeared in small mimeographed editions, or are long since out of print.

This anthology of photo-documentation and writings - which includes manifestos, theoretical texts, action scores, even police and psychiatric reports - has been assembled in collaboration with the three surviving artists. It provides the first comprehensive survey of their work, and for the first time illuminates their differing intentions. These texts employ humour and vitriol to elaborate a position in total opposition to contemporary social, political and aesthetic mores. A lucid narrative emerges of a determined exploration of these conditioning factors, by means of an art that used life itself as its material.

The Vienna Actionists were indeed unique - at the very outset of post-war performance art they trod a path very different from the "Happenings" in the USA or the belated neo-Dada pranks of many of their contemporaries. They not only established a new territory for art but they explored it so thoroughly as to make most subsequent "body art" simply irrelevant.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Günter Brus Otto Mühl Hermann Nitsch Rudolf Schwarzkogler Malcolm Green Atlas Press / London Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Painting Drawing

The Devil's Marchioness
A Novel by William Fifield

1957, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 506 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson / London

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First 1957 hardcover edition of William Fifield's first novel, The Devil's Marchioness, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, with evocative period jacket design by the remarkable Australian artist and stage designer Loudon Sainthill.

This novel is based on the life of one of history's most evil women, Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers. The scene is France in the reign of Louis XIV—an era of intrigue, gambling, adultery and violence as well as of military glory and artistic achievement. Madeleine was a child of her time; beautiful, passionate and—above all-strong willed. She allowed nothing to interfere with her desires and no man was able to subdue her, though many tried. Her husband, a weak and effeminate son of a famous family and a reckless, unlucky gambler, was wax in her hands. Her father, the incorruptible Civil Lieutenant of Paris and her two brothers were quickly entangled in schemes fatal to their position and honour.

Her first lover, the sinister Godin de Sainte-Croix was a gambler, trafficker in poisons and worshipper at black masses where the naked body of a young woman was used as an altar. He persuaded his mistress to try out one of his poisons on an old woman, chosen at random from the teeming mass of poor patients in a Paris hospital. This started her down the path that was to lead her to the dungeons of the Conciergerie prison, the rack, the water torture and the scaffold. William Fifield's narrative, based on Madeleine's own papers and on other contemporary sources, brings the scenes and characters vividly to life. While some readers may be shocked by its frankness, few will put it down until they have followed Madeleine to the end of her terrible journey.

William Fifield was born in Chicago in 1916 and started selling short stories, articles and radio scripts while he was still at college. He is married and now lives in France.

Good—Very Good copy, well-preserved with some wear and mild chipping to DJ extremities, toning, foxing to book block edges and preliminaries.

File under: Loudon Sainthill William Fifield Weidenfeld & Nicholson / London Fiction / Poetry Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Occult / Esoterica

PLAY
by Samuel Beckett

1964, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 18 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Faber & Faber / London

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First 1964 Faber paperback edition of Beckett's PLAY (and Two Short Pieces for Radio).

"It is totally fascinating and satisfying because, in its smaller scale, its polyphonic dialogue uses much the same astonishing intervals of resonance and echo and discovery as "Godot"; and because it shows Beckett at his most carelessly masterful, using comedy to scour the tragic, to put flesh upon our lies, and to give the lie to our flesh."—Anne Duchene, The Guardian

Good copy with general cover wear and foxing.

File under: Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett Faber & Faber / London Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Art

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