World Food Books

The World of Juan Maeda: Passionate Flames

1976, Japanese
Softcover, unpaginated, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cobalt /Tokyo

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Very rare 1976 book of decadent artworks by the renowned Japanese SM artist Juan Maeda (b. 1939). Issued a special edition of Gekiga Secret Pleasure, The World of Juan Maeda: Passionate Flames is cover–to–cover full colour painted illustrations of his bewitching erotic SM scenes of intensity spanning the 1970s, including elaborate fold–out pin–up panels. A fine artist amongst the illustrators, and one of the most highly collected, Maeda dropped out of high school and began illustrating manga in the early 1960s. Since the inaugural issue of SM Select, Maeda became a much sought after artist during the SM magazine golden era, working prolifically contributing to magazines such as Jitsuwa to Hiroku, SM Magazine, SM Select, Novel SM Select, SM Fan, Bessatsu SM Fan, SM Club, SM Phoenix, SM Secret Novel, SM Spider, and Mania Club, amongst others, and famously collaborating with the author Oniroku Dan. One of the most accomplished illustrators of the genre, Maeda is a disciple of the celebrated illustrator Taiga Utagawa, famous for his illustrations for children's magazines under the name Oka Tomohiko, who, from 1956, illustrated adult-oriented works himself under Taiga Utagawa and worked as a researcher of esoteric Buddhism. Maeda's style can be best described as "passionate" but also disquieting as his beautifully rendered soft pencil and ink wash depictions of female captive figures are frequently portrayed in the most arduous of kinbaku hardships. A very rare and beautifully produced volume of a bondage art master.

Very Good copy with some wear to extremities, light knock to cover corner with little effect to initials.

File under: Juan Maeda Cobalt /Tokyo Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Museums of Erotica
by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

2023, Japanese
Softcover (w dust jacket), 448 pages, 14.8 x 10.5 x 2.4 cm
Published by Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Another to–be classic from Japanese writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki (Tokyo Style, Roadside Japan, Happy Victims, etc.) An in–depth photographic journey into Japan's disappearing wonderland haunts of the erotic imagination, all passionately documented in comprehensive detail and vivid colour on gloss magazine stock the way Tsuzuki does so well.

The Hihokan (Museum of Erotica) was created in the 1960s as an entertainment facility for adults as tourism diversified with the unprecedented tourism boom in Japan. The erotic installations were staged in a variety of elaborate ways and could be enjoyed as visitors made their way around the exhibits. A unique type of amusement park from the Showa period like an art space. They were a treasure trove of ideas brimming with creativity. Kyoichi Tsuzuki has been following the museums over the years, and once again presents a documentary that examines its appeal.

File under: Kyoichi Tsuzuki Kyoichi Tsuzuki Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto Eros Fetishism / BDSM Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Japanese Photography Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Topaz Vol. 1 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
April 1993

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

Inaugural April 1993 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, published by Eichi Publishing. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Merzbow Yumi AZZLO Yumi Yamazaki (AZZLO) Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Topaz Vol. 4 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
December 1993

1993, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

December 1993 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros Out-of-print / Rare Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Topaz Vol. 5 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
February 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$55.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

February 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

This issue was slightly smaller in dimensions and skipped the poster.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography

Topaz Vol. 6 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
April 1994

1994, Japaanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

April 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography

Topaz Vol. 8 (THE BONDAGE MAGAZINE)
August 1994

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 140 + pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo

$65.00 - In stock -

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"For All Beautiful and Sensual Pleasure"

August 1994 issue of Japan's short-lived Topaz magazine, first published by Eichi Publishing in April 1993. Edited by Kimura Hiroyuki, Topaz burst onto the flourishing SM scene as the influence of Kinbaku/Shibari culture, fetish fashion, "abnormal" sexual practices, modern primitive, and underground SM culture was becoming hugely influential on high-end fashion, glamour photography, and art/film/music at large. A similar approach to SM Sniper, sharing many of the same contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), Topaz emphasised the new wave of artistic output from the real protagonists of the experimental SM counterculture in Japan (and abroad), centering around the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the kinbakushi, writers or photographers. Topaz benefited from the large format of a glossy, full-colour magazine, rather than the usual mook format of SM magazines, each issue packed with hundreds of images, a double-sided full-colour fold-out poster, original full-colour glossy photo-shoots, art galleries, reports and reviews on developments in the underground (noise music, pink film, sex clubs, erotic art, etc.), instructional and historical articles, rare interviews and profiles with the featured models and artists, and photo features on all manner of sexual customs and practices (transsexualism, lesbianism, virtual sex, rubberism, medical fetish, prostitution, techno sex...). One of the most under-rated SM mags from Tokyo, brimming with information on underground publishing, boutiques, and erotic art largely lost to time.

Very Good copy.

File under: Eichi Shuppan / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Japanese Photography

Broken Music

1989, English / German / French
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin

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Rare first 1989 edition of Broken Music, an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. Complete with original flexi-disc. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and published in 1989 by DAAD and Gelbe Musik, Berlin. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art. She was married to curator René Block.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

Very Good copy all-round, light cover/corner wear.

File under: ×Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Daadgalerie / Berlin Gelbe Musik / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Fluxus Arte Povera Pop Art Sound / Music Dada Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Bauhaus Objects / Ephemera / A/V

File Under Popular: Theoretical & Critical Writings on Music
by Chris Cutler

1989 / 1992, English
Softcover, 184 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ReR Megacorp / Surrey Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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"A stirringly aggressive antidote to contemporary pop cynicism."–Simon Frith

1992 ReR Megacorp/Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia edition of File Under Popular: Theoretical and Critical Writings on Music, a classic collection of seven essays on the political theory of popular music written by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler (of Henry Cow, Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu, Gong/Mothergong and Recommended Records fame). The essays were written between 1978 and 1983, four of them in response to requests and the rest unprompted. Two of the essays were first published in two German publications, and two were originally presented by Cutler at two international symposia on popular music. The book was first published in 1985 in London by November Books, the publishing wing of Cutler's independent record label, Recommended Records. It was also published in Polish, German and Japanese.

The essays in File Under Popular tackle the subject of "popular music", what it is, its origins and the political and marketing forces behind it. Cutler charts the history of music and how it was changed by written notation and then recording technology. Three of the essays dwell specifically on individual musicians and groups, namely Sun Ra, The Residents, Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley, but their stories are told within the context of the evolution of music. "Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms" is the first sketch of an analytical theory that shows how memory systems underpin the forms that music can take; part III of this essay is a personnel memoir of Cutler's that explains how his former band, Henry Cow functioned outside the music industry and their involvement in the establishment of Rock in Opposition. The last two essays deal with the development of progressive rock in the United Kingdom, its significance and the politics behind it.

Very Good copy.

File under: Chris Cutler Henry Cow Sun Ra The Residents Phil Ochs Elvis Presley Art Bears Chris Cutler ReR Megacorp / Surrey Autonomedia / New York Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Sound / Music Theory / Essay Counterculture Performance / Dance / Theater Art Anarchism Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

Circuit No. 5
Winter 1968

1968, English
Softcover (staple–bound), 64 pages, 28.5 x 12.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Ranelagh Press / Hampstead

$35.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Circuit, issue 5 of only 12, a short–lived British magazine of arts and culture, founded by university students in Cambridge, England, in 1965. With a cover featuring Henry Crowdog of the Brulé Sioux, photographed at the Rosebud Indian Reserve in South Dakota by Ray Carpenter, who is also the designer of the magazine. Circuits stated intent was "to avoid the well-known categories behind which most small magazines shelter, and to aim for a spectrum of ideas, opinions and concerns that are not purely critical, but creative." Articles on Latin American revolutions, painters Francis Bacon and Allen Jones, conference on the Dialectic of Liberation featuring Stokeley Carmichael, Gregory Bateson, Lucien Goldmann, and Ronald Laing, critic George Steiner, interview with Jim Haynes, Jack Moore, and David Medalla of the Arts Laboratory in London, drawings by Polish artist Feliks Topolski and Malcolm Dean, poetry and plays by Spike Hawkins, Peter Ansorge, Raymond Durgnat, David Page, photography by David Bailey, and more.

Good overall copy with dusty/foxed/worn boards, rusted staples, otherwise VG throughout.

File under: Francis Bacon David Bailey Allen Jones Feliks Topolski Spike Hawkins Peter Ansorge Raymond Durgnat David Page Stokeley Carmichael Gregory Bateson Lucien Goldmann Ronald Laing George Steiner Ranelagh Press / Hampstead Counterculture Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Painting Eros Fetishism / BDSM Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism

All Misemono: Japanese Tent Sideshows
Edited by Carlos Yamazaki

1997, Japanese
Hardcover (ring and ribbon bound, 8 postcards, model), unpaginated, 32 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Last Freak Show / Tokyo

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Published in 1997 by Last Freak Show, Tokyo, this lavish, limited–edition hardcover, ringbound and ribbon–tied book assembled by Carlos Yamazaki, documents for the first time the world of 20th Century Japanese sideshows ( snake girls, freak shows, human oddities) and, most importantly, the painted banners of Japanese artist Seiho Shimura (1905-1971), including; the Snake Bodied Girl, Mermaids, the Cat Girl, the Spider Woman, the Electric Man, the Two Headed Woman with Two Headed Cow, Mutation by Atomic Bomb, Siam Twins, One Eyed Baby, Eight, the Beast Sisters, and many more, all dating from the 1950s–60s. Shimura's influence can be felt in the works of contemporary manga artists such as Suehiro Maruo. With most pages being fold–outs that contain further imagery and Japanese texts, the book also presents never before published antique photographs of sideshow performers, performances, stages, tents from the 1930s, posters, tickets stubs, signage, promotional material, and other historical ephemera, sideshow barker quotations in Japanese and English, plus 8 colour postcards inserted, reproducing the artworks, and a paper model of a sideshow tent and paper puppets of performers.

Fine, complete copy, with all contents present and still–sealed within, As New.

File under: Seiho Shimura Carlos Yamazaki Last Freak Show / Tokyo Art Counterculture Painting Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare

Outburst 1
Edited by Tom Raworth

1961, English
Softcover (staplebound), 52 pages, 20.7 x 12.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Matrix Press / London

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Rare copy of the first 1961 issue of Outburst, edited by English-Irish poet, publisher, editor, and teacher, Tom Raworth, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. Raworth's first little magazine, followed by subsequent publications Before Your Very Eyes! and Interfolio, Outburst gathered English and American poets alongside European and non-Western voices. Three issues were produced. Cover photograph by Steve Fletcher. Errata slip laid in. Hand typeset by Raworth and printed in a basement in London in black, purple and red inks, Outburst 1 is filled with poetry, prose and artwork contributions from Piero Heliczer, Gary Snyder, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gael Turnbull, Fielding Dawson, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Maurice Capitanchik, Nigel Black, Tom Malcolm, Christopher Logue, Tram Combs, Edward Dorn, Pete Brown, Michael Horovitz, Anselm Hollo, Chao Tze-Chiang, Angus MacLise, Tu Fu, Charles Olson, and others. Includes Creeley reviewing Burroughs' Naked Lunch (Olympia Press).

Average–Good copy with staining/dustiness to covers, rusted staples, interior VG, light age/wear in general.

File under: Angus MacLise Ian Hamilton Finlay Steve Fletcher Piero Heliczer Gary Snyder Gael Turnbull Fielding Dawson Denise Levertov Robert Creeley Maurice Capitanchik Nigel Black Tom Malcolm Christopher Logue Tram Combs Edward Dorn Pete Brown Michael Horovitz Anselm Hollo Chao Tze-Chiang Tom Raworth Charles Olson Ian Hamilton Finlay Brion Gysin Angus MacLise Gregory Corso Matrix Press / London Fiction / Poetry Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Art Counterculture

London Book
Photographs by Naoya Nakamura

1982, Japanese
Softcover (w. obi), 198 pages, 21.2 x 14.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by JICC Publishing Bureau / Japan

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Very rare copy of the 1982 Japanese-only LONDON BOOK, researched and photographed by Naoya Nakamura, published in Japan by JICC shuppan. Wrapped in bi-lingual cover adorned with Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow, the London Book is a rare time capsule and guide-book of photographs and interviews (Derek Jarman, Anton Corbijin, Malcolm McLaren, etc.) covering the London post punk scene, divided in various essential categories — film, music, fashion, art, drugs, sex — introducing all the record stores, fashion boutiques, sex shops, night clubs, pubs, markets, cafes, magazines, etc. (Rough Trade, Club for Heroes, World's End, Frisco...) and snapping all the shop assistants, punters, protagonists and London youth, from Oxford Street, Hackney, Notting Hill.... Packed with clippings, archival artwork, advertising, behind the scene photographs (shop interiors, design studios...), maps and directories.

Very Good copy with light tanning/discolouration with rarely preserved publisher's obi (Good with some spine wear and fading)

File under: Bow Wow Wow Penguin Cafe Orchestra The Raincoats Peter Saville Naoya Nakamura Derek Jarman Anton Corbijin Malcolm McLaren Howard Devoto Simon Jeffes John Foxx Nick Logan Jill Mumford Vivienne Westwood Sex Pistols The Clash Joy Division Rip Rig + Panic XTC David Bowie The Slits Rough Trade Records Au Pairs Gang of Four Public Image Limited Public Image Ltd (PiL) JICC Publishing Bureau / Japan Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography Fashion Counterculture

The Bible
Edited by Yuzuru Agi

1981, Japanese
Softcover, 330 pages, 26 x 18.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rock Magazine / Osaka

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare, highly collectible copy of The Bible, published and edited by the legendary Japanese music critic, editor and Vanity Records label owner Yuzuru Agi. Published in 1981 as a special edition of Agi's highly influential Rock Magazine (1976—1984), The Bible is his grimoire of modern music. It sets out, for the first time in the world, to comprehensively catalogue and document in one book the developments of Western alternative and modern music spanning 15 years (Avant Garde, Psychedelic, Progressive, Contemporary, Experimental, Folk, Industrial, Electronic, Punk, Dub, Noise, New Wave, Free Music...) "I have mainly followed the trend of Western music today, mainly in England, France, Italy, and Germany, but what I am most interested in their music is Hellenism, which flows at the root of their spirit"–Yuzuru Agi, from the introduction

The Bible catalogues, profiles, interviews, and maps the genealogy of the artists and labels from Italian prog to Canterbury rock to Scadinavian free jazz to US psych to reggae and dub. Virgin, Brain, Charisma, Cobra, Pole, Cramps, Dawn, Obscure, Actuel, Bead, BVHaast, ICP, Free Music Productions, Incus, Ogun... An exhaustive discography, complete with family trees of group members, all lavishly cut–n-paste designed, illustrated with photographs of all of the artists, all the record cover artwork, mediaeval etchings, and even a gallery of artwork by H.R. Giger!

Editorial committee includes Yumiko Nakano, Ichiro Karube, Mamoru Shibuya, Yukiko Ode, Ayako Fujii, Eriko Murakami, Shinichi Nakanishi.

A must!

Good–Very Good copy with some wear to boards edges, tanning, light age and handling wear.

File under: H. R. Giger H.R. Giger Yuzuru Agi Yumiko Nakano Ichiro Karube Mamoru Shibuya Yukiko Ode Ayako Fujii Eriko Murakami Shinichi Nakanishi Rock Magazine / Osaka Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Counterculture Art Fluxus

Bolinas Hearsay News
April 17 1978

1978, English
Softcover (looseleaf), 20 pages, 22 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bolinas Hearsay News / California

$15.00 - Out of stock

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Rare copy of Bolinas Hearsay News from April 17, 1978, an unconventional, volunteer-run community bulletin and paper in Bolinas, California, founded in 1974 with the motto "Everyone is a reporter". It operates without paid staff, publishing local news, classifieds, poetry, artwork, and town disputes. "There may be poetry from a nationally renowned local poet or from the little kid next door." Produced and supported by locals, townspeople also serve as editors, printers, and distributors, and while the staff changes over time, their dedication does not. This issue filled with poems (including renowned Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross), drawings, reviews, information on radio shows, concerts, meditations, yoga, the wellbeing of Pickles the cat, and more.

VG copy with light edge wear, tanning, age.

File under: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Bolinas Hearsay News / California Objects / Ephemera / A/V Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fiction / Poetry Poetry Whole Earth / Crafts

THE WASTELAND (signed)
Directed by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka

2012, Japanese
DVD
Signed by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Uplink / Japan

$120.00 - In stock -

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Japanese death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is back, with his own unique vision of our planet. The Wasteland is a look into the world around us. It is a look into the aftermath of war, religion, and other evil facets that aid in the destruction of Earth. Kiyotaka teams up with the legendary doom metal band Corrupted to set the mood for this epic. Don't look away. The Wasteland is real.

First Uplink 2002 Japanese issue with insert. Disc signed by Tsurisaki Kiyotaka.

Since 1994, Japanese photographer, film director, and writer Kiyotaka Tsurisaki (b. 1966) has become known for prolifically photographing dead bodies; his images of death and conflict from global "hot-spots" earning him a reputation as a leading underground photographer. For Kiyotaka’s raw photo-journalistic practice he habitats disaster areas, accident sites and war zones, locations where society has collapsed to seek out and photograph man's ultimate taboo — death. Many of these people met with violent ends, whether by vehicle crash, homicide, or suicide. The images are stark, confronting, bleak and profound. Tsurisaki also brings the viewer into morgues and forensics labs, where the macabre work of embalming and autopsy is unapologetically documented. His work has led him from Fukoshima and Japan’s suicide forest Aokigahara, Thailand, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, and Palestine, as well as other lawless or war-torn parts of the world, to photograph human corpses. In El Cartucho, Bogota, Kiyotaka filmed the shockumentary Orozco The Embalmer (2001) — a now cult classic in its genre, alongside his Junk Films (2007) and Wasteland (2012). Tsurisaki has published several photo books and authored Book Of The Dead (2011), and The Dogs of the Nuclear War: A Chronicle Of The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (2017).

NTSC Zone 2 DVD.

File under: Corrupted Tsurisaki Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Kiyotaka Uplink / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Signed Books Objects / Ephemera / A/V Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Counterculture Sound / Music Film / Video

Too Negative No. 8
March 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, Softcover, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative issue no. 8, March 1997, features the photography the paintings of Manuel Ocampo, the art of Helter Skelter corpse/death photography, the art of Jake and Dinos Chapman, grotesque tabloid news, the art of Pierre Molinier, the art of Damien Hirst, the fetish photography of Hiroshi Yokoi, latex/rubber fetish photography by Uchiyama Kazunori, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, loads of abnormal medical photography, autopsy, anatomical photographic/illustrated, much more.

Mature readers only.

Very Good copy.

File under: Manuel Ocampo Jake and Dinos Chapman Pierre Molinier Damien Hirst Hiroshi Yokoi Uchiyama Kazunori Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Counterculture Film / Video Crime / Violence Fashion LGBTQ+

Too Negative No. 9
May 1997

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, Softcover, 15 cm x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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Too Negative issue no. 9, May 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue, Too Negative issue no. 9, May 1997, features the historical death photography of criminology and medical sciences, Art Brut, photography of Cindy Sherman, lots of gore collage, latex/rubber fetish photography by Uchiyama Kazunori, Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Yokoi Hiroshi, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, loads of abnormal medical photography, autopsy, anatomical photographic/illustrated, much more.

Mature readers only.

Very Good copy, with light wear to edges/light crease to cover corner.

File under: Cindy Sherman Uchiyama Kazunori Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Yokoi Hiroshi Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fetishism / BDSM Counterculture Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sculpture / Installation Surrealism LGBTQ+ Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography

Exotique
The complete reprint (36 issues) 3 volume boxset

1998, English
Hardcover (3 volume boxset)
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

$260.00 - Out of stock

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First 1998 box–set of The Complete Reprint of EXOTIQUE. The first 36 issues from 1951-1959. Foreword by Kim Christy.

Exotique was a specialized fetish magazine published by Leonard Burtman under his Burmel Publishing Company imprint in New York City between 1955 and 1959. The magazine's femdom theme, photos, and artwork mark it as a direct descendant of the first major fetish magazine Bizarre (1946–1959), produced by John Willie.

Exotique was entirely devoted to fetish fashions and female-dominant bondage fantasies. The 36 issues featured photos and illustrations of dominatrix-inspired vamps (including wife Tana Louise and iconic model Bettie Page) wearing exotic leather and rubber ensembles, corsets, stockings/garters, boots, and high heels. The articles, many written by Burtman using an alias, covered various aspects of sadomasochism and transvestism, with men depicted as slaves to imperious, all-powerful women.

Fetish artists Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew, also known by his pseudonym ENEG, were frequent contributors to this magazine and others produced by Burtman.

All 3 volumes VG in VG illustrated box (not pictured). Vol. I: No. 1-11; Vol. II: No. 12-24; Vol. III: No. 25-36.

File under: Gene Bilbrew ENEG Eneg Eric Stanton John Willie Tana Louise Bettie Page Leonard Burtman Kim Christy Taschen / Cologne Eros Fetishism / BDSM Fashion Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Apocalypse Omnibus: The Adam Parfrey Reader
by Adam Parfrey

2026, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Feral House / Los Angeles

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The Apocalypse Omnibus collects the best of Adam Parfrey's essays in a single volume.

Adam Parfrey was, before starting iconoclastic publisher Feral House, a writer. His foresight in revealing extreme trends and societal angst long before mainstream media had any inkling of the darkness bubbling just under the surface of American culture earned him praise and derision.Apocalypse Culture 1987) was hailed by J. G. Ballard as the 'terminal documents of the Twentieth Century'.

Many of the included essays are eerily prescient as Parfrey warned about right-wing militias in the early nineties and documented the rise of conspiracy-dominated thinking decades before Republican government officials loudly declared political opponents were satanically inspired drinkers of baby blood. Yet Parfrey's interests were wide-ranging and Apocalypse Omnibus includes profiles of outre characters, artists, and, yes, some crackpots. Parfrey loved tweaking American mythology by resurrecting lost texts highlighting outlaws and outsiders. He continually sought to expose the absurdity of American culture. His collective writings have become the ur-texts of the 'Dirtbag Left'.

Parfrey was fascinated by the contrast between America portrayed as wholesome freedom-loving peacekeepers and the reality of covert military operations, mass-drug experiments, and the obscured 'wizards' hidden behind the curtain pulling the levers of power. His work has been lauded as groundbreaking and criticised as dangerous. In a time when truth has been stretched to the breaking point, Parfrey's essays remind readers that there is always more to the story.

Apocalypse Omnibus also contains material previously published in the out-of-print books, Apocalypse Culture 2 (2003) and Cult Rapture (1995), as well as new material culled from his extensive private archives. It also contains a selection of Parfrey's essays and investigations, originally published in the San Diego Reader, Village Voice, Hustler Magazine, and on his own site, and inaccessible for years, are collected here in a single volume.

File under: Adam Parfrey Feral House / Los Angeles Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Art Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture

Suture Vol. 1
Edited by Jack Sargeant

1998, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 24.5 x 17 com
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London ‎The Tears Corporation / London

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Long out-of-print, and only issued in one volume, Suture was a "collection of illustrated essays on and by some of the most highly acclaimed figures in the global underground today" (c. 1998). Edited by Jack Sargeant, Suture documents radical artists, filmmakers, and writers working at the fringes of contemporary culture, including: Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, Suehiro Maruo, John Hilcoat, James Havoc, Trevor Brown, Dame Darcy, Mark Hejnar.

Jack Sargeant (b. 1968) is a British writer specialising in cult film, underground film, and independent film, as well as subcultures, true crime, and other aspects of the unusual. In addition he is a film programmer, curator, academic and photographer. He has appeared in underground films and performances.

Very Good copy, light corner, cover wear.

File under: Lydia Lunch Joe Coleman Romain Slocombe Suehiro Maruo John Hilcoat Trevor Brown Dame Darcy Mark Hejnar Jack Sargeant James Havoc Creation Books / London ‎The Tears Corporation / London Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Fetishism / BDSM Film / Video Sound / Music Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Australian Art Photography

Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression
by Jack Sargeant

1995 / 1999, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

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Expanded 1999 print of the first 1995 Creation edition of Deathtripping, the first illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema Of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement and its roots in the New York art/rock and underground film scenes. Including interviews with key transgressive film-makers, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Casandra Stark, Beth B, Tommy Turner, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, plus collaborators Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman and David Wojnarowicz; studies of more recent film-makers including Jeri Cain Rossi, Richard Baylor, Todd Phillips; a brief history of underground/trash cinema: Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar, John Waters; notes and essays on the philosophy and aesthetics of transgression; extensive film analysis; index and bibliography. Heavily illustrated with rare and often disturbing photographs, Deathtripping is a unique document, the definitive guide to the roots, philosophy and development of a style of film-making whose influence and impact can no longer be ignored.

WARNING: CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL

VG copy.

File under: Richard Kern Nick Zedd Casandra Stark Beth B Tommy Turner Tessa Hughes-Freeland Lydia Lunch Joe Coleman David Wojnarowicz Jeri Cain Rossi Richard Baylor Todd Phillips Andy Warhol Jack Smith George Kuchar Mike Kuchar John Waters Jack Sargeant Creation Books / London Eros Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Counterculture

Incredibly Strange Films
Edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno

1986, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 28 x 21.2 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Plexus / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1986 UK edition of the classic, Incredibly Strange Films, edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno.

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good taste"–Pablo Picasso

"Exploitation films are the only ones that come close to the dreaded word "art". I still wonder why film students babble on about Orson Welles or Howard Hawks when they ignore the greatest masters in film history: Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Even the worst films by these two directors are infinitely more interesting than Citizen Kane?"–John Waters

Jonathan Ross's passion for low-budget, off-beat films led to his controversial Channel Four television series "The Incredibly Strange Picture Show' which at long last celebrated some of the most outrageous, inventive and provocative films ever made.

Incredibly Strange Films takes the television study a step further with an in-depth look at the creativity and tastelessness which are the inspiration behind every cult trash movie, whether about bikers, LSD, women in prison or juvenile delinquents.

This extensive guide delves into every aspect of exploitation films and provides the connoisseur's handbook for all those who have fallen under the spell of such unhailed masterpieces of bad taste as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! and The Wizard of Gore.

Consisting of interviews with pioneering directors such as Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ray Dennis Steckler and Larry Cohen, genre articles, quirky essays on influential films and many weird and wonderful photographs, this thought-provoking book will amuse and shock as it moves through the realms of gore and sexploitation with a new sense of admiration and acclaim. In rescuing these films from the ghettoes of trash and hailing them as alternative art, Incredibly Strange Films will finally carve a niche for exploitation films in the history of movie-making and bring a wider and more enlightened appreciation of a rare and valuable genre where the imagination continues to reign supreme.

Essays and articles by Jim Morton, Boyd Rice, Andrea Juno, V. Vale, Mark Pauline, Colette Coleman, Mark Spainhower, Rick Prelinger. Heavily illustrated. Includes Jim Morton and Boyd Rice's list of favourite films.

VG copy with some minor discolouration to board edges, light wear and foxing to block edges.

File under: John Waters Russ Meyer Herschell Gordon Lewis Ray Dennis Steckler Larry Cohen V. Vale Andrea Juno Jonathan Ross Boyd Rice Jim Morton Mark Pauline Colette Coleman Mark Spainhower Rick Prelinger Plexus / London Film / Video Counterculture Eros Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Art

Body Exotica : Sexual Atrocity
by Masami Akita (Merzbow)

1993, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and obi-strip), 230 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 "Body Exotica : Sexual Atrocity", written by Merzbow's Masami Akita and published only in Japan in 1993. Covering subjects such as body manipulation and decoration, Japanese genital museums, German anarcho-pacifist Ernst Friedrich's Anti-War imagery, Daisy and Violet Hilton, amputee love, clothing and deformity, "freaks", fetishism, abnormal sex customs, corpse and medical photography, and much more, all with b/w illustrations, "Body Exotica : Sexual Atrocity" could be considered the sister book to Akita's "Terminal Body Play", issued the same year. 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. "Body Exotica" is one of these very books.

First edition, Japanese text, NF copy with NF "textured" and illustrated dust jacket and NF original publisher's obi-strip (not-pictured).

File under: Masami Akita (Merzbow) Masami Akita (Merzbow) Seikyūsha / Tokyo Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Counterculture Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare