World Food Books

Tomoaki Hata
The Night is Still Young

2010, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 22.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by PowerHouse / New York

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With The Night Is Still Young, Los Angeles-based, Japanese photographer Tomoaki Hata returns to his roots—the underground club scene of Osaka's gay, nightlife district. Filled with intimate images of the radically—creative drag queens who performed at various venues in the city from the late 1990s through the present, this book is a peek into the underbelly of modern Japan.

Hata occupies a much-deserved place in the ranks of the great Japanese photographers—on par with the likes of Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki—yet he achieved this rank not by following the example of these greats, but via the presentation of his own unique view of a slice of Japanese culture that otherwise remains largely undocumented. Gay life and culture in Japan remains mostly secretive, and tends to take place within the safe confines of gay bars and gay districts that are many times hidden in plain view within the entertainment districts of major urban centers. A passionate and intimate portrayal of the gender-bending performers as they cavort, both on and off the stage, Hata exposes this elusive subculture for the entire world to see. The results are campy and combustible images of drag performers going full tilt. Glitter, glamour, sequins, and seediness are all on display, up-close and unrestrained.

Including an essay on Hata's photographs-and the world they examine—The Night Is Still Young captures and contextualizes drag culture in Japan at the turn of the century, and is the ultimate primary-source document of this otherwise obscure scene.

File under: Tomoaki Hata Eric C. Shiner Simone Fukayuki PowerHouse / New York Japanese Photography Photography Counterculture LGBTQ+

Takashi Homma
Tokyo Teens

1996, Japanese
Softcover, 30 bound postcards, 15.5 x 11.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Little More / Tokyo

$480.00 - In stock -

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Very rare early book of portraits of Tokyo teenagers by leading Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (b. 1962 in Tokyo, Japan). This special publication features around 30 selected photographs of Homma's iconic and very influential early 1990's photography bound into one volume in the form of thick perforated postcards. These images of Tokyo teens, along with images of their bedrooms and Shibuya / Harajuku street surrounds, are emblematic of Homma's work of the period, known in the West through Purple magazine, etc. Following in the spirit of Provoke photographers such as Araki, Moriyama, and Nakahira, Homma created a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century. Homma's photography would become a great influence on the fashionable 1990's girly photo boom of Hiromix and Yurie Nagashima, etc.

Fine—As New copy, all postcards still bound, vinyl cover sticker still attached as issued.

File under: Takashi Homma Little More / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Counterculture

Tom of Finland: His Life and Times
by F. Valentine Hooven Ill

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 188 pages, 24 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by St. Martin's Press / New York

$120.00 - In stock -

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First 1993 edition in rare hardcover.

When the definitive history of the emergence of gay culture in the second half of the twentieth century is written, one individual artist is almost certain to be acknowledged for having singlehandedly shaped the erotic imagination of generations of gay men: the Scandinavian illustrator Tom of Finland.

Working alone and in secret in a far-off land, the remarkable drawings that sprang from this artist's hands—leathermen-bikers, cow-boys, cops, lumberjacks, hardhats, soldiers, and sailors—become archetypal images that delineated the shape of homoerotic desire.

With Tom's full cooperation in the years before his death, F. Valentine Hooven Ill has written a full biography of the man, while tracing the evolution and impact of his art on the world.

"Tom of Finland is one of the gay world's few authentic icons. For over thirty years his drawings have appeared in gay magazines and circulated in pirate editions. His men have entered the fantasy life of thousands, and his vision has influenced such artists as Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder."—Out/Look

Fine copy in Fine DJ.

File under: Tom of Finland Tom of Finland F. Valentine Hooven Ill St. Martin's Press / New York Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Drawing

Good Vibration
Photographs by Tetsuji Shimizu

1981, Japanese
Softcover (w. vinyl dust jacket + pin-up), unpaginated, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo

$300.00 - In stock -

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"Bite me. Hate me. Bine me. Fuck me.
Please whip me more strong. One, sir. Two, sir. Three, sir. Hmm ah ha...."
—from the back cover.

Seldom seen, remarkable 1981 Japanese photo book by little known Japanese photographer Tetsuji Shimizu — an immersive exploration of the gay scene in San Francisco in 1980, brilliantly designed by Teruhiko Yumura (King Terri, Terrible Terri, etc.)! Rare even in Japan.

Published by Byakuya Shobo, this glossy, vinyl jacket-bound photo book is similar in format to Seiji Kurata's "Flash Up," published around the same time. While visiting New York, Shimizu was astounded by the sights of Christopher Street, the epicenter of LGBT culture. He traveled to the West Coast through word of mouth and immersed himself in the gay culture there, capturing the night-life of Castro and Folsom Streets with his camera — the leather daddies, the bondage dungeons, the bars, and back at the apartments. The impact of the images was so great that it inspired Shimizu to become a photographer. This is such a unique book that Nobuyoshi Araki said, "As I looked through this photobook, I wanted to become a subject myself."

The book also includes a fold-out pin-up, a chapter of intimate black and white close-up erotic scenes, polaroids and Kodachrome slide photo albums documenting the daily lives of friends in the SF scene — the boyfriends, the queens, the bears, fetish shops, sex toys, poppers and wardrobes, a chapter of reproductions of sex toy catalogues illustrated by the great San Francisco illustrator Rex, plus wild erotic artworks from Martin/Hottman/Teruhiko Yumura, master of the punk manga movement and the heta-uma illustration aesthetic.

Very Good copy in original publishers vinyl jacket. As common with old Japanese books preserved in these original plastic dust jackets, they shrink with age and here it has caused the back cover to partially crease.

File under: Teruhiko Yumura Tetsuji Shimizu Rex Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM

Yaso
Special Feature : Gothic

2003, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 24 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"Gothic" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, published in 2003, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese with in-depth profiles, interviews with and essays on Trevor Brown, Gottfried Helnwein, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, ero-manga master Keizo Miyanishi, influential Gothic Lolita illustrator Mitsukazu Mihara, Floria Sigismondi, Marilyn Manson, Alice Auaa, loads of "Modern Primitive" material (piercing, body modification, body performance, etc.), and much more...

Near Fine copy.

File under: Bauhaus Siouxsie and The Banshees Trevor Brown Floria Sigismondi Gottfried Helnwein Kuniyoshi Kaneko Keizo Miyanishi Mitsukazu Mihara Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Photography Japanese Photography Counterculture Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Fashion Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Surrealism Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater

Yaso No. 5
Special Feature : Corpse

1982/1992, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

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"Corpse" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, first published in 1982, then re-printed in 1992, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese that look at the theme of death and the dead in the arts, literature, occultism, ancient sciences, philosophy, mythology, poetry, film, crime, and much more. Features John Duncan, Tetsumi Kudo, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Masahisa Fukase, Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe Potts (LAFMS), Takashi Ishii, Rudolf II — Holy Roman Emperor, Akinari Ueda, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Burden, Paul Celan, Alain Resnais, Gilyak Amagasaki, Shusaku Arakawa, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Shuji Terayama, Andy Warhol, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, Kyoko Endoh, Princess Yongtai, Salvador Dalí, Ono no Komachi, Kiyoshi Kasai, Caravaggio, Throbbing Gristle, Takizawa Bakin, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Manson Family, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Wu Zetian, Genesis P-Orridge, Yusuke Nakahara, Ranpo Lagrange, Mitsusada Fukasaku, Nakai Hideo, Richard Wagner, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Chris Burden Alain Resnais Gilyak Amagasaki Shusaku Arakawa Andy Warhol Brian Wilson Kyoko Endoh John Duncan Tetsumi Kudo Cosey Fanni Tutti Joe Potts (LAFMS) Takashi Ishii Salvador Dali Caravaggio Throbbing Gristle Marcel Duchamp Masahisa Fukase Shuji Terayama Franz Kafka Guillaume Apollinaire Ono no Komachi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Akinari Ueda Kiyoshi Kasai Takizawa Bakin Paul Celan Yusuke Nakahara Fyodor Dostoevsky Ranpo Lagrange Mitsusada Fukasaku Nakai Hideo Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Film / Video Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Counterculture Eros Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Theory / Essay

SALE2 No.28
Fetishism issue (w. feather)

1986, Japanese
Softcover, 160 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Issue No.28 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty bookshop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980—90s. Each issue covers different themes and features, heavy on fetishism.

Issue No.28, the "Fetishism" issue features collected writings and images around the theme of fetish by John Willie, Bizarre Magazine, Pierre Molinier, Irina Ionesco, Bernard Faucon (his incredible Summer Camp series), Irwing Klaw, Centurians Publishing Inc. bondage catalogues, Andy Warhol and much more... What's more, this issue comes complete with a green synthetic feather to kickstart your own sensual adventures.

Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

File under: John Willie Pierre Molinier Irina Ionesco Bernard Faucon Irwing Klaw Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Counterculture Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism LGBTQ+

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

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

$190.00 - Out of stock

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

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

Very Good copy in illustrated dust jacket.

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

SM Kitan September 1977

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

$40.00 - In stock -

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

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

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

SM Kitan October 1977

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

$40.00 - In stock -

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

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

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

SM Kitan November 1977

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

$40.00 - Out of stock

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

Mature audiences (18+) only.

Very Good copy. Light cover wear/age.

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

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

$110.00 - In stock -

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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

Return to Bondage

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

$45.00 - In stock -

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

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

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

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

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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

Raymond Pettibon
Exterminating The Eagles

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 28 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by SST Publications / Lawndale

$400.00 - In stock -

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Rare early Raymond Pettibon zine from 1985 for SST Publications, Lawdale, California. "Limited to five hundred copies (of which some four hundred were destroyed)", "Exterminating The Eagles" reproduces twenty-eight psychologically-charged, graphic fables for which Pettibon is famed.

Hand-numbered by Pettibon in red ink #120 of 500.

In Exterminating the Eagles, Raymond Pettibon tackles race, violence and inner city crime using his spare, expressive ink drawings. Subjects include a White Power shop owner, a sourpuss grandmother, Nancy Reagan and Hitler. Pettibon notes, “Unauthorized duplication is unAmerican, i.e., unprofitable.”

Known for his poetic and anarchic collisions of "high" and "low" cultural forms, Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-1970s with his raw, literary-inflected imagery making zines published by his brother's record label SST Publications, fliers, and other ephemera within the SoCal punk scene, for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen... "His work became identified with a brash and iconoclastic visual style that would influence and speak for an entire generation of disaffected youth … He stands alongside a generation of Los Angeles artists who have tackled the dissolution of American idealism head-on using fragments of its own visual culture." Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon.

Guaranteed authentic example of this uncommon, early Pettibon tour de force (entry number twenty-two in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98").

Good copy, wear around the edges, especially the spine, still holding together but with some splitting. General toning/marking/wear from age. Preserved in archival mylar with backing board.

File under: Raymond Pettibon SST Publications / Lawndale Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Out-of-print / Rare Sound / Music Counterculture

Raymond Pettibon
The Express Sex Train

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 28 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by SST Publications / Lawndale

$440.00 - In stock -

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Very rare early Raymond Pettibon zine from 1985 for SST Publications, Lawdale, California. "Limited to five hundred copies (of which some four hundred were destroyed)", "The Express Sex Train" reproduces twenty-eight psychologically-charged drawings.

Hand-numbered by Pettibon in red ink #426 of 500.

Known for his poetic and anarchic collisions of "high" and "low" cultural forms, Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-1970s with his raw, literary-inflected imagery making zines published by his brother's record label SST Publications, fliers, and other ephemera within the SoCal punk scene, for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen... "His work became identified with a brash and iconoclastic visual style that would influence and speak for an entire generation of disaffected youth … He stands alongside a generation of Los Angeles artists who have tackled the dissolution of American idealism head-on using fragments of its own visual culture." Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon.

Guaranteed authentic example of this uncommon, early Pettibon tour de force (entry number twenty-two in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98").

Good copy with wear around the edges, still with solid binding. General toning/marking/wear from age. Preserved in archival mylar with backing board.

File under: Raymond Pettibon SST Publications / Lawndale Sound / Music Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Out-of-print / Rare Art Counterculture

Raymond Pettibon
Pig Cupid

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 28 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by SST Publications / Lawndale

$400.00 - In stock -

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Very rare early Raymond Pettibon zine from 1985 for SST Publications, Lawdale, California. "Limited to five hundred copies (of which some four hundred were destroyed)", "The Express Sex Train" reproduces twenty-eight psychologically-charged, graphic fables for which Pettibon is famed.

Hand-numbered by Pettibon in red ink #88 of 500.

The plaintive cover image of Pig Cupid is captioned “Why do I dream of undertow when I don’t even know what it is?” This zine, by punk artist Raymond Pettibon, deals with violent love and toxic relationships. Many of the women within have been violated, deserted, shot, bought or sold, but Pettibon’s fluid line drawings capture the inexplicable pull of desire, even against a woman’s better judgement. Cupid, argues Pettibon, is a pig.

Known for his poetic and anarchic collisions of "high" and "low" cultural forms, Raymond Pettibon first came to prominence during the late-1970s with his raw, literary-inflected imagery making zines published by his brother's record label SST Publications, fliers, and other ephemera within the SoCal punk scene, for Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Minutemen... "His work became identified with a brash and iconoclastic visual style that would influence and speak for an entire generation of disaffected youth … He stands alongside a generation of Los Angeles artists who have tackled the dissolution of American idealism head-on using fragments of its own visual culture." Over the subsequent decades, the erstwhile Southern California artist has deservedly become an international contemporary art icon.

Guaranteed authentic example of this uncommon, early Pettibon tour de force (entry number twenty-two in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98").

Good copy with wear around the edges, still with solid binding. General toning/marking/wear from age. Preserved in archival mylar with backing board.

File under: Raymond Pettibon SST Publications / Lawndale Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Counterculture Sound / Music

EROS No. 1
Spring 1962

1962, English
Hardcover, 90 pages, 32.3 x 24.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eros Magazine / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Volume One, No. 1, Spring 1962 issue of the legendary, short-lived and controversial Eros magazine, published by Ralph Ginzburg and art director Herb Lubalin, a quarterly and revolutionary hardbound periodical containing articles and photo-essays on love and sex. Besides the learned introductions and publication of classical erotica, Eros covered stories about sexual practices that were until then piously hidden from the public eye. Although there was hardly a hint of pornography in the journal, it was explicit enough to trigger fatally the puritanical reflexes rooted so deeply in American culture. Eros was beset by legal and financial problems. The magazine closed down after four issues, partly because it was so expensive to produce, but primarily because Ginsburg, as editor, was absurdly convicted under federal obscenity laws for the fourth issue, which featured a naked, bi-racial couple embracing.

Eros was one of a group of vanguard publications created by Ginzberg and Lubalin in the 1960s-1970s, including fact: and Avant-Garde, that became iconic in the history of graphic design, ushering in a new generation of artistic publishing that was intelligent, humorous and caustically critical of American society and government via the bold and sensitive typographical approach synonymous with the work of the great Lubalin.

Good copy with light wear to hardcovers, some wear to board edges, light foxing/toning.

File under: Ralph Ginzburg Herb Lubalin Ralph Ginzburg Eros Magazine / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Sociology / Politics Counterculture Gender Studies / Sexuality

EROS No. 4
Winter 1962

1962, English
Hardcover, 90 pages, 32.3 x 24.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Eros Magazine / New York

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Volume One, No. 4, Winter 1962 issue of the legendary, short-lived and controversial Eros magazine, published by Ralph Ginzburg and art director Herb Lubalin, a quarterly and revolutionary hardbound periodical containing articles and photo-essays on love and sex. Besides the learned introductions and publication of classical erotica, Eros covered stories about sexual practices that were until then piously hidden from the public eye. Although there was hardly a hint of pornography in the journal, it was explicit enough to trigger fatally the puritanical reflexes rooted so deeply in American culture. Eros was beset by legal and financial problems. The magazine closed down after four issues, partly because it was so expensive to produce, but primarily because Ginsburg, as editor, was absurdly convicted under federal obscenity laws for the fourth issue, which featured a naked, bi-racial couple embracing.

Eros was one of a group of vanguard publications created by Ginzberg and Lubalin in the 1960s-1970s, including fact: and Avant-Garde, that became iconic in the history of graphic design, ushering in a new generation of artistic publishing that was intelligent, humorous and caustically critical of American society and government via the bold and sensitive typographical approach synonymous with the work of the great Lubalin.

Very Good copy with light foxing/toning.

File under: Ralph Ginzburg Herb Lubalin Ralph Ginzburg Eros Magazine / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Sociology / Politics Counterculture Gender Studies / Sexuality

These Are Drugs: A Photo Look at the Roots of Modern Disease
by Kazuo Kenmochi

1984 / 1995, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 144 pages, 21.3 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Rippu Shobo / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First 1984 edition of this seldom seen photo book by Japanese photographer Kazuo Kenmochi, These Are Drugs: A Photographic Look at the Roots of Modern Disease. Kazuo Kenmochi, an extraordinary figure in Japanese photography, published three ground-breaking photo books that rank as some of the most comprehensive books on drug addiction ever published — Narcotic Photographic Document, Narcotic '61-'72, and Narcotic Damage in Japan (published 1963 through to 1975). These illuminating books of frontline photo-reportage detail the drug culture in Japan in the early 1960s that was spread by U.S. soldiers after the war. A photo artist with direct access as photographer for the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Police Agency, Kenmochi captures all the aspects of the culture from drug production, to distribution, to use, addiction, withdrawal, overdose, raids, seizure, arrests, incarceration, all in great detail. Alongside incredible photo documents of addicts in varying states of disarray, the books photographically documents the seizures, identifies the drug types/variations, paraphernalia, the methods of use, the signs of use on the body, and charts their origins in nature and distribution. Kenmochi's comprehensive observations, ingeniously utilising methods of identity abstraction and provocative photographic techniques used in erotic photography (a field he was active in), to confidentially capture drug use through stark and very intimate moments with users. This 1984 volume collects a selection of the images (vivid colour and b/w) from these highly sought after books into one concise softcover volume.

First 1984 edition, 1995 printing.
Fine—As New in NF dust jacket, preserved under mylar dust jacket, light creasing.

File under: Kazuo Kenmochi Kazuo Kenmochi Rippu Shobo / Japan Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Photography Drugs / Psychedelia Counterculture

SALE2 NO.36
Female Foot Fetishism Special Issue

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 208 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Fiction Inc. / Tokyo

$70.00 - In stock -

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Issue No.36 of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art.

Issue No.36, the "Female Foot Fetishism Special Issue" with the wonderful wraparound Pierre Molinier cover is packed with imagery and essays around the theme of "Foot and Fetish Heel" throughout history, literature, film and fetish publishing, etc. profusely illustrated with drawings, photography, bondage illustrations, film stills, catalogue clippings, and artworks, including works by Bill Ward, Pierre Molinier, Nobuyoshi Araki, and so many more. It also features the Fiction, Inc. section that samples a cross-section of content from catalogue publications including the work of John Willie, Bill Ward, Carlo, Eric Stanton, Irving Claw, Betty Page, and periodicals such as Rubber Magazine, Amateur Bondage, Bizarre Comix, Bizarre Classix, Bizarre Fotos, Stiletto, and much more... Very heavily illustrated throughout with erotic photography and artwork, all texts in Japanese.

Very Good copy.

File under: Bill Ward Pierre Molinier Nobuyoshi Araki John Willie Carlo Eric Stanton Irving Claw Betty Page Fiction Inc. / Tokyo Fetishism / BDSM Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fashion LGBTQ+ Surrealism Theory / Essay

T.A.Z. : The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
by Hakim Bey

1985 / 2001, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 11.4 x 17.2 cm
Published by Autonomedia / New York

$29.00 - Out of stock

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"A Blake Angel on Bad Acid" — Robert Anton Wilson
"Fascinating..." — William Burroughs
"Who is Hakim Bey? I love him!" — Timothy Leary

Back in print — the underground cult bestseller and first book by anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson) published in 1991 by Autonomedia. Originally published in 1985 and circulated in the underground via small private and pirate editions, these texts were an inspiration for a generation of troublemakers and idealists. Both celebrated in the punk underground (where the original book has become a seminal text) and denounced in some anarchist circles, the book has proved itself as both influential and relevant to multiple generations of dreamers, agitators, and activists.

Essays that redefine the psychogeographical nooks of autonomy. Recipes for poetic terror, anarcho-black magic, post-situ psychotropic surgery, denunciations of spiritual addictions to vapid infotainment cults — this is the bastard classic, the watermark impressed upon our minds. Where conscience informs praxis, and action infects consciousness, T.A.Z. is beginning to worm its way into above-ground culture. This book offers inspired blasts of writing, from slogans to historical essays, on the need to insert revolutionary happiness into everyday life through poetic action, and celebrating the radical optimism present in outlaw cultures. It should appeal to alternative thinkers and punks everywhere, as it celebrates liberation, love and poetic living.

This new edition contains the full text of "Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism", the complete "Communiques of the Association for Ontological Anarchy", and the new long essay "The Temporary Autonomous Zone", and a new preface by the author.

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Hakim Bey Autonomedia / New York Theory / Essay Counterculture Anarchism Sociology / Politics

Angura (Underground Theatre) No. 3 (Shūji Terayama)
February, 1970 (Eros and Theater)

1970, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo

$240.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Angura (Underground Theatre) issue 3, 1970, the "Dramatic Theory Magazine" published in Tokyo by Shūji Terayama's radical avant-garde theatre company Tenjō Sajiki. With gorgeous graphic design and (Aleister Crowley) cover by graphic designer Heikichi Harata, this issue's special feature is ‘Eros and Theater’, edited by Shūji Terayama and Masahiko Akuta with contributions by Terayama, photographer Hajime Sawatari, writer Taruho Inagaki, director Takahiko Iimura, anthropologist Masao Yamaguchi, playwright Yasunari Takahashi, director and cinematographer Sakumi Hagiwara, film director Nobuhiro Kawanaka, playwright Rio Kishida, and many others. A very unique periodical that not only discusses in-depth the works of Angura theatre, but also the international avant-garde, inviting diverse critical perspectives on performance and anti- and living-theatre, sharing ground with Gutai and Fluxus. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams and photographs, mixing themes of pop, protest, surrealism, and eros, plus texts and scripts in Japanese. A rare printed embodiment of Tenjō Sajiki, Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and the Japanese underground.

Tenjō Sajiki was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. Led by Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer Shūji Terayama, the prolific group was active between 1967 and 1983 (until Terayama's death). A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Tenjō Sajiki benefitted greatly from collaborations with a number of prominent artists, including musicians J. A. Seazer and Kan Mikami, and graphic designers Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

File under: Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Tenjō Sajiki Heikichi Harata Tadanori Yokoo Yasunari Takahashi Takahiko Iimura Hajime Sawatari Izumi Suzuki Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Counterculture

Angura (Underground Theatre) No. 5 (Shūji Terayama)
August, 1972 (City Drama / Human-powered airplane Solomon)

1972, Japanese
Softcover, 340 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Rare copy of Angura (Underground Theatre) issue 5, 1972, the "Dramatic Theory Magazine" published in Tokyo by Shūji Terayama's radical avant-garde theatre company Tenjō Sajiki. With iconic cover photography by Shūji Terayama, this issue's special feature is ‘City Drama / Human-powered airplane Solomon’, with contributions by Terayama, artsit Jiro Takamatsu, butoh dancer and choreographer Akira Kasai, actress Eiko Kujo, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, film director Nobuhiro Kawanaka, playwright Yutaka Higashi, film critic Shigechika Sato, musician J. A. Seazer, musician Shigeo Takenaga, musician Norihito Inaba, photographer Hiroshi Yamazaki, and many others. A very unique periodical that not only discusses in-depth the works of Angura theatre, but also the international avant-garde, inviting diverse critical perspectives on performance and anti- and living-theatre, sharing ground with Gutai and Fluxus. Illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams and photographs, mixing themes of pop, protest, surrealism, and eros, plus texts and scripts in Japanese. A rare printed embodiment of Tenjō Sajiki, Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and the Japanese underground.

Tenjō Sajiki was a Japanese independent theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama, Kujō Kyōko, Yutaka Higashi, Tadanori Yokoo, and Fumiko Takagi. Led by Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer Shūji Terayama, the prolific group was active between 1967 and 1983 (until Terayama's death). A major phenomenon on the Japanese Angura ("underground") theater scene, the group has produced a number of stage works marked by experimentalism, folklore influences, social provocation, grotesque eroticism and the flamboyant fantasy characteristic of Terayama's oeuvre. Tenjō Sajiki benefitted greatly from collaborations with a number of prominent artists, including musicians J. A. Seazer and Kan Mikami, and graphic designers Aquirax Uno and Tadanori Yokoo.

Shūji Terayama (1935 — 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. Terayama is considered one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan, with a wide-reaching influence on many artists from the 1970s onward.

File under: Shuji Terayama Shūji Terayama Tenjo Sajiki Tenjō Sajiki Jiro Takamatsu Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuhiro Kawanaka Akira Kasai Yutaka Higashi Eiko Kujo J. A. Seazer Norihito Inaba Shigeo Takenaga Hiroshi Yamazaki Izumi Suzuki Shigechika Sato Tenjō Sajiki / Tokyo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Theory / Essay Periodicals Eros Counterculture