World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
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about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
1980, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. acetate jacket and obi-strip), 190 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo
$850.00 - In stock -
First edition. A seminal Japanese photo book and instant classic upon release, Flash up is one of the most remarkable photographic excursions into the seedy underbelly of 1970s Tokyo. Kurata (b. 1945—2020), one Japan’s formidable contemporary photographers who’s work is often referenced in the same circles as his "Provoke" teachers Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki, won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for this, his first book, his acclaimed collection of photographs of creatures of the night — gangsters showing off their full-length tattoos, youth styling themselves after the Hells Angels, self-professed ultra-nationalists from the notorious Black Dragon Society, transvestites drawing in crowds of men, cabaret girls...
"The photographs of Seiji Kurata are striking for their violence. The viewer must be prepared to be hit by his flashgun along with the subjects. ‘Violence’, in this case, is not necessarily invoked by the scenes of blood-shed; rather, it is Kurata’s sharp-shooting ability to stop the flow of time, capture the moment, draw of details we would otherwise never see, then proffer them up before our eyes. Sometimes our response is to avert our eyes for fear of seeing too much. This is not to say that the images are not exaggerated; for after all, people tend only to see what they want to see. If there are those who find Kurata’s photographs ‘ugly’, it can only be said that he has succeeded in paradoxically pointing the finger at them: You who want to avoid ugliness, he says, this is reality and I have cut it out for you. [...] we must admit that the ugliness apparent in these photographs is our ugliness. Our failure to do so simply invites Kurata to deal us an extra-violent blow with his images."—Akira Hasegawa, from the afterword.
Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, Vol. II.
Text in English and Japanese.
Very Good copy, wear and usual shrinkage to publisher's thick acetate dust jacket, VG original metallic obi-strip, Very Good book, light bump to one corner.
2017, English / German
Softcover, 72 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by
Sternberg Press / Berlin
$45.00 - In stock -
For her first institutional solo Darja Bajagić turns to the murky terrain where real and staged violence bleed into each other with an ease both unsettling and alluring. This has been a key undercurrent to a practice that spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Following the lure of the fringes, the artist culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web. She handles these disparate source materials with a dose of humor, working them into densely layered compositions that are at once confrontational and poetically fragile. Bajagić explores loaded questions of embodiment, viewership, and power relations, all the while interrogating our need to hold images accountable.
The catalogue is published on the occasion of the artist’s first institutional exhibition, “Unlimited Hate,” which was shown at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in the summer of 2016.
Edited by Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien
Texts by Alissa Bennett, Franklin Melendez, Natalia Sielewicz
Design by Nik Thoenen and Maia Gusberti
1975, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Tandem / London
$65.00 - In stock -
First 1975 paperback edition.
"This book is unique in the literature of witchcraft. Many volumes record the tortures, confessions and executions of the witch trials; few examine the origin and beliefs of this remarkable subterranean cult which has survived almost unchanged through the centuries.
Michael Harrison, unrivalled in the field of historical detection, gives convincing answers to questions which other writers on witchcraft have persistently dodged—What part did Man's earliest organised religion, the Old Fertility Cult, play in the development of witchcraft? Where did the evil side of the Fertility Cult- Diabolism - evolve, and how and when did it enter Europe?
But the most important revelation in this book is the author's achievement in translating the ancient 'language of the covens', the 'gibberish' of the witch-trial records, the lost language whose identification holds the key to the very Roots of Witchcraft.
"A wide-ranging work which has achieved a remarkable breakthrough".—Yorkshire Evening Press
"...profound chronology of the cult from pre-history, through Druidism, to Salem and the present day".—Evening News
VG copy with light general wear.
1975 / 1995, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Pimlico Books / London
$30.00 - In stock -
1995 UK second edition of Australian philosopher Peter Singer's groundbreaking book, Animal Liberation, first published in 1975. Considered to be the founding philosophical statement of the ideas behind the animal liberation movement, Animal Liberation exposed the realities of life for animals in factory farms and testing laboratories and provided a powerful moral basis for rethinking our relationship to them.
"An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects. It galvanised a generation to action. Groups sprang up around the world, equipped with a new vocabulary, a new set of ethics and a new sense of mission...Singer's book is widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement."—Independent on Sunday
Immensely influential and powerful, Animal Liberation is also highly unusual. A comprehensive analysis of conditions in factory farms and animal laboratories, it compellingly argues that we should stop eating meat. A work of philosophy, it includes recipes for vegetarian food. In this revised edition, Peter Singer discusses the evolution of the animal rights movement and the extent to which his own views have changed since first publication. He also graphically updates his account of what is being done to animals in the name of scientific, military and commercial research.
"A reasoned plea for the humane treatment of animals that galvanised the animal-rights movement the way Rachel Carson's Silent Spring drew activists to environmentalism."—New York Times
"Important and responsible...Everyone ought to read it."—Richard Adams, English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs
Good—VG copy with tanned pages (usual with this edition).
1995, English
Softcover, 276 pages, 24.5 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Creation Books / London
$80.00 - In stock -
From Peeping Tom to Videodrome, Mondo Cane to "shockumentaries", Faces of Death to live TV suicides.
The 1994 cult classic, in the updated and revised 1995 edition, Killing for Culture: Death Film from Mondo to Snuff by David Kerekes & David Slater, the definitive investigation into that controversial and inflammatory of all urban myths: the "snuff" movie. Including: Feature film, Mondo film, Death film, and a comprehensive filmography and index. Illustrated by rare and stunning photographs from cinema, documentary and real life, Killing for Culture is a vital book which examines and questions the human obsession with images of violence, dismemberment and death, and the way our society is coping with an increased profusion of these disturbing yet compelling images from all quarters.
Very Good copy, light wear to covers.
1977, English
Softcover, 818 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Macmillan / Sydney
$65.00 - In stock -
Scarce first (and only) 1977 edition.
Conflict & Control in the Cinema brings together, for the first time in one format, essays from a whole range of perspectives on the sociology of film. From Siefried Kracauer, Chritian Metz, Andrew Tudor, Edgar Morin, Raymond Durgnat, Robert Anton Wilson, Glauba Rocha, Sergei Yutkevich, John Tulloch, George A. Huaco, and many more, plus interviews w. Alain Tanner, Michel Foucault, Ousmane Sembène, Costa-Gavras, amongst others. Dr Tulloch's introductory essays in each section are an important feature, placing and evaluating the various contributions to the field (including the latest structuralist approaches to film study), in a language designed to be readable by the non-specialist. John Tulloch's own genetic structuralist approach provides a unifying framework for the book, and at the same time suggests an important and neglected alternative to contemporary forms of film theory. By relating each sociological perspective mainly to one aspect of the cinema documentary, Hollywood, heroes and villains, political film, the Western, etc the author avoids abstraction and provides a book which will enable the film enthusiast to consider the cinema in a more systematic way.
John Tulloch completed his first degree and Dip Ed at Cambridge (England), and his MA and PhD at the University of Sussex. He has taught the sociology of film and literature at school, college and university level in England and Australia. He is editor of the Australian Journal of Screen Theory and lectures in Film and Society in the Department of General Studies, University of NSW
Good—Very Good copy. Considering the book is 818 pages, this is a well-preserved copy, with only a few spine creases, light wear and tanning to spine/cover edge.
2003, English
Softcover, 254 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Berg / Oxford
$25.00 - In stock -
'Trench art' is the evocative name given to a dazzling array of objects made from the waste of industrialized war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from shrapnel, tells a unique and moving story about its maker. For the first time, this book explores in-depth the history and cultural importance behind these ambiguous art forms. Not only do they symbolize human responses to the atrocities of war, but they also act as mediators between soldiers and civilians, individuals and industrial society, and, most importantly, between the living and the dead.
Trench art resonates most obviously with the terror of endless bombardment, night raids, gas attacks and the bestial nature of trench life. It grew in popularity between 1919 and 1939 when the bereaved embarked on battlefield pilgrimages and returned with objects intended to keep alive the memory of loved ones. The term 'trench art' is, however, misleading, as it does not simply refer to materials made in the trenches. It describes a diverse range of objects that have in some way emerged from the experience of war all over the world. Many distinctive objects, for example, were made during conflicts in Bosnia, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and Korea. Surprisingly, trench art predates World War I and it can be found in a number of earlier wars such as the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the Boer War.
Saunders looks at the broader issues of what is meant by 'trench art', what it was before the trenches and how it fits in with other art movements, as well as the specific materials used in making it. He suggests that it can be seen as a bridge between the nineteenth century 'certainties' and the fragmented industrialized values and ideals of the modern world. This long overdue study offers an original and informative look at one of the most arresting forms of art. Spanning from 1800 to the present day, its analysis of art, human experience, and warfare will pave the way for new research and will be of great interest to cultural and military historians, anthropologists, art historians and collectors.
Nicholas J. Saunders, University College London
Very Good copy, light wear.
1986, Japanese
Hardcover (w. plastic slipcase), 280 pages, 22 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Libro Port Publishing Co. Ltd. / Tokyo
$70.00 - In stock -
Incredible hardcover, slipcased anthology of essays, Biological Ruins Theory, by esteemed Japanese art historian and media theorist Toshiharu Ito, published in Tokyo in 1986. Housed in lavish screen-printed plastic slipcase and metallic silver engraved hardcover with various paper-stocks and films used throughout, Biological Ruins Theory collects Ito's diverse essays relating to the intersection of the biological human body and the machine — from robots to fascists to fetishists to body alchemy to freaks to abnormal electric babies to cargo cult to photographic violence and much more, lavishly illustrated and featuring Marcel Duchamp, H.R. Giger, Pierre Molinier, Hans Bellmer, Rudolf Schlichter, Cindy Sherman, Ed Paschke, Robert Longo, Lucas Samaras, Steven F. Arnold, Joel Peter Witkin, Francis Picabia, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Miron Zownir, Arnolf Rainer, Issey Miyake, and so many more. Ito wrote the introduction to Giger's Necronomicon Japanese edition, reproduced in full here with many of Giger's artworks,
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1953, Toshiharu Ito is an art historian, art and communication theorist and exhibition curator. He was professor at the Tama Art University of Tokyo from 1990 to 2001, and at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music since 2001. He is Artistic Director at the Intermedia Institute of Osaka since 1995, and from 1992 to 1998 curator at the Inter Communication Center of Tokyo; he worked as Artistic Director at Tokyo AAD Studio from 2000 to 2003. A selection of his published works includes the following titles: History of 20th Century Photography (Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo Pub., 1988); Machine Art (Tokyo, Iwanami Pub., 1991); Electronic Art (Tokyo, NTT Press, 1999).
VG—Near Fine copy.
2013, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 16.5 x 11.5 cm
Published by
AK Press / Edinburgh
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First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action--a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Tea.
"To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. It's not. The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon... It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful."—Michelle Tea
"Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around... You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show; they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out."—Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.
2024, English
Hardcover, 480 pages, 29.7 x 20 cm
Published by
Korm Plastics / Netherlands
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Edited and assembled by Kristian Olsson. Almost an encyclopedia of esoteric knowledge, dark music and arts and much beyond! Book-format publication dealing with all kinds of apocalyptic culture, anarchic rants, archaic sorcery, damned poets, esoterrorist tactics, forbidden knowledge, libertine lusts, necromantic collages, oneiric musings, outlaw occultism, perversion, sinister arts and visual expansionism. Giftnålen is the foul arts journal for death-obsessed brutes and society’s outcasts. Revel in amoral excesses through 480 pages. Sit back and enjoy reading while this world burns. A total derangement of the senses. Heavily illustrated with tons of exclusive and rarely seen material.
Harking back to the days of the late 1980s-early 1990s in terms of diversity of content, drawing inspiration from underground books & publications such as Amok, Esoterra, Exit, Force Mental, Pandemonium, Rapid Eye Movement, Svarta Fanor and so on. Giftnålen takes it next level and further into unknown territory.
Including passages, large or brief, dealing with:
Sigvard Nilsson Thurneman & Den Magiska Cirkeln, ”Thurneman & Liemannen from the perspective of a LHP initiate” by Johannes Kvarnbrink, “The Vultures of Sala”, Georges Bataille & the Acephale society, ”Death and Night and Blood: Yukio Mishima & the Asceticism of Japanese Death-Aesthetics”, ”Hatets sånger” by Leon Larsson, ”Hyoscyamus Nigredo: From Silver Into Lead”, “Manhunter: Thurneman – Occultist & Serial Killer” by Wulvaricht, ”The Devil in Delgada: The Strange & Unusual Lives of Johnny Bode & Tom Zacharias”, ”11.000 Days in Säter: Från Dårhus till Bårhus”, ”The Sense of Bel-Longing” poem by Julian Theurgen, “The Thurneman improvisations” by Sten Röse, “Sigvards sterbthaler”, ”The Triumph of Death” by Alberto Caraco, SalaSatanskin, Judas Ekholm, ”The Poisonous Needle: Esoterrorist Credo of the Sinister Outlaw”, ”Salaligan: Tools of the Trade”, melancholia, Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan over a hundred years, De Strigmagarum Daemonique Mirandis, ”The Curse of the Third Eye”, ”Fem-femmornas fotbollsmatch: criminal all-stars Thurneman, Salaligan & Johnny Bode teaming up against the screws at the Långholmen prison”, Tillbergamördaren, Renzo Novatore, ”Teurgisk Terrortantra: Photos by MalFiore di Fiele & Frida Ghiozzi (Omega Kunst)”, ”The Poetic Tradition of Swedish Melancholia: A Portrayal of Dismal & Unfortunate Death-seekers in the ruinous Land of the Midnight Sun”, Nattmaran, ”Lasse Lucidor – the Unfortunate: Rusets och ruelsens skald”, Erik Johan Stagnelius – Dweller in the Arms of Putrefaction, Plato, Dante, ”Iatromantis: To Die Before You Die”, Meister Eckhart, Parmenides, the Upanishads, Djävulsbrand, Styggen, underworldly descent, Peter Kingsley, ”Avfyrning!”, Ecstasies, The Death Principle, ”Henbane: Saturnalia Poison” & ”A Woodland Sitting” by Sentinessence, ”The Linkola Legacy”, Apocalypse Culture, Deep Ecology, Oscar Wilde, Max Stirner, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Camus, ”Killing Cults & Their Slaves” reflections by Charles Manson (exclusive text submitted by ATWA/ATWAR), “Red & Blue”, ”Ashen Synchronicities”, haruspex of criminal gnosis, ”Meeting with a Remarkable Man: An Interview with Nikolas Schreck”, Spiritual Warriorhood in the Age of Dissolution, Initiatory Mysteries in the Temples of Karnak, The Faustian Quest, Charlatans of Occulture, Vama Marg, Esoteric Tantric Buddhism, The Three Poisons, Solitude & Subtraction, The Process Church of Final Judgement, Scientology, ”Counter-Culture”: A Fly Entangled in the Webs of Maya, luddite poetry, The Manson-File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman, Eros & Thanatos, Storms of Sethian Liberation, ”Abraxas & His Mysteries: The Forgotten God & the Hidden Nature of Reality”, Abraxas in Hesse’s ”Demian”, extract from ”Opposition is True Friendship” – Karl NE on Abrades, D.H. Lawrence ”Taos”, The Abraxas Foundation, Michael Moynihan, Boyd Rice, ”Monarchie Infernale: The Occult History of the Royal Court and the Aristocratic Elite in Sweden during the Gustavian Era”, ”Of Blind Men & Occult Forces”, Blutleuchte, “The Hearts of Kings” Ajna Offensive, Descent magazine, Lightbringers of the North, Gustav Biörnram – necromancer of the Swedish king Gustav III, The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, ”Nekromantiens: Riter vid Sankt Johannes Kyrkogård”, Andrew Chumbley, Algolagonia, The Malleus Maleficarum: Europe Overshadowed by the Hammer of Witches, The Gates of Hell Opening in Copenhagen, La sorcière, ”Method for Achieving Communication with Spirits” translated notes from the necromantic conjurations of Gustaf Björnram, ”Carl August Ehrensvärd & Den Esoteriska Kretsen: Eleusinian Mysteries & Orphic Hymns in the Mythological Labyrinth”, Gottfried Benn, ”The Mystical Signatures of Adolph Falkenberg”, Gustaf Adolf Reutersholm, Den Esoteriska Kretsen, Sophia Perennis, René Guenon, J.W. von Goethe, Oswald Spengler, ”Death to those who seek false comforts” by Erica Frevel, ”In the Midst of Life, We are in Death”, ”Riddles of the Sevenfold Way”, Anton Long, Algernon Blackwood, ”The Man Whom the Trees Loved”, Richard Moult, Michael Morthwork,”The Ordeal of the Abyss: Interview with Christos Beest”, ”From Ancient Gods into New Devils”, Wotan, self-sacrificial offerings, burial traditions, black magic rites, C.S. Lewis, Guido Cernonetti, Man Ray, BDSM, Aldous Huxley, Octave Mirabeau, Ambrose Bierce, G.I. Gurdjieff, King Gustav III, ”Ernst Wagner against the degenerate world”, ”Liber Nigri Peregrinationis: The Black Pilgrimage to Chorazaim & the Crossing of the Abyss”, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonora Carrington, the scholia of Nicolas Gomez Davila, Arcana Europa, Ignus Fatuus: Irrlicht, The Lunar Accomplice”, Shintoism, ”Mount Analogue & the Dark Night of the Soul”, René Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, G.I. Gurdjieff, Saint John of the Cross, ”Behold… the Blood of the Moon”, Mircea Eliade, ”Det Sjunde Inseglet: Procession Scene”, ”H.P. Lovecraft – A Comrade of the Wolves & Rider of Nightmares”, Alain Robbe-Grillet, ”Mysterium Tremendum: An interview with Carl Nordblom”, “Det skälvande mysteriet”, infernal pacts, criminal gangs of Sweden, secret brotherhoods, the UR Group, Ezra Pound, August Strindberg, from “On the Heights of Despair” by Emil Cioran, self-transformation, Hanon-Tramp, Henri Fuseli, ”The Dawning New Days of Defeat”, Hagakure, ”Mishima on Death in the Modern Age”, Ba Ra Ken: Ordeal of Roses, Eino Leino, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, “Bo Ignatius Cavefors landstigen på Dödens ö”, Alexandra David-Neel, Janne Bergquist: an open cancerous wound on the body of society, Autonomisk Manual, Kenneth Anger, Sir Augen Goosens, the Anarchs-Futurist Manifesto, Ernest Coeurderoy, the Kindred of the Kibbo Gift, Antonin Artaud, Marquis de Sade, Set Teitan, Paul Verlaine, Guido von List, The Rise and Fall of Hanussen – Occult superstar of the Interwar Period: Charlatan from the Finee Salons of Berlin to Feeding a Family of Badgers, Zos Kia, Paul Wegener, ritual bloodletting, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Christos Beest, Carl von Linné, Boyd Rice, Nikanor Teratologen, Melek Taus of Holland, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Mensur scarification – A Rite of Passage in 20th century Europe, yoga practices with Che Guevara, ”Frank Braun: Devil hunter or doppelgänger?”, Blood mysticism & Teutonic Vampirism, Viktor Rydberg on the Mandragora, ”The Curse of Nosferatu: Fraternitas Saturni’s Master Pacitus & Prana Film”, Ernst Jünger ”Sicilian Letter to the Man in the Moon”, ”Female nomad decadents of the Ferkel Circle”, Frida Uhl, F.T. Marinetti, ”Blast of the Vortex Campaign: Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats & Wyndham Lewis”, Vienna Actionism, Odd Nerdrum, Andreas Baader, Night of Death in Stammheim, Liesmac of the Deverills, Ola Hansson: Pariah among outcasts, Edward Munch, Martin Heidegger, Jean Genet, insurrection, suicide as an ultimate revolutionary act, Peryt Schou & the Awakening of the Logos, Arte de Maleficium: Works of Art as Regicide, Gustav Meyrink, Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald – Alraune des Jugendstils, Stefan Eggier, Mahlon Blair, Karl Hans Strobl, Degenerate Germany: Perversion for Profit in the Weimar Republic, Human Sacrifice at the Magic Island Haiti, ”William Buehler Seabrook: Transcending All Transgressions”, sadomasochism, tantric masters, ”Three Tongue-less Mouths” by C. Nordblom, Maya Deren, ”The Sacred as Transgression: Roger Callois”, ”Lupercalia to Liberalia: An Extract from The Antichrist Phallus” & ”The Rustic Rite of the Wolf-Owl” by Wyrd Isle Collective, ”Grave-robbing in the Towers of Silence with Sven Hedin”, “Disciples of ‘Bone: The Dispossessed Sons of Albion”, Citipati and Kangling, ”The Minstrels of Misrule”, the Green Man, ”Mythos of Masked Gods and Mummering Men”, Kenneth Grant, Styggelser: Black Metal Abominations, Externsteine, J.G. Ballard, The Panic Movement, the Promethean flame, gnosticism, Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, William Ouidhuis’ Katabol, Abefko Nord: the volcanic island Alnö, Saint Antonius, the werewolf in Scandinavian mythology, Perun, the Cult of Dionysos, ”Apocalyptic Collisions of Tradition & Modernity in a Perpetual Dark Age”, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, Foucault, Fulcanelli & the Mystery of the Cathedrals, ”Play the King for a day…”, ”Rex Nemorensis: The Killing of the Divine King”, The Golden Bough, The Cultural Terrorist Manifesto, Sturm und Drang, tjyvheder, prison life, mythopoetic imagination, Carl Larsson’s “Midvinterblot”, Gösta Werner’s “Midvinterblot”, the cult of Frö, Nordic death cults, Lucia – Progenitress of Demonic Entities, álfar, ”Narcocultura Necromanteia: Criminal Devotees among the Cult of the Holy Death”, Liber Falxifer, Necrosophy, Santa Muerte / San La Muerte, Nyhamnskifte, In the Hoofprints of the Nordic Devil, The Thirteenth School and the Black Priests of Satan, Carl Gustav Jung & the Shadow, Herr Ola i Trång & Gammal-Sjul, Kyrkogrim, Kvick i jord, Created from the Shadow of God, Svartkonst: Nordic necromancy & nigromancy, Hultkläppen, the Hand of Glory, Tjuvljus, The Spiritus Familiaris & the Arcanum of Human Blood, do-it-yourself instructions for the making of ”bjäran”, Paracelsus, ”Den Ryktbara Trollpackan Kapten Elins förmenta resor till Blåkulla och Bekantskap med Djefwulen”, Hyltén-Cavallius ”Wärend och Wirdarne”, småfiffel, The Arcane and Forbidden Wisdom of Nordic Sorcery found in the Scandinavian books of the black arts, rare archive photographs of Nordic sorcerers and witches, Sanguine Vociferation, Ichor, Aztec blood rituals, Vampirism at the Execution site, Red & White: Shakti & Shiva, menstrual blood magic, Significance of “Red / Blue / Purple Wings” to the 1%er, Mandragora Officinarum, “Stä blod”, Aristocracy of the Soul: the warrior poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio, the anarchic republic of Fiume, Kapala & Damaru, ”Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: Drawn Towards Death Like a Moth Towards the Flame”, cyanide, Chhinnamasta: Acephalic Goddess of Paradoxes, Tantric graveyard meditations, ”Åderlåtning & blodmat”, Doktor Mabuse, Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Macabre Ritual Feasts of Freemasonry, Consanguinity, Offerings to the Dark Gods, the Necromancy of Erichto, Nikanor Teratologen: Dissekerande definitioner, Frithjof Schoun, female domination, Hermann Hesse, Dalai Lama, Miguel Serrano, Mithraic mysteries, Apolitea, ”Saint Sebastian: The Twice Martyred”, The Pagan Ways of emperor Diocletian, Aum: Suck on Sarin, The Electronic Revolution, Word Virus, cultural terrorism, artificial intelligence, psychoactive plants, Cimicidäemones: Bedbugs making your deathbed, ångerstål, vådastål, Nordic Sorcery, Demons of the Flesh, Gamen, opium dreams, godetia, demonomania, simulacra, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ned Ludd, MK Ultra, Jünger’s “Psykonauterna” & “Visit to Godenholm”, Executioners swords towards Externsteine, Herman Wirth, Pervitin, perversion, murder weapons & tools of self-wasters as magic objects, borrowing bones from the dead, the Witch of Endor, “Omne malum ab Aquilone: All Malice travels with the North Wind”, The Wild Hunt, the Nine Galder songs, Gullveig / Heid, Canon episcopi, The Death-Horse of Horatius, Donar’s Oak, Ulvhednar, varg-i-veum, Vánagandr, LSD-25, Psilocybe Semilanceata, instruments made from human remains, Nattmannen, rackaren, The Corpse Hounds of Hel, Hector Meinhof, brewing beer on a severed human hand, the secret Vehmic courts, Barcode or Branding? Welcome idiot to the Grave New World!, Unfolding the Blood-Eagle, Metaphysics of Death, Mjältsjuka: The Black Bile, Descent into Hades, Ancient Greece, Man is a God in Ruins, leaderless resistance, Aghori devotees, Akeldama: Field of Blood, Pauper’s Graves Bonehouses as a Sanctum for Equality in Death, ”The Infernal Trinity: Reinterpreting the Sinister Imagery of the Prior Leschman Chapel” by Christopher Walton, ”Hornet och smörjan: Early Use of Psychedelic Drugs & Poisonous Plants among Witches & Sorcerers in Europe”, derangement of the senses, pitchfork-riders, fence-riders, Nordic shamanism, sabbatic craft, sublimation through filth, sacred prostitution, Jukka Siikala, dead rats, the path of Kaulamarga, ”Ecstatic Inferno Visions & Thanatomaniac Excesses: South-East Asia as seen through the feverish glass-eye of an exile-European death-seeker / The Documentary Photography of Stephen Bessac”, Hunting Asia, Deathlust, Maison Close, mondo movies, Pakito Bolino, Le Dernier Cri, Narok, Thai Buddhist hell theme parks, Asubha – meditations on the foulness of the human body, MS13, mortuary cults, Nicholas Roerich, Agni Yoga, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Tibet, Bodhisattva Maitreya, Bolshevik supersoldiers perfected through Kalachakra Tantra, ”Onwards to Shambhala: The Path towards merging with the divine fire”, the Occult Roots of Soviet, OGPU Special Department – Institute for Brain Studies & Psychic Activities, hypnosis, Barchenko, Gleb Bokii, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, the Bogd Khan, Kangchendzönga, Corto Maltese, Caucasian Ovcharkas feasting on corpses, Sven Hedin, ”Beast, Men & Gods” by Ferdinand Ossendowski, the Spear of Destiny, the Cult of the Leader & Soviet Godhood, Arctic Hysteria, pyramids near the Lake Seidozero, Yakov Blumkin, the Ancestral Research Bureau, Vril force, Odic Energy, Olaus Rudbeck & his Atlantean Uppsala, ”Among Fiddlers, Outcasts & Outlaws in Helsingia”, Karl-Max Fredrikson, the eternal return, Lim-Johan, horrid Hälsingland, Miguel Serrano, Nils-Fredrik Åkerberg & Delsboligan: ”an evil beast capable of the most heinous cruelty”, Kniven, ”Discovering a Runic Devil-Pact from the 19th Century”, the myth of Hårga, Raggare, ”Hultkläppen: A Menschenfeind in the Devil’s Service”, Pelle Schenell, Antinomian scatological tricksters – the two living legends known as ”Bajsmannen”, slagrutemän, Starsk-Pelle, Troll-Per och dömullen, det brutala Gnarp, the Nordic Yule Goat, ”Kali: The Black Mother” by Karl NE, The Art of David S. Herrerías, Karl Nachzehrer Eng – interview extract, Anckarström & the assassination of king Gustav III, freemasonry, spirit seers, Hertig Karl, Hypnosmord, ”Bones in the Wall: Enriqueta Martí – Vampire of Barcelona” by Martin Locker / Perennial Pyrenees, ”Hanns Heinz Ewers – Rider of the Germanic Nightside”, catacomb spectres, ”A Thousand Faces of Fear”, Psychonauts, smoking 77 cigarettes a day, ”The Conqueror Worm or Carrion for Worm?”, Intoxication and Art, Ewers & Alraune in Sundvall, Kristoffer Nilsson, Per Faxneld, Pan-Germanic Panic in India, Thugees, Left-Hand Path initiation, ”Bo Ignatius Cavefors – Landstigen på Dödens Ö”, Carsten Regild, Cavefors Förlag, Soma, Grymhetens Teater Dekadens, Arnold Böcklin, Infinity Land Press, Socialistische Patienten Kollektiv, Kommando Holger Meins, Odd Nerdrum, Caravaggio, the state-sanctioned murder of the Baader-Meinhof gang and their martyr hood, Christ in Gethsemane, J.H. Schönheit versus Karl XII, Oppressive Liberation Spirit – Rest in Power Sakevi Yokoyama, Self-Mortification, Ivan Agueli, Edward Munch, Arthur Moeller van der Bruck, Aleister Crowley, Thelema, Rites of the Dreamweapon: The Tremor Rite, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, Spirit Catcher, Prussian anarchists, ”Plutarchs of the Pandemic: Lords of All Fevers & Plague”, Walpurgisnacht, Ira Cohen, Brain Damage: Sorcery as an Art, PH Kerin, Marcus Hinze, Gilles de Rats, human sacrifice, Robert Nicholas Taylor, Haiti: The Magic Island, ”Chat Control”, Quimbanda, Exu, Jesus Malverde, Svartkonstböcker, skaldic mead, the Cathars, ”The Troubadour Turned Traitor: Ezra Pound”, Bhagavata Purana, Water as a Passageway into the Underworld, Sejd Laughter, the End of the World in Nordic mythology, Nastrand – the Corpse-Shore, sacred fountains, the Great Reset, hematophilia, blood play, Günter Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, guerilla tactics, The Key of Alocer, Rökkr, Cum Ingenti Priapo, pagan rites of fertility, ”The Descent of Odin” by Thomas Gray, The Galder of Death: Vallgalder, The Tree of Wyrd, ”The Nithing Pole”, land spirits, the sacrificial groves of the dead, George Sylvester Viereck, Nikola Tesla, Unamerican activities, European gothic horror literature, social credit, Daemonium Aeternus, Euronymous, Sepulchral Noise, Svarta Cirkeln, grave desecrations, death magick, Wandervögel, Emanuel Swedenborg, Julereien, De Dödas Julotta, ”Lycanthropia” by Adam Parfrey, the Equinox Event, ”On Sacrifice” by Tancredi Valeri, ”The Last Words of Louis Lingg”, Venus in Furs, Sumerian kingship, Against Control, Techniques for Cutting Up the Leviathan of Modernity, Reinventing Urban Sorcery, Subverting and Disrupting the NWO Control Mechanisms, heathen hit squads, mental illness, post-war eugenics in the Swedish demonocratic state, Trevor Brown’s Antichrist, Arturo Reghini, neo-Pythagoreanism, Bror Gadelius, complete disorientation of the senses, dissidents, heretics, deviated carnal encounters, Apotropeism, antinomianism, Guido Crepax, Alfred Kubin, Valerie der Phantasten, väggmadammer, European folklore, ”Living in the Reign of Phantoms… Saluting Death in a Rain of Bullets”, Iconoclasta, Nihilismo, Propagation by the Deed, Side Real Press, Black Widow’s Web Erotica, Michel Houllebecq, desert wanderers, Arthur Machen, Dragon Rouge, active imagination, the Revolutionary Cathechism, Devil Worship, necromantic rites, suicidal pacts, a world making its last death twitches….
SOUND:
Metgumbnerbone, The New Blockaders, Ward Phillips, Vivenza, G.I.S.M, Criminal Party, Grim, White Hospital, Basilisk, John Duncan, Paul Hurst, Beast 666 Tapes, Linekraft, LSD (Japan), John Murphy, Lily Vice & Lust Vessel, Nord, Ultra, Art Into Life, Ramleh, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Organum, Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Opera for Infantry, Death in June, Allerseelen, Zero Kama, Korpses Catatonic, Cthulhu Records, Masstishaddhu, SPK, Citipati, Peter Zincken, Sedayne, Nåstrond, Thurnemans, Salaligan, Klinik (the Swedish), Hyoscyamus Niger, Amebix, Hijokaidan, Irkallian Oracle, D-C Pöbeln, Brighter Death Now, Spacemen 3, Agitation Free, Mortuus, Genocide Organ, Johnny Bode, Lapp-Lisa, Tom Zacharias, Blood Axis, Blood Ov Thee Christ, Alfarmania, Masami Akita & ZSF Produkt, Tony Conrad, Tone Generator, RJF, Joy Division, Rune Lindblad, Åke Hodell, Geto Boys, Etat Brut, The Curfew Recordings, Tower Transmissions, Come Organisation, H.N.A.S, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Bladder Flask, Leif Thuresson, Galme, Asmus Tietchens, Noisextra radio show, Putrefier / Birthbiter, Die Form / Bain Total, Club Moral, Iannis Xenakis, Terry Riley, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Dadarotator, Kickback, Survival Unit, Bizarre Uproar, Striktlickers, United Dairies, Brainticket, AQM, S.K.V. Null, Premature Ejaculation, Aghast, The Folding Staircase, Monte Cazazza, Aussaat, Totalitär, Beast 666 Tapes / Hate Song, Clandestine Blaze, Vice Squad, Night Wolf, O’Nancy in French, Blod (Gnarp), Lille Roger, Missbrukarna, Samla Mammas Manna, Cromagnon, Taj Mahal Travellers, CM von Hausswolff, Leif Elggren, Coil, Citipati, Martin Bladh, Perdition Hearse, the true Mayhem, Blue Öyster Cult, Blasphemy, Sodom, Treriksröset, Proiekt Hat, Taint, Slave State, Ernte, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Angus MacLise: Dreamweapon - The Ascension of Saint Angus of Kathmandu, LaMonte Young , Marian Zazeela, John Cale, The Dream Synicate / The Theatre of Eternal Music, Tony Conrad, The Velvet Underground, Corpse Molestation, Bestial Warlust, Destroyer 666, Black Hole, Mortuary Drape, Paul Chain, the Sodality, The Third Ear Band, Fata Morgana, Master’s Hammer, Hiram Gordon Wells, Vagina Dentata Organ, Unkommuniti / Black Dwarf, R&D Group 28, Throbbing Gristle, Perdition Hearse and others.
CINEMA:
Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, Invocation of My Demon-Brother, Alraune, The Student from Prague, The Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, Blood On Satan’s Claw, The Wicker Man, Roger Corman’s E.A. Poe adaptions, Eyes of Fire / Cry Blue Sky, Born of Fire, Wickedness of the Wyrdful Ways: Obscure Treasures from the Catacombs of Occult & Otherworldly Cinema, ”The Devil’s Devilry” (Ken Russell’s the Devils), Le Feu Follet, ”Folk horror – a Eurocentric phenomena?”, ”This ain’t the summer of love” – Altamont & Performance, Incubus, Right Brain Video, Junk Films – the Collected Short Shockumentaries of Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, …hanno cambiato faccia, Baba Yaga, Don’t Deliver Us From Evil, Lost Paradise: Riding Habit Harakiri, Faccia di Spia, Sukkubus – the Devil in the Body, psycho-sexual arthouse cinema of oneiromantic libertines, La sorcière, Häxan – Witchcraft through the Ages, Trans-Europe-Express, Belladonna of Sadness, L’Eden et après, Glissements progresses du plaisir, Louis Mallet, Det Sjunde Inseglet, Ingmar Bergman, Survival Research Laboratories, The Other Side of Madness, Hagazussa, A Field in England, Kill List, High Rise, Åsa-Nisse, Viva La Muerte!, Cinema as Resistance in Fascist Spain, I will walk like a crazy horse, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Who Can Kill a Child?, Last House on Dead End Street, David Cronenberg, Brion Gysin, Bizarre / The Secrets of Sex, Anthony Balch, Red Baron Entertainment, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, Coto de Caza, Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs, Freaks, Towers Open Fire, The Bell from Hell, The Killer of Dolls, Murder in a Blue World, Eloy de la Iglesia, Cannibal Man, the Glass Ceiling, Animales Racionales, Themroc, Beast in the Heat, Leon Klimovsky, Paul Naschy, Night of the Walpurgis, The Werewolf & the Yeti, The People Who Own the Dark, Horror Rises from the Tomb, Rebellion of the Dead, Abefko Nord, Hunchback of the Morgue, Faust: eine Deutsche Volkssage, Night of the Sorcerers, ”Shape-shifters & the Silver Globe”, Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittenbach, Andrzej Zulawski, Diabel, Possession, On the Silver Globe, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Black Sabbath, Viy, Tilbury, Rat Savior, Svesto Mesto, the New Wave of Czechoslovak Cinema, True Gore, The Cremator / Spalova mrtvol, Lars von Trier’s Riget, Valerie & Her Week of Wonders, Kurototage: Black Lizard, Afraid to Die, Móju: Blind Beast, Femina Ridens, The Rite of Love and Death, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Annunciation, How to Become a God, Dark Shadows, Blade Runner, Night Tide, Invocation of My Demon’s Brother, In Satan’s Name, Konstantin Sergeyevich Lopushansky, Letters from a Dead Man, Visitor to a Museum, Andrej Tarkovskij, Stalker, History of the Arkanar Massacre, Satanico Pandemonium, Alucarda, The Mansion of Madness, Lunacy, El Topo, Fando y Lis, Legend of the Witches, The Judgement of Albion, Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, ”Arcane Incantations: The Alchemic Cinema of Pupi Avati”, Zeder, The House with the Laughing Windows, Saló – The 120 Days of Sodom, L’arcano incantatore, Arcana, Luis Buñuel, Robin Redbreast, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, True Gore, Penda’s Fen, Scum, Made in Britain, Apocalypse Now, Gösta Werner’s Midvinterblot and more beyond what the eye perceives.
The overwhelming interest in the book has resulted in the first hundred copies selling out within less than a day.
1988, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Johnny Marr / San Francisco
$35.00 - In stock -
Special issue presented by Murder Can Be Fun, John Marr's seminal fanzine devoted to the underside of human curiosity — crime, disaster, weird books and even weirder people. Founded in San Francisco in 1986, for each issue of Murder Can Be Fun Marr painstakingly researches the bizarre, documenting his subjects in a unique and entertaining way. Devoted to the "underside of human curiosity," previous topics have included postal massacres, Karen Carpenter's anorexia, assassination attempts on Andy Warhol, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, historical cannibals, faith healing, Fatty Arbuckle, Cornell Woolrich's fiction, and many more bizarre subjects not often addressed in the mainstream media. Precisely what made 1980's—90's zine culture so exciting.
This Anti Sex Tips For Teens special one-shot publication "outgrowth" of Murder Can Be Fun is dedicated to Marr's collection of vintage Teenage Sex Advice books, 1897-1987, with commentary and excerpts from misguided advice manuals published for adolescents, from Victorian times to the near-present. "They're mindless. They're pointless. They're patronizing. They dish out bad advice on irrelevant topics for a world that never existed. [...] Boy, do I love them!"
Fine copy.
1991, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 264 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Stanford University Press / Palo Alto
$250.00 - In stock -
Very rare, sought after first hardcover edition of Oughourlian's "The Puppet of Desire", published in 1991 by Stanford. Translated, with an introduction, by Eugene Webb.
This study of the psychology of desire derives from a theory of imitative or 'mimetic' desire developed by the cultural critic and theorist René Girard. The theory is essentially that all human beings have an instinctive tendency, a kind of social and psychological gravitation, to imitate unwittingly not only the actions but also the attitudes and desires of others. The author, a practicing psychiatrist, extends and amplifies this theory from the viewpoint of psychopathology and applies it to the study of hysteria, possession, and hypothesis. He argues that these phenomena are best understood as expressions of mimetic behaviour, and he traces the history of the ideas concerning hysteria, possession, and hypnosis and relates them to the development of Freud's theory of neurosis. The author points out that mimetic desire is not an inherently pathological force. It may be normal and healthy, but in certain circumstances it can lead to relations of dependency and rivalry that can cause serious psychological problems. It can also take on extreme or bizarre forms without necessarily becoming unhealthy; an example of healthy but extreme unconscious identification with an other (who may be either a person or a cultural figure) is shamanistic possession. The author discusses this kind of phenomenon among African tribes and coins the term 'adorcism' (the opposite of exorcism) to refer to the process of invoking it. The theory of desire as presented in this book is other-oriented, as opposed to Freud's theory of desire, which istrictly object-oriented. The author sees Freud's theory as more in a long history of strategic misinterpretations of the psychology of desire, such as the classical theory of hysteria and the medieval theory of demonic possession. his critique of Freudian theory is radical, and in fact it would not be too much to say that he has moved toward the first new and well-developed theory of psychopathology since Freud.
Jean-Michel Oughourlian is an Armenian-French neuropsychiatrist and psychologist as well as a writer and philosopher recognized both in France and the United States for his collaboration with René Girard and his work on the mimetic theory of desire. Oughourlian is the former chief of psychiatry at the American Hospital of Paris and a former professor of clinical psychopathology at the Sorbonne. He collaborated with René Girard on Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (1978) and has authored several books on psychiatry, neuroscience, and mimetic theory. He is a founding member of the Association Recherches Mimétiques, a French organization devoted to René Girard's thought.
Fine copy with Near Fine dust jacket preserved in archival mylar wrap.
2003, English
Softcover, 362 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Ballantine Books / New York
$110.00 - In stock -
2003 paperback edition of Masson's controversial exposé on Freud's Seduction Theory of child sexual abuse — "A watergate of the psyche"-New York Times. Very rare in all editions.
In 1896, Sigmund Freud presented his revolutionary "seduction theory," arguing that acts of sexual abuse and violence inflicted on children are the direct cause of adult mental illness. Nine years later, Freud completely reversed his position, insisting that these sexual memories were actually fantasies that never happened. Why did Freud retract the seduction theory? And why has the psychoanalytic community gone to such lengths to conceal that retraction? In this landmark book, drawing on his unique access to formerly sealed and hidden papers, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson dares to uncover the truth about this critical turning point in Freud's career and its enduring impact on the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.
The Assault on Truth reveals a reality that neither Freud nor his followers could bear to face. Bracing in its honesty, gripping its revelations, this is the book that prompted Masson's break with the psychoanalytic community—and launched his subsequent brilliant career as an independent thinker and writer.
Very Good —NF copy.
1997, English
Softcover, 416 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Stanford University Press / Palo Alto
$30.00 - Out of stock
First 1997 edition.
With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of "ethnic cleansing" and "identity politics," the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the concept of violence, both in itself and in relation to the formation and transformation of identities, whether individual or collective, political or cultural, religious or secular. In particular, they subject the notion of self-determination to stringent scrutiny: is it to be understood as a value that excludes violence, in principle if not always in practice? Or is its relation to violence more complex and, perhaps, more sinister?
Reconsideration of the concepts, the practice, and even the critique of violence requires an exploration of the implications and limitations of the more familiar interpretations of the terms that have dominated in the history of Western thought. To this end, the nineteen contributors address the concept of violence from a variety of perspectives in relation to different forms of cultural representation, and not in Western culture alone; in literature and the arts, as well as in society and politics; in philosophical discourse, psychoanalytic theory, and so-called juridical ideology, as well as in colonial and post-colonial practices and power relations.
The contributors are Giorgio Agamben, Ali Behdad, Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Michael Dillon, Peter Fenves, Stathis Gourgouris, Werner Hamacher, Beatrice Hanssen, Anselm Haverkamp, Marian Hobson, Peggy Kamuf, M. B. Pranger, Susan M. Shell, Peter van der Veer, Hent de Vries, Cornelia Vismann, and Samuel Weber.
VG copy.
1983, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Seaver Books / US
$60.00 - Out of stock
Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has acutely analyzed the cinematic values of our time, extending to his international audiences “the impact of art for the understanding and discrimination of his readers.”
The depth and logic of his commentary has elevated film criticism to new heights. The reputation of André Bazin continues to grow as his writings are published and studied by filmmakers and filmgoers alike. Often referred to as the Edmund Wilson of film, Bazin was more than a critic. “He made me see certain aspects of my work that I was unaware of,” said Luis Buñuel. “He was our conscience,” wrote Jean Renoir. “He was a logician in action,” echoed François Truffaut.
In The Cinema of Cruelty, François Truffaut, one of France’s most celebrated and versatile filmmakers, has collected Bazin’s writings on six film “greats”: Erich von Stroheim, Carl Dreyer, Preston Sturges, Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Akira Kurosawa. The result is a major collection of film criticism.
André Bazin was born in Angers, France, in 1918. Critic, theorist, essayist, and teacher, Bazin is, as Truffaut notes, “the most widely published and translated film critic outside of France.” Bazin’s work and writings have attracted an international audience of filmmakers, directors, and viewers. He passed away in 1958 at the age of forty.
1982, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Columbia University Press / New York
$80.00 - Out of stock
1982 Columbia classics re-print of Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (French: Pouvoirs de l'horreur. Essai sur l'abjection), a 1980 book by Julia Kristeva. The work is an extensive treatise on the subject of abjection, in which Kristeva draws on the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to examine horror, marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer theory.
According to Kristeva, the abject marks a "primal order" that escapes signification in the symbolic order; the term is used to refer to the human reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object, or between the self and the other.
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others...—Paul de Man
1982 English translation by Leon S. Roudiez.
2016, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Vanilla Gallery / Tokyo
$100.00 - In stock -
Rare catalogue from the first exhibition of Serial Killer Art at Vanilla Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, in 2016, from the HN collection. From John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Henry Lee Lucas, and Ronnie Clay, the featured artworks, self-portraits, letters, and documents of serial killers in Europe and America whose heinous personalities and numerous crimes have served as models for novels and films, becoming known the world over.
"The world portrayed by murderers who committed crimes that make you want to look away is like a dreadful, lonely, impermanent feeling that looks into the depths of the viewer's heart, and is like when confronted with something unknown. It's full of tension."
Collected by Mr. HN (H. Nakajima), over 200 items were displayed in Tokyo on the occasion of these exhibits, with this catalogue available at the exhibition only. Illustrated with examples throughout in colour and b/w, texts in Japanese by film critic Kiichirō Yanashita, Orihara Ichi, and collector/curator H. Nakajima.
Killers included in the exhibitions: John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Peter Sutcliffe, Danny Rowling, Keith Jasperson, James Earl Ray, Thomas Pitera, Henry Hill, Nicholas Crowe, Dorothy Puente, Haddon Clarke, Gerald Shaffer, Anthony Shore, James Munro, Gary Ray Balls, Hudson Graham, Carroll Bundy, Otis Toole, Charles Watson, Lawrence Bittaker, Herbert Mullin, Arthur Shawcross, Rod Ferrell, Ted Bundy, Jim Jones, Christa Pike, Harvard Baumeister, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Ronnie Clay, Irene Wuornos, Wayne Low, Dana Sue Gray, Roy Norris, Kenneth Bianchi, Michael Alig, Veronica Compton, Joe Roy Metheny, Gary Heidnik, Charles Manson, Jeremy Jones, Jack Trawick, Carl Drew, Wayne Harton, Rosemary West, Theodore Kaczynski, Thomas Heyer, Ed Gein, Ferrell Mykers, Douglas Clark, Richard Clarey, Ian Brady, Jack Kevorkian, Bonnie & Clyde, Philip Jacobinski, Daniel Siebert, Tommy Lynn Sells.
Very Good with only light wear.
2020, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 14.5 x 23.6 cm
Published by
Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles
$39.00 - Out of stock
A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.
It was suddenly chic to be "targeted" by Andrew.... It also became chic to claim a deep personal friendship with Versace, to infer that one might, but for a trick of fate, have been with Versace at the very moment of his "assassination," as it had once been chic to reveal one's invitation to Cielo Drive in the evening of the Tate slayings, an invitation only declined because of car trouble or a previous engagement...
--from Three Month Fever
First published in 1999, Gary Indiana's Three Month Fever is the second volume of his famed crime trilogy, now being republished by Semiotext(e). (The first, Resentment, reissued in 2015, was set in a Menendez trial-era L.A.) In this brilliant and gripping hybrid of narrative and reflection, Indiana considers the way the media's hypercoverage transformed Andrew Cunanan's life "from the somewhat poignant and depressing but fairly ordinary thing it was into a narrative overripe with tabloid evil."
"America loves a successful sociopath," Indiana explains. This sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace is a spellbinding fusion of journalism, social commentary, and novelistic projection. By following Cunanan's notorious "trail of death," Indiana creates a compelling portrait of a brilliant, charismatic young man whose pathological lies made him feel more like other people--and more interesting than he actually was. Born in a working-class exurb of San Diego and educated at an elite private school, Cunanan strove to "blend in" with the upscale gay male scene in La Jolla. He ended up crazed and alone, eventually embarking on a three-month killing spree that took the lives of five men, including that of Versace, before killing himself in a Miami boathouse, leaving behind a range of unanswerable questions and unsolvable mysteries.
"Gary Indiana belongs to a special breed of American urban writers who take cool pleasure in dissecting the lives of the rich and ugly and is possibly the most jaded chronicler of them all. On a good day, he makes Bret Easton Ellis look like Enid Blyton, yet many, myself included, think he might have already written the Great America Novel(s)." - Christopher Fowler, The Independent
2024, English
Softcover (staple bound), 80 pages, 20 x 14.8 cm
Published by
Ex Film / Melbourne
$10.00 - In stock -
A successful rally car driver with a penchant for gambling, his model wife and their friend from Tasmania, an eccentric inventor. A split second which changes their lives.
Another in this series of tracts from Ex Film documenting the public eye of tabloid news and the narrative they convey. Isolated from the surrounding visual noise of their original newspaper presentation, these publications offer a new perspective on strange tragedies often forgotten by the public media lens.
2023, English
Softcover (staple bound), 48 pages, 20 x 14.8 cm
Published by
Ex Film / Melbourne
$10.00 - In stock -
The body of a teenager found in bushland in 1986. The death of 5 tourists in a hotel fire. The death of Sally-Anne Huckstepp. The sickening details, the recurring characters and the small room in Kings Cross in which they all converge.
Another in a series of historical narrative news tracts from Ex Film.
2023, English
Softcover (staple bound), 48 pages, 20 x 14.8 cm
Published by
Ex Film / Melbourne
$10.00 - In stock -
A man found entombed in the basement of his house, his wife fleeing to the Philippines. Her extradition on murder charges opens up another tragedy and another mystery.
Another in a series of historical narrative news tracts from Ex Film.
1967, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Panther / London
$40.00 - Out of stock
Panther edition from 1967 of Curzio Malaparte’s legendary work The Skin.
A CITY WHERE FLESH WAS CHEAPER THAN BREAD
Naples 1943... the first European city to be liberated in World War II ... tragic, defeated, a city where the barbarity of war has destroyed all moral values ... a festering Gomorrah of frenzied drinking, debauchery and sex which takes place when the conquered Italians, men, women and children, long under the Fascist and Nazi boot, open the gates of their city to the US Army ...
THE SKIN is a masterpiece of power, grandeur and cruelty. On every page there is a ferocious pity, a cruel delight in the misery of the vanquished, in the arrogance and cruelty of the victor
"MALAPARTE is a very great writer. THE SKIN is a tremendous work, a masterpiece ... In THE SKIN everything is on a grand scale"—Pierre Lesdain
"MALAPARTE is the most epic of all the great writers of Europe"—Robert Pick
Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, always astonishing, Malaparte is a supreme artist of the unreliable, both the product and the prophet of a world gone rotten to the core.
Good copy with light wear / age / tanning. Previous owner's name to top first page.
1973, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Corgi / London
$40.00 - In stock -
First 1973 softcover edition.
THIS IS THE STORY OF MAUTHAUSEN—from its foundation in 1938, to May 1945 when the entry of the American Army revealed its full, stark horror to the world.
Constructed by slave labour, this infamous death camp absorbed prisoners of all nationalities—Jews, gypsies, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Spaniards, Yugoslavs, and Englishmen. Here SS guards and doctors perfected methods by which human beings could be destroyed; by hanging, flogging, decapitation, shooting, gassing, vivi-section, and pseudo-scientific experiments. Untold numbers were exterminated in maniacal obedience to the Third Reich's final solution: This is the factual record of just one corner of the immense disaster to the human spirit that was Hitler's Germany.
"... This book is a solid, sober record... It is written with a singular restraint and a deliberate stifling of emotion. It is all the more effective for that..:"—DAILY TELEGRAPH
Good—Very Good copy, tightly bound and clean — general light wear/page tanning from age.
1981, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 106 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Cienfuegos Press / Orkney
Soil of Liberty / Minneapolis
$80.00 - In stock -
Fascinating publication issued in 1981 by Anarchist presses Cienfuegos Press and Soil of Liberty, documenting in full a very rare early interview with German guerilla Hans-Joachim Klein (1947—2022) with French journalist and editor of "Libération", Jean-Marcel Bouguereau (b. 1946). Hans-Joachim Klein was a left-wing militant and a member of one of West Germany's most dangerous leftist terrorist groups in the 1970 and 80s, the Revolutionary Cells group. In 1975, Klein participated in an attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna organized by the international terrorist "Carlos the Jackal", kidnapping OPEC ministers from various oil-producing countries. Klein was very seriously injured during a police siege before the group escaped to Algiers. The German Guerrilla documents a first-hand account of a life lived underground, armed resistance and guerilla warfare. Heavily illustrated with further essays on political violence and liberty — The Moabit Gang of Four, The Berlin Indomitables, Background to the left German Guerilla, RAF philosophy, and more.
Cover features an autopsy photograph of Holger Meins, one of the members of the initial RAF network, who was arrested at the same time as Baader and died on 9 November 1974 as a result of a hunger strike. "I have kept this picture in my wallet to keep my hatred sharp"—Hans-Joachim Klein.
Some wear to cover edges, light edge spotting, otherwise a Very Good, tight copy. Rusted staples.