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Lee Eiferman's entry into the legendary Top Stories prose periodical. Based out of New York, Top Stoiries spotlighted experimental and avant-garde women writers in small print editions. 1982 First Printing, in near fine condition.

First edition of Barthes seminal work of literary theory, using structural analysis of Balzac's short story 'Sarrasine' to introduce a new understanding of structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. 1970, in as new condition.

The third in Mead's series of 'Excerpts from the Diary of an Anonymous New York Youth', 'On Amphetamines and in Europe' is the collected writings, poetry, and ramblings of the downtown hero and Warhol superstar. Part of the collection of Tom Verlaine, with his pencil drawn ex libris on the front endpaper.

Three interviews with the theorist and philosopher Jacques Derrida, articulating his philosophical stance on language, linguistics, and the contentious debates surrounding his work. First edition.

Number 23 of the City Light Pocket Poets series, Planet News was written during Ginsberg's international travels from 1962 until it’s publication in 1968, including visits to Morocco and Japan, and almost two years in India with Peter Orlovsky. The poems mark the beginning of his use of psychedelic and meditation as a method to create visionary poetry. First edition.

A biography of Picasso’s early years, written in typically Mailerian style. Norman can’t help but draw allusions between himself and the young artist, seeing the same drive and brilliance in both. This is the biography as a dialogue between self and soul, and the violent act of creating artistic forms. First edition

Arendt’s study of the American and French Revolutions, and what a contemporary revolutionary can learn from their successes, failures, and follies as we attempt to create more public freedom. Seminal and urgent. First edition.

A classic of British Film writing, National Hero’s has social change as well as mass entertainment as its focus. Based on his outstanding knowledge of films and their makers, and many hours of interviews with the key players, Walker analyses the transition from the permissive society to one of increasing constraints through a cinematic lens. First Edition.

Number 35 of the City Light Pocket Poets series, Mind Breaths are the meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions and mindful chronicles that filled the inward and outward space of Ginsberg throughout the mid-Seventies. First Edition.

A series of essays and meditation of humanism, by one of Italy’s finest 20th century writers. Moravia defends humanism against rising anti-humanist trends, arguing that literature is fundamentally centered on man, while exploring themes of freedom, alienation, and social morality. First Edition

Number 19 of the City Lights Pocket Poets Series, and perhaps our favourite. Written over nearly a decade, mostly on O’Hara’s lunch breaks from his job at the MoMA, they contain his characteristically breezy tone, at once carefree and deeply profound. True First Edition.

The titular story Leaf Storm was in many ways a testing ground for Márquez’s master work ‘A Hundred Years of Solitude’. Set in the same village, in its first appearance in his writing, it deals with similar themes across three generations. Of course, the other stories in the collection are excellent - Márquez hardly penned a bad word in his life.

If Kaddish is only Ginsberg’s second most influential poem, after Howl of course, it could well be considered his best. Written to work through and commemorate the death of his mother Naomi, it is a searingly beautiful, deeply profound meditation on death, connection, and religion. In the first edition pocket poets.

An epic poem by the great theorist, designer, architect, writer, and revolutionary Buckminster Fuller. Intuition expands on his idea of Synergetics in poetic form, deeply readable, totally brilliant, in the first edition.

An ever so Ackerian play which uses the French Revolution as its basis, with several stylish subplots that are erotic, historical, and fantastical. Fabulously designed with pulpy blood splatter, this is a wonderful Acker oddity that pulls no punches.

A 1969 artists’ book by one of the all time greats, this is de Saint Phalle’s love letter to Jean Tinguely, at once erotically charged and extraordinarily innocent. It is pure love, rendered in De Saint Phalle’s unmistakable hand - as good a book as artwork as there ever was.

First edition of Calvino’s modernist masterpiece, a nesting doll of a book where you are the protagonist, trying and failing to find and read a book called ‘If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller’. A wonderful puzzle of a work.

A small 1950s chapbook from the Theosophy Society, written by its original founder Madame Blavatsky, serving as a primer to a whole world of mysticism.

The 1975 First American Edition of one of the most legendary film books of all time. The story of crime, sex, sedition, and mischief in the early film industry, Anger was not wildly concerned with facts but with emoting an era of filmmaking that he revered for its dirt, not its glamour.

Dali writes as he paints; pulling rich and saturated details from every situation, character and location. This was his only novel and Hidden Faces is a wonderful oddity of art history, showing signs of genius amidst a madcap sex romp. First edition, in pretty perfect condition.

First edition of Buckie’s collection of his lyrical and philosophical best, including seven “essays” in a form he called his “ventilated prose” which address global crises and his predictions for the future. Fuller elegantly weaves the personal, the playful, the simple, and the profound.

Illustrated screenplay of Godard’s most enduringly popular work that deftly blends film noir and science fiction into something striking and strange.

Transcripts of conversations held between the writer and social critic James Baldwin and the anthropologist Margaret Mead in August 1970. The two intellectual titans discuss ‘identity, power and privilege, race and gender, beauty, religion, justice, and the relationship between the intellect and the imagination’.

First edition of Durgnat's classic study of British films from the 1940s to the 1960s, which remains one of the most important books ever written on British cinema. Durgnat makes a compelling case for the success of British films in reflecting British predicaments, moods and myths.