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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.