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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’.

Catalogue of the seminal 1951 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. All the big hitters are here, though many in their infancy. An excellent taste of what was to come.

A comprehensive guide to the pulpy underbelly of American cheapo journalism, covering all the rags that created the landscape.

A touchstone of art criticism and the best book about modern sculpture ever written. This is an important, historic work, here in the first edition.

The rarer than rare Exhibition Catalogue for Pistoletto’s Mathildenhöhe Exhibition in Darmstadt. 1974. Half the book is screen printed mirrors, meaning this is effectively a portfolio of editions Pistoletto’s for a fraction of the price if they were unbound. An unbelievable work.

The original, self printed, unbelievably rare, morally troubling political statement of the American Left Wing Domestic Terrorist group known as The Weather Underground. Historically important, and worryingly cool.

First edition of a genuinely a foundational interdisciplinary text, exploring the principles and relationship of form in both natural and artistic contexts. It bridges science and art, focusing on how organized, complex systems emerge, suggesting that understanding these shapes is key to a new scientific approach.

True first edition of one of the most important and shocking British books ever written. Very good condition, with a very small patch of discolouration to the spine. A holy grail collector’s piece if there ever was one.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Unbelievably rare, does what it says on the tin 60s counter-cultural book. Replete with excellent photography and practical guides to access and etiquette. 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.