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Woodman’s work holds tension between feeling and thought. A body represents disordered interiority and the mirror, or camera, an attempt to create form from the formless. First edition monograph of Woodman's striking photographs. Preface by Hervé Chandès, texts by Philippe Sollers, David Levi Strauss, Elizabeth Janus and Sloan Rankin.

A collection of interviews, letters, and memoirs from Beat authors like Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs. A crucial, often out-of-print, exceedingly rare resource for understanding the literary and personal lives of the Beat Generation.

Spark’s novel about a group of British bachelors being targeted by blackmail and fraud is perhaps the great writers funniest novel. Sex and deceit weave through the story, and her biting take on London’s upper and low echelons remains incisive and biting. First edition.

Created by Fluxus godfathers Robert Filliou and George Brecht while they were running their shop, this is a book of games developed by the two. Flukes inspired prompts, puzzles, and scenarios that serve as starting points for creativity and art making - equally funny and profound. First edition in fine condition.

Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava created this most legendary work in 1955, combining Hughes poetry with DeCarava’s photography in a book that set the standard for poet/artist collaborations. This is the soft back first edition, published ever so slightly before the hardback.

First edition of the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists. Williams roman à clef captures the energy and characters of the civil rights movement in his inimitable prose.

A spiritual manual for prison life, this book was not meant to be circulated out of incarceration, but here we have the first edition. Full of Ram Dass wisdom to get one through literal, or psychological, confinement.

Most known for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, De Dienes experimentations, brushes with Surrealism, and immersion in 1940s American culture, was singular artist in nude photography. This book returns him to that rightful place.

First edition of Nan Goldin's first, and most fun, photobook, documenting the scene at the Boston queer bar 'The Other Side' in all of its glory and grit. A work about found families.

A beautiful edition of one of Didion's greatest and controversial works. Worth it just for the back cover.

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.

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.

Exhibition catalogue for Keith Piper's 1991 show exploring the complex and ever shifting relationship between peoples of African descent and the economic and symbolic power of the Christian church. An important, historic documentation.

One of the series of CineIcons: 90s books out of Japan assembling the best images of various movie stars. This might be our favourite, Pacino is devastatingly gorgeous and achingly cool on every page.

Incredibly rare, ecclectic little volume of beat recipes, each fully illustrated, including but not limited to Ginsburgers, Pablo Piccaserole, Rex Broth, and the Kerouac Kocktail.

A pioneering British surrealist, McBean's photographs are as romantic, uncanny, and deeply elegant as their author. This is a wonderful overview of his work, from set design, portraiture, to fashion work.

A portrait of France through the lens of its favourite son, the father of modern photography himself. Lovely later colour imagery shows a breadth and brevity and the decisive moment is there throughout.

Bailey turning his lens to his local postcode, he captures in moody, atmospheric monochromes the crumbling buildings of Primrose Hill and Camden. The world he depicted was already a relic when this book was published and now feels like a distant history.

Nick Waplington was barely out of high school in 1984 when he first began hanging around his grandfather's housing estate in Aspley, Nottingham. The resulting book is one of the most an important depiction of 1980s working-class Britain.

A really excellent compilation of Davidson's work, each image is more alive, more tangible, more dangerous, and more beautiful than the next. Hardcover first edition.

Arnie's bulging out of every page of this Japanese cine-icon book from the 90s.

Jimmy Dean never looked better than in this powder printed cine-icon book from Japan. It's vibrant and nostalgic and full of pictures you've never seen of the beautiful and damned movie star.

First full-length poetry collection by the founder of the Umbra Workshop, which would become a significant influence on the Black Arts Movement. Includes Reed's major long poem "Catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church", in the first edition paperback.

First edition. Literature has never been as fun since - Calvino's Cosmicosmics manage to be as light and joyous as anything while having such philosophical, metaphysical, and emotional depth. This is, I believe, his crowning achievement, though he saw them as ongoing writing exercises.