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Vendor:Harry N. Abrams
The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the Literary Punks, Renegade Artists, DIY Filmmakers, Mad Playwrights, and Rock 'n' Roll Glitter Queens Who Revolutionized Culture
Kembrew McLeod Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Harry N. Abrams | 2018 | 9781419732522 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of a small, roughly one-square-mile area of lower Manhattan were smashing the status quo of music, art, film, performance, and...- £10.00
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Ken Werner: Halloween - A Fantasy in Three Acts
Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 65 pp Anthology Editions | 2024 | 9781944860639 Reissued for the first time in decades having been originally published in limited quantities in 1981, Halloween: A Fantasy in Three Acts collects photographs taken by Ken...- £15.00
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Freaks Out!: Weirdos, Misfits and Deviants – The Rise and Fall of Righteous Rock ’n’ Roll
Luke Haines Hardcover | 14.5 x 2.9 x 22.6 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709347 Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock...- £8.00
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Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music
Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527 This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...- £10.00
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Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
Peter Watts Hardcover | 24 x 3.7 x 32 cm | 480 pp Anthology Editions | 2017 | 9781944860158 Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the...- £45.00
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Mod Art: Music and Graphics, Fashion and Art - Mod Design from the 1950s to 1990s
Paul 'Smiler' Anderson Hardcover | 25.91 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 224 pp Omnibus Press | 2019 | 9781783059683 Examining and illustrating the art scene surrounding the birth of modernism and its simultaneous rise among the burgeoning working class Mod scene of the Sixties,...- £15.00
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Mods: A Way of Life
Patrick Potter Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2018 | 9781908211590 Sometime around the beginning of the 1960’s, a number of stars aligned. A small but fanatical group of young men and women, mostly no more than...- £12.00
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Bikers: Legend, Legacy and Life
Gary Charles Hardcover | 16.5 x 22 cm | 192 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2019 | 9781908211835 Expanded and updated edition Bikers: Legend, Legacy and Life is a painstakingly detailed chronicle of this unique band of Brothers, and trawls deep into their history to...- £10.00
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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Kathleen Hanna Hardcover | 15.9 x 3 x 24 cm | 304 pp William Collins Books | 2024 | 9780008365349 This is an electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary front-woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to...- £10.00
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Steve Schapiro: Bliss - Transformational Festivals & the Neo Hippie
Steve Schapiro Hardcover | 29.21 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm |256 pp powerHouse Books | 2015 | 9781576877630 Steve Schapiro, famous for his photographs of the 60s - including Haight-Ashbury and the hippies of that era here documents the hippies of today and their lives...- £10.00
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Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968
Isabelle Bonnet & Sophie Hackett Softcover | 18.29 x 3.3 x 25.91 cm | 480 pp Thames & Hudson | 2024 | 9780500297902 This book brings together a wealth of research and an expansive selection of photographs to create an enduring account of America's first known trans...- £25.00
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Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution
Max Décharné Hardcover | 24.2 x 3.3 x 16.4 cm | 336 pp Profile Books | 2024 | 9781846689789 With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet...- £10.00
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The Who & Quadrophenia
Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271 Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...- £22.50
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Kim Fowley: Lord of Garbage
Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 Rare & Collectible The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter...- £12.00
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A Scene In Between: Tripping Through the Fashions of UK Indie Music 1980-1988
Sam Knee & David Conway Hardcover | 17.8 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm | 192 pp Cicada | 2013 | 9781908714060 The mid to late 1980s indie scenes in Britain from C86 to Shoegaze are a lost moment in music history. Theres been much coverage...- £8.50
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
Bill Peel Softcover | 12.95 x 1.52 x 19.81 cm | 200 pp Repeater Books | 2023 | 9781914420368 A radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music, Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black...- £9.00
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Peter Gravelle: The Death of Photography
Peter Gravelle Hardcover | 23 x 2.3 x 29.1 cm | 216 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2016 | 9781908211415 From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock,...- £20.00
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Surfing. 1778–Today (XL Edition)
Jim Heimann Hardcover | 25 x 4 x 34 cm | 512 pp Taschen | 2022 | 9783836583282 Surfing. 1778–Today is the most comprehensive visual history of surfing to date, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half...- £50.00
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The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties
Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.05 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781787602311 Winner of the 2022 Penderyn Music Book Prize In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and...- £15.00
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Riots and Rebels: A Pocket Essential History of Popular Protest in Britain
Nick Rennison Hardcover | 13.79 x 2.39 x 22 cm | 256 pp Oldcastle Books | 2025 | 9780857306074 The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how people have exercised that power in England, Scotland...- £9.00
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