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            Out of print Pre-Owned Original USA paperback bit of ageing
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          Jackie DeshannonLove Forever - Demo Recordings 1966-1967
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            Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology
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              Look & See: Collected Ephemera and Printed Material
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                  • Book (200g) ISSN 2752-5619£10.00
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                  The Observer's Book of JazzBy Mark White
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                      Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK 1st Edn. Small Hardback Book w/Dustjacket
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                    We Called It MusicEddie Condon
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                      Letters to GilMalik Al Nasir
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                        Reggae Disco 45 BOOKReggae Disco 45 BOOK
                        BACK IN STOCK LAST COPIES EVER!Reggae Disco 45 is a personal journey through author Martin Skyjuice's collection of 12" and 10" singles. A tribute to the...
                          Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
                          When someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully refreshed and updated as part of...
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                            By Don Letts and Mal Peachey Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity....
                              Dinosaurs in the MorningBy Whitney Balliett
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                                Women In Revolt!Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90
                                A timely exploration of the work and lived experiences of a postwar generation of women artists that have largely been omitted from art historical narratives,...
                                  Subcontinental SynthesisElectronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969-1972
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                                    Invisible Man
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                                      One Hundred Years of Solitude
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                                        A Messy History of Women in Printing and TypographyThe Natural Enemies of Books
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                                          The Women Who Changed Architecture
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                                            Kings of Jazz 12Coleman Hawkins
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                                                Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK 1st Edn. 1963 Hardback Book
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                                              The Book of JazzLeonard Feather
                                                • Original Book (500g)£20.00
                                                  Original Pre-Owned Out-of-Print UK 1st Edn. Hardback Book no Dustjacket
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                                                The Observer's Book of Big BandsBy Mark White
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                                                  August Blue
                                                  At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy, now in her thirties - walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance....
                                                    Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsIntimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queen Radicals
                                                    At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle...
                                                      Is It My Body?
                                                      Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Kim Gordon-widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth - produced a series of writings on...
                                                        Satanic FeminismLucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
                                                        According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries....
                                                          Remembered for a WhileNick Drake
                                                          The authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's...
                                                            Terminal Boredom
                                                            On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's...
                                                              The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays
                                                              Cutting-edge theorist Jean Baudrillard on the complicitous dance of art, politics, economics, and media; includes "War Porn," on Abu Ghraib as a new genre...
                                                                The In Crowd: The Story of the Northern and Rare Soul SceneBy Mike Ritson and Dave Godin
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                                                                  Don Cherry BOOKEternal Rhythm
                                                                  The eternal rhythm is the vital conduit that links music through breath to life itself. Don Cherry certainly lived music. And his music is alive.When he...
                                                                    A Book Of Days
                                                                    With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and...
                                                                      Pressure DropReggae in the Seventies
                                                                      A comprehensive account of reggae during its golden era, from the late sixties through the global breakthrough of Bob Marley in the seventies, and the...

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