strange attractor press london (43 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 170 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No remainder mark. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Strange Attractor Press; B&W Photographs; 311 pages; 1/2 inch crease on the bottom right corner of the front cover. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have light wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: NF. First Printing. Wrappers. Colorful artwork spine and covers are all clean and bright. Book has a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 179 pages. Includes a CD, housed in a clear mylar envelop fastened to the inside of the rear cover, with a compilation of animal music.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 500 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket.

McAra, Catriona, ed. In Fairyland: the world of Tessa Farmer. London: Strange Attractor Press, 2016, 106pp., PAPERBACK, very good. "Tessa Farmer's dark, delicate spaces, her untamed, intricate creatures absolutely mesmerise me." Kate Bernheimer, author of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. For almost two decades now, Tessa Farmer has been evolving a new species of fairy. They represent the point at which science tilts into fantasy as the sleep of reason produces monsters. In Fairyland is the first substantial scholarly volume devoted to Farmer's work. Here, leading thinkers in the fields of animal art, natural history and gothic studies assemble to investigate the significance of Farmer and her fairies, covering their relationship to fairy traditions in folklore and art, to entomological precedents for the malevolent behaviours of her creations. - CONTENTS: Editorial - The Malevolent Nostalgia of Tessa Farmer / Catriona McAra - Part One: Another Origin of Species Show and Tell / Brian Catling - Tessa Farmer and Arthur Machen: Perichoresis /John Sears - A Natural History of Tessa Farmer's Fairies / Gavin R. Broad - A Short History of Fairy Painting, 1768-1901 / Gail-Nina Anderson - Part Two: Insidious Intrusions So Small, So Fierce, So Hungry / Jeremy Harte - Swarming Fever: Tessa Farmer's Evil Evolution / Petra Lange-Berndt - Horrifically Delightful / Giovanni Aloi. ISBN 9781907222375.

London: Strange Attractor Press:, 2024. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New, 264 pp. ". . . a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has accumulated legendary status over subsequent decades for its strangeness, hybridity, and innovative production. It formed the launch pad for Dr. John's image and lengthy career and the ghostly presence of its so-called voodoo atmosphere hovers over numerous cover versions, samples, and re-invocations. Despite the respect given to the record, its making is shrouded in mystery, misunderstandings, and false conclusions. The persona of Dr. John, loosely based on dubious literary accounts of a notorious voodooist and freed slave, a nineteenth-century New Orleans resident known as Doctor John, provided Malcolm 'Mac' Rebennack with a lifelong mask through which to transform himself from session musician in order to construct a solo career. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,

Arik Roper (illustrator). London: Strange Attractor Press:, 2023. First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New, 279 pp. Cover artwork by: Arik Roper "After seven years of silence, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns with a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. Covering previously uncharted regions of history, anthropology, art, literature, architecture, science, and magic since 2004, each Journal has presented new and unprecedented research into areas that scholarship has all too often ignored. Featuring essays from academics, artists, enthusiasts, and sorcerers, Journal Five explores matters including the folklore of foghorns; the occult origins of the dissident surrealist secret society the Acéphale; the pleasures of heathen falconry; the dark cosmological mysteries of Bremen's Haus Atlantis; a provisional taxonomy of animals with human faces; a twentieth-century crucifixion on Hampstead Heath, and an unpublished horror script by David MacGillivray and Ken Hollings. Journal Five sees Strange Attractor continuing in its mission to celebrate unpopular culture." First edition, TPBO, Trade paperback, New,

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Photographs by Anonymous Bosch and Rommel Pecson. Virtually as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo. [xxxii prelims] 235 pages. Several b&w photographs within the text. Introductions by Phil Baker and Colin Stanley. Very Good.

London: Strange Attractor Press:, 2025. First edition (presumed, still in shrinkwrap), Trade paperback, New, 656 pp. "Delinquent Elementals: The Very Best of Pagan News collects some of the finest articles, news reports, interviews, and humor that appeared in this singular publication, providing a fascinating glimpse into the pagan counterculture. It charts the historical timeline of the Satanic Panic scandal of the late 1980s, documents previously uncollected information, and provides a wide selection of practical knowledge and insight into occult practice. It reveals how occult practitioners interacted with the wider culture - bringing about what is now termed 'occulture' the intersection of esoteric themes with popular culture, political activism, and the struggle for LGBTQ rights and recognition. Wonderfully unpretentious and absurdly funny, this is the definitive guide to the magazine that redefined the nature of late-twentieth century occultism." First edition (presumed, still in shrinkwrap), Trade paperback, New,

8vo. pp 264. Fine. First Edition. Wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Wraps. xx, 292pp. Illustrated. 1st printing. How technologies behind the Cold War have shaped us and our culture. Hallucinogens, brainwashing, flying saucers, and the atom bomb. Includes CD (unused) of Outer Space exotica by Simon James. Near fine.

157 pp.; 30 x 25 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue / artists book published in conjunction with "Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions" held at Tate Liverpool, June 23 - October 15, 2017, and "Space Tapestry: Earth Observation & Human Spaceflight" held at Modern Art Oxford, June 24 - November 12, 2017. "Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the Space Tapestry is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, Space Tapestry tells an episodic visual story of space travel.This book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration." -- publisher's statement. Fine. As issued. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). One hardback volume, one softcover volume and six pamphlets (walks), all housed in a burgundy cloth slipcase (measuring 21cm by 15cm). The books, pamphlets and the slipcase are all in very good condition. ISBN 9780955876103.

First edition, first printing thus. A paperback edition of two works, including Scales by B Catling. Fine.

1st edition. An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef, a "talking mongoose" or "man-weasel," also known as the Dalby Spook, who appeared to the Irving family living on the Isle of Man. "There are very few events that so defeat common sense as to enlighten and thrill as much as Gef's original "bloody silly story"." (B.Catling. Introduction). .Pp.404, many black & white illustrations and photos throughout. Paperback. VG.** In September 1931, the Irving family, consisting of James, Margaret, and a 13-year-old daughter named Voirrey, claimed they heard persistent scratching, rustling, and vocal noises behind their farmhouse's wooden wall panels. The Irvings claimed that Gef had communicated to them that he was "an extra extra clever mongoose", an "Earthbound spirit" and "a ghost in the form of a mongoose" and once said, "I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you'd faint, you'd be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!"The story was given extensive coverage by the tabloid press in Britain in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. (wiki).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. London. Strange Attractor Press. 2015. No edition remarks. Hard Cover. Demy 8vo, 8¾" x 5½" [22 x 14 cm]. approx. 269 pp. Scarlet boards with black vignette of insect to upper board. Black titles to the spine. Book and jacket are as new. Signed by the author without dedication to the title page. Uncommon in signed state. Full page black and white illustrations in the text by Krent Able. Jacket artwork by Simon Fowler. Music critic and mauvais vivant John Doran is turning his popular and long running MENK column for VICE into a book. Jolly Lad concerns the author's attempts to deal with his life as a recovering alcoholic, to calm his enthusiasm for narcotics, to take control of his wildly fluctuating mental health issues and to curb a tendency toward bleakness in order to become a better father to his young son and less of a meff'. It is accompanied by an album of spoken word and music, featuring Manic Street Preachers, British Sea Power and more. The dust jacket will be protected with a new protective mylar sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional images. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. 273 pp. Colour and b/w plates. Collins' autobiography. Near as-new. NEAR FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, the limited signed edition of only 200 hardcover copies in dust jacket. A fine clean tight copy in hardcover, the only marking is the author's signature to the title page. The original dust jacket has no chips or tears but a bit of abrasion/loss to lower spine and general edgewear. The author's first novel, this edition noted as issued in an unlimited softcover edition and only 200 hardcover signed copies. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 269. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the title page, "losing my edge, best wishes, John Doran." CD included. Addiction memoir. ISBN: 9781907222337 Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signedes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black illustrated card covers, some light shelf-wear, one or two marks to closed page edges. Internally no inscriptions, pages smooth and clean, a very good neat and square book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Collection of essays: edited by Edwin Pouncey and Sany Robertson, introduction by Sandy Robertson. ''Here, among other absorbing topics, he provides further insight into the life and occult writings of Aleister Crowley, the criminal prosecution that resulted in Montague Summers's translation of The Confessions of Madeline Bavent, an A to Z of naughty public-school slang and the feline mystery behind Thomas Hardy's heart''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Condition: Trade paperback, Near Fine, London: Strange Attractor Press:, 2006. Trade paperback, Near Fine, 282 pp. A clean, straight and tight copy with a "Strange Attractor" UPC sticker affixed to front cover.

Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Paperback Edition. Original colour decorated wrappers. With colour plates and illustrations. With exshop label to rear cover. Slight shelfwear. ; 14.5x20.5x2.2 cm; 326 pages Original colour decorated wrappers.

Oversize hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 224 pages. ''Drawings, personal photographs, documents, and ephemera by underground cartoonist, artist, writer, musician, and amateur magician Savage Pencil. Pulled together from his massive archive of drawings, personal photographs, documents, and ephemera, alongside a new, extensive interview conducted by author and legendary esoteric bibliographer Timothy D'Arch Smith, Rated SavX is an access-all-areas trawl through the life and work of the artist known as Savage Pencil. Underground cartoonist, artist, writer, musician, and amateur magician Savage Pencil has been conjuring up images and making a noise since 1977. Beginning with his ''Rock 'N' Roll Zoo'' strip for 1970s music paper Sounds to his drawing 'Trip or Squeek'' for The Wire magazine, his instantly recognizable, delirious, and demented images have come to define their own form of acerbic graphic critique and satire''. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Edition limited to 250 copies, this copy no. 76. Navy blue boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 324 pages, including eight pages of colour plates: edited by Phil Baker: LIMITED EDITION: 200 numbered copies printed signed by Phil Baker. This is no 159. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 320 pages: ''strange tales and decadent poems'', edited and with a 30 page introduction by David Tibet. Afterword by Timothy d'Arch Smith and full bibliography compiled by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).