Summer Reading!

Here are three new titles and a vintage copy of  # 3 of the classic Foxfire series to round out your summer reading lists.

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Martin Creed, Work No. 815

Martin Creed, Work no. 815, 2008

White Columns Records New York, USA / SmartGuy Records San Francisco, USA

Edition of 600, unsigned. Work no. 815 is three-song 7" pressed on white vinyl. Songs include "Ohh", "Fuck Off" and "Words". This is the second release in 'The Sound of White Columns' series. 

$25

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Chomsky, John Lyons, 1971

Fontanta, paperback, 120 pages.

An introductory text to Noam Chomsky's theories of linguistics. 

From the Fontana Modern Masters series.

$ 5.00

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The Meeting of Failures: Act 1, London

The Meeting of Failures: Act 1 London, By Francis,  2011


Paperback, Everyone Agrees, 119 pages.
First edition of an unnumbered, unsigned, print run of 125 copies.

We are thrilled to have just gotten a very, very small number of copies of this amazing book!

The Meeting of Failures: Act I, London, is the first in a trilogy of novellas engaging with extended adolescence, misdirected ambition, authenticity, hipster politics and the politics of hipsters. It follows the narrator Francis as he seeks to escape the nihilistic bubble of contemporary East London by winning over the enigmatic Savannah Palace. 

$ 9.00
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Yves Klein, The Foundations of Judo

The Foundations of Judo, Yves Klein

Paperback, 224 pages, The Everyday Press, 1st English Edition

Before his inclusion into the canon of 20th century modernism for his zen influenced, proto-minimalist works, Yves Klein traveled to Japan to study Judo. After becoming one of the few Europeans of the time to receive the 4th dan black belt, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Academie de Paris. This book is the first English translation of Klein's 1954 Les Fondments du Jodo, published with the original images and typeface.

$ 25

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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth: A bold blueprint for survival that diagnoses the causes of the environmental crisis

R. Buckminster Fuller

Paperback, 1970, 127 pages.

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$ 8.00 

Please note, this item is not new. There are visible folds and creases on the cover and writing on the inside cover, but the binding is intact.

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Ida, Gertrude Stein

Ida, Gertrude Stein, 1941

1970's, paperback, 154 pages.

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Please note, this item is not new. There are visible folds and creases on the cover but the binding is intact.

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The Coelacanth Journal No 6

The Coelacanth Journal No 6, It Came In The Night 

Phoebe Blatton, Bonnie Camplin, Duncan Carson, Owl Cave, Margoh! Channing, Sally Cruikshank, Annie Guthrie, Neil McNally

Issue No 6 of this London based bi-annual journal explores the 'dark and lovely' void with experimental writing and criticism and features an exclusive interview with cult psychedelic animator Sally Cruikshank, Duncan Carson's analysis of the rise of computer generated images in film and a specially selected reading list by Owl Cave Books.

$ 5
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NERO No. 24

NERO No. 24 

This issue of the Rome based quarterly features Carey Loren on the work of 1%er gang member/photographer Jim 'Flash' Miteff and works in print by Jeff Burton, Anne Collier, Matthias Connor, Eddie Peake, Ilaria Gianni and Ryan Gander, Francesco Stocchi, Michele Manfellotto Jimmy De Sana, Cary Loren, Francesco Pecoraro, Giulio Frigo,Michele Manfellotto,Carola Bonfili, Julia Frommel, Michael Rosenfeld, Luca Lo Pinto and Valerio
Mannucci.

In Itallian and English 

$10
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NERO No. 23

Nero, No.23

This issue of the Rome based contemporary art magazine features work by Nicola Pecoraro, Paul Pieroni's survey of paintings included in the sets of the 1987 film Wall Street,  and an exhibition in print of published interventions by artists, Dieter Roth, Alighiero Boetti, Gilbert & George, Robert Barry and Stephen Kaltenbach.

Text in Itallian and English.

$10
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Mid-Season Sale!

Mid-Season/Relocation Sale

6-10pm, Sunday 2nd of May

and 12-6pm on Monday 3rd of May

Above Camberwell Pet Supplies 

176b Camberwell Road, Camberwell, SE5,

 Owl Cave Books and Urara Tsuchiya are teaming up again for another event! 

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander

Intellectual Colours, Ryan Gander, 2007

Silvana Editoriale and Dena Publishing, paperback, bound in leatherette, 144 pages

A documentation of Gander's project for the Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau, this book was published in association with the presentation of the Dena Foundation Art Award 2006. 

$25

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American Minimal Music

American Minimal Music, Wim Mertens,1983

Kahn & Averill, paperback, 128 pages, 2004 printing
The first in depth study of repetitive music, composer Wim Mertens explores the work of 
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

£6.00

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Mosaic Scarves by Urara Tsuchiya

Owl Cave Books now has a selection of reclaimed cashmere scarves by artist and designer Urara Tsuchiya.
Each scarf is a unique hand made mosaic of cashmere squares, made from used cashmere jumpers. Check back at this site for more Tsuchiya creations and Owl Cave collaborations.
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Bird & Monster Necklaces

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Bird & Monster necklaces for Owl Cave Books!

We are happy to present a selection of jewelry by Bird & Monster custom made for Owl Cave.

Bird&Monster, based in Texas, creates handcrafted jewelry from a combination of found, vintage and modern objects. Each piece is a unique response to reclaimed materials so no two are alike.

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Art Kelly

 




































Art Kelly, Sumocloud, 2009

Sumocloud, screen printed cover with 28 black and white photocopied pages on yellow paper, bound with staples and multicolored yarn.

A Sumocloud zine, proposing an art movement centered around the work of recording artist R. Kelly.

$10

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$10

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything, Naoko Takahashi

Not So Too Much of Much of Everything, Naoko Takahashi, 2007

Book Works, Paperback 72 pages.

No7 in the Chap Books Series, offset printed in an edition of 1000.

An excellent, short novel based on Takahashi's experiences during an artist residency in The United Arab Emirates. 
A 21st century, existentialist, travelogue in which the narrator's actions are continually misinterperated, and unexpectedly fraught with identity politics.

£7.00

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Norman M. Klein, The History Of Forgetting

The History Of Forgetting, Norman M. Klein, 2008

Verso, Paperback, 342 pages

The 2008 updated version of media/urban historian Norman M. Klien's 1997 book on 'The most photographed and least remembered city in the world'. The book examines the realities of city planning in Los Angeles alongside the mythologies of its celluliod image, from post war Film-Noir, to the 1990's gangster's paradise, to the dark futurism of Blade Runner.

£5.00

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This is a second hand book with some damage to page 122. all pages are perfectly legible and the bindings and cover are intact. Please feel free to contact us with any questions about this item.

The Way Things Go

Fischli and Weiss, The Way Things Go, Jeremy Millar, 2007

Afterall Books, Paperback 109 pages, 

Jeremy Millar's analysis of the 1987 Fischli and Weiss work Lauf der Dinge, from the Afterall One Work  book series.

Horse Crazy

Horse Crazy, Gary Indiana, 1989

Paladin, Paperback,189 pages

Gary Indiana's excellent first novel about falling in love with the wrong man, set in the 1980's Downtown Scene.


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As should be visible from the images provided there is signifigant wear and creasing on the cover of this book, the binding and pages are intact.

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