A Novel B. Traven     1927     320p     5 x 8 By the 1920s the violence of the Mexican Revolution had largely subsided, although scattered gangs of bandits continued to terrorize the countryside. The newly established post-revolution government relied on the effective but ruthless Federal Police, commonly known as the Federales, … Continue reading The Treasure of the Sierra Madre →

Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century Peter Linebaugh     1991     524p     6 x 9 Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors. Rather it … Continue reading The London Hanged →

This website has many of our favorite books on it – ones that have inspired us and boiled our blood. We aim to get as many of them into the hands of friends and strangers as possible. All books are on a sliding scale. We find that if a book is more than a few … Continue reading About →

The Book of Pleasures Raoul Vaneigem   1979   210p   5 x 8 An underappreciated and hard-to-find text by one of the best situationist theorists after his SI days. In a nutshell? Food, sex, poetry, wine and rebellion are good, healthy and life-affirming; money, work, submission and exchange-value mean death. Which will the coming … Continue reading Le livre des plaisirs →