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Dividing Line Books offers interesting and rare books in the fields of modern literature and counterculture, with developing specialties in artists' books, the psychedelics movement, and other avant-garde streams of the 20th century and beyond. We are always interested in acquiring new material in these and other fields, and warmly welcome inquiries of any nature.

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A Celebration of Rudy Burckhardt 1914-1999

A collection of remembrances of the Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker, with contributions from Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Kenneth Koch, and others.

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Arsenal : Surrealist Subversion, Nos. 1-4

Complete run in four volumes of this
journal collecting writings and art, both historical and contemporary, by members of the international Surrealist movement.

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God Wills the Negro

Inscribed first edition of Theodore P Ford's scarce work of revisionist Black history, which prefigures many of the themes explored by the later Black Arts and Afrofuturist movements.

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