MODAL POINT BOOKS
Bookhound of the I-95 corridor serving RVA’s left field literati. Sniffing out long-lost ephemera, arcana, and other analogue treasures.
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RECENT ACQUISITIONS
First edition (!) English printing of a foundational work from the father of structural anthropology.
(1970—first edition!)
First edition (!) printings of volumes 3 and 4 of the personal diaries of the French-American giant of erotic fiction.
(1969—first edition!)
The atmospheric and electrifying cornerstone of Nin’s erotic oeuvre ;-)
(1977 [1969])
A newspaper advice columnist undone by drinking, despair, and sex under capitalist alienation. Use it as a personal guidebook, if you must.
(1969 [1933])
Sex, pollution, demons. Turns out medieval clerics and eco punks have a lot in common.
(1999—rare find!)
How’s a witch supposed to survive capitalism???
(2008 [2004])
The history behind your recent decision to Uhaul it.
(1991)
If Her and Ex Machina had a literary baby conceived by a Nobel Prize winning author.
(1995)
Did you know how good Hungarian literature is? You do now, thanks to the NYRB translation of this haunting portrait of feminine intimacy.
(2005 [1987])
A lost play by a founder of the Negritude movement found new life through its rediscovery in 2008. Parallel English-French printing.
(2008 [1947])
Find out why you’re so obsessed with that fictional anime boy.
(2022)
Chomsky on a defining issue of our lives.
(2014 [1999])
A memoire of the Manhattan art scene before it became insufferable.
(2021, first ed.)