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])
Sex Pistol surrealism and mosh pit philosophy—do you punks even know your own history?
(2009 [1989])
These midcentury, erm… “physique guides” are great for keeping up with workout trends. Just don’t show the government censors.
(1950’s — 1960’s)
First edition (!) printing of an entry from the American master of espionage fiction.
(1978 – first edition!)
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!)
Belle
Who’s that staring at me? Oh…it’s me.
(1988)
Impress the rest of Scuffletown with your grasp of the post-postmodern condition.
(1995)
An early entry in queer Black literature rediscovered in a Yale University archive decades after McKay first penned it.
(2020)
What if every time a man annoyed you, you just ate him?
(2020)
The history behind your recent decision to Uhaul it.
(1991)
One of your multiple personalities is sure to love this catalog of Pessoa’s different authorial voices.
(2017 [1982])
For that cottagecore friend of yours.
(2006 [1914])
Complicated relationship status? We get it. Here, read this.
(2019
How’s a witch supposed to survive capitalism???
(2008 [2004])
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.)