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 (!) 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!)
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)
Complicated relationship status? We get it. Here, read this.
(2019
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])
Find out why you’re so obsessed with that fictional anime boy.
(2022)
A memoire of the Manhattan art scene before it became insufferable.
(2021, first ed.)