September 22, 2021
6 x 8.5 | 150 pages | Hardcover Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. With a foreword by Stephen
September 22, 2021
6.5 x 10.3 | 528 pages | Remainder The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas: Gender is a social construct. Race is a social construct. Class is a
September 9, 2021
6 x 9 | 196 pages Gary Shipley’s On the Verge of Nothing moves according to a patient logic, asking us to consider what follows when we begin from pessimism, rather than arriving at it. Through Shipley’s ciphers – Nietzsche, Pessoa, Lispector, contemporary performance art – pessimism is illuminated as at once unliveable and unconsolable, and yet unavoidable. Reading On
September 3, 2021
9 x 11.25 | 330 pages | Profusely photo-illustrated | Full-color | Hardcover Note: Copies ordered prior to the release date will be autographed by Lionel Maunz and Peter Sotos. Possessed by a galvanic intensity rarely encountered in contemporary art, the work of Lionel Maunz is exhibited in discursive arrangement with Peter Sotos’ thematically expansive
July 21, 2021
Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 | 136 pages 9BB Comments: Nothing spices up a book catalog like a good old-fashioned poisoner’s handbook, and this is still the best one. It’s accurate, irreverent, occasionally shocking, and very funny. For informational and entertainment purposes, as they used to say… From the Publisher: Poisons and the art of
March 14, 2021
5 x 8 | 154 pages We are left with what might be described as an outsider memoir, or simply a document. Unrefined and unfinished, 82189 was written by a man – posthumously assigned the pen-name “Henry Bellows” – who died while serving a life sentence for rape, and who spent most his life in
December 2, 2020
5 x 7.25 | 130 pages Originally published in 1992 prior to Jonathan Bowden’s reactionary political conversion, Aryan is a kaleidoscopic, prose-poetic study of “Nazism and the twilight of modern man.” This Nine-Banded Books edition has been transcribed with careful fidelity to the original text and represents the final installment of our “Bowden trilogy,” with Mad and Sade preceding. What everyone
October 13, 2020
6 x 9 | 104 pages Follow the science into a panic room whose walls are the fear of death. It has a window you duck down beneath, the fibro rattling like an n-dimensional membrane as thin glass shatters to ornament your back like that of a stegosaurus. But you will survive as those brainless dragons
October 5, 2020
Softcover | 6 x 9 | 456 pages Nine-Banded Books comment: This is the sort of book I might once have scoffed at, probably without cracking the spine. Shame on me. At once a localist manifesto and a paean to a kind of compassionate and undeceived individualism that is now scarcely articulated, Ralph Borsodi’s This
September 2, 2020
4.5 x 7 | 160 pages Description: On April 7 1984, in the small city of Sheridan Wyoming, Gerard Bennet Reith died at his writing desk of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. He was 25. While the details of Reith’s suicide remain hazy and subject to apocryphal embellishment, the work he produced during
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