Jonathan Bowden – Nine-Banded Books

Mad

Richard Smith — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:15:39 +0000

This a true first edition/printing of Jonathan Bowden's first book, Mad. It was published in 1989 as the premiere release under Bowden's short-lived vanity publishing concern, Egotist Press. This was long before Bowden gained cult notoriety as an orator and "house intellectual" in alt-right circles, and it may be of interest that this specific copy was used, with utmost care, as a transcription source for the 9BB reissue that was published in 2009. Another fun fact is that the descriptive hyperbole on the back cover was appropriated (presumably with a wink) from promotional copy appearing in various Grove Press editions of works by the Marquis de Sade! My price might or might not be high; it's difficult to gauge the prevailing market value for an item that is so seldom listed by online booksellers or at auction, especially since I don't know how many copies were published in the initial press run (500, I seem to recall?). I'm not particularly enthusiastic about parting with it, regardless, so consider the price "firm." Additional photos will be provided to prospective buyers upon request.

Attributes: First printing of 1989 Egotist Press edition; Rare
Condition: Good. Solid spine; no interior marks; back cover has a spot stain and shows mild discoloration.
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Aryan

NBBDev — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:58:04 +0000

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 would put in a book – what no one can jot down in a line. Undutiful, irreducible, garrulously subversive, a testament of hatred for the system, in which those who seek it, may find a love of the individual who refuses subjection.

Sade

NBBDev — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:43:28 +0000

Originally released in 1992, Jonathan Bowden’s erudite study of the life and times of the Marquis de Sade is at once work of fevered imagination and a highly original contribution to extant Sade scholarship. “Sade represented the energy a society had girded around its loins.”

Mad

NBBDev — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:07:59 +0000

The ghosts of Hobbes, Sade and Stirner haunt Jonathan Bowden’s unique and captivating experimental study of mortality salience, interpersonal strife, and the emergence of the modern state. Originally released in 1989, Nine-Banded Books is very proud to bring this remarkable book back into print. Listen: Insanity dislocates the nervous system from its axis. Mind and body lose the symmetry which both require. Hence, in the most extreme states, a multiplicity of persona, compete with one another, for mastery of the mind. The discursive intellectual sees deeper still. He sees a society where mounds of corpses left redundant in the Nazi’s wake were thought by many to have deserved their fate. Who then, in circumstances such as these, is wholly sane? The truth is that we are all in some sense mad. We are liable, in that moment of madness, to go over to the other side. We are sick because we have never diagnosed the possibility of curing our sickness. We are immoral because we lack the propensity to behave morally. In that moment of madness we are too nervous to attempt anything with anyone unless they’re a corpse first. Necrophilia is the privilege of the naturally human. The lividly swinish, the essentially bestial, the thing from which we emerged, and he stands there, behind every lawyer, every judge, every mendacious cesspit of a politician. You will find him there. The man with the gun, the individual of the first cause, the articulator of the original violation: Cain; the man who killed Abel.