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Bookseller dealing with Occult Revival, Vintage Folklore and Counterculture artefacts as Volume Four Books. Dispatches from the field of high weirdness. East Kent. https://www.instagram.com/volumefourbooks/

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First Edition, 2nd Pressing of this absolute bad boy. Selling this one.

www.ebay.com/itm/38822844...

09.04.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just some of the 80 plus copies of 1970s MAN MYTH & MAGIC that I am in possession of currently.

30.03.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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1968 first edition of The Art and Practice of the Occult. Stunning edition. Could be yours - www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38812836...

22.03.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In an unexpected and quite bonkers turn of events I am in New Scientist wearing a hooden horse (one on the right)

18.03.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blanket really sets it off. Deep Zimmer interior decorating.

08.03.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Decided to decorate this quite bonkers exposed beam we have in our gaff with some more bizarre horse brasses we have collected

08.03.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last one for today - speaks for itself. Have a lovely evening everyone x

23.02.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love this record. Has a real depth to it accentuated by Hazelwood's voice. Proper cutting in places. Sundown, Sundown & Some Velvet Morning... Potent shit mate

23.02.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Giving Sunday what can only be described as 'some welly'

23.02.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Following up with I Trawl the Megahertz. Truly an artist in their prime on this - unbelievable feat of soaring music.

23.02.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday listens

23.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Three of the main characters from La Haine

Three of the main characters from La Haine

'La Haine is an exploration of the tensions between French culture and that of its immigrant population. It’s also a film about boredom, and what happens to fill it under a climate of racism and police brutality'

Low Culture Podcast: #LaHaine

buff.ly/41jCSCw

18.02.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' from episode 3 of 'This Ain't No Disco'
YouTube video by LankumDublin Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch (LANKUM) - 'Hares on the Mountain' from episode 3 of 'This Ain't No Disco'

Radie Peat & Daragh Lynch from Lankum covering Shirley Collins. Quite simply on another plane - youtu.be/XHF4kcMod8w?...

18.02.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book of the day 🀝

12.02.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Coil (Dublin 2004) [06]. Going Up
YouTube video by TheCoilFan Coil (Dublin 2004) [06]. Going Up

Keeping this going. Coil performing 'Going Up' in Dublin 2004. Something deeply affecting (and chilling) about John Balance gazing up at the sky. John passed soon after this youtu.be/wO9ZLxwUrgs?...

08.02.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

...clearly meant live thete

08.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ulver - Not Saved (The Norwegian National Opera DVD)
YouTube video by dresXCI Ulver - Not Saved (The Norwegian National Opera DVD)

This video of Ulver playing 'Not Saved' life at The Norwegian National Opera is a fucking astonishing piece of music. You need to lock in for the full 10 minutes - youtu.be/-ApZyqCNgJo?...

08.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

In other news I am finding it IMPOSSIBLE to cut through on Instagram anymore with the stuff I have for sale. It's got way worse in the last week or two. Very close to giving up on it altogether

08.02.2025 10:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes my favourite part of these books are the additions that previous keepers have added to them, much like the purple stamp on the first page.

08.02.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll have the usual offerings alongside some rarer books, editions that haven't been put online, virtually every back edition of the legendary Kenneth Grant edited 'Man, Myth and Magic', and a handful of shirts.

03.02.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A real pleasure to be asked along to THE HAND OF SATAN IN THE SEA OF DARKNESS on Sunday 20th April in London. A weekend of deeply involved music and experimental sound with some artists I like a lot.

I will be doing my first ever in person pop-up in the day between 2pm and 6pm.

03.02.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unearthed from the hands of a very dusty mage - SECRETS OF THE OCCULT by C.A Burland. A 1972 compendium absolutely rammed with killer full colour photographs, illustrations and reference material.

I love this kind of book. One of those things you find as a kid and alters your brain chemistry.

01.02.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been unearthing loads of stuff to pass on recently but just quite simply keeping the majority of it for myself... Turns out that's a terrible business model!

30.01.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Whole batch of bits being listed this Saturday. Took a LOT of willpower not to keep Ritual Magic and The King of the Shadow Realm Jesus wept.

30.01.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Absolute Shit: Coil's Scatology Revisited | The Quietus Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression

Darran Anderson on typical great form here with a long read on Coil's original course settings.

thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

28.01.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Turbo shagger manifesto

28.01.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It was triggered by a Fellini-esque woman who pulled a knife on someone’: how the Only Ones made Another Girl, Another Planet β€˜It wasn’t a hit at the time, but when it was later used in an advert, I got paid 100 grand. I was still using drugs and the money was gone in a year’

"This song was triggered by meeting someone who had started hanging around our rehearsal rooms in King’s Cross. She was very Felliniesque and looked as if she had stepped out of 8 Β½. She was an extremely eccentric character - she pulled a knife on another girl who was there. I was fascinated by her"

27.01.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Currently reading. Painstakingly evidenced account of how intensely messy all of this lot were - documents, letters and other communications are all there. Genuinely hilarious in a lot of places. Blythe Road chapter is πŸ˜˜πŸ‘Œ

26.01.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another exciting pick up - long out of print. I'll be selling this one at some point so keep checking in!

23.01.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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