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RE/Search Publications is a United States magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by V. Vale in 1980. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fanzine Search & Destroy (1977 – 1979), started with $100 from Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. RE/Search itself began as a tabloid-sized magazine. Following the third issue, issues 4 and 5 were collected as a single volume, a "special book issue". Subsequent issues all retained the book format.

RE/Search has published books on various underground topics. Titles include Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and Modern Primitives, and the subject matter includes profiles of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and others.

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RE/Search #1,2 and 3: Tabloid format zine. RE/Search Publications, 1980-1981.
RE/Search #4/5: William S. Burroughs/Brion Gysin/Throbbing Gristle. RE/Search Publications, 1982. ISBN 0-9650469-1-5
RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook. RE/Search Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-940642-07-7
RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook, Limited Hardback Edition. RE/Search Publications, 2006. ISBN 978-1-889307-16-9
RE/Search #8/9: J. G. Ballard. RE/Search Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-940642-08-5
RE/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films RE/Search Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-940642-09-3
RE/Search #11: Pranks!. RE/Search Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-9650469-8-2
RE/Search #12: Modern Primitives. RE/Search Publications, 1989. ISBN 0-940642-14-X
RE/Search #13: Angry Women. RE/Search Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-940642-24-7
RE/Search #14: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. I. RE/Search Publications, 1993. ISBN 0-940642-22-0
RE/Search #15: Incredibly Strange Music Vol. II. RE/Search Publications, . ISBN
RE/Search #16: Modern Pagans - An Investigation of Contemporary Ritual, 2001 ISBN 1-889307-10-6
J. G. Ballard. (1970) The Atrocity Exhibition. Revised large-format paperback edition, with annotations by the author and illustrations by Phoebe Gloeckner. RE/Search Publications, 1990. ISBN 0-940642-18-2
Bob Flanagan. Bob Flanagan: Super Masochist, 1993. ISBN 0-940642-25-5
Daniel P. Mannix. Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others. ISBN 0-9651042-5-7
Paul Spinrad. (1994, reissued 1999) The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids. ISBN 0-940642-28-X (1994), ISBN 1-890451-04-5 (1999)
James Stark. (2006) Punk '77. ISBN 1-889307-14-9
V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Zines Vol. I. ISBN 0-9650469-0-7
V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Zines Vol. II. ISBN 0-9650469-2-3
V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Search & Destroy Volume I: Issues 1-6. ISBN 1-889307-00-9
V. Vale (Ed.) (1997) Search & Destroy Volume II: Issues 7-11. ISBN 0-9650469-4-X
V. Vale (Ed.) (2005). "J.G. Ballard: Conversations" (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-13-0
V. Vale (Ed.) and Mike Ryan (Ed). (2005). "J.G. Ballard: Quotes" (excerpts). RE/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-12-2