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Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLong out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]
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Althea Gyles – A Woman Without A Soul And Other Writings
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAlthea Gyles (1867-1949), Irish artist and mystic, though primarily remembered today for the book covers she did for the poet William Butler Yeats and her association with the author and […]
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Delphi Fabrice – The Red Sorcerer
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Red Sorcerer, originally published as a 64-part feuilleton serial in Le Journal between 31 July 1910 and 3 October 1910, and here appearing in English for the first time […]
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Jean Lorrain – Monsieur De Bougrelon
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon, an eccentric, outmoded dandy leads ennui-filled French tourists around misty Amsterdam. Guiding them through sailors’ bars, whorehouses, and costume [...]
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Elfriede Jelinek – Wonderful, Wonderful Times
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“‘That’s brutal violence on a defenceless person, and quite unnecessary, declares Sophie, and she pulls with an audible tearing sound at the hair of the man lying in an untidy [...]
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Junichiro Tanizaki – The Secret History & Arrowroot
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the [...]
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Richard Brautigan – Dreaming of Babylon
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Nobody’s left but C. Card. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Sunday of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau’s tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Flight of Icarus
$5.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau’s work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Blue Flowers
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Blue Flowers follows two unlikely characters: Cidrolin, who alternates between drinking and napping on a barge parked along the Seine in the 1960s, and the Duke d’Auge as he […]
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Raymond Queneau – The Bark Tree
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Seated in a Paris café, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying for the train: Who is he? he wonders, How does he live? And instantly the shadow […]
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Raymond Queneau – Pierrot Mon Ami
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Pierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, [...]
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Rainer Maria Rilke – Duino Elegies
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“We have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky […]
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Arnost Lustig – Night and Hope
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Stories about young people in the unique concentration-camp ghetto organized by the Nazis in the Czech city of Terezin are based on the author’s own childhood experiences and [...]
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Harry Matthews – Tlooth
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a […]
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Arno Schmidt – Nobodaddy’s Children (Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964, Volume 2)
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the […]
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Gilbert Sorrentino – Mulligan Stew: A Novel.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, ?”Mulligan Stew”?takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist [...]
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Julia Kristeva – Enchanted Clock: A Novel
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon […]
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Rikki Ducornet – Complete Butcher’s Tales
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, […]
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John Ashbery – Collected French Translations: Prose.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCollected French Translations: Prose, the second volume in a landmark two-volume selection of John Ashbery’s translations, focuses on prose writing. Ashbery’s own prose writings and [...]
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Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry & Plays of Jack Spicer.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartBe Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth [...]
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Jean Genet – What Remains Of A Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces And Flushed Down The Toliet
$175.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHanuman Books, 10.5 x 7 cm.Softcover. 1988 edition. Light discoloration & foxing to both dustjacket and edges of pages. Noticeable corner crease/warp along upper right corner of front wrap. [...]
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Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (Uncorrected Proofs)
$350.00 | Book, Painting, Print Add to cartGrove Press, uncorrected proofs for the 1964 edition, presented in a spiral binder. Staining to & writing on both front and back wraps.Some general wear & discoloration to edges of […]
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D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
$20.00 | Print, Zine Add to cart“A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]
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Alfred Jarry – The Supermale
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJarry’s legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age. With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi―”Shite!”―Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) [...]
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Claude Simon – The Flanders Road
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOn a sunny day in May 1940, the French army sent out the cavalry against the invading German army’s panzer tanks. Unsurprisingly, the French were routed. Twenty-six-year-old Claude Simon was […]
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Fernando Arrabal – The Red Virgin
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartVictimization and betrayal are frequently the themes of this Spanish writer, who saw plenty of both as a youth during his homeland’s Civil War. Based on an actual case study […]
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Peter Handke – Repetition (1st US Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSet in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke’s Repetition tells of Filib Kobal’s journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He […]
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Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.
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Anais Nin – Cities of the Interior: v. 2
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLadders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love, Seduction of the Minotaur. Haunting and hypnotic, these five novels by Anaïs Nin […]
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Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThere’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]
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Vladimir Paral – Catapult
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis twist on the Don Juan story looks at the attractions and difficulties of freedom. In the course of his commute, Jacek Jost is suddenly catapulted out of his daily […]
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Celine – Fable For Another Time
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish […]
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Robert Walser – Selected stories
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHow to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a […]
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Tommaso Landolfi – An Autumn Story
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Set during WW II, this is the first novel to appear in English by the celebrated Italian author of Words in Commotion and Other Stories. The narrator, an outlaw, takes […]
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Adolfo Bioy Casares – Asleep In The Sun
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his […]
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Paul Verlaine – The Cursed Poets
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAssembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was published in 1888. Arthur Rimbaud, the boy with whom Paul Verlaine had […]
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Hala Alyan – The Arsonists’ City
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Nasr family is spread across the globe—Beirut, Brooklyn, Austin, the California desert. A Syrian mother, a Lebanese father, and three American children: all have lived a life of migration. [...]
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Ismail Kadare – The Successor
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA fictionalized political tale based on true-life events and the author’s conversations with the victim’s son follows the events surrounding the death of Mehmet Shehu, a hand-picked [...]
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Jens Peter Jacobsen – Niels Lyhne
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNiels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six women—including his young widowed aunt, a seductive free spirit, and [...]
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Victor Serge – Last Times
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLast Times, Victor Serge’s epic novel of the fall of France, is based—like much of his fiction—on firsthand experience. The author was an eyewitness to the last days of Paris […]
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Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDoruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]
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Roland Barthes – Incidents
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrench philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the post-structuralist movement in twentieth-century literary thought, and some of his best-known [...]
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H.D – Nights
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartH.D.’s Nights is about one woman’s attempt to get to the essence of her bisexuality and failed marriage through an illicit heterosexual affair––an attempt that eventually ends in suicide. Much [...]
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Unica Zurn – Dark Spring
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father […]
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Rachel Kushner – The Flame Throwers
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReno, so-called because of the place of her birth, comes to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion […]
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John Williams – Stoner
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartWilliam Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love […]
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Georges Rodenbach – The Bells Of Bruges
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThere are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbe, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium’s Spanish heritage. […]
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Mathias Enard – Zone
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrancis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He’s carrying a [...]
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George Konrad – The City Builder
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family―architects all―have contributed to building. In the days after […]
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