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Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
$14.00 | Book, PrintBorn to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]
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Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
$16.00 | Book, PrintWandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his [...]
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Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
$14.00 | Book, PrintYou want to buy my death for a million pounds!’ Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch […]
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Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
$14.00 | Book, PrintIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer’s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a […]
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Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
$16.00 | Book, PrintOn an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward […]
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Russell Hoban – Fremder
$14.00 | Book, PrintOn 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the […]
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Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
$14.00 | Book, PrintA private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half […]
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Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
$16.00 | Book, PrintSet against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city […]
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Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
$14.00 | Book, PrintA masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille’s Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim [...]
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Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths
$16.00 | Book, PrintJorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America’s most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics [...]
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Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
$7.00 | Book, PrintIn his first book of short fiction–a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables–Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying [...]
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Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsOne of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of [...]
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Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
$12.00 | Book, PrintFrom the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of [...]
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Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
$25.00 | Book, PrintStructured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]
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Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
$20.00 | Book, PrintIn translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]
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Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
$29.00 | Book, PrintThe internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]
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Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
$13.00 | Book, PrintA Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]
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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$17.00 | Book, PrintMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]
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Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
$17.00 | Book, PrintIn the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]
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Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
$18.00 | Book, PrintA tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]
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Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
$15.00 | Book, PrintWritten in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]
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Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
$23.00 | Book, PrintMademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]
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Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
$24.00 | Book, PrintThis combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]
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Alfred Jarry – Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphy…
$14.00 | Book, PrintThe founding text of pataphysics (“the science of imaginary solutions”), and one of the most quietly influential novels of the 20th century Alfred Jarry is best known as the author [...]
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BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
$18.00 | Book, Print‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]
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Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
$22.00 | Book, PrintFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]
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Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
$18.00 | Book, PrintThe Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]
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Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
$16.00 | Book, PrintIn these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]
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Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
$18.00 | Book, PrintJane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]
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Natsuo Kirino – Out
$18.00 | Book, PrintThis mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive […]
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Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
$16.00 | Book, PrintA special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]
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Manly Wade Wellman – After Dark
$14.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsMany eons ago a humanoid race with supernatural powers roamed the North American continent. But when vast hordes of Indians migrated across the Bering Strait land bridge, the Shonokins soon […]
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Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsToo Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]
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Lady Murasaki – The Tale Of Genji
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWritten in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of […]
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William Gibson – Neuromancer (scarce Easton Press edition)
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCase was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited [...]
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Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
$26.00 | Book, PrintSweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]
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Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
$25.00 | Book, PrintSpanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]
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Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
$18.00 | Book, PrintA forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]
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Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsFrom the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]
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Eileen Myles – A Working Life
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]
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Pathetic Literature
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]
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Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
$15.00 | Book, PrintA rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]
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John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
$19.00 | Book, PrintIn their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]
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Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
$18.00 | Book, PrintHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]
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Pierre Louys – Pybrac
$14.00 | Book, PrintA manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]
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Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
$18.00 | Book, Print“Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]
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Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
$15.00 | Book, PrintWhen published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]
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Ursula Parrott – Ex-Wife
$19.00 | Book, PrintAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age—and still resonates today. It’s 1924, […]
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Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
$18.00 | Book, PrintEqual parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literature André Breton described Maldoror as “the [...]
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Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
$17.00 | Book, PrintThe highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García Márquez A masterpiece of the surreal [...]
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