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Jorge Luis Borges – Evaristo Carriego
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTells the story of an Argentinian poet, who may also represent Borges himself, and discusses the limits of literature. Dutton, 1984 Softcover edition. Small stain on front wrap, seemingly from [...]
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Ivan Goncharov – Oblomov
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFirst published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol’s Dead Souls, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and [...]
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David Markson – Wittgenstein’s Mistress
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWittgenstein’s Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately […]
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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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Mathias Enard – Tell Them Of Battles, Kings And Elephants
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1506, Michelangelo―a young but already renowned sculptor―is invited by the Sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous [...]
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Alain Robbe-Grillet – Topology Of A Phantom City
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAn oblique murder-mystery as an exploration of time & space in a disintegrated city. Grove Press, 1977 Softcover edition. Some wear & discoloration to wraps.
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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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Elfriede Jelinek – Greed
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartGreed is the story of Kurt Janisch, an ambitious but frustrated country policeman, and the lonely women he seduces. It is a thriller set amid the mountains and small towns […]
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Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young man’s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest [...]
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Yukio Mishima – Acts Of Worship
$7.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he [...]
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Roberto Bolano – Last Evenings On Earth
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The melancholy folklore of exile,” as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano’s narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and [...]
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Roberto Bolano – By Night In Chile
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartDuring the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some […]
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai – War & War
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWar and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai’s second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being […]
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai – The World Goes On
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because […]
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai – The Melancholy Of Resistance
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László [...]
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Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Satantango (signed UK Edition)
$150.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of […]
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Castle To Castle
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWith an undercurrent of sensual excitement, Céline paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition. Castle to Castle is the often hilarious account of a baggage-train [...]
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Celine – Rigadoon
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOften comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after […]
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Celine – North
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAccompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to […]
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Marlen Haushofer – The Wall
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhile vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. […]
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Marlen Haushofer – The Loft
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after […]
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Olga Tokarczuk – Primeval And Other Times
$65.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSet in the mythical Polish village of Primeval, a microcosm of the world populated with eccentric, archetypal characters and guarded by four archangels, this novel from Nobel Prize winner Olga [...]
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Olga Tokarczuk – House Of Day, House Of Night
$125.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, an area that has been a part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia in the past. When the narrator moves into […]
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Stig Dagerman – Sleet
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA selection of stories from Sweden’s greatest post-war writer. “Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an [...]
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Thomas Bernhard – Extinction (1st US Edition)
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a [...]
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Tarjei Vesaas – The Ice Palace
$12.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartCommonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer’s masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss and Unn, two friends who have only spent one evening in each other’s company. But […]
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Ernst Junger – The Glass Bees
$10.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology [...]
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Thomas Bernhard – Goethe Dies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called “one of the masters of European fiction” is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and […]
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Anais Nin – The Four Chambered Heart
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Four-Chambered Heart, Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with café guitarist Gonzalo Moré in 1936. Nin and Moré rented a house-boat on the Seine, and […]
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Claude Simon – The World About Us
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA loosely related series of scenes from the past and the present are combined in a fictional collage. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder […]
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Appendix N, Revised and Expanded Edition: Weird Tales from the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
$23.00 | Book, Painting, Print Add to cartDrawing upon the original list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master’s Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Laughter in the Dark
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlbinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her […]
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Jorge Luis Borges – The Aleph & Other Stories
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFull of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an [...]
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Pu Songling – Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWith their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is […]
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Claude Simon – The Trolley
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartClaude Simon, a Nobel Prize–winning author and cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of […]
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Andrey Platonov – Happy Moscow
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMoscow Chestnova is a bold and glamorous girl, a beautiful parachutist who grew up with the Revolution. As an orphan, she knew tough times—but things are changing now. Comrade Stalin […]
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Louis Armand – The Garden (Director’s Cut)
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer “Dekaro,” the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey [...]
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Ira Cohen – A Certain Kind of Wizard
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPoet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher, and dauntless world traveler, Ira Cohen was a mythic figure of boundless energy who was a catalyst for creative scenes in New York, Tangier, Kathmandu, [...]
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Gabriel de Foigny – The Known Southern Land
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 1676, a century before the British colonized Australia, a defrocked French monk named Gabriel de Foigny published a novel imagining what the land was like. The work is told […]
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Ruggero Vasari – Raun
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartRaun, certainly one of the great works of Futurist drama, if not the greatest, was written by Ruggero Vasari from 1926 to 1927 before being published in 1932. Here, presented […]
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Cookie Mueller – Garden Of Ashes
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGarden of Ashes, Cookie Mueller’s second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988’s Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls) brings together ten stories, autobiographical [...]
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Cookie Mueller – Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFollowing the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in our first series, we are thrilled to reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and […]
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Raymond Pettibon – The Frontier Index
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGuiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and [...]
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Sarah Falkner – Animal Sanctuary
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBooklist review: In a stealthily affecting reportorial voice, debut novelist Falkner tells the story of tepidly successful 1960s movie actress Kitty Dawson via interviews, critiques, press [...]
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Jake Reber – ZER000 Excess
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartZER000 EXCESS is a work of ambient body horror. Depicting the birth and growth of strange organisms–creatures spawned from the maw of the text. Watch as they fester in the […]
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Joanna Walsh – Autobiology
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. […]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – La rabbia / Anger
$22.00 | Book, Painting, Print Add to cartWritten in response to producer Gastone Ferranti’s request for his comments on a set of newsreel items, the poet would respond with a montage of his own. Via the unfolding […]
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Ryu Murakami – Almost Transparent Blue (1st Edition)
$275.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami’s image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group [...]
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Yoko Tawada – Where Europe Begins
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as “a spectacular journey [...]
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Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart““Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Queer (1st Printing)
$140.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ [...]
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India Folk Tales
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA children’s guide to Indian folk tales. Amazing art plates. Peter Pauper Press, 1968 Hardcover edition. Light wear/tear to dustjacket apparent under mylar.
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Jovette Marchessault – Lesbian Triptych
$20.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Jovette Marchessault’s Lesbian Triptych is an anthology of three stories – “Night Cows,” “A Lesbian Chronicle from Medieval Quebec” and “The Angel [...]
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Sri Chinmoy – The Silence Of Death
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartSri Chinmoy’s poetry ruminating on death. AUM Press, 1973 Mass-Market Paperback edition. Some wear and discoloration to wraps.
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Anne Waldman – The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“The Iovis Trilogy, Anne Waldman’s monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the [...]
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Flann O’Brien – At Swim Two Birds
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century. A wildly [...]
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William S. Burroughs – Exterminator!
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, [...]
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Jim Thompson – The Killer Inside Me
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he’s a little slow and a little boring. But, […]
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Judith Schalansky – An Inventory Of Losses
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Each disparate object described in this book―a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific―shares a common […]
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Alfred Doblin – Berlin Alexanderplatz
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart“Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, […]
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