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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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Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth, & Memory.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, witchcraft and murder, Glenn Watkins explores the fascinating life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo―a life suffused with scandal and [...]
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Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFrom the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]
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Donald Judd (October Files)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDonald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about art–in both his works and [...]
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Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]
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We Are The Mutants: The Battle For Hollywood From Rosemary’s Baby To Lethal Weapon
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWe Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in Hollywood history. Documenting the period between the arrival of […]
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Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta & The Black Atlantic
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) is remembered [...]
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Steve Underwood “Even When It Makes No Sense – the Broken Flag Story”
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEnglish cassette and record label Broken Flag was founded in 1982, and whilst not having released anything for a long time, it has never officially ceased to exist. Their primary […]
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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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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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Karl Ove Knausgaard – In The Land Of The Cyclops
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn his first essay collection to be published in English, the New York Times bestselling author of the My Struggle series Karl Ove Knausgaard explores art, philosophy, and literature with […]
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Julio Cortazar – Around The Day In Eighty Worlds
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartPoems, essays, and anecdotes accompany stories about a man sinking into the ground, an invisible monster, a woman who hates yawns, and miniature jaguars North Point Press, 1986 Hardcover edition. [...]
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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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Albert Camus – Neither Victims Nor Executioners
$16.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNeither Victims nor Executioners was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat, the daily newspaper of the French Resistance, in November 1946. In the essays […]
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Caro Levi – Christ Stopped at Eboli
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to […]
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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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Ryszard Kapuscinski – The Shadow Of The Sun
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland’s state newspaper. From the early days […]
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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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Curzio Malaparte – Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1947 Curzio Malaparte returned to Paris for the first time in fourteen years. In between, he had been condemned by Mussolini to five years in exile and, on release, […]
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Jean Genet: Alberto Giacometti (german text)
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJean Genet’s essay on Giacometti paired with photos of his work and studio. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN Scheidegger & Spiess, 2004 Hardcover edition. Light general wear. TEXT ENTIRELY IN GERMAN
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Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
$10.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartGhost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays—meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems—and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]
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Jean Cocteau – The White Book
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartLe Livre Blanc, a “white paper” on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau’s contemporary Maurice Sachs, and was at once decried as by the critics [...]
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The Structure Of Magic II
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThese seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I [...]
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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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Jenny Erpenbeck – Not A Novel
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New […]
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Jean Genet – The Criminal Child
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school […]
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Ken Schles – Night Walk
$15.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartTwenty-five years after the printing of his seminal 1988 book, Invisible City, Ken Schles revisits his archive and fashions a narrative of lost youth: a delirious, peripatetic walk in the […]
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Conversations On Writing
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of science fiction, they just might have undersold her legacy. It’s hard to look at her vast […]
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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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Cornelia Parker – Verso
$32.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis diminutive artists book was specially commissioned by Ivorypress as part of an ongoing series. Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]
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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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Alasdair Gray – Of Me And Others
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEngraved on the wall outside the Scottish Parliament are the words “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.” Attributed to Alasdair Gray, Scotland’s national […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction