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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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Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCollected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]
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The Complete Crepax: Erotic Stories, Part II: Volume 8
$65.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis volume of Fantagraphics’ ambitious series reprinting all of Guido Crepax’s most significant comics is the second of two volumes featuring Crepax’s comics adaptations from [...]
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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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Henri-Pierre Roche – Jules & Jim
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree bohemian existence. They write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. But […]
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Thomas Bernhard – Wittgenstein’s Nephew
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIt is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of […]
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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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Bruno Schulz – The Street Of Crocodiles
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz’s uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of […]
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Julio Cortazar – The Winners
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA widely assorted group of people win as a lottery prize a cruise—destination unknown. Their journey reads like—and is—a superb story of suspense that ranges from the most unconventional of […]
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Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHoracio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]
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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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Raymond Queneau – Zazie in the Metro
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartImpish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut […]
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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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Witold Gombrowicz – Ferdydurke
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to […]
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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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John Hawkes – Travesty
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTravesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, […]
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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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Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartMotel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]
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Claude Simon – Conducting Bodies
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA thoroughly modernist novel, meaning it’s all about the construction of imagery in the mind that’s constantly shifting and evolving. There is no plot in the conventional sense, but [...]
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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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Denton Welch – Fragments Of A Life Story
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIncludes every short story and fragment that Denton Welch, an acclaimed precursor to the Beats & the 90’s autofiction movement, wrote before his sudden passing. Penguin, 1987 Softcover [...]
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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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Denton Welch – A Voice Through A Cloud
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartOne of the most beautifully peceptive novels in the English language, A Voice through a Cloud is a devastating account of vulnerability, gay desire and determination A Voice through a […]
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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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Ernst Junger – Eumeswil
$75.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartEumeswil, ostensibly a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, is effectively a comprehensive synthesis of Ernst Jünger’s mature thought, with a particular focus on new and achievable forms [...]
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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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Joy Williams – The Quick And The Dead
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAlice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an […]
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Don DeLillo – Americana
$7.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAt twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the top, becoming a top television executive who has captivated America’s imagination through the images […]
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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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Heinrich Von Kleist – Michael Kohlhaas
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartMichael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse—his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits [...]
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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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Walter Benjamin – The Storyteller
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including [...]
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Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky – Memories Of The Future
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartWritten in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black [...]
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Vladimir Nabokov – Despair
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDespair’s protagonist, Hermann, is another masterly portrait in the fascinating gallery of living characters Vladmir Nabokov has given to world literature. In his pseudo wordliness, his odd [...]
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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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Joy Williams – Ninety-Nine Stories Of God
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It’s the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass―a powerfully [...]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – St Paul
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartPresented here for the first time in English is a remarkable screenplay about the apostle Paul by Pier Paolo Pasolini, legendary filmmaker, novelist, poet, and radical intellectual activist. [...]
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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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Leonard Gardner – Fat City
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, […]
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Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad (UK Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will culminate in the greatest battle in human history. Hundreds of miles away, Pyotr Vavilov […]
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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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Renata Adler – Speedboat
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore […]
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Cesare Pavese – The Moon And The Bonfires
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe nameless narrator of The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese’s last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in […]
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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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Julio Cortazar – All Fires The Fire
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek […]
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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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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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