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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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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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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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Elias Canetti – Crowds And Power
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCrowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores […]
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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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Marcel Schwob – The Book Of Monelle
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhen Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stéphane [...]
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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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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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Dasa Drndic – Doppelganger
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTwo elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year’s Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, […]
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Varlam Shalamov – Sketches Of The Criminal World
$10.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from [...]
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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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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Ernst Junger – The Storm Of Steel
$9.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartA worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. Itilluminates not only the horrors […]
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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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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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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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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 Frolic Of The Beasts
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartTranslated into English for the first time, this novel is about an affair gone wrong between a former university student, Kōji; his would-be mentor, the eminent literary critic Ippei Kusakado; [...]
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Yukio Mishima – Star
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAll eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention―they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the […]
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Yukio Mishima – Life For Sale
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cart‘Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.’ When Hanio Yamada realizes the future holds nothing of […]
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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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Kobo Abe – Kangaroo Notebook
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan’s most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and [...]
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Kobo Abe – Beyond The Curve
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAbe’s best short works to date are presented here in this well-crafted collection of fiction which explores many of modern man’s dilemmas in an insightful, yet highly surrealistic [...]
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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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Thomas Bernhard – The Voice Imitator
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard’s work depicts [...]
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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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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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Xu Bing – Book From The Ground
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartFollowing his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing […]
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Geza Csath – Opium
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartGéza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psychiatrist, and physician born in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. One of Sigmund Freud’s earliest […]
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Elaine Pagels – The Gnostic Gospels
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe Gnostic Gospels is a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics […]
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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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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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Shiga Naoya – The Paper Door and Other Stories
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNo modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called “the god […]
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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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