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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 Verso is a previously unpublished work by British sculptor and installation artist Cornelia [...]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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Thomas Bernhard – 3 Days
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartOver the course of three days in 1970, June 5, 6, and 7, simply sitting on a white bench in a Hamburg park, Thomas Bernhard delivered a powerful monologue for Three […]
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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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Danilo Kis – Hourglass (1st US Edition)
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartDanilo Kiš was one of the most artful and eloquent writers of postwar Europe. Of all his books, Hourglass, the account of the final months in one man’s life before […]
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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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Fleur Jaeggy – SS Proleterka
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartCompressed, delicate, but brutally precise, S. S. Proleterka is a fiercely boiled-down bildungsroman from the presiding genius of dry-ice, Fleur Jaeggy. The S. S. Proleterka is a Yugoslavian [...]
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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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Ryszard Kapuscinski – Another Day of Life
$5.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other [...]
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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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Symbionese Liberation Army – Death to the Fascist Insect
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeath to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of […]
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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, [...]
GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction