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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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Hassan Blasim – The Corpse Exhibition
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective—by an explosive new voice hailed as “perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive” (The Guardian)—The Corpse […]
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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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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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Shusaku Endo – Volcano
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartAt once a powerful novel of ideas and a dramatic, suspenseful narrative. The action takes place over a few months in the lives of two men–Jinpei Suda, a volcanologist, and […]
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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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Marion L. Starkey – The Devil In Massachusetts
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartThis historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey’s sense of [...]
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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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Joe Brainard – I Remember (scarce Penguin edition)
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartJoe Brainard’s I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard’s method [...]
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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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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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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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Jorge Luis Borges – A Universal History Of Infamy
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartHistoria universal de la infamia (1935) was Jorge Luis Borges’s first adventure in the realm of narrative prose. He started as a poet (Fervor de Buenos Aires, 1923) and essayist […]
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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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Richard Bandler – Tranceformations
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartWhat is a trance state? How do you access a previous trance state? What is pattern interruption? Stacked realities? Generative change? Reframing? And how in the world do you use […]
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Richard Bandler – Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
$8.00 | Book, Painting, Print, Used Items Add to cartThe meaning that any event has depends upon the “frame” in which we perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning. Reframing is not new. Reframing appears […]
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Richard Bandler – Frogs Into Princes
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartNLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that […]
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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 – Thirst For Love
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used Items Add to cartIn Thirst for Love, Japan’s greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine. [...]
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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 – 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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