 A Death
By Zalman Shneour. Introduction and translation by Daniel Kennedy. In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark love affair develops in an unnamed Eastern European city between the young, impoverished, violently self-loathing teacher, Shloyme—and a hungry, spiteful and unsettlingly sensual revolver. Ostensibly >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663450
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Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock
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|  A Dilemma
By Joris-Karl Huysmans. Introduction and translation by Justin Vicari. Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663115
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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|  A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer
By Pierre Mac Orlan. Translation by Napoleon Jeffries. Pierre Mac Orlan’s 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genre’s real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663009
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 104 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 In stock
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 A Nine-Year-Old Aviator
By Raul Ruiz. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Illustrations by Camila Mora-Scheihing. Translation by Catherine Petit, Paul Buck. A previously unpublished story by filmmaker Raul Ruiz (1941–2011) that was found in a trunk by his wife Valeria Sarmiento, A Nine Year-Old Aviator was written in Paris when Ruiz had just fled Chile. This >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563994
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 48 pgs / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  A Terrace in Rome
By Pascal Quignard. Translated by Douglas Penick, Charles Ré. A Terrace in Rome describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of encrypted shadows and erotic prints. After a passionate affair in his youth concludes with his face being burned by acid >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663160
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 Out of stock
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|  American Canyon
By Amarnath Ravva. Blending myth with interviews and first-person narrative, California-based writer Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon uses prose, documentary footage and still photos to recount the fragmented and ever-evolving story of one person’s apprehension of the ghosts of >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030160
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Pbk, 6 x 7.25 in. / 180 pgs / 38 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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 One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115525
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 In stock
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|  In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who despises both the world he lives in and the work he himself has >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663733
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 56 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/07/2021 In stock
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|  And China Has Hands
By H.T. Tsiang. Edited with afterword by Floyd Cheung. Originally published in 1937, And China Has Hands, the final published novel of literary gadfly and political radical H.T. Tsiang (1899-1971) (author of The Hanging on Union Square), takes place in a 1930s New York >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030306
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2016 In stock
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 Another Ventriloquist
By Adam Penn Gilders. Adam Penn Gilders was a virtuoso of the deadpan prose miniature. He published his stories in Paris Review, The Walrus and J&L Illustrated, before passing away in 2007, at the age of 36, of a >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964200
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Hbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Antilogy
By Alex Hamburger. Foreword by Ricardo Basbaum. Drawing from notions of “bad poetry” as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger. Central to Hamburger’s practice and engagement with poetry is a >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780997874488
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 137 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  At the Blue Monkey
By Walter Serner. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663467
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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 Aurora and Cardinal Point
By Michel Leiris. Translation and introduction by Anna Warby. This volume collects two classics of Surrealist fiction, both long out of print, by the writer and ethnographer Michel Leiris (1901–1990). Close to Georges Bataille, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon, and a director of >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565462
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock
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|  Autumn in Peking
By Boris Vian. Introduction by Marc Lapprand. Translated Paul Knobloch. Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. >>more
TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234640
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Pbk, 8.75 x 5.5 in. / 284 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 In stock
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|  From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972040
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 Written by playwright and novelist Wesley Brown, Blue in Green narrates one evening in August 1959, when, mere weeks after the release of his landmark album Kind of Blue, Miles Davis is assaulted by a >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691118
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Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 68 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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|  Braids
Edited by Daniele Riviere. Text by Léo Henry. Drawings by Denis Vierge. When the Catastrophe occurred, part of humanity took refuge in the Greenhouses. They survived there, locked up for over a century, in the company of selected plants and animals. Outside, the wars exhausted themselves and >>more
DIS VOIR
ISBN 9782914563949
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock
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|  Brief Lives of Idiots
By Ermanno Cavazzoni. Introduction and translation by Jamie Richards. A parody of the medieval Lives of the Saints, Ermanno Cavazzoni’s Brief Lives of Idiots offers us a perfect month of portraits of idiots drawn from real life, from overly realist writers to fringe-belief obsessives, >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663535
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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 Bruges-la-Morte
By Georges Rodenbach. Introduction and translation by Will Stone. A widower, Hugues Viane, takes refuge in the decay of Bruges, living among the relics of his dead wife as he transforms his home and the very city he inhabits into her spatial embalmment. Spinning >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663818
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 36 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock
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|  City Terrace Field Manual
Text by Sesshu Foster. Brawling, street-wise prose poems push the boundaries of narrative form, taking the reader through the physical and psychological landscapes of East Los Angeles. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030191
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 176 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/02/1996 In stock
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|  Winner the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, 2019
These poems are, in the poet’s words: “Postcards written with ocotillo and yucca. Gentrification of your face inside your sleep. Privatization of identity, corners, and intimations. Wars on >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030559
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 188 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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 Claudia Rankine
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the >>more
MoMA PS1
ISBN 9780996893039
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 40 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  Australian performer Ivan Cheng’s (born 1991) artistic practice is invested in questions around publics and accessibility. Majority is the second installment in his Confidences series, which deploys a version of the vampire and theater as >>more
After 8 Books
ISBN 9782492650055
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/26/2022 In stock
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|  Verano de 1972, Julio Cortázar recibe en Saignon, las pruebas de galera del Libro de Manuel y decide corregirlas lejos de su casa. Durante unos días abandona la ciudad francesa y a bordo de Fafner, >>more
RM
ISBN 9788415118268
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 49 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2012 In stock
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 Cruise of Shadows
By Jean Ray. Introduction and translation by Scott Nicolay. Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a knock on the door of a hut in the middle of an isolated bog; a lane in Rotterdam perceptible to only one >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663443
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 232 pgs.
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|  Curl
By T.O. Bobe. Translation by Sean Cotter. Mr. Gica is the world’s greatest barber. He holds the world record for sculptural hairstyling and has won three Olympic golds in neck massage. But his specialty is the shave. Mr. Gica’s shop has six >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663429
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Dark Spring
By Unica Zürn. Translated with introduction by Caroline Rupprecht. In Dark Spring, author Unica Zürn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described "the erotic life >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972309
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Out of stock
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 Shortlisted for CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2021
“You’re not allowed to have a girlfriend until college,” my mother warned. “And you’d better get into an Ivy League school!”
In David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030627
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/28/2020 In stock
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|  Disagreeable Tales
By Léon Bloy. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Léon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales, first published in French in >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663108
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 Out of stock
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|  District
By Tony Duvert. Introduction by S.C. Delaney. Translation by S.C. Delaney, Agnès Potier. A noisy metro station, old tenements, buildings going up, along with the fixtures of French communal life: the open-air market, the public garden; the little shops and bars, the lively town square—the ugly and mundane, >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663306
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 56 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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 Admired by Donald Barthelme and Lydia Davis, Mitch Sisskind is a professional satirist whose stories and poems can finally be read in one new volume. Do Not Be a Gentleman When You Say Goodnight, a >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778640
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 184 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/01/2016 In stock
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|  Con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Juan Rulfo, Editorial RM publicó una edición especial en caja de las obras de Rulfo, diseñada con los colores de la bandera mexicana. En ella se incluyen las >>more
RM/UNAM
ISBN 9788416282975
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Slip, pbk, 3 vols, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 516 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/24/2017 In stock
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|  A partir de la aparición de “Pedro Páramo”, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, “El gallo de oro”. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematográfico, probablemente se trate de >>more
RM
ISBN 9788417047146
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 206 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/20/2017 In stock
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 La encuesta del Instituto Nobel de Suecia, de 2002, dirigida a un centenar de escritores y estudiosos de todo el mundo, ubicó a Pedro Páramo entre las cien obras que constituyen el núcleo del patrimonio >>more
RM
ISBN 9788493442613
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 174 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2005 In stock
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|  El último combate
By Julio Cortázar. Edited by Julio Silva. In 1955, the painter and sculptor Julio Silva met the author Julio Cortázar in Paris. From the first moment, there was a spark of genuine friendship and professional respect between the two Julios which lasted >>more
RM
ISBN 9788415118619
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Hbk, 6.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/05/2013 In stock
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|  At the age of sixty-three, Álvaro Mutis took up the character that had appeared sporadically in his poetry and turned him into the central figure of a narrative cycle consisting of seven novels, written between >>more
RM
ISBN 9788417975098
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Hbk, 5.75 x 9 in. / 656 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/03/2019 In stock
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 Spain’s "la Caixa" Collection is showcased in four “chapters,” each curated by a contemporary writer whose new fiction accompanies their selections. Here, for the first exhibition, Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas (born 1948) selects works by >>more
Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854882731
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972088
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 344 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 In stock
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|  The stories brought together in this collection introduce for the first time in English the dazzling speculative imaginings of Djuna, one of South Korea's most provocative SF writers. Whether describing a future society light years >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030764
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/30/2024 In stock
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 Evguenie Sokolov
By Serge Gainsbourg. Translated by John Weightman, Doreen Weightman. Serge Gainsbourg's sole foray into fiction, Evguenie Sokolov describes an artist who uses his intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a smelly and noisy problem in his social and >>more
TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234619
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Pbk, 7 x 5 in. / 137 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Out of stock
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|  Exemplary Departures
By Gabrielle Wittkop. Afterword and translation by Annette David. Exemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five "exemplary" deaths in various exotic locations around the globe: a gentleman spy disappears with his secrets into the Malaysian jungle; a young woman agonizes atop >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663139
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 168 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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|  Feathers Like Leather
By Chris Leo. One of troubador/flaneur Chris Leo's claims to fame is that he holds the highest score on the rigorous New York City Tour Guide Exam. He's done a lot of walking in his days. Over the >>more
Heartworm Press
ISBN 9780979723858
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 In stock
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 Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor
By Hugo Ball. Introduction by Marc Dachy. Translated by Catherine Schelbert. Illustrations by Tal R. In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886–1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto," launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663030
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 170 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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|  Fox Drum Bebop
By Gene Oishi. Hiroshi Kono is eight years old and only just beginning to question the racial and economic inequities he sees around him, when he and his family--along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans--are packed off to a >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030177
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 285 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 In stock
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|  Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys
By Georges Perec, Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, Paul Braffort, François Caradec, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Etienne Lécroart, Daniel Levin Becker, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Hervé Le Tellier, Jacques Roubaud. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie. Translation by John Sturrock, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk. In 1979, Georges Perec (1936–1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a publisher’s catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565646
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 344 pgs / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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 Gold
By Peter Greenaway. On May 7, 1945, 92 gold bars are discovered in a crashed car at Bolzano, where it is said that no-one can cook a good spaghetti. The watch on the dead driver's wrist stopped at >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563116
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 In stock
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|  Hashish
By Oscar A.H. Schmitz. Translation and introduction by W.C. Bamberger. Illustrations by Alfred Kubin. Afterword by James J. Conway. Encountering the enigmatic dandy Count Vittorio Alta-Carrara in a Parisian eatery, the narrator finds himself invited to a “Hashish Club,” where in the dim light of red-filtered candles, a roomful of “recumbent wanderers” explores the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663313
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 184 pgs / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 Out of stock
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|  Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne
By Roland Topor. Introduction and translation by Andrew Hodgson. Working from the 1960s on, the French writer, artist and illustrator Roland Topor (1938–97) was an all-round maverick known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (such as The Tenant, filmed >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9780993148750
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Pbk, 6 x 6.75 in. / 80 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/22/2019 In stock
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 Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad. Project by Fiona Banner. Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin. For the latest in the Four Corners Familiars series, artist Fiona Banner (born 1966) recasts Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness as a luxury magazine with new photographs by Magnum photographer Paolo Pellegrin. First published >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829053
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Pbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 312 pgs / 16 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 Out of stock
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|  Hebdomeros & Other Writings
By Giorgio de Chirico. Introduction by John Ashbery. Translated by John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, et al. The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book “the finest work of Surrealist fiction,” noting that >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972064
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 280 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  Imaginary Lives
By Marcel Schwob. Introduction and translation by Chris Clarke. Imaginary Lives remains, over 120 years since its original publication in French, one of the secret keys to modern literature: under-recognized, yet a decisive influence on such writers as Apollinaire, Borges, Jarry and Artaud, and >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663344
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock
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 In Youth Is Pleasure
By Denton Welch. Foreword by William Burroughs. First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915–48). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972132
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 272 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  This collection of short stories, commentaries on existential fear, opinions and poems by Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based actor, playwright and musician Bode Owa express the desire to dismantle the structural tools keeping Black peoples in penury. >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148116
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse is a nonlinear tale illustrating Black queer bodies moving through fluid states of love, grief and desire within the canons of science fiction, fantasy and horror. >>more
Capricious Publishing
ISBN 9781734656213
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Pbk, 9.5 x 7.5 in. / 203 pgs / 154 color / 49 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2020 In stock
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 Juan Rulfo en el cine
By Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Velo, Roberto Gavaldón. Edited with text by Douglas W. Weatherford. Text by Víctor Jiménez, José Carlos González Boixo, Fernando Mino García. Tres guiones para dos novelas de Juan Rulfo, escritos por Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes y Carlos Velo, con participación de Roberto Gavaldón y Manuel Barbachano. Investigación y textos de Douglas J. Weatherford, ensayos de >>more
RM/Museo de Arte de Ponce
ISBN 9788417975166
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Pbk, 6.5 x 12 in. / 424 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2021 In stock
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|  Juan Rulfo y su obra
Edited with text by Víctor Jiménez, Jorge Zepeda. Prologue by Alberto Vital. Text by Juan Francisco Rulfo, Ignacio Ezquerra, Ramón Artiach, José Pascual Buxó, Sebastiaão Guilheme Albano, Andrew Dempsey, Francçoise Perus, José Carlos González Boixo Con motivo del centenario del nacimiento de Juan Rulfo, RM publica una edición especial de “El gallo de oro” a la que se incorporan otros relatos que la complementan. El guión cinematográfico de “La fórmula >>more
RM/Fundación Juan Rulfo
ISBN 9788417047689
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Hbk, 6.5 x 12.5 in. / 384 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/17/2018 In stock
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|  La escritura obsesiva
By Salvador Elizondo. Edited with text by Daniel Sada. Esta antología reúne los textos más característicos de la literatura de Salvador Elizondo, bajo la cuidadosa selección del escritor Daniel Sada, con la intención de adentrar al lector por los mundos que crea el sorprendente >>more
RM
ISBN 9788492480135
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Hbk, 5.25 x 9.5 in. / 324 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 In stock
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 Un volumen que reúne tanto la Mansión Araucaíma como los Cuadernos del Palacio Negro. En la primera narración, cinco personas encuentran refugio en una mansión en el trópico. La trama los lleva a buscar liberarse >>more
RM
ISBN 9788417975302
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/27/2020 In stock
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|  El dibujo a tinta de la portada es de Ricardo Martínez. Apareció en la primera edición de Pedro Páramo, que se terminó de imprimir el 19 de marzo de 1955.
Editorial RM is publishing this facsimile >>more
RM
ISBN 9788492480166
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Pbk, 9.5 x 8.75 in. / 214 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/01/2010 In stock
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|  Lament in the Night
By Shosôn Nagahara. Lament in the Night collects two remarkable novellas by the author Shosun Nagahara, translated from the Japanese for the first time. The title novella, originally published in 1925, follows itinerant day laborer Ishikawa Sazuko as >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030481
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Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 456 pgs / 47 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 In stock
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 Last Nights of Paris
By Philippe Soupault. Translated by William Carlos Williams. Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972057
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 In stock
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|  Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030610
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock
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|  First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart’s masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115594
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 257 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/30/2012 In stock
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 Life in the Folds
By Henri Michaux. Introduction and translation by Darren Jackson. Life in the Folds, originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive energies in >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663061
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 168 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock
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|  Little Women
By Louisa M. Alcott. Abridged by W. Dingwall Fordyce. Illustrations by Norman Little. Louisa May Alcott's beloved children's novel Little Women is one of the classics of American literature. The novel follows the lives of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, and details their passage from >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970404
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Hbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 8 color.
Pub Date: 12/18/2018 In stock
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|  "Los geniecillos dominicales", considerada una de las primeras novelas "urbanas" de América Latina, salió a la luz en 1965. En esta novela, las calles de Lima se convierten en el escenario de un joven estudiante >>more
RM
ISBN 9788492480111
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Hbk, 5.25 x 9.5 in. / 254 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 In stock
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 Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts
Edited by Karen Marta, Gabriel Rangel. Text by Lydia Cabrera, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, Asad Raza, Christopher Winks, Martin A. Tsang. Illustrations by Lydia Cabrera, Alexandra Exter. The first volume in English dedicated to Cuban writer and champion of Afro-Cuban culture Lydia Cabrera (1889–1991), this lovely slipcased volume complements her stories and illustrations with essays and new scholarship by Hans Ulrich Obrist, >>more
Walther König, Köln/Americas Society
ISBN 9783960985037
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Slip, hbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / 48 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 Out of stock
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|  Madame Bovary
By Gustave Flaubert. Illustrated by Marc-Camille Chaimowicz. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. For this eighth installment in Four Corners’ Familiars series, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has chosen Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Flaubert’s bestselling masterpiece was first translated into English by Eleanor Marx-Aveling (the youngest daughter of Karl Marx) >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192899
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 536 pgs / 240 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock
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|  Mademoiselle Bambu
By Pierre Mac Orlan. Translation and introduction by Chris Clarke. Illustrations by Gus Bofa. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in the anxious Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, Mademoiselle Bambù tells the tales of three secret agents: the melancholic adventurer and accidental spy, >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663252
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 67 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/23/2018 In stock
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 Malpertuis
By Jean Ray. Introduction and translation by Iain White. Afterword by Scott Nicolay. A reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic literature, Malpertuis is as inventive and gripping today as when it first appeared in French in the dark year of 1943.
Malpertuis is a >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663702
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/05/2021 In stock
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|  Glasgow-based writer Maria Fusco (born 1972)—a writer of fiction, criticism, theory and screenplays—curates the second exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery’s four-part series highlighting key works from Spain’s "la Caixa" Collection. This publication presents Fusco’s selections and >>more
Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854882748
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs / 10 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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|  Moby-Dick
By Herman Melville. Illustrated by Alex Katz. In 1948, while enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union, Alex Katz (born 1927) created 27 pen and ink drawings inspired by Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Katz, who had first >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172430
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Hbk, 9.25 x 6.5 in. / 684 pgs / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/20/2020 Out of stock
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 When the spinster Miss Helen Campbell sets off in a motorcar called “The Comet” with four high school girls, their cross-country car ride promises to fulfill their singular dreams of grand vistas. Unprepared for the >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829005
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 110 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2017 In stock
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|  Mount Analogue
By René Daumal. Translation and introduction by Roger Shattuck. Postface by Véra Daumal. A beloved cult classic of surrealism, pataphysics and Gurdjieffian mysticism, René Daumal’s Mount Analogue is the allegorical tale of an expedition to a mountain whose existence can only be deduced, not observed. As its numerous >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972439
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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|  Murder Most Serene
By Gabrielle Wittkop. Introduction and translation by Louise Rogers Lalaurie. In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer mysterious, agonizing deaths. Murder Most Serene offers a cruel portrait of a beautiful but corrupt city-state and its equally >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663146
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 116 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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 Alberto Vital is currently one of the greatest connoisseurs of the life and work of Juan Rulfo. On the occasion of the Centenary of Juan Rulfo, this new edition is published, with a practical format >>more
RM/UNAM
ISBN 9788417047115
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Hbk, 5.75 x 9 in. / 416 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/21/2017 In stock
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|  Obra
By Juan Rulfo. Este libro recoge las obras fundamentales de Juan Rulfo: la colección de cuentos de El Llano en llamas (1953), la novela Pedro Páramo (1955) y El gallo de oro (1958). Esta edición apareció al cumplirse >>more
RM
ISBN 9788417047665
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 366 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/31/2018 Out of stock
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|  Odd Jobs
By Tony Duvert. Introduction by S.C. Delaney. Translation by S.C. Delaney, Agnès Potier. A catalog of job descriptions that range from the disgusting functions of “The Snot-Remover” and “The Wiper” to the shockingly cruel dramas enacted by “The Skinner” and “The Snowman,” Odd Jobs evinces an outrageous, uncomfortable >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663290
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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 In the winter of 2011 Nobel Prize–winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its panoramic view of Istanbul, the entrance of the Bosphorus, the old town, the Asian and >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958293991
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Clth, 7 x 9.75 in. / 184 pgs / 467 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Oriental Girls Desire Romance
By Catherine Liu. It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030900
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 344 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 In stock
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|  Paris Peasant
By Louis Aragon. Translated with introduction by Simon Watson Taylor. Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first US publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form—Aragon >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972101
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 228 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 In stock
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 “Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, “Pedro Páramo”, que transcurre en una serie de transposiciones oníricas, ahondando más allá de la muerte de >>more
RM
ISBN 9788493442606
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 136 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2005 In stock
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|  Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for a writing retreat, she meets Pisti, a charismatic, hard-boiled but luscious >>more
After 8 Books
ISBN 9782955948644
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 120 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock
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|  Originally published in German in 1919, Potsdamer Platz was Curt Corrinth’s first novel to employ an expressionistic, frenetic prose and presented his excessive vision of free love. Inspired by the sex theories of Freud’s controversial >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663672
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 In stock
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 Psychology of the Rich Aunt
By Erich Mühsam. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. With Psychology of the Rich Aunt, German author Erich Mühsam made his ironic bid for authorial immortality by announcing his discovery that immortality in fact exists—specifically in the person of the Rich Aunt. Through 25 >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663375
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock
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|  Rakkóx the Billionaire & The Great Race
By Paul Scheerbart. Introduction and translation by W. C. Bamberger. Illustrations by Félix Vallotton. Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction. Rakkóx the Billionaire (1901), a "Protean Novel," tells the tale of a multibillionaire who abandons his militaristic aspirations (and such Quixotic >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663122
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock
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|  On March 25, 1997, Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) found a dusty roll of computer paper under his desk. He stretched the paper into his beloved Olympia De Luxe, on which >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055215
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Pbk, 6.75 x 10.25 in. / 140 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/13/2022 In stock
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 Rogomelec
By Leonor Fini. Introduction by Jonathan P. Eburne. Translation by Serena Shanken Skwersky, William T. Kulik. Originally published in French in 1979, Rogomelec was the third of Leonor Fini’s novels. All the qualities of the paintings for which she is famed can be found in it: an undermining of patriarchy, the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663481
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 80 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 Out of stock
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|  Rolling the R's
By R. Zamora Linmark. Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R’s come to life against a background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030511
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 180 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock
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|  Recounting an art dealer’s recuperation from major surgery in the famous Claridge’s Hotel in London, this idiosyncratic novel interweaves reality with fantasy.
Room 225–6 follows the author-character ‘The Protagonist’ around London’s Mayfair as he hosts endless >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932029
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Pbk, 5.88 x 8.875 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2015 In stock
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 Roughhouse
By Thaddeus Rutkowski. Roughhouse gives a harrowingly deadpan account of the tedium, casual violence and deviant sex that connect a surreal, semi-rural childhood with adult urban neurosis. Terse flashes of narrative, told from the point of view of >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030269
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Paperback, 5 x 7 in. / 166 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/1999 In stock
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|  Sam Dunn is Dead
By Bruno Corra. Introduction and translation by John Walker. Illustrations by Rosa Rosa. Sam Dunn is Dead was described by its author Bruno Corra (1892-1976) as a "Futurist Novel" and was first published in book form by Filippo Marinetti's Edizioni Futuriste in 1917. Yet one will search in >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9780993148705
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Pbk, 6 x 6.75 in. / 80 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock
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|  Samalio Pardulus
By Otto Julius Bierbaum. Illustrations by Alfred Kubin. Translation by W.C. Bamberger. In an isolated castle on the outskirts of a city in the Albanian mountains, the wildly ugly painter of blasphemies, Samalio Pardulus, executes works too monstrous to bear viewing, and espouses a philosophy that posits >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663412
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 88 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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 Semmelweis
By Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Introduction by Philippe Soller. Translation by John Harman. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described as the greatest novel of the past 2,000 years--and Death on the Installment Plan >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565479
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Pbk, 6 x 6.75 in. / 110 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  Sens-Plastique
By Malcolm de Chazal. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Introduction and translation by Irving Weiss. After seeing an azalea looking at him in the Curepipe Botanic Gardens (and realizing that he himself was becoming a flower), Malcolm de Chazal began composing what would eventually become his unclassifiable masterpiece, Sens-Plastique, which >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663689
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 384 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/04/2022 In stock
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|  Shanghai Dancing
By Brian Castro. After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," António seeks to understand the source of his >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030429
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 468 pgs / 44 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2009 In stock
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 Montreal-born, NY-based writer Charlotte Graham’s debut novel follows a sweeping group of characters in America’s near future as they live and die under the threat of a new kind of deadly bomb called the Peacemaker. >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9783982316628
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/04/2023 Out of stock
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|  Spicilege
By Marcel Schwob. Translated with introduction by Alex Andriesse. “All over the world,” wrote Jorge Luis Borges, “there are devotees of the writer Marcel Schwob who constitute little secret societies.” Spicilege, Schwob’s last book published under his name, constitutes the handbook to these societies—to >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663870
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/22/2022 In stock
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|  Sweating Blood
By Léon Bloy. Introduction and translation by Erik Butler. First published in French in 1893, Sweating Blood describes the atrocities of war in 30 tales of horror and inhumanity from the pen of the "Pilgrim of the Absolute," Léon Bloy. Writing with blood, sweat, >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663177
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 In stock
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 The Adventures of Percival
By Pierre Senges. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Text by Dominique Lestel, Alain Richert. Illustrations by Nicolas de Crécy. The first installment in Dis Voir's new "illustrated fairy tales for adults," The Adventures of Percival is based on the classic probability proposition that a chimpanzee randomly typing will eventually type a Shakespeare sonnet. Here, >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563475
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 In stock
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|  The Adventures of Telemachus
By Louis Aragon. Translated with introduction by Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert. This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon’s 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic 17th-century epic, recounting >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972231
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  Raymond Roussel is one of the most distinctive and compelling French writers of the 20th century, yet many aspects of his life remain shrouded in mystery. An extremely wealthy and always exquisitely dressed homosexual dandy, >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780998829098
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2019 Out of stock
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 The Black Flame of Paradise is the first novel by Chicago-based artist Zachary Cahill (born 1973). The book is a proposition for a new model of religious life grounded in artistic and personal relations to >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867493395
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 24 color / 136 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  The Book Of Disappearances & The Book Of Tractations
By Raoul Ruiz. What could a Moor and a Christian living in the seventeenth century possibly have to write to each other about? The answer to that question is found in The Book of Disappearances & The Book >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563192
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 97 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 In stock
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|  The Book of Disquiet
By Fernando Pessoa. Translated with introduction by Alfred Mac Adam. The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms." More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers, life spans, even horoscopes. >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972279
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock
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 The Book of Monelle
By Marcel Schwob. Translation by Kit Schluter. When 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 Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115587
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 In stock
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|  The Cathedral of Mist
By Paul Willems. Introduction and translation by Edward Gauvin. Illustrations by Bette Burgoyne. First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663184
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/05/2016 In stock
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|  The Children's Crusade
By Marcel Schwob. Foreword by Jorge Luis Borges. Translation by Kit Schluter. Marcel Schwob’s 1896 novella The Children’s Crusade retells the medieval legend of the exodus of some 30,000 children from all countries to the Holy Land, who traveled to the shores of the sea, which—instead of >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663351
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 56 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock
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 The Conductor and Other Tales
By Jean Ferry. Illustrations by Claude Ballaré. Translation by Edward Gauvin. First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and enthusiastically praised by André Breton), The Conductor and Other Tales is Jean Ferry’s only published book of >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663016
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 152 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 In stock
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|  The Creator
By Mynona. Foreword and translation by Peter Wortsman. Afterword by Detlef Thiel. Illustrations by Alfred Kubin. Billed by its author--the pseudonymous Mynona (German for “anonymous” backward)--as “the most profound magical experiment since Nostradamus,” The Creator tells the tale of Gumprecht Weiss, an intellectual who has withdrawn from a life of libertinage >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663078
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 1 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 In stock
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|  The Die Is Cast
By Robert Desnos. Introduction and translation by Jesse L. Anderson. Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die Is Cast was a departure for Robert Desnos: a shift from his earlier, frenetic Surrealist >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663696
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/17/2021 In stock
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 The Education of the Stoic
By Fernando Pessoa. Translated by Richard Zenith. Afterword by Antonio Tabucchi. “I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone.” Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by “heteronyms,” alter egos with >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972408
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  When he was asked to contribute to the Austrian Sculpture Park in 2018, Chinese multimedia artist Jun Yang (born 1975) recalled the story of the emperor of China’s ice, a myth according to which, in >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903269972
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Hbk, 10.75 x 8 in. / 32 pgs / 31 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2020 In stock
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|  The Garden Book
By Brian Castro. Brian Castro’s award-winning novel, The Garden Book, is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation. Set in the years between the Depression and the Second World War in Australia’s Dandenong Ranges, it follows the emotionally >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030078
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 In stock
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 The Girl Before Her
By Line Papin. Translated by Adriana Hunter. French Vietnamese writer Line Papin’s stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030832
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 132 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2023 In stock
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|  The Great Nocturnal
By Jean Ray. Introduction and translation by Scott Nicolay. After the commercial failure of his 1931 collection of fantastical stories Cruise of Shadows, Jean Ray spent the next decade writing and publishing under other names in the stifling atmosphere of Ghent. Only in the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663498
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/02/2020 In stock
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|  The Heresiarch & Co
By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall. The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical and geographic information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream nor >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972033
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 168 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 In stock
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 The High Life
By Jean-Pierre Martinet. Translated by Henry Vale. Adolphe Marlaud’s rule of conduct is simple: live as little as possible so as to suffer as little as possible. For Marlaud, this involves carrying out a meager existence on rue Froidevaux in Paris, tending >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115570
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 26 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 In stock
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|  The Historians: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama, Book 39
Conceived and written by Peter Greenaway, the series The Historians--to be published in a literary form, in its entirety, in 100 volumes, over the next ten years--creates and examines in exhausting detail the 100 year >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563314
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2007 In stock
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|  While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172720
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 288 pgs / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/19/2022 In stock
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 First published in French in 1852, The Illuminated was the first of a string of Gérard de Nerval’s late works that would culminate in his posthumous fantastical autobiography Aurélia in 1855. The Illuminated collects six >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663740
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 480 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/23/2022 In stock
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|  The Impersonal Adventure
By Marcel Béalu. Introduction and translation by George MacLennan. A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a whim, and rents a room in a hotel on an island at the city’s edge. As he >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663726
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock
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|  The Man Who Refused to Die
By Nicolas Ancion. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Illustrations by Patrice Killoffer. Afterword by Francois Taddei. Is death necessarily inevitable? The Man Who Refused to Die is the improbable tale of an intransigent character, heroic in his defiance, who refuses to cast aside mortal existence without knowing why he cannot prolong >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563567
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 In stock
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 In the 25 years since Atlas Press first published this account by Unica Zürn (1916–70) of her long history of mental crises, she has come to be recognized as a great artist at least the >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565820
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.75 in. / 192 pgs / 2 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  In Rachel Kushner’s latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne—where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig—where she encounters live >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172478
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Hbk, 9.25 x 6.5 in. / 80 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  The Mill
By Bess Brenck Kalischer. Introduction and translation by W.C. Bamberger. Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being held in a sanitarium after a mental breakdown, The Mill is less a novel than a >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663719
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 88 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/19/2021 In stock
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 The Nose
By Nikolai Gogol. Illustrations by Rick Buckley. The Nose, one of Nikolai Gogol's most important and influential tales, is now available in this gorgeously produced volume, illustrated with photographs by British artist Rick Buckley. Taking on a life of its own, the >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829046
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Hbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 96 pgs / 17 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 Out of stock
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|  The Orchid Stories
By Kenward Elmslie. Introduction by Michael Silverblatt. Like the orchids that provide their leitmotif, these interwoven stories by Kenward Elmslie are exquisite, exotic and oneiric, as if they had been written in another world. Although each of The Orchid Stories stands alone, >>more
The Song Cave
ISBN 9780996778626
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 272 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2016 In stock
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|  The Overcoat
By Nikolai Gogol. Photographs by Sarah Dobai. Published as part of the Four Corners Familiars series, this beautiful edition of the great Russian author Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat (a short story originally published in 1842) includes newly commissioned artwork from Sarah Dobai. >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829039
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 88 pgs / 17 color.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 Out of stock
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 The Pig
By Oskar Panizza. Introduction by Erik Butler. "The Pig is the Sun...." So begins Oskar Panizza’s outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in his journal Zurich Discussions. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663153
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  The Prisoner Of Zenda
By Anthony Hope. Illustrated by Mireille Fauchon. The seventh in Four Corners’ Familiars series takes us to Ruritania, a land reminiscent of many Central European countries. A new king is about to be crowned, but his brother drugs him and attempts to >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192851
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Hbk, 3.75 x 6 in. / 272 pgs / 5 color / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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|  The Sundays of Jean Dézert
By Jean de La Ville de Mirmont. Translation by André Naffis-Sahely. Jean de La Ville de Mirmont left behind one undisputed classic, self-published a few months before he would meet his fate on the front lines of World War I: an understated, almost humorous tale of >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663405
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
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 The Trumpets of Jericho
By Unica Zürn. Introduction and translation by Christina Svendsen. This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663092
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 55 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  The Tutu
By Léon Genonceaux. Introduction and translation by Iain White. The nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856—?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautréamont. >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565639
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock
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|  Theory of MultiDreams
By Jean-Philippe Cazier. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Illustrated by Andreas Marchal. Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. The book entwines astrophysics and fantasy literature through fiction, deconstructing the frameworks of narration, logic, identity, space and time. The story commences with the disappearance of one of its characters, developing a kaleidoscopic narrative in which >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563857
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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 They Who Do Not Grieve
By Sia Figiel. Sia Figiel's powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two Samoan families. Their dream worlds and realities intermingle, just as the histories of each generation run through the next. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030337
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 286 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 In stock
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|  To Hell with the Ugly
By Boris Vian. Translated and Introduction by Paul Knobloch. Drawings by Jessica Minckley. First published in French in 1948, To Hell with the Ugly saw Boris Vian's noir-novelist pseudonym Vernon Sullivan take on Vian's own burlesque pop sensibilities. An erotic crime novel with science fiction tendencies, Sullivan's third >>more
TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234664
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Pbk, 8.5 x 5.75 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Out of stock
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|  To Those Gods Beyond
By Giorgio Manganelli. Foreword by Italo Calvino. Translation and introduction by John Walker. This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the 1960s Manganelli was a member, >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565813
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Hbk, 7 x 7.75 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock
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 The third publication in this series complements an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the ”La Caixa” Collection at Whitechapel Gallery. Here, British novelist and artist Tom McCarthy (born 1969) contributes a new work of fiction >>more
Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854882755
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 112 pgs / 5 color.
Pub Date: 02/25/2020 In stock
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|  Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis
By Hermann Burger. Translated with introduction by Adrian Nathan West. In the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not a note, but a 124-page >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663887
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/22/2022 In stock
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|  Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Shiraz Bayjoo. Published as part of Four Corners’ acclaimed Familiars series, providing a fresh look at the tradition of the illustrated novel, this is a stunning artist's book edition of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson’s colonial-era adventure >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829190
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 280 pgs / 80 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/18/2023 In stock
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 Treatise on Modern Stimulants
By Honoré de Balzac. Introduction and translation by Kassy Hayden. Illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky. Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation on five stimulants—tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco—by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663382
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 80 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  During a residency on Fire Island, artist and writer Hannah Black decided to tackle a highly daunting project: the 2020 novel. The result of her efforts, Tuesday of September or the End, is a slim, >>more
Capricious Publishing
ISBN 9781734656237
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 136 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/10/2022 Out of stock
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|  Vercoquin and the Plankton
By Boris Vian. Introduction and translation by Terry Bradford. Written at the age of 23 for his friends in the winter of 1943–44, Vercoquin and the Plankton was the first of Vian’s novels to be published under his own name. Published in 1947, the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663825
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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 Water Chasing Water
By Koon Woon. Described by Bob Holman as "Li Po in drag, the voice of New America," Koon Woon exploded onto the poetry scene in the late 1990s. Largely self-taught, and struggling with both mental illness and homelessness, >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030498
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 152 pgs / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  Waylaid
Text by Lin, Ed. Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030320
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/2002 In stock
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|  Waystations of the Deep Night
By Marcel Brion. Introduction by George MacLennan. Translation by George MacLennan, Edward Gauvin. First published in France in the dark year of 1942, the story collection Waystations of the Deep Night remains the best-known of Marcel Brion’s numerous novels and stories in the vein of the strange and >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663504
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/14/2020 Out of stock
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 A bestseller in New Zealand and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize, Sia Figiel's debut marks the first time a novel by a Samoan woman has been published in the United States. Figiel uses the >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030276
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 248 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/1999 In stock
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|  Whiskey Tales
By Jean Ray. Translation and afterword by Scott Nicolay. Originally published in French in 1925, Whiskey Tales immediately established the reputation of the Belgian master of the weird, Jean Ray (1887–1964), whose writings in the coming years would come to chart out a literary >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663368
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock
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|  Wishes
By Georges Perec. Introduction and translation by Mara Cologne Wythe-Hall. “In the beginning was the pun,” Samuel Beckett once wrote. And so it was that Georges Perec brought the good word to his friends and acquaintances on a yearly basis, as an expression of his >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663337
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock
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 Word Book
By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Introduction by Désirée Weber. Translated by Bettina Funcke. Art & cover design by Paul Chan. “I had never thought the dictionaries would be so frightfully expensive. I think, if I live long enough, I will produce a small dictionary for elementary schools. It appears to me to be an urgent >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263240
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Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/03/2020 In stock
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|  Último Round
By Julio Cortázar. Edited by Julio Silva. Segundo de los libros-almanaques de Julio Cortázar, se publicó por primera vez en México en 1969 y fue diseñado por Julio Silva. Cortázar se respondía a sí mismo en una autoentrevista sobre el contenido: “… >>more
RM
ISBN 9788492480173
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Pbk, 6 x 10.75 in. / 220 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/28/2014 In stock
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