Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1992 A strikingly produced issue of Quignard's historical novel based on the history and literature of ancient Greece and Rome with erotic content of the life of Caius Albucius Silus, a contemporary of Pompey, Caesar and Augustus. With altered photo-illustrations by Belloq, Stieglitz, Moulin, Charles White, and anonymous 19th century Europeans. Translated by Bruce Boone.. First English Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... (more information)

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London: William Heinemann, 1954 Biography. Some minor marks on rear board.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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London: Atlas Press, 1990 Translated by Anna Warby. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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Acceptable. Paperback. 3rd printing softcover 1977 Harper and Row / Icon Editions. Spine heavily creased; cover corner creased. Previous owner's name dated 1981 on 1st page. BRACKETS in Introduction only; the rest of the text is clean and unmarked. Great reading / research copy. 368 pages; Index; 226 black-and-white illustrations. Language: English. Cover shows detail of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni by Bernini. Classic text on the Baroque style in architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts, inc... (more information)

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London: Peter Davies & Lovat Dickson, 1937 Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Rebound in strong library binding.. First English Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. ... (more information)

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London: Creation Books, 2003 The definitive biography, by the world authority on Antonin Artaud, is the first ever to have been written about this legendary figure of 20th century culture. Spanning Artaud’s involvement with the Surrealist movement in 1920s Paris, his seminal Theatre of Cruelty in the 1930s, and his nine-year asylum incarceration and final period of drug-ravaged freedom in the 1940s, Blows and Bombs gives a vivid and potent portrait of Artaud’s extreme life. Artaud’s influence... (more information)

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New York: Jossey-Bass, 2006 A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection.. First Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -. Mylared. ... (more information)

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989 Collection of 51 essays on many topics including alchemy, Miro, Arp, Satie, Duchamp, Picasso, Bataille, Rimbaud, Queneau and others.. First English Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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New York: New Directions, 1951 Classic surrealist gothic novel. Translated by Louise Varese. d/j showing wear.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ... (more information)

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Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1991 Classic surrealist gothic novel bound in pictorial fabric boards and pictorial double end papers. One in a series of prize-winning titles from The Lapis Press, owned and managed by Sam Francis, the great American modernist painter. A magnificent production whose centerpiece is an interior fold-out landscape, a detail of a photograph of Jean Pritchard, hand-tinted by her and Micha Ichikawa. Translated By Louise Varese.. First Thus. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to -... (more information)

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New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948 Translated by John Addington Symonds. Spinbe faded.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Salvador Dali. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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London , UK.: University Of London Press, 1948. 1st. ed. 1948 , Hardcover with the dust cover , 88 page book. Illustrated with 39 color and black and white plates , art work by children. Condition : Very Good , tape repair on one page / dj has chips and small missing pieces.. ISBN: none. 1st Edition. Hard Cover Cloth/Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Various Artist. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University Press. Art. ... (more information)

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Verba Volant, 2007-10-30. Hardcover. New/New. Brand new hardcover copy, purchased directly from publisher. Perfect condition. Gift worthy. NO publisher's/remainder mark. Items selling for $7 or more ship bubble wrapped and boxed; under $7 in a bubble mailer. All items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation. ... (more information)

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 A contemporary novel, set in and around New York, about human relationships, love, perception, and misperception. Harry Mathews was born in New York. He moved to Europe in 1952. He has lived in Spain, Germany, Italy, and France. In 1956, Matthews first published some of his poetry. He was then associated with the "New York School of Poets;" along with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, he founded the review Locus Solus in 1961. Through his frien... (more information)

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Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1992 560pp. Index. Original pictorial glossy wraps. Profusely illustrated with color photographs, diagrams, maps. Art and Civilization is a comprehensive exploration of the countless ways of thinking, painting, building, sculpting, writing, and making music that have been essential to the shaping of Western culture as it is defined today. With brief descriptions of elusive concepts, clear definitions of technical terms, and extensive cross-referencing, this book ... (more information)

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Published as part of African Art and Society Series in conjunction with the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the book is focused on contemporary art and art criticism in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. The essays in the book shed light on many institutional and administrative issues in contemporary culture: highlighting the role of public and private galleries, art magazines, the press, art schools, groups of artists and critics and the work of government. The contributors include... (more information)

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Harvard Univ Pr, 1980. bumped corners. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ... (more information)

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Cambridge Univ Pr, 2001 Trade Paperback. Very Good. ... (more information)

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London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1964 Selected by Kurt Wolff and translated by Anne Green. Includes vignettes of Andre Gide, Gertrude Stein, Camus, Malraux, etc. Some creasing to d/j.. First U.K. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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London: Creation Books, 1995 Guyotat's legendary novel of atrocity and extreme obscenity. Set in a polluted and apocalyptic zone of the Algerian desert in a time of civil warfare, this delirious, lacerating novel brings scenes of brutal carnage into intimate collision with relentless acts of prostitutional sex and humiliation. Pierre Guyotat has been reviled and revered in equal measure in his native France; his literary progenitors are De Sade, Artaud, Bataille, and Genet. Like Artaud, he views the act... (more information)

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