Imago Press

Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality

Gribbin, John · 1995

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Boston, Little, Brown, 1995. Perfect binding, 261 pp. 5.5"-8.25". Fine. A further subtitle, "Solving the Quantum Mysteries" is inaccurate and belies the fact that we must learn to live without solutions. Accessible science writing nonetheless.

Word of Mouth

Greenwald, Ted · 1986

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Los Angeles, Sun and Moon, 1986. Perfctbound, 233 pp. 5"-7.5". As New. First edition, paperback original with wittily pink-dotted cover. Strong L=A poetry.

I Am Watching

Gibson, Shirley · 1993

CA$11.00 (€7.00 | $7.71 | £5.84 | ¥1,231)

Toronto, House of Anansi, 1993. Perfect binding, 58 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. First edition, pb original by one of the founders of House of Anansi Press. Poems breathe with a sense of feral observation. Black on dark brown cover illustration by Karen Loconte. Poet photo on back.

Psychoanalysis and Existential Philosophy

Ruitenbeek, Henfrik M. · 1962

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New York, E.P Dutton & Co. 1962. Perfect binding, 286 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Fine. A Dutton "Paperback Original" containing 12 articles, but only one by Ludwig Binswanger. Even the paper boards are in Fine condition.

Music at the Heart of Thinking

Wah, Fred · 1987

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Red Deer AB, Red Deer College Press, 1987. Perfect binding, 74 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Jazz riffs on thoughts. Play it fast and to a loud drummer. Green, aqua and sand wraparound sleeves a fit. Topface stain only.

Coyote City

Moses, Daniel David · 1990

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Stratford ON, Williams-Wallace, 1990. Perfect binding, 103 pp. 5.5"-8.5". As New. First Edition of the Canadian Governor General's Award for Drama of 1990. Scene from the play on the front cover, playwright's photo on the back. Orpheus in a Native telling.

Le Sacre du printemps

Simon, Claude · 1954

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Paris, Calman-Levy, 1954. Perfect binding, 276 pp. 4.5"-7". Fine. Six journees dont l'ordre chronologique subit une inversion . -the interiority of the Nouveau Roman at its best. Simple, red on beige cover. Novelist later won the Nobel Prize.

Plays of Maxim Gorky

Gorky, Maxim, M. Wettlin et alii, tr. · 1968

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Moscow, Progress, 1968. Perfect binding, 335 pp. 4.25"-7". Good. Contains Lower Depths, Enemies and 2 other plays in English. Chips to the thick, russet-red covers.

Xenia

Dragomoschenko, Arkadii, Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova, translators · 1994

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Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, 1994. Perfect binding, 166 pp. 4.75"-7.5". fine. Poetry that once again recognizes nature as a poet's natural habitat and his its spontaneous voice. Open somewhere, find "sprouting its delicate burden" (p.110). Lift to the laminate.

Pages Choisies

Mallarme, Stéphane; Guy Delfel, editor · 1954

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.31 | ¥1,119)

Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1954. Perfect binding, 96 pp. 4.75"-7.25". Fair. In the 'Classiques Illustres Vaubourdolle" series. 'Pages' because it has a page reproduced from 'Un Coup de Des'. 4 half-tones included along with copious notes. Broken spine.

Faust, Part 1

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von · 1954

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Boston, D. C. Heath, 1954. Perfect binding, 420 pp. 5.75"-7.5". fine. Auf Deutsch with intro and notes in English by R.M. Heffner et alii. No jacket, title embossed, marginal foxing.

Oeuvres en Prose

Mallarme, Stéphane · 1986

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Geneva, Les Tresors de la Litterature Francaise, 1986. Perfect binding, 149 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. 4 pieces, toute en FrancaiseÈ 'Preface a Vathek', 'Le "Ten O'Clock" de M. Whistler", 'Villiers de l'Isle-Adam' et 'La Musique et Les Lettres'. Waxed-paper card covers have tears; te...

Eros and Civilization

Marcuse, Herbert · 1962

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New York, Vintage Books, 1962. Perfect binding, 266 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Good. First Vintage Books edition of 1962 of a Beacon Press original of 1955. New preface added. Lurid orange titles printed on purple paper card cover. Binding as new.

Days / : Tangier Journal:1987 - 1989

Bowles, Paul · 1991

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Hopewell NJ, The Ecco Press, 1991. Perfect binding, 109 pp. 5"-8". As New. Candid journal of the prose stylist living out his life in northern Africa. 12 halftones included; author photo on plush, black cover by Suomi La Valle. Index to named personages.

POESIES

Mallarme, Stéphane; Arthur Symons, translator · 1974

CA$30.00 (€19.08 | $21.03 | £15.92 | ¥3,358)

Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1974. Glued card, 51 pp. 7.25"-10.75". Good. All the poems of the French master Symboliste poet Symonds wished to translate into English. Edited, with notes and biblio by Bruce Moriss. This is # 12 out of an edition of 150. Bent top cover to fold-in p...

a shot away some flowers / video works 1997 - 1999

banz, stefan · 2000

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Zurich, Edition Patrick Frey, 2000. Sewn cloth, 168 pp. 4.75"-6.5". As New. Stills from video shoots over a tight gutter. Prose piece on banz by Christoph Doswold -on neon-green paper- begins "How real is reality?". 2nd edition, still(s) startling.

The Blue House

McAllister, Lesley; Dave Anderson, drawings · 1987

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Toronto, Aya Press, 1987. Perfect binding, 80 pp. 6"-8". Fine. Discontinuous prose with pencilled sketches. A sly awareness for dislocation and self, the incongruous, and unexpected sexual options. Tears to the aqua cover corners.

Claude Glass

Ondaatje, Michael · 1979

CA$35.00 (€22.26 | $24.54 | £18.58 | ¥3,918)

Toronto, Coach House Press, 1979. Stapled through front, 20 pp. 7.5"-11". fine. Coach House Press MS. edition of a 5 page poem printed as if from a dot-matrix printed and stapled with Coach House insignia on the front. Only some fade to the print.

Colors Passing Through Us

Piercy, Marge · 2003

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New York, Knopf, 2003. Perfect binding, 157 pp. 5.5"-8.25". Fine. Uncorrected Proof with matte yellow covers. An accomplished poet all in bold. Publication date (March 13 2003) right on the front. Only a bit of lift.

Brainscan /zine / number 24 & 25

Wrekk, Alex · 2009

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Portland, Brainscan, 2009. Stapledbound in envelope, 76 pp. 7.5"-10.5". Fine. Actually #24,25 and an epilogue in a red and green printed nondescript white envelope. Terrific, from the heart, gay zinester with toners, reverse prints and acestates in augmentation.