Imago Press

Music for Glass Orchestra

Andreacchi, Grace · 1993

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

London, Serpent's Tail, 1993. Perfect binding, 199 pp. 5"-7.75". As New. Out and drinking in Paris, our heroine moves in the footsteps of Colette and Jean Rhys but with considerably more pleasurable sex than her predecessors. Fun.

Max Beckmann

Selz, Peter · 1964

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Perfect binding, 160 pp. 8.5"-8". Good. Catalogue copy for travelling exhibition of the painter's work in 1964-65. 'Self-Portrait with Beret' (1934) reproduced on yellow cover; 3 triptyches full-colour fold-ins. Minor peels.

Leap Year Day

Chernoff, Maxine · 1990

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Chicago, Another Chicago Press, 1990. Perfect binding, 142 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. New and selected poems up to 1989 in a pre-publication copy whose laminated cover shows much lift. Strong writing though.

Nietzsche, Volume 1

Heidegger, Martin; David Farrell Krell, translator · 1979

CA$25.00 (€15.90 | $17.53 | £13.27 | ¥2,798)

NewYork, Harper & Row, 1979. Cloth, 263 pp. 5.75"-8.75". Good. First English-language edition. Smoke foxing to top and side open faces. Jacket with large Nietzsche head in profile still as new.

Voice Storm

Gariepy, Raymond · 1980

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

Edmonton AB, Longspoon, 1980. Perfctbound, 90 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. First edition paperback original. English and French texts intersposed sans translation. Grainy brown covers.

Was Heisst Denken?

Heidegger, Martin · 1971

CA$47.00 (€29.90 | $32.95 | £24.94 | ¥5,261)

Tubingen, Max Niemeyer, 1971. Sewn cloth, 175 pp. 7.75"-9". Fine. Two semesters of lectures delivered by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg i. Br. Winter 1951-52 and the Summer of 1952. "Dritte, unveranderte Auflage". Jacket intact.

Samtliche Werke V: Pierre Bayle

Feuerbach, Ludwig · 1961

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

Stuttgard-bad, Cannstadt, Fromman Verlag Gunther Holzboog, 1961. Sewn cloth, 436 pp. 5"-7". Fine. Same terra-cotta boards and design as Volume 1. This volume was edited by Wilhelm Bolin and reprinted in 1960. Not as foxed as my Vol.1.

Of Spirit: Heidegger and The Question

Derrida, Jacques; G. Bennington & R. Bolwby, translators · 1989

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

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989. Sewn cloth, 40 pp. 5.75"-8.88". As New. English translation, with relevant notations at the back but no framing intro at the front, to Derrida's questioning of how it stands with 'Geist' and if that meant 'absolute spirit' that could...

The City of the Sun

Campanella, Brother Thomas, A.M. Elliot & R. Miller, translators · 1981

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

London, The Journeyman Press, 1981. Perfect binding, 40 pp. 5"-7.75". fine. Originally written in Latin and published in Frankfurt in 1623, this is an English translatation from the Italian of 1948. Facsimile of Latin edition title page. binding and cards intact.

Heidegger et La Question

Derrida, Jacques · 1999

CA$18.00 (€11.45 | $12.62 | £9.55 | ¥2,015)

Paris, Flammarion, 1999. Perfect binding, 224 pp. 4.25"-7". Good. The question of Heidegger's use of 'Geist' to indicate an absolute spiritism that was Deutsch and could only be adequately spoken of in German. Photo of a smug philospher on the cover.

Poet in New York

Garcia Lorca, Federico, Ben Billett, tr. · 1940

CA$17.00 (€10.81 | $11.92 | £9.02 | ¥1,903)

New York, Grove Press, 20241. Perfect binding, 194 pp. 5.5"-8". Good. Complete text of Poeta en Nueva York reproduced from 1940 edition with facing-page translation. Worn spine.

Love's Body

Brown, Norman O. · 1966

CA$13.00 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,455)

New York, Vintage / Random House, 1966. Perfect binding, 277 pp. 4.25"-7.25". good. Textual shattering of society's consensual neurosis: the body/mind split hegemony. Bursts through quoted, exaggerated texts to the body sanctified. My own penned ownership mars the front page.

Circe's Mirrors

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages; S. Wald & A.F. Moritz, translators · 1978

CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.02 | £10.61 | ¥2,239)

Toronto, Oasis, 1978. Staplebound, 20 pp. 8"-9". Fine. Translation from the Spanish of Los espios de Circe. Wrap-around collage on cover printed brule-yellow on creme and run ragged.

In the Country of the Antipodes

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages, S. Wald & A.F Moritz, translators · 1979

CA$75.00 (€47.71 | $52.59 | £39.80 | ¥8,395)

Oakville ON, Mosaic Press, 1979. Sewn paper, 185 pp. 6"-9.25". Fine. Over 30 collages and 20 drawings in this trade sized edition. Cover, in orange with a black collage and titles printed on terra-cotta has some stains. Knife-cut pages.

Pieces of Dreams

Schwarz, Arturo; Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald, collages · 1977

CA$20.00 (€12.72 | $14.02 | £10.61 | ¥2,239)

Toronto, Oasis, 1977. Perfect binding, 32 pp. 6.5"-6.5". Fine. Stark, surrealist collages set to orchestrate brief poems. Original collages focus the front and back paper card deecal covers printed brown with red endpapers.

Law and Disorder

Fuchs, Gunther Bruno, Richard Exner, translator · 1979

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.52 | £7.96 | ¥1,679)

Greensboro NC, Unicorn Press, 1979. Perfect binding, 79 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. In the 'Unicorn German Series', a self-described, "drinker, poet, woodcutter" writes and sketches in the droll manner of deadpan surrealism. Foxing to covers; back has ruffles.

Wanderers In The Mandala

Zeller, Ludwig; L. Zeller & S. Wald, collages; S. Wald & A.F. Moritz, translators · 1978

CA$27.00 (€17.18 | $18.93 | £14.33 | ¥3,022)

Toronto, Oasis, 1978. Staplebound, 22 pp. 8"-9". As New. Wrap-around paper cover of surrealiste collage printed russet on veneer-green. English translation of Spanish text printed on hand-made paper.

Burning Meditation

Shiraishi, Kazuko; Alan Green, paintings, John Solt, translations · 1986

CA$75.00 (€47.71 | $52.59 | £39.80 | ¥8,395)

Tokyo, Seichisha, 1986. Sen paper, 64 pp. 6"-8.5". Fine. Intense global poetry, facing Japanese-English texts, searing abstract expressionist paintings reproduced in full colour beside. Austere wax-paper wrap cover with slip-case.

The Murdered Dreams Awake

Ford, Cathy · 1979

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

Vancouver, Caitlin, 1979. Staplebound, 69 pp. 5.25"-8.5". fine. Startling proprioceptions of her own amazement at the everyday. First edition of her third book. Smudges to the covers.

Writers from South Africa

Gibbons, Reginald, editor · 1989

CA$12.00 (€7.63 | $8.41 | £6.37 | ¥1,343)

Evanston IL, Triquarterly / Northwestern University Press, 1989. Perfect binding, 128 pp. 5"-7". fine. Culture, politics and literary activity in South Africa through the 1980's.'Triquarterly Magazine' Issue #68, taken from a symposium at Northwestern University, Evanston IL.