Imago Press

Le Voyeur

Robbe-Grillet, Alain · 1955

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

Paris, Editions Minuit, 1955. Perfect binding, 315 pp. 4.25"-7". Good.Collection Folio' edition. Maurice Blanchot has suggested the clarity of his prose illumines even the invisible realm of dream. Applies here. Covers and binding show wear.

Instantes

Robbe-Grillet, Alain · 1975

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

Paris, Editions Minuit, 1975. Perfect binding, 110 pp. 3.75"-7". Fine. 6 brief encounters in the deferment style of the nouveau roman. Gloss cardstock cover marks a departure for Minuit from matte. It, however, is unmarked.

When You Love You Must Depart

Reyes, Alina,  David Watson, tanslator. · 1995

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

London, Mehtuen, 1995. Cloth, 91 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Fine. Erotic journal come travel diary that finds itself as a novella in Montreal, Canada. This dustjacket does have scuffs, but text and binding are as new.

Satisfaction

Reyes, Alina,  David Watson, translator · 2002

CA$14.00 (€8.91 | $9.82 | £7.43 | ¥1,567)

New York, Grove Press, 2002. Perfect binding, 152 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. First edition in paperback, subtitled, "An Erotic Novel" it bears the odd lipstick-red mark-down spotting. Otherwise in fine shape.

The Butcher and Other Erotica

Reyes, Alina,  David Watson, translator · 1995

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

New York, Grove Press, 1995. Cloth, 192 pp. 6"-8.5". Fine. "The Other …" is actually Reyes' second novella, Lucie's Long Voyage, which is as dreamy as The Butcher is carnal. Scuffless and horny.

Two Adolescents

Moravia, Alberto -no translator listed · 1952

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

New York, Signet, 1952. Perfect binding, 160 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Good. The stories of Agostino and Luca. This is from the first Signet printing of Dec. 1952 with the Farrar, Strauss & Young translation. Bindling slightly loose but text and cover fine.

St. Mawr and The Man Who Died

Lawrence, D. H. · 1953

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

New York, Vintage, 1953. Perfect binding, 211 pp. 4.25"-7". Fine. Publisher page says, "Copyright 1928 by Alfred A. Knopf (,) renewed by Frieda Lawrence Ravagli in 1953. Texts of 1925." Stainless mass-market cover.

Ulysses

Joyce, James · 1946

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

New York, Milestone Editions, 1946. Cloth, 726 pp. 6.25"-9.25". Good. No jacket, type faded on spine; soot and water stains to top and side faces. Binding sturdy, text fine and the writing non pareil.

Queror

D' Alfonso, Antonio · 1979

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

Montreal, Guernica, 1979. Perfect binding, 73 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. Selection of poet's early work, 1972-1979. #2 in 'Essential Poets' series. Poet photo and pen marks on cover.

The Confession of a Justified Sinner

Hogg, James · 1970

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

London, Panther, 1970. Perfect binding, 224 pp. 4.25"-7". Fine. Horrifying deeds recounted with a dispassionate rationality by a religious maniac. Introduced by Andre Gide. Minor wear to covers.

Kamouraska

Hébert, Anne, N. Shapro, translator · 1980

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

Toronto, Paperjacks, 1980. Perfect binding, 250 pp. 4.25"-7". As New. Four-hundred mile ride down the Canadian St. Lawrence River landscape through a love triangle. 1974 edition in 6th printing. Sound and sturdy.

The New Ancestors

Godfrey, David · 1970

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

Toronto, New Press, 1970. Perfect binding, 444 pp. 4.25"-7". fine. Intense invention of the African emigrant's world. Won Governor General's Awrd for Fiction 1970. Worn corners to the paper card covers.

The Works of Gautier

Gautier, Theophile · 1934

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

New York, Walter Black, 1934. Cloth, 649 pp. 5.5"-7". Good. Seven volumes printed as one book in double-column pages on fine paper. All prose, no poetry. Binding loose, red matte hardcover, no jacket.

The Nouveau Roman Reader

Fletcher, John and John Calder, editor · 1986

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

London and New York, Calder and Riverrun, 1986. Perfect binding, 255 pp. 5.25"-8.5". Fine. Sarraute, Simon, Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Mauriac, Pinget, Butor and Ricardou have chapters included. Translators vary. Printed on recycled paper with purplish card covers.

Black Tongue

D' Alfonso, Antonio · 1983

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Montreal, Guernica, 1983. Perfect binding, 77 pp. 5.25"-8.25". fine. First edition, paperback original of surreal exoticism. #6 in 'Essential Poets' series. White cover have stains.

Moderato cantabile

Duras, Marguerite · 1958

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

Paris, Union General Editions, 1958. Perfect binding, 191 pp. 6.25"-7.25". Good. Roman a clef through silences, shadows and the hint of a piano lesson. Some ink underlining but consistently clear reading.

L'Amant

Duras, Marguerite · 1990

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

Paris, Editions Minuit, 1990. Perfect binding, 147 pp. 5.25"-7.25". Good. Plain white covers with blue print and a wrap announcing ""un succes mondial"". Some ink underlining early on. Otherwise fine.

a selection of poems

cummings, e.e. · 1965

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

New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1965. Perfect binding, 124 pp. 5.25"-7.75". fine. First harvest edition paperback, intro by Horace Gregory. Green & salmon cover suitably playful for these deceptively light poems.

Kick It Over, No. 35

melcombe, bob, ed. · 1995

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

Toronto, Kick It Over, 1995. Staplebound, 76 pp. 8.25"-11". Fine. Anti-ideological triumph of spontaneity over hierarchy. Includes, "Does Work Really Work?" and "The Abolition of Work and Other Myths" as well as anti-Capitalist cartoons. Bright, yellow cover.

A Study of History, Volume 7A: Universal States

Toynbee, Arnold · 1963

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

New York, Oxford University Press, 1963. Perfect binding, 379 pp. 5.5"-8". Fine. Historian's analysis of what the dominant minority in a state constructs in order to prevent its own disintegration. Minor and scattered foxing.