Imago Press

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

Rank, Otto, F. Robbins & Smith Ely Jelliffe, translators · 1964

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

New York, Vintage Books, 1964. Perfect binding, 330 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Good. Pale green figure on cover is undecipherable against the turqoise cover but the book's thesis is a great one. Moisture damage marks this copy down to just good.

The Construction of Reality in the Child

Piaget, Jean, Margaret Cook, translator · 1971

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

New York, Ballantyne Books, 1971. Perfect binding, 434 pp. 4.25"-7". Fine. First paper edition of the 1954 Basic Books edition. Kalaidoscopic photo clear on the front cover, everything tight but some random nicks so only fine condition overall.

Songs of Cifar and the Sweet Sea

Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, G. Shulman et alii, tr. · 1979

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

New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. Perfect binding, 120 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. Selections from the whole Spanish longpoem of the same name in facing bilibgual texts. Scuffs and buckles.

Psychopathia Sexualis

Krafft-Ebing, Richard; L.T. Woodward, translator · 1965

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

Evanston IL, Greenleaf Publishing Co. 1965. Perfect binding, 384 pp. 4"-6.75". fine. A deviant's deviancy handbook. Psychologist to boot. Don't you love it when Austrians speak Latin? Hand jobs should be as much fun as reading this volume. Devil's mask on slim cardboard cover.

Cross Cultural Review #4 -South Korean Poets of Resistance

Ko Won, compiler and translator; Stanley H. Barkan, Series Editor · 1980

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

Merrick NY, Cross-Cultural Review, "South Korean Poets of Resistance", 1980. Perfect binding, 48 pp. 5.25"-8.5". Fine. Bilingual edition of 4 South Korean poets writing at a time when a poem that looked socialist would get you jailed. Startling gouaches by Kang Sin Suk. Cranbe...

The Gift

Mauss, Marcel; Ian Cunnison, translator · 1967

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

New York, Norton & Co. 1967. Perfect binding, 143 pp. 5"-7.75". Fine. Published in the Norton Library from the Routledge & Kegan Paul original. Yellow on black cover works nicely. Flexible binding with some lift to the laminate.

Zibaldone di pensieri (2 volume set)

Leopardi, Giacomo · 1983

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

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadore, 1983 (1937). Perfect binding, 1193 pp. 4.5"-7.25". Fine. The whole of the wide-ranging, sometimes daily, thoughts of the greatest Italian poet since Alighieri. Portrait of the poet on the brown cover of both volumes.

Magic, Science and Religion

Malinowski, Bronislaw · 1964

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

Garden City NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1964. Perfect binding, 270 pp. 4"-7". fine. From the 1948 Free Press original. Dancer's mask on red cover, nice Doubleday leading. All fine for 270 pp. of pocketbook reading.

Objet Trouve und Surrealismus: Zur Psychologie der modernen Kunst

Kellerer, Christian · 1968

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

Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1968. Perfect binding, 134 pp. 4.5"-7.5". Fine. Draws parallels between the surrealist's attitude towards the given and that of Ch'an Buddhism in China. Text ganz auf Deutsch. Small tear to upper front page.

the windsor SALT

Laliberte, Mark and Gustave Morin, editors · 1998

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

Windsor ON, Common Ground Editions, 1998. Perfect binding, 148 pp. 6.5"-8.5". As New. Great graphics by the editors, but over 60 conributors with quality poetry, prose and art as well. Laliberte's cover perfectly replicates the box salt came in when i was a boy in Hamilton.

The Dogs of Aukland

Creeley, Robert · 0

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

Aukland, No Publ. listed, 35855. Staplebound, 20 pp. 6.75"-4.5". Fine. Assembled to celebrate Creeley's 70th birthday. This is the first reprint. Slim cardstock cover bears art by Hannah Creeley.

Gernard Richter Editionen 1965-2004

Butin, Hubertus and Stefan Gronert · 2004

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

Ostfildern-Ruit DE, Hatje Cantz, 2004. Perfect binding, 287 pp. 9"-12". Fine. Catalogue Raissone of the work for this period by the acclaimed artist; works reproduced as painted, colour for colour, etc.Texts ganz auf Deutsch. Ink mark at front, else clean.

No. 46 -Steve Biko

Bernstein, Hilda · 1978

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

London, IDAF, 1978. Perfect binding, 150 pp. 5"-8.5". Good. Report on the inquest into the death of civil-rights activist Steve Biko, the 46th person to die in police detention in South Africa.

The Time Tree

Thinh, Hu'u, George Evans and Nguyen Qui Duc, translators · 2003

CA$16.00 (€10.18 | $11.22 | £8.49 | ¥1,791)

Willimantic CT, Curbstone Press, 2003. Perfect binding, 171 pp. 5.5"-8.5". fine. Bilingual Vietnamese/ English. Poet served in the Vietnamese/ American War as a tank driver and journalist. This is a selection from 5 volumes of his poems.

The Blue Marble Certainty

Troendle, Yves · 1988

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

Toronto, Gesture Press, 1988. Plastic clamp, 62 pp. 8.5"-8.5". fine. Language poetry with Dada intent, e.g. "Struck by lightning, saved by shoes, appalled". Patch of marble-paper pasted on cover.

Matrix

Schroeder, Jerry · 1989

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

Vancouver, Wave 7, Press, 1989. Staplebound, 30 pp. 8.5"-11". good. Very rigourous typewriter concrete printed with inconsistent toner. There is some foxing to the beige cover.

The Portable Coleridge

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor · 1950

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

New York, Viking, 1950. Perfect binding, 630 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Fair. Edited and introduced by I. A. Richards. More than half its volume is prose with healthy sections of the “Biographia Literaria” and many letters. Bunged corners and wear, clear reading copy only.

For the Few

Sayej, Nadja · 1981

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

Toronto, No Publisher Listed, 1981. Staplebound, 20 pp. 7"-8.5". Good. Collages of the cube as a kind of slinky toy printed throughout on blue paper; endpapers as covers.

Metropolis

Porta, Antonio; Pasquale Verdicchio, translator · 1999

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

Copenhagen, Green Integer, 1999. Perfect binding, 99 pp. 4.25"-6". As New. Bilingual edition; Italien en face to the English. First poem, "What everyone thinks" is 37 pages long, each line beginning "che/what". Author photo on white cover.

The Second Life: Selected Poems

Morgan, Edwin · 1968

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

Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press, 1968. Perfect binding, 89 pp. 7.25"-9". good. Seriality the backbone to even the 'trad' poems here. Big golden sunflower with eyelashes on the cover. Some humidity warp.