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Alegria, Fernando
La Poesia Chilena
Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1954. Sewn cloth, 314 pp. 5.5"-8.75". As New. Origenes y Desarrollo del Siglo xvi al xix. Text entirely en espagnol and printed in Mexico on almost transluscent paper. Jacket intact, sturdy binding to its ethereal pages.
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Book number: 821
USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 13.75 | JP„ 2690]

 
Apollinaire, Guillaume; Textes réunis, etc. par L.C. Breunig
Chroniques D'Art - 1902 - 1918
Paris, Gallimard, 1960. Sewn cloth, 525 pp. 5.5"-8". Good. Mostly reviews of art-show openings. This volume fortified binding for library use, message "No longer the property of the Library of Mount Holyoke College". Some underlining.
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Book number: 1627
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP„ 5538]

 
Balakian, Anna
Literary Origins of Surrealism: A New Mysticism in French Poetry
New York, New York University Press, 1947. Perfectbound, 159 pp. 5.5"-8.25". good. Draws on her inspired knowledge of the Symboliste Movement to characterize a fresh force in Surrealism. Foxed all over, but powder blue endpapers have a Tanguy drawing.
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Book number: 996
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1582]

 
Edel, Leon
Literary Biography
Toronto, Univesity of Toronto Press, 1957. Clothbound, 113 pp. 4.75"-7.5". fine. Texts of the 4 lectures delivered by the author as the 'Alexander Lectures' at the University of Toronto 1955-56. concerned with "certain subjective problems" for the modern biographer. Jacket intact.
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Book number: 1697
USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 10.5 | JP„ 2057]

 
Frye, Northrup
The Educated Imagination
Toronto, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. 1962. Perfectbound, 68 pp. 5"-8". Good. The Massey Lectures, Second Series delivered over Canadian Public Radio (CBC) in 6 parts in 1961. Spare cover design includes a Chinese ideogram.
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Book number: 825
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1582]

 
Frye, Northrop
Fables of Identity : Studies in Poetic Myhtology
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Perfectbound, 265 pp. 5.5"-8". Good. Four theoretical essays; most notably, ā€œThe Archetypes of Literautureā€ followed by 12 essays in their applications. Fairly crinkled and foxed but text clear and spine sturdy.
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Book number: 1408
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1582]

 
Gibbons, Reginald, editor
Writers from South Africa
Evanston IL, Triquarterly / Northwestern University Press, 1989. Perfectbound, 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.
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Book number: 826
USD 11.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 | £UK 9 | JP„ 1740]

 
Hollander, Benjamin
Translating Tradition
Berkeley, ACTS, 1988. Perfectbound, 248 pp. 6"-9". Good. Re-versing of Celan's works in and out of translation; his own emmendations overprinted in his own hand, in a pale, inky blue type. This was a double issue of the Journal, 'ACTS' ( # 8 & 9). Foxing and soot stains to faces and covers.
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Book number: 1150
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP„ 3164]

 
Hofmannsthal. Hugo von
Selected Essays
Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1955. Perfectbound, 158 pp. 4.75"-7.25". fine. Edited with intro and notes in English by Mary E. Gilbert in the "Blackwell's German Texts" series. 20 pieces ganzen auf Deutsch, from public speeches to essays on aesthetics.
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Book number: 1272
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12.25 | JP„ 2373]

 
Huidobro, Vicente, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, translator
Manifestos Manifest
Kobenhaven & Los Angeles, Green Integer, 1999. Perfectbound, 119 pp. 4.25"-6". As New. Poetics formulated by the poet; his term 'Creationism'. Green Integer #20. Poet's cover photo by Hans Arp. 10 pieces, stainless.
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Book number: 563
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1582]

 
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Oeuvres en Prose
Geneva, Les Tresors de la Litterature Francaise, 1986. Perfectbound, 149 pp. 5.25"-8". Good. 4 pieces, toute en Francaiseƈ '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; text pages all cut.
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Book number: 909
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Mallarmé, Stéphane
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Exeter UK, University of Exeter Press, 1991. Perfectbound, 50 pp. 6"-8". As New. Monograph between dark-blue stiff paper covers of the poet's account of his dearest friend's life. French text edited by Alan Rait with commentary in English.
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Book number: 398
USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 | £UK 11.25 | JP„ 2215]

 
McCaffery, Steve
North of Intention ; Critical Writings 1973 – 1986
New York, Roof Books, 2000. Perfectbound, 239 pp. 6"-9". Mint. Performative literary criticism, as befits one informed by an open methodolical field of signifyings rather than a controlling author with a thesis. 'Mask' 1977 by Mira Schorr graces the paper original cover. Still in wrapper.
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Book number: 1269
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Nabokov, Vladimir
Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal
Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1964. Perfectbound, 182 pp. 5"-8". fine. Certainly the most entertaining yet incisive text on prosody i've ever read. Both texts from the author's 4-volume commentary on Alexandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, also in the Bollingen Series.
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Book number: 1686
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 14.5 | JP„ 2848]

 
Oliver, Michael Brian
Poet's Progress: The Developmen of Alden Nowlan's Poetry
Fredericton NB, Fiddlehead Books, 1978. Perfectbound, 49 pp. 6"-9". Fine. Movement of Nowlan's poetry's rise from rural Canadian Atlantica to highly personal, meditative verse; smoked glass the last book considered. His photo on the back by Carles Clark.
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Book number: 1447
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 9.75 | JP„ 1899]

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