Adnan, Etel; Georgina Kleege, translator

Sitt Marie Rose

Sausalito CA, Post-Apollo Press, 1982. Perfectbound, 105 pp. 5.5"-7". Fine. Succinct novel about a woman abducted by militiamen during Lebanon's civel war and executed. Winner of the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris.

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Book number: 1532

Catalogue: Fiction

Andreacchi, Grace

Music for Glass Orchestra

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

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Book number: 886

Catalogue: Fiction

Asimov, Isaac, editor

The Hugo Winners

London, Penguin, 1964. Perfectbound, 342 pp. 4.5"-7". poor. Beat-up Penguin pb marvellous for its unctious intro by the editor. Begins with the Cleveland Convention of 1955, the 13th. And ends with the 19th; winner: “The Longest Voyage” by Poul Anderson (no typo).

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Book number: 1094

Catalogue: Fiction

Blowdryer, Jennifer

Wrong Wrong Wrong

Oakland, Zeitgeist Press, 1991. Staplebound, 16 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Good. Three stories on the down-and-out life in San Francisco. Cover art is from tattoo stencils by Greg Kulz, inside illustration, 'Pig' by Bonnis Bonnell. Last heard writing monthly for 'Maximum Rock'n'Roll.

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Book number: 1259

Catalogue: Fiction

Borges, Jorge Luis; Andrew Hurley, translator

Collected Fictions

New York, Penguin Books, 1998. Perfectbound, 566 pp. 5.5"-8.5". As New. The writer of paragraphs faultless of cadence. Whose beauty comes through in Hurley's translation. Wraparound matte cards in brown and blue house these wonders in sewn signatures.

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Book number: 1682

Catalogue: Fiction

Carson, Anne

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Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 2013. Sewn cloth, 171 pp. 6.5"-8.88". As New. Catches us up with 'Red' whose autobiography we became well-versed in in 1998. Enter the female, Ida, with a 2 x 4 to the head, rehearsed in  the martial arts as well. Dementia wards of who knows where or of whom. Mostly prose, mostly centre-justified.

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Book number: 1278

Catalogue: Fiction

Constant, Benjamin

Adolphe

London, Macmillan & Co. 1968. Sewn cloth, 153 pp. 5.25"-8.25". Good. Texte en Francaise; critical commentary, with vocabulary and an appendix of selections from Constant's Cécile all in English by W. Oliver Andrews. Tick-board cloth covers, no dj.

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Book number: 1687

Catalogue: Fiction

Duras, Marguerite

L'Amant

Paris, Editions Minuit, 1990. Perfectbound, 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.

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Book number: 668

Catalogue: Fiction

Duras, Marguerite

Moderato cantabile

Paris, Union General Editions, 1958. Perfectbound, 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.

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Book number: 669

Catalogue: Fiction

Fletcher, John and John Calder, editor

The Nouveau Roman Reader

London and New York, Calder and Riverrun, 1986. Perfectbound, 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.

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Book number: 672

Catalogue: Fiction

La Fontaine, Grandville, illustrator

Fables

Paris, EDDL, 1996. Perfectbound, 448 pp. 4.25"-7". Good. ""Texte Integral"" -the complete original fables in French accompanied by the miniature dessins of their master. Previous owner has stapled wraparound cellowphane to the back cover. Bold type throughout.

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Book number: 1239

Catalogue: Fiction

Fraser, D. M.

The Voice of Emma Sachs

Vancouver, Arsenal Editons, 1983. Perfectbound, 137 pp. 5.5"-8.5". Fiine. 9 pieces of exquisitely focused and enjoyable prose by one of Canada's greatest prose stylists. Even the 'Postlude' which is not fiction reads like a work of imagination. Chips to the gloss cover.

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Book number: 1409

Catalogue: Fiction

Gautier, Theophile

The Works of Gautier

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.

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Book number: 675

Catalogue: Fiction

Godfrey, David

The New Ancestors

Toronto, New Press, 1970. Perfectbound, 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.

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Book number: 676

Catalogue: Fiction

Hébert, Anne, N. Shapro, translator

Kamouraska

Toronto, Paperjacks, 1980. Perfectbound, 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.

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Book number: 678

Catalogue: Fiction