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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
USD 17.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 13.5 | JP 2574]
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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
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8 | JP 1514]
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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
USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 | £UK 7.25 | JP 1363]
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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
USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 | £UK 5.75 | JP 1060]
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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 transaltion. Wraparound matte cards in brown and blue house these wonders in sewn signatures.
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Book number: 1682
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 28 | £UK 24 | JP 4542]
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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
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 20 | JP 3785]
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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
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP 3028]
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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
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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
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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
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP 3028]
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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
USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 10.5 | JP 1968]
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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
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 | £UK 9.75 | JP 1817]
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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
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP 3028]
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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
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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
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