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Sacramento, California: American River College, 1995. Soft cover. Good. 148 pages, illustrations, poetry, short fiction, 17,5 x 24,5 cm.Solid binding, fine interior. Corner wear, a few stains on front cover. VG- / presque TBE.

French and European Publications Inc, 2016. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

La Pensee Universelle, 1985. Soft cover. Good. Inscribed by author otherwise clean crisp interior. Covers have mild general wear. Two binding cracks with corresponding stress lines in spine, binding not tight but still strong.

William Newberry / J. Trimen, 1843. Half-Leather. Fair. Foxed endpapers with no other blemishes elsewhere. Marbled page edges. Though unblemished text is underlined with marginalia in pencil throughout. Square copy. Some rubbing of boards, pronounced on leather corner tips and both hinges of spine. Spine has 7 raised bands and the gilt lettering and filets still look nice.

Vintage, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Light wear to covers, yellowed page edges, tight binding and clean crisp interior, inscribed by author on title page.

Continuum Inter. Publis., 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. 0826415741

Pauvert, 1985. Soft cover. Fair. Creased and scuffed gatefold covers, several spine creases weakening the binding, yellowed page margins, clean text. Illustrations, 414 pages.

HarperPerennial, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. Yellowed page edges otherwise fine.

Ouverture, 2009. Soft cover. Very Good. Gently used. Color illustrations.

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ. No jacket; clean crisp unmarked with one bumped corner and no other apparent defects, almost new. Introduction by Sir John SHANE LESLIE (1955) and includes 8 page publisher catalog dated January 1954.

Poolbeg Press, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Originally published in 1958, translated from Irish to English by Victor Power in 1980. Light corner wear, yellowed text. 200 pages. 9780905169309

Thomson Learning, 2002. 2ème tirage. Soft cover. Very Good. Gently used in overall excellent condition. ISBN 1903436338 2nd printing (2005) of 3rd Series (2002).

Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gently read, almost new. A divinely delectible highly strange amalgamation of wit. Brossard takes on the '70s: a time of despair as the dreams and ideals of the '60s were cashed in for political opportunism and crass materialism. America's inglorious exit from Vietnam, the increasingly desperate actions of counterculture protest groups, the rise of repressive CIA operations, the commodification of the American way; all this and more is captured here in Brossard's inimitable style. Style discards realism in favor of a free-form fiction that mixes French surrealism and theatrical absurdity with Beat improvisation and performance art confrontation. Brossard's avalanche of language is outrageous. A kind of verbal delirium possesses the text, which on one level may be the collective fantasy lives of a counter cultural group in Paris; on another, the psychotic outpourings of a woman named Decca Aldridge; on yet… Read More

Gallimard Education, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Yellowed page edges.

Gallimard, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. Solid binding; fine interior; mild cover wear.

Penguin, 1971. Soft cover. Acceptable. Worn, yellowed, loose pages, reading copy only. Nice cover but unfortunately the binding glue has given out and the first 15 pages are loose. Text is mildly yellowed. Still a serviceable reading copy. A relier.

Saint Clair, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Jean Pazzottu. Gently read with mild wear, exterior a little faded with some rubbing of spine, still solid copy. In12-Relie Skyvertex Dorure Rouge.

Cremille, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine. J. Kerleroux. Minimal wear, almost new. In12-Relie Skyvertex Dorure Rouge.

Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1897. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Acceptable. A. Gaillard. 2eme edition de 1897. Rebound in embossed gilt red & black cloth hardcovers with the logo of Lycee du Poitiers. Though still a good reading copy there are several defects: Binding has split and sections have nearly detached although the exterior boards have minimal wear; text is yellowed and foxed. As a bonus there is an 1897 Distribution de Prix taped onto the inside of front board. Gilt page edges.

Paris: Lebigre Freres, Libraires, 1832. Soft cover. Good. When rebound in plain paper wrappers original covers not retained in first two volumes otherwise complete set of 4 volumes (240 pp., 222 pp., 204pp., 195pp.). 9,3 x 14,6 cm. each. Imprimerie de Felix Locquin. Many pages rough cut on foredge but no loss of text. Foxing throughout in most cases faint and the entire set is quite legible and handles well. There is a split in the back pastedown of volume 1. Stated "nouvelle traduction" with no further elaboration. Stated "ornee de gravures" and each volume has a frontsipiece (see photos) but no more than that. Text in French.