Collection: All Books

As-new copy of this engaging prose work by the Romanian-born artist, a catalog of eighty items on the table of his Paris hotel room. Translated into English by Emmett Williams, to whose annotations Spoerri has added secondary annotations of his own. With illustrations throughout by... More

Exemplary copy of the first American edition of Ballard's 1969 experimental novel, published in the UK as "The Atrocity Exhibition." Doubleday originally produced a copy under that title in 1970, only to scrap it over concerns regarding the portrayal of certain celebrities. This edition with... More

First American edition of the 1910 novel by the sui generis French writer, who exerted a strong influence on both the surrealists and the later OULIPO movement. Translated by Lindy Foord and Rayner Heppenstall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First American edition. Octavo, 8-1/4... More

First edition of the debut book by American writer Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019), a collection of short fiction blending formal experimentation with science-fiction and feminist themes. NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First edition (stated). Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. Tan textured-paper boards backed with olive... More

Reprint edition of Queneau's OULIPO masterpiece, as translated from the French by Barbara Wright. London: John Calder, 1979. Second English-language edition, following the Gaberbocchus first of 1958. Octavo, 8 x 5-1/4 in. 197pp. Blue textured-paper boards; silver spine lettering; dust jacket. Toning to certain signatures... More

First American edition of Johnson's 1973 experimental dark comedy. NY: New Directions, 1985. First American edition. Octavo, 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. 180pp. Orange cloth boards, metallic blue spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some dust soiling to textblock top and fore-edge. Unclipped jacket toned to flaps... More

Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. 123pp. First edition. Very good in a good jacket.  Black cloth boards lightly bumped at top corners. Textblock shows toned along the edges. Unclipped "$6.00" jacket has four 1" closed tears, with a partial loss at top... More

Inaugural volume of this important anthology series, an ambitious early venture by publisher John Calder, who later described New Writers as trying to "combine different kinds of literature, experimental or not, occasionally poetry, short stories, work in progress of extracts from work we liked, but... More

First printing of this collected edition of Auster's celebrated New York trilogy of novels: "City of Glass," "Ghosts," and "The Locked Room." Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. First edition thus. Octavo (5.25 x 7.75 in.); 464pp.; red cloth boards; silver spine titles; in... More