Normal dalkey archive press (73 Ergebnisse)

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 303 pp., b/w photo, notes With a foreword by Gilbert Sorrentino and an afterword by Paul Zukofsky.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 312 pp.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 121 pp. Translated by Dominic Di Bernardi.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, viii, 211 pp. Translated by Richard Lourie.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new. ix, 582pp. (intentionally paginated backwards).

Zustand: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The author's second novel - 'about books and the people who read them: it's about a rare book dealer and his mistress' set in the mid 1950's to the beginning of the counterculture in the 1960's - ranging from Detroit to New York to San Francisco. Fine in glossy illustrated white covers.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Napoleonic Wars nicknamed The Faun. Brand's Heath deals with the chaos of the immediate postwar period as a writer joins a small community of "survivors" to try to forge a new life, and Dark Mirrors is set in a future where civilization has been virtually destroyed. Dark Mirrors' narrator fears he may be the last man on earth until the discovery of another creates new fears. All three novels are characterized by Schmidt's unique combination of sharply observed details, sarcastic asides, and wide erudition. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. -- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tapes, and movies, their obsession with the enigmatic young girl takes over their relationship. Three combines laconic dialogue with poetic impressionism in an incisive exploration of the hidden emotions and sexual undercurrents of the British middle class. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. During the five years of their adulterous affair, Finn Fitzgerald and Elin Marstrander spend only 47 days and nights together. At each of their meetings--in Spain or London, or on the tiny island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which serves as their last refuge--they try to conjure a reality that will correspond to that of the passionate letters they exchange while apart. Elin, a Danish poet, and Fitz, an Irish novelist, send each other beautiful, loving words, as well as evocative jabs of cruelty, often in the same letter. In the whirling world of their writing they attempt to enjoy their love in the calm they can't find in their daily lives. But as reality--their lovers and their children; their failures and regrets--creeps in, their relationship inevitably crumbles: "The dream ends.". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First US Edition. 211pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stain on edge of text block. I.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine (with small fault). Advance Uncorrected Galley. This is an uncorrected proof copy of the first American publication of articles that O'Brien has contributed to 'The Irish Times' under the pen name of Myles na Gopaleen. Publisher's corrections marked on front cover. Two-staple holes top front, probably from removal of publisher's 'With Compliments' slip. …

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good, small indentation on front cover, but book appears unused. MOTTE JR., WARREN F., ed. . Oulipo: a primer of potential literature. Translated and edited by Warren F. Motte, Jr. Normal, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998, stated First Dalkey Archive edition, xv, 221pp., . Series: French literature series First published by University of Nebraska press, 1986. - The literary group known as Oulipo, was founded in Paris in 1960 to pursue writing in a way that contrasts strongly with the Anglo-American tradition. The examples included in this collection all display some form of literary constraint. - CONTENTS: Liminal poem / Harry Mathews -- Lipo : first manifesto / Fanco is Le Lionnais -- Second manifesto / Franco is Le Lionnais -- Brief history of the Oulipo / Jean Lescure -- Rule and constraint / Marcel Bénabou -- The Collège de Pataphysique and the Oulipo / Collective -- Potential literature / Raymond Queneau -- Queneau Oulipian / Jacques Bens -- Raymond Queneau and the amalgam of mathematics and literature / Franco is Le Lionnais -- Mathematics in the method of Raymond Queneau / Jacques Roubaud -- History of lipogram / Georges Perec -- Recurrent literature / Jacques Bens [and others] -- For a potential analysis of combinatory literature / Claude Berge -- Mathew's algorithm / Harry Mathews -- Computer and writer : the Centre Pompidou experiment / Paul Fournel -- Prose and anticombinatorics / Italo Calvino -- The relation X takes Y for Z / Raymond Queneau -- A story as you like it / Raymond Queneau -- The theater tree : a combinatory play / Paul Fournel, Jean-Pierre Énard -- Oulipians and their works. 9781564781871 ISBN 1564781879. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. In this collection of eighteen stories, Hugh Fulham-McQuillan writes with the playfulness and intelligence of such masters of the short form as Borges, Poe, and Barthelme. He examines the aesthetics of murder, the reigning fascination of the macabre in popular culture, and the tenuous line that separates art from life. One narrator traces the Mobius strip that encloses the assassination of Julius Caesar, Shakespeares play Julius Caesar, and the murder of Lincoln by a famous actor in a theater. Another undergoes plastic surgery to accelerate the process of his being possessed by the ghost of the Italian composer Gesualdo. A detective ponders the interest he takes in investigating murders. Fulham-McQuillan wears his learning lightly and writes with the tact of a born storyteller.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Complementing Dalkey Archive's edition of Firbank's Complete Short Stories (published in 1990), Complete Plays makes available for the first time in one volume this inimitable British writer's three excursions into drama: The Mauve Tower (1904), a "dream play" reminiscent in language and setting of Oscar Wilde's Salome and the writings of the French symbolists; A Disciple from the Country (1907), a one-act comedy about a debutante who flirts with religion and sainthood in order to catch a husband; and The Princess Zoubaroff (1920), a three-act comedy about marriage, religion, and homosexual separatism. The latter, which has been produced in England occasionally since the 1950s, is considered to be among Firbank's major works, and yet it, like the other two plays, has not been generally available in this country until now. The plays are filled with the wit and satire for which Firbank's novels are relished; indeed, Firbank's novels relied so heavily on dialogue that the distinction between them and his plays is minimal. Consequently, those who enjoy his novels and stories - as well as those who enjoy the comic British theater tradition of Pinero, Wilde, and Coward - should welcome this collection. Steven Moore, who edited the Complete Short Stories, has written an introduction placing the plays in the context of Firbank's life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. A large (16 siblings) and very dysfunctional Irish-American family comes together after the death of their father. 228 pp. Photographic endpapers. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to fold in upper corner of front cover) .

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Communication--or the lack thereof--is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

181 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. New preface for this edition by Steve Erickson. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1983).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1992. First edition. 211pp. Green cloth. Spine mildly cocked, else fine in an unclipped jacket. First American edition of the fourth and final Hortense novel by French writer, mathematician, and OULIPO member Jacques Roubaud (1932-2024). Published in French in 1990, here translated into English by Dominic Di Bernardi. …

1st Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description: 218 p.; 21 cm. Subjects: City and town life; Fiction. Intellectuals; Fiction. Novelists; Fiction. Black humor. City and town life Fiction. Languages & Literatures. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth. First printing. Correct number line, including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price of $19.95 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Review slip laid in.…

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. The scultptor and writer's author's first novel. Donleavy - who used MacNamara as the model for MacDoon in 'The Ginger Man' - called him 'the Einstein of Irish literature.' 213 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 151p. : ill. ; 22cm. Subjects: English fiction -- Irish authors. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First printing. 340 pp., 8vo. From the library of Anne Rice, with her library label loosely laid in. A "tragicomical idyll of the future past" that mixes genres; "a magnificent first novel by one of the best art historians of our time" (according to jacket blurb by poet Charles Simic). Illustrated with 27 pages of black-and-white photographs. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise as new in jacket.…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Good condition, no damages nor handwritings.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 213p. : ill. ; 24cm. Subjects: Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction. Unfinished books -- Fiction. 1 Kg. …

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Fine in glossy wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.