A Journey Round My Skull, NYRB

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Hanuman Books, 2

Another back cover of a tiny Hanuman dustjacket (this one from Max Beckmann's On My Painting ). I own about eight in the series now, and...

Robert Walser, The Walk

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Rene Crevel, Babylon

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Jean Ray, Malpertuis (and Presence du Futur)

I can't say much more than these two have said about Jean Ray 's 20th century Gothic masterpiece Malpertuis : Giornale Nuovo and Mi...

Paul Eluard & Benjamin Peret, 152 Proverbs

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João Guimarães Rosa

July 2008 update. See details of the Third Bank flaps here . In their most recent print catalog, Archipelago announced a new translation o...

The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf, Calder Edition

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Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus

I finally found a hardcover edition of Locus Solus . It only took a decade. June 25, 2008 update: One World came through and has announced ...

Atlas Anthology III

I love the tagline at the top of the cover: "Benign Pollution * Enthused Writing." This early anthology from Atlas Press was edite...

What is 'Pataphysics?

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