- Extremities trifle rubbed. Good set.
= "Nous invitons les personnes qui découvriront des fautes dans le texte des éditions stéréotypes, à nous les indiquer; elles recevront de suite, et sans frais, un exemplaire où les fautes seront corrigées." (verso hitle).
AND 2 works by A. GIDE.
- A few markings in pencil (1x in pen and ink). Frontwr. sl. soiled and creased (sm. tear near spine); spine split and strengthened w. tape.
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 114. Important literary avant garde periodical. Contains contributions by André Breton, Philippe Soupault, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Raymond Radiguet and Tristan Tzara
Tambour. No.1. Ed. H.-J. Salemson. Paris, n.publ., 1929, 60,(4 advert.)p., 2 ills. by L. TOUCHAGUES, orig. wr., sm. 8vo.
- Yellowed. Owner's entry on frontwr.; top of spine sl. dam.
= Le Fonds Paul Destribats 1008. Contains French as well as English contributions, i.a. by Philippe Soupault, Blaise Cendrars, Ralph Cheever Dunning and Stuart Gilbert.
- Three backstrips trifle sunned.
= Comprises: Ezau en Jacob (1st ed.), Quincas Borba (2nd ed.), Posthume herinneringen van Brás Cubas (4th ed.) and Vrouwenarmen en andere verhalen (2nd ed.).
Perec, G. Het leven een gebruiksaanwijzing. Dutch transl. E. Borger. Ibid., idem, 1995, 2nd ed., 574,(1)p., orig. cl. w. dustwr. - AND 5 others, i.a. G. FLAUBERT, Bouvard en Pécuchet (ibid., 1988, 2nd ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr.,); G. CASANOVA, Rust noch duur (ibid., 1995, 1st ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr. From the Grote Belleterie series) and F. PESSOA, Het boek der rusteloosheid (ibid. 1999, 6th ed., orig. wr. Prive-domein nr. 166).
- Edges sl. frayed. = Uncut copy.
= One of 60 numb. copies of the "Vorzugsausgabe", SIGNED by the author.
- Both vols. w. bookplate on upper pastedown; first and final few (blank) lvs. and cloth sl. foxed.
= Gesammelte Werke.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Otherwise fine and attractively bound.
- Frontisp. loose. = Uranian poetry. Rare.
- Yellowed; first 40p. w. sm. tear in inner blank margin. Backstrip dam.; frontwr. w. sm. tear near spine. = Rare.
- One vol. w. owner's entry on htitle. One vol. wr. sl. stained.
= No.5, 16, 103 (K. Paustovskij, 3x), 114 (I. Bashevis Singer) and 193 (M. Sert).
ADDED: 2 others publ. by Van Oorschot, i.a. PLATONOV, Romans (ibid., 2023, orig. cl. w. dustwr. Fine).
- Backstrip of some vols.w. traces of silverfish activity.
= No. 85, 89, 91, 98, 100, 114, 119, 127, 145, 147, 133, 134, 181, 188, 236, 270 and 272.
AND 2 works in 3 vols. of the Open domein series. - ADDED; J. SEUREL, Priaap ontknoopt (Oosterbeek, Bosbespers, 1984, ills., printed in 750 copies, orig. wr. Privaat-domein nr.69).
= Facsimile of the orig. ed. 1913 w. photocopied manuscript notes, with a modern transcription by C. Méla.
- Spine sunned.
= First published in English and French in New York (1943), this is the first French edition published shortly after the liberation.
= Rare.
- First 10 pages cut short in outer margin, just outside the text. Lacks backwr.; frontwr. loose and dam. along edges; spine heavily worn.
= Under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, Boris Vian wrote rather bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, which were highly controversial at the time of their release. This pulp fiction book was published as a provocation by Vian to his critics. Both the publisher Vendôme press and this book were solely created to make people believe in the existence of Vian's alias. The original French publication J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (1946) was also written by Sullivan, although he let people believe it was written by an underappreciated young black author whose work was banned in his native country. Very rare.
- Yellowed/ browned (incl. wr.) and brittle/ frayed due to the poor quality of the paper. Backstrip dam.; lacking portion of lower corner frontwr. (restored). Sold w.a.f.
= Important and influential magazine, of which 25 issues were published between 1927-1938, featuring almost every avant-garde writer of the period. This issue i.a. incl. contributions by James Joyce, Gertrud Stein, László Moholy-Nagy and Vordemberge-Gildwart and photogr. plates by Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy. With the often lacking leaflet advertising the contents of this issue (16x16 cm., printed in black and red on recto only), which was originally tipped onto the frontwr. (loose, leaflet browned, w. repaired tears and 2 restored laking portions). Rössler p.53.
- Stamp on title-p. Backstrip creased; upper joint splitting; wr. sl. dogeared.
= Stanislav Vinaver was one of the key figures of the Yugoslav literary avantgarde. Futurisms in the World p.248: "(...) an inventory of quirks, oddities, linguistic inventions relating to every possible genre contaminated by an exasperated modernity".
























