Search Results: Titles starting with A from The Second Shelf

London: Macmillan, 1974. First edition. Harcover, 128 pp. Black cloth binding and pictorial dust jacket in near fine condition. Jacket painting by artist Linnet Gotch. Nuns and the politics of running a nunnery. Nothing to blink at. Cold dispositions, novice mistresses, stern wits, all nuns seeing to stabilise their place in their world. A marvellously told satire.

Los Angeles: Siglio, 2012. Sophie Calle's wonderful project of reconstruction of identity, building a portrait of a stranger through calls and interviews with the people listed on his lost and found address book.Signed. Originally published in Libération August 2nd - September 4th, 1983. Near fine condition.

Éditions Xavier Barral, 2016. A volume reuniting the abundant work of Sophie Calle between 2003 and 2016, guided by an interview between her and Marie Desplechin.First edition, as new in plastic wrap.

Hurst Street Press. Oxford: Hurst Street Press Ltd., 2017. First Edition. Fine press. Acetate dust cover,white card cover with title embossed in red. Hand-stitched. 56 pages. Limited to a print run of 100 copies. Printed using a mixture of letterpress and risograph. Bought new, condition as new. As new in as new dust-jacket.

Alfred Knopf, 1967. First edition in English. Hardback, 361 pp. Green cloth binding shows very slight fading throughout and slight bumping to the corners. In near fine condition. Dust jacket is only slightly worn on the top and bottom edges, price-clipped on front flap. In near fine condition.The Apple in the Dark is Lispector's first novel to ever be translated into English. Translated and introduced by Gregory Rabassa, arguably the most important translator of South American literature into English of the second half of the twentieth century. This novel is both a reflection of the Brazillian literary climate of modernism and innovation and of Lispector's personal style, introspective and claustrophobic, as Rabassa writes, "closer perhaps to original thought patterns than the language had ever managed to approach before". Lispector was born in Ukraine to a Jewish family who was already en-route to Brazil to escape persecution during the Russian Civil War. Her family history of migration and trauma… Read More

New York: Alfred Knopf, 1987. A highly acclaimed second collection of poems dealing with "Attachment, Links, and Dependencies" also inspired by women muses from life and mythology.
First edition. Octavo. 113pp. Publisher's original ochre cloth covered boards titled in gilt to the spine and front board, a near fine copy in a similarly bright and clean dustjacket with some very light edgewear and a small closed tear to the upper margin of the rear panel. A very attractive copy. Internally clean.

USA: H & O Company, 1974. Artist's book that describes the "tear technique" of traditional Japanese with techniques for crying in eight situations. Primarily illustrated with manipulated photographs, also type set in teardrop shapes. By turns a fascinating, confounding, and insightful examination of the possibilities for subversion of societal gender norms and conventions through the use of tears.
"Situation 6: Embarrassment/For women, tears can immediately solve the problem of embarrassment, you must dress modestly, otherwise you will be thought to be a streetwalker. This technique cannot be used by men, because people do not like helping men."
Paperback. 21.5 x 14. Black and white illustrations on 24 pages in black and white pictorial wrappers of the same glossy paper. Circular liquid splash to cover. In very good condition. Scarce, no copies seen in WorldCat, though attribution is given to Hidemi Ōta.