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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a macabre tale of a young man who requires that his misfortunes be met by punishing others and recording both events in double-entry book keeping format. The book was first published in England in 1973. The Sackner Archive holds the manuscript and first edition of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a macabre tale of a young man who requires that his misfortunes be met by punishing others and recording both events in double-entry bookkeeping format. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "Combat Journal for Place d'Armes: A Personal Narrative," Symons writes an unconventional, gay, "autobiography" that uses varied typefaces and sizes for the 22 days of this diaristic journal. The envelope paste-down on the inside of the front cover holds ephemera that document places in Montreal mentioned in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition and first printing of the book in English that originally was written in French. The reader is requested to shuffle the pages like a deck of cards. the order of the pages will then assume the fate of the protagonist. B.S. Johnson also published a novel, "The Unfortunates," (1969) translated from the French in the same format as this book, unbound pages meant to be read in any order. Johnson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Arno Schmidt, considered by many to be the "German James Joyce," was born in 1914 and died in 1979. This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. This is one of Schmidt's "superbooks," a large format novel with unusual page layouts, illustrations, and puns a'plenty. Nowhere near as difficult as Zettel's Traum or Evening Edged in Gold, it's a rollicking tale of culture-clash set in the near future (with an extended flashback to 1969), and features a typical Schmidt protagonist (a walking encyclopedia of an old codger), two delightful 17-year-old girls, a visiting American Secretary of State nicknamed Isis, and many more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richard Eckersley designed this book. His experimental layout is reminiscent of the style that he utilized for "The Telephone Book," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. This book consists of essays by several contributors dealing with varied aspects of postmodern culture including obsession with eating, communism, poetry, AIDS, and postmodernist fiction and non-fiction, anal retention, prostitution among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. It is the English translation of "Abend mit Goldrand: eine MarchenPosse 55 Bilder aus der La/endlichkeit fur Gronner der Verschreibkunst," a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing of the book. The book was reviewed by Publishers Weekly:What would it sound like if a foreigner wrote a novel in broken English? Foer answers this question to marvelous effect in his inspired though uneven first novel. Much of the book is narrated by Ukrainian student Alex Perchov, whose hilarious and, in their own way, pitch-perfect malapropisms flourish under the influence of a thesaurus. Alex works for his family's travel agency, which caters to Jews who want to explore their ancestral shtetls. Jonathan Safran Foer, the novel's other hero, is such a Jew an American college student looking for the Ukrainian woman who hid his grandfather from the Nazis. He, Alex, Alex's depressive grandfather and his grandfather's "seeing-eye bitch" set out to find the elusive woman. Alex's descriptions of this "very rigid search" and his accompanying letters to Jonathan are interspersed with Jonathan's own mythical history of his...

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This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subtitled "A Game of Life, Love, Sex," this book was written first in Spanish. The author states that the book may be read as follows: first in a normal fashion from chapter 1 to 56. Then beginning with chapter 73, the reader can follow the sequence indicated at the end of each chapter or follow a ordered list presented in the table of instructions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The number of copies in this signed, second printing of the book is not stated. The copyright page differs from the first edition, that is also held by the Sackner Archive, in colored annotations and its text. A label on the dust jacket states "Signed by the author." he following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site.Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example,...

Scope and Contents This is the first edition, first printing of the British edition of the book that was only printed in soft cover format. Its cover is completely different from the American edition. It was signed in blue ink by Danielewski at a reading on 9/26/06 he gave for the launch of "Only Revolutions" held at Books & Books, Coral Gables FL. He further embellished his signature with a fownward arrow in green ink. The Sackners were present at this reading. The following reviews of the book appeared on the Amazon.com WEB site:Amazon.com. Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named...

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This book is printed in the form of the writer's corrected typewritten manuscript. The three unbound photocopied pages within the insert depict handwritten pages by Schmidt for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first section of this novel (36 pages) is composed without punctuation marks - only exaggerated spaces. The next section (42 pages) is written with no capital letters and only periods. The third section (39 pages) is presented with various marks, /, +,*- but no periods or commas. In the fourth section (40 pages), astericks, run on words, commas and lists are present but no periods. The final section (47 pages) has + % and other signs wothout periods and commas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This novel that was written by Wittig, a Lesbian author, was first published in France as a catalyst for the women's liberation movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each of the seven pages using the original typefaces consists of a continuous listing, separated by commas, of adjectives and nouns used by the authors of seven pornigraphic paperback novels. These words consist mainly of words that by themselves would not be considered erotic but in the context of the origins become erotic, e.g., ...jar of cream, camera, white velvet trousers, white velvet shoes,false prick and balls, skirt, garter belt, pants, pantihose, undershorts, money, 2 pillows, vaginal jelly... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of this book.eNotes internet summary: "Mobile: Study for the Representation of the United States has fifty chapters, and each chapter is more or less devoted to a different state, in alphabetical order, of the United States. The novel does not tell a story or relate a sequence of events. Instead, the disjointed details, mostly about small-town America, consist of information usually found in history books, atlases, encyclopedias, tourist brochures, and Howard Johnson menus. Some continuity is provided by a series of repetitions which are designed to illustrate the scope and diversity of the United States. For example, the first chapter is entitled "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALABAMA, the Deep South" and that is all. The first word is not capitalized, nor is there a period at the end. The second chapter reads "pitch dark in CORDOVA, ALASKA, the Far North" and continues with a brief, nightmarish description of the land around Cordova. With no apparent...