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This is the last book written by George Perec who completed eleven chapters of the planned 28. Harry Mathews and Jacques Roubaud assembled Perec's notes for the remaining chapters of this inventive mystery story for publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The magazine includes 5 black and white illustrations by Rene Magritte that serve as advertisements for shops in Brussels. They depict visual themes that are more fully realized in his later surrealist paintings. This copy is in very good to excellent condition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter concerns the potential sale of 36 issues of "Fascist Court" of Blewointment Press and a plea to buy them. The verso is a typed piece of fiction regarding an ice hockey game. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece is the result of a project carried out by elementary students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Subtitled "A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers Of Four Nations From The 7th To The 20th Century," this book was edited and glossed in the margins in red print by Gray. It is a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most of North American States. The introductory essay, "On What Led to English Literature," traces this development through the cultural histories of five places or events: Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Christianity, Britain and the English. Each preface has notes in small type about the author, language and events shaping the book. Alasdair Gray spent 16 years on this project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Goin provides an introductory essay on how he and his wife became Hemingway collectors during their training periods as physicians, the pleasures of rooting out rare items, meeting other collectors world wide, and finally selling the collection. Goin gives the reason for the sale as "Since there can be no such thing as a 'complete' Hemingway collection, we have chosen to stop now." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the second printing (1999). Page 192 is numbered incorrectly as page 125. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.