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Tell me what sort of wall paper your room has and I will tell you who you are by CARRIÓN, Ulises

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Tell me what sort of wall paper your room has and I will tell you who you are
Author
CARRIÓN, Ulises
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
[20] leaves. Small 8vo (178 x 115 mm.), orig. black printed dust-jacket, perfect-bound. Geneva, Switzerland: Ateliers Typographiques Héros-Limite, 1995. The very rare second edition of Carrión’s beguiling bookwork composed of bound wallpaper samples, one of the artist’s lesser-known books, due to its rarity. The 1973 first edition, published by the artists’ space In-Out Center, was made in an edition of 50 numbered copies. The present work is one of 52 copies, 26 of which are lettered A-Z, the rest numbered 27 to 52; our copy is no. 42. This book is part of a series of re-publications that Juan J. Agius, an executor of Carrión’s estate, undertook to replicate the increasingly scarce and fragile bookworks Ulises Carrión (1941-89) created in the 70s. Under the imprint of Editions Héros-Limite in Geneva, Agius produced second editions of Mirror Box (1st ed.: 1979), Looking for Poetry / Tras la Poesía (1st ed.: 1973), Arguments (1st ed.: 1973), and the present bookwork. ”In Ulises Carrión’s bookworks, the ellipsis of the literary text is accompanied by an ellipsis of the narrative, as can be seen in the listing of names or the identification of characters that are not linked by any narrative relationship within a story…In Tell me what sort of wall paper your room has and I will tell you who you are (1973), Carrión cuts out and binds together a set of wallpaper samples, typing on them the name of the room in which each will appear. The names start in the first person (my room), then identify the members of his family and relations (my parent’s room, my sister’s room, my uncle’s room, my wife’s room, my teacher’s room), finally reaching a progressive lack of differentiation of the person to whom the room with the specific wallpaper belongs (your room, a room, …’s room). The subtlety of this bookwork is apparent not only in the readymade of the wallpapers but also in the suggestion of a narrative that does not require a text for its construction: the simple association of the identities of the rooms’ owners in the first person informs us that the narrator has a teacher, a wife, etc. The progression of these identifications suggests a leaving of the family home to enter the world, the framework of so many narratives found in short stories, novellas, and novels. The new art of making books permits the insinuation of a story without resorting to text or narrative…”–João Fernandes, “Art as Subversion: Make and Remake to Make Anew” in Guy Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), p. 41 (analyzing the 1st ed.). In excellent and fresh condition. The first edition is unrecorded on WorldCat, and we find only three copies of the second in North American institutions. ❧ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo, eds., Ulises Carrión: Books & More, Catalogue Raisonné (2013) 25 (pictured).
ARMAGEDDON 190 -- by Seestern [pseudonym]. Authorized Translation by G. Herring. With an Introduction by Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, G.C.B. ..

ARMAGEDDON 190 -- by Seestern [pseudonym]. Authorized Translation by G. Herring. With an Introduction by Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, G.C.B. .. by Grautoff, Ferdinand H., writing as "Seestern.

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ARMAGEDDON 190 -- by Seestern [pseudonym]. Authorized Translation by G. Herring. With an Introduction by Admiral the Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, G.C.B. ..
Author
Grautoff, Ferdinand H., writing as "Seestern.
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L. W. Currey, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Kegan Paul, 1907. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xxiii [xxiv] 1-402 [403: printer's imprint] [404: blank], original pictorial black cloth, front panel stamped in gray, red and white, spine panel stamped in red and gray. First edition in English. Translation of '1906' DER ZUSAMMENBRUCH DER ALTEN WELT (1905). Account of an imaginary world war set in the near future that exhausts the European nations and shifts the balance of power to the United States and Russia. "The English introduction of the revolutionary dreadnought battleships, and the Moroccan crisis of 1905, stimulated the writing of a number of German war visions. The most successful of these was Ferdinand Grautoff's '1906' DER ZUSAMMENBRUCH DER ALTEN WELT (1905). By 1907, 125,000 copies had been published. This best seller would serve as an archetype for the genre well into the 1930s. In his account of a coming Anglo-German conflict, Grautoff exhorted the public to support the Kaiser's quest for a stronger navy. '1906' was a skillful mixture of fact and fiction, a persuasive portrayal of future war and Germany's stake in expanding its power at sea." - Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, p. 4. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1991. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 34. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (1992), p. 232. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 191. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 06254. See Bloch (2002) 2866. Old prize label affixed to front free endpaper, contemporary ink gift inscription above it. Cloth lightly worn at edges, a very good copy. (#143286)
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian, and W. Heath Robinson

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
Author
Andersen, Hans Christian, and W. Heath Robinson
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Folio Society, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated by Robinson. Bound in red cloth with spine and cover stamped in illustrated red, white, and gilt. Red topstain. Comes in matchung board slipcase. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Text taken from a selection illustrated by Robinson published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1913. Book is fine except for neat stamps of previous owner on endpapers and copyright page. Slipcase has very minor wear. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 288 pages.
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Hunter's Manual

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Hunter's Manual
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Very Good
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Washington, DC: Natl Rifle Assoc, 1950. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Softcover. Very good in wrappers. (Pages: 100) NRA Handbook No. 5.
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Johannes Brahms mit vielen Abbildungen, Notenbeispielen und Faksimiles by [BRAHMS]. Thomas-San-Galli, W.A.

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Title
Johannes Brahms mit vielen Abbildungen, Notenbeispielen und Faksimiles
Author
[BRAHMS]. Thomas-San-Galli, W.A.
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
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Very Good
Description
München: R. Piper, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. xii, 278 pp. Illustrated.

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