Author: Anneke

Sadegh Hedayat – De blinde uil

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Sadegh Hedayat was born into an aristocratic family in Tehran in 1903. He briefly studied engineering in Belgium in 1925 followed by architecture and dentistry in France, where he stayed for four years and was rescued from a suicide attempt. In 1930 he returned to Iran without having taken a degree and devoted the rest of his life to the studies of Western literature and Iranian folklore. Inspired by Rilke, Poe, Kafka and Chekhov…
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Stroker #19

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Stroker was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York – and later from Nagano, Japan – by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller’s, lived many years as an ex-pat in France, Morocco, Japan and other countries. Apart from Henry Miller, who contributed to Stroker during the last two-and-a-half years of his life, leading authors such as…
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Ernest Ryman – Teddy Boy (first printing)

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sold outTeddy Boys and Girls were a British rock’n’ roll subculture in the 1950s. Drawing inspiration from British Edwardian-era dandies Teddy Boys wore drape jackets, drainpipe trousers, loose-collared white shirts, Slim Jim ties and suede creepers, while Teddy Girls (or Judies) wore drape jackets, pencil skirts, rolled-up jeans, cameo brooches and clutch bags. The violent and delinquent life-style…

Ace Farren Ford – Exiled Once More to the Island of Thursdays

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This selection of poems by Ace Farren Ford spans the period of 1982-1999. Exiled Once More To The Island Of Thursdays is Ford’s third volume of poetry. The free-form poems were xeroxed and staple-bound in a cover showing artwork by Ford on all four sides. The book is as roughly cut and put together as the poems themselves. This book is raw. It’s uncompromising. Each copy is battered and real. Get one if you think you can handle it.
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Ace Farren Ford – Escape From Beneath the Valley of Thursdays

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Second selection of poems by Ace Farren Ford published in 1996. The free-form improvisational poems were xeroxed and staple-bound and combined with artwork by Ford himself and a xeroxed photo by Tom Jamison. The book is as roughly cut and put together as the poems are. This compilation is raw and uncompromising. Each copy guaranteed battered. Get real with this one.
€ 20.00

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