Roger Caillois Editor (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd. 1995 reprint, cover same as one featured Unmarked interior. Moderate wear. Paperback. (1h).

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 440 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France?s most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois?s work to appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois?s political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois?s consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois?s intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and Lévi-Strauss. Record # 362519.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.10 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.20 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 423 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York:The Orion Press. (1960). 1st edition. xviii+233pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Book in very good clean condition. Boards clean with light soiling to page edges. Internally, endpages lightly age toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges, with some small chips and tears. It is not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US edition. First American edition 1960, first printing May 1960, translated from French. Published by Orion Press. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ in mylar. Condition fine, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ very good, bright, edged of spine worn, price not clipped(5.00). 8vo, XVIII + 235 pages. ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000GWXZ4K.…

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. [xx], 233, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in multi-colored with spine lettered in red and grey. Near Fine with production crease to cloth at spine, faint scratching to upper board and bookplate of noted H.P. Lovecraft collector James Strand on front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial scratch to front panel but no appreciable sunning to red of spine panel, which is uncommon. A labyrinthian nesting doll of a novel, typically referred to as The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, set during the Napoleonic Wars with nods to The Arabian Nights and Boccaccio's Decameron, penned by Polish polymath and nobleman Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815). Characterized by supernatural sci-fi elements, the work lent itself easily to modern audiences hungry for weird fiction. Later adapted into film by Polish director Wojciech Has in 1965 starring Zbigniew Cybulski as Potocki's valiant officer Alphonse van Worden.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 480 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.10 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.