Bizarre by Humphries (18 results)
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Seller: Cornerstone Books, Villa Park, IL, U.S.A.Cornerstone Books
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Some wear, pages are tight, text clean, book in Good condition! Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure.
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Foxing to text block and pages. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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- First Edition
Seller: Turtle Creek Books and Sheet Music, Mississauga, ON, CanadaTurtle Creek Books and Sheet Music
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover 1st edition. Book presents some minor shelfwear otherwise this is a very good solid copy. Dust jacket is a bit scuffed and has some wear on edges, otherwise it too is good. Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, writer, satirist, and perfor…mer whose extraordinary creative range encompassed stage performance, literary writing, art collecting, and cultural commentary across a career of remarkable longevity and variety. Best known internationally for his theatrical alter egos, most notably the suburban Melbourne housewife Dame Edna Everage and the hard drinking cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson, Humphries was in reality a man of deep and genuinely unconventional cultural interests whose private enthusiasms extended far beyond the comic personas that brought him public fame. He was a serious collector of Symbolist and Surrealist art, a lover of unusual and marginal literature, and a connoisseur of the eccentric, the outmoded, and the culturally overlooked, with an aesthetic sensibility shaped as much by Dada and Surrealism as by the Australian suburban culture he subjected to such devastating comic scrutiny. Bizarre is an anthology edited by Humphries that gathers together a collection of unusual, eccentric, and culturally marginal material drawn from the broader history of human oddity and creative strangeness, reflecting its editor's personal aesthetic of deliberate perversity and his delight in the overlooked, the unfashionable, and the genuinely strange. The anthology format allowed Humphries to act as a curator of his own unconventional cultural enthusiasms, selecting and presenting material that reflected the particular quality of strangeness and creative eccentricity that appealed to his sensibility and that he wished to bring to the attention of readers open to being surprised and unsettled by their reading. The content of the anthology would draw on a wide range of sources and traditions united by their common quality of genuine unusualness, encompassing material from the history of popular entertainment, Victorian curiosity culture, Surrealist and Dadaist traditions, medical and scientific oddity, and the broader history of human eccentricity and creative strangeness that Humphries found endlessly fascinating and culturally generative. His editorial selections would reflect the same quality of unexpected juxtaposition and deliberate perversity that characterized his own creative work, presenting familiar and unfamiliar material in combinations designed to produce a cumulative effect of pleasurable disorientation. The work sits naturally within the broader tradition of eccentric anthology making associated with figures such as the Surrealists, who similarly used the anthology and collage format as vehicles for presenting unexpected juxtapositions of material drawn from marginal and overlooked cultural sources. Humphries brought to this tradition his own distinctively Australian perspective and his particular combination of high cultural seriousness and low comic instinct, producing a collection that reflects the genuine depth and originality of a creative sensibility that his public comic persona only partially revealed to the wider world.
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.ThriftBooksVintage
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd printing; Gently worn; Moderate foxing present at outer edge text-block; Clean interior pages; Jacket Good+, housed in protective mylar; A Good+ copy; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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- First Edition
Seller: michael diesman, Fresh Meadows, NY, U.S.A.michael diesman
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.
Published by Bell Publishing., New York., 1974
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Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.BookMine
Contact seller5-star sellerDecorated hard cover. Reprint. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 239 pps.
Published by Elek Books Ltd, 1965
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Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Backstrip badly damaged. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150gra…ms, ISBN.
More imagesPublished by Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, CanadaMinotavros Books, ABAC ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 9" x 8" Second printing. Oblong. Quarter yellow cloth, black paper boards. 239 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W. Light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Foxing to edges of text block. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket is ag…e toned, bumped at extremities. With material taken from Bizarre, published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert, and other sources.
Published by Bell Publishing Company, 1965
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Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaGoulds Book Arcade, Sydney
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with a small tear on the back, foxing and a few creases. The page edges are lightly foxed. 240 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
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Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.GoldBooks
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Published by BELL PUB CO, NY, 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.STUDIO V
Contact seller2-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Reissue Edition.
Language: English
Published by Bell Publishing Company, New York, N Y, 1965
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Seller: The Book Exchange, Hickory, NC, U.S.A.The Book Exchange
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback (yellow and black) book without dust jacket in good condition; approximately 9" x 9" x 1". The cover edges have some wear and dings at the corners due to age. Pages are intact with no markings. Some foxing and yellowing on free endpapers.
Published by Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaArapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex
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Hard Cover. Condition: F-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First US. F-/VG+. Square 8vo. original yellow cloth backed boards (a trifle rubbed & bumped, occ. spotting) in unpriced dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & nicked, some faint spotting); pp. 240, with illustrations. A very good copy.
Published by Bell Publishing Co., NY, 1965., 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, AustraliaCamberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd
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240 pp, square format, tinted end-papers, b&w photographic and line illustrations, fine copy in black boards with fine pictorial d/j.
Published by London : Elek Books, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 238 p. : ill., facs. ; 24 cm. Subject; Grotesque. 3 Kg.
Published by London Elek Books Ltd, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United KingdomStephen Wilkinson Fine Books
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First Edition: Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 230 x 230 mm., 1.2 kg. (extra postage), 239 pp., Illustrated throughout, original dw., unclipped, rubbed at crns. and edges, with some chipping, G-/VG copy.
Published by London : Elek Books, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 238 p. : ill., facs. ; 24 cm. Subject; Grotesque. 1 Kg.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, AustraliaBerkelouw Rare Books
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London (1965). Oblong 8vo. Or.cl. In defective d.w. (240pp.). Profusely illust. NOTE: Being a collection of marginalia, both literary and pictorial, with works by Sacher-Masoch, Jarry, Rops, Huysmans, Verlaine, Louys, a.o., compiled by the Australian-born humorist.
