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Language: English
Published by Underworld Amusements, 2020
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Item description from seller
Minor wear to corners. 2020 Trade Paperback. 352, [2] pp. This single volume contains all the bombastic essays and visionary observations that were originally published in four different volumes of this mirthful and wry imp's writing. From his first book of essays Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves (1922) through his aphoristic and quotable The Muse of Lies (1936) to both parts of the rare Saint Tantalus (1936 & 1938), this collection cover great swathes of time, space, philosophy and art.
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- Title
- Fulminations: Caustic, Capricious & Cosmic
- Author
- DeCasseres, Benjamin; Slaughter, Kevin I.
- Publisher
- Underworld Amusements
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by author
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1943687153
- ISBN 13
- 9781943687152
- Edition
- Reissue.
- Item weight
- 19 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x0x9
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This single volume contains all the bombastic essays and visionary observations that were originally published in four different volumes of this mirthful and wry imp’s writing. From his first book of essays Chameleon: Being a Book of My Selves (1922) through his aphoristic and quotable The Muse of Lies (1936) to both parts of the rare Saint Tantalus (1936 & 1938), this collection cover great swathes of time, space, philosophy and art.
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