QUENEAU, Raymond. Exercises in Style
QUENEAU, Raymond. Exercises in Style. Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright. London: Gaberbocchus Press. 1958. 8vo. First English edition. Publisher’s yellow cloth lettered in red to the spine, in the striking dust jacket A smart, near fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and slightly rolled. The contents fine but for some light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18/-) and complete, just a trifle faded at spine but without tears.
Queneau’s wonderfully playful collection of one story—a man has an argument with another on the bus, and later sees him talking to another—told 99 different times, from notation to metaphorical to blurb to official letter to ode to everything in between. The best thing this cataloguer has read by Queneau, though of only one. Barbara Wright’s evocative introduction is just as entertaining.
QUENEAU, Raymond. Exercises in Style. Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright. London: Gaberbocchus Press. 1958. 8vo. First English edition. Publisher’s yellow cloth lettered in red to the spine, in the striking dust jacket A smart, near fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and slightly rolled. The contents fine but for some light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18/-) and complete, just a trifle faded at spine but without tears.
Queneau’s wonderfully playful collection of one story—a man has an argument with another on the bus, and later sees him talking to another—told 99 different times, from notation to metaphorical to blurb to official letter to ode to everything in between. The best thing this cataloguer has read by Queneau, though of only one. Barbara Wright’s evocative introduction is just as entertaining.
QUENEAU, Raymond. Exercises in Style. Trans. from the French by Barbara Wright. London: Gaberbocchus Press. 1958. 8vo. First English edition. Publisher’s yellow cloth lettered in red to the spine, in the striking dust jacket A smart, near fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and slightly rolled. The contents fine but for some light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18/-) and complete, just a trifle faded at spine but without tears.
Queneau’s wonderfully playful collection of one story—a man has an argument with another on the bus, and later sees him talking to another—told 99 different times, from notation to metaphorical to blurb to official letter to ode to everything in between. The best thing this cataloguer has read by Queneau, though of only one. Barbara Wright’s evocative introduction is just as entertaining.