The Naked Lunch
William Burrough
SIGNED
William Burrough
SIGNED
€2,750.00
The Olympia Press, 1959
First edition, SIGNED.
This carries a stamped 18NF over the original 1500F price. France adopted the nouveau franc in 1963, so we can assume that this edition didn’t sell until after this point!
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Categories: Literature, Rare items


€225.00
Casualties of Peace
Edna O’BRIEN
dedicated to Geraldine Chaplin
GIFTS, Literature, Rare items
Jonathan Cape, London,
1966
This particular copy is signed to Geraldine Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, who for many years lived in Madrid!
We acquired a good part of her Madrid collection last year and this is one of the treats.
Acquired before Edna O'Brien's passing, we removed the post-it note with her telephone number!
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€225.00
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€225.00
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€1,200.00
Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta
Pablo Neruda
SIGNED
Literature, Rare items
First edition of Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta, Santiago de Chile, 1967, signed by Pablo Neruda.
This copy has travelled a little, though not quite as far and as poorly as Joaquín Murieta, and so shows some soiling and with a slightly faded signature, but is a nice example of this title with Neruda's typical cursive!
COMES WITH A FIRST PRESSING VINYL
of Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta recorded by Sergio Ortega
Here it here.
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€1,200.00
CONTACT US at hello@desperateliterature.com for more info or to book a visit!
€1,200.00
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€12.00
Bookland Passport
Literature, Rare items
The Bookland Passport
Issued by Typewronger books in Edinburgh, this is your passport to, from, in and out of indie bookshops around the world!
Get it stamped, signed, or whatever you like, wherever you find an independent bookshop!
Riso printed and beautifully illustrated
All about Bookland:
Bookland is a country you reach through reading, through talking about books with your friends, and through hanging out in your local bookshop. Though we issue passports for Bookland, the territory it encompasses spans the entire known world, plus quite a few as yet unexplored dimensions, and also exists across the totality of the Temporal Realm. Bookland's National Motto is LIBRI SINE TERMINO, which can translate two ways, either as "Books Without Borders" or "Books Without End". All indie bookshops are unofficial Embassies of Bookland, and any can become an Official Embassy simply by issuing passports which can be supplied by emailing the mysterious Secretary to the Grand High Ambassador of Bookland. Citizens of Bookland don't need documentation to prove their status... but it sure is fun!
€12.00
All about Bookland:
Bookland is a country you reach through reading, through talking about books with your friends, and through hanging out in your local bookshop. Though we issue passports for Bookland, the territory it encompasses spans the entire known world, plus quite a few as yet unexplored dimensions, and also exists across the totality of the Temporal Realm. Bookland's National Motto is LIBRI SINE TERMINO, which can translate two ways, either as "Books Without Borders" or "Books Without End". All indie bookshops are unofficial Embassies of Bookland, and any can become an Official Embassy simply by issuing passports which can be supplied by emailing the mysterious Secretary to the Grand High Ambassador of Bookland. Citizens of Bookland don't need documentation to prove their status... but it sure is fun!
€12.00
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€2.00
Juana y La Cibernética (edición bilingüe)
No Category, LiteratureTHE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF A CHILEAN MASTERPIECE
Juana y la cibernetica is a proto-cyberfeminist, proleterian, machine-loving work of solitary confinement by Elena Aldunate, "La Dama Chilena de la ciencia-ficción".BILINGUAL EDITION EDICIÓN BILINGÜE
The edition comes with parallel bilingual texts and a fiction response by author Jo Lindsay Walton.María Elena Aldunate Bezanilla (1925-2005) was born in Santiago, Chile, and wrote under the name of Elena Aldunate. She became associated with the science fiction scene in Chile in the 1960s and 1970s, publishing a number of short fiction works and anthologies. These include Juana y la cibernética (1963), El señor de las mariposas (1967), Angélica y el delfín (1976) and Del cosmos las quieren vírgenes (1977).
Jo Lindsay Walton is a writer, editor and Research Fellow in Critical and Cultural Theory in the Sussex Humanities Lab. He is interested in the intersection of culture, technology, and economics. With Polina Levontin, he co-edits Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association, and with Samantha Walton, he runs the poetry press Sad Press. @jolwalton
Our print edition will be a limited edition riso production made by Do The Print, Barcelona Translation by Ana Baeza Ruiz and Elizabeth Stainforth Cover design by Terry Craven 44 pages €8 - limited edition riso print version (OUT OF PRINT) €2 - .pdf edition
€2.00

