 A Voice Through A Cloud By Denton Welch. A Voice through a Cloud is English novelist Denton Welch's moving account of his recovery from a bicycling accident that left him partially paralyzed at the age of 20. Espouser of picnics and bicycle rides, >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972156
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 264 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris By Georges Perec. One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115525
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Another Ventriloquist By Adam Penn Gilders. Adam Penn Gilders was a virtuoso of the deadpan prose miniature. He published his stories in Paris Review, The Walrus and J&L Illustrated, before passing away in 2007, at the age of 36, of a >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964200
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Hbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/In stock
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 Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo: Two Novels By Stefan Themerson. Introduction by Keith Waldrop. This is the first U.S. publication of two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Schwitters and >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972217
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Blue Octavo Notebooks By Franz Kafka. Edited by Max Brod. From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972040
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 120 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor Illustrated by David Musgrave. In this volume, British artist David Musgrave revisits Franz Kafka's novella Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, the tale of a man who arrives home one day to find two plastic balls bouncing off the ground of >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780954502560
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Hbk, 6 x 8 in. / 88 pgs / 16 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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 City Terrace Field Manual Text by Sesshu Foster. Brawling, street-wise prose poems push the boundaries of narrative form, taking the reader through the physical and psychological landscapes of East Los Angeles. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030191
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1996 Active/In stock
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|  Cockfighter By Charles Willeford. Introduction by Jesse Pearson. A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for his Miami-based crime novels featuring hard-boiled detective Hoke Moseley, including Miami Blues and Sideswipe. His caree >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780984589227
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Dark Spring Translated and with an Introduction by Caroline Rupprecht. Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972309
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Dracula Illustrated by James Pyman. Truly a Dracula for both art and book lovers, this new edition of the most famous of vampire tales completely overhauls the notion of how a literary classic might be creatively revisited. James Pyman is >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780954502577
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Clth, 6.25 x 10 in. / 488 pgs / 27 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  East Goes West By Younghill Kang. This is a new edition of a classic and long unavailable text by Younghill Kang, the first Korean-American novelist. Younghill Kang was born in 1903 in what is now North Korea and arrived in New >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030115
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 450 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1997 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Everybody's Autobiography By Gertrude Stein. Everybody's Autobiography is among the very best of Gertrude's writing--[it] speaks with the true and original voice of Gertrude Stein, without apparent art or bravado.
--Janet Hobhouse
In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobi >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972088
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 344 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock
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 Feathers Like Leather By Chris Leo. One of troubador/flaneur Chris Leo's claims to fame is that he holds the highest score on the rigorous New York City Tour Guide Exam. He's done a lot of walking in his days. Over the >>more
Heartworm Press
ISBN 9780979723858
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 1 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Gold By Peter Greenaway. On May 7, 1945, 92 gold bars are discovered in a crashed car at Bolzano, where it is said that no-one can cook a good spaghetti. The watch on the dead driver's wrist stopped at >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563116
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  Hebdomeros & Other Writngs By Giorgio de Chirico. Introduction by John Ashbery. Translated by John Ashbery and Mark Polizzotti, et al. The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book “the finest work of Surrealist fiction,” noting that >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972064
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 280 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/In stock
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 In Youth Is Pleasure Foreword by William Burroughs. Text by Denton Welch. First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and >>more
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ISBN 9781878972132
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Paperback, 8 x 6 in. / 272 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Last Nights Of Paris By Philippe Soupault. Translated by William Carlos Williams. Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972057
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Maiden Voyage By Denton Welch. Foreword by Edith Sitwell. Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year, when he ran away from his English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. The book was Welch's >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972286
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Oriental Girls Desire Romance By Catherine Liu. It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030900
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Paris Peasant By Louis Aragon. Translated and with an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor. Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Ara >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972101
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 228 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Rolling The R's By R. Zamora Linmark. Illuminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R's come to life against the background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030030
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/1997 Active/In stock
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 Roughhouse By Thaddeus Rutkowski. Roughhouse gives a harrowingly deadpan account of the tedium, casual violence and deviant sex that connect a surreal, semi-rural childhood with adult urban neurosis. Terse flashes of narrative, told from the point of view of >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030269
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Paperback, 4.25 x 7 in. / 108 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/1999 Active/In stock
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|  Shanghai Dancing By Brian Castro. After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," António seeks to understand the source of his >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030429
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 464 pgs / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Sia Figiel: They Who Do Not Grieve By Sia Figiel. Sia Figiel's powerful, poetic skills weave together the voices of three generations of women from two Samoan families. Their dream worlds and realities intermingle, just as the histories of each generation run through the next. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030337
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 246 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Active/In stock
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 Sibylle Berg: By The Way, Did I Ever Tell You... Edited by Raphael Gygax. Illustrated by Andro Wekua, Rita Ackermann. Writer Sibylle Berg has the eye of an entomologist: Under her gaze, humanity falls into a taxonomy of wretched characters, full of dramas and impossible dreams--though she always manages to carry them through their travails >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770773
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Paperback, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 240 pgs / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  The Adventures Of Telemachus By Louis Aragon. Translated and with an Introduction by Renée Riese Hubert and Judd D. Hubert. This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon’s 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic seventeenth-century epic, recounting >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972231
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  The Adventures of Percival By Pierre Senges. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Text by Dominique Lestel, Alain Richert. Illustrations by Nicolas de Crécy. The first installment in Dis Voir's new "illustrated fairy tales for adults," The Adventures of Percival is based on the classic probability proposition that a chimpanzee randomly typing will eventually type a Shakespeare sonnet. Here, >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563475
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 The Book Of Disappearances & The Book Of Tractations By Raoul Ruiz. What could a Moor and a Christian living in the seventeenth century possibly have to write to each other about? The answer to that question is found in The Book of Disappearances & The Book >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563192
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 97 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  The Book Of Disquiet By Fernando Pessoa. Translated and with an Introduction by Alfred Mac Adam. The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms." More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers, life spans, even horoscopes. >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972279
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  The Education Of the Stoic By Fernando Pessoa. Translated by Richard Zenith. Afterword by Antonio Tabucchi. “I transferred to Teive my speculations on certainty, which lunatics have in greater abundance than anyone.” Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by “heteronyms,” alter egos with >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972408
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock
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 The Hearing Trumpet By Leonora Carrington. Introduction by Helen Byatt. Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who made her home in Mexico City, was also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm, and The Hearing Trumpet is perhaps her best loved book. It >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972194
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  The Heresiarch & Co Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall. A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972033
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 168 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  The Historians: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama, Book 39 Conceived and written by Peter Greenaway, the series The Historians--to be published in a literary form, in its entirety, in 100 volumes, over the next ten years--creates and examines in exhausting detail the 100 year >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563314
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/01/2007 Active/In stock
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 The Man Who Refused to Die By Nicolas Ancion. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Illustrations by Patrice Killoffer. Afterword by Francois Taddei. Is death necessarily inevitable? The Man Who Refused to Die is the improbable tale of an intransigent character, heroic in his defiance, who refuses to cast aside mortal existence without knowing why he cannot prolong >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563567
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  The Supermale Translated by Ralph Gladstone, Barbara Wright. Introduction by Barbara Wright. With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi--"Shite!"--Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) threw down his challenge to literature, permanently altering its course thereafter. Jarry's equally revolutionary novels form the cornerstones of a science he >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972255
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  This Is Not It By Lynne Tillman. Artwork by Jane Dickson, Peter Dreher, Stephen Ellis, Barbara Krueger, Laura Letinsky, Stephen Prina, Linder Sterling, Roni Horn, Silvia Kolbowski, Jeff Koons, Vik Muniz, Juan Munoz, Kiki Smith, Haim Steinbach, Jessica Stockholder. Photographs by James Welling, Marco Breuer, Barbara Ess, Aura Rosenberg, Gary Schneider, Sam Taylor-Wood, Dolores Marat. In This Is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas, the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts. Engaging, funny, elegant and ironic, Tillman >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781891024467
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Hardcover, 6 x 8.5 in. / 256 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock
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 This Is a Bust By Ed Lin. This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin, turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City's Chinatown, >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030450
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8 in. / 225 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Vanity Fair By William M. Thackeray. Illustrations by Donald Urquhart. The Four Corners Familiars series invites contemporary artists to illustrate and produce a new edition of a classic novel or short story. This magnificent edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (first published in 1847-48) >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192844
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 848 pg / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Waylaid Text by Lin, Ed. Waylaid is the story of a Chinese American boy who struggles to grow up in the grip of an overcharged sexual environment. With a daily routine that involves renting out rooms to johns and hookers >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030320
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.25 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/2002 Active/In stock
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 Where We Once Belonged Edited by Sia Figiel. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030276
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 235 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/1999 Active/In stock
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