Jean-Marie Straub

Roud, Richard

Secker & Warburg, London

<p>203p black cloth with silver lettering, spine slightly sunned, from a Cambridge college library, near fine condition</p>

The rediscovery of Black nationalism

Politics & Social Sciences

Draper, Theodore 1912-2006

Politics & Government

. with dw, frt end paper cut, ex lib sticker

Marinetti: Selected Writings

Marinetti, Filippo-Tommaso

Flint, Robert Willard

Coppotelli, Arthur A.

A first novel of remarkable ingenuity, Bless the Thief is a fast-paced literary mystery involving a secret society, art forgery, and the Hindenburg disaster.Born to an American mother and a British father, Tom Lynch lives with his mother in America until she sends him off to his appointed guardian in England, Patrick Grimshaw. Grimshaw becomes a surrogate father to Tom, who never knew his real father, and he inducts Tom into the mysterious Delaquay Society, an organization based on the works of Alfred Delaquay, a book illustrator of considerable genius and perversity. The books Delaquay illustrated were produced by hand, seldom in editions of more than one, and their reproduction or sale is prohibited by the Society. As its youngest-ever English secretary, Tom becomes increasingly involved with the Delaquay Society, until a breach of the Society's conventions of secrecy blows apart its hermetic and obsessively closed world and he is caught up in the resulting chaos. As the manner of his life begins to exact a heavy toll, so the Society takes its own terrible revenge, and Tom Lynch comes finally to understand who he really is and where he came from.

BLESS THE THIEF

Alan Wall

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

<p>. Secker & Warburg, 1974, bright clean copy, with dustjacket name on endpaper no other markings, Professional booksellers since 1981</p>

Letters to Felice

Biographies & Memoirs

Franz, Kafka

Arts & Literature

Rain or Shine : A Family Memoir

McFadden, Cyra

Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi is both a hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion.   When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.

Naomi

Literature & Fiction

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Literary

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