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1990909290USA: Dedalus Ltd 1990. Book. Good. Soft cover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. edges rubbed. corners creased. brown spotting. binding tight. covers bright. Dedalus Ltd Paperback
1989250909-RD27Re/Search Publications 1989. Very good paperback. Illustrated with black and white photogrpahs by Bobby Neel Adams. Paperback. Very Good. Re/Search Publications Paperback
1949035462New York: The Citadel Press 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo 5"x7". 253pp.Gray cloth black lettering on the spine. Foxing to the the endpapers otherwise clean unmarked text. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a small chip on the right lower corner of the front panel original $3.00 price on the front flap.In mylar sleeve.Translated from the French by Alvah C. Bessie. "Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking sadistic paradise - a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form - a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions scents caresses pleasures horrors and fantastic atrocities". The Citadel Press Hardcover
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1989Q-0940642131Re-Search Pubns 1989-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Re-Search Pubns paperback
1989C65807San Francisco 1989. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Covers a little worn at edges corners bumped with some creasing inside very faint smell of tobacco but nothing too obtrusive else clean. good plus. Bobby Neel Adams. 4to. pp 120. Original publisher's colour illustrated laminated card covers. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout.ISBN: 0940642131 paperback
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1955A47317New York NY: Berkley. 1955. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. This is a mass market paperback book. Berkley books number AMC 111 priced at .25 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean but have generalized toning. There is a bit of a dusty smell to the text block. "Octave Mirbeau 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917 was a French novelist art critic travel writer pamphleteer journalist and playwright who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence abuse and psychological detachment. His work has been translated into 30 languages. " from Wikipedia; Anc 111; Mass Market PB; 157p. pages; Pictured 12/6/23 . Berkley paperback
1931200-06533C. Kendall 1931. Good. Good condition with wear. C. Kendall unknown
1948012604New Y New York: Citadel Press 1948. 1st Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Collectible. To view more titles by this author enter the keywords; Mirbeau or Mystery. The book is in excellent condition with very minor wear o/w tight clean and square. The D/J has several chips scuffs and small tears. Translated from the French by Alvah C. Bessie with a foreward by James Huneker. Rare book. <br/> <br/> Citadel Press hardcover
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190411461904. Near fine. 3pp 4to. Holograph manuscript in pen in French writing on the rectos only the first two pages are filled with text the last page is trimmed with only 4 lines and Mirbeau’s signature. Creases stains smudges offsetting but cleanly written legible and very good. An article for the left-wing newspaper L’Humanité published 25/Sept/1904. The newspaper was founded only a few months earlier by SFIO leader Jean Jaures who also served as editor. In the article Mirbeau criticizes France for its refusal to intervene in the Russo-Japanese war. With biting irony he mimics the indifferent French attitude: "Let's wait two five ten twenty years if we have to. We'll keep on slaughtering each other over there. But what are we risking. Life is good our restaurants are still the best in the world. There are still the prettiest girls in the theaters of Paris." He exposes the hypocrisy of French foreign policy: "as allies not of the Russian people whose infinite sufferings like those of all peoples are of absolutely no concern to us but as allies of the czar whose glory alone is important to us let us be no less faithful czarists than the czar himself is." Drawing a powerful parallel Mirbeau connects the mounting casualties of the Russo-Japanese conflict with the Armenian massacres—which had already reached devastating proportions by 1904. A different but contemporary newspaper clipping is laid in seemingly part 2 by Mirbeau: it records a conversation with a merchant marine captain recently returned from the Far East who despite personally witnessing naval battles admits he comprehends little of the war's true nature beyond scattered disturbing details he finds too horrific to fully describe.<br /> <br /> The early 1900s particularly 1904-1905 marked a transformative period in the development of anti-imperialist critique within European leftist thought. The Russo-Japanese conflict illuminated the contradictions within Western powers' foreign policies particularly France's relationship with Tsarist Russia. The French left's growing disillusionment with the Franco-Russian alliance exemplified broader ideological shifts that would shape socialist internationalism for decades. As ordinary Russians died for imperial ambitions while French elites remained indifferent behind a facade of nationalist solidarity socialist thinkers increasingly recognized patterns linking capitalist interests to colonial violence. This period also witnessed the emergence of more sophisticated leftist analyses connecting imperial competition abroad with class exploitation at home. The juxtaposition of European indifference toward both the Russo-Japanese War casualties and the Armenian massacres demonstrated how Western powers selectively applied humanitarian concerns based on strategic interests—a critique that would become central to anti-colonial movements throughout the 20th century and presage the internationalist anti-war position that would later fracture the European left during World War I.<br /> <br /> Octave Mirbeau 1848-1917 emerged as one of France's most incisive social critics during the Belle Époque developing a literary voice defined by moral outrage and stylistic innovation that transcended conventional boundaries between journalism and literature. His artistic sensibilities were profoundly shaped by traumatic experiences—including abuse at a Jesuit school and service in the Franco-Prussian War—which fostered his lifelong commitments to anarchism pacifism and the defense of individual dignity against institutional power. Beyond his novels exposing societal hypocrisy including the controversial "Le Jardin des supplices" 1899 and "Le Journal d'une femme de chambre" 1900 Mirbeau distinguished himself as a prescient art critic who championed misunderstood avant-garde figures like Van Gogh Rodin and Monet recognizing artistic genius that his contemporaries often dismissed. His prolific output—spanning over twelve hundred works across multiple genres—consistently demonstrated his willingness to confront uncomfortable truths about violence sexuality and power that bourgeois society preferred to ignore establishing him as an intellectual forerunner to modernist aesthetic and political movements of the twentieth century. unknown
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