Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

If you do not find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme

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71 Hand-drawn and etched plates by Didier Mutel

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“Enemy animals of human industry” and “the scourge of southern Russia”: the Tettigopsis

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Trade Catalog as Work of Art: Paul Haviland’s photographs promoting a master craftsman: The Art Deco glasswork of René Lalique

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Unpublished c. 1968/70 Spanish protest album including two texts by Fernando Arrabal and Jorge Luis Borges

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The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.

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A Female student’s arithmetic primer: learning to calculate commercial business transactions

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Melencholia II, III, IV (2021)

Authors:

Didier Mutel Nicolas Bardey

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

Melencholia II, III, IV (2021) by Didier Mutel and Nicolas Bardey, is a collaborative response to Melencholia I (1514), a copperplate engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, which they present here in a series that combines engraving and serigraphy.

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The valuable ensemble offered here documents the breadth of Futurist ideology across the arts: literature, painting, sculpture, music, etc.