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Microscripts
by Robert Walser. Translated from the German and with an Introduction by Susan Bernofsky. Afterword by Walter Benjamin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0811218805
- ISBN 13
- 9780811218801
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: New Directions / Christine Burgin, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 2010 first edition, first impression. Size large octavo, 8.75" tall, 159 pages. Green hard cover with darker green titles to the front cover and spine and laid on to the front cover is a sample of a facsimile of one of Walser's Microscripts. The dust jacket matches the covers. Book condition fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition fine, very clean, not price clipped. Presents Robert Walser's "Microscripts" in a felicitous English translation. Known and celebrated as such because he wrote down every single page in his extremely minute handwriting. "Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. Narrow strips of paper covered with tiny ant-like markings only a millimeter or two high came to light only after the author's death in 1956. At first considered a secret code, the microscripts were eventually discovered to be a radically miniaturized form of German script: A whole story could fit on the back of a business card. Selected from the six-volume German transcriptions of the original microscripts, these 25 short pieces are gathered in this gorgeously illustrated publication. Each microscript is reproduced in full color in its original form: The detached cover of a trashy crime novel, a disappointing letter, a receipt of payment. Walser used the pages of small tear-off calendars
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017854
- Title
- Microscripts
- Author
- Robert Walser. Translated from the German and with an Introduction by Susan Bernofsky. Afterword by Walter Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0811218805
- ISBN 13
- 9780811218801
- Publisher
- New Directions / Christine Burgin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 159
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- NON FICTION LITERARY CRITICISM CRITIQUE ANTHOLOGY USA AMERICA FACSIMILE
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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