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Independent American publisher devoted to the translation of overlooked gems and literary oddities in small, affordable, yet elegant paperback editions.
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We are pleased to announce a celebration for our 100th title:
SchrummSchrumm, or The Sunday Quicksands Excursion by Fernand Combet. Marc Lowenthal will be joined by translators Erik Butler, Margaret Carson, Kit Schluter, Doug Skinner
Aeon Bookstore 151 E Broadway, NY, Thursday, October 30, 2025, 7pm
October 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Fantastic Orgy by Alexander M. Frey, is now in hand, along with reprints of Marcel Brion's Waystations of the Deep Night and Jean Ray's Malpertuis.

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July 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We're happy to declare that we have two new titles in hand: Huysmans's pessimistic ode to sterility (and his own favorite novel of his career), Domesticity, and Jacques Sternberg's frenetic pop-surrealist fever dream, The Employee
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April 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Messengers have arrived. Evocative of Alain-Fournier and Kafka, but presenting a dreamscape of its own unsettling character, their message comes with the inevitable question: how has this award-winning 1974 novel never been translated into English before?
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April 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We literally have new books in hand: Hermann Burger's Diabelli and Emil Szittya's Hashish Dreams of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New books are in hand in most untimely fashion: the spiraling spatial symbolism of Dr. Mises and the symbolist sexual psychosis of Rachilde.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:02 PM