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The Printed Head Volume II
	Format: 21 x 13.5 cm. 300 numbered copies, of which numbers 1 to 50 are signed where possible. Numbers 1 to 150 are reserved for subscribers, 151 to 300 being available individually.

1 Saint-Pol-Roux Pauses in the Procession A sequence of prose poems by the greatest of the Symbolists. out of print

2 H. C. Artmann Sweat and Industry An oblique look at the oddities of everyday toil from one of the principal writers of “The Vienna Group.” Perverse, touching, anachronistic. £9.00 In basket [remove] Last few copies

3/4 Alfred Jarry Caesar Antichrist Caesar Antichrist, partly based upon the apocalyptic events of the Book of Revelation, embodies all of Jarry’s future themes, from Symbolism and the anti-world parallel to this one, the domain of Jarry’s famous science of ’Pataphysics, to Ubu himself (one act of the play is a version of Ubu Rex). out of print still available separately in a trade edition

5 Oskar Panizza The Council of Love A landmark in the honourable history of literary blasphemy. God invents syphilis to punish humanity, while his son whimpers in heaven, a play that earned its author 30 years of religious and secular persecution. out of print

6 Robert Desnos Mourning for Mourning Desnos’ own selection of his early stories from Surrealist reviews: fairy-tales from The Period of Sleeping-Fits. out of print

7/8 Gerhard Roth the autobiography of albert einstein Gerhard Roth’s first “novel” (1972), is a triumphant refutation of the death of modernism: a lucid, morbid and impossible account of what cannot be said, a deranged existence pieced together, an individual at total odds not only with the world, but with the physical basis of his own thought. out of print

9 Jacques Rigaut Lord Patchogue & other texts Dandy, drug addict, Dadaist, gigolo, suicide: Rigaut’s stories and morbid observations embody his short and perfectly pointless existence. out of print

10 Grayson Perry Cycle of Violence A cathartic fable of sexual deviation and moral hypocrisy from the near future by the enfant terrible of ceramics. out of print

11/12 The College of ’Pataphysics The True, The Good, The Beautiful. An Elementary Chrestomathy Of ’Pataphysics English facsimile of the anthology produced by the College for new members as a means of elucidating the science of sciences: the perfect introduction to this all-embracing discipline. out of print

13 Xiana A small general anthology.