Printed Head Volume Two, Atlas Press, complete subscriber numbered set

  
The Printed Head Volume Two - Limited Edition Box Set. 1 Pauses in the procession - Saint-Pol-Roux translated by Andrew Mangravite. A sequence of prose poems by one of the greatest, and least translated, of the Symbolist writers. Preceded by an essay by Remy de Gourmont. This selection from his most famous collection of prose poems is prefaced by Alastair Whyte, currently involved with the publication of his works by the French publisher Rougerie, and includes Remy de Gourmont's essay from The Book of Masks, which presents one way of reading his works, a way that is perhaps somewhat reductionist.

2 Sweat and Industry - H. Artmann translated by Derek Wynand. An oblique look at the oddities of everyday toil from one of the principal writers of The Vienna Group.

Artmann was born in Vienna in 1921, but is truly a world citizen with a passport to countless literary genres. In the late'50s he was a founder member of the Vienna Group, experimenting with montages, dialect poems and other innovatory techniques, then set off in new directions before the group's dissolution. In the ensuing years he has established himself as one of the most original, inventive and poetic writers of this century, producing a dazzling array of plays, poems and novels. 3/4 Caesar Antichrist - Alfred Jarry translated by Antony Melville.

Caesar Antichrist was Jarry's second book, published in a luxurious limited edition, carefully illustrated by the author. The text, 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, which is the domain of Jarry's famous science of'Pataphysics, to Ubu himself one act of the play is a version of Ubu Rex.

A cross between an alchemical treatise and a dramatic burlesque, and as ever with Jarry, a unique work. 5 The Council of Love - Oskar Panizza, illustrated by Alfred Kubin. Panizza's great work, and a landmark in the honorable history of literary blasphemy.

God invents syphilis to punish humanity, while his son whimpers in heaven. This play earnt its author 30 years of persecution at the hands of the authorities, both ecclesiastic and secular, and an early death in a mental asylum. This translation is based on the third, revised edition, published in 1897. The illustrations by Alfred Kubin are taken from the nine created specially for a private edition published in 1913. 6 Mourning for Mourning - Robert Desnos translated by Terry Hale.

Desnos' own selection of his early stories from Surrealist reviews: fairy-tales from The Period of Sleeping-Fits. "Desnos more than any of us got closest to the Surrealist truth, " wrote André Breton in the first Manifesto of Surrealism (1924): He speaks Surrealist at will. 7/8 the autobiography of albert einstein - Gerhard Roth. Gerhard Roth's first "novel, " originally published in 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 and its structures, but with the chemical and biological basis of his own thought.

9 Lord Patchogue and other texts - Jacques Rigaut translated by Terry Hale. Dandy, drug addict, Dadaist, gigolo, suicide: Rigaut's stories and morbid observations embody his short and perfectly pointless existence. He was as good as his word.

Throughout his short life he never ceased to write and talk about his suicide. Try, if you can, to arrest a man who travels with suicide in his buttonhole. An important member of the Paris Dada movement, Rigaut's greatest contribution was perhaps his total world-weariness and his black humour. One recent dictionary of Surrealism has called him the greatest nihilist dandy in French literature. Utterly narcissistic ("Every mirror bears my name"), completely disinterested in exterior reality, ironical and self-deprecating, he gave new meaning to the term disillusionment. This selection presents all Rigaut's principal writings, many of which were incomplete at his death and were only published posthumously. 10 Cycle of violence - Grayson Perry.

This is the true first edition of this title, Grayson Perry's first book, which was commissioned by Atlas Press for the Printed Head series. 11/12 The true, the good, the beautiful: an elementary chrestomathy of'Pataphysics / College of Pataphysics - Stanley Chapman.

The first publication of the College de'Pataphysique ever to be translated in its entirety into a foreign language. It concentrates on texts which illustrate the underlying principles of the science, rather than exercises in its application. 13 Xiana - edited by Alastair Brotchie. Format: 21 x 13.5 cm. 1 to 50 were signed where possible.

1 to 150 were reserved for subscribers. 151 to 300 available individually. This set is subscriber edition No.