{"product_id":"raymond-roussel-a-critical-guide-rayner-heppenstall-1st-edition","title":"Raymond Roussel: A Critical Guide, Rayner Heppenstall — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication\u003c\/strong\u003e: London, Calder and Boyars Ltd, 1966\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormatting\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8vo, pp. [vi], 97, [1].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e: Very Good. The burgundy cloth binding is tight, square, and completely free from bumping or notable shelf-wear, with the gilt tooling to the spine remaining bright and unoxidised. Internally, the pages are crisp and unmarked, though the top edge of the text block exhibits some scattered spotting. The original dust jacket is unclipped and presents well, though it shows some general grubbiness and minor surface smudging to the cream rear panel, alongside very light rubbing to the extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/strong\u003e: First Edition, first printing. Released as part of the publisher's 'French Surrealist Series', this copy features the striking original dust jacket designed by John Sewell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eAs an early English-language monograph on Roussel, this edition is notably scarce on the open market today, particularly with the jacket intact and well-preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003eRayner Heppenstall's insightful critical guide provides an early and sympathetic English-language study of the highly eccentric and fiercely original French writer Raymond Roussel. Despite never officially aligning with the Surrealist group, Roussel's wholly unique methods of composition and peculiar prose heavily influenced the movement, as well as subsequent avant-garde writers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet and Eugène Ionesco. This monograph details his life, his remarkable literary techniques, and his enduring, albeit quiet, impact on twentieth-century modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54384076161363,"sku":"4704","price":29.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260717_190310.jpg?v=1784800572","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/raymond-roussel-a-critical-guide-rayner-heppenstall-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}