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not to give anything away competition wise but "The Radetzky March" is a damn fine book....

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Originally Posted by Acutely decayed (Post 72604)

not to give anything away competition wise but "The Radetzky March" is a damn fine book....

Hear hear! It came up in another conversation.

To give another cryptic clue one should be able to identify that great Gallic orientalist by the moustache alone.

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You both sniffed out the catch, but please keep the hints sfumato, as the Italians say, not with exactitude. And of course, Evans does not qualify for this competition. He already knows all the Pilgrims of the Rare immortalized on that promotional card. :)

In the next few days everyone who is on my mailing list will receive one of these large promotional card [printed on heavy textured paper], which were released especially for Secret Europe.

A quick update on This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz. A few days ago Dan Watt and I finally received the last story for this astonishing anthology. The Posthumous Messiah by Reggie Oliver, a very long, consistent novelette, definitely one of Reggie's very best.

So now we are ready to go with the Schulz volume!

Regards,
Dan

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OK, so I am 5 names short of the solution to the riddle, yet if you look closely to Dan's card pictured above - there are now even more and different Europeans on the new card, notably Bulgakov and Strindberg... Anyway, I for one, am immensely looking forward to said book!

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The competition for a signed copy of Secret Europe (and something extra too!) is now finished.

The winners are Mr. Thujone from Secret Germany and Mr. JK West from America.

First Row: Tristan Tzara, Alexander Blok, Max Blecher, Antal Szerb, Huysmans, Bruno Schulz, Gustav Meyrink, Julien Gracq
Second Row: Gregor von Rezzori, Robert Walser, Paul Morand, Robert Byron, E.M. Cioran, Claudio Magris, Antonio Tabucchi, Claus von Strauffenberg
Third Row: Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky, Italo Svevo, Ernst Junger, George Bacovia, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Roth, Paul Leppin, Arthur Machen
Fourth Row: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sandor Marai, Mircea Eliade, Leo Perutz, Pessoa, Rene Guenon, Stefan Zweig, Stefan George

Those asking when exactly is going to be released Secret Europe, the answer is that I am giving my very best to have both This Hermetic Legislature and Secret Europe out just in time for this Christ Mass. Interested? Drop me a message.

Now, my last and final update on the new books: Tarshishim, Alcyone and Sangria in the Sangraal. Which are the odds for a dust-jacket to be misprinted for four (4) times in a row? I've learned that the probabilities are quite high. So happens that tomorrow I am printing for the fifth (or is it sixth?!) time the dust-jacket for The Tears of the Gods of Mr. Weighell. Today I've found the boss of my binding company all grin and winks. He was visibly happy to get rid of me for another week or so. "Oh, thou lover of fine and expensive books, welcome, welcome! Les livres are ready; here, all prepared for you to take home. Is not that fine and dandy?". A quick glance at The Tears of the Gods dust-jacket was enough to eradicate his happy hour. "A promising result. But no, Sir, these jackets will need to be re-done." Thus, it will take one-two days more until I will have all the new orders in the mail.

Regards,
Dan

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Just received my purchase of ALCYONE by Colin Insole from www.fantasticliterature.com
It looks wonderful.

I shall be making the free draw for this book as prize any time from the 2/12/11 - so still not too late to enter:
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Santa came early this year, with a strong Romanian accent to boot.

Yes, the latest batch of Ex Occidente/Passport Levant books has landed in Germany. And what can I say? You'd expect quality, you'd expect to be astonished by the production values (and by the content once your fetishistic needs are satisfied), but these new one really look amazing and someting else entirely. The Ron Weighell book, like Mark Valentine's "Peacock Escritoire" from earlier this year is a crowning achievement in book production. Lovely boxset and the loose leaves notebook seems to be worth the price of admission alone. The Santiago Caruso art is outstanding, too. The most highly anticipated one is the new Colin Insole whose debut was among my favourite books of recent years, that one, though not a boxset, looks stunning , too. And then there is the new Rhys Hughes "Sangria in the Sangraal", both of his previous Ex Occidente I found to be very enjoyable. So there is plenty of reading ahead of me. Better hurry, as the Bruno Schulz anthology is apparently fast approaching, too.
Thanks Dan for these great books.

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The latest Insole- and Hughes volumes on Passport Levant arrived today, no.'s respectively 100 and 14. No Weighell yet, but I believe this was sent seperately.

I hope to read the Insole volume soon. I am way behind in my reading, and have yet to read both the latest Gale-, Clark-, and Schneider-volumes from Ex Occidente. The reason for this is that I currently mostly read outside of home, and I don't really feel like bringing Ex Occidente volumes around with me.

Of the more recent releases, I have been very impressed by Brian J. Showers' Old Albert, but I don't know how people who haven't read his The Bleeding Horse would feel about this; it inhabits an intermediary position between being an appendix or epilogue for that collection, while maintaining a status as a highly readable work in its own right. I would like to see more from Showers' hands. He has a unique way of creating a documentary atmosphere (is it fiction? is it non-fiction? is it a hoax?) which I think is a very interesting and original addition to the antiquarian ghost story.

Also, I very much admired Berguno's collection, especially 'The Son's Crime'.

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For what it is worth I would highly recommend those interested purchase copies of the Colin Insole novella, Alcyone, sooner rather than later. Of all the authors who have emerged onto the scene in the last couple of years none show more promise than he.

This, his most recent work, is a magnificent evocation of the spirit of Prague, in the manner of Gustav Meyrink and Paul Leppin - in fact I read it directly after Leppin's Others' Paradise and it more than held its own against the work of that iconic writer.

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I received two lovely books from Ex Occidente Press yesterday: Marvick's The Star Ushak and Gale's Allurements of Cabochon. Yes, I suppose I am a bit behind with these, but I shall catch up given time. I was hoping that Weighell's book would also have been in the package, but I believe it was too heavy and must be shipped separately. I can't wait to delve into that box of wonders, but I suppose I shall have to wait until 2012 to do so. Good things come to those who wait...