This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz
Ex Occidente Press:
Bucharest: 2012
First edition, Hardcover, SIGNED limited, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
238 pp.
This edition limited to 122 numbered copies signed by D.T. Ghetu. “This Hermetic Legislature is a tribute to Bruno Schulz and the third such homage volume from Ex Occidente Press. At the end of a curious parallel track of imagination the Twentieth Century is frozen by the memory of early spring snows, the lascivious gaze of tradesmen, dark July nights and the chatter of exotic birds. Every face in the crowd is as still as a travelling waxwork exhibit. It is an Age of Genius writ in crumbing ledgers and announced in the margins of charlatans’ advertisements. Everywhere the agony and ecstasy of its times may be read. Upon every mouldering wall there is a rich mural of creation and beneath every glittering plastic jewel of technology hides an ancient fermentation. In each shop window, with its teetering mannequins, a universe of magical forms unfolds —a pageant of infinite life begging to be rewritten, to live again!” Contributors include George Berguno, Stephen J. Clark, Rhys Hughes, Joel Lane, Mark Valentine, Charles Schneider, John Howard, D.P. Watt, Colin Insole, Reggie Oliver, R.B. Russell, Mark Samuels and others. De luxe binding, illustrated endpapers, marker ribbon, foil stamping on full-cloth cover material - the works. #48485
Price: $900.00