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Note that I combined some older posts when importing them.

January

• Robert Walser drawings by Guy Davenport
• Robert Walser - vintage 80s
• Wandering with Robert Walser
• Traces of Robert Walser
• A Life Full of Holes (old site)
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (old site)
• Coming soon (old site)
• The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf

February (The month I did some research)

• Oulipo Compendium
• R. A. Lafferty (old site)
• Johannes R. Becher
• Seven Seas Books
• Jim Tully and S. J. Perelman (old site)
• Seymour Chwast covers (old site)
• Modern European Poetry (old site)
• Struwwelpeter, Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (old site)

March

• What is 'Pataphysics?
• Atlas Anthology III (old site)
• Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus (old site)
• The Black Spider, Jeremias Gotthelf, Calder Edition
• João Guimarães Rosa (old site)
• Paul Eluard & Benjamin Peret, 152 Proverbs
• Jean Ray, Malpertuis (and Presence du Futur) (old site)
• Rene Crevel, Babylon
• Robert Walser, The Walk
• Hanuman Books, 2 (old site)
• A Journey Round My Skull, NYRB

April (The month the blog almost died)

• Julio Cortazar, Axolotl

May

• Francis Picabia, I am a Beautiful Monster
• YETI magazine (old site)
• French Science Fiction (old site)

June (The month I met BibliOdyssey and read too many German Romantics)

• Seymour Chwast and Push Pin Studios (old site)
• Alvin Lustig and The Green Child
• Richard Aeschlimann, Le Regard Géologue (old site)
• Robert Walser, The Assistant
• Joseph Von Eichendorff & the Taugenichts
• Kurt Tucholsky, Deutschland, Deutschland über alles (old site)
• Baudelaire's bookplate (old site)
• Philip K. Dick's Estonian Hamburger (old site)
• Alfred Lichtenstein and Mynona
• To Die No More and Blind Pony (old site)
• BibliOdyssey (old site)
• International Institute for Research on Literary Lunatics
• Daumal books from Pier Marton (old site)
• Robert Walser scrapbook
• Julien Gracq, Chateau d'Argol
• George Salter and Beyond (old site)
• Clemens Brentano
• Two texts by Robert Walser (old site)
• Obscene Post One (Roland Topor and more) (old site)
• Various artist books
• Clemens Brentano 2
• Jean Paul, Speech of the Dead Christ

July (The month I became too prolific)

• Sign Language of German Romanticism
• Four random covers (old site)
• 'Pataphysics at By My Green Candle
• She made me like the hazel trees
• From the Life of the Doll
• Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives
• Marcel Schwob, The Talking Machine
• Marcel Schwob, King in the Golden Mask
• Cioran lives in another world
• Alfred Jarry's Mental Mechanism
• Dino Buzzati's Wooden Door (old site)
• Shadowchild by P.F. Thomese (old site)
• Julio Cortázar, How to Wind a Watch
• Aleister Crowley and Fernando Pessoa
• Alfred Jarry Collection at Princeton (old site)
• Poty's Pictograms
• Mary Reynolds Collection (old site)
• Hoffmann, Chicago Press edition, Landau illustrations (old site)
• Louis Aragon, A Wave of Dreams
• Juergen von der Wense
• Index for Robert Walser's Robber
• Maurice Scève, Emblems of Desire
• Julio Cortázar, Cronopios and Famas
• Saint of the Hippies
• Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Life and Limb anthology
• Alice Through the Looking Glass
• Pill Fire
• Up reading because of insomnia
• Jules Renard, translated by Richard Wilbur
• The Madness of the Day

August (The month people started to read the blog)

• Gilbert Alter-Gilbert Interview 1
• Manifestos Manifest by Vicente Huidobro
• The Mirror of Lida Sal
• Dead Man & Company by Marie Redonnet
• Streetcorners by Francis Carco
• Scarecrow & Other Anomalies by Oliverio Girondo
• Strange Forces by Leopoldo Lugones
• Morphine vs. Morpheme
• Breast-to-breast with the ticks
• "Strange, merely half-monstrous individuals"
• Paul West on Cendrars' Moravagine
• Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
• Alberto Savinio, Tragedy of Childhood
• Source, Music of the Avant Garde
• Trevor Winkfield on Raymond Roussel
• Trevor Winkfield (slightly foxed)
• Index for Daumal's Night of Serious Drinking

September (The month I began to trash-pick books)

• Perverted by Language
• Upside-Down Kite (old site)
• A moistened Stendhal (old site)
• French Hippies
• Biology Today 1, Spittle
• Bird Doctor
• An artist's depiction of a swarm of rapidly dividing bacteria
• Gills Alter-Gills
• Building Blocks of Nervous Systems
• Recurrent Inhibition
• Representative Mammal
• Biology 101 by Jan Svankmajer
• Painted Red Belly
• The Dance Language of Bees
• Masami Teraoka's Human Possibilities
• Two aging prostitutes on the streets of New York
• Ossifying
• A photographic impression of a speed trip
• An artist's interpretation of a pandemic
• Walter Schnackenberg
• Chief Bottle-Washer (old site)
• Viy
• Aerobica Cigarettes for Children (old site)
• Divers (old site)
• Pitch Black (old site)
• Three Royal Monkeys (one, two)
• Biology Today, Terry Lamb drawings
• Biology Today, Earnie and Helga Kollar
• Biology Today, Eucaryotic versus Procaryotic
• Biology Today, Douglas Roy
• Biology Today, Richard Oden
• Graham Lambkin

October (The month I began buying books just for the pictures)

• The Journal of Jules Renard
• The Sponger by Jules Renard (old site)
• The Octopus Bearing the Initials V. H.
• Roland Topor and Max Rongier: Comptines
• Tadanori Yokoo posters
• Paul Di Filippo on A Journey Round My Skull
• Walter Schnackenberg 2
• I have a metaphysical cold
• Ceremony of the Chosen by Jose Hernandez (old site)
• Freidrich Achleitner, o-i-study, 1960 (old site)
• Victor Hugo, Shadows of a Hand (old site)
• Three-Way Rorschach Test
• A European Hillbilly and Bats Blaming Each Other (old site)
• Rokuro Taniuchi
• Provoke children to ask questions like Why Me?
• Glossopharyngeal Nerve
• Max Ernst, frottage skulls for Peret

November (The month I first really delved into graphic design history and started to collect strange children's books)

• Frigyes Karinthy, Soliloquies in the Bath
• The Social Psychology of Holes
• Fourteen Views
• Milton Glaser and World Literature
• The Strange Visions of Utagawa Kuniyoshi
• Magritte's View
• Pirosmanashvili's Pigs
• Oluf Braren's Faces (old site)
• Der Orchideengarten
• The Emotion of Dependency
• Just Married: Metamorphosis
• Rabbit Shelter, Stasys Eidrigevicius
• Raffaello Mori, Don Quixote
• Nabish Fairy Tales, Eva Natus-Salamoun
• Nothing Child
• Stasys Eidrigevicius for Children
• Otto Neumann's Grotesques
• Black Eyes and Lemonade at the Evoluon
• Paul Rand, Anti-War, Pro-Typographer
• Belli's Red Gravy (old site)
• Coca-Cola Douche
• Der Orchideengarten part 2

December (First essays by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert)

• Unica Zurn, Oracle and Spectacle
• Latin-American literature stamps (old site)
• Lions of Literature: Leon Bloy (old site)
• Leon Bloy: Pilgrim of the Absolute (old site)
• Musings and Thunderings of Leon Bloy (old site)
• The Infusion by Leon Bloy (old site)
• Taedium Vitae: Farewell Notes of Japanese Literary Suicides
• Ithell Colquhoun
• Lynd Ward illustrations for Beowulf
• Unica Zurn, Solfege and Spectacle
• Thomas Bernhard, The Lime Works, first US edition
• Aragon's Black Swan
• Viktor Pivovarov
• Toyen to Paul Eluard (old site)
• Pivovarov children's books
• Cary Loren guest post - Monsters Are Inoffensive
• A look at the history of human-whale conflict (old site)
• Bruno Schulz, The Book
• Folon's Metamorphosis
• Season's Greetings from A Journey Round My Skull (old site)
• La Société des Francs Bibliophiles
• Rokuro Taniuchi 2
• Remy de Gourmont book (old site)
• Adelaide Hanscom's Rubaiyat

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