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Cock & Bull

Full of surrealism, satire, and sexual ambiguity, this pairing of two novelettes traces the adventures of a woman who grows a penis and a man who ends up with a vagina and other female parts. Reprint.

By Will Self

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9780871135315 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: After her marriage to Dan, an alcoholic, Carol discovers she is growing a male organ, and she uses it to change her previously passive role in life, while Bull, a young man, develops female genitals in his leg and asks his doctor about them

Paperback:

9780802141378 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, March 22, 2005), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Full of surrealism, satire, and sexual ambiguity, this pairing of two novelettes traces the adventures of a woman who grows a penis and a man who ends up with a vagina and other female parts.

9780679750925 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: After her marriage to Dan, an alcoholic, Carol discovers she is growing a male organ, and she uses it to change her previously passive role in life, while Bull, a young man, develops female genitals in his leg and asks his doctor about them

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Product Description: What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers...read more

By Will Self

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9780747516651 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, November 25, 1993), cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Mother crops up dead but talking in Crouch End; a cellular telephone scam ends in drugged psychosis; a mental ward captivates then captures an art therapist; motorcycle messengers mystically intuit London traffic flows.

Paperback:

9780802121462 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, June 4, 2013), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to?

My Idea of Fun: A Cautionary Tale

An international financier and his young apprentice form the center of a wickedly acute story of capitalism run amuck, in a society in which consumerism, violence, and psychosis are the norm and the human soul becomes the ultimate product. Reprint.

By Will Self

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9780871135650 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: An international financier and his young apprentice form the center of a wickedly acute story of capitalism run amuck, in a society in which consumerism, violence, and psychosis are the norm and the human soul becomes the ultimate product

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9780802142139 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, October 15, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An international financier and his young apprentice form the center of a wickedly acute story of capitalism run amuck, in a society in which consumerism, violence, and psychosis are the norm and the human soul becomes the ultimate product.

9780679750932 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance.

The Quantity Theory of Insanity: Together With Five Supporting Propositions

A collection of short stories explores the possibility that sanity is a commodity in short supply, the afterlife is as mundane as life on earth, and an anthropological expedition could discover a tribe of very boring natives

By Will Self

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9780871135858 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The author of the critically acclaimed My Idea of Fun and Cock and Bull returns with six short stories filled with absurdity, black humor, and satire and overflowing with weird, extraordinary ideas and bizarre images.

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9780679750949 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories explores the possibility that sanity is a commodity in short supply, the afterlife is as mundane as life on earth, and an anthropological expedition could discover a tribe of very boring natives

Grey Area: And Other Stories

A collection of nine stories includes 'Between the Conceits,' about the eight individuals who control all London, and 'Inclusion,' about the inexorable side effects of a revolutionary new antidepressant made from Amazonian bee excrement (view table of contents)

By Will Self

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9780871136206 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of nine stories includes 'Between the Conceits,' about the eight individuals who control all London, and 'Inclusion,' about the inexorable side effects of a revolutionary new antidepressant made from Amazonian bee excrement

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9780871136732 | Atlantic Monthly Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of nine stories includes 'Between the Conceits,' about the eight individuals who control all London, and 'Inclusion,' about the inexorable side effects of a revolutionary new antidepressant made from Amazonian bee excrement

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

In a wickedly satirical novella about the magazine business, Richard Hermes struggles to hold onto his soul while feeding his growing cocaine habit and chasing after a vacuous magazine columnist. Original. 30,000 first printing.

By Martin Rowson (illustrator) and Will Self

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9780802136473 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In a satirical novella about the magazine business, Richard Hermes struggles to hold onto his soul while feeding his growing cocaine habit and chasing after a vacuous magazine columnist

9780747531548 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, May 15, 1997), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement.

Great Apes

Simon wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee, and although he, too, has become a chimpanzee, he is certain he is still human but is confined to a psychiatric ward where he is cared for by the odd Dr. Busner. Reprint. AB. NYT.

By Will Self

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9780802116178 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Simon wakes up one morning to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee, and although he, too, has become a chimpanzee, he is certain he is still a human and is confined to a psychiatric ward where he is cared for by the very odd and experimental Dr.

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9780802135766 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Simon wakes up to find that his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee, and although he, too, has become a chimpanzee, he is certain he is still human but is confined to a psychiatric ward where he is cared for by the odd Dr.

Urbasuburba Jock McFadyen & Humphrey Ocean

By Will Self

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9780903261357 | Art Books Intl Ltd, December 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

From the author of Great Apes and Grey Area comes a new selection of offbeat short fiction that satirizes the follies and foibles of men and women, in such works as 'Flytopia,' 'A Story for Europe,' 'Caring, Sharing,' and 'The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz.' Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Will Self

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9780802116444 | Grove Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: From the author of Great Apes and Grey Area comes a new selection of offbeat short fiction that satirizes the follies and foibles of men and women, in such works as 'Flytopia,' 'A Story for Europe,' 'Caring, Sharing,' and 'The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz.

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9780802137029 | Grove Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: From the author of Great Apes and Grey Area comes a new selection of offbeat short fiction that satirizes the follies and foibles of men and women, in such works as 'Flytopia,' 'A Story for Europe,' 'Caring, Sharing,' and 'The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz.

9780140268645 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 4, 1999), cover price $12.90 | About this edition: Taking readers into the distorting hall-of-mirrors, this title presents the story of a Londoner who finds his house underpinned by an enormous rock of crack cocaine and a misanthrope who learns that flies have feelings.

Sore Sites

Product Description: A selection of the author's iconoclastic weekly columns in Building Design is now made available, decorated with the author's own extremely bad drawings, to those without access to the benefits of the architectural trade press. Alighting on subjects broadly architectural, Self talks you through a trip on an open-top bus in London, a visit to Barratt Homes and marvels over the ugliness of Cologne...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Will Self

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9781841660318 | Ellipsis London Pr Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A selection of the author's iconoclastic weekly columns in Building Design is now made available, decorated with the author's own extremely bad drawings, to those without access to the benefits of the architectural trade press.

The Unrest-Cure and Other Beastly Tales

Product Description: Take a decent helping of P.G. Wodehouse, a soupÃ§on of Wilde's epigrammatic wit, then season with the bloodthirsty malevolence of Edward Lear and Roald Dahl, and you will have an approximation of the inimitable genius of Hector Hugo Munro (alias Saki), the most hilarious and savage exponent of the short story in the English language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Saki and Will Self (introduced by)

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9781853753701 | Prion Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Take a decent helping of P.

How the Dead Live

Surrounded by her two daughters, Lily Bloom, an aging American in the final stages of cancer, spends her time in a bed in Central London's Royal Ear Hospital, drugged with painkillers, moving in and out of consciousness, and railing against the unfairness of the world around, the sins of those around her, and her coming death. Reprint.

By Will Self

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9780802116710 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Lily Bloom, an aging American in the final stages of cancer, spends her time in a bed in central London's Royal Ear Hospital, drugged with painkillers and railing against the unfairness of the world and her coming death.

9780747548959 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, June 19, 2000, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital.

Paperback:

9780802138484 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Surrounded by her two daughters, Lily Bloom, an aging American in the final stages of cancer, spends her time in a bed in Central London's Royal Ear Hospital, drugged with painkillers, moving in and out of consciousness, and railing against the unfairness of the world around, the sins of those around her, and her coming death.

9780140268652 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 7, 2001), cover price $15.85 | About this edition: A 65-yr-old woman lies dying in a London hospital.

Jock McFadyen: A Book About a Painter

Product Description: Although never part of any art movement, McFadyen describes himself as a realist. This book places him not simply within the recent history of British art but also within the wider context of realism in film, the contemporary novel and music. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lewis Biggs (contributor), David Cohen, Howard Jacobson (contributor), Humphrey Ocean (contributor), Bob Smith (contributor) and Hugo William (contributor)

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9780853317913 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Although never part of any art movement, McFadyen describes himself as a realist.

Como viven los muertos / How the Dead Live

By Will Self

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9788439709435 | Lumen Editorial, January 31, 2003, cover price $35.95 | also contains Como Viven Los Muertos

Como Viven Los Muertos

By Will Self

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9788439709435, titled "Como viven los muertos / How the Dead Live" | Lumen Editorial, January 31, 2003, cover price $35.95 | also contains Como viven los muertos / How the Dead Live

The End of Everything: Postmodernism and the Vanishing of the Human

By Richard Appignanesi, Will Self (foreword by) and Stuart Sim (introduced by)

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9781840464214 | Icon Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

Dorian: An Imitation

A contemporary retelling of the themes in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray finds homosexual and drug addict Henry Wotton at the center of a clique that includes his artist friend, Hallward, and the beautiful young Dorian, in a story set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic. Reprint.

By Will Self

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9780802117298 | Grove Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A contemporary retelling of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic finds Henry Wotton at the center of a clique that includes his friend, Hallward, and the beautiful young Dorian.

Paperback:

9780802140470 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A contemporary retelling of the themes in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray finds homosexual and drug addict Henry Wotton at the center of a clique that includes his artist friend, Hallward, and the beautiful young Dorian, in a story set against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic.

9780140290561 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 26, 2003), cover price $16.20 | About this edition: It is 1981 and the 'Royal Broodmare', as Henry Wotton calls her, is about to be married.

Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

'Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe' features a novella and short stories that delves into the murky world of mental illness and sinister goings on.

By Will Self

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9780747565314 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, January 5, 2004, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: 'Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe' features a novella and short stories that delves into the murky world of mental illness and sinister goings on.

The Redstone Psychological Diary 2005 Calendar

By Mel Gooding (editor), Julian Rothenstein (editor) and Will Self (introduced by)

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9780811843362 | Egmt spi edition (Chronicle Books Llc, August 1, 2004), cover price $18.95

Junk Mail

By Will Self

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9780802170231 | Pgw, May 10, 2006, cover price $14.00

The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future

Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, writes down his woes, frustrations, and pet peeves and buries them, only to have them discovered five hundred years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. Reprint.

By Will Self

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9781596913844 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, writes down his woes, frustrations, and pet peeves and buries them, only to have them discovered five hundred years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.

Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place

A meditation on the complex relationship between psyche and place evaluates the ways in which human-made geography has irrevocably shaped our emotions and behaviors while detaching people from the natural world; in a volume of essays complemented by artwork inspired by the writer's and illustrator's respective views on globalization.

By Will Self and Ralph Steadman (illustrator)

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9781596914667 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A meditation on the complex relationship between psyche and place evaluates the ways in which human-made geography has irrevocably shaped our emotions and behaviors while detaching people from the natural world; in a volume of essays complemented by artwork inspired by the writer's and illustrator's respective views on globalization.

The Undivided Self: Selected Stories

A masterful compendium of short fiction by the author of The Book of Dave features selected works from his four acclaimed collections--The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Area, Dr. Mukti, and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys.

By Will Self

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9781596912977 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 26, 2010, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A masterful compendium of short fiction by the author of The Book of Dave features selected works from his four acclaimed collections--The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Great Area, Dr.

Beyond Belief

By Damien Hirst (illustrator), Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Rudi Ruchs and Will Self

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Hardcover:

9781904212218 | Other Criteria, August 30, 2008, cover price $140.00

Paperback:

9780133696615, titled "Guide to Local Area Networks" | Prentice Hall Direct, April 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | also contains Guide to Local Area Networks

The Butt: An Exit Strategy

By Will Self

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9781596915558 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 16, 2008, cover price $26.00

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9781596916388 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 27, 2009, cover price $16.00

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