Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting light wear to the box

light wear to the box from inbound shipping

set in a world of grotesque entities and psychedelic minarets: half unshakable nightmare

this 1969 guide to the ancient Japanese game of Go was not only the first such guide to be published in France (and thereby introduced the centuries-old game of strategy into that country) but something of a subtle Oulipian guidebook to writing strategies and tactics

Taiyo Matsumoto is best known to English-reading audiences as the creator of the Eisner Award-winning Tekkonkinkreet

appreciating it for what it truly is: an integral part of Japanese art and culture that is as rich and revealing as it is popular

Treatise on Elegant Living - Honore de Balzac painting light wear to the boxTreatise on Elegant Living by Honor de Balzac ISBN 9780984115501 small paperback with flaps from Wakefield Press *** Honor de Balzacs 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey dAurevillys Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaires The Dandy (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism