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L'EVIDENCE ABSURDE; Essais et Notes, I (1926-1934)
Paris: Gallimard, 1972. First printing. 286 pages. More
LA GRANDE BEUVERIE.
Paris: Gallimard, 1939. First printing. First French edition of A Night of Serious Drinking; Collection Metamorphoses VI; 156 pages. More
LE CONTRE-CIEL ("THE COUNTER HEAVEN").
New York: Overlook Press, 2005. First edition. This book is the classic poetic exploration of the search for spiritual enlightenment. Le Contre-Ciel ("The Counter-Heaven") marked the start of one of the most daring and inventive careers in all of French literature, written when its author was only 22., a visionary..... More
LE MONT ANALOGUE.
Gallimard, 1952. First trade edition. First trade French edition after the limited printing of 60 copies on vellum; 210 pages. More
LETTERS ON THE SEARCH FOR AWAKENING, 1930-1944.
Toronto: Dolmen Meadow, 2010. First edition. René Daumal was a born seeker, which he found in the teaching of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, first through his contact with Alexandre de Salzmann, later through work with Jeanne de Salzmann and Gurdjieff himself. Daumal met and recognized this teaching. Thus, these are letters..... More
MOUNT ANALOGUE.; A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures
Overlook Press, 2004. New translation by Carol Cosman; Introduction by Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt; Afterword by Véra Daumal; 120 pages. More
MOUNT ANALOGUE.; A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures
Cambridge: Exact Change, 2019. Translation and Introduction by Roger Shattuck; Postface by Véra Daumal; 159 pages. More
A NIGHT OF SERIOUS DRINKING.
Boulder: Shambhala, 1979. First U.S. edition. Fictional account of a 'night of serious drinking' that includes dialogue on the power of words, the frailty of thought and what truly living consciously might actually be like. Translated by David Coward & E.A. Lovatt; 121 pages. More
A NIGHT OF SERIOUS DRINKING.
Boulder: Shambhala, 1979. First U.S. edition. Translated by David Coward & E.A. Lovatt; 121 pages. More
A NIGHT OF SERIOUS DRINKING.
New York: Overlook Press, 2003. From the introduction, "Daumal is conducting his readers on a tour through the labyrinth of the mind's convolutions. Using thirst as a metaphor, he reveals normal life to be a state of endless intoxication. He conveys us through a topsy-turvy, comic inspection Dante's realm of..... More
A NIGHT OF SERIOUS DRINKING.
Boulder: Shambhala, 1979. First U.S. edition. Translated by David Coward & E.A. Lovatt; 121 pages. More
THE POWERS OF THE WORD; Selected Essays and Notes 1927 - 1943
San Francisco: City Lights, 1991. First printing. Edited and translated with an Introduction by Mark Polizzotti; 174 pages. More
RASA OR KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF.; Essays on Indian Aesthetics and Selected Sanskrit Studies
Kathmandu: Shiva Stan, 2006. Third edition. Translated with an Introduction by Louise Landes Levi ; This edition limited to 300 copies and bound in hand-made paper; Bound in unprinted card-stock and with a dust jacket made from hand-made paper; 107 pages. More
YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN WRONG.
University of nebraska Press, 1995. First printing. Translated by Thomas Vorsteen; 133 pages. More
PATAPHYSICAL LETTERS.
London: London Institute of Pataphysics, 2012. First printing. Hand-numbered limited edition of 366 copies; Letters of Rene Daumal and Julien Torma translated by Dennis Duncan and Terry Hale; Small paperback of 25 pages. More
THEORY OF THE GREAT GAME; Writings from "Le Grand Jeu"
London: Atlas, 2015. Translated and edited by Dennis Duncan; 191 pages. More
THE MOUNTAIN: PARABOLA, VOLUME XIII, NO. 4; WINTER 1988.
New York: 1988. First printing. Contains "This Land of Snow Ridges" - A conversation about mountains and Tibet with Thubten Jigme Norbu; Mount Analogue / Part One - "The Letter"; "Sacred Mountains" by Edwin Bernbaum - Evocations of mystery, meaning, and divinity; "Monte Perdito" by P. L. Travers - First..... More