Georges Bataille. 
 
Translated by Leslie Anne Boldt. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Albany: SUNY, 1988. Octavo. Hardcover without a dust jacket. First printing. Mild rubbing along the edges of the boards. Internal contents clean and unmarked. A sharp copy in very good condition. Scarce.
 
"A wink of an eye in which glimmers a deceitfulness, a melancholy smile, a grimace of fatigue together betray the disguised suffering which the astonishment at not being everything, at even having concise limits, gives us."