The Mendicant of Books and Other Mysteries

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Some books become, for whatever reason, works so rare that their very existence becomes doubtful, as if it had never existed. Such a material object loses its concrete existence and becomes immaterial as the items we glimpse in our dreams, as the paraphernalia only available in the mythical imagination.
Perhaps there are numerous books that gain this status of mythical production, perhaps there is even a definite way to do so. We at Raphus Press, however, seek only to reach our readers with the ritualistic strangeness of our authors/Photographers/Artists/Translators and the savage imagination that each of them, in their own way, evokes. But still, involuntarily perhaps, one of our books has disappeared from sight and has become a rarity, almost a mystery. In fact, this small volume, one of our first releases, bore the following title: The Mendicant of the Books. And as a commemoration of this myth-converted book we now release a new version of it.
Part of the original table of contents remains the same, especially Jonathan Wood's “Red Buried Memory” and the translation of Octave Uzanne's striking nightmare about the book-begging man. But there are at least two new features: the new story by Ramon Lasalle and the equally rare "The Blind Cinephile" as a feature of this volume.
The Mendicant of Books and Other Mysteries is the first one at our Raphus Simulacrum series, which will consist of a numbered physical edition limited to 25 copies and a simpler digital edition to be released as soon as the physical edition sold out. But each copy of the physical edition will be accompanied by a very special gift: a postcard by Angkor Wat , in translucent tracing paper, signed by Jonathan Wood himself. There are only 22 signed postcards. Printed by Forma Certa workshop, 48 pages and soft cover.