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Welcome to our first catalogue of the year and first of translated literature since 2014. The source countries are listed above; the authors include Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Jorge Luis Borges, Karl Kraus, Robert Walser, Marguerite Yourcenar, Anna Seghers, Charles Perrault, Fernando Pessoa, Jules Renard; and books signed by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Henning Mankell, Javier Marias, Orhan Pamuk, Julian Rios and Josef Skorvecky.
Shilappadikaram [The Ankle Bracelet]
London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1967.
A verse romance, attributed to the above author, written in the third century AD; prose translation by Alain Danielou.
Fine in very good dustwrapper marked on the rear panel.
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Hell Screen
Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos. First American one volume edition, 1987.
Three formally different pieces, a diary, novella and prose poem: Cogwheels, A Fool's Life and the title piece; foreword by Jorge Luis Borges, 'The psychological reinterpretation of the traditions and legends of his country was one of the tasks he undertook'; Eridanos #2.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
London: Pushkin Press. First English edition, 2001.
The coercive, controlling relationship between a priest and an adolescent boy; first published in France in 1964, translation by Sue Dyson.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Transylvanian Trilogy
New York: Everyman. Second English edition, 2013.
Three vols. in two. "They Were Counted", "They Were Found Wanting" and "They Were Divided", complete; first published in Hungary between 1934-1940 and set there during the ten years leading up to World War One.
Both fine in dustwrappers. The two vols.
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. First American edition, 1994.
Three hundred and thirty-two letters, written from age eighteen until six weeks before his death; correspondents include Max Brod, Bertolt Brecht, Hannah Arendt and Rainer Maria Rilke; edited and annotated by Gershom Scholem and Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Manfred R. Jacobson and Evelyn M. Jacobson; 650pp., indexed, annotated, and primary source material for Europe between the World Wars.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Prose
London: Seagull Books. First English edition, 2010.
Seven stories, first published in German in 1967; translations by Martin Chalmers.
Fine in dustwrapper designed by Sunandini Banerjee.
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Marriage
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. First American edition, 1937.
The prolific author's study of marriage and, controversially at the time, endorsing a journey from polygamy to monogamy.
Very good in dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel and some foxing on the flaps.
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House of Mist
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company. First American edition, 1947.
The Chilean author's third novel, introduced by her, "There will be no murderer and no murder, yet there will be ... crime. And there will be fear." With endorsements from Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda on the rear panel of the dustwrapper.
Two owner's stamps, else fine in very good George Salter dustwrapper.
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The Shrouded Woman
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company. First American edition, 1948.
Beginning "... she sees herself lying motionless face upward in the spacious bed...", and continuing into the realm of death.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Dreamtigers
London: Souvenir Press. First English edition, 1973.
Poems and stories, 56 pieces, an appendix: "Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luis Borges"; introduction by Miguel Enguidanos; woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Universal History of Infamy
London: Allen Lane. First English edition, 1973.
Sixteen pieces, including "Streetcorner Man"; fiction or non-fiction distinction is not useful here.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Sleepwalkers
London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1932.
"I first read 'The Sleepwalkers' when it appeared in this magnificent translation of Edwin and Willa Muir, in 1932. Since then, it has been an experience which has lingered in my mind and which I have meant to go back to. ...On rereading this book, I find that it is one of the few really original novels of this century. If it owes a great deal to Joyce and Proust, then Broch has transformed their interior techniques and many faceted sensibilities into something as harshly German as the painting of Bosch. ... This is a novel hewn out of the life of the years between 1890 and 1920 which leads into a view of history wider than political theories." Stephen Spender’s review, "Commentary", October 1948. The American sheets; Stephen Spender's copy with his signature.
Good in poor dustwrapper missing a large piece from the bottom half of the rear panel.
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The White Guard
New York: McGraw Hill. First American edition, 1971.
The Turbin family and the Ukrainian War of Independence, late 1918; the Michael Glenny translation, epilogue by Viktor Nekrasov.
Owner signature, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Flight & Bliss
New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1985.
Two plays: "Flight" (1926-1928), first produced in 1957, "Bliss" (1934), never produced at the time of this publication; translation and introduction by Mirra Ginsburg.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Road to San Giovanni
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1993.
Five pieces, mainly re the author's childhood, his daily teenage visits to the cinema, and as close to a memoir as we'll get from Italo Calvino.
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
London: Jonathan Cape. Second English edition, 1998.
The original translation by Archibald Colquhoun of Calvino's first novel revised by Martin McLaughlin incorporating changes made by Calvino for the second Italian edition.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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How They Do It
London: Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1945.
The "it" are movies, plays and newspapers; now nostalgic, historical essays from an age when knowledge was finite and technology benign.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped at the crown of the spine.
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Axel
Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1989.
The narrator protagonist's diary, beginning at age ten in 1868 in Northern Finland, recording the last decades of Russian colonisation and the awakening of a Finnish national consciousness; first published in 1986.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Reasons of State
London: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1976.
A Latin American President in exile in, where else, Paris.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Book of Lamentations
New York: Marsilio. First American edition, 1996.
Deep in Chiapas, the most Indian state of Mexico; first published in Mexico in 1962, introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto, translated by Esther Allen.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Conversations with Professor Y
Hanover: Brandeis University Press. First American edition, 1986.
Can a discussion between an author and an academic be a novel? Late Celine, first published in 1955; parallel French English text.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Stories of Russian Life
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. First American edition, 1914.
Twenty four stories, out of Chekhov's c.300 total; translated by Marian Fell.
Original brown cloth stamped in gold. Owner's small book label on the first page of the text, extremities foxed, base of spine creased. Very good.
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The Golden Casket - Chinese Novellas of Two Millennia
London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1965.
Forty-six stories, really "little tales", arranged chronologically, 3rd century BC through the 17th century.
Very good in dustwrapper with tape bleed patches on folds and reverse of dustwrapper.
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The Gentle Libertine
New York: Farrar and Rinehart. First American edition, 1931.
Minne - "who had conceived of love in the guise of an Apache, and she was determined to find her ideal" - and her passions.
Owner signature. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges and the crown and base of the spine.
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The House of Certain Death
London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1947.
Among the inhabitants of Cairo's old city; the author's first novel and first book to appear in English; translation and introduction by Erik de Mauny, #1 in the publisher's series of International Authors.
Foxing to prelims and extremities, very good in dustwrapper creased along edges and folds.
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Three Stories
Dollar, Scotland: McLean Associates. First English edition, [1976].
"Henriette Was Insulted", "Margot" and "A Swine", three long stories by the 19th century French playwright and novelist, also known by his birth name of Georges Moinaux; frontispiece portrait of the author by Sem Hartz; #22/120 numbered copies signed by Ruari McLean, the translator, who has also inscribed this copy.
Plain wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Leper and Other Stories
London: Methuen and Co., First English edition, 1965.
Ten stories by the Serbian novelist and politician all written during his imprisonment by Tito between 1956 and 1961.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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We'll To the Woods No More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions. First American edition, 1938.
First published in 1887 and an acknowledged influence by James Joyce on the stream of consciousness techniques in Ulysses. Illustrations by Alice Laughlin.
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened around perimeter and chipped at the crown of the spine.
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Yann Andrea Steiner
New York: Charles Scribner's. First American edition, 1995.
The author's memoir of her relationship with M. Steiner during the last decade of her life intertwined with a ...
Slight foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
Norfolk, CT: New Directions. First American edition thus, 1954.
Flaubert's world view: "crimson is a nobler word than red"; "enjoy: an obscene word"; and "genius: no point admiring - it's a neurosis"; translation, introduction, notes by Jacques Barzun.
Fine in dustwrapper with a short closed tear on the front panel.
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The Little World of the Past
London: Oxford University Press. First English edition, 1962.
The Maironi family during the Risorgimento; first published in 1895.
Extremities darkened. Very good in dustwrapper rubbed on the front and rear panels.
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Christopher Unborn
New York: Farrar Staus and Giroux. First American edition, 1989.
"Makesicko City" in 1962.
Extremities faintly foxed, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Cross and the Sword
London: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1956.
On the island of Hispaniola during the first years of the Spanish invasion; translated by Robert Graves.
Prelims and extremities foxed, else very good in dustwrapper.
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News of a Kidnapping
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1997.
The novelist as journalist about Colombian political kidnappings.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Mindia, the Son Of Hogay
Moscow: Progress Publishers, nd.
Anthology of fourteen stories by Georgian writers; with short biographical sketches of each author. English texts.
Offsetting to prelims. About very good in good dustwrapper.
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The Road To the City
London: The Hogarth Press. First English edition, 1952.
Two novellas - "The Dry Heart" and the title piece, the author's first appearance in English.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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The Black Spider
New York: NYROB. First American edition of this translation, 2013.
The biggest spider, "swollen with the venom of centuries", in all literature; first published in 1842.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Bridal Gown
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. First American edition, 1931.
The Icelandic author's first novel, an epic romance of unsustainable vows beginning with "two silent horsemen galloping up the Laxa valley. It was a moonlit night ..."
Very good in good dustwrapper darkened along spine and chipped at extremities and folds.
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The Secret Life of Saeed the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist
London: Readers International. First English edition, 1989.
Sub-titled "A Palestinian who became a citizen of Israel", first published in Arabic in 1974.
Fine in dustwrapper sunned on spine.
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Dreamers
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1921.
The intricacies of small town life; introduction, 27pp., by W.W. Worster; first published in Norway in 1904.
Foxing to prelims and extremities. Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Rosa
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1926.
Companion novel to Benoni, both published in Norwegian in 1909, and concerned with modern life in a small Norwegian town.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper faded on the spine.
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Hunger
London: Duckworth. First English edition, 1974.
The author's autobiographical novel of a starving writer in Oslo; translated by Robert Bly, with introductions by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bly.
Owner stamp, pages browning, else fine in dustwrapper featuring an image of Per Oscarsson from Henning Carlsen's bleak 1966 movie version.
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Across
New York: Farrar Staus and Giroux. First American edition, 1986.
Inside an apartment in Salzburg, outside a swastika carved into an elm tree.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1994.
Three long essays: "On Tiredness", "On Storytelling", and "On the Successful Day".
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Heretic of Soana
London: John Calder. First English edition, 1960.
The dilemma of a priest, living in an isolated community, and his relationship with a young woman; first published in 1918.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Still Life With a Bridle
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1993.
Six essays and ten "apocryphas" which look to me like biographies of imaginary subjects and individuals.
Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Christmas Eve
Berkeley, CA: Serendipity Books. First American edition of this story, 2004.
A Christmas story. Illustrations by Frances Butler, translation by Alison Howard; printed at the Poltroon Press, Berkeley, and issued by the publisher as a Christmas gift.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. 250 copies.
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The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature
London: Picador. First English edition, 2001.
Forty eight stories, essays and extracts including translations from Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, the languages of southern India; thirty-eight authors from the mid 19th century onwards; 600+pp.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Story of King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen-Boy
Lincoln, Nebraska: University Of Nebraska Press. First American edition, 1994.
And "Vulcan's Crown"; both with the illustrations by Roger Blachon from the French edition of 1971.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Anthology of Japanese Literature
New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 1955.
Forty-nine pieces: stories, extracts and poems; divided into five historical periods: Ancient (to 794AD), Heian (794-1185), Kamakura (1185-1333), Muromachi (1333-1600) and Tokugawa (1600-1868); bibliography, and dedicated to Arthur Waley.
Remnants of pencil annotations on rear prelims, else very good in dustwrapper.
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Kvachi
McLean, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. First American edition, 2014.
The adventures of Kvachi Kvachantiradze, born uttering the word "me"; first published in Georgia in 1925, a new version was published in 1934 removing criticism of the Russian Revolution and invasion of Georgia; translation here by Douglas Rayfield of the 1925 version.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Anniversaries
New York: New York Review Books. First complete American edition, 2018.
With Gesine Cresspahl, thirty-four, single mother, in New York City, day by day from August 1967 to August 1968; interwoven with her childhood in Nazi Germany, World War Two, postwar East Germany; 1,720pp., published in German in 1971, the first complete English translation.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine in slipcase with slight wear and a crack at one corner. The two vols.
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Gilberte Regained
London: Hamish Hamilton. First English edition, 1957.
Seven stories with a Proustian setting, characters and ambience; illustrated by the author and translated by Jean Stewart.
Extremities darkened. Very good in dustwrapper sunned on the spine.
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Amerika: the Missing Person
New York: Schocken. First American edition, 2008.
Amerika reconstructed from Kafka's surviving manuscripts.
Remainder dot bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Doruntine
London: Saqi Books. First English edition, 1988.
The author's retelling of Constantin and Doruntine, an ancient Albanian ballad and legend.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Other
London: Verso. First English edition, 2008.
Complete texts of four lectures delivered between 1990 and 2004 on Kapuscinki's recurring subject: how Western Cultures have, at best, struggled with all the other varieties.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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England - a Travel Journal
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer. First English edition, 1965.
The author's account of his travels in England, as a guest of The British Council, between July and November 1939.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Dancing in the Dark
London: Harvill Secker. First English edition, 2015.
My Struggle #4; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Moonrise, Moonset
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1987.
Poland's relationship with Russia told as memoir, essay, novel, confession; first published in Poland in 1982 during the period of Solidarity.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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In These Great Times
Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1984.
A Karl Kraus Reader, edited by Harry Zohn: prose, poems, illustrations and selections from "The Last Days of Mankind"; 263pp., simulating a visit to one part of Vienna during the 1920s.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Last Days of Mankind
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. First American edition, 2015.
Two hundred+ scenes, five hundred+ characters; dialogues, "walking newspaper headlines", first published in 1922; the first complete English translation by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms; 600pp. plus glossary, 44pp; fifteen hours performed complete, intended by its author for "a theatre on Mars because earthly theatregoers could not stand it".
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Black Monastery
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. First American edition, 1934.
The author's singular account of his internment in Paris from July 1914 until the end of World War One.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a few chips.
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Two Stories and a Memory
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. First English paperback edition, 1966.
"The Professor and the Siren", "The Blind Kittens" and "Places of My Infancy"; introduction by E.M. Forster.
Pictorial wrappers. Darkened around perimeter, else fine.
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An Autumn Story
Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press. First American paperback edition, 1989.
Italy during World War Two; Eridanos #14.
Plain wrappers. Fine in integral dustwrapper.
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The Resurrection of Maltravers
Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press. First American edition, 1988.
First published in Austria in 1936, the author's first novel to appear in English; and concerned with the difficulties of returning from death. Eridanos #12.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Periodic Table
New York: Schocken Books. First American edition, 1984.
Twenty-one stories, many autobiographical, and each connected, in some manner, to the element that gives the story its title.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Complete Works of Primo Levi
New York: Liveright. First American edition thus, 2015.
Three volumes. Edited by Ann Goldstein, introduction by Toni Morrison. Everything, from If This is a Man and The Truce onwards. Many newly translated, other material not previously available in English; 2,910pp.
All fine in dustwrappers in slipcase as issued. The three volumes
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A World On The Wane
London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1961.
In the Mato Grosso region of Central Brazil with the renowned anthropologist; 63 monochrome plates and 53 illustrations in the text; Madeleine St. John's copy with her signature.
Top edge dusty, else very good in good dustwrapper chipped at edges and missing pieces at the crown of the spine and bottom of front panel.
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The Passion According to G.H.
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. First American edition, 1988.
Cleaning the maid's room of a penthouse apartment in Rio de Janeiro develops into ...; first published in Brazil in 1964.
Original printed cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Tales From The Arab Tribes
London: Ernest Benn. First English edition, 1949.
Sixteen tales gathered from the tribes of the "Lower Euphrates", followed by notes on tribal marriage customs and background to the stories; illustrated by John Buckland Wright.
Gift inscription from 1951, bump to top edge, some foxing to prelims. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
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The Magic Of The Stars
London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1930.
Beginning with the immensity of the Universe before spiralling inwards ...
Extremities evenly tanned. Very good in dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
New York: Doubleday. First American edition, 1992.
The recovered journal of a wanderer from a mythical Middle East; first published in Arabic in 1983.
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip tipped-in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Harafish
New York: Doubleday. First American edition, 1994.
Through the generations of the al-Nagi family.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The White Lioness
New York: The New Press. First American edition, 1998.
Wallander #2: the murder of a Swedish housewife leads to ...
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Chronicler of the Winds
London: Harvill Secker. First English edition, 2006.
First published in Sweden in 1995; the effect of living in Africa, specifically Mozambique, on Mankell; not a Wallander novel; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Batouala
New York: Thomas Seltzer. First American edition, 1922.
The first novel by the Martinique writer, based on his experiences with the Colonial Service in the then French Equatorial Africa - Chad, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic; winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1921 and the author's only novel to have appeared in English.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a small piece missing from the crown of the spine.
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Thus Bad Begins
London: Hamish Hamilton. First English edition, 2016.
"and worse remains behind", or further into the Spanish Civil War; signed by the author on a bound-in page between the front free endpaper and the half title.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Barbarian in Asia
New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1949.
Travels in India, China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Himalayas and Burma during 1929-1931 by the Flemish poet; translated by Sylvia Beach; first published in French in 1933.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of chips.
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Torture Garden
New York: Claude Kendall. First American edition, 1931.
First published in France in 1899. A series of episodes, set in the European version of an exotic and erotic East; foreword by Jame Huneker, translation by Alvah Bessie, illustrations by Jeanette Seelhoff.
Owner signature. Top edge darkened, else fine in very good dustwrapper darkened around the perimeter and on the spine.
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Nothing But the Earth
New York: Robert M McBride. First American edition, 1927.
From France, through Japan, Burma, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanks, Djibouti, many points in between, during the 1920s, or, as the dustwrapper would have it, "Paul Morand follows the trail of Twentieth Century confusion around the world".
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Aracoeli
New York: Random House. First American edition, 1984.
An Italian middle aged man's journey into the past in search of his Spanish mother; the author's last novel.
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip laid in, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Assault
New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1985.
The coping strategies in adult life of a survivor of a World War Two massacre.
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Daughters of Fire
London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1923.
"Sylvie-Emilie-Octavie" three long stories from the author's hallucinatory "Les Filles du Feu", first published in France in 1854; translated and introduced by James Whitall.
Very good in dustwrapper nicked along edges and with a short tear at the top right fold of the front panel.
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Journey To The Orient
London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1972.
The author's travels in, mostly, Cairo and Beirut combined with his retellings of local tales; illustrated, selected, translated, introduction by Norman Glass; the sheets of the New York University Press edition with a Peter Owen logo on the binding and dustwrapper.
Owner signature, some pencil annotations on the rear endpaper, foxing to top edge, else very good in dustwrapper.
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Aurelia and Other Writings
Boston: Exact Change. Reissue, 1996.
All of "Aurelia"; selections from "Sylvie", "Octavie", "Isis", and "The Chimeras", all part of "Les Filles du Feu"; "Pandora" and "Walks and Memoirs"; illustrations by Gent Sturgeon, translations by Geoffrey Wagner, Robert Duncan and Marc Lowenthal.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Dirty Dust
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Reprint, 2015.
Listening in on the utterances of the dead; first published in Ireland as Cre na Cille in 1949; translated by Alan Titley.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Oulipo Compendium
London: Atlas Press. First English paperback edition, 1998.
History, guide, foundation documents - 100,000,000,000,000 Poems in translation - alphabetical listing of terms, practitioners, members; as well as sections on the Oupeinpo, Oulipopo and Oubapo groups; illustrated throughout.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The State of Constraint - New Work By Oulipo
San Francisco: McSweeney's. First American edition, 2007.
McSweeneys #22, a contemporary triple decker, other titles: "From the Notebook: the Unwritten Stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald" [realized by seventeen authors]; "The Poetic Chains of Dominic Luxford - Ten Poets Pick Ten More And So On" and the title piece - seventeen pieces, contributors include Harry Mathews (3 pieces), Ian Monk (2), Jacques Roubaud (1) and what looks like the next generation of Oulipiennes.
Pictorial wrappers held in place by magnetic wraparound boards. All fine. The three volumes.
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Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories
London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1981.
Eight stories; translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas De Lange and Philip Simpson, four stories each.
Owner's printed label, top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Other Colors - Essays and a Story
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 2007.
Seventy-three essays, memoirs, reflections, most subjects: Thomas Bernhard, Bosphorus ferries, Vladimir Nabokov, "My wristwatches", "Giving up smoking" and "Tristram Shandy"; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Palinuro of Mexico
London: Quartet Books. First English edition, 1989.
The adventures of Palinuro in encyclopedic form; first published in Mexico in 1976; 500+ dense pages.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Violent Life
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1968.
The Roman underbelly during the mid 1950s.
Fine in dustwrapper darkened on the spine and edges of the folds.
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The Scent of India
London: Olive Press. First English edition, 1984.
The author's diary of his 1961 trip to India with Alberto Moravia and Elsa Morante.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Roman Nights and Other Stories
Marlboro, Vermont: The Marlboro Press. First American edition, 1986.
Five long stories, written between 1950-1965, and all set in the author's preferred locale.
Very good in dustwrapper with a nick at the crown of the spine.
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The Poetics of Experiment - a Study of the Work of Georges Perec
Lexington, Kentucky: French Forum. First American edition, 1984.
Through all Perec's work and much on "formal constraint", or his years and exercises as part of the OULIPO; bibliography of first and secondary sources.
Pictorial wrappers. Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine.
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An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press. Reprint, 2010.
Place Saint-Sulpice: 3 days, 9 pieces, 47pp., the author at his frighteningly obsessive; first published in 1975.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
London: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1977.
Ten fairy tales - including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Cinderella", "Donkey Skin" - newly translated by Angela Carter during her golden years and brilliantly illustrated by Martin Ware.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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The Book of Disquiet - a Selection
London: Quartet Books. First English edition, 1991.
Half the complete text, following the tradition of Prado Coelho in grouping pieces thematically; translation and introduction by Iain Watson.
Pictorial wrappers. Review copy with local publisher's slip tipped in. Prelims and extremities foxed. Very good.
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The Book of Disquietude
Manchester: Carcanet / The Calouste Gulbbenkian Foundation. First English edition, 1991.
Richard Zenith translates and introduces "... the factless autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of 72 literary personae with which Fernando Pessoa created the theater of himself" - Octavio Paz; 523 entries, plus notes and appendices.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Book of Disquiet
New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1991.
Five hundred and twenty entries, 278pp; another version of the Pessoan family, translation by Alfred MacAdam.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Centenary Pessoa
Manchester: Carcanet / The Calouste Gulbbenkian Foundation. Revised edition, 1995.
Primary and secondary material: poetry, selections from The Book of Disquietude (Richard Zenith's translations), prose; Pessoa's Life and Times by L.C. Taylor, two posthumous interviews, other writers' thoughts on Pessoa, introduction by Octavio Paz, "Pessoa who always doubted the reality of this world"; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Book of Disquietude
Manchester: Carcanet / The Calouste Gulbbenkian Foundation. Revised edition, 1996.
Richard Zenith's translation has become "the first, and only complete English edition. Other versions are abridgements"; or, more fragments added, then over to the Pessoa archive for a few more: the bonus tracks of Portuguese Modernism. Introduction and notes by the translator, including the mention that the Pessoa archive contains 25,246 items.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 2001.
Down one vein of the fabled trunk: the author tangles with his creations and they reply in kind; thoughts on "Portugal and the Fifth Empire", "Self-Definition", "Random Notes and Epigrams"; edited, translated and with notes by Richard Zenith.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Tonight We Improvise
New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1932.
After Six Characters in Search of an Author and Each His Own Way, the final volume of the author's trilogy of the theatre within the theatre.
A little offsetting to prelims, else fine in first issue dustwrapper, ie before Pirandello had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Tonight We Improvise
New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1932.
Second issue dustwrapper with, on the rear panel, The New York Times editorial of 9 November 1934, or after the author had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Bookplate, else fine in dustwrapper a little darkened on the spine.
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The Naked Truth
New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1934.
Twelve stories, deeper into Sicily; Nobel Prizewinner limitation of 2,000 copies
Original grey and orange cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in original slipcase which is worn along two edges.
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The Medals
New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1939.
Nineteen of the author's Sicilian stories; published three years after his death.
Fine in dustwrapper with light wear at edges.
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Pirandello's Love Letters to Marta Abba
Princeton: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 1994.
Pirandello's letters written 1929-1936, while he was separated from his collaborator and muse, or in exile all over Western Europe; edited and translated by Benito Ortolani.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Invisible Player
Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press. First American edition, 1988.
A professsor pursues an anonymous critic; an academic thriller, first published in 1978, and the author's first book to appear in English; Eridanos #10.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Bronze Horseman
Settrington, UK: Stone Trough Books. First English edition of this translation, 1999.
Contains "The Shot: a novella", some poetry and the title story; introduced and translated by Robert-Powell Jones, foreword by John Bayley and Mark Jones' eulogy for the translator, his younger brother.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Albucius
Venice, CA: Lapis Press. First American edition, 1992.
Twenty-five pieces - essays and stories - narrated by a patrician Roman who bears a resemblance to Seneca; introduction by the author, translated by Bruce Boone; an unmistakeable Lapis Press production.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Count d'Orgel's Ball
Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press. Second American edition, 1989.
Foreword by Jean Cocteau, "The only honor I can claim is to have given Raymond Radiguet in his life the illustrious place he has conquered with his death"; translation by Annapaola Cancogni; Eridanos #15.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Dust On Her Tongue
London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1989.
Twelve stories by the prolific Guatemalan writer and movie director; translations by Paul Bowles
Extremies evenly tanned, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Larva - Midsummer Night's Babel
London: Quartet Books. First English edition, 1991.
Set in part at a masquerade party in an empty London mansion; foldout map of London intact at rear, followed by 50 b&w photographs of London locations mentioned in the novel, and an index of real people, contemporaries and deceased, who appear in the text; 585pp., first published in Spain in 1983; inscribed warmly by the author to a London bookseller in the year of publication. Julian Rios' inscription has made the title an acronym, "Lost Author Requires Valiant Accomplice".
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Immortal One
London: Calder and Boyars. First English edition, 1971.
A "cine-novel", explanatory notes by the author - 4pp., page and shot nos. throughout, reproductions from the movie version; translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith, first published in France in 1963, simultaneously with the author's movie version.
Very good in dustwrapper nicked around edges.
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker
London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1989.
The author's last book, a novella beginning on a Spring evening in 1934; an Ermanno Olmi movie in 1988, see image.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Season of Migration to the North
New York: Michael Kesend. First American edition, 1989.
London between the World Wars, Wad Hamid, a village in northern Sudan, and Mustafa Sa'eed's periods in both; introduction by Denys Johnson-Davies, the translator.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Baltasar And Blimunda
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1988.
Combination of historical and contemporary novel mostly set in Portugal during the 18th century.
Fine in dustwrapper with a tiny scratch at the top right corner of the front panel.
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Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare
Hygiene, CO: Eridanos Press. First American edition, 1987.
Autobiographical novel by Savinio, aka Andrea de Chirico, brother of Giorgio; translation by Richard Pevear, introduction by Dore Ashton, first published in Italy in 1941; Eridanos #3.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Equal Danger
New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1973.
Judges and the district attorney are murdered; Inspector Rogas appears to take over; a Francesco Rosi movie in 1976.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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Equal Danger
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1974.
Sciascia type murders and webs in a little over 100pp.
Spots of foxing to prelims, else fine in wraparound illustrated dustwrapper by Ron Bowen.
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Sicilian Uncles
Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1986.
Deeper into the author's versions of Sicilianess in four novellas set in the 1848, the Spanish Civil War, the Allied invasion during World War Two and the death of Stalin respectively.
Fine in dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine
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The Seventh Cross
Boston: Little, Brown and Co. Book club edition, 1942.
The author's third book, first to be published in the United States, and concerned with the escape from what is called a Nazi "prison camp". With an offprint from the Book of the Month Club news laid in.
Owner stamp, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a closed tear at the base of the spine.
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The King of the Fields
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1988.
In the valley of the Vistula; translated from the Yiddish by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Engineer of Human Souls
London: Chatto and Windus, the Hogarth Press. First English edition, 1985.
Inside the consciousness of a Czech expatriate; signed by the author.
Remnants of pencil erasure on rear free endpaper. Very good in dustwrapper.
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The Queue
New York: NYROB. Reprint, 2008.
The author's first novel set entirely in a location familiar to everyone except the powerful; new afterword by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Ice Trilogy
New York: NYROB. First American edition, 2011.
"Bro", "Ice" and "23,000", three complete novels: beginning in Siberia in 1908 and on through Russia during the 20th century, almost 700pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Some Prefer Nettles
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1955.
The intricate obligations of Japanese passion.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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Childhood Years: a Memoir
New York: Kodansha International. First American edition, 1988.
Through the Japanese novelist's childhood and the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Fugitive
New York: Morrow. First American edition, 1990.
Indonesia during the last days of World War Two; the author's second novel, first published in 1950.
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Child Of All Nations
New York: Morrow. First American edition, 1991.
Buru Quartet, volume two.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Dancer - a Trilogy of Novels
Jakarta: The Lontar Foundation. First one volume revised English language edition, 2012.
Originally published in three volumes between 1982 and 1986; a village community during the mid 1960s in Indonesia.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Lieutenant Kije and Young Vitushishnikov
Boston: Eridanos Press. First American edition, 1990.
Two historical novellas; translated and introduced by Mirra Ginzburg; Eridanos #20.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Perpetual Orgy
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1986.
The Peruvian writer on Madame Bovary, its author and tolerating existence by escape into "the perpetual orgy" of Literature.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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My Sweet-Orange Tree
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1970.
Illustrations by Frank Bozzo. The author's first book to be translated into English; and his best known: a childhood on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
Donald Yates', Latin American translator and critic, copy with his stamp. Fine in dustwrapper minutely sunned on the spine.
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Reputations
New York: Riverhead Books. First American edition, 2016.
The political cartoonist as protagonist in the contemporary world; originally published in Spanish in 2013; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Women on the Road
London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1961.
Three novellas, all with female protagonists: different ages, circumstances and outlook, contrasted for one image of postwar Italy.
Very good in good dustwrapper.
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The Marquise of O and Other Stories
London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1963.
Preface by Thomas Mann, introduction by Martin Greenberg; six stories and two novellas - "Michael Kohlhaas: from an Old Chronicle" and the title piece.
Owner stamp, spots of foxing to prelims, very good in dustwrapper with tape bleed on reverse.
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The Orient-Express
London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1993.
A central European, from somewhere like Romania, but American since World War Two, on board "the dream vehicle that turns back the clock".
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Robert Walser Rediscovered
Hanover: University Press of New England. First American edition, 1983.
Twenty pieces by Walser - prose, poems, forethoughts, anti fairy-tales; essays and appreciations by Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Christopher Middleton and others; chronology and bibliography, 225pp.
Fine in dustwrapper evenly sunned on the spine.
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A Little Ramble: in the Spirit of Robert Walser
New York: Christine Burgin / Donald Young Gallery / New Directions. First American edition, 2012.
Thirteen of the author's unmistakable pieces interspersed with reproductions of works by contemporary artists inspired by Walser's writing and exhibited at the Donald Young Gallery. The artists include Tacita Dean, Joseph McElheny, Rodney Graham and Moyra Davey; introduction by Donald Young.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Schoolboy's Diary
New York: NYRB. First American edition, 2013.
Sixty pieces, beginning with a selection from "Fritz Kocher's Essays", the classroom assignments of a fiction boy; translations by Damion Searls, introduction Ben Learner.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Looking at Pictures
New York: Christine Burgin / New Directions. First American edition, 2015.
Twenty-one essays - Brueghel, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Watteau, Beardsley, "The Kiss", Manet; nineteen tipped-in colour plates of the paintings referred to: a modest, spectacular production.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Three Geishas
London: Cassell. First English edition, 1956.
Stories of three contemporary geishas.
A little bowed, else fine in dustwrapper.
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A Late Divorce
Garden City, NY: Doubleday. First American edition, 1984.
An elderly couple's divorce, during Passover; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel.
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The Poet
London: The Harvill Press. First English edition, 1995.
The prolific Korean novelist's first book to appear in English: an historical novel of an itinerant poet carrying a heavy backstory in 19th century Korea; first published in 1992.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Fires
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1981.
Nine monologues based on stories from the classical worlds combined with the author's autobiographical reflections.
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Two Lives and a Dream
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1987.
Three novellas; all set in late Renaissance Europe.
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