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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 Skvorecky.
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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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; indexed, annotated; and primary source material from the Europe bubbling away between the World Wars.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: William Drenttel. First American edition, 1994.
(Academics + nature) x consciousness = trouble; a short, spectacular story. Translated by Craig Kinosian. Hand set in Optima types, printed on Johannot paper at Aralia Press, December 1994.
Single sheet folded to make four pages hand sewn into a cover of handmade paper. Fine. 120 copies.
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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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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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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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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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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1947.
The author's only novel, first published as 'Die Blending' in Vienna in 1935, as 'Auto da Fe' in England in 1946; Peter Kien in a spiral.
Fine in dustwrapper designed by George Salter featuring a brilliant representation of Peter Kien in his library.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 a little darkened on the spine.
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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 very good dustwrapper faded on the spine.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New York: The New Press. First American edition, 1998.
Wallander #3: the murder of a Swedish woman crosses with Apartheid South Africa; crime connects a sleepy police force to global events, including a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela – but what does this do to Wallander's state of mind?
Fine in dustwrapper.
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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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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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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".
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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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Hygiene, Colorado: Eridanos Press. First American edition, 1987.
Thirty pieces – stories, reflections, examinations of minutiae – written between 1920 and 1929, first published in German in Zurich in 1936; translated by Peter Wortsman, Eridanos #1.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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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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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.
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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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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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New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1934.
Twelve stories, deeper into Sicily; Nobel Prize winner 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1974.
Sciascian murders, webs and compromises, in a little over 100pp.
Spots of foxing to prelims, else fine in wraparound illustrated dustwrapper by Ron Bowen.
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1988.
In the valley of the Vistula; translated from the Yiddish by the author.
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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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London: Pushkin Press. First English paperback edition, 2007.
An obscure central European state, between the World Wars, a coup planned, the ruler's strategy involves a move to Venice, whereupon ...; first published pseudonymously (and appropriately) in Hungary in 1942.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Kodansha International. First American edition, 1988.
Through the Japanese novelist's childhood and the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
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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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New York: Morrow. First American edition, 1991.
Buru Quartet, volume two.
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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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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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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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New York: Riverhead Books. First American edition, 2016.
A visitor from the protagonist's past and a Barbara Vine like unravelling; signed by the author.
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London: Jonathan Cape. First English edition, 1961.
Three novellas, all with female protagonists: different ages, circumstances and outlook: images of postwar Italy.
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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".
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London: Cassell. First English edition, 1956.
Stories of three contemporary geishas.
A little bowed, else fine in dustwrapper.
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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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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 nineteenth century Korea; first published in 1992.
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