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Last year’s translated roundup arrives bigger, better and a month late. Who’s in it? The oldest of couples: Brassai and Paris (plus forty-five other French writers on the City of Light); Stendhal and Love; Joseph Roth and Europe between the World Wars; the complete reign of King Ubu; the best of Guy de Maupassant’s 300 stories; the appearance of Tevye six years before his arrival on Broadway; a night out with Borges in Buenos Aires; a murder victim on a giant chessboard; books from Somalia, Iceland, Cuba, Egypt and Peru; a working over for Robinson Crusoe, Joan of Arc and Agatha Christie; a manuscript found in the car crash that killed Albert Camus; travels in Mongolia in 1844; and thoughts on the intricacies of translation.
New York: The Vanguard Press. First American edition, 1958.
'The First Anthology of Native African Writing', aka 'Black Africa': south and east of the Sahara, Ethiopia and Madagascar; poetry, prose, folktales, fifty-eight pieces; foreword by Can Themba, preface by Trevor Huddleston, short biographies of the contributors.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First English edition, 2007.
Two novella-length cases for gentleman sleuth Erast Petrovich Fandorin during the late nineteenth century in Moscow; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Andre Deutsch. First English edition, 1958.
Twenty-one stories, including 'Tevye Wins a Fortune', the first of the eight stories featuring Tevye, parts of which evolved into 'Fiddler on the Roof', translated by Julius and Frances Butwin; illustrations by Ben Shahn; glossary (7pp.)
Extremities evenly tanned, else very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English edition, 2009.
'My Mother's Story'; Kamila, a nine-year-old girl from a village in southern Lebanon, arrives in Beirut in 1934 ...; inscribed by the author in 2010; translated from the Arabic by Roger Allen.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Los Angeles: Panjandrum Books. First American paperback edition, 1982.
The texts are: 'To Georges Le Breton (Draft of a Letter)', March 7, 1946, 10pp; 'Artaud the Momo', poetry 36pp; 'To Have Done with the Judgment of God', poetry and prose, 18pp; and 'The Theatre of Cruelty and an Open Letter to the Reverend Father Laval', 15pp., plus notes, 2pp; translated by Clayton Eshleman and Norman Glass.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Picador. First English paperback edition, 1987.
'Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives'; eyes wide shut through space and time with a wide net, contributors include: Guillaume Apollinaire, Ludovico Ariosto, Aristole, Antonin Artaud, Artemidorus and Saint Augustine for the 'A's'; 378pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Extremities tanned and foxed. Very good.
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London: Fourth Estate. First English edition, 2008.
Chicago, post 9/11, at the University of Illinois Medical Centre; translated from the Arabic by Farouk Abdel Wahab; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Rockliff. Reprint, [c.1951].
A theatrical autobiography, 1931-1949; illustrated, artists include Balthus, Pierre Cabanne, Andre Masson and Jean Hugo; translated by Barbara Wall. Signed by Jean-Louis Barrault at his portrait frontispiece, Madeleine Renaud, his wife, and Simone Valere, the wonderful French actor in movies during the 1940s and 1950s. English playwright and scriptwriter Hugh Whitemore's copy with his signature.
Original maroon cloth. Extremities and spine darkened. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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London: Marion Boyars. First English edition thus, 1989.
Three pieces, all complete, either published in small numbers during the author's lifetime or found among his papers after his death; with new translations by Austryn Wainhouse; together with 'Georges Bataille and the Divine Deus' by Yukio Mishima, 'In the Slaughterhouse of Love' by Ken Hollings, and an autobiographical piece by Georges Bataille (6pp.).
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Bloomsbury. First American edition, 2008.
'The Hound of the Baskervilles' reopened; are there no limits to postmodernism? Translated by Charlotte Mandell.
Small mark top edge, else fine in very good dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine.
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London: John Calder. First English edition, 1976.
'Still'; Fizzles: 'He is barehead', 'Horn came always', 'Afar a Bird', 'I gave up before birth', 'Closed place', 'Old earth'; and the title piece. 'Still' written in English, the other pieces all translated from the French by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Quartet. First English edition, 1986.
An autobiographical piece by the Austrian novelist, paying tribute to a real life friendship, peppered with fiery tirades aimed at psychiatrists, German newspapers, literary prizes, and actors; translated by Ewald Osers.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Quartet Books. First English edition, 1991.
Four characters and suicide, these back and forward; working my way towards the end of the first sentence; translated by Ewald Osers.
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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New York: Criterion Books. First American edition, 1957.
Two German families grappling with their immediate pasts in the early 1950s; the first of a series of 'classics' by the pacifist author, who encapsulated his beliefs in the phrase "never war again".
Fine in dustwrapper with a couple of minor chips.
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[San Francisco]: Chronicle Books, nd.
The labyrinth aside, the author's abiding subject, which he plotted with axioms into old age; from his introduction to 'Doctor Brodie's Report' (first English language edition 1970).
Publisher's promotional poster. Heavy card, measures 42 x 32cms. Unrolled, fine.
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London: Thames and Hudson. First English edition, 1976.
'During my first years in Paris, beginning in 1924, I lived at night, going to bed at sunrise, getting up at sunset, wandering about the city from Montparnasse to Montmartre.'; one hundred and fifty photographs from those wanderings; translated from the French by Richard Miller.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1928.
The struggle of the sixteenth century Danish astronomer between faith and science; first published in German in 1915, translated by Felix Warren Crosse, introduction by Stefan Zweig, printed dedication 'to my friend Franz Kafka'.
Mark to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1984.
Coming of age sexually and cinematically in Havana during the 1950s by the novelist and, as Guillermo Cain, the author of the screenplay for 'Vanishing Point'; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and the author.
Faint foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1988.
The history of Cuba from the landing of the Spanish to Fidel Castro taking power, told as a novel.
Foxing to extremities. A couple of spots to prelims. Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Allen Lane. First English edition, 2019.
Plotting our way to, “For those of us living at this moment, the most exact and most acute sensation is one of not knowing where we are treading from day to day …. We are living in the ‘unnamable present.’” Translated by Richard Dixon.
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New York: Paragon House. First American edition, 1992.
Russia during the 1905 revolution, service in two World Wars, Brazil during the 1920s, other hot spots, and many poems and novels in between; translated by Nina Rootes, introduction by Marjorie Perloff.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Adam Books and Curwen Press. First English edition, 1966.
Adam #300, published the previous year as an issue of the journal, dedicated to Jean Cocteau. Texts and illustrations, contributors include James Joyce, Osip Zadkine, Paul Celan, Silvina Ocampo, Georges Simenon, Olivia Manning, Pablo Picasso, Anne Sexton, Louise De Vilmorin, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau.
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on the front panel reproducing illustrations by Jean Cocteau who did them for the journal.
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London: The Folio Society. First edition thus, 1976.
Rosamond Lehmann's translation, followed by the author's sixty illustrations, first published separately in 1934, and which retell the illustrated version of the story of the dark power-play between two siblings that later inspired an opera, a ballet and a film.
"It has the rare merit of reading as though it were an English original." Times Literary Supplement.
Pictorial cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in slipcase with a couple of marks.
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London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. First English edition, 1971.
Romanticism in France: Selected from the five-volume French edition and divided into 'Early Letters' (1813-1824), off to England and Morocco (1825-1832), 'Maturity' (1833-1853), and 'Last Years' (1854-1863); edited and translated by Jean Stewart, introduction by John Russell; index of correspondents, bibliography etc.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Viking. First American edition, 1978.
Essays, letters, poems on the art of the Delaunays by Apollinaire, Rene Crevel, Blaise Cendrars and others, notes on other artists; 250+pp., edited and introduced by Arthur A. Cohen, translated by David Shapiro and Arthur A. Cohen; from the publisher's series The Documents of 20th Century Art.
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper darkened on folds.
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New York: Harper Collins. First American paperback edition, 2007.
First published in 1833; new translation and introduction by John Baxter who has tipped-in a typed note, signed, setting out the background to his translation and, in general, the fate of erotica in translation.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Gallic Books. First English edition, 2017.
Arthur Morgan is captivated by three people he meets on the Queen Mary, leaving newly liberated but financially depressed France to study at an Ivy League University in America in the 1950s, returns to France, builds a career – but the past will not leave him alone.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Gallic Books. First English edition, 2017.
A 1920s chidhood in Paris and Monte Carlo; memoir fiction.
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 2014.
'A Philosophical Lexicon': c.400 definitions and short essays on terms including 'shensucht', 'sprezzatura', 'sublime', 'shame', 'stemming' etc; indexed, 1,300pp.
Review copy with press release laid in. Slight, short tear in rear cover, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Normal, ILL: Dalkey Archive Press. First American edition, 1994.
'I would like to see someone write about me the way I write. Such a book would include everything at once,' Marguerite Duras once said. Alain Vircondelet meets her wish, purposely emulating Duras's own style of prose, and writing in the present tense.
This first full length biography separates fact from fiction, from her birth in colonial Indochina, the intellectual skirmishes of the 1950s, the leftist movements of the 1960s, and the signing of Manifesto 343 in 1971 to say she'd had an abortion.
Stamped 'Review Copy' on the half-title page, top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First English edition, 1983.
East Asian proverbs, four for each day of the year, most Chinese and Japanese, also Thai, Malay, Dyak, Burmese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, Korean; indexed by theme, keywords, phrases and with notes of origin.
Fine in dustwrapper with a crease along the bottom of the front panel.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1995.
Sixteen pieces written in the first few years of the twentieth century during the author's time in North Africa and, in exile, in Marseilles; translated by Sharon Bangert.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 2005.
Eighteen essays, subjects include: 'Some Functions of Literature', Oscar Wilde, Symbolism, Style, 'Borges and My Anxiety of Influence', and 'A Reading of the Paradiso'; translated by Martin McLaughlin.
Faint foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. First edition, 1999.
Eight essays: 'Draft for an Introduction to the Aegean World', 'Report to Andreas Embirikos', 'The Method of 'Therefore'', 'The Collages', 'Address to the Swedish Academy', 'Things Public and Private', 'Private Way' and 'Slow Ahead'; nine reproductions of works by the poet; translated by David Connolly.
Illustrated boards. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued.
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London: Barrie and Rockliff. First English edition, 1964.
The colonial protagonist and narrator unravels in Mogadishu, Somalia; published as 'Black Week' in Italy in 1961; translation by Peter Green.
Fine in dustwrapper a little rubbed on the rear panel.
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London: Hutchinson Radius. First English edition, 1989.
'What else is Europe but a conglomeration of mistakes?': 'Swedish Autumn', 'Italian Extravagances', 'Hungarian Confusions', 'Portuguese Reveries', 'Polish Incidents', 'Spanish Shards', 'The Seacoast of Bohemia, 2006', and an Afterword; translated by Martin Chalmers.
Spots of foxing top edge, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Penguin. First English edition of this translation, 2012.
Provincial life and intrigue in 1929 during the Weimar Republic; first published in 1931 as 'Farmers, Functionaries and Fireworks'; translated here by Michael Hofmann, foreword by Jenny Williams. Barry Humphries' copy with his bookplate and a note from the publisher with a press release sending it to him after his endorsement of 'Alone in Berlin'.
Fine in dustwrapper with endorsements from Robert Musil and Hermann Hesse.
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Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Doran and Co. First American edition, 1942.
'The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarnieto Written by Himself for His Children', written 1816, a picaresque novel of Mexico's move to independence; translation and introduction by Katherine Anne Porter.
Fine in dustwrapper, illustrated by Jean Charlot, with light wear along edges.
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London: World Distributors. First English edition thus, 1959.
Third century BC – Decadent Carthage after hours, where touching a sacred veil can bring death.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Macmillan. First English edition, 1932.
A small town east of Berlin, the rise of Nazism, in a struggle with Agrarians and Communists, all narrated by the local schoolmaster; translated by F.H. Lyon.
A little edgewear, else fine in very good dustwrapper chipped at the crown of the spine.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American edition, 1930.
A tortured triangular romance, the best known novel by the anti-fascist screenwriter, an unlikely American movie – 'Desire Me' – featuring Greer Garson and Robert Mitchum, and, from this distance a spectacular example of American book design: woodgrain paper covered boards and spine label, illustrations after woodblocks by Ilse Bischoff, original glassine wrapper, and housed in the publisher's box.
Fine as issued in transparent dustwrapper and original slipcase a little rubbed along edges.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1982.
An unreliable, untrustworthy narrator at work, crossing generations from Latin America to Europe, and the conflict between the Old World and the New.
Very good in dustwrapper sunned on the spine and with a short closed tear at the base of the spine.
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1990.
Five long mystery stories, where people are alive who should be dead and mannequins have souls; the author's second collection.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1997.
Two estranged Cuban sisters: one in Cuba, the other in a larger country nearby, reunited after many years apart, family secrets uncovered.
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Paris: Flammarion. First English edition, 2012.
Monograph on the seventeenth century French Baroque artist; illustrated, 300+pp; translated from the French by Fabia Claris.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Eastman Kodak and Aperture. First American edition, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Marguerite Duras, 'And then there is this woman who is everywhere in R.G.'s books: her face is between twenty and ten thousand years old. She is naked. She looks at no one. She faces the desert. She is beyond R.G., toward the South. Sometimes her eyes are closed. Sometimes almost closed.'; one hundred full page colour reproductions of the photographer's familiar telling, suggestive textures and details and, for this exhibition, all and only France.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Viking Press. Reprint, 1929.
The author's autobiographical novel on coming of age during World War One, though not old enough to be drafted; one of the books burned by the Nazis in May 1933; translated by Edwin and Willa Muir; first published in German in 1928 and second printing here in the same month of first publication.
Fine in very good dustwrapper chipped along edges and the crown of the spine.
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London and New Haven: Quartet. First English editions. Yale University Press. First American edition, 1988-1993.
'The faithful dog of my soul', according to the author, or three volumes of autobiography covering the second half of Witold Gombrowicz’s life in Argentina, a small part of his life in Germany and France after his return to Europe in 1963, and bits and pieces of Poland which he left in 1939, never to return. Together with a separately published collection of autobiographical sketches of his childhood, youth, early literary career and colleagues, written for Radio Free Europe while living in Argentina through the late 1950s.
All fine in dustwrappers. The four vols.
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. First American edition, 2004.
The author's reflections on his last years living in France and lecturing on philosophy, 'Beginning with Kant and Descartes', and the latter's single important idea: absolute doubt; translated by Benjamin Fry.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Co. First American edition, 1936.
'The storm had lasted the whole night'; the cycles and passions of village life in Iceland; translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier; frontispiece and dustwrapper illustration by Rockwell Kent.
Very good in dustwrapper creased at the crown and base of the spine.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1962.
A selection of wartime correspondence between Isoko Hatano and her son Ichiro, beginning when he was eight in May 1945, and continuing here until April 1948; first published in Japan in 1950.
Scattered foxing top edge, very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Peter Owen and The Vision Press. First English edition, 1961.
The author's first novel, and most autobiographical, originally published in 1904; leaving behind a mountain village to cross the diverse landscapes of Europe in search of purpose, love and new experiences; translated by W.J. Strachan.
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London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1959.
The first novel by the Polish writer and scriptwriter re Warsaw in the aftermath of World War Two; a sensation on publication, banned, leading to exile for the author; translated from the Polish by Norbert Guterman.
Owner signature. Offsetting to prelims and some foxing to extremities. Good in dustwrapper.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1991.
One of four novels written after the author's exile from Poland in 1958, published in Polish in 1965, and the first of the four to be translated into English. Four Polish hustlers on the make in the young state of Israel, with a dog as part of their act.
A couple of spots of foxing, else fine in dustwrapper with endorsements from Roman Polanski and Jerzy Kosinski.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1927.
Fathers Gabet and Huc, exploring Mongolia in 1844; edited from the first French edition by H.D'Ardenne de Tizac, translated by W.Hazlitt, and with woodcut illustrations from the first French edition.
Offsetting to prelims, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Macgibbon and Kee. First English omnibus editions, 1967.
Three complete novels: 'The Army of Love' by Renzo Biasion (the Italian campaign in Greece), 'The Deserts of Libya' by Mario Tobino (North Africa), and 'Sergeant in the Snow' by Mario Stern (on the Russian plains in 1943, first published in English in 1954); all complete; translations by Archibald Colquhoun and Antonia Cowan.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Tokyo: Kodansha International. First English edition, 1966.
Five stories: 'The Catch' by Kenzaburo Oe, 'Sakurajima' by Haruo Umezaki, 'Summer Flower' by Tamiki Hara, 'Bones' by Fumiko Hayashi, and 'The Far-Worshipping Commander' by Masuji Ibuse; all re Japan and 'the War', World War Two.
Owner's stamps and gift inscription, good in dustwrapper chipped along edges.
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New York: Boar's Head Press. First American edition, 1953.
Casting a long shadow over twentieth and twenty-first century literature: 'King Turd', 'King Turd Enslaved' and 'Turd Cuckolded', 'Ubu Roi' complete in English for the first time; translation by Beverley Keith and Gershon Legman; preface, the speech by the author before the first performance, Paris 1896; dedicated to Marcel Schwob.
A little edgewear, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. First American edition, 1990.
An Arab folk epic written between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries; featuring a king of Yemen from the sixth century who cuts a swathe through Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan; introduction by Harry Norris (19pp.); glossary of names and places.
Review copy with promotional sheet laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Child Okeford, Dorset: Words Press. Second English edition, 1988.
'Channels and passageways have sprung open within him with a complexity and rapidity that are almost frightening', thoughts on humanity between the World Wars; translated by David Gascoyne; first published in French in 1933, previously published in English in Poetry London.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. A little sunned around spine else fine.
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New York: Schocken Books. First American edition, 1947.
The first biography by the author's friend and literary executor; translated by G.Humphreys Roberts.
Fine in very good dustwrapper missing a small piece from the top of the rear panel.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1954.
'And Other Posthumous Prose Writings' – 'Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way', 'The Eight Octavo Note-books', 'Letter to His Father', 'Fragments from Note-books and Loose Pages', 'Paralipomena', and the title piece; notes by Max Brod, the author's literary executor and first biographer, translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser; 446pp.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press. First American edition, 1996.
A pilgrimage to the shrine of Ahmad al-Badawi, Sufi saint, in the city of Tanta.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper with a short nick on the front panel.
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New York: The Macaulay Company. First American edition, 1928.
Among the Russian emigres in Paris after the Revolution; boarding house, cabarets, interlocking stories and characters, '... mad forgetfulness and hysterical laughter ring throughout this novel of their hectic, despairing lives'; translated by Jack Kahane.
Owner signature. Very good in good dustwrapper chipped along edges and beginning to crack along folds.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1973.
Trailblazing interviews with Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, G. Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz at the height of the Latin American Literature boom in English; translated by Frances Partridge, introduction by Emir Rodriguez Monegal, twenty-four illustrations, 436pp.
Fine in dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks
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London: Les Fugitives. First English edition, 2020.
A long, hard look at Pippa Bacca's journey alongside a similar process for the author and her relationship with her mother; translated by Natasha Lehrer.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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London: Atlas Press. First English edition, 1990.
Written 1927-1928 in the throes of the Surrealist movement, first published in France in 1946; translated and introduced by Anna Warby.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 1,800 copies.
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San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich. First American edition, 1982.
Five new adventures of Pirx, a working astronaut, sometime in the twenty first or twenty second century.
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London: MacLehose Press. First American edition, 2015.
World War One Literature, first published in 2013 and Prix Goncourt winner that year.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. First American edition, 1972.
Two plays by the eighteenth century German writer written in Goethe's orbit; translation, introduction, notes and chronology of the author's life by William E. Yuill.
translated and introduced by william e Yuill
Fine in very good dustwrapper lightly worn around perimeter and with a mark on front panel where the price sticker has been removed.
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London: Rapp and Whiting and Andre Deutsch. First English edition, 1973.
'Lazy Dragon the Master Thief', 'The Miraculous Recovery', 'The Merchant and the Fox', and the title piece; seventeenth century Chinese erotica; translated, edited and notes by John Scott.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Leningrad and Amsterdam: Russian Museum and Stedelijk Museum. First edition, 1988.
Exhibition catalogue: Collects works from the collection of the State Russian Museum Leningrad, State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, State Theatre Museum Leningrad and Museum of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory Leningrad; eleven essays, three by the artist; illustrated throughout, most colour; 288pp; parallel Russian English text.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: W.H.Allen. First English edition, 1967.
The Algerian War in French Literature; translated by Herma Briffault.
Top edge darkened, very good in dustwrapper designed by Milton Glaser.
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Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. First American edition, 1986.
In a village in Sumatra during the final days of World War Two; first published in Indonesian in 1977 and translated here by John H. McGlynn; glossary (6pp.)
Foxing to top edge, else very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Macmillan. First English edition, 1984.
Fifteenth century epic of chivalry, romance and war; first published in Catalan in 1490, first English translation, and foreword, by David H. Rosenthal.
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1923.
The wonderful title story, Charles Jouvent's visit to Italy where he encounters the sisters, 'In 1874 I was seized with desire to see Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples'; followed by thirteen others by one of the greatest masters of the short story in world literature; translated and edited by Ernest Boyd.
Fine in dustwrapper a little darkened on the spine
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1924.
Twenty-seven stories chipping away at the author's three hundred, including 'The Necklace' (1884) inspiration for stories, movies and homages extending to Nabokov's 'Ada'.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a closed tear at the base of the spine and a couple of nicks.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1924.
Thermal springs in Auvergne promising cures, a gold rush for new money, a lover but reluctant father, financial problems – mais c'est la vie; the third of six novels written between 1883 and 1890, without mentioning the countless stories; translated by Storm Jameson, the English novelist.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1924.
Eighteen stories translated and edited by Ernest Boyd.
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened around perimeter.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition of this translation, 1995.
Sailing around the Mediterranean on board the Bel-Ami, the author's yacht; plus translations of three articles: 'War', 'In the Presence of Death' and 'The Carthusian Monastery of La Verne'; chronology, maps, bibliography; translation by Marlo Johnston, illustrations by E. Riou.
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London: Phoenix House. First English edition, 1998.
A murder victim, dead on a giant chessboard, and in Vienna as well; translated by Jon Rothschild.
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Budapest: Corvina. First one volume edition, 1982.
'The Siege of Beszterce' (first published 1894), 'Gentry Wedding' (1897), and 'The Sipsirica' (1902), all complete; biographical piece (12pp.) re the author by Balazs Szappanos, translated by Lily Halapy.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Marion Boyars. First English edition, 1976.
Twenty-five prose pieces and extracts, written over a fifty-year period, and, according to the author, 'By and large the material can be considered new if, as has often been said, nothing is as unexplored as a work which has already been published'; translated by Alastair Hamilton; #23 in the publisher's Signature series.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1974.
Five trips to Africa during the 1960s and early 1970s and thirty-eight essays later, including:'The Market at Fort Lamy', 'Fear in Africa', 'Spies and Photographers', 'Irregular Vegetable Life', and 'Encounters at Malindi'.
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New York: The Ecco Press. First American edition, 1976.
An anthology of seventeen European and South American writers, between four and eight pieces from each contributor, see image for authors; Bob Brissenden's copy with his signature.
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in good dustwrapper worn at edges.
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New York: Coward McCann. First American edition, 1929.
Travels in Spain, and a slip across to Tangier, during the 1920s by the Danish author of 'Pelle the Conqueror'; translated by Jacob Wittmer Hartmann.
A little edgewear, else very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Secker and Warburg. First English edition, 1957.
On Leyte, the Philippines, with the shattered Japanese army towards the end of World War Two; translation by Ivan Morris.
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London: Cassell. First English edition, 1934.
Down and out in Stockholm; translated from the Swedish by Ingrid Modin and first published there in 1932.
Foxing to extremities, canted, good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 2009.
Pathological obsessive love, fetishistic rituals and memorabilia that end up in a museum, and if that bores you, there is the enthralment of Istanbul in changing times; translated by Maureen Freely.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Harvill. First English edition, 1951.
Printed, signed manuscript pieces by forty-five French writers (see adjacent image for contributors), facing full page photographs by Izis Bidermans of the city after World War Two; contents and English translations of all the texts bound in at rear; #79/500 numbered copies.
Original grey cloth stamped in gold. Romantic inscription dated 1954 on rear free endpaper, else near fine without dustwrapper as issued in original pictorial slipcase which is worn and cracked at edges.
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London: Quartet. First English edition, 1992.
Up to his move to Rome in the early 1950s, plus long extracts from Pasolini's diaries; edited by Nico Naldini, translated by Stuart Hood; 500+pp., annotated.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Calder and Boyars. First English paperback edition, 1970.
Not poetry, the author's other book translated into English. First published as 'The Bloody Countess', reissued to tie-in with the Hammer movie version featuring Ingrid Pitt as the notorious Countess; translation by Alexander Trocchi.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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New York: The Orion Press. First American edition, 1960.
Fourteen days, sixteen stories, two sequels, one continuation, three bonus stories, most set in eighteenth century Spain, featuring a familiarly diverse cast of characters and situations; translated by Elisabeth Abbott, edited and preface by Roger Caillois.
Small abrasion front free endpaper a price sticker has been removed, extremities tanned, about very good in dustwrapper missing pieces from the crown of the spine.
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New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 1991.
The author's last novel, playing between Brazil and Argentina, comprised of dialogue, police transcripts and letters.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. First American edition, 1964.
Six categories of essays and shorter pieces: 'Poetry', 'Ancient Poets', 'Modern Poets', 'Literary Criticism', 'On the Theatre and Cinema' and a miscellaneous group; indexed.
Fine in dustwrapper a little darkened on the spine.
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London: John Calder. First English edition, 1963.
Bohemian Paris 1907; the first of two novels by the art dealer and collector, published when he was seventy-four; made into a film by Francois Truffaut who described the novel as 'a perfect hymn to love'; translated by Patrick Evans.
Owner signature. Very good in dustwrapper chipped at worn at extremities and reproducing an image from the movie directed by Francois Truffaut.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1979.
Self-described 'Frenchman from the East, Humanist, rationalist with religion, Catholic with a Jewish intelligence...What an oddity!', best known for writing about the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and rise of nationalism from his exile in Paris, shares his thoughts on the Russian Revolution in his 'Trotsky novel', written in 1928, and never published in the author's lifetime; translated by David Le Vay.
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London: Chatto and Windus and the Hogarth Press. Second English edition, 1985.
One subject, through all of one night in a Paris bar; translated by Desmond L. Vesey.
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Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press. Second American edition, 1987.
Peasant, saint, murderer, in one lifetime, set against World War One and the Russian Revolution; translated by Winifred Katzin.
Review copy with publishers slip laid in, faint foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1988.
Two novellas, first published in 1923 and 1928 respectively; the interior worlds of a customs officer and a clerk sitting within German politics between the World Wars; translated by John Hoare.
Remainder dot bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine.
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London: Granta Books. first English edition, 2004.
'Reports from France 1925-1939': fifty pieces, including 'America over Paris', 'Bullfight on Sunday', 'Books About Soldiers', 'Children Are Exchanged' and pieces on Lyons, Vienna, Avignon, Marseilles and Paris; translated by Michael Hofmann.
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Bucharest: The Book Publishing House. First edition, 1955.
Six stories: 'The End of Jacob Onisia' by Geo Bogza, 'Daybreak Meeting' by Adrian Cernescu, 'Family Jewels' (a fragment) by Petru Dumitriu, 'They Pay with Their Lives' by Camil Petrescu, 'The Right Man in the Right Place' by Andras Suto, 'I, Popescu of the Boundaries' by A.D. Zamfirescu; various translators.
Very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
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Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Publications. First American edition, 1987.
Collects poetry, prose, drama, non-fiction and documents; contributors include: Osip Mandelstam, Evgeny Zamyatin, Isaac Babel, the Smithy, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Ilf and Petrov, Alexandra Blok, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and on through 550+pp., introduction by Robert A. Maguire; bibliography of English translations.
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New York: Harcourt Inc. First American edition, 2000.
'In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture': fieldwork in the author's own land.
Fine in dustwrapper sunned around the top of the front and rear panels and spine.
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt. First American edition, 2009.
'Let yourself be led by the child you were'. An adult in Lisbon looks back to a childhood in Azinhaga.
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New York: Schocken Books. First American edition, 1948.
A long essay on the components of antisemitism written after the liberation of Paris in 1944, part first published in 1945, complete text in 1946; translated by George J. Becker.
Fine in dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.
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Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Press. First American edition, 1987.
Musings over mortality in a journal of a week spent in the Abruzzi highlands followed by a week in the Etruscan burial sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri; the author's first book to appear in English.
Owner's blind stamp, else fine in dustwrapper with a faint mark on the front panel.
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Marlboro, Vermont: The Marlboro Press. First American edition, 1988.
Fifteen 'lives', including: Isadora Duncan, Guillaume Appolinaire, Jules Vernes, Carlo Collodi, Nostradamus, Arnold Bocklin and Giuseppe Verdi; translated by John Shepley.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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[Portland, ME]: [Thomas B. Mosher]. First American edition in this format, 1923.
Eight narrators retell the medieval legend of the crusade by 30,000 children to Jerusalem and its tragic consequences; translated by Henry Copley Greene; introduction by John L. Foley; four hundred and fifty copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper (total edition 500).
Fine in very good chipped and torn glassine dustwrapper.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First American edition, 1992.
Four novellas – tales of crime against a sinister political backdrop: 'Death and the Knight', 'A Straightforward Tale', '1912+1' and the title piece.
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Munich: Knorr and Hirth. First English language edition, 1963.
'In the beginning was the wrath of earth. Then came Apollo and killed the chthonic dragon, the Python. The dead beast was left to rot. From this, it is said, came Delphi's first name, Pytho'; translated by Philip Sherrard; sixteen colour plates, twenty black and white reproductions from photographs by Herbert Kreff.
Small ink annotation on front free endpaper and bookseller's stamp, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Boston: Little Brown and Co. First American edition, 1966.
Eleven 'Selected Essays in Poetry and Hellenism', including: 'Cavafy and Eliot: a Comparison', 'On a Phrase of Pirandello', 'Letter to a Foreign Friend', 'Dialogue on Poetry: What is Meant by Hellenism?'; translated by Rex Warner and Th. D. Frangopoulos, introduction by Rex Warner.
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London: Marion Boyars. First English edition, 1985.
Eleven stories and a radio play by the actor, movie director as well as short story writer.
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich. First American edition, 1973.
'All my life I've been chasing the hole within myself': two women meet in a Simenonian bar.
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London: Turnstile Press. First English edition, 1951.
'What precisely is love?' is the protagonist's enduring question; the author's last novel; translation and introduction by T.W. Earp.
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London: John Calder. First English edition, 1959.
Forty-two pieces, including: 'The Women of Italy', 'The Jesuits and the Aristocracy', 'The Revolution in Literature and the Reaction in Philosophy' and 'Charlatanism and the Necessity of Criticism'; indexed.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Hamish Hamilton. First English editions, 1988.
'Mina de Vanghel' plus the unfinished title piece; translation and afterword by Richard Howard, introduction by Michel Deon.
Extremities evenly tanned, else fine in dustwrapper.
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University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. First American edition, 1971.
Strindberg's autobiographical novel of his four-year marriage to Baroness Siri Von Essen; translated by Anthony Swerling from the original French version first published in 1895.
Top edge dusty. Very good in dustwrapper sunned on the spine.
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London: Collins. First English edition, 1963.
Italian families' tensions in a Milanese tenement building some distance from the economic boom; 'Il fabbricone' in Italian, translated by Sidney Alexander.
Foxing to prelims and extremities, good in very good dustwrapper worn at the crown of the spine.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday. First American edition, 1969.
Tournier's retelling and reworking of the Robinson Crusoe story, one of his better known novels reinterpreting myths and legends, fusing myth and philosophy; translated by Norman Denny.
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip laid in. Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on rear panel
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London: Doubleday. First American edition, 1981.
A combination twins and quest novel in a pilgrimage that leads all around the world; translated by Anne Carter.
Spots of foxing top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Collins. First English edition, 1983.
Fourteen stories, journeys through the author's world of ogres, dwarfs, Robinson Crusoe ...; all translated by Barbara Wright.
Faint foxing top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Grove Weidenfeld. First American edition, 1990.
Joan of Arc and her relationship with Gilles de Rais, 'It was at the end of the winter of 1429 – on 25 February – at the Chateau de Chinon that their destinies crossed'; translated by Alan Sheridan.
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London: Bloomsbury. First English paperback edition, 1997.
'Lost in an art'; thoughts on translation beginning with 'A une Damoyselle malady' by Clement Marot, 28 lines written in 1537.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Broadway, NSW: Halstead Press. First Australian edition, 2003.
'Southerly', Vol.63, No.1; essays by, among many, Peter Porter, Nicholas Jose, Andrew Riemer, Paolo Bartolini on translation; poems, documents, writer and reader sections, all with an emphasis on translations; 200+pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Penguin. First English edition, 2011.
'Translation and the meaning of everything', or thirty-two essays on aspects of translation; by the translator of Ismail Kadare, Georges Simenon, Paul Fournel, Romain Gary, and biographer of Georges Perec and Jacques Tati.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Reprint, 1939.
'The Bridal Wreath', 'The Mistress of Husaby' and 'The Cross', all complete; translation for all three novels by Charles Archer, and with J.S. Scott for 'The Bridal Wreath'; 1,000+pp., including notes.
Original green cloth, stamped in gold. A couple of marks to extremities, prelims, and spine darkened. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1975.
Peru during the 1950s dictatorship and in a microcosmic bar in Lima.
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London: Hutchinson. First English edition, 1961.
Two novellas: 'Freedom in December' and 'Monsieur Prousthe'; translated by Rita Barisse.
Light foxing to prelims and extremities, very good in good dustwrapper.
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New York: McCall Publishing Company. First American edition, 1971.
Named for a famous eighteenth-century painting; a French writer through the two World Wars; papers found among the files of a Parisian psychiatrist form the basis for a consulting room thriller; translated by Audrey Foote.
Good in dustwrapper with the remnants of a stain on the rear panel.
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New York: New Directions. First American omnibus edition, 1973.
All of 'Conversation in Sicily', here as 'In Sicily' first published in 1937 and beginning, 'That winter I was haunted by abstract furies.' With Ernest Hemingway's introduction to the 1949 English translation. And 'La Garibaldina (1950) and the title piece.
Owner signature, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. First American edition, 2018.
'A History of the First World War' from the German historian of the twentieth century; translated by Patrick Camiller; 1000+pp., indexed.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Austin: University of Texas Press. Reprint, 1969.
In Guadalajara immediately before the 1910 Revolution; translated by Ethel Brinton, woodcuts by Julio Prieto; from the publisher's Pan-American series.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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London: Peter Owen. First English edition, 1970.
Five stories, the author's first book to appear in English; translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Arad; and signed by the author.
Fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed along perimeter.
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London: Hutchinson. Reprint, 1947.
First published in 1927 during the boom of novels and memoirs about individuals' experiences of World War One.
School prize certificate on front pastedown, very good in dustwrapper with tape bleed on the reverse
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Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Reissue, 1969.
On the German frontline during World War One; first published in German in 1927, English in 1928; translated by Eric Sutton.
Very good in dustwrapper sunned on spine.
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