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1922réf. 24150New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; 4384pp. Hint of sunning to spine oxidation to spine gilt with faint foxing to text edge and endpapers; contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper H.B. Blauvelt Oradell NY Mar.14 1923; penciled signature beneath erased with erasure evident to extensive penciled notes on rear pastedown; Very Good. English language translation of Gorky's 1901 novel. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev a boy from an urban slum who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1980réf. 86392London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980. First English Language Edition. Octavo 22cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii1462pp; illus. Pencilled note to front endpaper else Fine. Dustwrapper price-clipped lightly tanned with trivial surface wear and surface scratches to front panel; Very Good. First published as Die Religionen der Mongolei Heissig explores the religions of Mongolia with a focus on folk traditions. 86392. Routledge & Kegan Paul unknown books
1955réf. 1395098Oslo Norway: The Limited Editions Club 1955. Limited Edition #301/1500. Hardcover. Large octavo 314 xxiii pages. In Very Good condition with Good plus condition slip case. Slip case has moderate shelving wear scuffing and chipping along extremities. Spine mildly cocked. Signed by Per Krohg on publisher's limitation page. Shelved in hallway overflow. 1395098. Special Collections. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1924réf. 1400200New York New York: Duffield & Company 1924. First US Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 135 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is tan cloth worn paper label with black lettering. Boards have moderate rubbing wear and chipping along extremities moderate bumping and fraying to fore corners; spine moderately cocked paper spine label has moderate age-toning tearing and rubbing. Textblock edges have severe age-toning; interior has previous seller's sticker to front pastedown mild creasing to endpapers and moderate age-toning throughout text. Shelved in Room Z. 1400200. Special Collections - Upstairs. Duffield & Company hardcover books
1976réf. 87582Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 1976. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxx3362pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace residue to rear cover; Very Good. Dustwrapper has tiny tears to extremities and upper front spine fold; Very Good. First published as Quetzalcóatl et Guadalupe 1974 this text focuses on Mexican social history with a focus on Aztec myths and Indigenous tribes and organized into "Part 1: New Spain from the Conquest to Independence 1521-1821" "Part 2: Quetzalcóatl or the Phoenix Bird" and "Part 3: Guadalupe or the New Epiphany" with a foreword by Octavio Paz. 87582. University of Chicago Press unknown books
1929réf. 39580Florence: G. Orioli 1929. First Edition. Regular Issue one of 1000 numbered copies this one unnumbered. Octavo 20cm; paper vellum boards with titling and decorations printed in black on spine and front cover; xxvi1191pp. Mild toning to extremities hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine with the leaves uncut. Lacking the fragile dustjacket. Despite the printed limitation 2400 copies were printed with the majority of the regular issue lacking numeration on the colophon. ROBERTS A45a. G. Orioli unknown books
2019réf. 70381West Yorkshire: Hadean Press 2019. First Hadean Press paperback printing. Paperback. Very Good. 954pp. Large quarto 30 cm Black wraps printed in white brown and red. General light wear to wraps. Top fore-edge corners of wraps lightly creased. Pages bright and free of markings. May require extra postage due to size and weight. From the publisher- "Presented as a sequel to his first work The Book of St. Cyprian: The Sorcerer’s Treasure the Opuscula Cypriani: Variations on the Book of St. Cyprian and Related Literature is José Leitão’s most extensive and detailed exposition of the tradition of the Portuguese Cyprian Books to date. "Covering a timespan from the 17th century until the late 1920s this work contains an unprecedented amount of Portuguese Cyprian-related material. From the records of the Inquisition to anonymous prayers from elusive and previously unpublished manuscripts to printed books and from pamphlets to periodicals José takes us through a history of Portuguese sorcery and its various books all of which in one way or another are branded with the name of the sorcerer Saint. Hadean Press paperback books
1965réf. 62414New York: Sam Liptzin Book Committee 1965. 272p. first edition illus. dj slightly shelfworn hint of foxing on top-edge of text block board corners minorly bumped else in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author to a friend. Sam Liptzin Book Committee unknown books
2008réf. 85489Prague: Twisted Spoon Press 2008. English Translation softcover. Octavo 20cm; white wrappers; 1112-1395pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Light shelf-soil else Near Fine. First published as Le Vampire Passif by Les Éditions de l'Oubli 1945 this text includes "The Objectively Offered Object" and "The Passive Vampire" with an introduction focused on Luca's surrealism. 85489. Twisted Spoon Press unknown books
1960réf. 1412679New York: George Braziller Inc 1960. First American Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 320 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full purple cloth binding. Jacket is purple with white titling. Jacket shows shelving wear along edges with some chipping and closed tears. Faint scuffing to covers. Price unclipped: "$4.00". Boards are rubbed and subbed along the edges. Text block is lightly age toned with some scuffs to the bottom edge. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1412679. Special Collections - Upstairs. George Braziller, Inc hardcover books
1927réf. 84471New York: D. Appleton & Company 1927. First American Edition. Second Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; maroon cloth-covered boards with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; lower- and fore-edge untrimmed; vi2864pp. Spine titling lightly oxidized with light suning and shelf-soil to spine; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.00 spine-tanned with tiny tears and chips to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Explores a workers' strike at a factory in France and includes background on the protagonist's war opposition romantic love family and internal conflicts. 84471. D. Appleton & Company unknown books
1971réf. 82556London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1971. First U.K. Edition. First Impression one of 2500 copies. Octavo 20.25cm; cobalt blue paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; viii1031pp. Trivial crimp to base of spine else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced £1.75 with some moderate external rubbing faint creasing to lower front panel with a thin strip of dust-soil to lower edge of rear flap; Very Good. Originally released in Paris in 1970 under the title Entretiens de Paris avec Georges Belmont. SHIFREEN & JACKSON A171.b. 82556. Sidgwick & Jackson unknown books
1965réf. 86032London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1965. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 20.5cm; olive green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 542pp. Light shelf-wear with spine lightly convexed and trace soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced 35s net tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil 1.5" tear to upper front spine fold and chips creases and tears to spine panel and extremities; Good. First published in Hungarian as Iszon 1957 Németh's novel focuses on a daughter and her family on their farm in Hungary as she navigates marriage expectations. 86032. Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books
2019réf. 85361New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2019. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; navy blue paper-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 348pp; illus. Signed by author and dated 22 Sept 2019 on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $28.00 and designed by Donna Cheng; Fine. First published in French as La Saison des Prunes 2013 Nganang's novel explores Cameroon's forced entry into WWII. 85361. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
2008réf. 70920New York NY: CRG Gallery Printed in Hong Kong by CA Design 2008. First edition. Dual English and Chinese edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good. 59pp. Oblong octavo 17 x 20cm; perfect-bound in plain white paper wraps inside a gilt embossed red vinyl dust jacket akin to the design of Mao's Little Red Books. Some light shelfwear and scuffing to the dust jacket otherwise a nice and clean copy. This is an exhibition catalogue from work shown at CRG Gallery New York from December 12th 2008 to January 31st 2009. Full color photography with text in dual English and Chinese. O Zhang is a Chinese-born artist and photographer known for her work which shows modern realities juxtaposed with idealistic propaganda and slogans. Many of the photographs shown here were taken around the time of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. CRG Gallery (Printed in Hong Kong by CA Design) paperback books
1974réf. 54973Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; black boards titled in white on cover and spine; dustjacket; 186pp. Spine ends lightly pushed with minimal rubbing; faint toning inside front cover Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped with nicks and short tears to extremities mostly to spine ends; Very Good. Also published as Los hijos del limo the Spanish American's poet's collection is created from his lectures on modern poetry at Harvard University. 54973. Harvard University Press unknown books
1954réf. 85469New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. / Borzoi Book 1954. First American Edition. Octavo 20cm; blue pictorial paper-covered boards with titling in black on spine; pale green topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 245pp; illus. Light rubbing and sunning to board edges else Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.00 net tanned with trivial surface wear and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Richer's sequel to Ti-Coyo and His Shark 1951 which focuses on his protagonist as he navigates fatherhood their pet shark and the Caribbean Sea. First published in Paris as Ti-Coyo et Son Requin 1941. 85469. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / Borzoi Book unknown books
1969réf. 1398561New York: Greenwood Press Publishers 1969. First Greenwood Reprinting. Hardcover. Octavo 258 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full gray/brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has a price sticker on the front pastedown and light age toning on the end papers. Shelved in Room A. 1398561. Special Collections. Greenwood Press Publishers hardcover books
1968réf. 85462New York: The Dial Press Inc 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; yellow cloth-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 220pp; black-and-white photographic halftones illustrations. This copy is from the library of Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez with his name and Dec. 4 '68 date inked to front endpaper and his usual marginal annotations and underlining throughout text. Light rubbing with small loss of cloth to board edges and trace soil to lower edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $4.95 with light shelf-wear and soil and faint dampstains to verso of front panel; Good. Designed by Lynn Hatfield with foreword by Rojo written for this edition. Text focuses on Ernesto "Ché" Guevera and the Cuban Revolution with sections including "Discovering Latin America" "Governing Cuba" and "Formenting Revolutions". 85462. The Dial Press, Inc unknown books
1985réf. 18181San Francisco: City Lights 1985. First American Edition. First Printing and correct First preceding the British edition by 3 years. Octavo; brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp 1. Fine in a Fine dustjacket one of a very small number of copies bound in cloth. The Guatemalan author's first book a collection of short fiction. City Lights unknown books
1988réf. 87309Toronto Canada: Latin American Canadian Literature Editions 1988. First English Language Edition. Softcover. Octavo 21cm; gray pictorial paper wrappers; 45-1057pp. Text in Spanish and English. From a collection of poems made by Francisco Morales Santos and distributed by Macondo Book Distributors. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial ownership stamp blind embossed to front flyleaf. Modest shelf-wear with light creases to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse includes "La Patria Que yo Ansio definición y ruta de la patria" / "The Homeland That I Long For Definition and route of homeland" "El Aire que te Espera" / "The Air That Awaits You" and "Respuesta" / "Reply". 87309. Latin American Canadian Literature Editions unknown books
1992réf. 1413802Tokyo: Shueisha 1992. Japanese Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 607 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. In full white paper binding. Jacket is white with black Japanese language lettering with a gray band. Band has small closed tears along the edges with wrinkling and a larger closed tear along the spine. Jacket is lightly smudged with mid wrinkling at the head and tail. Boards show light shelving wear. Spine is cocked. Text block is lightly age toned with very mild wear. Interior clean. Shelved in Room F. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan 1937-2026 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413802. Special Collections - Upstairs. Shueisha hardcover books
1917réf. 279176New York: The Cortes Society 1917. Hardcover. First issue of this translation a handsome small hardbound buff boards bearing two-color title-label under brown buckram backstrip also has a spine-title label. Find a small but very bad impact dent to tail of rear cover causing a deep fissure in the buckram'd cover and severe wrinkles in the latter half of all text-leaf margins. Corner-tips are also damaged. Item looks good in a general way physically tight and square but within has another sort of damage: textblock was left untrimmed and signatures unopened and there are long stretches "opened" by someone confidently ignorant of the how-to-to-its of opening connected leaves use the flat of a table knife close the book upon it and pray to Caxton. Finally both labels are dim and the spine label also scuffed. Presentable but a fair to good copy only. Documents and Narratives concerning the discovery and conquest of Latin America. The Cortes Society New York number two. The Cortes Society hardcover books
1989réf. 86875New York: Schocken Books Inc 1989. First American Edition. Octavo 24cm; blue cloth spine over tan paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver and metallic blue on spine and stamped in silver on front cover; dustjacket; xxviii23-2764pp. This copy from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace soil to right edge of textblock else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Kandy Littrell price-clipped with trivial surface wear; Near Fine. Rabinbach's introduction describes Walter Benjamin's pseudonym Detlef Holz and an early title of this collection of letters Deutsche Menschen as selected to pass censorship. This collection of letters explores friendship between two German philosophers. 86875. Schocken Books Inc unknown books
1957réf. 83592Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; black cloth spine over decorated red paper-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in copper on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xii12-2333pp; illus. Spine ends lightly nudges else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Walter Lorraine unclipped priced $3.50 with light shelfwear and faint sticker residue to lower spine panel; Very Good. First published in Mexico as Más Cornadas da el Hambre 1951 Spota's bullfighting novel won the Citudad de Mexico Prize. Born in California bullfighter Barnaby Conrad translates the novel which later received a film adaptation 1963 directed by George Sherman which starred Tony Anthony Luciana Paluzzi and Mark Damon. 83592. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press unknown books
