GORKY, Maxim (play); Oliver M Sayler (editor; introduction); Jenny Covan (English translation)Biblio.com
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1922réf. 84924New York: Brentanos Publishers 1922. First American Edition. Early English translation preserving original Russian meaning. Octavo 19.5cm; tan marbled paper-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on front cover; red topstain; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; dustjacket; 89pp; black-and-white photographic halftone and illustrations to frontispiece and in text on glossy paper. The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays. Light tanning to spine and board margins; Very Good. Dustwrapper detached completey at front spine fold with 0.5" chip to upper spine panel titling laid in 4.5" tear to front flap fold tanned tiny nicks dampstain to front panel and tiny chips and creases to extremities; Good. Written and produced in 1902 Gorky's first major success explores Russian social realism with characters including a young thief a street-walker and a cap-maker. 84924. Brentanos Publishers unknown
1931réf. 011961Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy. Amazingly well preserved. Pictorial cover is trope of pygmy Blacks referring to the Ten Little Savages; the white children inside get more docile treatment. La plus c'est change. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
réf. 3651Barbera del Valles Barcelona: Edicions Tabelaria 2003. A beautiful edition of Havel's collection of visual poetry in the original Czech and with a Catalan translation. Printed throughout in blue and black on fine thick wove paper. One of 600 copies printed. Squarish 4to. Original wraps. FINE AND BRIGHT. Scarce. Barbera del Valles (Barcelona): Edicions Tabelaria, 2003 paperback
1898réf. 88210Boston: L. C. Page and Company 1898. Early Reprint of First English-language edition Authorized Verison. Octavo 19cm; brown cloth-covered boards with titling and illustrations stamped in black red and green on spine and front cover; xvi12-26323-8pp; frontispiece illustration. Modest shelf-wear with soil to covers and edges of textblock light foxing to endpapers and pastedowns and 1.5" tears to pp.247-250 with slight effect to text; Good. First published in Hungarian as Erdely Aranykora Bain's English translation of Jokai's historical fiction novel explores Transylvania Romania during the late 17th-century. 88210. L. C. Page and Company unknown
1997réf. 88608Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag 1997. First English Trade Edition with U.S. distribution by Distributed Art Publishers. Quarto 28cm; silver textured boards with titling stamped in black to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 830pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations. Trace soil to front lower board edge else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has trace shelf-soil and light shelf-wear with surface scratches; Very Good. Group of images and documents from 1945-1997 discuss the relationship between art and politics and concludes with essays and interviews. Translation from French by Brian Holmes and Charles Penwarden. 88608. Cantz Verlag unknown
1985réf. 33161Kyoto: Committee for the Exhibition of Modern Japanese Paintings in the Traditional Style 1985 Gold foil card-stock portfolio-style folder with Japanese titling to front panel containing large 36 page stapled gray book with texts & author bios and 48 full color plates measuring 13 x 9.5 inches light wear to outer portfolio plates perfect & without creases or folds Near Fine overall; 4to; 36pp illus 48 plates; Texts in English. Because of the size and/or weight of this book an additional shipping charge beyond our default rates may be incurred. First Edition. Soft Cover. Committee for the Exhibition of Modern Japanese Paintings in the Traditional Style paperback
1996réf. 85866Venice Italy: Erizzo Editrice / Amilcare Pizzi 1996. First English Language Edition. Folio 35cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations blind embossed to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 1213-4551pp; illustrated map endpapers; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout. The Organization for the Advancement of Nigerians OAN NYC sticker to lower rear endpaper. Faint shelf-soil with light rubbing to lower corners; Very Good. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear with faint scratches to rear panel and light rubbing of paper to spine panel and corners; Very Good. Contributions include Gunter Konrad's "Twenty-Five Years of Asmat" Alphonse A. Sowada's "Sago and Sago Larvae in Rituals" and Dirk A. M. Smidt's "Innovation in Asmat Art and its Presentation in Museums" with photographs throughout and a concluding bibliography. 85866. Erizzo Editrice / Amilcare Pizzi unknown
1921réf. 84330New York: The Macaulay Company 1921. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; 315pp; frontispiece illustration. Spine-tanned with shelf- and finger-soil to covers and light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Lacking dustjacket. Also published as Les Trois Yeux the French author's science fiction novel explores a secret organization called The Three Eyes. 84330. The Macaulay Company unknown
1898réf. 012460London: Macmillan 1898. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First edition with MacDougall's bold Arts & Crafts decorations. Elaborately gilt-decorated green cloth 4to unpaginated title page in red and black the rest in black. Green cloth faded covers worn and stained at upper corners with 2" loss over lower spine internals fine. 1908 gift inscription ffe. Solid reference copy. William Brown Macdougall 1868 - 1936 was a Scottish artist wood engraver etcher and book illustrator whose motifs reflected influence of Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts. Macmillan hardcover
2006réf. 85071New York: Berghahn Books 2006. Hardcover. fine/none. octavo. 23 cm x 15 cm. 190pp. Pictorial boards. No dust jacket if issued. Berghahn Books hardcover
1977réf. 26477Chicago: Ares Publishers Inc. 1977. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XVI 107 5pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Printer's device on double title-page. For centuries works on Marinus have been studied separately because no edition included them all in one volume. ARES issues the first edition of Marinus ever printed. The Life of Proclus appears in this edition with the Greek text and the English translation. The Commentary on the Dedomena of Euclid appears in both the Greek text as edited by H. Menge and the French translation with commentary by M. Michaux. Minor age wear on binding with head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Minor age-toning on spine. Text in Greek English and French.Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Ares Publishers Inc. hardcover
2000réf. 56876Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers Inc. 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 328 pages 8vo. No DJ. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. Blackwell Publishers Inc. Hardcover
1948réf. 256766Montevideo: Studi Sociali 1948. 35p. stapled wraps 5.5x7.5 inches evenly toned wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Italian. Edizioni Studi Sociali; No. 2. On Italian anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino. Studi Sociali unknown
1971réf. 54639Mt. Vernon New York: Limited Editions Club 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shipping box. 1/1500. Octavo 6½" x 8½" xii 117 1pp. White vellum stamped in gold with a drawing by Eric Fraser. Original glassine wrap and publisehr's gilt golden slipcase. This edition features a translation introduction and notes by B.P. Moore accompanied by 20 black-and-white part-page and 10 two-color full-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eric Fraser. The book is bound in full imported natural vellum over heavy beveled boards with a Cupid design stamped in pure gold leaf on both covers and gold lettering on the spine. It is limited to 1500 numbered copies each signed by the artist and includes a monthly letter laid in. Copy number 60/1500. Signed by Eric Fraser on colophon in rear. Limited Editions Club hardcover
2022réf. 85322New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2022. First American Edition. Octavo 24.5cm; red paper spine over black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 683pp; illus. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by Chip Kidd unclipped priced $34.00 with trivial surface wear and vertical crease to rear panel; Very Good. First published in Turkey as Veba Geceleri Pamuk's novel is set on the island of Mingheria and includes a murder mystery during a bubonic plague outbreak. 85322. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
2012réf. 85324New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2012. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; maroon cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 334pp. Signed by author with 10.22.2012 date inked to title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by Chip Kidd unclipped priced $26.95 with light wear to spine ends else Near Fine. First published in Turkey as Sessiz Ev 1983 Pamuk's second novel alternates point-of-view between characters and is set in Cennethisar. 85324. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
2011réf. 05-2013-68New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2011 FSG New York 2011. First American edition. First printing. A pristine unread copy very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in sturdy box. Smoke-free shop. Purchased new never even opened. You cannot find a better copy. Octavo 1152 pages. Translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein. The novel which took 18 years to write appeared in Hungary in 2005 and was published in English as one volume in 2011. Nadas' magnum opus which weaves together the lives of Hungarian and German families across the 20th century solidifying Nádas's reputation as one of Europe's most profound literary voices. This is Nádas's third novel following "The End of a Family Story" and "A Book of Memories." originally published in Hungary in 2005 as "Párhuzamos történetek." F4100. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1968réf. 30536New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1968. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 1st American edition 1968. A Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo. 238 pp. bound in publishers red cloth with white illustrated dust jacket $5.95. Jacket is rubbed and chipped along edges tips and spine with some minor overall light soiling. Binding is tight pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. João Guimarães Rosa; 27 June 1908 - 19 November 1967 was a Brazilian novelist short story writer poet and diplomat. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1929réf. 84595Paris: Edward W. Titus 1929. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies intended for subscribers of which this is no.134 softcover. Octavo 21cm; tan paper wrappers; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; 16pp; illus. Some pages of text unopened. Spine-tanned with crown lightly nudged and trace foxing to covers and interior; Very Good. Homer's translation of Saine's single manuscript which may have been created as late as the fourteenth century. 84595. Edward W. Titus unknown
2007réf. 85841Orlando: Harcourt Inc 2007. First English Language Edition. First Printing. With publisher's request for review autographed on rear of publisher's compliments card laid in. Octavo 21.5cm; orange paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind embossed to front cover; dustjacket; 229pp. Signed by author on title page. Designed by Linda Lockowitz. Light wear to spine ends else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Jennifer Jackson unclipped priced $23.00 with trivial surface wear else Near Fine. First published as Dziewięć 1999 with this English translation published simultaneously in the U.K. by Harvill Secker Stasiuk's novel includes crime and disaster in Warsaw Poland. 85841. Harcourt, Inc unknown
1986réf. 32159Kansas City: The Lowell Press 1986. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XLVII 1 226pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover and portrait in gilt on front cover. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Richard L. Sutton. Remarkable edition of Girolamo Mercuriale's "De morbis cutaneis" 1572 considered the first scientific tract on skin diseases. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. The Lowell Press hardcover
1972réf. 88028New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited Edition one of 1500 copies of which this is no.310 and signed by the artist Eichenberg on colophon page. Octavo 25.5cm; black cloth spine over pictorial brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; slipcase; xviii23-3793pp; wood engravings to frontispiece and throughout text. Occasional pencilled marginal notes. Light rubbing to cloth spine and board edges with trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. The publisher's tan paper-covered slipcase with paper title label on spine has trivial surface wear; Very Good. Tolstoy's autobiographical novels first published separately as Childhood 1852 Boyhood 1854 and Youth 1856 this edition was published for members of The Limited Edition Club of A. Colish in New York and includes an introduction by Bayley. 88028. The Limited Editions Club unknown
1971réf. 53362Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. viii1311pp. Text in French. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. Excerpt of publisher's dust jacket blurb mounted on front pastedown. An ex-library copy with a rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block and a library pocket on rear pastedown. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover
1971réf. 14671Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. vg. 4to. VIII. 131pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dust jacket. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. 1/2" tear to top of dj. Some sunning and staining to dj. Dj in very good book in fine condition. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover
1983réf. 933437New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1983. FIRST PRINTING - NEW / Unread old stock see scan. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover/Full Cloth/Sewn. New/New. Illus. by Jacket painting by Wilhelm Reich. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover
