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1949réf. 174070New York: Heritage Press 1949. First edition thus. Hardcover. 471 pages. Translation and annotations by M. F. K. Fisher and illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. A clean and tight near fine copy in a very good slipcase that has some splitting slight soiling and wear. No dust jacket. Heritage Press unknown books
1967réf. 150508N.p.: N.p. 1967. Draft script for the 1967 Swedish film translated into English photocopied for internal distribution. With copied holograph annotations to virtually every page. Vilgot Sjoman's controversial erotic drama utilizing both dramatic and documentary filmmaking techniques starring Sjoman's lover at the time actress Lena Nyman as a young theater student examining the social and political mores of 1960s Sweden and her own sexuality. Seized by customs upon entry to the US and banned from numerous US cities for sexually explicit scenes it was found in 1969 not to be obscene by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit opening the door to more frank and explicit subject matter in American film. The companion to Sjoman's 1968 film "I Am Curious Blue." Set and shot on location in Stockholm. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Vilgot Sjoman and translation credits to Martin Minow and Jenny Bohman. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single staple. N.p. unknown books
1937réf. 149410London: Boriswood 1937. First UK Edition and first English language edition. Preceded by the French edition published by Pion the previous year. Rare in jacket. Basis for the 1951 French film directed by Robert Bresson. Very Good in an about Very Good dust jacket. Owner signature to the front endpaper boards lightly foxed slightly bowed with light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Jacket frayed along the top and bottom edge with a 3/4-inch chip at the heel and a couple of small chips at the crown. A very presentable copy. Boriswood unknown books
1937réf. 147541N.p.: N.p. 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren uncredited in the final film added to the cast list in holograph pencil and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences A through H. A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love triangle between Lady Maria Barker Marlene Dietrich her husband the British diplomat Sir Frederich Barker Herbert Marshall and the charming traveler Anthony Halton Melvyn Douglas set throughout Europe with an oncoming war looming. Set in London Paris and Vienna. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Untitled self wrappers. 175 leaves with last page of text numbered H-19. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/28/37 and 2-1-37. Pages Very Good plus some front leaves with light soiling wrapper Very Good lightly soiled dampstaining separating at the spine side stapled with three staples. N.p. unknown books
1951réf. 147312London: N.p. 1951. Draft script for the 1951 London production of Jean Cocteau's 1938 play "Les Parents Terribles" translated by Charles Frank under the title "Intimate Relations." Carbon typescript on onionskin. Copyright agency label affixed to front wrapper and on title page over previous copyright of Jean Cocteau & Charles Frank. One annotation in holograph pencil striking a word of dialogue in script. Laid in is a "With Compliments" note on bandleader and impresario Jack Hylton letterhead. The play premiered at the Strand Theatre in London on July 26 1951 and ran through November 24 1951 for a total of 140 performances. Frank would go on to direct the film adaptation of his translation in 1953 released as "Intimate Relations" in Europe and as "Disobedient" in the US starring Harold Warrender and Marian Spencer. Cocteau's tale of a truly dysfunctional family. A neurotic overly possessive mother Yvonne finds out her son Michel has intentions to marry the beautiful Madeleine the woman with whom Georges Michel's father has been having an affair. Blue untitled wrappers with titled label. Title page present with credits for playwright Jean Cocteau and translator Charles Frank. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered III-38. Carbon typescript on onionskin rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some light staining side stapled. Laid in Note: 4 x 6 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1990réf. USCHPUT00LAWHenry Holt 1990. Good. Schweitzer Albert. Put of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography. Lemke translation A.B. New York: Henry Holt 1990. 272pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with gently bumped and rubbed extremities and old bookseller's 2x2 inch label on rear cover. Henry Holt paperback books
réf. 129237N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. Joseph son of the biblical Jacob is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem in a time when a famine has overtaken the whole region of Egypt and around it forcing ten of his brothers to buy grain from the Egyptians. Joseph toys with them until revealing at the last moment of the play that he is their forgotten and presumed dead brother. Set in biblical Egypt. Gray titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Klausner-Brandstatter 158 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1994réf. 113484La Cuenca: Departamento de Difusion Cultural de la Universidad de Cuenca 1994. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Fine in pictorial wrappers. Two plays by K. Wishnia. Bilingual English-Spanish edition imported by The Imaginary Press East Setauket NY. Departamento de Difusion Cultural de la Universidad de Cuenca unknown books
1943réf. 88168New York: Anatolia Press 1943. First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Near Fine lacking dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled. Glue stains to the pastedowns. In Greek with English translations by Joseph Auslander. Anatolia Press unknown books
1960réf. 53321Oxford: Bruno Cassirer 1960. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.75cm; pale blue-gray cloth with titles stamped in navy blue on spine; dustjacket; 67-5191pp. Faintest suggestion of foxing to text edges else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped with a hint of sunning to spine and some faint scattered foxing; Near Fine. The Greek author's fourth book imagining an alternate fate for Jesus Christ. Basis for Martin Scorcese's controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ starring Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel. CRITERION #70. Bruno Cassirer unknown books
1996réf. 53692Berkeley: University of California Press 1996. First American Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in. Octavo 23.5cm; mustard yellow paper and black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii3031pp; illus. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket with some trivial wear to extremities. ".an ambitious study of the views of sickness and death among Ashkenazki Jews from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. This is one of the first works to apply the methods of the history of mentalities to a topic in Jewish cultural studies" from front flap. University of California Press unknown books
1974réf. 53684New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; white cloth with titles stamped in red and green on spine; dustjacket; xx236pp. Subtle lean else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $7.95. with light wear to extremities and some gentle sunning to the red spine lettering. Detailed biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen daughter of a German-Jewish merchant of precious stones who wielded significant influence on the Romantic movement in Germany. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
1934réf. 52751London: Chatto and Windus 1934. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; 312pp. Faint foxing to text edges and margins of preliminary leaves gentle sunning to spine with some light wear to spine ends; Very Good to Near Fine with the topstain bright and even lacking the dustjacket. First English language edition of Traven's first novel originally published as Das Totenschiff in Berlin in 1926. The novel was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition though Traven himself would create a new translation for the 1934 Knopf edition. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 31; AHEARN 652. Chatto and Windus unknown books
1995réf. 52766Oxford: Blackwell 1995. First English Language Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's slip promotional letter and publicity photo laid in. Octavo 23.5cm; black boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket with wrap around band; publisher's materials laid-in; xii385pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket showing mild surface wear and a few scuffs to rear panel; wraparound band shows a single tear and some attendant creasing else well-preserved. This dense archival study finds philosopher/novelist/essayist Eco excavating the labyrinthine history of early modern European linguistics. Blackwell unknown books
1988réf. 52963New York: Summit Books 1988. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author this being copy no.70. Octavo 24cm; navy blue with titling and author's initials stamped in silver on spine and front cover; publisher's original matching cloth slipcase; ii1011-217pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Holocaust novel by the Romanian-born Nobel Laureate first published as Le Crépuscule au Loin in 1987. Summit Books unknown books
1989réf. 51776New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1989. First American Edition. Limited Issue one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo 23.75cm; burgundy cloth blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase; 531pp. Fine still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Handsome edition of the Mexican author's tenth novel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux unknown books
1983réf. 51829Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind on spine and front cover; marbled endpapers; dustjacket; iv396pp; with illustrations by Roswitha Quadflieg. Spine ends gently nudged tiny owners ink name to front pastedown else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $15.95 with some light wear and creasing to extremities and a tiny tear at upper rear flap fold. The German author's best-known work first published in 1979 as Die unendliche Geschichte. Basis for Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 film of the same name. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1955réf. 51455London: Faber and Faber 1955. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 67-2222pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine ends gently nudged some faint foxing to endpapers else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s.6d. net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with some faint scattered foxing and dustiness; Very Good. The Polish-American Nobel Prize-winner's second regularly published book a story of "the chaotic horror of the Warsaw rising - when the Red Army stood implacably idel on the Vistula - into the constricting gloom of the Russian occupation; into a poisoned and infected world a world of equivocation and 'double think' where integrity and honesty have become dangerous eccentricities" from front flap. Faber and Faber unknown books
1999réf. 51463London: Harvill Press 1999. First U.K. Edition. First Impression cloth issue. Octavo 21.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vi23-2631pp. Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket priced £16.99. Sharp copy of Sebald's second novel and the first book in his Rings of Saturn trilogy simultaneously issued in cloth and wrappers. Harvill Press unknown books
1969réf. 51331London: Macdonald & Co 1969. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20.5cm; orange paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 67-296pp. Spine ends gently nudged hint of offsetting to endpapers with upper rear board corner gently tapped though still sharp; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced £1.75 with some light wear to extremities; Near Fine. Attractive copy of the author's first book set in contemporary Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Macdonald & Co unknown books
1852réf. 49780London: Henry G. Bohn 1852-1854. New Edition Revised. Three octavo volumes 19cm; publisher's original hunter green blind-embossed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spines; viii544 31 ads; vi538 31 ads; vi494 31pp ads; each volume with portrait frontispiece. Light wear to extremities hinges cracked but holding with gentle bumping to corners and scattered foxing to text edges; Very Good. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
1895réf. 49766Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd 1895. Connoisseur Edition. One of 25 sets numbered and specially bound this being no.8. Eight octavo volumes 23.75cm; full black crushed morocco spines in six compartments with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines and triple gilt-ruled border on covers; marbled endpapers; top edges gilt; xiv2255; xiii226-4335; x2384; x239-4475; xii2384; xii2394624; xii2264; xiv227-4764pp with frontispieces and 58 plates. Light wear to joints and extremities touch of dustiness finger-soil and a few scuffs to covers with faint foxing to text edges; contents relatively clean with hinges sound; Very Good. Handsome edition of the French critic and historian's landmark work on English literature published first in France in 1863 and translated into English in 1871. Gebbie published this set in a variety of issues the Connoisseur Edition representing the smallest available limitation. The Gebbie Publishing Co. Ltd unknown books
1966réf. 48387Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado 1966. First Edition. One of 1000 copies. Slim octavo 19cm; printed card wrappers; 213pp. Light wear to extremities gentle sunning to spine with some faint creasing to wrappers; Very Good. Slim collection of verse by the Finnish poet living in London translated by Anselm Hollo. From the collection of New York hipster impresario Israel "Izzy" Young proprietor of the Folklore Center on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village an important nexus for Lower East Side bohemia throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. El Corno Emplumado unknown books
1981réf. 47040New York: Columbia University Press 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xx300pp. Tiny ink rubber-stamp on front pastedown a few marginal notes in light pencil with light wear to spine ends; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped shelfworn gently spine-sunned with some creasing at upper edge of front panel and front flap; Very Good. A hard-edged critique of the Soviet regime and the totalitarian legacy of its founders. Columbia University Press unknown books
1980réf. 46266Garden City: Doubleday 1980. First American Edition. Quarto 28.5.cm; yellow/pictorial paper-covered boards in yellow/pictorial dust jacket with identical image and titling 32pp. Text block is clear and sound with only very light handling wear Fine. Boards slightly worn on edge corners including those on the spine hinge; soiling on rear board inner margin. Dust jacket has overall yellowing surface wear and minor soiling. Closed tears present on jacket extremities with chipping and material loss along the front panel's upper margin and spine. Sticker on front inner flap. Else Very Good. A charming story of the unlikely friendship between a pig a bird and a fish depicted through Waechter's color illustrations. English language version of the German "Wir können noch viel zusammen machen" 1973. Doubleday unknown books