Best.-Nr. 88947London: The Twentieth Century Press Limited n.d. Rebound. Octavo 21.5cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on front cover; 177pp. Pencilled note to front pastedown. Spine-faded with modest shelf-wear tanning to interior tiny chip to upper margin of preface and crack to gutter at pp.174-175; Good. Originally published in Germany as Die Internationale; eine denkschrift zur vierzigjährigen gründung der Internationalen arbeiter-assoziation 1904 Jaeckh provides an early examination of attitudes between German Marxists and Mikhail Bakunin. 88947. The Twentieth Century Press, Limited unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 89077Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society 1970. Reprint English Language Edition softcover. Quarto 30cm; tan paper wrappers; 88pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Modest shelf-wear with tiny loss to paper of upper spine; Very Good. Includes sections on the War of 1669 the Revolt of 1789 and colonial policy in Japanese government. 89077. The American Philosophical Society unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 89150Kraków Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1975. Bilingual Edition with text in Russian and French. Octavo 24cm; white cloth-covered boards with decoration stamped in black on front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 55pp; colorful illustrations. Shelf-wear and -soil with trace foxing to covers and edges of textblock lower edge nudged with slight loss of cloth and crack starting at gutter of p.40/41; Good. Dustwrapper has shelf-wear and -soil with rubbing and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse includes "Cisza Morska" / "Paix Marine" "Mogily Haremu" / "Les Tombes du Harem" and "Pielgrzym" / "Le Pélerin" and concludes with illustrated poetry. 89150. Wydawnictwo Literackie unknown
2023Best.-Nr. 1755347369Tyndale House Publishers 2023. Imitation Leather. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Tyndale House Publishers hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 89250Kobenhavn and Los Angeles: Green Integer 2003. Bilingual Edition softcover. Small Octavo 15cm; white photographic paper wrappers; 407pp. Text in Italian and English. The Marjorie G. Perloff Series of International Poetry. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his inked ownership to half-title page. Trivial surface wear with trace soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Collection of verse includes "Simone e Giovanna" / "Simone and Giovanna" "Tappa e ricovero" / "Stop and Shelter" and "San Sebastiano" / "Saint Sebastian". 89250. Green Integer unknown
2008Best.-Nr. 89251Kobenhavn and Los Angeles: Green Integer 2008. First Green Integer Edition Bilingual Edition softcover. Small Octavo 15cm; white photographic paper wrappers; 428pp; illus. Text in Italian and English. Green Integer 165. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial ownership blind stamped to half-title page. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse includes "Reattivo per la vedova nera" / "Personality Test for the Black Widow" "Attrezzi di lettura" / "Reading Equipment" and "Una poesia d'amore" / "A Love Poem". 89251. Green Integer unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 89215Princeton: Princeton University Press 1996. First Edition. First Printing softcover. Octavo 23cm; blue pictorial paper wrappers; 236pp. Inscribed by translator on half-title page: "For Nathaniel with admiration - from Pete". From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his very occasional pencilled markings. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse translated from Hebrew includes "On Fleeing His City" "He Whose Heart in His Heart" "Your Loved Ones Depress You" and "You Mock Me Now in Your Youth". 89215. Princeton University Press unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 89267Princeton: Princeton University Press / Bollingen 1990. Revised Edition. Two Trade Issue volumes later printings both softcovers. Two Octavos 20.5cm; blue pictorial paper wrappers. Full pagination available upon request. Bollingen Series LXXII. Both volumes have light shelf-wear and -soil with tiny tears to spine of vol. 1; overall Very Good. Two volume set is an abridgment of the earlier four volume cloth issue. Vol. 1 omits correlative lexicon; vol. 2 combines commentary of cloth issues vol. 2 and 3 and index of cloth issue vol. 4 and omits appendixes and Russian text. 89267. Princeton University Press / Bollingen unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 89382Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1976. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator this being copy no.197. Octavo 23.75cm; pictorial paper-covered boards and dark orange cloth backstrip with title label mounted to upper spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 89-999pp. Some mild discoloration to backstrip foxing to text edges and board edges; Very Good in a rubbed and cloudy dustjacket. A collection of folk tales featuring the character Hadidan Aharam. MORROW & COONEY 243c. 89382. Black Sparrow Press unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 87738Amsterdam: Privately Published 1924. Errata slip laid in. Quarto 33cm; tan cloth spine over tan paper-covered boards with colorful pictorial illustration pasted to front cover and titling in red and black on covers; 67-32pp; one tissue-guarded colorful plate with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Text in Dutch and English. Previous owner Clem Cramer's bookplate to front pastedown. Modest shelf-wear and -soil to covers and interior with slight loss of paper to cover edges occasional creases to text margins and foxing to text pastedowns endpapers and errata slip; Good. Text explores history of Tibetan temple paintings with a focus on artistic changes throughout time. 87738. Privately Published unknown
2015Best.-Nr. 87798Paris: Gallimard 2015. Reissue first published by Gallimard in 1975 Two Volume set softcovers. Two Octavo volumes 22cm; white paper wrappers; ii78-3935pp; ii910-4582pp. Text in French. Both volumes have light surface wear and trace shelf-soil; Very Good. Two volume collection includes Novalis's verse essays and fragments as translated by Guerne. 87798. Gallimard unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 87742Paris: Christian Bourgois 1977. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20cm; original pictorial wrappers with French flaps; 67-1093pp; with parallel text in English and French. Inscribed by Duncan on the half-title page to noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024: "For Nathaniel Tarn / in the happenstance of our meeting en haut Centre Pompidou / the two psycho pompodoo / RD." Hint of sunning to spine light wear to extremities with a tiny tear to upper front wrapper and two holograph notes in pencil in Tarn's hand within the text; Very Good or better. A nice association copy - Tarn published Duncan's work during his tenure at Jonathan Cape and has both reviewed and written extensively on Duncan and his writing. 87742. Christian Bourgois unknown
1965Best.-Nr. 87915Ljubljana Slovenia: Slovene Writers' Association 1965. Octavo 17cm; black spine over lavender cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; ii45-1504pp. Light shelf-wear with trace shelf-soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper lightly tanned with light shelf-wear 0.5" tear to lower rear flap fold and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse with contributions including Matej Bor's "The Encounter" Cene Vipotnik's "Burial" Janez Menart's "Bread and Butter" and Veno Taufer's "The Melancholy of the Second Echleon" and a preface by Filip Kalan. 87915. Slovene Writers' Association unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 87984Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan 1934. Fourth Edition softcover. Octavo 23cm; pale green paper wrappers; glassine dustwrapper; viii4382pp. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Tanned with modest shelf-soil and -wear and pencilled to wrappers and first page; Very Good. Glassine dustwrapper is tanned with tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. First published in German as Buddha: Sein Leben seine Lehre seine Gemeinde 1881 this text focuses on the life and efforts of Buddha. 87984. Librairie Félix Alcan unknown
1973Best.-Nr. 88020Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica 1973. First Spanish Language Edition No.2533 of 4000 copies. Octavo 24cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; 1011-5173pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout with concluding fold-out illustration. Seccion de Obras de Antropologia. Trace shelf-soil with faint vertical creases to pp.177-182; Very Good. Dustwrapper lightly tanned with trivial surface wear and price sticker to lower rear wrapper; Very Good. German researcher explores the Borgia Group manuscripts and Aztec gods with focus including Chalchiuhtlicue Tlaloc and El Jaguar. 88020. Fondo de Cultura Económica unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 88041Peking: Foreign Language Press 1978. Third Edition. List of Principal Characters laid in. Octavo 21.5cm; white cloth spine over red paper-covered boards with titling stamped in blue and on spine and in black on front cover; dustjacket; vi23-6131pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with foxing to spine and edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear and -soil with several tiny nicks and tears; Very Good. Mo's semi-autobiographical novel was first published in 1964 with its film adaptation Qing Chun Zhi Ge 1959 directed by Huaiai Chen and Wei Cui and starring Fang Xie Tai Kang and Zengyin Cao. 88041. Foreign Language Press unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 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
1977Best.-Nr. 88137New York: Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers Inc 1977. First American Edition. Quarto 26.5cm; maroon and purple paper-covered boards with titling stamped in white and purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 78-2013pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Japanese Arts Library 4. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped with price sticker to front flap; Near Fine. Originally published in Japanese as JÅdo kyÅga volume 43 in the series Nihon no bijutsu 1969 this edition includes the translator's introduction on the genesis and development of the Pure Land Faith. 88137. Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc unknown
1977Best.-Nr. 88139New York: Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers Inc 1977. First American Edition. Quarto 26.5cm; brown and black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 78-150pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Japanese Arts Library 2. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped with price sticker to front flap and trivial surface wear; Near Fine. Originally published in Japanese as Shozo chokoku volume 10 in the series Nihon no bijutsu 1967 this edition includes the translator's introduction on the history and purpose of a portrait. 88139. Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc unknown
1953Best.-Nr. 88242Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1953. First French Edition. Softcover. Octavo 19cm; pictorial paper wrappers; fore-edge untrimmed; 120pp. Publisher's purple wrap-around band laid in. Text in French. Some pages of text unopened. Soil and foxing to spine with light ripple effect to wrappers; Very Good. Laid in wrap-around band is torn into two pieces with tiny chips and tears; Good. Collection of essays with themes of Catholicism. 88242. Éditions du Seuil unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 88227New York: St. Martin's Press 1984. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 222pp; map illustration. Light shelf-wear with faint creases to upper margins; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Michael Booth unclipped priced $12.95 with mild shelf-wear and light rubbing to extremities; Very Good. First published in German 1981; this translation originally appeared in Great Britain in 1982. Science fiction featuring time travel and a battle for world domination. A nice copy of Jeschke's first published novel. 88227. St. Martin's Press unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 88333New York: Praeger Publishers Inc 1971. First English Language Edition. Octavo 23cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 67-210pp; black-and-white photographs throughout with concluding fold-out of photo credits. Light shelf-wear with previous ownership inked to front endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $12.50 with modest shelf-wear light peeling to lamination 1" tear to upper spine fold and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Very Good. German art historian focuses on artwork of the 1960s including underground film living theater dance and conceptual art. 88333. Praeger Publishers, Inc unknown
1986Best.-Nr. 88358n.p.: Privately Published 1986. Softcover with A.L.s. dated 1986 from translator laid in. Quarto 28cm; yellow paper wrappers with mylar overlay to front wrapper; printed on recto only; 112pp. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse by Sutzkever and Manger translated to English by Wolfe includes "Song About an Ant" "I Know Now the Taste" "On the Kolomay Station" and "In the Smoke of My Grandfather's Pipe". This is a typed manuscript sent in advance to Nathaniel Tarn the noted poet translator and anthropologist 1928-2024. The laid-in letter discusses this work requested by Tarn and Wolfe's plans for them to meet again soon. 88358. Privately Published unknown
2012Best.-Nr. 88610Ostfildern Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag 2012. First Edition. Publisher's bilingual catalog order form laid in. Quarto 28.5cm; green paper-covered boards with titling stamped in black to spine and front cover; 767pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations. Modest shelf-soil with light wear; Very Good. First of three volumes of dOCUMENTA 13 preceding The Logbook and The Guidebook. This catalog includes essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Chus Martinez and information on art exhibition held in Kassel. 88610. Hatje Cantz Verlag unknown
