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1969Best.-Nr. 90214New York: Hill & Wang 1969. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 910-951pp. Small ink price rubber-stamped on front endpaper mild external wear else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.95 with mild surface wear light wear to extremities and a thin horizontal strip of offsetting along the lower edge; Very Good or better. Collection of four plays originally written for radio by the noted Austrian-British author. 90214. Hill & Wang unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 90319New York: New Republic / Henry Holt and Company 1987. First American Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid in. Octavo 23.5cm; light grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in silver on spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; viii3111pp. Inscribed by the author at upper half-title page: "For Esther and Izzy my oldest and dearest American friends / with love / Karol / 24.II.87." Toward the lower half-title the author has written addresses and phone numbers for Paris and Rome residences. Gentle sunning to upper and lower board edges tiny stain to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $19.95 with light surface wear; Near Fine. A memoir by a Polish student who joined the Red Army in 1941. "This is World War II as it was lived on the other side of what later became the Iron Curtain a saga of passion vodka and melancholy. It is the story of a young Pole coming of age amid the intoxicating seductions of ideology and his sobering encounters with love and war" from front flap. 90319. New Republic / Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1984Best.-Nr. 90323London: The Bodley Head 1984. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 22.25cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx1-4551pp. Subtle tanning to text edges else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced £12.95 showing some mild surface wear. Memoir by a former high-ranking official of the Nomenklatura the priviliged sect which ruled the Soviet Union explaining how this class originated as the new beurocracy of the Revolution and how it established itself in power under Stalin. 90323. The Bodley Head unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 147350N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced three-act play. With a few editorial manuscript ink annotations throughout. Based on Marcel Pagnol's 1934 script "Le premier amour" about the first true love between a man and woman leading the pair to defy the practices of polygamy common to their tribes and set out to make a new life together. Intended for production many times over two decades in 1946 1947 and 1969 but ultimately never realized. Set in the Stone Age. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-12. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 1419089New York: Dover Publications 1988. Softcover. Octavo xii 768 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is light blue with black text. Light shelfwear to all edges one small closed tear on front cover. Shelved in ND-B. 1419089. FP New Rockville Stock. Dover Publications unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 88927Vilnius: Baltos Lankos 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 20cm; photographic white paper wrappers; 548pp. Text in English and Lithuanian. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his stamped pictorial ownership embossed to half-title page and his ownership and 'Vilnius' inked to title page. Light shelf-wear with creases to spine and corners; Very Good. Holocaust memoir with contributions by Grigorijus Smoliakovas Marija Rolnikaite and Emanuelis Zingeris. 88927. Baltos Lankos unknown books
1904Best.-Nr. 89042Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution / Bureau of American Ethnology / Government Printing Office 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo 24cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind ruling to covers; 682pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations including many fold-out illustrations throughout. From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown and his pencilled notes throughout. Inked ownership of Moses B. Cotsworth to front endpaper. Shelf-wear and -soil with upper spine convexed and rubbing to board edges; Good. Collection of twenty-four papers including those by E.P. Dieseldorff Carl Sapper and Paul Schellhas. Presuambly ownership of Moses Bruines Cotsworth British accountant and calendar reformer. 89042. Smithsonian Institution / Bureau of American Ethnology / Government Printing Office unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1968Best.-Nr. 86219Chicago: Quadrangle Books Inc 1968. First English Language Edition. Octavo 21cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in green on spine; light green topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; green endpapers; vi45-1771pp. Light shelf-wear tiny inked mark to lower margin of p.37 and occasional interior soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Bill Hollingshead with photograph by Brian Katz unclipped priced $4.95 with modest shelf-wear and -soil faint cup-ring to rear panel and light rubbing with tiny tears to spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Following Beradt's arrest for supposed Communist support during the wake of the Reichstag Fire Decree she began to research and record over 300 dream accounts from individuals living in Germany from 1933-1939. In October of 1943 New York magazine Free World published a short section of her work as "Dreams Under Dictatorship". see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams and https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism. Arendt began to work with Beradt in 1939 when the two were living within a community of exiles in New York and continued to collaborate on works and translations together. The two first published this present book-length form as Das Dritte Reich des Traums 1966 in Germany. see https://www.museumofdreams.org/third-reich-of-dreams. Historical document examines the levels of impact the Nazi regime had on personal and generational well-being with focus on the lasting changes to individual and group psyche. This English translation includes an afterword by the concentration camp survivor and psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his bookplate to front pastedown. 86219. Quadrangle Books, Inc unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 87557London and Dortmund: Eric Maylin / Harenberg Kommunikation 1979 1980. Five Volume set in publishers slipcase with Volume 1 marked as a Limited Edition no. 0325 of 1100 copies and signed by Peter Scott at his foreword to this English translation. Octavo 18cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spines; green topstain; green endpapers; xx89-1251pp; 34-1602pp; 34-1562pp; 34-1842pp; 34-1762pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. Volume I in English and German with Volume II-V in German only. Trivial surface wear to all five volumes else Near Fine. Publisher's green cloth-covered slipcase has modest shelf-wear and -soil with tiny chip to pictorial paper label; Very Good. Reprint of Gould's works with this Limited Edition including a new English foreword by Scott in Volume I. All volumes include reprints of Gould's colorful plates with scientific names as used by Gould popular English names of his period modern scientific nomenclature and current popular English names and genus of species. 87557. Eric Maylin / Harenberg Kommunikation unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
