10 357 résultats
1978réf. 85756Notre Dame Indiana: University of Notre Dame Pres 1978. First English Language Edition. Octavo 23.5cm; green boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 596pp. Light soil to covers with foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Cae Esworthy spine-faded with shelf-soil 0.5" tear to upper rear panel and tiny tears chips and creases to spine panel edges and extremities; Very Good. First published as Forét Interdite 1955 and then as Noaptea de Sânziene 1971 this novel is set in European cities and focuses on a man's romantic obstacles with two women. 85756. University of Notre Dame Pres 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
2006réf. 86039New York: The Modern Library / Random House Inc 2006. Advance uncorrected proofs copy softcover. Octavo 20.5cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 202pp. Trace sticker residue to front wrapper with tiny spot of faint soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good. First published in its English translation by E.P. Dutton 1924 with the original Russian text published later 1952 Zamyatin's dystopian novel focuses on a spacecraft engineer. 86039. The Modern Library / Random House Inc unknown books
2007réf. 86042London: Fuel 2007. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; pictorial black paper-covered boards; photographic endpapers; 56-1893pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout. A Fine copy. Collection includes photographs and information on annonymous street art and texts throughout Russia. 86042. Fuel unknown books
1969réf. 85847London: Grossman Publishers in association with Cape Goliard Press 1969. Second Edition. Wrappered Issue. Octavo 25cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp; illus.; with parallel text in English and Spanish. Light wear to base of spine subtle upward curl to upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. 85847. Grossman Publishers, in association with Cape Goliard Press unknown books
2014réf. 86150New York: New Directions 2014. Softcover First Printing. Octavo 23cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 89-72pp. New Directions Poetry Pamphlet #16. Trace shelf-wear and soil else Near Fine. First published in Russian 1977 this English translation includes "Lydia Davis / Eliot Weinberger: Two American Scenes" "Nathaniel Tarn: The Beautiful Contradictions" "Anne Carson: The Albertine Workout". 86150. New Directions unknown books
1995réf. 85943New York: Pantheon Books 1995. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover with contact card belonging to publicity manager Marian Brown of Pantheon Books stapled to front cover. Octavo 23.5cm; pale green paper wrappers; vi276pp. Lightly spine-tanned with trace soil to front cover and light staple impression mark to first page; Very Good. First published in 1985 this English language proof is a collection of short stories organized by "Fables and Stories 1943-1958" and "Tales and Dialogues: 1968-1984" and includes "The Man Who Shouted Teresa" "Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman" and "The Petrol Pump". 85943. Pantheon Books unknown books
1988réf. 85942San Diego and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book 1988. English language Uncorrected Proof copy softcover. Octavo 21cm; blue paper wrappers; x12-673pp. Designed by Michael Farmer. Publisher's sticker to front cover. Light sunning and rubbing to wrapper margins else Near Fine. Collection of three short stories this first English translation proof includes "Under the Jaguar Sun" A King Listens" and "The Name the Nose" and its later First Printing includes a publisher's note. 85942. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book unknown books
1973réf. 86162New York: Pantheon Books / Random House 1973. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; maroon cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and author's name stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; fore-edge untrimmed; 152pp. Light sunning to board edges with trace soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $5.95 with creases and light rubbing to lower front panel and extremities loss of color to spine; Very Good. Collection of short stories first published in 1966 with this English translation including "The Southern Thruway" "Nurse Cora" and "Instructions for John Howell". 86162. Pantheon Books / Random House unknown books
1984réf. 86169New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1984. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; red cloth spine over red paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo blind embossed to front cover; dustjacket; 410pp. Ownership stamp of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 to half-title page. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock else a Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by David Meyers unclipped priced $18.95 with trivial surface wear and tiny tears to upper spine panel; Very Good. First published in Spain as La Habana para un Infante Difunto 1979 this author's semi-autobiographical novel explores pre-Castro Havana with a first-person lens. 86169. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown books
1967réf. 86172London: Jonathan Cape 1967. First U.K. Edition. Octavo 20.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 67-2231pp. Trace finger-soil to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped priced 35s. net and in Fine condition. First published in 1886 this is the first of the Swedish playwright's autobiographical works which focuses on his life up to the age of eighteen with chapters including "Contact with the Lower Class" "First Love" and "Eating From the Hands of Others". 86172. Jonathan Cape unknown books
1986réf. 86011New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.5cm; navy blue cloth with titling and author's initials stamped in copper on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; viii2-6857pp. The pictorial bookplate of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 is mounted to the front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $25.00 with some pinpoint wear to extremities and a few tiny tears. Collection gathering 63 of the German author's stories and novellas 22 of which have not previously been published in book form. 86011. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1974réf. 85994Santa Cruz CA: Green Horse 1974. First English Language Edition. One of 1000 copies. Slim octavo 20.5cm; original turquoise card wrappers with titling and pictorial elements letterpress printed in black and dark blue on spine and front cover; 56-533pp; parallel text in Spanish and English. A Fine copy. Short collection of verse by the Guatemalan poet and journalist. 85994. Green Horse unknown books
1968réf. 86025New York: Atheneum 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; off-white canvas cloth boards and beige cloth backstrip with titles stamped in green and orange on spine and front cover; blue-grey topstain; dustjacket; viii3004pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $5.95 showing mild surface wear two spots of bubbling to the laminate along the front joint with some wear tiny nicks and small tears and creases to spine ends. The French Nobel Prize-winner's second novel originally published as La Déluge in 1966. "It is a meditation on death anguish and the disintegration of human possibility a fantasy in the mind of Francois Besson the disengaged youthful hero of the novel as he descends deeper in the everyday world where the demarcations between reality and hallucination slowly dissolve through his experiences love crime vagabondage" Kirkus Reviews January 25 1967. 86025. Atheneum unknown books
1973réf. 86024New York: Atheneum 1973. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; 67-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.95 showing light wear to spine ends and corners; Near Fine without the usual fading to the spine. The French Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel originally published as La Guerre in 1970. "In War he has a young female heroine Bea B. wander through a maze of peace war and the mess of modern cities. As we read Bea B.'s wonderful wide-eyed internal babble and her scraps of poetry jottings and letters in a diary she carries in her air-travel tote bag Bea B. becomes the perfect foil for the modern apocalypse she stumbles through.as Bea B. wanders through a territory that is presumably Vietnam - and permanent legacy of ten thousand years of war - at the same time she is emotionally walking through France and Europe" Solomon Barbara. "Only the words intact." The New York Times July 15 1973. 86024. Atheneum unknown books
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 books
1984réf. 86005London: Verso 1984. First Edition. Softcover issue simultaneously issued in cloth. Octavo 23cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 251pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "Con Corazón / de Rigoberta" undated. Slightly rubbed at joints and wrapper edges; text clean tight and unmarked: a Very Good copy. Originally published in Spanish as Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchú Y Asi Me Nació La Conciencia 1983. Menchú's landmark autobiography written with Elisabeth Burgos-Debray describes in detail the atrocities committed against indigenous peoples during the Guatemalan Civil War. Menchú was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Ann Wright's English translation has never been out of print and the book is now considered a canonical work of Native American writing; early printings whether in cloth or wrappers are notably uncommon. 85364. Verso unknown books
1973réf. 1401039New York: Harper & Row 1973. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 172 pages. In Very Good plus condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine of jacket is dark purple with pink lettering. Dust jacket is sleeved in a protective mylar cover and shows mild shelf wear on covers. Single small closed tears in top and bottom edges of jacket front. Very small area of chipping in top corner of jacket front near spine. Boards show mild rubbing wear and light sunning along bottom edges. Text block shows negligible shelf wear. Inscribed in black ink by Joseph Brodsky to Myra Sklarew on title page: "Joseph Brodsky / For Myra Sklarew from guess who" followed by a small drawing of a heart. Shelved in Room X. Joseph Brodsky was a Nobel-prize winning Jewish Russian-American poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991-1992. This book is inscribed to Myra Sklarew another Jewish poet and professor who was a prominent figure within the Washington D.C. literary scene alongside Brodsky. 1401039. Special Collections - Downstairs. Harper & Row hardcover books
2000réf. 86302Boston: Beacon Press 2000. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.75cm; black paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv7824pp; illus. The pictorial bookplate of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 is mounted to the front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $45.00 with light surface wear and a few mild creases. 86302. Beacon Press unknown books
1974réf. 86303New York: Atheneum 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's initials embossed onto front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xii23-6873pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $13.95 with the printed price crossed-out and re-priced $3.50 in pen with light surface wear and a faint crease to upper spine panel. Second memoir by the Russian-Jewish author translator and educator following her 1970 memoir Hope Against Hope. Both books chronicled her life with Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. 86303. Atheneum unknown books
1986réf. 86377Austin: University of Texas Press 1986. First Edition. Quarto 26cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x12-3091pp; illustrated map frontispiece with black-and-white illustrations throughout. The Texas Pan American Series. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Explores the history of Merida in chronological order with a focus on Yucatecan Maya in post-Classic and colonial periods. 86377. University of Texas Press unknown books
1978réf. 86413Santa Barbara: Christopher's Books 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 23cm; yellow pictorial paper wrappers; n.p. Lightly spine-sunned with trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse first presented as translations and later shared as Rexroth's own works. 86413. Christopher's Books 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
1996réf. 86492New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company 1996. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; mauve and navy blue paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x2424pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently nudged faint tiny stain to right edge of textblock with lower rear board corner gently tapped though still sharp; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly edgeworn; Near Fine. The Romanian-German Nobel Prize-winner's centered around four young people living in a totalitarian state in Communist Romania. 86492. Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1967réf. 86679Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1967. Second Printing. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's black buckram spine over blue boards titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. xv; 1; 662pp.Very light wear to edges and extremities strong and tight; internally clean and fresh; in a strong handsome dustjacket with a little marginal wear and scuffing with some minor sunning to the spine. A very good copy indeed. The Bollingen Series #XXXVI an academic attempt to follow the thread of Western culture through ancient antiquity to more modern times concentrating on the alterational and concretizing nature of Medieval Latin interpretations of literature from earlier times. Princeton University Press unknown books