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1997rif. 85266New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1997. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.75cm; tan paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; vi3-2962pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Upper board corners bumped else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $24.00 with some trivial wear and corresponding crinkling at upper flap folds; Near Fine. The Turkish Nobel Prize-winner's third novel. 85266. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1966rif. 85480New York: Something Else Press Inc 1966. First American Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; white cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in copper and black on spine; black topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 214pp; illus. Some pages of text unopened. Light sunning to lower spine and lower board margins else Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped with illustrations printed on verso price sticker to front flap light soil tiny tears and creases to extremities and trace interior wear; Very Good. First published in France as Topographie Anecdotée du Hasard 1962 a realism lens is applied to explore objects from the author's life including a carton of socosel a glazed earthenware bowl and a white shirt button. Table of Contents may be used as a key for the illustrated map on the verso of jacket and endpaper. 85480. Something Else Press, Inc unknown books
2022rif. 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 books
1983rif. 85376New York: Monthly Review Press 1983. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 21.5cm; navy blue paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 1011-194pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "From Eduardo to David / Seattle / April 27/88." Base of spine gently bumped else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $16.00 with light wear to extremities; Near Fine. "Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of Uruguayan-born writer and political activist Eduardo Galeano. It is both journal and history spanning more than two decades of the lives and struggles of the Latin American people from Guatemala and Cuba in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south" from front flap. Uncommon signed. Monthly Review Press unknown books
1998rif. 85364London and New York: Verso 1998. 1990s reprint softcover. Octavo 23cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 251pp. Inscribed by author on title page: "Le Deseo Mucha Salud Rigoberta". Bookshop sticker to rear wrapper else a Fine copy. First published 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. 85364. Verso unknown books
1996rif. 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 books
2006rif. 85734New York: Universe Publishing / Rizzoli International Publications Inc 2006. First American Edition. Softcover. Folio 34cm; paper photographic wrappers; 56-2551pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations. Light rubbing to extremities else Near Fine. First published in France as Free Press La contre-culture vue par la Presse Underground 2006 this collection includes full-page illustrations of previously published artwork for the Underground Press. Concludes with history of the Underground Press Syndicate as told by Bizot and an index. 85734. Universe Publishing / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc unknown books
1978rif. 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
1995rif. 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
1988rif. 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
1968rif. 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
1973rif. 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
2007rif. 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
1984rif. 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
1978rif. 86301Berkeley: University of California Press 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26.25cm; burgundy cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxxviii1-3395pp; 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 $20.00 with light surface wear and a small faint scuff to lower spine panel. A substantial collection of verse by the noted Peruvian poet. 86301. University of California Press unknown books
1974rif. 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
1978rif. 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
1996rif. 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
1986rif. 86862Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press 1986. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; light brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii23-1935pp; figures and tables throughout. Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Stduies Kyoto University. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Bookshop sticker to lower front pastedown with a pencilled note to upper rear pastedown else Near Fine. Dustwrapper lightly spine-faded with trace rubbing to rear panel; Very Good. Text includes "Part I. The Structure of a State Religion" and "Part II. A State Religion in History" with a list of abbreviations and a concluding index. 86862. The University of Hawaii Press unknown books
1963rif. 86794New York and London: Columbia University Press 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xlii34-358pp with black and white frontispiece. Spine ends gently bumped else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped spine-sunned and lightly shelfworn with some rubbing to panels and a few tiny nicks tears and attendant creases; Very Good or better. "Wing-tsit Chan here translates Wang Yang-ming's Ch'uan-hsi lu or Instructions for Practical Living his Inquiry on the "Great Learning" and seven documents which demonstrate Wang's practical application of his doctrines" from front flap. 86794. Columbia University Press unknown books
1960rif. 86826Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1960. Second Printing. Octavo 24cm; gray cloth-covered boards with titling and blocking stamped in black and red on spine; dustjacket; xxi23-5044pp. Modest rubbing of cloth to front cover and board edges with soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by George Lenox price-clipped with modest shelf-wear and rubbing with slight effect to titling two 1" tears to upper spine folds 1" triangular chip to lower front flap fold tiny nicks to panels and tiny tears to extremities; Good. Text includes Volume One "The Overthrow of Tzarism" Volume Two "The Attempted Counter-Revolution" and Volume Three "The Triumph of the Soviets" with a concluding appendix section chronological table and index. 87826. The University of Michigan Press unknown books
2002rif. 87026Vermont: Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies 2002. Octavo 25cm; pictorial paper wrappers; xx23-7173pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Text in Spanish. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial ownership stamp embossed to dedication page. Trivial surface wear with light creases to lower margins; Very Good. Explores life and efforts of previous president of Guatemala Rafael Carrera with focus including the Revolution of 1848 and El Salvador. 87026. Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies unknown books
2012rif. 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 books
1995rif. 87125New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. / Borzoi Book 1995. Third Printing two-volume boxed set. Two octavo volumes 22cm; black cloth spine over black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gray; dustjackets; slipcase; x34-7251pp; xi730-17746pp; black-and-white photographic frontipiece portraits. This set is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown of the first volume only. Both volumes in Fine condition. Both dustwrappers designed by Chip Kidd and Barbara de Wilde in Fine condition. Publisher's photographic slipcase designed by Barbara de Wilde and Chip Kidd has trivial surface wear with light peeling to adhesive of paper title label to top edge; Very Good. This is a complete two-volume set of Musil's unfinished novel which includes three parts and many drafts. Volume I includes his "A Sort of Introduction" and "Pseudoreality Prevails" while Volume II concludes with his "Into the Millennium The Criminals" with this edition translated from the German to English by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins. 87125. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / Borzoi Book unknown books
1926rif. 87039Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1926. Limited Edition. One of 1250 numbered sets this being copy no.421. Three octavo volumes 24.25cm; orange paper-covered boards and vertically-ribbed white cloth backstrips with printed title labels mounted to upper spines; xiv5651; 45-584; 45-600pp each volume with a black & white pictorial frontispiece. Light wear to extremities exteriors and upper text edges dust-soiled light though they are internally clean; Very Good lacking the glassing dustjackets and cloth slipcase. Handsome reissue of LaCroix classic text Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde translated here into English by Samuel Putnam. 87039. Pascal Covici, Publisher unknown books
