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1968Best.-Nr. 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
1973Best.-Nr. 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
2007Best.-Nr. 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
1984Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1978Best.-Nr. 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
1996Best.-Nr. 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
1986Best.-Nr. 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
1963Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. 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
2002Best.-Nr. 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
2012Best.-Nr. 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
1995Best.-Nr. 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
1926Best.-Nr. 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
1983Best.-Nr. 87212New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983. First American Edition. First Printing with "First Edition" and publisher's "BCDE" code on copyright page. Octavo 24.25cm; mauve paper-covered boards and cream cloth backstrip with titling and decorations stamped in copper on spine and front cover; map endpapers; dustjacket; viii1-502pp; illus. Signed by the author on the title page. Light scattered foxing to text edges and endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $15.95 shelfworn gently spine-sunned with numerous small tears some attendant creases a 2" triangular chip to upper rear panel and the remnants of an old sticker to upper front flap; only Very Good. Eco's best-known book a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327. Originally published as Il nome della rosa in 1980. 87212. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich unknown books
1939Best.-Nr. 83862New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1939. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; light red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; red topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 238pp. Lightly sunned with light publication errors to preliminary pages; Very Good. Dustwrapper has dust-soil and light rubbing tiny chips and tears to spine ends corners and extremities and 0.5" tear to lower front panel; Very Good. First published in France as Le Haut de Seuil the collection of short fiction contains 10 stories and includes "The Toads" "At the Inn of the Golden Chamois" and "A Visit". 83862. Dodd, Mead & Company unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 84075New York: Simon and Schuster Inc 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; red cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; 310pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown with dampstain to lower edge of textblock extending to lower margin of text pages; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.95 with modest shelf-wear and soil tanning to spine panel and flaps dampstain to base of spine with tiny tears and rubbing to spine ends and extremities; Good. Originally published in French as L'emploi du Temps 1957 and written in diary format as a French clerk navigates work in an English industrial city and gains interest in a detective story. 84075. Simon and Schuster, Inc unknown books
1944Best.-Nr. 84244Norfolk CT: New Directions 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.5cm; white paper-covered boards with titling stamped in brown on front cover; dustjacket; 37pp. Tanned with rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.00 with tanning and shelf-soil and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Published as part of The Poets of the Year series and includes Nabokov's translations of works by Alexander Pushkin Michael Lermontov and Neither Tyutchev. 84244. New Directions unknown books
1943Best.-Nr. 84340Cummington Massachusetts: The Cummington Press 1943. First Edition. First Printing one of 430 copies 30 of which were kettered A to DD and signed and the remaining 400 copies were numbered of which this is no.379. Octavo 24.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in red on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; glassine dustwrapper; 28pp. Light sunning to board edges with shelf-soil to covers and soil to rear endpaper; Very Good. Text includes Latin with English translation and introduction by Allen Tate. 84340. The Cummington Press unknown books
1912Best.-Nr. 84333New York: Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran 1912. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black and gray on spine and front cover; 301pp. Modest rubbing to spine ends and board edges with shelf-soil; Very Good. Also published as La Frontière the French author's novel explores nationalism and patriotism prior to to WWI. 84333. Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran unknown books
1921Best.-Nr. 84330New York: The Macaulay Company 1921. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm; red cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; 315pp; frontispiece illustration. Spine-tanned with shelf- and finger-soil to covers and light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Lacking dustjacket. Also published as Les Trois Yeux the French author's science fiction novel explores a secret organization called The Three Eyes. 84330. The Macaulay Company unknown books
1922Best.-Nr. 84396New York: The Macaulay Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in orange on spine and front cover; 313pp; frontispiece illustration. Modest rubbing to cloth with tanning to edges of textblock and light wear to hinges; Very Good. Includes eight retellings of Prince Renine's adventures as told to Leblanc by Arsene Lupin including "On the Top of the Tower" "The Tell-Tale Film" and "The Lady with the Hatchet". 84396. The Macaulay Company unknown books
1991Best.-Nr. 84478New York and London: Marion Boyars 1991. First American Edition. Bilingual edition. Octavo 22cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 160pp; 16 glossy pages of black and white photographic halftone illustrations. Light rubbing to lower board edge else Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Susi Mawani unclipped priced UK £12.95 / US $21.95 with light creases and rubbing to spine ends and lower rear panel else Near Fine. This bilingual edition includes Green's French text alongside Underwood's English translation as Green describes the culture of Paris France and his memories prior to leaving during WWII. 84478. Marion Boyars unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 84595Paris: Edward W. Titus 1929. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies intended for subscribers of which this is no.134 softcover. Octavo 21cm; tan paper wrappers; fore- and lower-edge untrimmed; 16pp; illus. Some pages of text unopened. Spine-tanned with crown lightly nudged and trace foxing to covers and interior; Very Good. Homer's translation of Saine's single manuscript which may have been created as late as the fourteenth century. 84595. Edward W. Titus unknown books
