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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
1980rif. 87264Madison: Roger Hunt 1980. Quarto 28.5cm; gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 45-1235pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper has light wear to extremities else Near Fine. This English language edition includes a new introduction and bibliography and focuses on the campaign history of the German S.S. Totenkopf "Death's Head" division in 1940s France. 87264. Roger Hunt unknown books
1988rif. 87309Toronto Canada: Latin American Canadian Literature Editions 1988. First English Language Edition. Softcover. Octavo 21cm; gray pictorial paper wrappers; 45-1057pp. Text in Spanish and English. From a collection of poems made by Francisco Morales Santos and distributed by Macondo Book Distributors. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial ownership stamp blind embossed to front flyleaf. Modest shelf-wear with light creases to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse includes "La Patria Que yo Ansio definición y ruta de la patria" / "The Homeland That I Long For Definition and route of homeland" "El Aire que te Espera" / "The Air That Awaits You" and "Respuesta" / "Reply". 87309. Latin American Canadian Literature Editions unknown books
1946rif. 87376London: The Hogarth Press 1946. Second Edition. Octavo 22cm; mustard cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in red on spine; 67-1733pp. Text in German and English. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown and his occasional pencilled marks throughout. Lightly spine-faded with modest shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. First published as Die Snette an Orpheus 1923 with its first English translation in 1936. Collection of verse dedicated for a deceased friend of the poet's daughter and includes the preface from the First Edition and a new preface written for this Second Edition. 87376. The Hogarth Press unknown books
2016rif. 87365Victoria TX: Chax Press 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 20cm; pictorial paper wrappers; 101pp. Text in Spanish and English. Trivial surface wear with trace soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Collection of short fiction on the culture of drive-in theater including "Film visto en una tecla de piano" / "Film seen on a piano key" "No es para mí es para ti" / "It's not for me it's for you" and "Carta que alguna vez le escribiré a Jacques Prévert" / "A letter I will write some day to Jacques Prévert". 87365. Chax Press unknown books
1961rif. 64728New York: Farrar Straus & Cudahy 1961. First edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 211 pp. Two great French plays rendered into English by Lowell Racine and Barzun Beaumarchais respectfully. Near fine in a moderately worn complete dust jacket a couple of short tears and wear at the edges the white back panel lightly soiled. Overall easily very good. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy unknown books
1960rif. 87488Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1960. Octavo 21.5cm; navy blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; xxii23-1024pp. A John Harvard Library Book. While not explicitly marked as such this copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his occasional pencilled marginal marks througout. Trace rubbing to lower board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.00 with publisher's upcoming books printed on verso and trace shelf-soil and -wear; Very Good. First translated from German in 1898 with this edition translated from the original German text and including the editor's introduction and preface from the First Edition. Explores American immigration with Mittelberger's account of traveling from Germany to Pennsylvania in the 18th century. 87488. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press unknown books
1976rif. 87582Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 1976. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxx3362pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace residue to rear cover; Very Good. Dustwrapper has tiny tears to extremities and upper front spine fold; Very Good. First published as Quetzalcóatl et Guadalupe 1974 this text focuses on Mexican social history with a focus on Aztec myths and Indigenous tribes and organized into "Part 1: New Spain from the Conquest to Independence 1521-1821" "Part 2: Quetzalcóatl or the Phoenix Bird" and "Part 3: Guadalupe or the New Epiphany" with a foreword by Octavio Paz. 87582. University of Chicago Press unknown books
rif. 87599The Hague and London: G.B. Van Goor Zonen / Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd n.d. Quarto 27cm; beige cloth spine over pictorial paper-covered boards; 45-56pp; colorful illustrations throughout. Previous owner's inked gift inscription with Christmas 1958 date to front endpaper. Modest shelf-wear and -soil with rubbing and light peeling to paper of board edges light interior foxing and two 0.5" tears to rear endpaper; Very Good. First published in Dutch as Miezelientje en Prinses Rosmarijn this children's story follows the adventures of two cats who are lost in the woods. 87599. G.B. Van Goor Zonen / Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd unknown books
1977rif. 83895New York: The Vanguard Press Inc 1977. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; plum cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 187pp. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper designed by Elizabeth Woll unclipped priced $7.95 with trivial surface wear and creases residue to front panel and light shelf-soil to rear panel; Very Good. First published in French as Histoires perfides 1976 this collection includes "The Royal Pardon" "The Limits of Endurance" and "The Angelic Monsieur Edyh". 83895. The Vanguard Press, Inc unknown books
1939rif. 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
1960rif. 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
1944rif. 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
1943rif. 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
1912rif. 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
1922rif. 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
1932rif. 84456London: Cassell & Company Limited 1932. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind ruling to front cover; 309pp. Shelf-soil to boards with rubbing to board edges and trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper spine-faded with nicks to spine panel and rear flap fold 2" tear and soil to front panel and tiny chips tears and creases to extremities; Good. Collection of essays organized into "Part 1: England and Other Matters" "Part II: Present and Futures" and "Part III: America" with journal accounts and advice given to Frenchmen. 84456. Cassell & Company Limited unknown books
1987rif. 9032310San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1988rif. 9032309San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1927rif. 84471New York: D. Appleton & Company 1927. First American Edition. Second Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; maroon cloth-covered boards with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; lower- and fore-edge untrimmed; vi2864pp. Spine titling lightly oxidized with light suning and shelf-soil to spine; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.00 spine-tanned with tiny tears and chips to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Explores a workers' strike at a factory in France and includes background on the protagonist's war opposition romantic love family and internal conflicts. 84471. D. Appleton & Company unknown books
1991rif. 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
1929rif. 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
1929rif. 84585London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1929. Limited Edition. One of 750 copies signed by both the author and translator of which 250 were intended for sale. Octavo 25cm; black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; gilt top-edge; fore- and lower-edges untrimmed; 101pp. Previous owner's name and date stamped to front endpaper. Light shelf-soil with light rubbing to spine ends and board edges with foxing to pastedowns and endpapers; Good. Collection of verse organized into five parts and includes "The Dreamer Sees the Cities of Corn Machinery and Ships" "He finds snakes in the flowers" and "The Future Generations answer". 84585. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
1947rif. 84527New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; taupe cloth with titling and decorations stamped in dark red on spine and front cover; x23-1766pp. Previous owner's ink name to upper front endpaper else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 shelfworn gently spine-sunned dust-soiled with shallow losses to spine ends several tears and creases one of which is invisibly mended on verso; Very Good. "In the vivid and passionate terms with which he reported from Russia's battlefronts and which made him the best-known Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenburg here gives his reactions to a postwar journey through the Balkans. By doing so he lights up for us the present Russian point of view about that troubled part of the world" from front flap. 84527. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1972rif. 84535New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1972. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; orange cloth titled in gilt on spine and front cover; grey topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket; xiv34-6224pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $10.00 with light wear to extremities and two tiny tears to crown. Attractive copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's novel about the defeat of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg. 84535. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books