New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1952. First American Edition. American edition of Akutagawa's best-known collection of work, first published in English (in Japan) by the Charles E. Tuttle Co. in 1952. The stories were written by Akutagawa between 1915-1921, published in literary magazines. The first two stories, "In A Grove"..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1915. First Edition. A historic volume - the very first book issued by publisher Alfred A. Knopf - beginning a long tradition of publishing continental literature in translation. The volume collects four of Augier's best-known dramatic works: 'Olympe's Marriage,' 'Monsieur Poirier's Son-In-Law,' 'The House of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [vi],298pp. Small, faint triangular damp mark to lower right edge of front cover, subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), showing some toning..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); powder gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in hunter green on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-191,[1]pp. Pinpoint wear to spine ends, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), with some trivial external wear and faint rubbing..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. First American Edition. Collection of 39 essays on various historical figures, originally published as 'Otras Inquisiciones' in 1952 and translated here into English for the first time. A stunning copy. First Printing. Octavo; pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in silver and dark gray..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28.25cm); photomechanically reproduced sheets, comb-bound into light blue printed covers; [10],11-172,[2]pp. Publisher's rubber stamp appearing on half-title page, with the tentative date (Nov.16, 1970) and tentative price ($7.95) written in blue pen, and the rubber stamp..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by all contributors (except for Boulaich and Yacoubi, who did not sign), this being copy 'O'. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine;..... More
Augsburg: Maroverlag, 1990. First Edition. Small collection of pieces culled from Bukowski's 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man' column in the pages of Open City, translated into German by Carl Weissner and illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner, with a portrait of Bukowski by Jörg Fauser. Of the 2 mock-ups, one..... More
Boston: Beacon Hill Press, 1957. First American Edition. First Printing. Fine and unread in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. A touch of nicking at the crown, with a small splash at the bottom right corner of the rear panel and faint soil to same. Calvino's first novel, and the first..... More
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Tokyo: Hayakawa Books, 2010. First Edition. A key translation by Haruki Murakami of Chandler's sixth novel - the apex of 20th century detective fiction, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955, and basis for Robert Altman's 1973 film starring Elliott Gould and Sterling Hayden. While Murakami is..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, this being copy no.573. Quarto (29cm); original turquoise linen, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's pale blue paper-covered slipcase; xiv,[2],3-137,[9]pp; with illustrations throughout the text, including..... More
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931. First Edition. Regular Issue, one of 200 copies. Octavo (18.5cm); original black cloth, with decorations and double-ruled border stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and in blind to rear cover; black endpapers; [iv],38,[8]pp, with frontispiece and 18 gelatin silver prints (photograms) after..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First Edition of this translation. One of 500 copies. Quarto (25.75cm); original quarter blue crushed morocco and paste paper boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],[4],5-65,[5]pp. Inscribed by Fowles to Czech-born British filmmaker Karel Reisz (1926-2002) on half-title page: "Dear Karel, I thought..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First American Edition. A superlative copy of the Nobel Prize winner's masterpiece, and likely the most widely-read Spanish language novel aside from 'Don Quixote.' The present example is a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in; the slip differs from other..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972. First American Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with publisher's typed slip and promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); turquoise cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver and dark green on spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-146,[4]pp..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. First American Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.25cm); goldenrod paper-covered boards and russet cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; vi,[2],3-170pp. Tiny wrinkle to cloth at crown, else..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1923. First UK Edition. First English language edition of Constance Garnett's translation of The Overcoat, issued as Volume III of her five-volume Works of Nikolay Gogol, published between 1923-28. Contents include "The Nevsky Prospect," "A Madman's Diary," "The Prisoner," "The Carriage," "The Nose," "The Portrait," and..... More
Derry: Field Day Theatre Company Limited, 1983. First Edition. First Impression, cloth issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); greyish-white rexine cloth boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,77,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated August, 1993. Fine..... More
New York & Barnstable, MA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Crane Duplicating Service, Inc., 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); photomechanically reproduced sheets, comb-bound into light blue printed covers, with publisher's typed label tape to lower front cover; [xvi],[1]-80,[2]pp. Signed by James Wright in black pen at upper margin..... More
London: Secker and Warburg, 1954. First U.K. Edition. An important posthumous collection of Kafka's work, selected and edited by his friend Max Brod, who provides an invaluable section of notes in the end matter. Includes Wedding Preparations in the Country (the fragments of one of Kafka's early, unfinished novels), "Reflections..... More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1932. First French Edition. Octavo, 130 pages. A Very Good+ copy in publisher's printed self-wraps - one of 1,650 numbered copies, this copy being No. 835. Light wear to the extremities, notably the spine panel and to the edges of the rear wrapper. Signatures are uncut, small..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American Edition. The first volume in Mann's great tetralogy, telling the story of the Biblical Joseph's rise as a statesman in Egypt, his conduct during the epic famine, and his restoration to his father Jacob. Easily the most elusive of the four books..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. First Edition. A satirical fantasy in the tradition of Swift, recounting the protagonist's visit to a strange community on an imaginary Pacific island. Locke (A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1, p.153); Bleiler (1978 ed), p.136. Provenance: From the collection of Spectrum of Fantasy author George Locke. First..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); brown paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and embossed to front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[3],4-115,[5]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95), with some trivial wear and a...... More
Paris: Le Dernier Terrain Vague, 1993. First French Edition Thus. Octavo (15cm); glossy red wrappers printed in white; pictorial dustjacket; [14],15-171,[5]pp; text is entirely in French. About Fine in a lightly rubbed, very Near Fine dustjacket. Collection of ten drug-themed short stories by Mrabet, originally recorded and translated from the..... More