Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator, this being copy 'T'. This copy bears an original ink illustration signed by the author, tipped onto the page following the copyright page. Octavo (23.75cm); pictorial..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1988. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [vi],79,[3]pp. A Fine, unread copy. Collection of ten drug-themed short stories by Mrabet, first published in 1969, recorded and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. One of 1,220 copies. Slim octavo (23.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; [16]pp. A Fine copy of this Moroccan folk tale featuring traditional hero Hadidan Aharam, published as Sparrow 37. Miller A26. More
Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Slim octavo (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [12],13-79,[3]pp. A Fine copy of this late volume by Mrabet, containing a novella (Marriage With Papers) and one story ("Chico"). "In the title novella, sanity and marriage are at stake. In the..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Fifth Printing of the First Vintage International Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [xii],393,[11]pp. Signed by the author in a contemporary hand in black Sharpie on title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, a few pinpoint rubbed spots to extremities, else very Near Fine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); pale grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-327,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper in a contemporary hand, in English and Japanese, dated about a month..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First Edition. First Printing of Pamuk's second novel. The book is Fine, with barely a trace of the usual darkening to the paper on the top edge. The jacket is also Fine, with the original price of UK 14.99 net unclipped. It bears some pretty..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1991. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper over boards, quarterbound in white cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine; 161pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. The Turkish Nobel Prize-winner's first novel. While the book was successful enough to merit a second..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1930]. First Revised American Trade Edition. A handsome edition of the Rubaiyat, exquisitely illustrated by Willy Pogany, with an introduction by George Saintsbury. Small quarto (25.75cm); full tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, and black and..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2018. Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies, specially bound and slipcased, this being copy no.68. Folio (40.75cm); iridescent pale gold cloth boards and brown morocco backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's original dark brown gilt-stamped slipcase; [ii],[7],8-250,[4]pp, with a color pictorial..... More
Tiburon: Cadmus Editions, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20cm); pictorial card wrappers; [9],10-117,[11]pp. A Fine, unread copy. Rosa's novel is a parable about political indoctrination in Central America, translated by Paul Bowles. More
Tiburon: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First American Edition. First Printing, deluxe issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound and signed by the author, translator and artist, this being copy 'H'. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red endpapers; dustjacket; [9],10-117,[10]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1985. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [viii],95,[1]pp. Light crease to upper front cover, trivial wear to crown, else very Near Fine. The Guatemalan author's first book, a collection of 26 short stories translated by Paul Bowles. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1985. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, preceding the UK edition by three years. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],1-95,[1]pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge text block, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped, dustjacket (priced $12.95). The..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1992. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-91,[5]. A Fine copy of the First American edition of Rey Rosa's tales of magic, violence, and the temporal nature of existence, translated by noted author Paul Bowles. More
London: Peter Owen, 1989. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-75,[3]pp. A Fine copy in a Fine, unclipped, dustjacket (price £8.95). Rodrigo Rey Rosa's collection of short stories of magic, violence, and the temporal nature of existence, translated by noted..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. The most limited state of Robbe-Grillet's fourth novel, first published as La Jalousie by Éditions de Minuit in 1957. Set on a banana plantation in a foreign country, the novel is centered around the unnamed narrator, his wife (referred to only..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1988. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],95,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy. UK edition of the Guatemalan author's first book, a collection of 26 short stories translated by Paul Bowles, originally published by City Lights in 1985. More
New York: Red Ozier Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. One of 185 numbered copies signed by the author, translator, and illustrator, this being copy no.83. Octavo (24.5cm); letterpressed sheets, printed in three colors and sewn into flexible gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles printed in black on..... More
New York: Grove Press Inc., 1959. First American Edition. The Mexican author's second book and first novel, following a young man's quest to find his father as he navigates an arid ghost town populated by spectral figures. Rulfo (1917-1986), one of the progenitors of magical realism, was a major influence..... More
Zürich: Humanitas Verlag, 1940. First German Edition. Association copy of Steinbeck's most enduring novel, narrating the long and enduring struggle of the Joad family to find some measure of happiness, and some thread of human dignity, during their move west from Oklahoma to California. "A naturalistic and detailed picture of..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1927. First French Edition. Svevo self-published La Coscienza di Zeno in Italy in 1923, where it went largely unnoticed. The novel would likely have vanished into obscurity if it were not for the efforts of Svevo's friend James Joyce, who championed the work and, using his Parisian contacts..... More