Paris: Julliard, 1979. First French Edition. Collection of 20 short stories, originally written in the early 1950's. Preceded by the Italian First published by Einaudi, the French edition precedes both the US and UK editions by four years. A superb inscription to Marie-Claude de Brunhoff, literary critic for L'Express, Le..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First Edition of this translation. Handsome edition of Fowles's translation of Claire de Durfort's 1824 novel. In his introduction, Fowles explains how the acquisition and reading of a badly foxed copy in a London bookshop inspired his third novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). The..... More
Paris: Simon Kra, 1926. Gatsby Le Magnifique was the first translation of any Fitzgerald novel into a foreign language. The task of translation was assumed by Peruvian author and translator Victor Llona (1886-1953), who began working on it in the fall of 1925. Llona, who grew up in Paris, quickly..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Uncorrected proof copy of the Nobel Prize-winning author's fourth novel, the saga of love and loss over five decades. A significant association copy inscribed by Edith Grossman, the preeminent translator of literary works from Spanish to English, to Glenn Horowitz, who brokered..... 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