104 résultats
1966JC9282New York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 344. Spine tips and corners gently rubbed otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly scratched; a little wrinkled along the edges; VG in mylar. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover books
1970WRCLIT77207San Francisco: City Lights 1970. Pictorial wrappers. Soft corner creases spine a bit rubbed with light dust mudging to lower wrapper else very good. First edition including a prefatory 'description' by Ginsberg. COOK 86. MORGAN B73. City Lights unknown books
196612115ENew York: Grove Press 1966. First Edition - American. Ownership signature. Fine clean copy in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears and a slight hint of dust soiling to the spine. Genet’s second novel. Grove Press unknown books
1966445381966. GENET Jean. MIRACLE OF THE ROSE. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Grove Press Inc. 1966. First American edition. 8vo. beige cloth. Ink ownership to fpd. Slight stain to fore-edge. Near fine in a like dust jacket with a touch of edgewear. unknown books
1968WRCLIT48715Paris: Gallimard 1968. Stiff printed wrappers printed bellyband. First edition trade issue after 65 copies on vélin. The fourth volume and the first devoted to drama. Poet/translator Cid Corman's copy with his 1970 ownership inscription. Light foxing to wrappers most noticeable to the spine panel otherwise very good. Gallimard unknown books
195873553London: Faber and Faber 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English translated from the French by Bernard Frechtmann. The first of Genet's dramatic works to be staged in New York this play is set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising in the streets; most of the action takes place in an upmarket brothel that functions as a microcosm of the regime of the establishment under threat outside. It served as the basis for the 1963 Joseph Strick film starring Shelley Winters Peter Falk and Leonard Nimoy. Octavo. Original orange cloth binding with black titles. Just a hint of edgewear to the dust jacket. Better than very good. Faber and Faber hardcover books
196429309NY: Grove Press 1964. First printing. 8vo pp. 268. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. A nice copy in little soiled dj. Grove Press unknown books
1954D16536New York: Grove Press 1954. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Original cloth in DJ. 8vo; pp. 166. Nice copy in sunfaded and lightly edgeworn DJ. <br/><br/> Grove Press hardcover books
196356919Paris: Marc Barbezat 1963. First edition. 92 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Paris: Marc Barbezat unknown books
194925971Westport: Tiger's Eye Publishing 1949. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Ninth and final issue of this small press arts and literary periodical. Edited by Ruth Stephan. Featuring poems drawings and photographs. A clean very good copy in tall bound illustrated wrappers. Paper loss along the leading edge of the front cover else a very well-bound copy of a magazine often found in poor condition. Some stains to first printed page. Tiger's Eye Publishing paperback books
1950WRCLIT82484Paris: Transition Press 1950. Whole number four of six published. Pictorial wrappers. Text block browned as usual short snag at crown of upper joint but a good c. Edited by Georges Duthuit with an advisory board including Char Bataille Gilbert Jolas Sartre et al. An important venue for the introduction of then contemporary French writing to the English reading public. Contributions to this number by the editors Genet excerpt from THIEF'S JOURNAL Gide Michaux et al. Transition Press unknown books
1970170961New York City: Committee to Defend the Panthers 1970. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed front and back formerly folded horizontally into thirds .5 inch tear along left side upper fold slight yellowing at edges. Originally appeared in Ramparts June 1970. Genet's appeal to defend Bobby Seale against murder charges in New Haven CT reprinted by Committee as fundraiser for the case. Committee to Defend the Panthers unknown books
196531548London: Anthony Blond 1965. Hardcover. 291p. very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped dj. Young 1388. Anthony Blond hardcover books
197053671San Francisco: City Lights Books 1970. First Edition. First printing. Staple-bound photo-pictorial wrappers; 253pp. Hint of dusting to lighter portions of wrappers else Fine - a clean and well-preserved copy. <br/><br/>Text of Genet's speech made on the occasion of the Yale student strike of May 1st 1970. With a six-page introduction by Ginsberg who calls Genet the ".most eminent prosateur of Europe and saintly thinker of France." Genet issued a declamatory endorsement of the New Haven Panthers and a sweeping denigration of American institutions including the Press the Church charitable institutions the unions the universities - and above all the police. An oddly elusive City Lights title. City Lights Books unknown books
19706013Austin TX: University Of Texas At Austin Humanities Research Center 1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine in Wraps in Near Fine Archival Case. Tiht bright and unmarred. Printed paper wraps mustard ink lettering black ink pictorial elements. Green cloth slipcase matching green cloth sleeve black leather spine gilt lettering and decorative elements. Square 8vo. 48pp. Illus. b/w plates. <br/><br/>Exhibition catalogue covering the books and manuscripts from the Van der Poel Collection at the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library. A handsome copy in a lovely archival case. University Of Texas At Austin Humanities Research Center paperback books
1999153464Zurich: Art Focus 1999. Softcover. VG- Slightly aged overall; page margins are tanning; text and illus. are good. White & illus. wraps French flaps 96 pp. color and BW illus. Text is in German and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1999 exhibition of work by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966. Begins with a descriptive narrative. The catalogue includes sculpture paintings and drawings. Art Focus paperback books
1999293596Zurich: Galerie Art Focus 1999. paperback. near fine. Alberto Giocometti. In German and English. Illustrated color and black & white. 96 pages. 4to paper wrappers. Zurich: Galerie Art Focus 1999. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Essay by Jean Genet.<br/><br/> Galerie Art Focus unknown books
1954039501Paris: Olympia 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. The first English language edition rebound in green boards with five raised bands added endpapers with the original black and white jacket front bound in at the beginning. Dedicated to Sartre and Beauvoir this is Genet's purest expression of his ideal of a sort of reverse sainthood. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 039501. <br/><br/> Olympia hardcover books
196433122NY: Grove Press 1964. First printing. 8vo pp. 268. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. A nice copy in little soiled and price-clipped dj. Grove Press unknown books
1990WRCLIT37382Paris: Gallimard 1990. Printed wrappers. First edition trade issue after thirty-five copies on velin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. One of Edmund White's copies with his unrelated notes on the rear free endpaper. Near fine. Gallimard unknown books
1949107110Paris: Paul Morihien 1949. Paperback. 51p. 5.5x7.5 inches text in French very good first trade edition in pictorial wraps with full-length photo of a young Genet in prison garb smaller portrait-photo on the first page of the first of the two stories slightly worn on spine. The Criminal Child Genet's study of juvenile prisons and his ballet 'Adame Miroir. Paul Morihien paperback books
1958WRCLIT25745Decines: Barbezat/L'Arbalete 1958. Lithographed wrappers. First edition. One of 3200 numbered copies on Lana. Short snag to upper joint otherwise a very good copy. Barbezat/L'Arbalete unknown books
19661095New York: Grove Press Inc. 1966. First American Edition 1st Printing. <br /><br />Octavo 8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 344 pages in tan cloth black titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket. <br /><br />Jean Genet's second novel a partly autobiographical account of prison life during the German occupation of France. Genet spent many years in and out of prison; this was written in 1943 in La Santé and Tourelles prisons. "How much is true or how much is invented ceases to be of account. It has a psychological rightness of tone that is overpoweringly persuasive." Thomas Lask The New York Times February 20 1967 page 35. <br /><br />Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman and originally published in 1951 by Gallimard. Striking jacket photo of Genet by Jerry Bauer. The unclipped dust jacket shows the original $7.50 price. <br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine with slight splaying of boards. Internally clean bright and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has a bit of soiling to the spine and lower panel. Overall a beautiful copy. <br /><br /><br /> Grove Press, Inc. hardcover books
196472005NY: Grove Press 1964. First US edition. 268 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman. Clipped photograph of Genet pasted inside the front cover. Poet-publisher Doug Blazek’s copy SIGNED by him on the first leaf. A present from his father “Push right to the extreme / and it becomes wrong: / press all the juice from / an orange and it becomes / bitter / Baltasar Gracián / 12/64 / con amore / Dad.†NY: Grove Press unknown books
1970WRCLIT71024San Francisco: City Lights 1970. Pictorial wrappers. Soft corner creases spine a bit rubbed with light dust smudging to lower wrapper else very good. First edition including a prefatory 'description' by Ginsberg who has signed this copy on the title. COOK 86. MORGAN B73. City Lights unknown books