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1983WRCLIT51275Richardson TX.: UT at Dallas 1983. Whole numbers one through thirteen. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers and pictorial wrappers. Cheap paper of early newsprint issues tanned as usual ink note on one wrapper else very good to fine. Edited by Rainer Schulte et al. The first number includes a retrospective article on four decades of New Directions and an interview with Gregory Rabassa setting the tone of the continuing significant attention to the mechanics of translations and publication and interviews with or articles by translators in subsequent issues. UT at Dallas unknown books
1945WRCLIT85117London: Phoenix Press 1945. First Series" i.e. whole number one of two published. Printed wrappers. Lightly used very good. Edited by Neville Braybrooke and Elizabeth King and intended as a semiannual produced in tandem with WIND AND THE RAIN. A second series appeared in 1947. Contributors as translators include Watkins Pinto Blunden Strachan Manning Heath-Stubbs et al. SULLIVAN MODERN p.571. Phoenix Press unknown books
2009127534Beijing China: Foreign Language Press 2009. First. Softbound. VG some light wear to edges. Light gray french flaps with white titling 252pp approx. 162 color and monotone illustrations. Text in Chinese and English. Exhibition catalog; a thoughtful monograph involving several Chinese artists and the concept that their work imitates Western art because it has to not through natural artistic progression. Each plate is annotated; includes artist biographies and notes in translation. Very interesting. Foreign Language Press paperback books
193319937New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good. A classic of Soviet realism a novel set among youth in factories and plants brimming with optimism for the Five-Year Plan. In the scarce illustrated dustjacket artwork uncredited featuring a large arm moving the hand of a clock forward with an industrial scene in the background. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc unknown books
19659013398Norwalk Connecticut: Heritage Press 1965. Hardcover. Fine Condition. <br/><br/> Heritage Press hardcover books
192224150New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; brick red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; 4384pp. Hint of sunning to spine oxidation to spine gilt with faint foxing to text edge and endpapers; contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper H.B. Blauvelt Oradell NY Mar.14 1923; penciled signature beneath erased with erasure evident to extensive penciled notes on rear pastedown; Very Good. English language translation of Gorky's 1901 novel. The plot concerns Ilya Lunyev a boy from an urban slum who enters the middle-class milieu only to be disillusioned to find the same moral corruption. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
198046266Garden City: Doubleday 1980. First American Edition. Quarto 28.5.cm; yellow/pictorial paper-covered boards in yellow/pictorial dust jacket with identical image and titling 32pp. Text block is clear and sound with only very light handling wear Fine. Boards slightly worn on edge corners including those on the spine hinge; soiling on rear board inner margin. Dust jacket has overall yellowing surface wear and minor soiling. Closed tears present on jacket extremities with chipping and material loss along the front panel's upper margin and spine. Sticker on front inner flap. Else Very Good. A charming story of the unlikely friendship between a pig a bird and a fish depicted through Waechter's color illustrations. English language version of the German "Wir können noch viel zusammen machen" 1973. Doubleday unknown books
1949008760London: Imago Publishing Company Limited 1949. Personal copy of the noted anthropologist and and advocate of Japanese American civil rights Morris E. Opler his signature M. E. Opler front end page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket small edge tear and shallow creases along top edge. . First English Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Imago Publishing Company, Limited Hardcover books
19699014499University Alabama: University of Alabama Press 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear to the extremities. <br/><br/> University of Alabama Press hardcover books
196917896New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth with titles and decoration stamped in gilt and green on spine and front panel; peach topstain; dustjacket; 200pp 8. Contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped and lightly rubbed at the extremities; Near Fine. The author's eighth book a novel of pain frustration and destructive sexual passions. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1935010722Kanda: Hokuseido Press 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo blue linen paper label front and spine gte map endpapers 236p 20p. Spine label soiled and chipped. Gift inscription dated 1938 on half title. Hokuseido Press hardcover books
190330100Boston: The Jefferson Press 1903. Hardcover. VG- light wear and scuffing to covers all vols. nice and tight. Maroon cloth t. e. g. Includes Virgin Soil A Reckless Character Spring Freshets and Other Stories Smoke The Brigadier and Other Stories On the Eve First Love and Other Stories The Jew and Other Stories The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Fathers and Children Memoirs of a Sportsman A Nobleman's Nest Rudin: A Romance A King Lear of the Steppes and Phantoms and Other Stories The Jefferson Press hardcover books
19871326879New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 620; VG/G; grayish tan spine with black text; dust jacket has slightly sunned spine; taped head and tail front and rear edges; mylar wraps; cloth shows light wear to exterior; mild wear to edges; strong boards; text block has light shelf wear to exterior edges;. 1326879. FP New Rockville Stock. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1973242010New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973. First. hardcover. near fine. Color illustrations throughout. Slim folio red cloth with inset calligraphic label on cover board slipcase lightly rubbed. New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art 1973. Ownership signature on front endpaper otherwise a near fine copy in a very good slipcase.<br/><br/> Metropolitan Museum of Art unknown books
1994113484La Cuenca: Departamento de Difusion Cultural de la Universidad de Cuenca 1994. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. About Fine in pictorial wrappers. Two plays by K. Wishnia. Bilingual English-Spanish edition imported by The Imaginary Press East Setauket NY. Departamento de Difusion Cultural de la Universidad de Cuenca unknown books
195551455London: Faber and Faber 1955. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 67-2222pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Spine ends gently nudged some faint foxing to endpapers else Near Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced 12s.6d. net gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with some faint scattered foxing and dustiness; Very Good. The Polish-American Nobel Prize-winner's second regularly published book a story of "the chaotic horror of the Warsaw rising - when the Red Army stood implacably idel on the Vistula - into the constricting gloom of the Russian occupation; into a poisoned and infected world a world of equivocation and 'double think' where integrity and honesty have become dangerous eccentricities" from front flap. Faber and Faber unknown books
197618838New York: Living Hand 1976. First Edition. First Printing one of 500 numbered copies. Octavo; pale gray wrappers with French flaps with titles printed in crimson on spine and front panel; 75pp. Signed by Auster on the title page. A Fine copy without flaws. Collection of poems by Du Bouchet translated by Auster from the original French. Living Hand unknown books
1929140940264New York: Brentano's 1929. First American Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. xviii 225 pp. Publisher's crimson cloth lettered in black. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket unclipped with a few small chips to edges and a closed tear to the front panel a little toning. Really an attractive example of the jacket designed by Orozco. Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution Los de abajo-- a surprise hit in the US. Brentano's unknown books
196648387Mexico City: El Corno Emplumado 1966. First Edition. One of 1000 copies. Slim octavo 19cm; printed card wrappers; 213pp. Light wear to extremities gentle sunning to spine with some faint creasing to wrappers; Very Good. Slim collection of verse by the Finnish poet living in London translated by Anselm Hollo. From the collection of New York hipster impresario Israel "Izzy" Young proprietor of the Folklore Center on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village an important nexus for Lower East Side bohemia throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. El Corno Emplumado unknown books
1952265577London: Jonathan Cape 1952. Hardcover. Features two large fold-out maps of the journeys Western & Eastern; both maps are viewer-friendly and in colors: 430p. first British edition of this translation in 9.2x6 inch waxed tan buckram boards gilt and enclosed in the plain printed but rubricated dust jacket. Dj is slightly edgeworn with mildly toned spine panel find a generic address fiche adhered to front pastedown the two wonderful maps are very slightly mis-folded no tears other damage a darn attractive copy: quite sound clean and unmarked. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1896012478London/ Philadelphia: Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo light green cloth boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more and gilt to spine. Brangwyn's full page illustrations are in duotone but the real graphic wallop is in the cover design and extra title page design which we suspect is attributable to an artist whom we cannot identify other than Brangwyn. A wonderful period piece. A collectible set - no names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott unknown books
195944784New York: Hill and Wang 1959. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm; light gray cloth with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 89-96pp. Hint of foxing to upper board edges else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.50 with mild wear to extremities. Novella of the Cuban Revolution by Arenal 1926-2012 who was exiled to the United States during the Batista regime and invited back to Cuba by Castro himself. "Based on an actual incident The Sun Beats Down tells how a group of young revolutionists kidnaps a famous Mexican prize fighters from the lobby of Havana's busiest hotel" from rear panel. Hill and Wang unknown books
192939580Florence: G. Orioli 1929. First Edition. Regular Issue one of 1000 numbered copies this one unnumbered. Octavo 20cm; paper vellum boards with titling and decorations printed in black on spine and front cover; xxvi1191pp. Mild toning to extremities hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine with the leaves uncut. Lacking the fragile dustjacket. Despite the printed limitation 2400 copies were printed with the majority of the regular issue lacking numeration on the colophon. ROBERTS A45a. G. Orioli unknown books
1931011961Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine copy. Amazingly well preserved. Pictorial cover is trope of pygmy Blacks referring to the Ten Little Savages; the white children inside get more docile treatment. La plus c'est change. J. B. Lippincott hardcover books
199827139New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1998. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; dark yellow paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 375pp 9. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Spine ends gently nudged else Fine in a Fine unclipped dustjacket. Mystery novel set between Spain and the Vatican centered around the race to save a crumbling church. Harcourt Brace & Company unknown books