Babel IsaacABAA
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1929140938224New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First American Edition. Near Fine/About Very Good. First American Edition. x 213 1 pp. Orange cloth with black lettering red topstain. Near Fine with toned pages dust-soiled edges vintage bookseller's ticket to rear paste down. In About Very Good unclipped $2.50 dust jacket chipped and rubbed at edges three pinhole-sized chips to front gutter rub spot to front panel creased scrape to back panel two small strips of archival mending tissue to verso. Quite rare in jacket. A collection of largely-autobiographical short stories about the author's experiences in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1978D16511Ann Arbor: Ann Ardis 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo; original cloth dust jacket. pp. 143. Edited and translated by Nicholas Stroud. A very uncommon title presumably with a small print run. Nice copy. <br/><br/> Ann Ardis hardcover books
1964D16513New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1964. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo; pp. 402. Cheap paper browned throughout. Photographic plates in the middle. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover books
1969D16512New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1969. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of stories. Translation by Max Hayward. Edited by Nathalie Babel. Superb copy in DJ. With review slip laid in. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus, Giroux hardcover books
19948798baSouthfield MI: Specifications Service 1994. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Books about books; Russian literature; exhibition catalog not illustrated; 4 un-numbered leaves 8 pages; 28cm; red stiff paper binding not hardbound. Includes books in Russian English other languages and books about the author. Specifications Service Paperback books
200271241NY:: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0393048462 . Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine . Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. First printing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine fading along the spine dust jacket. Housed in a near fine also shows some fading slipcase. . W. W. Norton & Company, hardcover books
200260090NY:: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0393048462 . Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated from the Russian by Peter Constantine . Introduction by Cynthia Ozick. Third printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a fine slipcase. . W. W. Norton & Company, hardcover books
2002287707New York. : Norton. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket and slipcase. . 8vo. Norton. hardcover books
1926000413Moskva/Leningrad: Zemlia i Fabrika 1926. Soft cover. Good. First edition 1 of 8000 copies; 5 1/2" x 7"; pp. 3-78 index to last page; original pictorial wraps; small chips along edges and corners; deckled page edges; a few minor penciled-in notes throughout; good to very good condition. This collection contains 7 of Babel's childhood tales - 'Istoriia Moei Golubiatni' 'Pervaia Liubov' 'Liubka Kozak" 'U Batki Nashego Makhno' 'Shevelev' 'Ty Promorgal Kapitan!' - of which the most famous and influential is "The Story of My Dovecote" an autobiographical story of his witnessing the horrific pogrom of Russian Jews on October 20 1905 - thus giving the title of the book. The story first appeared in the magazine 'Krasnaia Nov' in late 1925. It was dedicated to Maxim Gorky who was the author's best friend and mentor. Babel was accused of being a foreign spy and a Trotskyist terrorist in 1939. Consequently he was arrested and shot to death in January of 1940. His untimely demise has been labeled " a catastrophe for world literature. Moskva/Leningrad: Zemlia i Fabrika paperback books
1931000416Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury 1931. Soft cover. Good. Sixth revised edition; 5" x 7 1/4"; pp. 3 4-124 4 including index; original printed boards; wear to edges of spine; small bumps and nicks along the covers; front hinge cracked text clean; good. Considered Babel's best work the "Red Cavalry" cycle of stories was based on his own diary from the time he worked as a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. His stories reflect the tragedy of the war. Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury paperback books
1928000415Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo 1928. Soft cover. Good. Third edition; 5 1/4" x 7 1/2"; pp. 3 6-172 3 publisher's list; original pictorial stiff wraps; head and tail of spine with small loss of paper; a few spots mostly to upper margin of front cover; illegible note affixed to front cover verso; front hinge a bit weak; soiling to first few pages rest clean; good- condition. Considered Babel's best work the collection of short stories "Red Cavalry" was based on his own diary which he kept while working as a war correspondent assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army during the Polish-Soviet War of 1920. His stories document the atrocities and horror of the war. Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo paperback books
1934000418Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennaia Literatura 1934. Hardcover. Good. First edition; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; pp. 4 5-282 6; original embossed pictorial boards; discoloration and faint staining along margins and spine; full-page lithograph frontis; good condition. The current edition contains the stories from "Red Cavalry" describing the author's own experiences as a correspondent on the war front and "Odessa Tales" series of short stories where the action takes place in the ghetto of Moldavanka in Odessa and the characters are Jewish gangsters as well as 3 works - 'Giui de Mopassan' 'Neft' and 'Ulitsa Dante' appearing in a book form for the first time. Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennaia Literatura hardcover books
1651044733Amsterdam: Ioh. Ianssomium 1651. Later Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary sheep worn at the corners hinges cracked but binding holding; a few marginal pencil marks light foxing small wormtrail in the gutter of the rear half of the book. 303pp with the extra engraved title. A collection of Facetiae - humorous anecdotes and stories - by the polymath Frischlin as well as more common ones by Bael and Bracciolini among others. The final section is Henrichmann's Prognostica which was often collected with Babel. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; Poetry. Inventory No: 044733. <br/><br/> Ioh. Ianssomium hardcover books
1964124340New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux FSG 1964. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Front flyleaf neatly excised. Jacket has a few splashes and light fading to the orange at the spine with two tiny closed tears at the crown. An attractive copy. Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG] unknown books
