New Directions, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 108 pages. English language edition, translated from the French. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Blue and red checkered paper over boards, fading to black cloth spine. In the original slipcase with stains to the covers and tears and.....
n.p. Printed by Myerson Typing and Mimeographing, late 1950s. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, approximately 110 pages, typed, on recto only. Very good working copy in brown folder 2-prong bound. The folder is worn and has multiple edge chips. Text pages are browned. Glenn Cannon's name on title page. Cannon did have.....
Japan Society, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Organized in 2 sections: 122 and 44 pages. Color illustrations. 14.5 x 10.5 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good in color illustrated wrappers (paperback).
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 658 pages. Third volume of the author's autobiography. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket with chipping to edges and title faded on the spine.
Martonplay Agency, n.d., ca 1960. Trade Paperback. 72 pages, 3 act play. 11 x 8.5 inches, printed on recto side only. Mortonplay Agency was founded by Elizabeth and George Marton in the 1950s. Jacques Deval (Jacques Boularan) was a French play wright, screenwriter and film director. Very good copy in.....
Macaulay Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 247 pages. A romance novel. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with bright yellow lettering on front cover and spine. Mild edge and corner wear. In very good illustrated dust jacket with edge and corner wear, clear tape repaired.....
Frank Cass & Co. [later Routledge], 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 440 pages. The first English translation of the massive collection of Hausa folklore, history, and literary texts from Nigeria and surrounding parts of Africa. The first of three volumes. Volume I only. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a......
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 307 pages. The first translation of a Faulkner novel. First edition thus. A very good copy in orange cloth. Spine faded. Mild edge and corner wear. No dust jacket.
Westerners Los Angeles Corral, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Westerners Keepsake No. 133. 85 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in cream printed wrappers (paperback).
Knopf, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his.....
Wings Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 29 pages. Poems in Spanish with English translations. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and translator. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author and translator.
Mariner Books, 1975. Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum and that they continue to explore the same key figures, themes.....
The MIT Press, 1988. Hardcover. 220 pages. Originally published in German as a special supplemental volume of the journal PHILOSOPHISCHE RUNDSCHAU in 1967. A very good copy with spotting to the page block; in a dust jacket with color fading to the spine. For two decades the German edition of.....
University of Chicago Press, April 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. The most accurate and poetic translation of the world's greatest epic--soon to be a film by Academy Award winner Christopher Nolan! "This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet."--Edith Hall, The Telegraph A magnificent feat of translation, hailed.....
State University of New York at Buffalo, 1964. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 27 pages. Text in Italian and English in parallel columns. First edition thus. A near fine copy in blue printed wrappers (paperback).
Alcatraz Editions, 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 68 pages. German poet. Inscribed by Hirschman on front free endpaper: To Patrice & Louis,...Jack.' First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in cream wrappers (paperback). Cover slightly scuffed.
Eugen Diederichs, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 405 pages. Explores the myths and tales of South American ancient civilizations. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in full leather binding with gilt decorations and lettering on front cover and spine. Embossed Mayan dance design.....
MIT Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 360 pages. First MIT Press edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Georg Lukács was one of the most controversial Marxist philosophers of this century. In this book, however, he appears in another guise: as a literary historian in the.....
Farrar & Rinehart Inc., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. The novel is set in Haiti and features voodoo rites and ceremonies. Winner of the Second Latin American Literary Prize Competition. First American edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorated orange cloth covers with title in orange on.....
CC. Marimbo, 2003. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, The poem 'attacks the machinery of War in its current mobilization and menace, especially after the invasion of Afghanistan.' - from Hirschman's introduction. Signed by the translator on front cover, 'Jack,' and inscribed on title page, 'For ___, Love and Solidarity.....
The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. 197 pages. 7-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. With color illustrations. A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the slipcase with some wear to the folds. Publisher's Sandglass newsletter laid in.
City Lights Books, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 56 pages. The author's second book. First edition (first printing). A paperback copy in very good condition. Small stains to covers.
Unicorn Press, 1969. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 8 pages. Hand-set, hand-printed and sewn into wrappers by Dean Stewart at Unicorn Press. Second edition. A near fine copy in printed wrappers (paperback), sewn, with front cover edge dyed red.
[Pulp Press], 1971-?1980. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, 18 x 12 inches, printed in black on tan paper with framed border. Qabbani (1923-1998) was a Syrian diplomat, poet, writer and publisher, revered among contemporary poets in the Arab world and considered to be Syria's National Poet. First edition (first printing) in.....
New Sun Books, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 11 pages. Rinpoche's name is misspelled 'Rimpoche' on the cover. It appears this project was not completed. The limitation page states that the 300 copies would be signed by the author, the editor and the translator, but the only signature is of.....