New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth spine and orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with abrasion on jacket's front inner panel. Tight, nice first edition. More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Translation by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Thomas Seltzer. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xii, 243pp. Brown decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Tight, quite nice later printing (early 1930s) of #21 in this series, first published in 1917. Scarce..... More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1978. Hardcover. Translation by David Magarshack. Illustrations by Joseph Isom. Small 4to. Full brown calf with gilt lettering and extensive decorations. 388pp. All edges gilt. Sewn-in burgundy satin page marker. Illustrations, burgundy watered silk endpapers. Fine. A tight and handsome leatherbound edition of these..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. White cloth, slipcase (red paper over boards). 14pp, (32pp). Numerous color illustrations. Very good/very good. Light age toning and soiling to binding; minor slipcase edgewear. Tight, nice first edition of this superb facsimile of "stories about knighthood, intrepid journeys in search of..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine with black lettering and orange paper over boards, pictorialdust jacket. 233pp. Near fine/very good. Attractive first edition. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Hardcover. Translated by Helen Lane. 8vo. Purple paper over boards with copper spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 220pp. Near fine/very good. First U.S. edition of Valenzuela's second book, nicely signed and inscribed in black fineline on the title page "To Terry, / happy to..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 405pp. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive. YOUNG 3886. More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. Paperback. Translation by David Graham-Young. Small 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 217pp. Near fine. First U.S. softbound edition, tight and attractive. More
New York: Grove Press, 1966. Hardcover. Translated by Lysander Kemp. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 409pp. Very good/very good. First U.S. edition of Vargas Llosa's first U.S.-published book. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red paper over boards, dust jacket. 409pp. Very good/good plus. First British edition. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred MacAdam. 8vo. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 151pp. Very good/near fine. First U.S. edition. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred MacAdam. 8vo. Black cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 151pp. Near fine/near fine. First British edition. More
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Richard Zenith. 8vo. Orange cloth spine with black letteringand orange paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 64pp. Near fine/near fine. Small remainder mark on bottom page edges. First U.S. edition. More
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1972. Hardcover. Translation by Ilse Lehiste. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 428pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; photocopy of "Toronto Sun" review of this book neatly tipped to front flyleaf. Handsome and tight first edition of this Estonian's novel about Estonia between..... More
New York: The Literary Guild, 1929. Hardcover. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver lettering, dust jacket. 111pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Brodarted jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with edge chips on rear panel, but complete and overall appealing. Tight and lovely reprint edition, which front jacket..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by Philip Littell. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 236pp, (6pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and rubbing, with spine rather sunned; 1950 ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and lovely later printing..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Translation by Richard and Clara Winston. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jackets, pictorial paper over boards slipcase. x, 690pp; viii, pp. 691-1334. Fine/very good. Minor slipcase edgewear. An outstandingly tight and lovely first U.S. edition..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Rothbarth, [1937]. Hardcover. 12mo. Light green cloth with dark green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 437pp. Near fine/very good. Dust jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with small edge chips at head and tail of spine; 1939 gift inscription on front pastedown. A tight, attractive later printing..... More
Weimar, Germany: Verlag der Goethe=Gesellschaft, 1929. Hardcover. Folio. Blind-ruled green cloth with gilt medallion. 31pp. Very good. Very minor edgewear. First edition of the 42nd volume of the "Shriften der Goethe=Gesellschaft" (Writings of the Goethe Society), a tight and nice copy that reproduces 25 Goethe manuscript leaves, followed by a...... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1947]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. xxii, 863pp. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn and age toned, with old mends; ownership signature on front flyleaf and circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on page xix (close of Waley introduction); text block moderately age toned..... More
Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Yellow cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 557pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit age toned, with small edge chips, but complete and overall attractive. A tight and nice later printing of this 1915 novel by the noted German writer and novelist (1873-1934) --..... More
Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1890. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt, tan, brown, green, black and olive decorative stamping. 358pp, (4pp ads). Small graphics, decorative endpapers, marbled page edges. Very good. Faint edgewear. Illustrations by W. Claudius. A tight and attractive later printing of this..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 432pp. Near fine/very good. Tight, handsome first edition. YOUNG 4082. More