World Literature
Clara: Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel.; Translation by Hortense Carpentier and J. Jorge Castello.
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
Strange Things Happen Here: Twenty-six Short Stories and a Novel.
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
The Tormented: A Biographical Novel of Paul Verlaine.
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
Three Plays: The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga.
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
The Time of the Hero.
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
The Time of the Hero.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red paper over boards, dust jacket. 409pp. Very good/good plus. First British edition. More
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
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
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
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
The Loves of Joao Vencio.
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
Graves Without Crosses.
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
Candide.
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
Candide.
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
The Demons.
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
Ekkehard: Eine Geschichte aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert.
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
Faust: Der Tragodie letzter Akt: Funfundzwanzig Blatter aus Goethes eigenhandigen Niederschriften ausgewahlt und in Faksimile=Nachbildung herausgegeben.
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
Chin P'ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives.
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
Das Gansemannchen.
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
Gluck auf!
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
The Twyborn Affair.
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
The Swiss Family Robinson.
New York: The Heritage Press, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by David Gentleman. Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with gilt lettering and decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xiii, 354pp. Frontispiece, full-page engravings, pictorial map endpapers. Very good/very good. Spine faintly sunned; rear hinge discretly, archivally reinforced, thus..... More