London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1977. Hardcover. Introduction by Arthur Koestler. 8vo. Green paper over boards, dust jacket. 112pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. econd printing of this uncommon Holocaust novel. More about Reunion
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 about King Rene's Book of Love (Le Cueur d'Amours Espris
N.p. Syracuse University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Translation by Robert Mezey. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. xxx, 133pp. Fine/near fine. First U.S. edition. More about Tungsten
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. 233pp. Near fine/very good. Attractive first edition. More about Clara: Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel.; Translation by Hortense Carpentier and J. Jorge Castello
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. Hardcover. Translated by Helen Lane. 8vo. Purple buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 220pp. Near fine/very good. First U.S. edition of Valenzuela's second book, nicely inscribed on the title page "To Terry, / happy to / have men / reading my / fiction / All the best" and signed. Scarce. More about Strange Things Happen Here: Twenty-six Short Stories and a Novel
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 about The Tormented: A Biographical Novel of Paul Verlaine
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 about Three Plays: The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga
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 about 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 about The Time of the Hero
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred MacAdam. 8vo. Green cloth spine and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 151pp. Near fine/near fine. First U.S. edition. More about Who Killed Palomino Molero?
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred MacAdam. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. 151pp. Near fine/near fine. First British edition. More about Who Killed Palomino Molero?
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Hardcover. Translation by Richard Zenith. 8vo. Orange cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 64pp. Near fine/near fine. Small remainder mark on bottom page edges. First U.S. edition. More about The Loves of Joao Vencio
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 about Graves Without Crosses
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 about 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 about Candide
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 about The Demons
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 about Ekkehard: Eine Geschichte aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert
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 about Faust: Der Tragodie letzter Akt: Funfundzwanzig Blatter aus Goethes eigenhandigen Niederschriften...
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 about Chin P'ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and His Six Wives
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 about Das Gansemannchen
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 about Gluck auf!
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 about The Twyborn Affair
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 about The Swiss Family Robinson