The Serpent's Bite
London: Collins, 1961. First British Edition. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettered spine in pictorial dust jacket. Book and dust jacket near fine. A very nice copy. Translated from the French by Antonia White. More
Literature In Translation
The Devil at the Long Bridge
Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. 1st. Hardcover. Translated, with an introduction by Orlo Willams. 346pp. No dust jacket. Purple cloth wtih black lettered spine and front board. Spine lightly faded. Rear board with a few light scratches. Ownership signature in pencil to front paste-down. Clean throughout. More
As Little Children
London: Dennis Dobson Limited, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 206 pp. [1]. First edition in English translated from the French by George Reavey. Printed by The Bowering Press. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering, board tips and spine ends lightly rubbed, rear board lightly scratched, front board with two very..... More
Califfa
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter green cloth with gold lettering, over orange paper boards. Upper board corner lightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket with only a very, very short tear and small nick to the spine head. Translated from the..... More
Radium
New York: Random House, 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover. Blue and black cloth with silver lettering on spine and front board. Head of spine a little darkened otherwise a solid clean copy. Light offset to endpapers and a bookseller's ticket to front endpaper at inner corner. Dust jacket price clipped..... More
The Dog Fairy-Tale: An Excerpt from Fables & Substories. ill. Jaffe, Charles.
Bird-In-Hand Productions. First Edition. Softcover. Soft Cover. [140 x 90mm]. 6pp. White paper with black lettering and illustrations. String bound, hand-sewn chapbook. Drawings by Charles Jaffe. Translation from the Czech by Alexandra Morrison. Very faint brown stain to front cover, otherwise, clean. Excellent condition. More
The Great Gulf
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1932. First British Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with black border to front board and lettering in black on spine. Book slightly cocked. No dust jacket. Tips very lightly rubbed, spine just slightly sunned. Light rubbing along hinges with a small bump to edge of rear..... More
Black Sister
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. First British Edition. Hardcover. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine in dust jacket. Book with a very light bump to one corner otherwise a fine copy. Dust jacket not price clipped, light wear to edges with two small chips and a couple of short closed..... More
Inshallah
New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter navy cloth spine with gilt lettering, over black paper boards. Hardcover. Dust jacket with a couple of very light creases. Not price clipped. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. First American Edition. Signed by Oriana..... More
The Old Gringo
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. 3/4 cream cloth with gilt lettered spine and orange paper boards. Single line in ink through price on jacket with another price in ink just below otherwise a fine jacket. From the library of Canadian author Greg Gatenby, his..... More
Forever Flowing
London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 247pp. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Very light bump to one corner and spine ends, ink stamp to front endpaper and a light spot for a few pages starting at the half-title, A clean and tight copy in a very sharp dust..... More
Florentine Nights
Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 83pp. First edition in English with translation by Kirke Boylan Fitz-Gerald. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine, border on front board in blind. Dust jacket with light edge-wear, some nicking to the spine ends and a...... More
Toilers of the Sea
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English, first printing. 3 volumes. Small 8vo. 331; 327; 286pp, 2pp ads dated March 30, 1866, 16pp. ads dated February1, 1866. No half-titles. Publisher's original green pebbled cloth with blind stamped borders and designs to the boards..... More
The Baron's Sons
London: George Bell & Sons, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. viii, 343, 15pp. ads [1]. First colonial edition. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and title stamped in blind on the front cover. Light rubbing to the edges and a couple of small bumps, foxed endpapers and expert repair..... More
A Grain of Wheat
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Pale green cloth with red lettering. Light bumping to head and heel of spine and ink name to the front endpaper. Dust jacket with darkened spine and edges, wth light rubbing to jacket edges. First printing in a second state dust jacket..... More
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1911. Hardcover. No date, c. 1911. 8vo. Presumed first edition in English. Green cloth black and gilt lettering to spine and front board. Front board with decorated border. Slightly cocked. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Page 3 with a 1 inch tear at upper edge..... More
Elsie Lindtner
New York: John Lane, 1912. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Translated by Beatrice Marshall. 202pp. 16 pages of ads at back. Blue cloth with white border and lettering to front board and gilt title to spine. Spine faded with a small darkened spot. Boards slightly cocked. Gift inscription to front..... More
Lasso Round the Moon
London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. First English translation, second printing. Black boards with white spine lettering, corners and spine ends bumped, with light creasing and bumping to the dust jacket in the same spots, jacket price clipped. A clean and tight copy. More
The Awakened
New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. First American edition. Quarter black cloth over blue boards. Good clean copy. Dust jacket price clipped, with a small piece of tape to the verso to spine head repairing a short tear, some rubbing around the spine ends and edges. Translated..... More
A Family of Noblemen; The Gentlemen Golovliov
New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1917. 1st American. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Spine lightly sunned with a couple of lightly rubbed spots. Boards clean with minimal to no wear. Clean and bright throughout. Rear endpaper and last page with a few..... More
Intimacy and other Stories
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 270 pp. First American edition. Translated by Lloyd Alexander. Red boards with black lettering, wear to bottom of board edges and spine ends, a couple of light stains to the bottom edges of the boards, clean throughout and the binding tight..... More
Noah Pandre
New York: Lee Furman, Inc., 1936. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Dust jacket with light wear to edges otherwise very good. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Joseph Leftwich. More
Harvest on the Don
London: Putnam, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. First English language edition. Black boards, gilt spine lettering, book near fine, dust jacket price clipped, with small chips at the corners and to spine head, with fade to the spine. More
The Birth of Ludwig Kleinst
New York: Harper and Row, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo. 181 pp. Light bumping to spine ends, dust jacket price clipped, else about a fine copy. Translated from the French by Lowell Blair. More