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Pittsburgh:: Byblos Editions II, , (1979.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in red and gold marbleized papers with a black linen cloth spine,gilt lettering, in the original acetate wrapper (gift inscription on front endpaper, tear to acetate wrapper.) . First printing (limited edition.) A long narrative poem describing the events of the 1960 earthquake in Southern Morocco that detroyed the city of Agadir, Preface by William Jay Smith; translated from the Swedish by Smith and Leif Sjoberg. One of only 230 copies, Illustrated with a sepia-toned frontispiece by William Libby (details from the frontispiece are used in the book to separate sections. 55 pp. Fine in marble covered boards with linen spine. No dust jacket, likely as issued. One of 230 copies.

London:: Scribner,, (2015). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First UK printing. A novel which was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt: "Manhattan attorney Sam Tahar appears to have it all: fame, fortune, an enviable marriage to a prominent socialite, and two children. But his charmed life is built on a lie - he isn't the person he pretends to be. As the son of a Tunisian immigrant growing up in a grimy Paris tower block, Samir Tahar seemed destined to stay on the margins - until he decided to 'cut through the bars of his social jail cell, even if he had to do it with his teeth'. At law school, he became friends with Jewish student Samuel Baron. The two were inseparable until the irresistible Nina, torn between the men, chose Samuel. Samir fled to America, where he assumed Samuel's identity while his former friend remained trapped in a French suburb, a failed writer seething at Samir's triumphs. Years later, the three meet again and Samir's… Read More

Athens, OH:: Ohio University Press,, 1984.. Hardcover -. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (spine on dj slightly faded.). Reprint. First thus. The third volume in this Norwegian writer's "Alberta" trilogy, originally published in Norway in 1939. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan, introduced by Solveig Nellinge and with an afterword by Linda Hunt. A small volume, measuring only 8" by 4 5/8" issues, one of 3 matching books in this trilogy.

New York:: Atria (Simon & Schuster),, 2016.. First edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light spots to the margins of a few pages). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's fifth novel, but the first to appear in English - the story of an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid by his father to close a failing literary magazine and the five fiery, close-knit Spanish women who must devise a plan in order to keep the jobs they love. A combination of farce, mystery, literature and love. Translated from the Spanish by Lucy Greaves. 324 pp.

San Francisco:: Four Winds Press,, (2015). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A collection of essays which maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument, using "examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the 'suicide; of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots. . [He] demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common." Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil. Issued as a trade paperback original. 238 pp.

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light toning to the dj flaps, tiny nick at top of spine, book appears unread) . First US printing. A collection of stories and brief vignettes about life in Communist East Germany, written between 1969 - 1977. "Some of the stories have the nightmarish quality of Kafka, only they are not nightmares but meticulously noted reality. " Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass.

New York:: Philosophical Library,, 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/VG- (chip and edgewear to top of back cover of dj.). First US printing. A collection of reminiscences and thoughts in which Gide presents his moral, political and religious credo. Translated by Elsie Pell,

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1987). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some sunning to the covers). An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Novel set in 18th century Portugal by this 1998 Nobel prize winning author. Included among the characters isPadre Bartholomeu Lorenco de Gusmao, who was ridiculed for his belief that man could fly, but in 1709 invented a rudimentary airship. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The first book by Saramago to be published in the US, . 303 pp plus translator's note.

New York:: Fromm International, (1988.). First edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A collection of 15 stories ,set in 'a hallucinatory world where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are lost,' selected and translated by Christopher Middleton. The settings range from 18th century Italy, 1920's Hollywood to the sewers of Paris. 200 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy,, 1961.. Hardcover first edition -. VG/G (some overall edgewear and soiling to dj, a chip approx 1" deep on the upper corner of the front cover.). First US printing. Novel set in French Indo-China, a vivid picture of the area in the period when it was still dominated by the colonial families and of the early years of the political unrest which eventually resulted in the IndoChina War and the Vietnam War, by a writer who lived in the area since 1946. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.

London:: John Calder,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. (spine of dj slightly sunned). First printing. The author's first novel, originally published in 1968 in French as 'La Baigneuse.' This exemplifies some of the characteristics he set out in his study of the "new novel" including an anonymous narrator, and an innovative use of the stream of consciousness style. Translated from the French by John Matthew and revised by Barbara Wright. 111 pp.

New York:: Doubleday,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.. First thus. First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, 1995.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First US printing. A novel told in two halves - literally where one can begin from either end - and figuratively in that it is written from the viewpoint of the man and the woman. Translated from the French by David Watson.

New York:: Red Dust,, 1982.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Swiss-born Pinget's first prose work, originally published in France in 1950, and not translated into English until this edition. In the author's new preface, written for this translation, he describes himself as being very much under the influence of the surrealists at that time. Photograph of Pinget on the back cover of the dust jacket is also by Wright, the translator. 83 pp.

New York:: The Viking Press,, 1929.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in decorative paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, and gold paper label on spine. Some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, but overall a tight and clean copy, no dust jacket. . First US printing. A member of the French diplomatic service, Morand become friends with Carl Van Vechten in New York in 1925-27 and in 1927-28 he traveled though the Southern U.S. and the Caribbean, including Martinique, Trinidad, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. In 1928 Morand went to French colonial possessions in Africa, including Dakar (Senegal), French Guinea, French Sudan and Timbuktu, among other places -or, as he ended his preface to this book "30,000 miles. 28 Negro countries." Magie Noire or Black Magic is a collection of stories or vignettes, supposedly based on these travels. A few involve voodoo, and several are stories of 'passing' or attempting to pass as white, but all are about black people, often depicted in… Read More

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fair only dust jacket.(small prev owner's name, dust jacket is complete, but has severe overall edgewear, light soiling, toning to spine - jacket is now protected by an archival cover.). First American edition. Important short novel by Mann -from the dust jacket "A bold and disturbing theme pervades this deeply moving and tenderly ironic tale of a strange deception. In it Thomas Mann once again reveals his mastery of psychological analysis and his profound perceptions into the mysterious realm where the physical and the spiritual meet." Translated from the German by Willard R. Traske. 141 pp plus a 5 pp list of the principal works of Mann.

New York:: St Martin's,, (2012). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A noir novel by this award-winning author set in Auschwitz and straddling the past and present. In New York, "the present: An old woman and her husband sit down for a breakfast of black bread and coffee at a table set for ten. Eight chairs remain empty. Auschwitz, Spring 1944: Following a successful escape from the camp, a group of ten prisoners are rounded up for execution. Since the camp needs every inmate for labor, only one prisoner will be sacrificed. And it is the job of the other nine prisoners, locked up in an empty building in Block 11 with nothing but a piece of paper and pencil, to decide by dawn who will die. Otherwise they will all go to the gallows. A book which wrestles with questions of guilt and forgiveness, selfishness and sacrifice, in this unforgettable novel set during the most trying of times." Translated from the Italian by Erin Waggener. Glosary. 232 pp.

New York & London:: Hogarth,, (2015). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder dot) .. First US printing. The author's first novel, originally published in 2010, and translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder. "Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem's past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when he stumbles upon a deception thats painfully close to home, things begin to fall apart. . . .A riveting portrait of a family in crisis and the ways that even the smallest twists of fate can forever change our lives, an incendiary, unpredictable debut of relationships torn asunder by lies, and minds destroyed by madness." 536 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First US printing. A novel of the loss of childhood, set in Jerusalem as Israel is inching towards the 6-Day War. Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg. 343 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (short tear to upper edge of front cover of dj, some wear to corners) . First US printing. A fictionalized autobiography, depicting life in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, the first in a series of novels that follow the fortunes of a Neapolitan nobleman, the narrator, born around the turn of the century. A NY Times review notes that this has "a remarkable sense of period. The rebel lion against society of the 1920's pervades the book. Giovene. . gives us an authentic if rather mysterious sensation of the counter culture of 50 years ago. With its oddities, its obsession with the occult, it awakens an eerie feeling of the present as deja vu." Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. 384 pp.