Foreign Authors from Goldring Books

London: Hutchinson, 1952. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with gilt title and motif on green cloth boards which have no wear. Dustjacket has repaired closed tears and some minor losses and is not price clipped. 592 pages. Map endpapers. This great novel, considered a national epic in its native land, has at its central theme… Read more

London: Heinemann, 1959. A Very Good copy with a small contemporary name to reverse of front cover. Internally there is foxing to closed edges and sporadically to margin edges.else a clean, tight copy. Dustjacket has age toning and chipping and is not price clipped. 294 pages. Map endpapers. 1959 reprint of the first edition which was also in… Read more

New York: Random House, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 245 pages. First US Edition. Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili and his Erast Fandorin novels have achieved great success in Russia and this is his first American publication. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Second impression.… Read more

London: Canongate, 2016. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 332 pages. In Lisbon in 1904 a man named Tomas discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artefact that - if he can find it - would redefine history. Travelling… Read more

London: Century, 2017. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 328 pages. Princeton, 1987: renowned psychologist Professor Joseph Wieder is brutally murdered. New York, twenty-five years later: literary agent Peter Katz receives a manuscript. Or is it a confession? Today; unearth the secrets of The Book of… Read more

London: Rich and Cowan, 1936. fading to spine and some minor marks to boards and a little bumping to lower corner tips. Internally there is one page slightly loose and the odd foxing spot else a clean copy. 254 pages. Fourth edition new and revised (first was 1926). The book was made into a film with the same… Read more

New York: Balzer and Bray, 2012. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. First US Edition, First Printing. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. 451 pages. Despite inciting their families' wrath and putting themselves in grave danger, rival clan leaders Rosa Alcantara and Alessandro Carnevare refuse to give up on their love for each other. But when… Read more

Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1904. Ottime condizioni. Mezzo cuoio e coperture marmorizzate. età al bordo della pagina. timbri a inchiostro alle prime tre pagine. Alcuni segni di sfregamento sulle coperture anteriori e posteriori. 280 pagine. Francesca da Rimini è una tragedia in versi e in cinque atti di Gabriele D'Annunzio scritta nel 1901. Racconta la storia di come Francesca da… Read more

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little light foxing to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. The Tunisian author's powerful novel, set in North Africa, of an aging but still vigorous widow, Horia El-Gharib, who draws strength from the distant but… Read more

London: Angus and Robertson, 1951. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to endpapers with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 245 pages. The book is the enthralling sequel, complete in itself, to the Australian author's earlier novel of pioneering life, Beyond the Nineteen Counties. Again the strong, vital character of Rosalind Stewart dominates the story… Read more

London: Methuen, 1956. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little spotting to top and fore edges and age toning to endpapers) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 218 pages. Translated by Anthony Powell. A fictional biography of Beethoven written in the form of imaginary memoirs by Herr von Zmeskall, a Viennese civil servant who… Read more

London: Everyman's Library, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xliii + 1313 pages. Page marker bound in. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), was a prolific Egyptian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. This magnificent trilogy, appearing for the first time in one volume, is his masterwork.… Read more

London: Penguin, 1997. A near Fine clean and unmarked copy. xi + 209 pages. Illustrations by Heinn Htet. In these 52 pieces, originally written for a Japanese newspaper and begun soon after her release from house arrest, she paints a vivid,poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. … Read more

London: Harper Collins, 1993. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 382 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. The Chilean author's magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless… Read more

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. A Fine unmarked copy which has a small bookseller's label to front endpaper with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Warmly received by its French audience, this is the first English translation of the Canadian author's work by Joyce Marshall. Stamped with the genius of one of Canada's major cultural celebrities, these… Read more

Watford, Herts: Companion Book Club, 1964. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped (interestingly it shows price of 29/6 for original two vol.s by Gollancz and CBC price of 5/9). In Comrade Don Camillo, the Quixotic parish priest from the Po river valley, blackmails his way aboard a Red pilgrimage to Russia. The… Read more

London: Flamingo, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 315 pages. Illustrations by Robert Shekter. Recipes by Panchita Llona. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. First edition, first printing. Encompassing a multicultural history of seduction through food, ancient and modern stories about sex and eating, titillating recipes, and tantalising revelations of the… Read more

London: Little Brown, 2008. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider, but when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the 16 year old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the Shrawis trust to bring her home.… Read more

London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. A Very Good+ copy which has some light foxing to top edge else unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. Mario Soldati (1906-1999) was an Italian writer and film director. The book is an autobiographical tale set against the film industries in Turin and Rome and is his most ambitious novel, covering the… Read more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Orange title and motifs on black cloth boards which have slight raising of the surface to front else clean with no wear. Internally there is a name and year to front endpaper else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is age darkened and has chipping and losses to the top edges. 319 pages. Comprises : Lucky… Read more