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New York, NY Knopf, 1998. Hardcover First Edition USA; so stated First Edition USA; so stated. Fine in Near Fine DJ: Book shows binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows only the faintest soiling; price intact; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 306pp. Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Hardback with DJ. Ever since the 1830s, when Pushkin immortalized St. Petersburg in "The Bronze Horseman," the city has been the capital of the Russian imagination. It also seems to have exerted a powerful influence on the young German writer Ingo Schulze, who celebrates this swampy metropolis in his English-language debut, 33 Moments of Happiness. Not that the author is invariably enchanted by his subject. His 33 slices of Slavic life include some definite downers, not least a bloody (yet oddly comical) shootout in a disco. For one of Schulze's narrators, in fact, St. Petersburg encapsulates all the defects of an entire… Read More

Ontario, ON, Canada Collier Macmillan Canada, Ltd. , 1975. Hardcover First Edition [1975], unstated. First Edition [1975], unstated. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: Book shows very faint discoloration along bottom edge of cloth-covered boards. Binding square and secure; text clean. Dustwrapper shows slight rubbing and wear to extremities. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. 8vo. 293pp. Translated by Eric Mosbacher. Hardback with DJ.

Paris, France Les Editions Braun & Co., 1951. Paperback First Edition (1951), unstated. Very Good in Wraps: shows very light wear to the extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to the wrapper covers; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the covers. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 16mo. (6.35 x 4.8 x 0.2 inches). 12 pages of written text; 60 black & white plates. Language: French, English, German. "Les Maitres" Series. First Edition (1951), unstated. Paperback: Heavy Pictorial Card Wraps. Includes biography of Cranach (1472-1553) and reproductions of 60 of his paintings.

Bartelsmann, 1952. Hardcover Very Good: shows light wear to extremities; mild rubbing; faint soiling; a hint of sunning at the back strip, but the gilt titles and designs are unaffected. Binding square and secure; text clean. Despite noted flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 454pp. Green cloth over boards with gilt titles and designs at front panel and backstrip. Text in German. Hardback: Lacks DJ.

New York, NY Longman, Green & Company, 1946. Hardcover Second Edition [1915], revised [1946]; This is the First Pocket Edition, based upon the revised Second Edition; Third Printing thereof, with additions [1947]. The first edition appeared in 1912. Very Good+: shows very light wear to extremities; creasing top to bottom front panel, but the board appears unbroken and remains perfectly firm; pages lightly tanned. Binding shows very slight spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 772pp. Rust-toned cloth over boards. Tinted outside edges. Second Edition, revised. Compiled by Max Bellows (1870-1932). It was first published in 1912 and was based on the French and English Dictionary of his father, John Bellows (1831-1902). It therefore embraced many of the ideas used in the French Dictionary including the presentation of the two language divisions on the same page and the use of different… Read More

Venezia, Italia Fantoni Artegrafica , 1964. Paperback Very Good in Wraps: shows light wear to the the extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Despite some minor flaws, remains a handsome copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo. 70pp. with about 32pp. black & white illustrations. Introduction by Erich Steingraber. Edited by Peter Streiber. Catalogue raisonnee of Show: Firenze,Uffizi, Dicembre, 1964-Gennaio, 1965. Text in Italian. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps.

New York, NY New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. First Ed, unstated. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minute indications of use; shows very slight bowing to boards; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 281pp. Hardcover with DJ. Wagner, a German engineer, takes in hand the job of rescuing a floundering construction project in the South American rain forest. But before he reaches the site, his car runs over an emerald green snake--marking him, according to local beliefs, for death.