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The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
MARGUERITE DURAS is the author of many acclaimed novels and screenplays, including The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and the film script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour. One of France's most important literary figures, Duras died in Paris in 1996.
The Story Of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
The second book, following last years My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at...
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Letters To a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke's powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself. These profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for generations of writers and artists of all kinds, including Lady Gaga and Patti Smith. With honesty, elegance, and a deep understanding of the loneliness that often comes...
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The Ethics Of Ambiguity
by Simone De Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity is Simone de Beauvoir's second major essay, nearly twice as long as her first, Pyrrhus and Cineas. After giving a lecture in 1945, she found herself claiming that it was impossible to base an ethic upon the foundations of Sartre's L'Etre et le Néant, and a year later she took up the challenge, taking some six months over the task and publishing the text first in installments in Les Temps modernes, then as a book in November 1947.
The Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri Translated By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Translations Books & Ephemera
![Gyp. Translated from the French by Alys Hallard (1897). [French title: Bijou, 1896]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/654/242/1587242654.0.b.jpg)
Gyp. Translated from the French by Alys Hallard (1897). [French title: Bijou, 1896]
by Gyp [ie Sybille Riquetti de Mirabeau]
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original grey-green cloth with art-nouveau designs in dark green, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, endpapers browned, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, near fine. The eponymous heroine plays with the affections of several men before choosing the oldest (and richest). A review in The Spectator (April 1898) dismissed it as the sort of French novel quite unsuitable for "les jeunes filles"..
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£20.00
![The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/584/242/1587242584.0.b.jpg)
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]
by Le Sage, [Alain René]; Tobias Smollett
London: Charles Daly, 1840. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Frontispiece, vignette title and a further sixteen plates. Mid C19th black leather over blue marbled boards. Lightly scuffed. Boards a little darkened, undated signature on front pastedown, signature (1876) on vignette title, foxing on margins of plates, otherwise very good..
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£35.00
Truth
by Emile Zola
The Caxton Publishing Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 58 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild noticeable staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends....
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£17.55
A Woman's Soul (Une Vie, 1883). Translated into English by Henry Blanchamp
by Maupassant, Guy De
London: Greening & Co, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Lotus Library: Greening & Co., 1907. Frontispiece of author. Title page printed and decorated in black and red. Original blindstamped violet cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. Maupassant's first novel. The second translation: Vizetelly had published the first under the title A Woman's Life in 1888..
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£12.00
![Under a Charm, [translated] from the German by Christina Tyrell (1877) [Vineta, 1877]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/951/018/1588018951.0.b.jpg)
Under a Charm, [translated] from the German by Christina Tyrell (1877) [Vineta, 1877]
by Werner, E [ie Elizabeth Burstenbinder]
London: Richard Bentley, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition.. Favourite Novels. Favourite Novels binding: blindstamped green cloth, decorated in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Corners rubbed, endpapers replaced, good. A German junker and Polish countess fall in love, but have to deal with the long-standing antagonism between their nations. Scarce..
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£25.00
![Divorce. A Domestic Tragedy of Modern France (1904). Translated from the French by E. L. Charwood. [Un Divorce, 1904]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/685/399/1237399685.0.b.jpg)
Divorce. A Domestic Tragedy of Modern France (1904). Translated from the French by E. L. Charwood. [Un Divorce, 1904]
by Bourget, Paul
London: David Nutt, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. The Phoenix Library Vol III. Original crimson cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Small closed tear to top edge of lower hinge, some speckling and marking on board edges, good..
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£25.00
He and She (Lui et Elle, 1868)
by De Musset, Paul translated by Ernest Tristan & G. F. Monkshood
London: Greening & Co, 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original purple cloth, with raised floral pattern on boards and spine, gilt blocking on spine. Spine sunned, lacks front free endpaper, otherwise a good reading copy.
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£10.00
![Jack, translated [from the French] by Laura Ensor. [Jack, 1876]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/474/242/1587242474.0.b.jpg)
Jack, translated [from the French] by Laura Ensor. [Jack, 1876]
by Daudet, Alphonse
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. Book. Illus. by Myrbach. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original two-tone cloth binding: spine in navy blue with gilt lettering, with maroon boards; green-and-white patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Boards faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Daudet's novel -- which some see as influenced by Dickens -- tells the sad story of an illegitimate boy and his selfish mother. Wolff [1729] has a two-volume edition of the same translation issued by...
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£20.00
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Murakami, Haruki
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First UK Edition, First Printing. Winner of the prestigious Tanizaki Prize, translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. "A fable for the modern age, fantastic, prescient and utterly engaging." Author of the acclaimed A Wild Sheep Chase, this dazzling, witty novel combines science fiction, satire and a warning about the dangerous powers of corporations. 9 x 6". 9780241131442. Original black cloth boards with silver gilt letters to spine. Fine in a Fine pictorial...
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£216.95
The Fool in Christ Emanuel Quint (Original German title: Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint, 1910)
by Hauptmann, Gerhart (translated by Thomas Seltzer)
London: Methuen & Co., 1912. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Undated first edition, with publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1912, announcing this tile, at end. Published in English the same year that Hauptmann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Small nicks at foot of spine, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, a little light foxing, good+.
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£20.00
Suleyman the Magnificent, Poet
by Suleyman ; Halman, Talât S. (Sait)
Istanbul: BKG Publications, BeyoÄlu, 2010. Paperback. Fine with faintest of edge-wear to top outer edge.. Small quarto 79 pages: color illustrations; 25 cm. In English. Translated from the Ottoman Turkish original. ¶ Suleyman I ;Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566, Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سÙÙÙ
ا٠اÙÙ, Romanized: Süleyman-I Evvel; Turkish: I. "Süleyman; commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ottoman Turkish:...
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£21.86
The Return of the Prodigal, Preceded by Five Other Treatises with Saul, A Drama in Five Acts
by Gide, André translated by Dorothy Bussy
London: Secker and Warburg, The Standard Edition of the Works of André Gide, 1953. First American. Hardcover. very good with nice bright d.j. this copy owned by the Nobel Prize recipient D. Carleton Gajdusek, with his signature on the front endpaper. 304 pp.
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£24.28
LA DIVINA COMEDIA; Vollständiger Tert, mit Erläuterungen, Grammatisch, Glossar und sieben Tafeln
by [Dante] Olschki, Dr. Leonardo
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. First Edition-: text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Near Fine/None. 7 Tables (1 being a map). Tall 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with 7 B&W engravings (e.g., 1 foldout printed both sides with diagrams [circles of the Inferno; stages of Purgatorio; orbits of Paradise]; 1 double-spread), 1 plate) & 1 map of N.. Central Italy ; xvii, [xviii-xx], 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's Italian...
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£91.47
![Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/911/738/1504738911.0.b.jpg)
Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]
by Lappo-Danilevskaia, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna ["A Russian Lady"]
London: William Heinemann, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition. Original orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some light soiling on boards, corners bumped, a little foxing, good. Lappo-Danilevskaia was a popular and successful novelist (and opera singer) in pre-revolutionary Russia, writing novels of life in high society. She survived the Revolution, endured periods of forced labour and internment in camps before escaping and settling in France. This was her most popular novel..
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£20.00
![Per Aspera [A Thorny Path] [Per Aspera, 1892[]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/084/1553084709.0.b.jpg)
Per Aspera [A Thorny Path] [Per Aspera, 1892[]
by Ebers, Georg, translated [from the German] by Clara Bell
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1892. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Two volumes uniformly bound in pale brown cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, red and green leather labels on spines, flower-and-leaf patterned endpapers, all edges red, integral silk bookmarks. Todd [C50b/51]. Second issue of volume I, series half titles bound in. The last two volumes in this short series of translations from German Authors. Fine. An historical novel set largely in Alexandria during the reign of the infamous...
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£30.00
Private Memoirs of the Court of Louis XVIII, by a Lady (1830)
by Lamathe-Langon, Étienne-Léon
London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. First English Edition in Two Volumes. Two volumes uniformly bound in mid-C19th green leather over green marbled board; gilt decorations and black leather labels on spines; green marbled endpapers. Lightly scuffed, faint stain to bottom edge of first few leaves in volume II: otherwise a good set. Purports to be an historical memoir, but as it told by an (imaginary) female narrator. Best regarded as at least an...
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£65.00
![For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/450/242/1587242450.0.b.jpg)
For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]
by Saint Germain, J. T. de [ie Jules Romain Tardieu]
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Mid C19th blue leather over red marbled boards; raised bands, gilt ruling and red leather title label on spine. Light edgewear, considerable foxing throughout, good. A legend or moral fable cast in the form of the autobiography of a clothes pin, as it passes through many hands in fashionable French society..
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£30.00
The Art of Joy
by Goliarda Sapienza
2014 Penguin, Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, Preface by Angelo Pellegrino // Gentle wear along edges, Light crease along spine // 685 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 34mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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£7.41
An Egyptian Princess
by Ebers, George
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Tauchnitz's German Authors Series. Two volumes in original red cloth, on limp boards, lettered in gilt. A little dulled, small chip at head of spine on vol 1, cloth speckled on vol 2, good.
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£12.00
Truth (French title: Vérité, 1903). Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.
by Zola, Emile
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Preface by the translator. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lettering dulled, final few leaves have crease on lower corner, good. The third in a planned quartet of books, and Zola's last completed novel, published posthumously..
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£12.50
Coin In Nine Hands
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1997 Black Swan, Translated from the French by Dori Katz // Light overall wear // A profound evocation of life in Fascist Italy // 142 pages, 198mm x 127mm x 8mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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£5.29
![The Indian Scout. A Story of the Aztec City [Translated from the French by Sir F. C. L. Wraxall] [L'Eclaireur, 1859].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/451/684/798684451.0.b.1.jpg)
The Indian Scout. A Story of the Aztec City [Translated from the French by Sir F. C. L. Wraxall] [L'Eclaireur, 1859].
by Aimard, Gustave
London: Ward and Lock, 1863. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [Reprint]. Mid-C19th rebinding in beaded red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, light foxing on prelims, otherwise very good. Wraxall's translation first appeared in 1861: there is a short preface (signed "F. W.").
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£20.00
![Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/915/018/1588018915.0.b.jpg)
Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]
by Stinde, Julius
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original red cloth, ruled and lettered in black; yellow endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on boards, a little scattered foxing on early pages, very good. By the author of The Buchholz Family..
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£30.00
The Seeker of Adventure
by Alexander Grin
1st printing of the English Translation. Published by Progress Publishers, 1978. In fairly good condition. The dust jacket is marked slightly in a few places and a little worn along the edges, but is protected from any further damage by a clear plastic cover. Some slight foxing and tanning visible on the inside pages.
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£33.71
LAURENTIUS RUSIUS, Hippiatria sive Marescalcia (Book on the Health of Horses), in the Italian translation of ANTONIO DE BARLETTA, Liber de signis bonitatis et malitie equorum et de ipsorum infirmitatibus causis et curis (Book on the Signs of Health and Illness of Horses and on the Causes and Cures of their Diseases)
BOOK DESCRIPTION: the best known and most widely read medieval work on veterinary science for horses. In Italian, manuscript on paper, Italy (Pavia?), c. 1530-1560. Dimensions: 360 x 250 mm.,52 folios on paper, complete, written in an Italic script (cancelleresca italica) in brown ink, red rubrics, decorated 5-line initial on f. 1 styled as a tree trunk and 2- to 3-line red pen initials at the beginning of each chapter. CONTEMPORARY VELLUM BINDING, title written on the spine, enclosed in a modern half...
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