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Graphic-Sha Pub Co, 2001 Fine condition, clear plastic cover taped to endpapers. Bilingual Japanese-English edition. Slight browning to white pages. Plastic protected.

Diaries: 1899-1941 by Robert Musil Mirsky, Mark (edt); Frise, Adolf (edt); Payne, Philip (trn); Mirsky, Mark (int); Musil, RobertBasic Book / Perseus (Paperback, 1999) First Printing. ISBN: 9780465016518Condition: clean sound copy. Sunned spine, one vertical crease down front cover, prelims.About: Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure.Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.Review:Born into an affluent Austrian family in 1880, Robert Musil died penniless 62… Read More

Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Translator. Condition: Clean and tight copy, the jacket is complete but has some slight edgewear and chipping. About: Picaresque novel of poor boy from Cephalonia, Greece, who made his fortune in Africa. First published in the UK as "No Innocent Abroad" " C.P. Rodocanachi's Forever Ulysses recasts the ancient epic to suit modern times. The hero was a combination of Homer's great wanderer and Sir Basil Zaharoff, an adventurous and successful entrepreneur, equal in cunning to his prototype, he covered the world in his travels.

Mitsou: Forty Images by Balthusby Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola)Introduction by Rainer Maria RilkeMMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harry N. Abrams Inc.ISBN 10: 0810913208 / ISBN 13: 9780810913202Mitsou: The story of a cat, with forty Images by Balthus. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper. Signed by the artist on the first title page. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art 1984 (1984) Condition: Clean and tight, edges of the jacket are slightly rubbed. A fine signed copy of the MMA edition of this charming book.