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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
Inferences from a Sabre
by Claudio Magris
Published in New York, 1991, by George Braziller, Inc. Translated from the Italian by Mark Thompson. In good condition. There are a few very slight markings visible on the dust jacket, and one small tear on the back cover, but it is otherwise undamaged, and is protected from any further surface damage by a clear plastic cover. No tanning, but some very slight foxing visible along the top edge of the inside pages.
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A$36.85
The Potter's Daughter
by M. Dunow
1st edition, published by Cooper Book Company in London, 1959. Translated by Joseph Leftwich. Hardback. In fine condition. The dust jacket is worn and has browned slightly around the edges and along the spine, but is protected from any further damage by a clear plastic cover. Foxing and tanning visible on the inside pages.
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A$55.27
The Tone King. A Romance of the Life of Mozart (Mozart. Ein Künstlerleben, Cultur-Historischer Roman, 1858) translated from the German by J. E. St Quentin Rae
by Rau, Heribert
London: Jarrold, 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Undated first edition [1899]. Frontispiece portrait of Mozart. Original tan cloth on bevelled boards. Light scuffing, scattered light foxing, inscription (1902), very good. An earlier and different translation by E. R. Sill appeared in the USA in 1870. "An entrancing romance founded on the tragic and pathetic life of the great tone poet. The book has already attracted widespread enthusiasm in Germany, where it is looked on as...
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A$38.65
![[The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark]. Gamlet: Prints Datskii.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/948/1563948252.0.b.jpg)
[The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark]. Gamlet: Prints Datskii.
by Shakespeare, W
Translation by B. Pasternak.
[Preface and comments by M. Morozov].
Signed and inscribed by the translator Boris Pasternak: "Komu vynetsia / tomu sbudetsia. / B Pasternak . 6 ianv. 1947 g. / Moskva". [Whoever pulls up it, will get it. B. Pasternak. January 6th, 1947. Moscow].
Most likely, this signed copy was a prize in some game. Third edition of Hamlet in Pasternak's translation.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), a Nobel laureate, translated eight of Shakespeare's plays into Russian: Hamlet, Romeo and... Read more about this item
[Preface and comments by M. Morozov].
Signed and inscribed by the translator Boris Pasternak: "Komu vynetsia / tomu sbudetsia. / B Pasternak . 6 ianv. 1947 g. / Moskva". [Whoever pulls up it, will get it. B. Pasternak. January 6th, 1947. Moscow].
Most likely, this signed copy was a prize in some game. Third edition of Hamlet in Pasternak's translation.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), a Nobel laureate, translated eight of Shakespeare's plays into Russian: Hamlet, Romeo and... Read more about this item
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A$45,806.59
The White Castle
by Pamuk, Orhan
New York: George Braziller, 1991. Fine/in Fine dust jacket. First US Edition. Multi-award-winning author's first novel to be translated from the original Turkish Beyaz Kale into English by Victoria Holbrook. Won Independent Award for Foreign Fiction. "Turkey's foremost novelist and one of the most interesting literary figures anywhere, a first-rate storyteller. This is a highly entertaining, and indeed moving book". "An elegant and important meditation on East and West" (excerpt from jacket blurbs)....
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A$157.00
![[The Ballad of Reading Gaol]. Ballada Redingskoy Tur’my.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/082/1564082945.0.b.jpg)
[The Ballad of Reading Gaol]. Ballada Redingskoy Tur’my.
by Wilde, Oscar
Second Russian edition of the poem. First edition of this translation.
The first translation of Oscar Wilde's Ballad by N. Korn (presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky) appeared in 1903, but it was riddled with errors. The following year, another version by Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), a Russian symbolist poet and translator, was published. In the summer of 1902, Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading, where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903, Balmont delivered... Read more about this item
The first translation of Oscar Wilde's Ballad by N. Korn (presumably a pen name used by Korney Chukovsky) appeared in 1903, but it was riddled with errors. The following year, another version by Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942), a Russian symbolist poet and translator, was published. In the summer of 1902, Balmont traveled to England and visited the town of Reading, where Wilde had been imprisoned. In November 1903, Balmont delivered... Read more about this item
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A$2,708.99
The Youngest Doll
by Ferré, Rosario
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1991. First American Edition, SIGNED on the title page by Ms. Ferré (1938-2016). Translated from original Spanish "Papeles de Pandora" by author. Ferré's fiction focuses on the inferior status of women in Puerto Rico and their dual role as nurturer (wife and mother) and temptress (like Pandora, the dangerous female from mythical Greece who tempted a man into opening a box that released the world's troubles). Jean Franco wrote the in-depth analysis of these short...
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A$321.69
The Serf's Daughter A Tale of Domestic Life, translated from the Swedish of Uncle Adam by Frederica Rowan (1854); Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home
by Several Authors: Adam, Onkel or Uncle [ie Carl Anton Wetterbergh] & other anonymous Writers
London: Wm S. Orr, 1854. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Bound with: Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home Volume I. J. Bennett & Co., nd, c1852. Frontispiece and numerous woodcuts. Articles and serial stories, including The Adventures of Prince Pretty in the World of Insect Wonders by the Editor (complete) and Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by D[ay] K[ellogg] LEE (start of serialisation). Mid C19th purple leather over purple cloth; gilt decorations on spine. Small scrape to leather on...
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A$57.98
Degli uomini tali quali sono o come dovrebbero essere, opera di sentimento.; Translated by Orazio degli Arrighi Landini
by [Blondel, Jean]
Hamburg: [s.n.], 1759. 8vo. 177 x 121 mm. (7 x 4 3/4 inches). 103 pp. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Printing flaw on page 26 with first few words at the beginning of each line are faintly printed. Text lightly soiled. Original paste-paper wrappers, orange paper back strip with paper label pasted over spine; edges of spine rubbed, occasional worming to gutter. Rare Italian edition of Jean Blondel's essay on mankind, which is dedicated to all classes of society. Blondel published this work with the...
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A$1,385.28
![Kolonii Krichat. [The Colonies Are Screaming].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/825/505/1360505825.0.b.jpg)
Kolonii Krichat. [The Colonies Are Screaming].
by Hidas, Antal
In original illustrated binding. Near very good condition, slightly wear to the spine and edges. First edition. Very rare. Limited to 5 000 copies. This collection of verses is devoted to the oppressed people in India, Africa, and China. The author, Hungarian poet Antal Hidas (1899-1980) lived in the USSR in 1925-1959. During The Great Purge he was arrested and imprisoned. Preface was prepared by Hungarian Communist journalist and sinologist Lajos Magyar (1891-1937/1940?). In 1922 he emigrated to the...
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A$1,462.24
The Shrouded Woman
by Bombal, Maria-Luisa
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, Inc, 1948. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. First English Edition (published in Spanish as La Amortajada), "In the same delicately haunting style she used in House of Mist, Maria-Luisa Bombal tells the story of a beautiful and violent woman, who sees clearly, only after death, the intricate pattern which her passions made in the lives of those who were close to her" (from the dustjacket). 8 x 5". Original navy cloth boards with silver lettering...
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A$181.63
THE FORTUNE TELLER'S I CHING; A Completely New Translation of the Most Famous Oracle in the World
by Palmer, Martin; Kwok Man Ho and Joanne O'Brien
London Melbourne Auckland Johannesburg: Rider, 1986. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Like New/Very Fine. Chinese text faces English translations. Tall 8vo, red cloth with silver lettering on spine; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an 18th century Chinese fortune-teller at his deskwork; illustrated with Hexagram symbols above English text with Chinese symbols periodically in margins; Appendix 1 / The Ancient Chinese Text [in Chinese] Notes; 232 pages. "More than...
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A$46.18
![Biograficheskiy Ocherk Angliyskogo Poeta, s Prilozheniem Ego Stikhotvoreniy. [Thomas Hood (1798-1845). Biographical sketch of the English poet with selections from his poems].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/323/1384323722.0.b.jpg)
Biograficheskiy Ocherk Angliyskogo Poeta, s Prilozheniem Ego Stikhotvoreniy. [Thomas Hood (1798-1845). Biographical sketch of the English poet with selections from his poems].
by [Hood Thomas]
Moskva, Obshchestvo rasprostraneniya poleznykh knig, 1901.First Russian separate book edition with Hood's verses.Rare.The book contains 7 verses: The Bridge of Sighs; The Song of the Shirt; The Lady's Dream; The Lee Shore; The Dream of Eugene Aram; The Lay of the Laborer; A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months.
For the first time Hood's poem, The Song of the Shirt, was published in magazine Sovremennik (№ 9, 1860). However, the poem was interpreted as 'politically dangerous' and was... Read more about this item
For the first time Hood's poem, The Song of the Shirt, was published in magazine Sovremennik (№ 9, 1860). However, the poem was interpreted as 'politically dangerous' and was... Read more about this item
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A$754.21
Modern Japanese Stories
by Various Authors, Ivan Morris
11th printing, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc. in Vermont and Japan, 1972. Hardback. In good condition, The dust jacket is worn slightly around the edges, mainly along the top and bottom edge of the spine. A small inscription penned by a previous owner has been covered up with twink on the flyleaf. Very light tanning and foxing visible on the edges of some of the inside pages.
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A$55.27
![De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/614/427/558427614.0.b.3.jpg)
De tranquillitate animi, libri vii [and other works]
by L'ESPINE, Jean de (ca. 1505-1597)
[Geneva]: Jacob Stoer, 1591. 8vo (173 x 110 mm). [24], 761, [15] pp. Roman and italic types, shoulder notes, woodcut printer's device on title (Silvestre 1002), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary blind roll-tooled alum-tawed skin, edges stained green (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Jesuits of Amberg (Bavaria), 18th-century inscription on title, later paper shelfmark label at foot of spine; a few 18th-century marginal notes and occasional underlinings in red ink in the last...
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A$2,308.80
Raphael; or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
by Lamartine, Alphonse de
London: John Parker, 1849. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Translated from the original French (no translator's name given) Mid C19th rebinding in blue cloth. Pulled at head of spine with several small, minor tears: otherwise clean, tight: good..
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A$38.65
Grundmässige kurtze und sehr deutliche Anweisung zum Mignatur-Mahlen.... In französicher Sprach von C. B.... ins Teutsch gebracht
by MINIATURE PAINTING - [BOUTET, Claude Gregor Andreas]
Nuremberg: Christian Sigmund Froberg for Wolfgang Michahelles, 1710. 12mo (127 x 77 mm). [16], 145, [7] pp. Gothic types. Woodcut illustration of a pantograph (p. 8). Overall discoloration, some soiling and fraying to first and last few leaves. Contemporary speckled parchment over pasteboards (worn, covers bowed and darkened).*** A popular and now commensurately rare German translation of Claude Boutet's guide to miniature painting, the Traité de Miniature pour apprendre aisément à peindre sans...
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A$2,154.88
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Love's Inferno (1916) translated by C. Thieme. [Inferno, 1916]
by Stilgebauer, Edward
London: Stanley Paul, 1916. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition.. Original black cloth, lettered in white, with illustration (iron gauntlet against red background) on front board. In box on spine below title; "Forbidden in Germany". Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper tipped in good. An anti-war novel written by a pacifist German novelist living in exile in Switzerland. Stilgebauer's novels (and opinions) were equally unpopular with the German government during the Third Reich....
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![Don Zhuan. [Don Juan].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/323/1384323310.0.b.jpg)
Don Zhuan. [Don Juan].
by Byron George
Moskva, Khudozhestvennaya literature, 1946.Galley proof for the first edition of Don Juan in Georgy Shengeli's translation. One line handwritten by the translator: 'Pust' nasha molitva letit, svetla, '[And whatsoe'er may be his prayer, / Let ours be for his soul]. (Canto XVI, p. 496).In good condition, small losses of paper on the cover, worn to edges, stains, proofreader's marks, desktop publisher's and printing house's stamps, owner's marks (comparisons with early translations).Georgy Shengeli...
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A$3,878.78
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Murakami, Haruki
Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1991. First US 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. 10 x 6½". Purple and green dust jacket over original purple paper embossed Japanese letters,...
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A$412.51
Notes on the Fox Wapanowiweni. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 105
by Michelson, Truman
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1932. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Single Black & white illustration. Very slight marking to covers. Stamp of previous owners to front cover v. 195 pages. A presentation of four Indian texts with English translations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$20.00
The Countess of Rudolstadt A Sequel to Consuelo, transalted from the French by Fayette Robinson
by Sand, George
London: Walter Scott, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. Undated, reprint, "The Caernarvon Series", c1900. Frontispiece. Original grey cloth, lettered in black. A little scuffed, a some marks on spine, good..
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A$24.16
DreamTigers
by Borges, Jorge Luis
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Cover image by Mike Hasted.. Stated First UK edition. First published in Spanish as El Hacedor (The Maker) as the 9th vol. in his Obras Completas. While a visiting professor at Univ. of Texas, he was persuaded by staff and students to publish it in English, followed by this publication by Souvenir Press. Mildred Boyer translated Part 1, Harold Moreland Part II. Several of Frasconi's woodcuts grace this edition, with...
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The Burgomaster's Family; or, Weal and Woe in a Little World (Leef en leed uit eene kleine wereld, 1869). Translated from the Dutch by Sir John Shaw Lefevre.
by Muller, Christine [ie E. C. W. van WALRÉE]
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original red cloth, bordered in black, with tulip on front board, lettered in gilt on spine, brown endpapers. Lightly soiled, corners bumped, good. A novel of contemporary Dutch life. "She has been able to describe the characters and events of her narrative with the like qualities which we find in the paintings of the Dutch school, and give additional value to her tale." (Translator's Introduction).
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A$48.31
![[Lambalo and Qasha]. Lambalo i Kosha.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/769/1573769028.0.b.jpg)
[Lambalo and Qasha]. Lambalo i Kosha.
by Javakhishvili, Mikheil
First Russian edition of any book of Mikheil Javakhishvili.
One of 4.000 copies printed.
Mikheil Javakhishvili (Native name Adamashvili) (1880 – 1937) - Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers.
"His vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour, subtle irony, and moral courage merit comparison with those of Stendhal, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola. In modern Georgian prose only Konstantine Gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same... Read more about this item
One of 4.000 copies printed.
Mikheil Javakhishvili (Native name Adamashvili) (1880 – 1937) - Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers.
"His vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour, subtle irony, and moral courage merit comparison with those of Stendhal, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola. In modern Georgian prose only Konstantine Gamsakhurdia could aspire to the same... Read more about this item
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A$292.45
