Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. 110, [10] pp. Plain white wrappers with printed dust jacket folded on, as issued. Jacket extremities rubbed, small nick to fore-edge of last three leaves. An uncommon early Olympia Press publication, published June 1953. Kearney notes, "A translation, reportedly by Richard Seaver, of Les Exploits d'un.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First English language edition. 213 pp. Smooth deep orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some rubbing to edges and corners, interior clean. The rare dust jacket is not present. The first appearance in English of Babel's legendary stories, based on his experiences with.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. First edition in English of Bernhard's collection of 104 aphoristic stories, none more than a page in length. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1981. First edition. [8] pp. Unprinted black stapled wrappers with printed dust jacket. Two very slight scuffs to wrappers, else fine. Of a total edition of 500 copies, this is one of 250 copies signed and numbered by Brodsky and Alan Myers, the translator.
New York: Stein and Day, [1964]. 464 pp. Orange paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine and front board lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Book about fine with slight rubbing at head and tail of spine; jacket clean and bright with some minor edgewear and a small nick.....
Oxford: Carcanet Press, 1972. First edition. 40 pp. Brown cloth boards, spine lettered in white, with the dust jacket. Slight sunning to top board edge, small bump to lower edge; jacket a little toned with some edgewear and a short closed tear and corresponding old crease to lower edge of.....
![Item #2515 My Brilliant Friend [signed, limited edition]. Elena Ferrante](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2515.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744586981)
London: The Cuckoo Press, in association with Europa Editions for John Sandoe (Books) Ltd, 2015. First edition thus, one of one hundred numbered copies, of a total edition of 126 copies, signed by the author. 315 pp. Quarter Japanese silk, Chiyogami blue and gold paper boards, spine and printed label.....
[New York?]: Poet's Press, n.d. c. 1965. "Pirated Edition." [24] pp. Sewn wrappers mounted in thin red buckram boards, front cover lettered in gilt. Boards slightly splayed, else fine. English translation with original French text en face. Two illustrations by Jean Cocteau. This is noted in holograph as number.....
Dorking, Surrey: Yakov Hornstein, n.d. First edition. Paperback. Printed blue stapled wrappers. 44 pp. Some minor surface wear, upper rear corner slightly creased, but overall a near fine copy of a fragile production. Four poems by Blok, thirteen by Gumilev, four by Ehrenburg, and one by Berberova.
New York/London: The American-Scandinavian Foundation/Oxford University Press, 1919. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, and first edition in English, of Jacobsen's great novel, his second. xi, 284, [3, ads, 1, blank]. Maroon cloth with gilt seal on front board, lettered in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Spine.....
![Item #2481 Kamarazene [Chamber Music]. James Joyce](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2481.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738980113)
Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1958. First Hungarian [bilingual] edition. 85, [3] pp. Gray cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and blocked in black on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. Slight chipping to head and tail of jacket spine, short closed tear to upper edge of front jacket.....
![Item #1993 The Country Doctor [cover title]. A collection of short stories translated from the...](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1993.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1618534292)
Oxford: Counterpoint Publications, 1945. 47, [3] pp. String-sewn printed wrappers. Covers rubbed with edgewear, slight chipping and some creasing. Uncommon collection of Kafka's tales. Includes On the Gallery; The New Barrister; Jackals and Arabs; A Message From the Emperor; Worries of a Family Man; Eleven Sons; An Old Manuscript; Fratricide;.....
New York: New Directions, 1998. First English language edition. 118 pp. Gray boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt, with the dust jacket. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the title-page. Fine copy.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First English language edition. 199 pp. Rose paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver, with the dust jacket. Some minor toning to jacket, top and fore-edges slightly foxed. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, who has signed this copy on the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First English language edition. 274 pp. Tan paper boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in red, with the dust jacket. Fine copy.
![Item #2597 Igitur. Rendered into English by Jack Hirschman with Cover by W[allace] Berman....](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2597.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764195859)
Los Angeles: The Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1974. 21 pp. Paper boards, lettered on the front board and spine, with Berman’s image mounted to the front board. The single sewn signature is loose but holding, some minor old staining to rear board. Of a total edition of 500 numbered.....
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1912. First edition. 119 pp. Grey paper boards over parchment spine and corner tips, spine lettered in gilt. Exterior front hinge cracked, with corresponding tear on front pastedown, but holding; exterior rear hinge separating for several inches from top edge. A fragile book. Gallup B4a.....
Norfolk: New Directions, [1948]. First English language edition. 115, [5] pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Yapped edges rubbed, toning to pages and cover as usually seen. Published as Direction 5, translated by H.J. Kaplan, cover design by Alvin Lustig.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. First American edition. 198 pp. Quarter blue boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in black and blue, with the dust jacket. Bottom edge of boards rubbed, jacket a bit rubbed with some minor toning. Translated by Barbara Wright, basis for the Louis Malle.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1929. First English language edition. 243 pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with the dust jacket. Cloth soiled in spots, spine rolled. Top edge of boards and text block spotted. The jacket has two pieces of old tape reinforcement on the verso.....
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971. xxxiii, 164 pp. Cloth boards, dust jacket. Translated from the Russian and edited by Richard Sheldon. New in publisher's shrinkwrap.
New York: George Braziller, 1963. First English language edition. 252 pp. Yellow cloth, spine printed in black and white, with the dust jacket. Some toning to jacket, small chip at lower edge of front panel at spine. An early work by the Nobel Prize winner, translated by Richard Howard.
![Item #642 Confessions of Zeno [first American edition]. Italo Svevo](https://trioletrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/642.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616886506)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition of Svevo's masterpiece La coscienza di Zeno (later translated as Zeno's Conscience). 406 pp. Translated by Beryl de Zoete. Black cloth, printed in white and red. With the very rare original dust jacket, which is missing chips.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887 [i.e. 1889]. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition of these two collections to be issued bound together by Crowell in 1889 (both were originally issued separately in 1887). Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, with the Romanov coat of arms on.....