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$35.00London & Cambridge: Hayward Gallery/MIT Press (2006). First edition. Small 4to. 271 pp w/notes, selected bibliography, & list of works. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Fully-illustrated.
$50.00NY: Stone Street Press (1982). First edition. 32mo. [16 pp]. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Original French poems with facing English translations by Kevin McEneaney. Designed, calligraphed, illustrated, lino-cut, and bound by Malachi McCormick. OCLC locates 4 copies.$25.00San Francisco: City Lights (1983). First printing of this edition (originally published by Beacon in 1957). 118 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Christopher Isherwood, with his introduction. Illustrated with eight drawings by Baudelaire, four of which are self-portraits. Cook 154.$55.00Boston: Godine (1982). First printing of this edition. xxxii + 365 pp w/index. Small pale mark on top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. The complete French text preceded by by a new English translation by Richard Howard. Illustrated with nine monotypes created for this editon by Michael Mazur.$15.00Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2015. First trade paperback printing. 189 pp w/translator’s notes, chronology, and biographical notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Original French poems with facing English translations by Jan Owen. Introduction by Rosemary Lloyd.$75.00Portland: Charles Seluzicki, 2001. First edition. 18 x 14 1/4 inch illustrated broadside. Light bend across middle (but not a crease) else fine. Original ink drawing by Paul Green. Translated from the French by Robert Lowell. Printed letterpress by Stern & Faye on Folio Gray paper. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Green. At publication price:
$45.00Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (2002). First US edition. xv + 80 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Robert Bononno, with a foreword by K. Michael Hays. Two long interviews.$750.00Cleveland & NY: World (1956). First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 610 pp. Faint sunning to spine, else very near fine in two-part full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Very good plus publisher’s slipcase with some light evidence of damp staining to side panels. One of 325 (of 500) copies SIGNED by Beauvoir for “private distribution.” Winner of the Prix Goncourt. Laid into this copy is a printed slip from the publisher, “With the compliments of Ben D. Zevin.”$25.00NY: Dutton, 1964. First edition. xxxv + 406 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some toning to spine and a small mark to front panel. Neat previous owner’s name inked inside the front gutter. Cover art by Milton Glaser. Translations from the original French by Benedikt and Wellwarth, with Benedikt’s introduction.$20.00London: Harvill/Secker (2012). First UK edition. 257 pp. Very slight lean to spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sam Taylor.$45.00Athens: Ohio University Press (1990). First edition. 295 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear. Original French poems with facing English translations by Galway Kinnell and Richard Pevear. SIGNED by Kinnell on the title page.
$40.00London: MPT Books, 2000. First UK edition. 218 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Original French poems preceded by Rudolf’s English translations. INSCRIBED by Rudolf to R.B. Kitaj, “K. / love / A /Oct. 2000 / (letter follows).$20.00Athens: Ohio University Press (1994). First US edition. 71 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Original poems in French with facing translations by Edouard Roditi.$25.00San Francisco: City Light Books, 1997. First printing of this edition. xix + 356 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction.$35.00Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First US edition. 16mo. 184 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Zack Rogow with an introduction by Anna Balakian. Green Integer 96.$35.00Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1999). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1934). xvii + 146 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light crease to front panel. Essays translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti and Mary Ann Caws, with Polizzotti’s preface.$35.00NY: Paragon House (1993). First US edition. xvii + 264 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction. “Of all the writings on Surrealism, ‘Conversations’ is the only book to chronicle its entire history as lived from within by its founder.” - from the jacket.$35.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1993). First edition. 213 pp w/notes & bibliography. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow. Poems.$45.00Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1995). First US edition. xii + 291 pp w/notes. “R” stamp on bottom edge near spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Michel Parmentier and Jacquelaine d’Amboise.$50.00Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1987). First printing of this edition. xvii + 129 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Translated from the original French by Mary Ann Caws, with her introduction. Review slip laid in.$125.00London & NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1970. First US edition. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Bumps to upper corners, inked owner’s name to first leaf. In all, very good plus in like dust jacket with a few short tears along top edge, and some trivial soiling. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$40.00London: Jonathan Cape (1969). Uncorrected proof. 110 pp w/selected bibliography. Sunning to lower portion of front cover, else near fine in printed wrappers. Original French poems with facing translations by Kenneth White.$25.00Berkeley: University of California (2003). First trade paperback printing. 176 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited, with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti. All texts in English translation.$35.00Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1996). First US edition. xxi + 133 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with toned spine. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti. Polemical essays composed between 1917 and 1923.$1,000.00NY: View Editions, 1946. First US edition. [56 pp]. Wear along the extrems, else very good plus in like dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, two edge tears, and slight loss to tips of flap folds. Cover art by Marcel Duchamp. Internal drawings by Arshile Gorky. Original French poems with facing English translations by Edouard Roditi.
$350.00London: Gollancz (1965). First UK edition. 192 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Though not credited, the Burgesses translated this novel, which won the Le Prix International du Premier Roman. Uncommon.
$125.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.$150.00NY: Clarkson N. Potter (1964). First US edition. 127 pp. Slight lean to spine, toning to extrems, else near fine in like dust jacket with a short tear and light edgewear. Translated from the original French by George Ordish.
$35.00NY: Knopf, 1972. First US edition. 192 pp w/notes & variants. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi. His first novel, composed c. 1936-1938. Cahiers Albert Camus I.$35.00NY: Knopf, 1961. First US edition. 272 pp. Some light offsetting along base of front free and fixed endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is toned along the upper third. Translated from the original French by Justin O’Brien.$25.00Normal: Dalkey Archive (1995). Advance excerpt. Fine in printed yellow wrappers. Translated from the French by Dominic Di Bernardi. Celine's last major work to be translated into English. Printed exclusively for Borders Inc is emblazoned across the top of this copy, and a letter from Dalkey to Borders Booksellers on the front panel.$125.00NY: Delacorte (1972). Uncorrected proof. Narrow small 4to. 301 pp. A few light stains to front cover, two gentle reading creases to spine; in all, very good plus in printed red wrappers. Translated from the original French by Ralph Manheim (though not credited in the proof).