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$35.00Bethlehem: Quarter Press [c 1976]. First printing of this edition. [24 pp]. Light toning to spine, foxing to rear panel, else very good in wrappers. Translated from the original French by Jack Hirschman, with his introduction. Dated (June ‘76) and INSCRIBED by Hirschman.$20.00Annandale-on-Hudson: QRL, 1964. First US edition. [82 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Entire issue of The Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. XII, No. 4, devoted to this work by Cocteau. Translated from the original French by Arno Karlen.$25.00Oakland: O Books (1976). First edition. 125 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Norma Cole.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First paperback printing. 46 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover and spine labels. Teo Savory’s English translations of these poems, followed by the original French works.
$45.00Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1976. First edition. 39 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral marbled paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 125 numbered copies. Original French poems with Cornford’s facing English translations. Apollinaire, Aragon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Supervielle, and others. Dated (Nov. 1977) and INSCRIBED by Christopher [Cornford], Frances Cornford’s son.$25.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First trade paperback printing. 190 pp. Foxing to top edge, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing.$250.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, publisher’s copy. 190 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Cossery.
$1,250.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press (1996). First edition. 4to. 32 pp. Fine loose sheets laid into printed wrappers. Very near fine publisher’s silkbound clamshell box with printed spine label. The original French poem with a facing English translation by Keith Waldrop. Illustrated with two hand-colored soft ground etchings by Jonathan Hammer. Portrait of Crevel by George Platt Lynes, printed by photogravure and laid into the text. One of 30 numbered copies on Somerset paper SIGNED by Hammer. Original prospectus accompanies.$20.00San Francisco: North Point, 1985. First US edition. 169 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with sunning to red spine lettering. Translated with an introduction by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst.$25.00Normal: Dalkey Archive (1992). First US edition. xxvi + 173 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Thomas Buckley. Foreword by Ezra Pound. Introduction by Edouard Roditi. First appearance of this key surrealist novel in English translation.$40.00London: Rapp & Carroll (1967). First UK edition, numbered & signed issue. 67 pp. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the French by Edward Lucie-Smith, with his introduction. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Lucie-Smith.
$75.00London: Practical Paradise Publications (1977). First printing of this revised translation. [56 pp]. Light bend to one lower corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Errata slip present. Ford p.91.$150.00NY: Braziller (1971). First US edition. 248 pp w/appendices. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wrinkles near crown of spine. Deleuze’s text paired with the complete text of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s VENUS IN FURS.
$125.00Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1981). First US edition. vii + 114 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Alan Bass, with his notes. Three lengthy interviews with Derrida.$15.00London: Maclehose Press/Quercus (2013). First UK edition. 91 pp. Foxing to top edge, else very near fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sian Reynolds.$45.00NY: Living Hand (1976). First edition. [74 pp]. Toning to spine and along top edges, else very good plus in printed wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies. In addition to translating the poems, Auster contributes an introduction.$40.00Weston: Living Hand (1973). First trade edition. 71 pp. Very good in printed wrappers. Living Hand 2. Entire issue devoted to Auster’s translations of these poems.$20.00NY: Grove Press (1986). First US edition. 60 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Barbara Bray.$250.00NY: Grove Press (1975). First US edition. 265 pp. Pages toned, else near fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sam Flores. Winner of the 1973 Prix Médicis.
$45.00Breakish: Prospice/Aquila (1975). First edition. 147 pp w/list of contributors. Fine in fine dust jacket. René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Alain Delahaye, Philippe Jaccottet, Jacques Roubaud, Jacqueline Guéron, Michel Deguy, largely in English translation. This constitutes volume 3 of Prospice.$45.00Oakville: Oasis Publications, 1977. First printing of this edition. [30 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Good only unprinted tissue dust jacket with a large chip to front panel and a tear to crown. Text in French, English, and Spanish, illustrated with three collages by Ludwig Zeller.$25.00London: Bodley Head (1972). First UK edition. 231 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with faint sunning to red spine lettering. Translated from the original French and edited by Francis Steegmuller, with her foreword. “A Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert’s Travel Notes & Letters.”$40.00Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1982). Uncorrected proof. 302 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Selected, edited and translated by Frances Steegmuller, this is the second volume of Flaubert’s letters prepared by Steegmuller, the first collecting correspondence from 1830 to 1857.$45.00NY: Pantheon Books (1980). First US edition. x + 270 pp w/bibliography. Light mark to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with three short edge-tears and wrinkles to rear panel. Edited by Colin Gordon. Translated from the original French by Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper.$35.00Los Angeles: Sun & Moon (1993). First edition. 79 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Robert Kocik. INSCRIBED by Fourcade on the half-title page, with one correction to the text.$20.00Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Company (1964). First US Edition. 319 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with sun-faded spine and wear to extrems. Translated from the French by Merloyd Lawrence. Winner of the Prix Goncourt.$20.00Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co. (1955). First US edition. 191 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket (rubbed). Translated from the French by Merloyd Lawrence. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and Prix des Critiques.$15.00Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1964). First US edition. 255 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a sunned spine. Nine stories translated from the original French.$75.00NY: Grove Press (1964). First US edition. 268 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Translated from the original French by Bernard Frechtman. Clipped photograph of Genet pasted inside the front cover. Poet-publisher Doug Blazek’s copy, SIGNED by him on the first leaf. A present from his father, “Push right to the extreme / and it becomes wrong: / press all the juice from / an orange and it becomes / bitter / Baltasar Gracián / 12/64 / con amore / Dad.”
$85.00NY: Knopf, 1944. First US edition. xvii + 172 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear to spine. Translated from the original French by Malcolm Cowley. Writings by Gide after June 1940, crafted in such a way that they could be safely printed in newspapers during Occupation.
$45.00NY: New Directions (1953). First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by George D. Painter.$125.00London: Lindsay Drummond (1950). First UK edition. 187 pp. Erasure to first leaf, slight lean to spine, else near fine in spine faded, price-clipped second impression dust jacket from Peter Owen. Translated from the original French by W.J. Strachan.