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$200.00NY: George Braziller, 1959. First US edition. 213 pp. A few light stains to top edge, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with wear to base and crown and toning to spine, along with some rubbing. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard.$20.00London: Harvill (2001). First UK edition. 373 pp. Very slight lean to spine, else fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Ian Monk.$55.00First US edition. (1964). NY: Harcourt, Brace and World 313 pp w/index. Very good plus in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket.$25.00London: Collins & Harvill, 1973. First UK edition. 282 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Translated from the original French by Bernard Wall.$20.00Providence: Paradigm Press (1996). First US edition. 61 pp. Hard bump to lower outside corner, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Keith Waldrop.$50.00Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1975. First edition. 63 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. One of 300 copies. Translated from the original French by Teo Savory.$35.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn, 1968. First edition. 56 pp. Light foxing along spine and inside edge of rear board, else near fine in paper-covered boards with printed cover and spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Original French poems preceded by Teo Savory’s English translations.$25.00NY: Zone Books, 1990. First US edition. 367 pp w/index. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Donald M. Leslie.$45.00Portland: Mosher Press, 1937. First edition. xv + 28 pp. Small mark on front cover, else near fine in paper-covered boards with printed label. Contemporary owner’s inked name and date to first leaf. Translated by Edna Worthley Underwood, with her foreword.$35.00NY: Grove (1963). First US edition. 95 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a smudge to base of spine and a small hole to rear panel of the dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Donald Watson.$100.00NY: Limited Editions Club (1987). First edition. Folio. xiv + 127 pp. Light tanning to spine, else very near fine in printed wrappers and near fine publisher’s slipcase that has some light sunning and rubbing to extrems. Illustrated with color lithographs by Ionesco. Prefaced by “Conversation with Ionesco” between Vera Heyden-Runsch and Ionesco on 14 March 1987. Translated from the original French by Barbara Wright. One of 1000 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by Ionesco.$45.00Marlboro: Marlboro Press (1994). First US edition. 113 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Paul Weidmann.
$25.00Berkeley: Tree, 1973. First edition. 89 pp. Light offsetting to endpapers from flaps, else fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Introduction by Rosemarie Waldrop, who also translated this volume from the original French.
$17.50NY: New Directions (1977). First US edition. 60 p. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is toned at the extrems. Translated from the original French by André Lefevere (prose) and Michael Hamburger (verse). Review slip laid in.
$45.00[Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008). First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.
$250.00Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. Printed letterpress and hand bound. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
$20.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems in English translation by Teo Savory, followed by the original French versions.$350.00London: Gaberbocchus Press (1951). First UK edition. [184 pp]. Fine in very good dust jacket with a large chip to the front panel, splits to the spine, loss to base and crown, and chips and loss to flap folds. Translated from the original French by Barbara Wright, with her introduction. Two portraits of Jarry by L. Lantier and F.A. Cazals. Several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard printed in red on grey paper. Two hundred and four drawings by Franciszka Themerson “doodled on litho pates and printed in black on yellow paper.” The volume is concluded by THE SONG OF THE DISEMBRAINING by Jarry, translated by Wright.$25.00London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First UK edition. 207 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Peter Green.$15.00Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2006. First edition. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Original French poems with facing English translations by Guy Bennett. Seeing Eye Books Series 10, Book III.$55.00Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First trade paperback printing. 246 pp w/notes & selected bibliography. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Original poems in French, with facing translations and notes by Kinnell. Dated (Sacramento / August 29, 1983) and INSCRIBED by Kinnell.
$75.00Boston: Eridanos Press (1990). First US edition. iv + 139 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkes. Ericanos Press Library No. 19.$20.00London: Rapp & Carroll (1967). First edition. 47 pp. Top edge lightly foxed, else near fine in very good dust jacket that is rubbed. Translations by Michael Benedikt, with his introduction.
$500.00Sherman Oaks: D’Ambrosio, 1992. First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in a “book-in-a-box” modular binding. Introduction by Patrick Magarick. One of 75 numbered copies on handmade “Misty Rose” paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. A short story by this French Symbolist, contemporary of Maupassant and Huysmans. Original prospectus accompanies.$12.50Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994. First printing of this edition (originally published in in 1918 by Editions Gallimard). 201 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a small corner crease to the front cover. Translated from the original French by Catherine Wald. Sun & Moon Classics 19.$55.00San Francisco: Kosmos, 1984. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle to front panel and some wear to crown of spine. Original French poems with facing translations by David Clutier. INSCRIBED by Cloutier on the title page.$32.50NY: Brentano’s (1928). First printing of this US edition. 253 pp w/notes. Very good plus in full cloth. No dust jacket. Translated from the original French with an appendix by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Introduction by Richard Aldington and notes by G. Rutherford.
$45.00London: Atlas Press (1990). First UK edition. 174 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Anna Warby, with her introduction. Leiris completed this novel c. 1928/9, but did not publish until 1946, shortly after joining Jean Paul Sartre on the editorial board of Les Temps Modernes.$20.00Berkeley: North Point 1990. Uncorrected proof. 266 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the French by Lydia Davis.$20.00Paris: Unesco (1965). Sixth impression. 44 pp w/bibliography. Very good plus in printed wrappers with light toning to spine and extrems, and a touch of foxing to the fore-edge.$20.00Cambridge: Zoland Books (1990). First US edition. 63 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Michel Gay.$15.00Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) (2005). First US edition. 119 pp w/notes & index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Translated from the original French by Michael Taormina.