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    REVERDY, Pierre.
    $15.00
    Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1968. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Anne Hyde Greet’s English translation of these poems, followed by the original French versions.
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    REVERDY, Pierre.
    $35.00
    Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books (1991). First UK edition. 173 pp w/index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems selected by Mary Ann Caws, translated by John Ashbery, Patricia Terry, and Caws, and edited by Timothy Bent and Germaine Brée. The original French works with facing English.
  • One Hundred Poems from the French.
    REXROTH, Kenneth.
    $200.00
    Cambridge: Pym-Randall, 1972. First edition, numbered & signed issue 100 pp. Boards slightly bent with a hard bump to spine, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is toned and has some discoloration and soiling to the unprinted rear panel. This is copy #1, SIGNED by Rexroth. Penned to the front cover, “Copy #1 / author’s copy.”
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    RICHAUD, Frédéic.
    $15.00
    London: Harvill Press (2000). First UK edition. 116 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Barbara Bray.
  • Aube Dawn: A poem from ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud.
    RIMBAUD, Arthur.
    $250.00
    San Francisco: [Jaime Robles] (1993). First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Original French with English translation by Winston Dutton. Fold-out photogravure plate prepared by Ken Farley. Gravure printed by Jaime Robles with Doris Simmelink. Text printed and bound by Robles. “Afternoon,” a poem by Robles in response, printed by Eric Holub at Hillside Press. One of 20 copies on Arches paper, the entire edition.
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    RIO, Michel.
    $12.50
    NY: Pantheon (1989). First edition. 117 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Margery Arent Safir.
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    RIVIERE, Pierre.
    $35.00
    Iowa City: Grilled Flowers Press (1979). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers with printed cover label. One of 200 numbered copies. Translated from the original French by Frank Jellinek.
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    ROUBAUD, Jacques.
    $25.00
    Normal: Dalkey Archive (1993). Uncorrected proof. Fine in yellow printed wrappers. Translated from the French by Bernard Hoepffner.
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    ROUSSEL, Raymond.
    $25.00
    NY: Sun, 1975. First edition. 42 pp. Tanning and some wear to spine and rear panel, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the French, with notes, by Trevor Winkfield.
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    ROUSSEL, Raymond.
    $25.00
    NY: Sun (1977). First printing of this expanded edition (published previously by Sun in 1975). 71 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated, with notes and a bibliography by Trevor Winkfield. Additionally, collects two essays by John Ashbery and a translation of Canto III of Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique by Kenneth Koch. Review slip laid in.
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    ROUSSEL, Raymond.
    $20.00
    NY: Sun (1977). First printing of this expanded edition (published previously by Sun in 1975). 71 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers that are lightly rubbed. Previous owner’s small inked name to first leaf. Translated, with notes and a bibliography by Trevor Winkfield. Additionally, collects two essays by John Ashbery and a translation of Canto III of Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique by Kenneth Koch. Review slip laid in.
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    ROUSSEL, Raymond.
    $125.00
    Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California 1967. First US edition (originally published in 1910). 317 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with sunned spine. Translated from the original French by Lindy Foord and Rayner Heppenstall.
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    ROYET-JOURNOUD, Claude.
    $35.00
    Plymouth & Hong Kong, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [20 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the original French by Keith Waldrop. One of 50 (of 100) numbered copies.
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    ROYET-JOURNOUD, Claude.
    $25.00
    San Francisco: Minerva’s Typorium, 1984. First printing of this edition. [16 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Pages unopened. One of 50 numbered copies. Translated from the original French by Gary G. Gach.
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    ROYET-JOURNOUD, Claude.
    $20.00
    Providence: Burning Deck (1995). First US edition. [20 pp w/notes]. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Translated from the original French by Keith Waldrop. Serie d’ecriture supplement no. one.
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    SADE, Marquis de.
    $50.00
    NY: Grove Press (1965). First edition. xxii + 753 pp w/bibliography. Hard erasure to half-title, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to red pigment on spine. Compiled and translated from the original French by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse. Introduction by Jean Paulhan and Maurice Blanchot. Young 3398*.
  • Réponses: The Autobiography of Francoise Sagan.
    SAGAN, Francoise.
    $35.00
    Godalming: Black Sheep Books (1979). First UK edition. 153 pp w/bibliography & notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by David Macey.
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    SEGALEN, Victor.
    $45.00
    Santa Monica & San Francisco: Lapis Press, 1987. First trade edition. [140 pp w/bibliography]. Fine in illustrated wrappers with some light rubbing along the spine. Translated from the original French by Michael Taylor, with his introduction.
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    SEMPRUN, Jorge.
    $15.00
    NY: Viking (1997). First US edition. 310 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Linda Cloverdale.
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    SIMENON, Georges.
    $75.00
    London: Hamish Hamilton (1960). First UK edition. 189 pp. Slight lean to spine, foxing along top edge. In all, near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with an old price-sticker on the front flap. Translated from the original French by Helen Sebba.
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    SIMON, Claude.
    $45.00
    London & NY: Calder/Riverrun Press (1989). First edition in English. 322 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Beryl and John Fletcher.
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    SIMON, Claude.
    $50.00
    NY: George Braziller, 1960. First US edition. 216 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine, wear to base and crown of spine, an edge of front flap fold. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard.
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    SIMON, Claude.
    $20.00
    Elmwood Park: Dalkey Archive (1991). Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed yellow wrappers. Translated from the French by Jim Cross. Afterword by Lois Oppenheim.
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    SUPERVIELLE, Jules.
    $20.00
    Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. 51 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover and spine labels. Teo Savory’s English translations, followed by the original French poems.
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    SUPERVIELLE, Jules.
    $45.00
    NY: New Directions (1967). First edition. 277 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original French poems with facing English translations by Levertov, Rexroth, and Kirkup among others.
  • The Cemetery by the Sea.
    VALERY, Paul.
    $35.00
    [West Chester]: Aralia Press, 1987. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in decorated wrappers. One of 200 copies on Rives Light paper. Valery’s original poem in French with facing English translation by Howard Moss.
  • The Archeology of the Mother.
    VEINSTEIN, Alain.
    $35.00
    Cambridge: Spectacular Diseases, 1986. First UK edition. 4to. 46 pp. Bumps to two corners, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Cover illustration by Denis Mizzi. Translated from the original French by Rosmarie Waldrop and Tod Kabza. Série d’écriture issue number one.
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    VILLON, Francois translated by Louis Simpson.
    $25.00
    Ashland: Story Line Press (2000). First edition. 190 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Original French with facing translations by Simpson.
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    VILLON, Francois. translated by Louis Simpson.
    $15.00
    Ashland: Story Line Press (2000). First trade paperback printing. 190 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Original French with facing translations by Simpson.
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    VIRILIO, Paul.
    $40.00
    London: Paul Virilio (2000). First UK edition. 103 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Patrick Camiller.
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    VIRILIO, Paul.
    $40.00
    Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press (1995). First US edition. 168 pp w/index. Very near fine in stamped boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Translated from the original French by Julie Rose.
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    VOLTAIRE.
    $75.00
    NY: Limited Editions Club, 1973. First edition. 4to. 123 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with leather spine and original unprinted tissue dust jacket. Fine publisher’s slipcase. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington, introduction by Anatole Broyard, and illustrated by May Néama. One of 1500 numbered copies by Néama.