TRANSPARENCE OF THE WORLD POEMS. By Jean Follain.
New York: Atheneum, 1969. Cloth. First edition. About fine in near fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at bottom edge of front panel and sticker shadow on front flap.
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ROBERT THE DEVIL ... FROM AN ANONYMOUS FRENCH PLAY OF THE XIV CENTURY....
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1981. Folio. Cloth, paper spine label. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Roxanne Sexauer. One of 275 ordinary copies, of 310, printed in Dante and Bembo Italic types on handmade paper. A few minor smudges to cloth, else about fine. The errata slip is not present.
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION....
New York: Knopf, 2002. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Fine.
VOICES. By Antonio Porcha.
[ Consigny, France: Embers Handpress, 1978]. Large octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. Illustrated by Patrick Burke. First edition in this format. One of two hundred numbered copies, from a total edition of 226 copies printed by hand on Velin. Publisher's gift card laid in, and with unsigned presentation inscription.....
LAW AND ORDER. By Claude Ollier.
New York: Red Dust, [ 1971]. Cloth. First U.S. printing of Molinaro's translation, clothbound issue. Small shelf scrape to lower edge, else near fine in lightly, typically rubbed dust jacket.
THE PASTORAL LOVES OF DAPHNIS AND CHLOE.
London: Heinemann, 1924. Linen and boards. Plates. Boards faintly soiled, otherwise very good. First edition. One of 1280 numbered copies, specially printed on handmade paper, and signed by Moore.
REFRACTIONS ....
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1981. Small quarto. Calf backed Japanese paper over boards. A fine copy of this lovely book. First edition of these translations from classical texts and the French symbolists. One of 290 press numbered copies printed on Ingres-Fabriano.
ARABIC-ANDALUISAN CASIDAS.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949. Small octavo. Blue cloth. Two tasteful bookplates of the bookseller and author George Sims on front pastedown, else near fine in very good lightly soiled and tanned dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed to George Sims by the translator on front free endsheet, and with two pages.....
THE SWEET MIRACLE OF ECA DE QUEIROZ.
Portland: T.B. Mosher, 1906. Gilt decorated wrapper over stiff wrappers. printed on Japan vellum (limitation not stated). Very good.
NIGHT OVER THE EAST. By E. von Kuhnelt-Leddihn.
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936. Cloth. Faint crease in spine, otherwise a very nice copy in faintly nicked dust jacket. First edition, American issue, of this novel set in the midst of the "post-war agony of Balkan minorities," printed and bound in Britain, with an American price stamped on.....
NIGHT OVER THE EAST. By E. von Kuhnelt-Leddihn.
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936. Cloth. A very good copy in dust jacket with a few small chips and tears at extremities. First edition, American issue, of this novel set in the midst of the "post-war agony of Balkan minorities," printed and bound in Britain, with an American price.....
THREE RUSSIAN POETS SELECTIONS FROM PUSHKIN, LERMONTOV AND TYUTCHEV.
Norfolk: New Directions / Poets of the Year, [ 1944]. Plain wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. About fine in very good dust jacket with short tear at spine, tanning at edges and small smudges.
THE POEMS OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS.
New York: Grove Press, [ 1959]. Cloth. First edition, clothbound trade issue. Parallel texts. Fine in lightly shelfworn dust jacket.
THE POEMS OF ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS.
New York: Grove Press, [ 1959]. Cloth. First edition, issue in wrappers. Inscribed by Nims, "ex dono authoris." Parallel texts. Wrapper corners a bit worn, but a very good copy.
WHERE THE CHILL CAME FROM CREE WINDIGO TALES AND JOURNEYS.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. Printed wrappers. First edition, wrapper issue. Top edge dusty, otherwise about fine in dust jacket with publisher's price sticker on front flap.
HEROIC BALLADS OF SERVIA TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE....
Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1913. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. First edition. Faint bookplate shadows on pastedowns, pencil gift inscription, otherwise a very good, bright copy.
THE MIDNIGHT COURT. A RHYTHMICAL BACCHANALIA FROM THE IRISH OF BRYAN MERRYMAN....
London & Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1945. Cloth and boards. First edition of this new translation, with a few additional poems appended. Slight darkening, else fine in very good plus dust jacket with small chip.
THE MIDNIGHT COURT A RHYTHMICAL BACCHANALIA FROM THE IRISH OF BRYAN MERRYMAN ....
London & Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1945. Cloth and boards. First edition of this new translation, with a few additional poems appended. Foretips slightly bumped, otherwise very good or better in dust jacket with a few tiny chips at corners.
THE WILD BIRD'S NEST: POEMS FROM THE IRISH BY ... WITH AN ESSAY ON THE CHARACTER IN IRISH LITERATURE BY A.E.
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1932. Linen and boards, paper spine label. First edition. One of 250 copies printed. As one often sees with this title, the final gathering (colophon and blanks) and one interior gathering were printed on paper of less than perfect quality; the interior gathering is very faintly.....
THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM OF NISHAPUR TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN INTO ENGLISH VERSES, INCLUDING QUATRAINS NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME SO RENDERED.
Worcester, Mass: Privately printed, 1906. Large octavo. Cloth, printed paper spine label. Portrait, facsimile. The white cloth is a bit soiled, top edge dusty, otherwise very good. First edition, ordinary issue on paper. Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. Inscribed presentation copy from the translator to DIAL editor, Scofield Thayer, with.....
MODERN CZECH POETRY.
[ London]: Prague Press / Allen & Unwin, [ 1945]. Small octavo. Printed boards. First edition of this selection. Very slightly bowed, else fine in near fine dust jacket.
THE WISDOM OF THE FOREST SELECTIONS FROM THE HINDU UPANISHADS.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1976]. Boards. First U.S. edition, boardbound issue. A few tiny spots on top edge, else fine in dust jacket with faint tanning along edges.
THE DUKAYS. By Lajos Zilahy.
New York: Prentice-Hall, [ 1949]. Thick octavo. Decorated cloth, with "Presentation Edition" designation on upper board. A few faint marks to cloth, but a very good copy, in defective dust jacket. First edition, limited issue, of this translation by poet/editor John Pauker. One of fifteen hundred numbered copies, specially bound.....
THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHEYYAM OF NISHAPOUR, NOW FIRST COMPLETELY DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE FROM THE PERSIAN, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORIGINAL FORMS, WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION, BY...
London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and For Private Circulation Only, 1898. Large octavo. Parchment over boards, lettered in gilt, decorated in red and gold, t.e.g., fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. One of an unspecified limited edition (this is copy No. 'D'). Parchment characteristically mottled.....
RAINS (PLUIES).
Sewanee: The Sewanee Review, 1945. Large octavo. Printed cream wrappers. Lower fore-tip bumped, otherwise very good to fine. First edition, trade issue, of this modestly early separate publication by Devlin, issued as a supplement to the April 1945 issue of the SEWANEE REVIEW, with the French text printed parallel with.....