SOME POEMS OF FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN.
Norfolk: Poets of the Year/New Directions, [ 1943]. Printed wrapper. First edition, issue in wrappers. About fine in lightly sunned dust jacket.
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LOVE SONNETS. By Louise Labé.
New York: New Directions, 1947. Small octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. Spine sunned (as is very common with this book), else near fine in slipcase. First edition, trade issue of these translations. One of 2000 copies printed on Hamilton paper, in addition to 24 numbered and signed copies on Montgolfier.....
THREE EXEMPLARY NOVELS. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
New York: Viking Press, 1950. Large octavo. Cloth, pictorial label. Twenty- four engravings after drawings by Quintanilla. . Stray smudge to lower corner of upper board, two tiny spots on lower edge, else about fine in very good, faintly dusty pictorial dust jacket with a couple of short tears at.....
LOST ILLUSIONS. By Honore de Balzac.
London: John Lehmann, [ 1951]. Large, thick octavo. Plain paper wrappers. Illustrations by Philippe Jullian. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Page proofs of the first edition of this new translation. Wrappers somewhat soiled, nicked and creased, a few corners turned down, but a good copy of this very bulky, fragile format.....
POEMS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
London: Faber and Faber, [1943]. Gilt cloth. First edition. Some faint erased pencil annotations, but a very good copy, in moderately sunned and smudged, price-clipped dust jacket.
SELECTED POEMS. By Pierre Reverdy.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. First edition, limited issue. One of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris. Fine in faintly dust smudged pictorial slipcase.
ONE HUNDRED MORE POEMS FROM THE JAPANESE.
[New York]: New Directions, [1976]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Uniform tanning to textblock, as usual, otherwise fine in acetate dust jacket.
SELECTED POEMS. By Pierre Reverdy.
[ New York]: New Directions, [ 1969]. Cloth, t.e.g. Hint of minor dust soiling to lower board at edges, otherwise fine in slipcase. First edition, limited issue. Copy #1 of 150 numbered copies, specially printed and signed by Rexroth. Title-page, sectional division and slipcase illustrations after designs by Juan Gris.....
LI CH'ING-SHAO: COMPLETE POEMS.
[New York]: New Directions, [1979]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, clothbound issue. Top edge of lower board sunned, otherwise near fine in acetate jacket.
THE THIRD IDYLL OF THEOCRITUS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BY....
New York. 1928. Small quarto. Stiff wrappers, printed label. Color pictorial vignette. Minor use to overlap wrapper edges, else a fine copy. One of 375 copies printed by Watson Kent, Bryson Burroughs and Bruce Rogers at the Museum Press.
THE RUBÁIYÁT OF 'UMAR KHAIYÁM TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF J.B. NICOLAS ... TOGETHER WITH A REPRINT OF THE FRENCH TEXT.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1924]. Small quarto. Tan cloth, lettered in gilt, with pictorial decorations. Frontis and fifteen color plates by Hamzeh Carr. Extremities nicked and frayed, endleaves browned, old clipping and residue of same affixed to recto and verso of half-title, with consequent offset tanning; a good.....
THE EARLY ITALIAN POETS FROM CIULLO D'ALCAMO TO DANTE ALIGHIERI (1100-1200-1300) IN THE ORIGINAL METRES TOGETHER WITH DANTE'S VITA NUOVA.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. xxxvi,464,[2]pp. Original black vertically ribbed cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt, edges rough-trimmed. Cloth lightly rubbed, a few very minor nicks at the spine ends, a bit of offset to the coated brown endsheets, but a quite nice copy, very good or better. First.....
NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS.
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to lower wrapper, else about fine.
NEW YOUNG GERMAN POETS.
San Francisco: City Light/Pocket Poets 11, [ 1959]. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first book, albeit comprised of translations. Very faint dust marking to wrappers, ink name, else very good or better.
AUCASSIN & NICOLETE BEING A LOVE STORY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ANCIENT FRENCH.
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1899. Limp suede, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. One of an unspecified number of copies printed on handmade paper, with the initials illuminated in color. A bit of sunning to the suede, with a bit of slight dust marking along the overlap top edge.....
THREE ELEGIES OF QUINTILIUS.
Tunbridge Wells: The Pound Press, 1954. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition. One of 365 numbered copies (of 399). This copy bears Russell's early inscription to fellow poet/translator/editor, Cid Corman. A few light coffee stains to the front wrapper, else a very good or better copy.
RUSSIAN POETRY AN ANTHOLOGY.
London: Martin Lawrence, [ nd]. Gilt cloth. British issue of American sheets. Endsheets and edges lightly foxed, ink name dated 1932, else very good in lightly chipped dust jacket (bearing denotation "Second Edition").
THE SILENT FIREFLY JAPANESE SONGS OF LOVE AND OTHER THINGS.
Tokyo: Kodansha, [ 1963]. Octavo. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels. Woodblock illustrations by Kitao Masami. Light wear to a couple of corners, else very good in a lightly worn pictorial slipcase. First edition. Signed by the translator, Eric Sackheim. An anthology of popular Japanese folk songs, some dating back to.....
JUSTINE OR GOOD CONDUCT WELL CHASTISED ....
Paris: Travellers Companion Series / The Olympia Press, [1963]. Printed green wrappers. Spine extremities a bit rubbed and slightly creased, crayon price in upper corner of rear wrapper,otherwise very good. Second printing in this format, as TC #67, of Wainhouse's 1953 translation.
THE BEDROOM PHILOSOPHERS ....
Paris: The Olympia Press, [May. 1953]. Decorated wrapper over stiff wrappers. Two small stickers obscure the price and prohibition on the lower wrapper panel, small spot and corner scrape to upper panel, a bit of wear at corners and very faint foxing to endleaves and top edge. A good to.....
TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN VERSE A SELECTION.
Princeton: Princeton, 1952. Cloth. First edition. Top edge a bit dusty, else near very good in a spine and edge-faded dust jacket with slight chipping to the crown of the spine. Rilke, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, et al.
THE BRAGGART SOLDIER A COMEDY IN TWO ACTS.
New York, etc: Samuel French, Inc., [c. 1963]. 94,[2]pp. Small octavo. Printed wrapper. Near fine. First edition (printing unidentified, priced $1.25) of the classical scholar, popular novelist and screenwriter's first separate book.
SIX HYMNS OF HOMER THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY ... FACING THE ORIGINAL GREEK.
[Maastricht]: The Halcyon Press [for A.A. M. Stols, Publisher], 1929. 19,[5]pp. Small, thin quarto. Dull red cloth. Crown of spine has a short snag, some tanning to endsheets and gutters; a good copy. Text edited by Paul van de Woestijne. One of 450 numbered copies printed on Pannekoek paper, from.....
THE LEGACY, THE TESTAMENT by Francois Villon.
[ Ashland, OR]: Story Line Press, 2000. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition of this translation by Louis Simpson. Fine.
THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS DE SANTILLANE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LE SAGE....
London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean [et al], 1819. Three volumes. Octavo. Full polished contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt labels. One joint cracked, but cords sound, narrow loss at crown of one spine, nicks at tops of a couple joints, corners a bit worn, internally apart from some slight occasional foxing.....