Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar - 1966

Ottawa: Borealis Press, 1972. First edition / First printing. A paperback original. Orange and purple perfect-bound wrappers. Near fine with very slight fading to the orange paper spine. Sharp copy. The author's first book. Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Stone Diaries. Born in the U. S. She lived in Canada most of her adult life. This title was not published in the U.S.

London: Hutchinson, 1972. First Edition. Good/Very Good. Not price clipped. Ask bookseller for full description.

London: Atlas Press, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Stated limitation of 1,000 copies, though this copy unnumbered. A rare early production from the essential Atlas Press, a revised version of this translation previously published in Australia. Unmarked copy, light spotting to page edges.

Rare hardcover 1st edition. Cover has some wear and water marks on the edge. Some shelf wear & corners bumped. Some light tanning. Nice, tight binding. Good for its age. Fictional story of Wannaseska, the Cherokee prophet set during the time the State of Georgia (white settlers) were about to confiscate Cherokee Lands in N. Georgia. The prophet is first hand eye witness and victim to the outrages. Story ends with the Trail, of Tears when the Cherokees agreed to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. Scarce early issue of the seminal sixties underground mimeo revolution mag, distributed by mailing list. Includes an excerpt from Happiness Bastard by Kirby Doyle (6 years before its book publication). Unmarked copy, horizontal mailing crease (but not addressed or mailed), some minor soil and wear.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1970. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very close to fine dust jacket. A superior copy of this scarce title.

Weltgeschichte des jüdischen Volkes 
 Von seinen Uranfängen bis zur Gegenwart. In 10 Bänden (Volumes 1 - 9)
by Dubnow, Simon
Authorized translation from the Russian manuscript by A. Steinbe



Format/binding: 8vo - 24 x 17 cm
Book condition: Good +
Quantity available: 1
Edition: Authorized translation from the Russian manuscript by A. Steinbe
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jüdischer Verlag
Place: Berlin
Date published: 1926-30



Book Description
Volume 10 is missing. Volumes 2 and 8 without spine. Current sines are slightly rubbed. Volume 5 spine is partialy torn from front board. Text is clean and intact with no markings. Some pages have age spots. Remains are in very good, clean, tight condition.

Chapman & Hall, London, 1942. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Publisher's original oatmeal cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and with the blue top edge stain, resulting in just a fraction of bleeding to the upper margin of a single text leaf. The binding just a fraction cocked and with some fairly light fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good in lightly rubbed, marked and chipped yet still very crisp price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's sixth novel, detailing the early months of the Second World War, written in July 1941 following Waugh's return home after the evacuation of Crete, and with a printed dedication to Randolph Churchill who was instrumental in Waugh's wartime commission. Davis, Doyle &c xvii..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.

John Lehman, London, 1952. First edition, UK. Condition: Very good in good dust jacket. Book has light toning, unobtrusive previous owners name in ink on last page, slight bumping at corners and spine. Dust jacket has edge wear and creasing, dust shadow and light soiling on rear cover, tears at top edge, price clipped. Blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine.In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.