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New York: Boni Liveright. Very Good+. 1917. First Edition Thus. Limp Leather. Modern Library; xiii, (7), 226 pages; Clean and secure in original dark blue-green limp leather binding with gilt lettering at spine and "Modern Librsry/BL" device on front cover. First Modern Library edition. Toledano spine style 1, catalogue stype 3 (35 titles), blue-gray marbled endpapers. Very minor rubbing along spine; a very nice example of this uncommon Modern Library first. Translated by Grace Isabel Colbron; Introduction by Ashley Dukes. Arthur Schnitzler (1862 1931) was an Austrian author and playwright. Schnitzler's works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality and for their strong stand against antisemitism. In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" .
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ANATOL & OTHER PLAYS Living Hours, The Green Cockatoo
by Schnitzler, Arthur
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. (viii), 177, (7) pages; Clean and secure in original binding of green cloth spine over olive boards in very nice dustjacket with some wear at spine ends. OCLC 1297023019 Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. Ellen Raskin illustrated dust jacket. Tanizaki's tragicomic novel addressing themes of ageing and desire. .
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George Psychoundakis : A Letter To C. A. Trypanis [with a manuscript letter from Dr. John Leatham to Richard Hubbard Howland]
by Fermor, Patrick Leigh ; [Inscribed and Signed by Dr. John Leatham]
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Athens: American College of Greece. Very Good+. 1999. Limited Edition. Paperback. Limited Edition printed in October 1999.One of 940 copies in sewn printed cream wrappers (of 1250 total). ix, (2), 12-45, (2) A letter from Fermor to Oxford professor Trypanis in English and Greek about the contemporary Cretan poet who translated both the Illiad and The Odyssey into his native language. Provenance: Inscribed and Signed on the halftitle by Dr. John Leatham to Richard Hubbard Howland with a three-page manuscript letter from Leatham to Howland dated December 31, 1999. The letter includes interesting information referring to the scholarly activities of both writer and recipient, as well as a brief mention of "Joan", the wife of their mutual friend "Paddy" (Patrick Leigh Fermor, author of this work). Dr. John Leatham was a well-known British writer, translator and philhellene. During World War II, he was liaison officer to the Royal Hellenic Navy, naval operations officer…
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Gli amori di Anacreonte o sia collezione delle sue odi di amoroso argomento Tradotte dal conte Xaverio Broglio d'Ajano
by Anacreon
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Place Not Identified: Publisher Unstated. Very Good. 1790. First Edition. Softcover. 2 p.l. & 92 pages; Very scarce first edition of Count Xaverio Broglio d'Ajano's verse translation of odes by Anacreon into Italian. It was probably printed somewhere in Italy around 1790, though there is no date printed. It probably was made in the Marche, near Macerata, where the translator was a Senator in the Repubblica romana. (The date comes from a catalogue entry in the database of the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche - ICCU). This handsome octavo version was printed to celebrate the wedding of Carlo Teodoro Antici de' marchesi di Pesci and donna Marianna Mattei de' duchi di Giove - which does contribute some element of precision to the estimate of its date of issue. It is bound in jolly contemporary wrappers with a printed floral pattern. This is a large copy in original condition, with large margins -…
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HAFEZ - Dance of Life
by Hafiz ; Michael Boylan [verse translation]; Wilberforce Clarke [prose translation]; Hossein Zenderoudi [illumination]; Amir Hossein Tabnak [Persian calligraphy]
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Washington: Mage Publishers. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. On ffep - "Given to K.R. by / Nadim Reforger (sp?) / 23 May 1988" ; some finger prints and offsetting to gilt endpapers, otherwise clean and secure in original cloth binding in very nice dustjacket. Text in English and Persian (Arabic script and roman transliteration); 107 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (color). Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel…
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KAPPA (Gulliver in a Kimono) Translation and introductory notes by Seiichi Shiojiri
by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
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Abeno, Osaka, Japan: Akitaya. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 154 pages; Publisher's flexible grey boards printed in black, pictorial endpapers, in a fragile dust jacket printed in black and red on thin paper stock. This is the third printing of the first English language edition of "Kappa" -- the masterpiece of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, considered by some the father of the Japanese short story. His mother went insane shortly after his birth in 1912, so he was adopted and raised by his maternal uncle, Akutagawa Do-sho-, from whom he received the Akutagawa family name. Akutagawa published his first short story "Rashomon" in the literary magazine Teikoku Bungaku ("Imperial Literature"), while still a student. The story, based on a twelfth-century tale, is well known in the west thanks to the classic film Rashomon (1950) directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film under this title is a reasonably faithful retelling…
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LA MORT D'ABEL - POEME EN CINQ CHANTS... TRADUIT PAR M. HUBER
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Paris: Patris, Gilbert. Very Good+. 1801. Hardcover. Clean and secure in original bindings with red leather spine labels with gilt lettering and ruling. A French translation of this classic pastoral poem. Rosenbach duplicate. Illustrated by Engravings. French, illus edition. A nice set.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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L'OISEAU D'ORIENT Roman
by Tewfik el Hakim ; [Tawfiq al-Hakim]
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Le Caire (Cairo): Editions Horus. Very Good. 1941. First Edition. Paperback. 156, (1) pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to wrappers at bottom of spine, edge. Pages unopened. OCLC 313627523 Traduction de l'arabe par Horus W Schenouda; Version francaise par Morik Brin. Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (1898 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. The triumphs and failures that are represented by the reception of his enormous output of plays are emblematic of the issues that have confronted the Egyptian drama genre as it has endeavored to adapt its complex modes of communication to Egyptian society. Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born October 9, 1898, in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and Turkish mother. Tawfiq al-Hakim moved to Cairo with his uncles to continue his studies at Muhammad Ali secondary school. After studying in Cairo, he moved to Paris, where…
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Le Opere di Orazio Flacco Recate in versi italiani da Tommaso Gargallo
by Horace ; Quintus Horatius Flaccus ; translated by Tommaso Gargalloataaa
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Como: figli di Carlantonio Ostinelli. Very Good+. 1827. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 304; 429 pages; Two volumes, bound in contemporary half vellum over pattern-printed paper covered boards, flat spines with leather labels in red and black, lettered in gilt. Bindings display just a touch of light soiling, but a handsome, tight and clean set. This charming 1827 first edition of Tommaso Gargallo's esteemed translation of Horace from Latin into modern Italian has a most interesting provenance: it was the property of two generations of one of the leading families of the American Abolitionist movement -- the son and grandson of Samuel J. May. There are ownership signatures in each volume: "Joseph May / Roma / June 1898." Joseph May, the son of the Rev. Samuel Joseph May and Lucretia Flagg Coffin May, was born in Boston on January 21, 1836. By that time, his father, Samuel J. May, had achieved a position among the religious and intellectual leaders of New England. He…
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Little Russian Masterpieces : Bobtail - The Convict - "The Slayer" - Winter
by Staniukovitch, Constantine Mikhailovitch ; V. G. Korolenko ; Zenaide A. Ragozin ; S. N. Syromiatnikof ;
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New York: Putnam's Knickerbocker Press. Very Good. 1920. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. xi, (1), 232 pages; Clean and secure in original black leatherette binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt device on front cover; top edges gilt. Chosen And Translated From The Original Russian by Zenaide A. Ragozin. With An Introduction And Biographical Notes By S. N. Syromiatnikof. This volume includes four short stories -- the first two by Constantine Mikhailovitch Staniukovitch and the second two by V. G. Korolenko. .
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Odes Mystiques (Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi) Traduction du persan et notes
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Paris: Editions Klincksieck. Very Good+. 1984. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 326 pages; Clean and secure in original white wrappers printed in sky blue. A French translation from the Persian with scholarly notes. Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi (The Works of Shams of Tabriz) is a collection of poems written by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. A compilation of lyric poems written in the Persian language, it contains more than 40,000 verses and over 3,000 ghazals. While following the long tradition of Sufi poetry, the poems in the Divan showcase Rumis unique, trance-like poetic style. Although not a didactic work, the Divan still explores deep philosophical themes, particularly those of love and longing. In 1244 C.E, Rumi, then a jurist and spiritual counselor working at the behest of the Seljuk Sultan of Rûm, met a wandering Persian Sufi dervish named Shams-i Tabrizi in Konya. Shams became a spiritual teacher to Rumi,…
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The Rainbow ( The Stalin Prize Novel ) The Story of Love, Hate and Revenge in a Russian Village
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Winnipeg: Contemporary Publishers. Very Good. 1944. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 96 pages; Contents clean and secure in original color printed wrappers, paper age toned, small area of erosion/chipping at outer corner of rear wrapper and last few leaves. The Story of Love, Hate and Revenge in a Russian Village. Translated by Edith Bone and edited for American readers by Sonia Bleeker. A condensed edition with a biography of the author By Marjorie Shaw, Moscow (reprinted from the Toronto Star Weekly). Stalin Prize winning novel about struggle of the Russian people against invading German army; set in a Ukranian village. Wanda Wasilewska (1905 1964), was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist. She was a socialist who became also a devoted Soviet communist. At the time of publication, Wasilewska was a prominent member of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, the Moscow-backed administrative authority in liberated parts of Poland. Her…
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Scattered like Seeds - A Novel
by Dallal, Shaw J. ; [SIGNED] ; [Rowland Evans]
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Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 335 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. Inscribed on ffep "12/23/2000 // To Mr. Evans / In appreciation for / thoughtful and even-handed / coverage of the Palestinian - / Israeli conflict. / Shaw J. Dallal" Historical novel that tells the story of one Palestinian-American uprooted by the Arab-Israeli conflict. PROVENANCE: Rowland Evans was a provocative newspaper columnist, commentator and author who antagonized liberal politicians and championed conservative causes. He left Yale and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 during World War II and was discharged in 1944 because of malaria. In 1963, Mr. Evans and Mr. Novak began writing ''Inside Report,'' an insider's view of politics that was published four times a week until Mr. Evans retired in 1993. Mr. Evans and Robert Novak began their work as columnists in…
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