Search Results: Translations from The Library Kit

2020 Penguin Modern Classics, Translated from the German by Anthea Bell // Light marks on back cover, Shadow of old price sticker on back cover, In otherwise excellent condition // The hysteria and the everyday of Nazi Germany, seen through the eyes of a humorous and perceptive teen in 1930s Frankfurt // 138 pages, 111g, 199mm x 130mm x 9mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2014 Penguin, Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, Preface by Angelo Pellegrino // Gentle wear along edges, Light crease along spine // 685 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 34mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 MacLehose Press, Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth // Gentle wear along exterior, Light age tanning // The burden of the past culminating in a social and emotional decline of its people, playing out in our protagonist post-WWII // 399 pages, 210mm x 139mm x 37mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1995 Pimlico //Light foxing of page edges, Slight age tanning //The remarkable life of the artist Dora Carrington and her assocation with the Bloomsbury Group //342 pages, 234mm x 151mm x 28mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Black Swan, Translated from the French by Dori Katz // Light overall wear // A profound evocation of life in Fascist Italy // 142 pages, 198mm x 127mm x 8mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2015 Penguin, Translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson, Edited with an Introduction by Benjamin Moser // Lightest wear along cover edges // 645 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 33mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1985 Secker & Warburg, Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz // Light foxing on page edges // The disillusionment of post-WWII Japan through the eyes of the ten-year old narrator // 253 pages, 222mm x 140mm x 26mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 The Women's Press, Translated by Donna L Hoffmeister, Afterword by Christa Wolf// Slightest overall wear, Lightest age tanning of pages, // The psychological aftermath of a generation coming to grips with their Nazi past, based on the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd// 103 pages, 198mm x 127mm x 8mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1974 Tuttle, Translation from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker
//Lightest wear along cover edges //A tenth century Japanese classic, an intimate firsthand account of the Heian aristocracy // 201 pages, 182mm x 110mm x 13mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1952 Foreign Languages Publishing House, Translator uncredited, Winner of the Stalin Prize 1950 // Gentle overall wear, Light foxing along page edges, Old International Bookshop sticker on inside front cover, Looseleaf Key to Principal Characters included // A work of socialist realism, an ode to the collective economy // 622 pages, 200mm x 139mm x 34mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1970 Hart-Davis, Translated by Derek Coltman //Lovingly wrapped in Mylar, Old library copy of the NSW Railways Institute, Slight age tanning //The emotional landscape of a young girl and her pervasively absurd environment //165 pages, 206mm x 136mm x 24mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Riverhead, Translated by Derek Coltman // Lightly worn edges, Dog ear on bottom right corner of front cover, Torn corners on back cover (see photo 2), Stamp of previous owner Lesley Sly on front page // An extraordinary life of a remarkable woman written in a phenomenal style // 427 pages, 511g, 231mmm x 154mm x 31mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1968 Fontana Modern Novels, Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian //Gentle overall wear and tanning along page edges, Slight creases on spine, Light rubbings along cover edge// A fictional microcosm of de Beauvoir's philosophy as enacted through the lives of its central women // 154 pages, 182mm x 109mm x 12mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 polity Translated from the French by Peggy Kamuf // Ex-Library copy, Gentle wear along exterior, In excellent condition // Love and memory, Cixous' classic themes and style // 142 pages, 210mm x 141mm x 13mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2006 Harper Perennial, Introduction by Val McDermid, Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate //Gentle overall wear and rubbings along cover edge,Slight crease on spine,Lightest age tanning//#2 in the Martin Beck series, a Nordic noir pioneer // 198 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 16mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1971 Penguin Classics, Translation from the Japanese by Ivan Morris
//Light overallage wear //A tenth century Japanese classic, an intimate firsthand account of the Heian court lifestyle and drama// 411 pages, 197mm x 129mm x 21mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Folio Society, Some translated into the English by women translators such as Vera Volkhovsky, Louise Maude, R.S. Townsend, Liv Tudge, Emily Jakewleff, Dora B. Montefiore, Mirra Ginsburg, and Maria Gordon// Minor wear on slipcase, Light marks on top page edges, In otherwise excellent condition// A collection of classic Russian short stories (see pictures for full list) // 383 pages, 240mm x 163mm x 37mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2013 Sort of Books, Introduction by Ali Smith, Translation from the Finnish by Kingsley Hart
//Slightly faded spine, In excellent condition //A lightly-fictionalised memoir of Jansson's bohemian Helsinki childhood // 162 pages, 205mm x 132mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 Picador, Translated and Edited by H.M. Parshley // Cover very gently worn, Slight creases along spine, Lightest tanning of pages // The feminist bible that kicked off second-wave feminism // 762 pages, 563g, 199mm x 131mm x 49mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1992 Penguin Classics, Translated from the Russian by D.M. Thomas // Light age wear on cover, In otherwise excellent condition // An acclaimed collection of lyrical poems that - even translated - evoke the distinctive early-20th century Russian milieu // 147 pages, 126g, 198mm x 129mm x 11mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW