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Suleyman the Magnificent, Poet
by Suleyman ; Halman, Talât S. (Sait)
Istanbul: BKG Publications, BeyoÄlu, 2010. Paperback. Fine with faintest of edge-wear to top outer edge.. Small quarto 79 pages: color illustrations; 25 cm. In English. Translated from the Ottoman Turkish original. ¶ Suleyman I ;Sultan of the Turks, 1494 or 1495-1566, Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سÙÙÙ
ا٠اÙÙ, Romanized: Süleyman-I Evvel; Turkish: I. "Süleyman; commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ottoman Turkish:...
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$27.00
![Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/911/738/1504738911.0.b.jpg)
Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]
by Lappo-Danilevskaia, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna ["A Russian Lady"]
London: William Heinemann, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition. Original orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some light soiling on boards, corners bumped, a little foxing, good. Lappo-Danilevskaia was a popular and successful novelist (and opera singer) in pre-revolutionary Russia, writing novels of life in high society. She survived the Revolution, endured periods of forced labour and internment in camps before escaping and settling in France. This was her most popular novel..
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$24.94
Private Memoirs of the Court of Louis XVIII, by a Lady (1830)
by Lamathe-Langon, Étienne-Léon
London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition. First English Edition in Two Volumes. Two volumes uniformly bound in mid-C19th green leather over green marbled board; gilt decorations and black leather labels on spines; green marbled endpapers. Lightly scuffed, faint stain to bottom edge of first few leaves in volume II: otherwise a good set. Purports to be an historical memoir, but as it told by an (imaginary) female narrator. Best regarded as at least an...
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$81.07
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
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
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$6.52
![The Illustrious Dr Mathéus (1872) [L'Illustre Docteur Mathéus, 1858]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/242/1587242567.0.b.jpg)
The Illustrious Dr Mathéus (1872) [L'Illustre Docteur Mathéus, 1858]
by Erckmann-Chatrian [ie Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian]
London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1872. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Undated [1872]. Later rebinding in crimson cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, nameplate on front pastedown, front inner joint cracking at bottom, light foxing, otherwise good. The first English edition, not illustrated, issued as a yellowback [Topp II, p 102] by Ward, Lock & Tyler. Later reprinted by Ward, Lock & Co., (after the company had changed its name),...
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![Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/915/018/1588018915.0.b.jpg)
Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]
by Stinde, Julius
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original red cloth, ruled and lettered in black; yellow endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on boards, a little scattered foxing on early pages, very good. By the author of The Buchholz Family..
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$37.42
Zeno of Bruges
by Marguerite Yourcenar
1997 Harvill Press, Translated from the French by Grace Frick // Light wear along edges, Slight crease along spine, Gentle spotting along page edges // Another thoughtful Yourcenar exploration on the condition of man, via her ability to conjure up the internal lives of historical figures, this time in 16th Europe// 334 pages, 216mm x 135mm x 28mm// 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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$7.82
![For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/450/242/1587242450.0.b.jpg)
For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]
by Saint Germain, J. T. de [ie Jules Romain Tardieu]
London: Chapman & Hall, 1867. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition.. Mid C19th blue leather over red marbled boards; raised bands, gilt ruling and red leather title label on spine. Light edgewear, considerable foxing throughout, good. A legend or moral fable cast in the form of the autobiography of a clothes pin, as it passes through many hands in fashionable French society..
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$37.42
Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yu Miri
2019 Tilted Axis Press, Winner of the 2020 National Book Awards Translated Literature, Translation from the Japanese by Morgan Giles
//Slight wear along edges //A creatively mournful spotlight on Japanese culture and history from the perspective of its marginalised // 197 pages, 197mm x 127mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
//Slight wear along edges //A creatively mournful spotlight on Japanese culture and history from the perspective of its marginalised // 197 pages, 197mm x 127mm x 19mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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$6.52
Belladonna
by Dasa Drndic
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
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$7.82
Carrington A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932
by Gretchen Gerzina
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
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$7.82
Harvest
by Galina Nikolayeva
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
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$13.04
Les Belles Images
by Simone de Beauvoir
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
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$5.21
An Egyptian Princess
by Ebers, George
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Tauchnitz's German Authors Series. Two volumes in original red cloth, on limp boards, lettered in gilt. A little dulled, small chip at head of spine on vol 1, cloth speckled on vol 2, good.
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$14.97
Coin In Nine Hands
by Marguerite Yourcenar
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
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$6.52
![Per Aspera [A Thorny Path] [Per Aspera, 1892[]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/084/1553084709.0.b.jpg)
Per Aspera [A Thorny Path] [Per Aspera, 1892[]
by Ebers, Georg, translated [from the German] by Clara Bell
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1892. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Copyright Edition. Two volumes uniformly bound in pale brown cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, red and green leather labels on spines, flower-and-leaf patterned endpapers, all edges red, integral silk bookmarks. Todd [C50b/51]. Second issue of volume I, series half titles bound in. The last two volumes in this short series of translations from German Authors. Fine. An historical novel set largely in Alexandria during the reign of the infamous...
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$37.42
Sculptor's Daughter
by Tove Jansson
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
//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
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$10.43
![Jack, translated [from the French] by Laura Ensor. [Jack, 1876]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/474/242/1587242474.0.b.jpg)
Jack, translated [from the French] by Laura Ensor. [Jack, 1876]
by Daudet, Alphonse
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1890. Book. Illus. by Myrbach. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original two-tone cloth binding: spine in navy blue with gilt lettering, with maroon boards; green-and-white patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Boards faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Daudet's novel -- which some see as influenced by Dickens -- tells the sad story of an illegitimate boy and his selfish mother. Wolff [1729] has a two-volume edition of the same translation issued by...
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LA DIVINA COMEDIA; Vollständiger Tert, mit Erläuterungen, Grammatisch, Glossar und sieben Tafeln
by [Dante] Olschki, Dr. Leonardo
Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. First Edition-: text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Near Fine/None. 7 Tables (1 being a map). Tall 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with 7 B&W engravings (e.g., 1 foldout printed both sides with diagrams [circles of the Inferno; stages of Purgatorio; orbits of Paradise]; 1 double-spread), 1 plate) & 1 map of N.. Central Italy ; xvii, [xviii-xx], 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's Italian...
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$113.00
![The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/584/242/1587242584.0.b.jpg)
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]
by Le Sage, [Alain René]; Tobias Smollett
London: Charles Daly, 1840. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Frontispiece, vignette title and a further sixteen plates. Mid C19th black leather over blue marbled boards. Lightly scuffed. Boards a little darkened, undated signature on front pastedown, signature (1876) on vignette title, foxing on margins of plates, otherwise very good..
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$43.65
The Return of the Prodigal, Preceded by Five Other Treatises with Saul, A Drama in Five Acts
by Gide, André translated by Dorothy Bussy
London: Secker and Warburg, The Standard Edition of the Works of André Gide, 1953. First American. Hardcover. very good with nice bright d.j. this copy owned by the Nobel Prize recipient D. Carleton Gajdusek, with his signature on the front endpaper. 304 pp.
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$30.00
![Under a Charm, [translated] from the German by Christina Tyrell (1877) [Vineta, 1877]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/951/018/1588018951.0.b.jpg)
Under a Charm, [translated] from the German by Christina Tyrell (1877) [Vineta, 1877]
by Werner, E [ie Elizabeth Burstenbinder]
London: Richard Bentley, 1878. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition.. Favourite Novels. Favourite Novels binding: blindstamped green cloth, decorated in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Corners rubbed, endpapers replaced, good. A German junker and Polish countess fall in love, but have to deal with the long-standing antagonism between their nations. Scarce..
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$31.18
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Murakami, Haruki
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First UK Edition, First Printing. Winner of the prestigious Tanizaki Prize, translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. "A fable for the modern age, fantastic, prescient and utterly engaging." Author of the acclaimed A Wild Sheep Chase, this dazzling, witty novel combines science fiction, satire and a warning about the dangerous powers of corporations. 9 x 6". 9780241131442. Original black cloth boards with silver gilt letters to spine. Fine in a Fine pictorial...
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$268.00
He and She (Lui et Elle, 1868)
by De Musset, Paul translated by Ernest Tristan & G. F. Monkshood
London: Greening & Co, 1910. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Original purple cloth, with raised floral pattern on boards and spine, gilt blocking on spine. Spine sunned, lacks front free endpaper, otherwise a good reading copy.
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$12.47
LAURENTIUS RUSIUS, Hippiatria sive Marescalcia (Book on the Health of Horses), in the Italian translation of ANTONIO DE BARLETTA, Liber de signis bonitatis et malitie equorum et de ipsorum infirmitatibus causis et curis (Book on the Signs of Health and Illness of Horses and on the Causes and Cures of their Diseases)
BOOK DESCRIPTION: the best known and most widely read medieval work on veterinary science for horses. In Italian, manuscript on paper, Italy (Pavia?), c. 1530-1560. Dimensions: 360 x 250 mm.,52 folios on paper, complete, written in an Italic script (cancelleresca italica) in brown ink, red rubrics, decorated 5-line initial on f. 1 styled as a tree trunk and 2- to 3-line red pen initials at the beginning of each chapter. CONTEMPORARY VELLUM BINDING, title written on the spine, enclosed in a modern half...
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