Search Results: Titles starting with T from Varennes Books

Hachette , 1987. Very good copy of French historical fiction work on three generations of an immigrant island family that settled in the Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in the XIXth century. As new - save for two words highlighted on opening page. Inside intact. No wear. Novel inspired a three episode Franco-Australian TV drama produced in 1999.

Very good copy of First American Edition. No wear to spine or original burgundy cloth boards. Scratch mark on back cover. Inside clean.

Graphic Biography of philosopher Hannah Arendt

Brian Coffey, Three Poems, Very rare signed copy of limited edition of 100 copies by Irish Catholic Modernist poet (a friend of Thomas McGreevy and Samuel Beckett). This is first single volume of poetry by poet. Privately printed for the Author, Paris, 1933. On sale at Librairie Jeannette Monnier, with author's inscription "Dublin 31-VII-33. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Church with the good wishes and compliments of Brian Coffey." Spine worn through at mid-length of binding, wrap (which was once blue) faded to blue grey, some soiling on wraps, faint fold on back wrapper with two and one-half inches of illegible scribbling.

First Edition in good condition of Aldous Huxley's novel about an English schoolboy, who goes to Italy for the summer and is influenced by two teachers, a saintly bookseller and an Uncle Eustace who introduces him things profane. No dust jacket. No wear.

First Hardcover Edition in very good dust jacket with some rubbing to corners.. Binding intact. Clean and bright inside. Debut work of classical scholarship on the martyrdom of Socrates by veteran Washington investigative journalist IF Stone when he was in his eighties (after teaching himself ancient Greek.)

Very good copy of 1922 First German Edition of Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night ), a play written in the Expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser between 1919 and 1920. It received its first theatrical production in 1922. According to Leon Feuchwanger, the play was originally entitled Spartakus. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg of the Spacist League who were instrumental in the Spartacist uprising in Berlin in January 1919—had only recently been abducted, tortured and killed by Freikorps soldiers. German Beige original booklet with the two-tone (red and black) print. Rust blemishes from two staples on back cover.

Well-preserved rare copy of Twice a Year, Number Two, Spring Summer 1939, Biennial Journal published in 1939 by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by Proust, William Carlos Williams, John Marin, James Laughlin. Very little wear. Some fraying to corners of spine. Sunning to strip on top cover edge. binding tight. Interior immaculate. 247 pp.

Twice a Year, nO. 1, Fall-Winter 1938, Very well-preserved copy of Biennial Journal published by Dorothy Norman, social activist, photographer and devotee of Alfred Stieglitz, with works by by Rilke, Bourne, Dreiser, Silone, Anais Nin, Olson and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.Shelfwear to corners of spine and cover. Binding tight. Immaculate interior.

Third German Edition of dramatic works including: Die Frau Im Fenster; Die Hochkeit; Der Sobeide; Der Adenteurer  und Die Sangerin. Bound in olive green linen, lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt, silk marker. Slight. No wear to cover. Interior clean and bright. Binding tight.

Transition, Paris, 1928. 6.5"x9". No. 13. uncut copy of literary review in original transparent protective wraps, produced in Paris in the twenties. Transition was an experimental literary journal that featured surrealist, expressionist, and Dada art and artists. Founded in 1927 by Paris-based poet Eugene Jolas, it was originally intended to serve as an outlet for experimental poetry, but gradually expanded to incorporate contributions from sculptors, photographers, writers, civil rights activists, critics, and cartoonists. The magazine ran through the spring of 1938, with a total of 27 issues published. Sylvia Beach in her book "Shakespeare and Company," agent for the Journal, refers to 'Transition' as follows : "All the best Anglo-Saxon and European work of the period appeared in it, much of it for the first time. Of all the reviews I came in contact with, 'Transition' was the most vital, the longest-lived, and the review that I felt was most intelligently devoted to the interests of new writing."… Read More