ILL SEEN ILL SAID
Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel.
Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel.
First printing of the first French edition of ROBINSON CRUSOE, one of the first ever translations of the book that has more translations than any work except the Bible.
First American edition, translated by Lorraine O'Grady Freeman.
Rare first Kiswahili translation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," sponsored by the Sherlock Holmes Society of Kenya, a scion society of The Bootmakers of Toronto.
Rare first complete English edition of the classic swashbuckling adventure.
Scarce uncorrected proof of the first US edition, originally published in French in 1982.
First printing of this scarce anthology of classic American short fiction in Polish translation, with cover art by midcentury poster designer Marian Stachurski.
Advance uncorrected proof copy of Fuentes's short story collection, with review materials laid in.
Advance reading copy of the English translation of this charming story of a man apparently on his deathbed who decides to try to find a wife via a letter-writing campaign – part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series.
Limited first English-language edition of Green's Poe-like nested narrative of a student's psychological disintegration.
First edition, a very nice copy of this collection of writings by the Polish author, translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter.
Uncorrected proof of the first US edition, the second book of the neo-noir Marseilles Trilogy beginning with TOTAL CHAOS.
First US edition of the first volume of Knausgaard's unaccountably compelling and internationally successful six-volume work of autofiction.
First US edition of this classic Chinese novel dating from the end of the Ming period, here translated from Franz Kuhn's German version by Vladimir Kean.
Scarce first printings in English of Larsson's Millennium trilogy.
First edition of these collected essays, translated by Raymond Rosenthal and published shortly after Levi's death.
Early Knopf Pocket Book edition, in the lovely and uncommon Art Deco jacket, of Casanova's account of his bold midnight escape from solitary confinement in 1750s Venice.
First English-language publication of Nabokov's first novel, untranslated for 45 years.
First edition of the selected correspondence between to major midcentury literary figures, whose longstanding friendship became public over their "embittered 1965 debate" on Nabokov's translation of a Pushkin novel.
First English-language paperback edition of LA COMTESSE SANGLANTE, re-titled to coincide with the release of the Hammer horror film based on Penrose's singular gothic historical fantasia.
Signed limited first US edition of Petterson's novel, a Norwegian best-seller and winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Brage Prize, issued specially for the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series.
Signed first Danish language edition of Piercy's novel about 1960s American revolutionaries, set in the 1980s with flashbacks to the '60s.
Magnificent large, three-volume limited edition of Rabelais, illustrated in full color by De Bosschère.
Uncommon and stylish French edition of the ur-Gothic novel, with the finest paperback cover illustration ever offered to Ann Radcliffe in any language.
First Lion Books edition.