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Early US edition of Tolstoy's immense panoramic novel of love and trains.
Early US edition of Tolstoy's immense panoramic novel of love and trains.
Scarce uncorrected proof of the first US edition, originally published in French in 1982.
Limited first English-language edition of Green's Poe-like nested narrative of a student's psychological disintegration.
First printing of this scarce anthology of classic American short fiction in Polish translation, with cover art by midcentury poster designer Marian Stachurski.
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.
First US edition of this collection of short stories by the Russian Symbolist and fin de siècle writer.
First US edition, trade hardcover issue, of this acclaimed and controversial novel by the trailblazing Nouveau Roman author.
Signed limited first edition of the author's own translation of his short novel.
Signed first Danish language edition of Piercy's novel about 1960s American revolutionaries, set in the 1980s with flashbacks to the '60s.
First UK edition of Tolstoy's masterpiece, in a spectacular artist's binding by the late Derek Hood.
Rare first complete English edition of the classic swashbuckling adventure.
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.
First edition in English of one of the great novels of the 19th century, an exceptionally fresh and bright set.
Lovely three-volume pocket edition of Dryden's translation of the AENEID, ECOLOGUES, and GEORGICS, printed by the famed Scottish Enlightenment printers, the Foulis brothers.
First US edition of these bleak posthumously published stories by the Belgian Symbolist poet and anarchist, illustrated with Masereel's stark woodcuts.
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.
First US edition of the first volume of Knausgaard's unaccountably compelling and internationally successful six-volume work of autofiction.
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.
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.
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 edition, a very nice copy of this collection of writings by the Polish author, translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter.
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.
Advance uncorrected proof copy of Fuentes's short story collection, with review materials laid in.
First edition of these collected essays, translated by Raymond Rosenthal and published shortly after Levi's death.
Uncorrected proof of the first US edition, the second book of the neo-noir Marseilles Trilogy beginning with TOTAL CHAOS.