European Literature from High Park Books

Bristol, Indiana: Wyndham Hall Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good+. Synoptically arranged with contemporary translations. With introductions and commentary by Albert K. Wimmer and W.T.H. Jackson. English & German text. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. 531 pages. Due to size & weight, extra shipping WILL be required. Please contact us by… Read more about this item

Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1982. 1st Printing. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A version of Les Chimieres by Gerard de Nerval. by the influential Irish poet, writer / translator / interpretor (1941 - 2020). … Read more about this item

Dublin, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A transformation - reinterpretation of Moliere's The School for Husbands by the immensely influential Irish writer / translator / interpretor (1941 - 2020). Published simultaneously in hard & soft cover. White blank soft cover… Read more about this item

Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A transformation - reinterpretation by the immensely influential Irish writer / translator / interpretor (1941 - 2020). Published simultaneously in hard & soft cover. Grey glossy illustrated covers protected in archival sheath.… Read more about this item

London / Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland : Viking / Gallery, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Selected Poetry by the immensely influential Irish writer / translator / interpretor (1941 - 2020). Published in association with Oxford University Press. Viking ISBN - 0670835757 Printing states 3 5 7 9 10 8 6… Read more about this item

Toront / ottawa / new york: Legas, 1998. Trade Paperback. Near Fine +. Series - Italian Theatre in Translation. Two plays by the Italian professor, dramatist & novelist. With intro by Santeramo, who is a Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) Cultural studies / Italian Theatre & literature professor. Postscript to Words in the Dark… Read more about this item

New York: Twayne Publishing, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. A critical analysis of the Russian poet / novelist's works detailing his struggle against governmental control of man's individuality. The author (1918 - 1998) was a University of Waterloo Professor of German & Russian. (Twayne World Authors Series No. 225). Red boards with gilt… Read more about this item

Frankfurt, Germany: Edition Fischer im R.G. Fischer Verlag, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 352 pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Please do not order this book outside Canada without contacting us first by email to determine extra shipping costs. Slight corner wear. Clean, tight & unmarked.

1929. Presumed First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. (While respite: Chapters of the ways). Brown, decorative, embossed boards with decorative endpages. Czechoslovakian (Bohemian) poet, writer, collector of fairy tales and Catholic priest (1869 - 1925). Illustrated inside front page. 299 pages 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Minor rubbing to corners. Scarce. … Read more about this item

Vilnius, Lithuania: Vaga, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine -/Very Good. (ROMANAS) - In the Shadow of Altars. A psychological intellectual novel - by the Lithuanian poet, novelist, playwright, critic and literary scholar (1893-1967) - about the internal conflict for a man trained as a priest but who yearns to be a poet. Cream boards with red and gilt lettering… Read more about this item

Budapest: Szepirodalmi Konyvkiado, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine +. Volume 2 of a 2-volume collection of poetry by Sándor Petofi who was a Hungarian poet (1823 - 1849) and liberal revolutionary. Considered Hungary's national poet, he one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Although never proven, he is thought to have died in one… Read more about this item

Bratislava, Slovakia: Slovensky Spisovatel, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine +/Very Good+. Kruh Milovnikov Poe?zie. poetry by the Slovak poet, novelist , essayist, translator & children's writer (1943 - ). Slovak test. Beige cloth boards with brown type on spine & front. 143pp. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscription by Sedlak,… Read more about this item

Montpellier, France: Paul Valéry Universit, 1991. Trade Paperback. Very Good. (Mixtures on the realities of the ancient theater, archeology, epigraphy, anthropology, literature). Volume 6 of Cahiers du GITA. French language text. Clean hite card covers with B&W photo on cover. 243 pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unfortunate bumping to spine… Read more about this item

Edinburgh, UK: Canongate Books, 2002. First English Edition . Fine/Near Fine -. Well-researched fictional portrait of Rembrandt's servant / mistress for the last 20 years of his life. First published in France in 1997. Translated from French by Tamsin Black. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very slight wear at upper… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A poor 12-year old boy from the city sent to the Danish coast to be a summer boy at a seaside resort and finds a coffin of a young sailor on the shore. Translated from Danish by Barbara Haveland. 308pp. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Kiev, Ukraine (U.S.S.R.): Naukova Dum, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cyrillic text publication from the 1986 Kiev symposium on the Ukrainian poet (1856 - 1916), writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language. 2 hardcover set consisting of… Read more about this item

Toronto: Daugavas Vanags, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine +. Stories by the Latvian writer (1907 - 1965), believed to live in Argentina. Latvian text. Intro by Edwards Keiss. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine & front, gilt illustration on front. 599pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Extra shipping will be… Read more about this item

Tartu, Estonia: ILLAMA, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good+. Popular Estonian author & playwright (1887 - 1953) who wrote about the peasant's and laborer's life under the Czarist and German eras. Kevade (Spring) was his first book (1912) and is commonly considered his most successful and a national classic. His humour and sentimentality has drawn comparison with Charles… Read more about this item

Cork Ireland.: Mercier Press. Near Fine +. Five stories of Irish women who were unusual in a variety of ways - mostly because of their ruthlessness, political cunning or merely because they rebelled violently against the repressive mores of their times. 142 pages with B&W illustrations by the celebrated authorr of adult and children stories. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Czech Republic: Melantrich, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine -. Adam Jist. Czech language collection of Czech and Slovak folktales, castles and legends. Pictorial hardcover with white, pictorial dust jacket. 383pp. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with B&W illustrations. Clean dust jacket has minor wear on upper edge. Scarce. Extra shipping… Read more about this item