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Beowulf
This ed. of this translation originally published: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the Old English.
Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the Old English.
The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
MARGUERITE DURAS is the author of many acclaimed novels and screenplays, including The Lover, The Ravishing of Lol Stein, and the film script for Hiroshima, Mon Amour. One of France's most important literary figures, Duras died in Paris in 1996.
The Museum Of Innocence
by Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. He lives in Istanbul.
Translations Books & Ephemera
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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€9.89
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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€6.18
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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€14.21
A Woman's Soul (Une Vie, 1883). Translated into English by Henry Blanchamp
by Maupassant, Guy De
London: Greening & Co, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Lotus Library: Greening & Co., 1907. Frontispiece of author. Title page printed and decorated in black and red. Original blindstamped violet cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. Maupassant's first novel. The second translation: Vizetelly had published the first under the title A Woman's Life in 1888..
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€14.21
The Fool in Christ Emanuel Quint (Original German title: Der Narr in Christo Emanuel Quint, 1910)
by Hauptmann, Gerhart (translated by Thomas Seltzer)
London: Methuen & Co., 1912. Book. Good. Hardcover. First English Edition.. Undated first edition, with publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1912, announcing this tile, at end. Published in English the same year that Hauptmann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Small nicks at foot of spine, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, a little light foxing, good+.
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€23.68
![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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€35.52
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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€253.69
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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€6.18
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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€106.97
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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€28.40
Twilight in Late Spring: Selected Poems of Imsong Lee
by LEE, Imsong
Open Munyae, 2005. hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ jacket. Some light wear to corners and bottom board edges; some wear to head and foot of spine; some duststaining to top edge of pages. Jacket with wear to edges and corners; some creasing/small tears to edges of panels; sunning to spine panel; front panel with .25"x1" section torn off near spine head. Text in Korean and English. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper.
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€18.93
The Annals of Roger De Hoveden Comprising the History of England and of Other Countries of Europe Fro A.D. 732 to A.D. 1201. Volume 1 only
by RILEY, Henry T [translator and notes]
London: H.G. Bohn, 1853. hardcover. Poor. Hardcover, no jacket. Poor. Wear and bumping to corners exposing cardboard; spine panel missing, exposing binding; boards almost completely separated from text; some foxing to edges of pages; dust staining to top edge of pages; pages browned; some foxing to margins of pages; some penciled underlining to text.
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€37.86
Suns of Darkness
by SALVATORE, Filippo
Montreal: Guernica Editions, 1980. Paperback. Very Good-. Paperback. Very Good-. some small coffee stain flecks to front cover; some age toning to covers; pages yellowing; some sunning to spine; some rubbing/darkening to back cover.
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€18.93
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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€7.42
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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€6.18
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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€7.42
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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€4.94
The Art of Joy
by Goliarda Sapienza
2014 Penguin, Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, Preface by Angelo Pellegrino // Gentle wear along edges, Light crease along spine // 685 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 34mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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€8.65
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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€12.36
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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€11.84
Russian Short Stories
1997 Folio Society, Some translated into the English by women translators such as Vera Volkhovsky, Louise Maude, R.S. Townsend, Liv Tudge, Emily Jakewleff, Dora B. Montefiore, Mirra Ginsburg, and Maria Gordon// Minor wear on slipcase, Light marks on top page edges, In otherwise excellent condition// A collection of classic Russian short stories (see pictures for full list) // 383 pages, 240mm x 163mm x 37mm//100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
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€12.36
![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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€35.52
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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€7.42
![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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€35.52
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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€75,728.00
