Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First Edition of the Brownjohn translation. Octavo. 227 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Grey and brown boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Unfortunate brown/yellow discoloration to flaps and pastedowns from prior gluing, with light abrasions to..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. Stated First American Edition with full numberline. Quarto; 236 pp. Color and black and white photos throughout. Photo-portrait dust jacket with original $25.00 price intact; book in black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket crisp with very light bumping to top..... More
Bethesda: Private Edition [Decatur Press], 1998. Octavo; 127pp. Celadon paper binding with black lettering on face. Haiku verses printed in three parallel formats: original Japanese script; romanized Japanese; and English. Slight fading to spine. Half-dollar-sized light water mark on back cover; goes through to back couple pages. Textblock clean, square..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Pink and beige boards spine stamped in purple and gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Some staining to boards, more heavily along upper portion of rear panel. Binding is sound but with separation towards top of spine. Previous..... More
London: Collins, 1954. Revised Edition. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with black title square and gilt lettering to front and spine. Octavo; 224pp. Color illustrations throughout. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow chips and tears, along with some scuffs and smudges to surface and some foxing to inner flaps..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1899. Octavo. 163 pages. Frontispiece and decorations by Hallward. Green boards with gilt decoration to front. Modern reback in green cloth and new endpapers. Top edge gilt. Scuffing and staining to boards with exposure to extremities and front joint. More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd; [10],253pp. Long closed slash (from exacto knife?) to front jacket panel not quite touching text, slightly affecting front board, else a Near Fine copy. Signed and..... More
Denver: Chango Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 49 unnumbered pages. Black and white photo reproduction of Neruda. Side-stapled printed wraps. Spanish text with English translation on facing pages of the eighth canto from Neruda's Canto General. Wraps lightly worn along edges with some light foxing and one larger stain..... More
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New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 186 pages. Printed off-white dust jacket with original $5.95 price present; book in off-white boards stamped in black at spine. Jacket shows some toning, rubbing, and general edgewear, but no chips or tears. Toning to edges of boards..... More
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket, black topstain; [10], 139pp. Jacket a bit toned, especially at spine panel; just About Fine in Very Good or better jacket. Short collection by the Austrian novelist and playwright, better known..... More
New York: Urizen Press, 1976. First American Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 92pp. Light chipping and wear to jacket extremities, textblock a shade toned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Bilingual (German-English) poetry collection by the controversial 2019 Austrian Nobel laureate, the upper jacket..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],258pp. Cloth and jacket extremities a bit toned, light shelf wear, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Collection of plays by the..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [10],246pp. Light toning to lighter portions of jacket and cloth spine ends, else Very Good to Near Fine. Novel by the controversial 2019 Austrian Nobel laureate, detailing a man's travels from..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First American Edition, Stated First Printing. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],69pp. Jacket toned, very light spine lean, else Very Good and sound overall. Autobiographical novella composed following the suicide of the author's mother in 1972. Handke..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],243pp. Lighter portions of jacket rather toned, minor shelf wear, else Very Good or better. "A combination of professional notebook and personal diary," by the controversial Austrian 2019 Nobel laureate. More
New York: Isaac Collins and Son, 1801. First Edition. Two Volumes Bound in One. Octavo. 328 p.; 248 p. Contemporary full calf decorated in gilt with red spine label and inset ownership label of Timothy Nostrand, a merchant from New York, on front. Marbled endpapers. Volume one missing..... More
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip..... More
London: Allan Wingate, 1958. First thus. Octavo. 32 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Cornet was one Rilke's more popular titles during his lifetime. The prose poem tells the story of Christoph Rilke and his experiences with love and death as he ventures to Turkey..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1932. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 38 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and gray boards stamped in gilt and red. Cornet was one of the more popular titles of Rilke's during his lifetime. The prose poem tells the story of Christopher Rilke..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1938. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 345 pages. Illustrations "by a fellow prisoner." Black boards stamped in red and gilt. Red topstain. Errata slip. Lacks dust jacket. Text in English. Account of Belbenoit's escape from Devil's Island, a French penal colony in French..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Tall octavo. 314 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows light wear to edges, general smudging and dust soiling, and heavily creased along rear joint but has not worn through. Bookseller..... More
London: Faber & Faber, [1933]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xv,[1],300pp.; photographic frontispiece, fifteen leaves of photographic plates. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, text block rather crudely recased; a Good, if unlovely, reading copy overall... More
Tokyo: Hotel Okura, 1982. Revised Edition. Quarto. 104 pages. Color photographs. Blue cloth boards stamped in silver. Magenta endpapers. Text in English and Japanese. Boards are faded along edges. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Originally published in 1964, shows the influence of indigenous patterns in the architecture..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Stated First Edition. Octavo; xx + 288pp + fold-out storyboard. Black and yellow dust jacket unclipped, but with docked flap corners, as published. Blue-gray cloth with paper title+author panel on spine. Chipping of 1/4" to top and bottom of jacket spine; some jacket..... More