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$25.00NY: Dutton, 1964. First edition. xxxv + 406 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some toning to spine and a small mark to front panel. Neat previous owner’s name inked inside the front gutter. Cover art by Milton Glaser. Translations from the original French by Benedikt and Wellwarth, with Benedikt’s introduction.$35.00London: Secker & Warburg (1963). First UK edition. 191 pp. Top edge dusty, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Ralph Manheim. Young 281*.$20.00London: Harvill/Secker (2012). First UK edition. 257 pp. Very slight lean to spine, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Sam Taylor.$45.00Athens: Ohio University Press (1990). First edition. 295 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear. Original French poems with facing English translations by Galway Kinnell and Richard Pevear. SIGNED by Kinnell on the title page.
$40.00London: MPT Books, 2000. First UK edition. 218 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Original French poems preceded by Rudolf’s English translations. INSCRIBED by Rudolf to R.B. Kitaj, “K. / love / A /Oct. 2000 / (letter follows).$20.00Athens: Ohio University Press (1994). First US edition. 71 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Original poems in French with facing translations by Edouard Roditi.$25.00San Francisco: City Light Books, 1997. First printing of this edition. xix + 356 pp. Touch of soiling to top edge, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with light sunning to spine. Translated from the original French by Mark Polizzotti, with his introduction.$35.00Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004. First US edition. 16mo. 184 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Zack Rogow with an introduction by Anna Balakian. Green Integer 96.$50.00Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press (1987). First printing of this edition. xvii + 129 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Translated from the original French by Mary Ann Caws, with her introduction. Review slip laid in.$125.00London & NY: Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1970. First US edition. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Bumps to upper corners, inked owner’s name to first leaf. In all, very good plus in like dust jacket with a few short tears along top edge, and some trivial soiling. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$20.00London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969. First UK trade paperback printing. Small 4to. [64 pp]. Wrinkle to top edge of front cover, two small stains to rear panel. In all, very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Breton’s original French text with facing English translation by Kenneth White, who also contributed an introduction.$25.00Berkeley: University of California (2003). First trade paperback printing. 176 pp w/selected bibliography. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Edited, with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti. All texts in English translation.$1,000.00NY: View Editions, 1946. First US edition. [56 pp]. Wear along the extrems, else very good plus in like dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, two edge tears, and slight loss to tips of flap folds. Cover art by Marcel Duchamp. Internal drawings by Arshile Gorky. Original French poems with facing English translations by Edouard Roditi.
$350.00London: Gollancz (1965). First UK edition. 192 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. Though not credited, the Burgesses translated this novel, which won the Le Prix International du Premier Roman. Uncommon.
$125.00Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. First US edition. 423 pp w/notes, bibliography, & index. Small publisher’s sticker inside front board, else fine in full black cloth with yellow stamping to spine and front panel. No dust jacket, as issued. Edited by Claudine Frank, with her introduction. Translated from the original French by Frank and Camille Naish.$150.00NY: Clarkson N. Potter (1964). First US edition. 127 pp. Slight lean to spine, toning to extrems, else near fine in like dust jacket with a short tear and light edgewear. Translated from the original French by George Ordish.
$35.00NY: Knopf, 1972. First US edition. 192 pp w/notes & variants. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Afterword and Notes by Jean Sarocchi. His first novel, composed c. 1936-1938. Cahiers Albert Camus I.$35.00NY: Knopf, 1961. First US edition. 272 pp. Some light offsetting along base of front free and fixed endpapers, else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is toned along the upper third. Translated from the original French by Justin O’Brien.$25.00Normal: Dalkey Archive (1995). Advance excerpt. Fine in printed yellow wrappers. Translated from the French by Dominic Di Bernardi. Celine's last major work to be translated into English. Printed exclusively for Borders Inc is emblazoned across the top of this copy, and a letter from Dalkey to Borders Booksellers on the front panel.$125.00NY: Delacorte (1972). Uncorrected proof. Narrow small 4to. 301 pp. A few light stains to front cover, two gentle reading creases to spine; in all, very good plus in printed red wrappers. Translated from the original French by Ralph Manheim (though not credited in the proof).$15.00NY: New Directions (1962). First printing of this trade paperback edition. x + 273 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Edited by Walter Albert with his critical introduction. Preface by Henry Miller$50.00NY: Random House (1956). First edition. 279 pp. Near fine in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with several edge tears, wrinkles to the front panel, and edgewear. Texts in the original French, edited and translated by Jackson Matthews with William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, William Jay Smith, Barbara Howes, W.S. Merwin, and James Wright.$75.00NY: Sun, 1979. Second revised and corrected edition. x +163 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Edited and translated from the original French by Irving Weiss, with his introduction.$45.00NY: Macaulay (1956). First US edition. 88 pp. Pages browned (acidic paper), else near fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed overall. Preface and illustrations by Cocteau. Young 709* (uk ed).$35.00Bethlehem: Quarter Press [c 1976]. First printing of this edition. [24 pp]. Light toning to spine, foxing to rear panel, else very good in wrappers. Translated from the original French by Jack Hirschman, with his introduction. Dated (June ‘76) and INSCRIBED by Hirschman.$20.00Annandale-on-Hudson: QRL, 1964. First US edition. [82 pp]. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Entire issue of The Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. XII, No. 4, devoted to this work by Cocteau. Translated from the original French by Arno Karlen.$25.00Oakland: O Books (1976). First edition. 125 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Norma Cole.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First paperback printing. 46 pp. Fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover and spine labels. Teo Savory’s English translations of these poems, followed by the original French works.$25.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First trade paperback printing. 190 pp. Foxing to top edge, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing.$250.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, publisher’s copy. 190 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Cossery.
$1,250.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press (1996). First edition. 4to. 32 pp. Fine loose sheets laid into printed wrappers. Very near fine publisher’s silkbound clamshell box with printed spine label. The original French poem with a facing English translation by Keith Waldrop. Illustrated with two hand-colored soft ground etchings by Jonathan Hammer. Portrait of Crevel by George Platt Lynes, printed by photogravure and laid into the text. One of 30 numbered copies on Somerset paper SIGNED by Hammer. Original prospectus accompanies.$20.00San Francisco: North Point, 1985. First US edition. 169 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with sunning to red spine lettering. Translated with an introduction by Kay Boyle. Illustrated by Max Ernst.