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  • JACCOTTET, Philippe.
    $17.50
    NY: New Directions (1977). First US edition. 60 p. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is toned at the extrems. Translated from the original French by André Lefevere (prose) and Michael Hamburger (verse). Review slip laid in.
  • JACOB, Max and Larry Fagin.
    $45.00
    [Brooklyn]: Cuneiform Press (2008). First edition. Single sheet folded twice to make a booklet (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. Jacob’s poem in French, Fagin’s version in English. SIGNED by Fagin on the rear cover.
  • JACOB, Max.
    $250.00
    Berkeley: Thyrsus Press, 2018. First edition. [46 pp]. Fine in half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Translated from the original French by Alastair Johnston. Thirty-three selected poems with 32 original illustrations by Jinny Pearce. Printed letterpress and hand bound. One of 135 numbered copies SIGNED by Johnston and Pearce. New, at publication price:
  • JAMMES, Francis.
    $20.00
    Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Poems in English translation by Teo Savory, followed by the original French versions.
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    JARRY, Alfred.
    $350.00
    London: Gaberbocchus Press (1951). First UK edition. [184 pp]. Fine in very good dust jacket with a large chip to the front panel, splits to the spine, loss to base and crown, and chips and loss to flap folds. Translated from the original French by Barbara Wright, with her introduction. Two portraits of Jarry by L. Lantier and F.A. Cazals. Several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard printed in red on grey paper. Two hundred and four drawings by Franciszka Themerson “doodled on litho pates and printed in black on yellow paper.” The volume is concluded by THE SONG OF THE DISEMBRAINING by Jarry, translated by Wright.
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    JULLIAN, Philippe.
    $25.00
    NY: Viking (1970). First US edition. 246 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Translated from the original French by John Haylock. Young 2052.
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    KESSEL, Joseph.
    $25.00
    London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959. First UK edition. 207 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Peter Green.
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    KHAïR-EDDINE, Mohammed.
    $15.00
    Los Angeles: Seeing Eye Books, 2006. First edition. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Original French poems with facing English translations by Guy Bennett. Seeing Eye Books Series 10, Book III.
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    KINNELL, Galway. trans. Villon, Francois.
    $55.00
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First trade paperback printing. 246 pp w/notes & selected bibliography. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Original poems in French, with facing translations and notes by Kinnell. Dated (Sacramento / August 29, 1983) and INSCRIBED by Kinnell.
  • KLOSSOWSKI, Pierre.
    $75.00
    Boston: Eridanos Press (1990). First US edition. iv + 139 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkes. Ericanos Press Library No. 19.
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    L'ANSELME, Jean.
    $20.00
    London: Rapp & Carroll (1967). First edition. 47 pp. Top edge lightly foxed, else near fine in very good dust jacket that is rubbed. Translations by Michael Benedikt, with his introduction.
  • L’ISLA ADAM, Villiers de.
    $500.00
    Sherman Oaks: D’Ambrosio, 1992. First edition. 23 pp. Very near fine in a “book-in-a-box” modular binding. Introduction by Patrick Magarick. One of 75 numbered copies on handmade “Misty Rose” paper SIGNED by D’Ambrosio. A short story by this French Symbolist, contemporary of Maupassant and Huysmans. Original prospectus accompanies.
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    LANG, Monique.
    $27.50
    NY: Criterion Books (1960). First US edition. 90 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Richard Howard. Young 2232*.
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    LARBAUD, Valery.
    $12.50
    Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, 1994. First printing of this edition (originally published in in 1918 by Editions Gallimard). 201 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with a small corner crease to the front cover. Translated from the original French by Catherine Wald. Sun & Moon Classics 19.
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    LAUDE, Jean.
    $55.00
    San Francisco: Kosmos, 1984. First edition. 57 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle to front panel and some wear to crown of spine. Original French poems with facing translations by David Clutier. INSCRIBED by Cloutier on the title page.
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    LAUZUN, Duc De.
    $32.50
    NY: Brentano’s (1928). First printing of this US edition. 253 pp w/notes. Very good plus in full cloth. No dust jacket. Translated from the original French with an appendix by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Introduction by Richard Aldington and notes by G. Rutherford.
  • LEIRIS, Michel.
    $45.00
    London: Atlas Press (1990). First UK edition. 174 pp w/notes. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Anna Warby, with her introduction. Leiris completed this novel c. 1928/9, but did not publish until 1946, shortly after joining Jean Paul Sartre on the editorial board of Les Temps Modernes.
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    LEIRIS, Michel.
    $20.00
    Berkeley: North Point 1990. Uncorrected proof. 266 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the French by Lydia Davis.
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    LEIRIS, Michel.
    $20.00
    Paris: Unesco (1965). Sixth impression. 44 pp w/bibliography. Very good plus in printed wrappers with light toning to spine and extrems, and a touch of foxing to the fore-edge.
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    LEVERTOV, Denise. trans. Joubert, Jean.
    $20.00
    Cambridge: Zoland Books (1990). First US edition. 63 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Michel Gay.
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    LOTRINGER, Sylvère and Paul Virilio.
    $15.00
    Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) (2005). First US edition. 119 pp w/notes & index. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Translated from the original French by Michael Taormina.
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    LYOTARD, Jean-Francois and Sam Francis.
    $75.00
    Venice: Lapis Press (1993). First edition. Folio. [94 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issue. Text by Lyotard, translated from the original French by Geoffrey Bennington, amongst color paintings by Francis. Seven fold-out plates.
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    MABILLE, Pierre.
    $20.00
    Rochester: Inner Traditions (1998). First printing of this edition. xv + 303 pp. Narrow band of discoloration to recto of last leaf, else fine in fine dust jacket. Preface by André Breton. Translated from the original French by Jody Gladding.
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    MALLARMÉ, Stéphane.
    $35.00
    Tucson: Ironwood Press (1981). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. The original French poem followed by Carruth’s English translation, along with his prelude, and postlude. One of 35 numbered copies SIGNED by Carruth.
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    MALLET-JORIS, Francoise.
    $30.00
    NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1971). First US edition. 250 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Translated from the original French by Derek Coltman.
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    MALRAUX, André.
    $50.00
    NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1929). First US edition. 270 pp. Small spot to front interior hinge, else near fine in full maroon cloth with gold stamping to spine. Lacks dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Winifred Stephens Whale.
  • MANSOUR, Joyce.
    $45.00
    Cherry Valley: Cherry Valley Editions (1978). First edition. 107 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Front and rear cover collages by Claude Pelieu-Washburn. Translated from the original French by Mary Beach.
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    MARITAIN, Jacques.
    $125.00
    NY: Scribner’s, 1941. First US edition. xii + 322 pp w/index of names. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chipping to crown, four short edge tears, and some wear along the top edge of the rear panel. Translated from the original French by Harry Lorin Binsse.
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    MARTEAU, Robert.
    $25.00
    Princeton: Princeton University Press (1979). First edition. ix + 115 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly sunned along the spine and top edge. Original French poems with facing English translations by Anne Winters.
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    MATTHEWS, J.H.
    $25.00
    Berkeley: University of California (1975). First edition. xii + 318 pp w/works cited. Light wear to fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Matthews, with his introduction. Work by Arrabal, Carrington, Lebel, Mansour, Péret, and many others.
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    MAURIAC, Francois.
    $15.00
    NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy (1961). First US edition. 185 pp. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with one 2 in closed tear. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins.
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    MERWIN, W.S. trans & ed. Follain, Jean.
    $65.00
    NY: Atheneum, 1969. First edition. 127 pp. Fine in very near fine fragile dust jacket with a single short closed tear.