Moment in Peking. A novel of contemporary Chinese life

Lin Yutang / NY: The John Day Co. 1939
first edition, first printing, signed by Lin Yutang on the front free endpaper; 815 pp., original black cloth, very good in a worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 9997412575
Subject/Keywords: china fiction

Item #: 1260187

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$108.72

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Parenthesis. Translated from the French by Louise Varese

Jacques Lemarchand / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1947
first American edition; 217, [1] pp., hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1260181

$14.94

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A. O. Barnabooth: His diary. Translated by Gilbert Cannan

Valery Larbaud / NY: George H. Doran 1924
318 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), fine in a edge-worn and faded dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1260178

$28.74

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Dangerous Acquaintances. Translated by Richard Aldington

Laclos, Choderlos De / New Directions 1957
first New Directions printing; 370 pp., HARDCOVER, very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1260177

$47.15

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The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis / Simon & Schuster 1960
first American edition, first printing; 506 pp., hardcover, top edge very slightly faded, slight bump to the top corner of the text, else very good in a lightly edge-rubbed and darkened dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0671407104
Subject/Keywords: greek literature fiction religion

Item #: 1260058

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$115.67

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The Bernan Affair. Translated from the French by Charles Lam Markemann

Joseph Kessel / St. Martin's Press 1965
first American edition; 298 pp., hardcover, very good in a good dust jacket; the jacket is edge-worn with a stain at the bottom of the spine and rear panel. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1260055

$21.31

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Tides. Translated from the German by Arthur J. Ashton

Edouard von Keyserling / NY: The Macaulay Co. 1929
first American edition; 261 pp., original decorated orange cloth (hardcover), publisher's hand stamp to the front free endpaper, else fine in a lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction german literature

Item #: 1260054

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$105.29

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Ninety-Three. With illustrations from designs by Victor Hugo, Bayard, Brion, Vierge, and other eminent French artists

Hugo, Victor / London: George Routledge and Sons 1889
2 vols., xiii, 260 + xi, 257 pp., original green cloth with printed paper labels to spines, as issued; book plate to each front paste down, else very good. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1260048

$47.35

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The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro, Kazuo / Knopf 1989
first printing of the first American edition; 245 pp., Hardcover, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0394573439
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature

Item #: 1260042

$88.20

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The death of Mr. Baltisberger,

Hrabal, Bohumil. Michael Heim, translator / Doubleday 1975
first American edition; 193 pp., Hardcover, near fine in an slightly edge-rubbed dust jacket; inscribed by the translator at the front free endpaper. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0385006926
Subject/Keywords: czech literature fiction

Item #: 1260035

$29.39

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The Colonel's Photograph

Ionesco, Eugene / Grove Press 1969
first American edition; 177 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good (price-clipped) dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1260029

$22.77

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Eastern Shame Girl

De Morant, George Soulie, Marcel Avond / NY: Privately Printed 1929
183 pp., original mauve cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, spine faded, hand stamp to the front paste down, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction wl2

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Item #: 1258896

$5.91

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The Scarlet Beast

Francis Gerard / Longmans-Green 1935
first American edition; 404 pp., original red cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction wl2

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Item #: 1258744

$15.10

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The Hills Beyond. With a note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell

Wolfe, Thomas / NY: Harper & Brothers 1941
first edition, first printing; vi, 386 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), very good in a worn & tattered dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0060147008
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature wl2

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Item #: 1258739

$4.96

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Dark Horizons #16 (Spring 1977)

Basil Copper, et al. / British Fantasy Society (BFS) 1977
30 pp., original illustrated paper wrappers, near very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: horror fantasy fiction poetry wl2

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Item #: 1258735

$26.20

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Michael Strogoff. The Courier of the Czar. Illustrated with scenes from the Photoplay. A Universal Film de France Production

Verne, Jules / Grosset & Dunlap 1936
315, [1] pp., original green cloth (hardcover), near fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction wl2

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Item #: 1258698

$34.81

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Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator

Luigi Pirandello / E.P. Dutton & Company 1934
Nobel Prize edition; 334 pp., original cloth (hardcover), fine in an chipped and worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature wl2

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Item #: 1258683

$62.62

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The Square Trap

Irving Shulman / Boston: Little, Brown 1953
first edition, first printing; 374 pp., hardcover, edges lightly foxed, else very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: boxing fiction wl2

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Item #: 1258679

$4.91

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III tragedies: Blood wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba

Garciƌ?a Lorca, Federico / New Directions 1947
378 pp., Hardcover, near fine in a tattered dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature

Item #: 1257456

$9.86

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The General In His Labyrinth

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman / Alfred A. Knopf 1990
first American edition, first printing; 285 pp., Hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0394582586
Subject/Keywords: latin American literature fiction

Item #: 1257455

$9.09

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