Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane / NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1982
first American edition, first printing; 374 pp., Hardcover, fine in a faded dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0374106916
Subject/Keywords: Latin American literature fiction

Item #: 1276041

$13.31

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The Snake's Pass (Harper's Franklin Square Library)

Stoker, Bram / NY: Harper & Brothers 1890
first American edition; 234, [2] (ads) pp., original printed green paper wrappers, covers worn and moderately soiled, good only; Dalby 5(b). Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1274967

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$318.31

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Stronger Than Death: Short Stories of the Russians at War

Giacomo Patri, illustrator / San Francisco: American Russian Institute 1944
limited to 1500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press; 81, [1] pp., original boards with jacket attached at the spine, as issued; very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: world war II russia fiction

Item #: 1274964

$19.60

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As a Man Grows Older

Italo Svevo. Beryl de Zoete, Stanislaus Joyce, Edouard Roditi / New Directions 1949
245 pp., original mauve cloth (hardcover), very good in an edge-rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket; jacket by Lustig & Connor. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1274962

$44.88

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The Life of Henri Brulard

Stendhal / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1939
361, [2] pp., hardcover, fine in a very good, spine-faded, dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1274961

$24.04

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Dialogues des Courtisanes. Traduction nouvelle de Georges Eudes. Gravures et ornements de Dan Sigros

Lucien / Paris: Editions du Mouflon 1946
limited to 475 copies on velin du Marais, this being copy #511; 141, [1] pp., plates; original printed paper wrappers, fine in a very good two-piece cloth covered board slipcase. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: erotic literature fiction art

Item #: 1274959

$34.67

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Confessions of Zeno

Italo Svevo. Beryl de Zoete, translator / Alfred A. Knopf 1930
first printing of the first American edition; 406 pp., original black cloth (hardcover), fine in a good dust jacket; the jacket is edge-worn and browned. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: italian literature fiction

Item #: 1274956

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$219.38

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The Hoax. Translated...with an introduction by Beryl de Zoete

Svevo, Italo / London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1929
limited to 1000 copies; 151 pp., original red & black cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, small discoloration spot to the front cover, spine label faded, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature

Item #: 1274955

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$212.69

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The Pearl: A Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading (Library of Erotic Classics)

/ Library of Erotic Classics 1998
643 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: erotic literature fiction fbf

Item #: 1274952

$9.85

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My Secret Life - Part One (Vols. I and II)

Annonymous / Library of Erotic Classics 1998
421 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0965066215
Subject/Keywords: erotic literature fiction fbf

Item #: 1274951

$5.14

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She's Come Undone

Lamb, Wally / Atria 1997
first edition, first printing; 480 pp., Hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0671014730
Subject/Keywords: fiction fbf

Item #: 1274949

$7.00

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The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour (Tartarian Tales)

Leonard C. Smithers, editor / London: H. S. Nichols 1893
limited to 75 copies on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper; viii, 308 pp., rebound in 1920s marbled boards with the original onion-skin wrappers bound in at back, albeit the front wrappers is tattered; covers rubbed, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1274381

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$250.12

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Maigret's Rival

Simenon, Georges / London: Hamish Hamilton 1979
first British edition; 154 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0241101123
Subject/Keywords: detective fiction

Item #: 1273979

$18.85

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The snow was black

Simenon, Georges / Prentice-Hall 1950
first American edition; 246 pp., Hardcover, old discoloration to the black cloth covers, else good in a worn (price-clipped) dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: detective fiction

Item #: 1273977

$62.83

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Blind Alley

Simenon, Georges / NY: Reynal and Hitchcock 1946
first American edition; 207 pp., Hardcover, fine in a worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: detective fiction

Item #: 1273975

$16.68

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Maigret in Court

Georges Simenon / London: Hamish Hamilton 1961
first impression of the first British edition; 192 pp., Hardcover, fine in a worn (price-clipped) dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 9998957109
Subject/Keywords: detective fiction

Item #: 1273974

$52.75

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The Last of the Just

Andre Schwarz-Bart / London: Secker and Warburg 1961
first British edition; 374 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0436444003
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1273968

$13.70

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Fraulein Else. With drawings by Donia Nachshen

Arthur Schnitzler / Constable: London 1929
first British edition, limited to 1000 copies; 158 pp., plates; original cloth covered boards & paper backstrip (hardcover), previous owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, spine chipped, else internally clean and tight. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1273967

$20.62

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Rhapsody: A dream novel. With illustrations by Donia Nachshen

Schnitzler, Arthur / London: Constable 1928
first British edition, limited to 1000 copies; 191, [1] pp., plates; original batik boards, edges worn, else internally clean and tight; basis for the Stanley Kubrik film "Eyes Wide Shut". Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction erotic literature

Item #: 1273966

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$172.40

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Good Comrades

Felix Salten / The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1942
first American edition; 251 pp., Hardcover, fine in an edge-rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1270505

$14.78

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