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	BOSLEY, KEITH (GENERAL EDITOR). Poetry of Asia: Five Milleniums of Verse from Thirty-Three Languages. New York: Weatherhill 1979. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.5 inches tall) 315 pages. Capsule biographies of contributors, sources, appendix. map endpapers. Description: A selection of Oriental poetry in English translation, ranging over five millenniums. The book is organized by original language, each section is edited and introduced separately. BINDING/CONDITION: orange boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-8348-0139-6 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 055006 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	CHARLES-ROUX, EDMONDE; TRANSLATED BY HELEN EUSTIS. To Forget Palermo. New York: Delacorte Press 1968. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 304 pages. red endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. A Prix Goncourt Award winning novel. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Very Good+ book with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is faded at the spine and is priced clipped. ISBN: B0006BTXR4 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 008587 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	CHEKHOV, ANTON; EDITED BY G A BIRKETT AND GLEB STRUVE. Anton Chekhov: Selected Short Stories (Oxford Russian Readers). London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1955. 2nd Printing. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) 235 pages. Description: Other than the introduction, the text is entirely in Russian. End material (pages 125-235) includes: Notes; Selected Idioms and Difficult Constructions; and a Vocabulary. This was originally published in 1951. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue cloth with gilt spine text; much pencil marking on three pages, the cloth is clean, with good color, some discoloration to the endpapers, damp stain to the text edge; Fair condition; the dust jacket has damp stains, otherwise Good; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000KW105C USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1075] Book number: 054687 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SHUSAKU ENDO; TRANSLATED BY VAN C GESSEL. Scandal. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1988. 1st U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 261 pages. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-396-09320-5 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 056568 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	GREEN, ELMAR (ALEXANDER VASILYEVICH YAKIMOV). Wind From the South. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1950. Hardbound 16mo (6.5 inches tall) 291 pages. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art not credited. Includes a frontis portrait plate. Three small b&w illustrations (title page, first and last pages). The title page is printed in blue and black. The date is printed only on the title page. Designed by A Radishchev. During the Great Patriotic War (WWII) Elmar Green served as a private, then as the commander of a signals platoon and later as war correspondent for divisional and army newspapers. This novel concerns two Finnish brothers who fought on different sides during the war. ''Stalin Prize Novel / 1946'' is printed on a preliminary page. BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with gilt and light green text; a very faint damp stain affects the lower corner of a few pages, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. Ink number stamped on the last page. ISBN: B000BD6ZUU USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 057105 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HEIN, CHRISTOPHER; TRANSLATED BY PHILIP BOEHM. The Tango Player. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1992. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.75 inches tall) 219 pages. Description: This is an English translation of Der Tangospieler, which was published in 1989. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped, however the extreme bottom corner on the rear flap is clipped. ISBN: 0-374-27252-2 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 055679 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	IGGULDEN, JOHN. The Clouded Sky. New York: Macmillan 1964. 1st Printing, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 438 pages. mustard color endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Leo Manso. The author was an Australian national gliding champion. This novel was his first to be sold in America. About 8.25 inches tall, 438 pages, mustard color endpapers. BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with black and gilt on the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. The dust jacket is darkened at the spine. ISBN: B0007E68M8 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 010723 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	JIMÉNEZ, JUAN RAMÓN; TRANSLATED BY ELOISE ROACH. Platero and I. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press 1963. 6th Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 218 pages. Description: Illustrated with b&w drawings by Jo Alys Downs. The first English translation of the Nobel Prize Winner's book about life in the remote Spanish town of Moguer. This translation was originally published in 1957; this is a sixth printing. BINDING/CONDITION: olive-gray cloth with black and silver on the spine and on a front cover vignette, top color is a lighter shade than the cloth; the top corners are lightly bumped, otherwise the book is Very Good+, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: B000JD1CTQ USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 001592 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	LIEPMANN, HEINZ; TRANSLATED BY A LYNTON HUDSON. Nights of an Old Child. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott 1937. Hardbound 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 260 pages. light gray endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by [Richard] Floethe. This was the author's first novel, and was completed in 1928. The novel was based on the author's diary and was intended only for himself and a few friends. Shortly after finishing the book, Liepmann left Germany; in his absence a friend had the book published. When Liepmann discovered this, he asked the publisher to withdraw the book, but it had already become a great success. Since the day Hitler first came into power, Liepmann worked within Germany against Hitler. He was sent to a concentration camp and seriously injured by his beatings. He escaped and eventually reached France. At the time of the publication of this U.S. edition, he was still working against Hitler from his headquarters in London. An autobiographical novel based on the author's early years growing up in Germany during the privation years following World War I, and his experiences after voyaging as a stowaway to New York, working as a waiter in speakeasies, and then returning to Germany. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with silver text and decoration; the spine is slightly slanted, a spot (about the size of a fifty cent piece) on the bottom of the spine (which corresponds to a chip on the jacket) is badly faded; owner's name, otherwise Good; with a Poor dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000MVR58M USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 055683 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Marie-Magdeleine: Drame en Trois Actes. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1913. Hardbound about 180 centimeters tall (7.5 inches) x 118 centimeters (4.75 inches). 180 pages. Description: This is a volume from a uniformly bound set: Ouvrages de [Works of] Maurice Maeterlinck. CinquiÃ¨me Mille. ReprÃ©sentÃ© pour la premiÃ¨re fois au Casino municipal de Nice, le 18 mars 1913 et Ã¡ Paris, sur le ThÃ©Ã¢tre du ChÃ¢telet, le 28 mai 1913. This is entirely in French. The reverse side of the front free endpaper (in extremely tiny print), states: ''Bound Expressly for Raphael Weill Co. Inc, San Francisco''. BINDING/CONDITION: marbled paper covered boards half bound with bonded leather, five raised spine bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; owner's name (writ small); the paper is browning, otherwise Very Good+. ISBN: B00189K6WE USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 019588 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	ADELINE YEN MAH. A Thousand Pieces of Gold: My Discovery of China's Character in Its Proverbs. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco 2002. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 251 pages. Bibliography, list of proverbs. illustrated endpapers. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. Includes a pronunciation guide. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-06-000639-0 USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 049399 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MORAVIA, ALBERTO; TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WEAVER. 1934. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1983. 1st U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 297 pages. Description: This was originally published in Italy in 1982. This is a first printing of the first American edition. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; faint, tiny speckle stains on the top edge of the text block, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-374-22254-1 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 054995 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	PALMER, C EVERARD. Big Doc Bitteroot. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1968. 1st American Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8 inches tall) 157 pages. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Allan Eitzen. A novel set in Jamaica, by a Jamaican author. Kendal was just an ordinary Jamaican village until Doc came rolling into town. Doc, the quack and great showman, and Nathan Berwick, the community leader DON'T hit it off well. BINDING/CONDITION: dark pink cloth; the book and dust jacket are both Very Good, the panoramic dust jacket art is bright -- the jacket is not chipped, but does show very light general handling soil; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006C2V7W USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1075] Book number: 012897 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	PINGWA, JIA; TRANSLATED BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT. Turbulence. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press 1991. 1st English Edition, First Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 507 pages. gray endpapers. Description: This novel was the winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. This prize is given for works that would not ordinarily have been translated into English. Originally copyrighted in 1987; this is the first printing of the first English translation. BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth; the spine is slightly slanted, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: 0-8071-1687-4 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 018686 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SARAMAGO, JOSÃ‰; TRANSLATED BY GIOVANNI PONTIERO AND MARGARET JULL COSTA. Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ; Blindness (3-in-1 edition). New York: Quality Paperback Book Club 1999. Book Club Edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 1044 pages. Description: Cover art by Dafna Mordecai. An omnibus edition, containing the complete texts of Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ; and Blindness. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Good condition. ISBN: 0-965-07967-8 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 057014 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER [ALEKSANDR]; TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY. August 1914. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1972. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 622 pages. map endpapers. Description: The rear flap of the dust jacket features a drawing of the author done by Karl W Stuecklen. BINDING/CONDITION: orange cloth; a Very Good+ book with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-374-10684-3 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 011377 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TISMA, ALEKSANDAR; TRANSLATED BY RICHARD WILLIAMS. Kapo. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company 1993. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 294 pages. Description: This was originally published in 1987; this English translation copyright 1993. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-15-146693-9 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 602] Book number: 056570 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	VETOHKIN, YURI; TRANSLATED BY ALISON RICE. Inclined to Escape. San Diego, California: Self Published 1986. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) 493 pages. Reference page and contents at rear. Description: This copy is Signed by the author. The signature is dated, but in a different hand (or at least with a different pen). Includes a few b&w illustrations. BINDING/CONDITION: navy boards with gilt text; apparently a news clipping was laid in and has browned spots on the front endpapers, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. ISBN: B001JPQCVG USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 056272 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TSAO HSUEH-CHIN AND KAO NGO; TRANSLATED BY YANG HSIEN-YI AND GLADYS YANG. A Dream of Red Mansions, Volume II. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1978. 1st Edition, thus. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 701 pages. decorated endpapers. Description: Several color plates by Tai Tun-Pang. Volume II ONLY: this is the second volume of a three volume set. This has a laid-in insert with a family tree showing the Chief Characters in the Novel and Their Relationships. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue binding with white characters on the front board, red and gilt on the spine, red ribbon place marker; top edge turquoise; the spine shows light handling wear, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good slipcase. ISBN: B001MQ9DZ4 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 055986 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TSAO HSUEH-CHIN AND KAO NGO; TRANSLATED BY YANG HSIEN-YI AND GLADYS YANG. A Dream of Red Mansions, Volume III. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1980. 1st Edition, thus. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 586 pages. decorated endpapers. Description: Several color plates by Tai Tun-Pang. Volume III ONLY: this is the third volume of a three volume set. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue binding with gilt characters on the front board, red and gilt on the spine, red ribbon place marker; top edge blue; the spine shows light handling wear, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good slipcase. ISBN: B000UDJDI2 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 055987 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.

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	BOSLEY, KEITH (GENERAL EDITOR). Poetry of Asia: Five Milleniums of Verse from Thirty-Three Languages. New York: Weatherhill 1979. 1st Edition. Hardbound 8vo (9.5 inches tall) 315 pages. Capsule biographies of contributors, sources, appendix. map endpapers. Description: A selection of Oriental poetry in English translation, ranging over five millenniums. The book is organized by original language, each section is edited and introduced separately. BINDING/CONDITION: orange boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-8348-0139-6 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 055006 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	CHARLES-ROUX, EDMONDE; TRANSLATED BY HELEN EUSTIS. To Forget Palermo. New York: Delacorte Press 1968. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 304 pages. red endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. A Prix Goncourt Award winning novel. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Very Good+ book with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is faded at the spine and is priced clipped. ISBN: B0006BTXR4 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 008587 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	CHEKHOV, ANTON; EDITED BY G A BIRKETT AND GLEB STRUVE. Anton Chekhov: Selected Short Stories (Oxford Russian Readers). London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1955. 2nd Printing. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) 235 pages. Description: Other than the introduction, the text is entirely in Russian. End material (pages 125-235) includes: Notes; Selected Idioms and Difficult Constructions; and a Vocabulary. This was originally published in 1951. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue cloth with gilt spine text; much pencil marking on three pages, the cloth is clean, with good color, some discoloration to the endpapers, damp stain to the text edge; Fair condition; the dust jacket has damp stains, otherwise Good; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000KW105C USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1075] Book number: 054687 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SHUSAKU ENDO; TRANSLATED BY VAN C GESSEL. Scandal. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1988. 1st U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 261 pages. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Very Good- dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-396-09320-5 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 056568 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	GREEN, ELMAR (ALEXANDER VASILYEVICH YAKIMOV). Wind From the South. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1950. Hardbound 16mo (6.5 inches tall) 291 pages. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art not credited. Includes a frontis portrait plate. Three small b&w illustrations (title page, first and last pages). The title page is printed in blue and black. The date is printed only on the title page. Designed by A Radishchev. During the Great Patriotic War (WWII) Elmar Green served as a private, then as the commander of a signals platoon and later as war correspondent for divisional and army newspapers. This novel concerns two Finnish brothers who fought on different sides during the war. ''Stalin Prize Novel / 1946'' is printed on a preliminary page. BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with gilt and light green text; a very faint damp stain affects the lower corner of a few pages, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. Ink number stamped on the last page. ISBN: B000BD6ZUU USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 057105 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HEIN, CHRISTOPHER; TRANSLATED BY PHILIP BOEHM. The Tango Player. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1992. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardbound Small 8vo (about 7.75 inches tall) 219 pages. Description: This is an English translation of Der Tangospieler, which was published in 1989. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped, however the extreme bottom corner on the rear flap is clipped. ISBN: 0-374-27252-2 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 055679 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	IGGULDEN, JOHN. The Clouded Sky. New York: Macmillan 1964. 1st Printing, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 438 pages. mustard color endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Leo Manso. The author was an Australian national gliding champion. This novel was his first to be sold in America. About 8.25 inches tall, 438 pages, mustard color endpapers. BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with black and gilt on the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. The dust jacket is darkened at the spine. ISBN: B0007E68M8 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 010723 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	JIMÉNEZ, JUAN RAMÓN; TRANSLATED BY ELOISE ROACH. Platero and I. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press 1963. 6th Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 218 pages. Description: Illustrated with b&w drawings by Jo Alys Downs. The first English translation of the Nobel Prize Winner's book about life in the remote Spanish town of Moguer. This translation was originally published in 1957; this is a sixth printing. BINDING/CONDITION: olive-gray cloth with black and silver on the spine and on a front cover vignette, top color is a lighter shade than the cloth; the top corners are lightly bumped, otherwise the book is Very Good+, with a Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: B000JD1CTQ USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 001592 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	LIEPMANN, HEINZ; TRANSLATED BY A LYNTON HUDSON. Nights of an Old Child. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott 1937. Hardbound 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 260 pages. light gray endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by [Richard] Floethe. This was the author's first novel, and was completed in 1928. The novel was based on the author's diary and was intended only for himself and a few friends. Shortly after finishing the book, Liepmann left Germany; in his absence a friend had the book published. When Liepmann discovered this, he asked the publisher to withdraw the book, but it had already become a great success. Since the day Hitler first came into power, Liepmann worked within Germany against Hitler. He was sent to a concentration camp and seriously injured by his beatings. He escaped and eventually reached France. At the time of the publication of this U.S. edition, he was still working against Hitler from his headquarters in London. An autobiographical novel based on the author's early years growing up in Germany during the privation years following World War I, and his experiences after voyaging as a stowaway to New York, working as a waiter in speakeasies, and then returning to Germany. BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with silver text and decoration; the spine is slightly slanted, a spot (about the size of a fifty cent piece) on the bottom of the spine (which corresponds to a chip on the jacket) is badly faded; owner's name, otherwise Good; with a Poor dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B000MVR58M USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 055683 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MAETERLINCK, MAURICE. Marie-Magdeleine: Drame en Trois Actes. Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1913. Hardbound about 180 centimeters tall (7.5 inches) x 118 centimeters (4.75 inches). 180 pages. Description: This is a volume from a uniformly bound set: Ouvrages de [Works of] Maurice Maeterlinck. CinquiÃ¨me Mille. ReprÃ©sentÃ© pour la premiÃ¨re fois au Casino municipal de Nice, le 18 mars 1913 et Ã¡ Paris, sur le ThÃ©Ã¢tre du ChÃ¢telet, le 28 mai 1913. This is entirely in French. The reverse side of the front free endpaper (in extremely tiny print), states: ''Bound Expressly for Raphael Weill Co. Inc, San Francisco''. BINDING/CONDITION: marbled paper covered boards half bound with bonded leather, five raised spine bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; owner's name (writ small); the paper is browning, otherwise Very Good+. ISBN: B00189K6WE USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 019588 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	ADELINE YEN MAH. A Thousand Pieces of Gold: My Discovery of China's Character in Its Proverbs. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco 2002. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 251 pages. Bibliography, list of proverbs. illustrated endpapers. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. Includes a pronunciation guide. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-06-000639-0 USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 049399 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MORAVIA, ALBERTO; TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM WEAVER. 1934. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1983. 1st U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 297 pages. Description: This was originally published in Italy in 1982. This is a first printing of the first American edition. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; faint, tiny speckle stains on the top edge of the text block, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-374-22254-1 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 054995 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	PALMER, C EVERARD. Big Doc Bitteroot. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1968. 1st American Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8 inches tall) 157 pages. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Allan Eitzen. A novel set in Jamaica, by a Jamaican author. Kendal was just an ordinary Jamaican village until Doc came rolling into town. Doc, the quack and great showman, and Nathan Berwick, the community leader DON'T hit it off well. BINDING/CONDITION: dark pink cloth; the book and dust jacket are both Very Good, the panoramic dust jacket art is bright -- the jacket is not chipped, but does show very light general handling soil; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0006C2V7W USD 12.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 \| £UK 7.75 \| JP¥ 1075] Book number: 012897 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	PINGWA, JIA; TRANSLATED BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT. Turbulence. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press 1991. 1st English Edition, First Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 507 pages. gray endpapers. Description: This novel was the winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. This prize is given for works that would not ordinarily have been translated into English. Originally copyrighted in 1987; this is the first printing of the first English translation. BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth; the spine is slightly slanted, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. ISBN: 0-8071-1687-4 USD 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 \| £UK 5.25 \| JP¥ 731] Book number: 018686 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SARAMAGO, JOSÃ‰; TRANSLATED BY GIOVANNI PONTIERO AND MARGARET JULL COSTA. Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ; Blindness (3-in-1 edition). New York: Quality Paperback Book Club 1999. Book Club Edition. Trade size paperback 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall) 1044 pages. Description: Cover art by Dafna Mordecai. An omnibus edition, containing the complete texts of Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ; and Blindness. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; Good condition. ISBN: 0-965-07967-8 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 688] Book number: 057014 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	SOLZHENITSYN, ALEXANDER [ALEKSANDR]; TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL GLENNY. August 1914. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1972. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 622 pages. map endpapers. Description: The rear flap of the dust jacket features a drawing of the author done by Karl W Stuecklen. BINDING/CONDITION: orange cloth; a Very Good+ book with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-374-10684-3 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1032] Book number: 011377 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TISMA, ALEKSANDAR; TRANSLATED BY RICHARD WILLIAMS. Kapo. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company 1993. 1st Edition, so stated; 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 294 pages. Description: This was originally published in 1987; this English translation copyright 1993. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-15-146693-9 USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 602] Book number: 056570 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	VETOHKIN, YURI; TRANSLATED BY ALISON RICE. Inclined to Escape. San Diego, California: Self Published 1986. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) 493 pages. Reference page and contents at rear. Description: This copy is Signed by the author. The signature is dated, but in a different hand (or at least with a different pen). Includes a few b&w illustrations. BINDING/CONDITION: navy boards with gilt text; apparently a news clipping was laid in and has browned spots on the front endpapers, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket. ISBN: B001JPQCVG USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 056272 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TSAO HSUEH-CHIN AND KAO NGO; TRANSLATED BY YANG HSIEN-YI AND GLADYS YANG. A Dream of Red Mansions, Volume II. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1978. 1st Edition, thus. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 701 pages. decorated endpapers. Description: Several color plates by Tai Tun-Pang. Volume II ONLY: this is the second volume of a three volume set. This has a laid-in insert with a family tree showing the Chief Characters in the Novel and Their Relationships. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue binding with white characters on the front board, red and gilt on the spine, red ribbon place marker; top edge turquoise; the spine shows light handling wear, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good slipcase. ISBN: B001MQ9DZ4 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 055986 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	TSAO HSUEH-CHIN AND KAO NGO; TRANSLATED BY YANG HSIEN-YI AND GLADYS YANG. A Dream of Red Mansions, Volume III. Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1980. 1st Edition, thus. Hardbound 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) 586 pages. decorated endpapers. Description: Several color plates by Tai Tun-Pang. Volume III ONLY: this is the third volume of a three volume set. BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue binding with gilt characters on the front board, red and gilt on the spine, red ribbon place marker; top edge blue; the spine shows light handling wear, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good slipcase. ISBN: B000UDJDI2 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 055987 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.