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	(KUZNETSOV, ANATOLII.) THE JOURNEY. Original title: CONTINUATION OF A LEGEND: The Jottings of a Young Man. New York: New Horizon/ Transnational Publishers, (1984.) First US printing. Translated from the Russian by William E. Butler. From the dj, 'In this fictional journal, th renowned author of BABI YAR recounts his thoughts, feelings and activities during his first journey to Sibera in the mid-1950's. . . These vivid memoirs of a perplexed young socialist record the growth of a sensitive, perceptive human being caught between his love for - and disillusionment with - modern Russia. Translator's note. ix, 180 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 41847 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ADAN, MARTIN THE CARDBOARD HOUSE St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1990.) First printing. The great Peruvian poet's first book and his only complete work of prose (although described as a novel, it is more a long prose-poem), written between 1924-27 and first published in Spanish in 1928 when Adan was only 20 years old. Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver. A title in the Palabra Sur Series. 103 pp Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-55597-1296 USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 10275 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AGNON, S. Y. TWO TALES: BETROTHED & EDO AND ENAM. New York: Schocken Books, 1966. 2nd printing. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. Translated from the Hebrew by Walter Lever. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 6795 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALDANOV, MARK. THE FIFTH SEAL. New York: Scribner's, 1943. Book club edition. A picture of Western Europe on the eve of the second World War, as seen by Soviet officials, written by this Russian writer mostly during his exile in Paris. Translated by Nicholas Wreden. Very good in good dust jacket (prev owner's stamp, edgewear to dj, staining to interior of dj.) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 17254 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALESHKOVSKY, YUZ. THE HAND, or the Confession of an Executioner. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. First printing. Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-374-167702 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 17929 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALESHKOVSKY, YUZ. THE HAND, or the Confession of an Executioner. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. First printing. Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-374-167702 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 20152 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ANDERMAN, JANUSZ. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. London: Reader's International, 1988. First US printing. Preface by Jerzy Pilch. Translated by Nina Taylor. Stories of Warsaw's changing world, since the clampdown on Solidarity and the coming of martial law in Poland. Very good+ in like dust jacket - toning to the pages, as is often found in this publisher's books. ISBN: 0-930523-490 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 19842 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ARRABAL, FERNANDO. TOWER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) First US printing. An intellectual thriller set at a World Championship chess match in Paris. Winner of Spain's Premio Nadal award. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan and illustrated throughout with diagrams showing the actual chess matches. 242 pp. Remainder mark - otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-67081346X USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 41779 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BAROJA, PIO (1872-1956). THE RESTLESSNESS OF SHANTI ANDIA And Other Writings. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1959.) First printing. Contains the title novel - a story of a Basque seaman cought in the vileness of the slave trade - and 2 short stories, 4 essays and sketches, and a play The Legend of Jaun de Alzate. Translated and with a long introductory essay (The World of Pio Baroja) by Anthony Kerrigan. Back panel of dustjacket has a photograph of Ernest Hemingway with Baroja and a comment from Hemingway that Baroja was the writer who should have received the Nobel prize, not him. Considered one of Spain's greatest modern writers, Baroja was the author of almost 100 novels, including many set in Madrid, 7 volumes of his memoirs, short stories and more, he was an unconformist, anticlerical, anarchist, and he died at 83 self-exiled in Spain. While his Madrid novels are his best known, the writings set in his Basque homeland are more poetic and affectionate. 415 pp. Very good in a good dustjacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper, price-clipped, small chip and closed tear to dustjacket.) USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 33164 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BAZIN, RENE. (1853-1932.) THOSE OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD (Madame Corentine.) New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1914. First US printing. Translated from the French by L.M. Leggatt. First US printing of this novel of provincial life, set on Jersey island and the Lannion coast, originally published in 1893 (and which was filmed as a movie in 1914 in France under the original title of Madame Corentine). A lovely example of a decorative binding from the early 20th century - bound in blue cloth with white lettering, black horizontal lines, and a band of white flowers along the fore-edge of the front cover. 290 pp. Some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, previous owner's name, but otherwise very tight and near fine. Uncommon, and especially so in this condition. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 41856 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BIELSKI, NELLA. ORANGES FOR THE SON OF ALEXANDER LEVY. London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) First UK printing. Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-906495709 USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 31749 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BIELSKI, NELLA. ORANGES FOR THE SON OF ALEXANDER LEVY. London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) First UK printing. Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-906495709 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 31750 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BLASCO IBANEZ, VICENTE UNKNOWN LANDS New York: Dutton, 1929. Later printing. Novel about Christopher Columbus, translated from the Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A very popular book in its time - this is the 7th printing, issued in the same month as the 1st. Striking dust jacket illustration. NF/VG (bookplate, light edgewear to dj, and small peeled spot on lower spine.) USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 9715 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DE BOSIS, LAURO (TRANSLATED BY RUTH DRAPER, PREFACE BY GILBERT MURRAY.) ICARO. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933. First US printing. A bilingual edition of this verse drama by a young Italian poet, translated into English by Ruth Draper. While the preface by Gilbert Murray states that the play should stand on its own, most of the interest in this work is because of the death of De Bosis in 1931 - when his plane disappeared (possibly shot down by Mussolini's air force) after he had scattered anti-fascist leaflets over Rome. The parallel with the story of Dedalus and Icarus is unmistakable. Text in Italian and English on facing page. 201 pp. Good condition in blue cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket (some minor soiling to the cloth covers, a typed synopsis is pasted onto the front endpapers.) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 40314 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BOULLE, PIERRE THE GOOD LEVIATHAN New York: Vanguard, 1978. First US printing. Translated from the French by Margaret Giovanelli. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 7744 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BUNIN, IVAN VELGA New York: S. G. Phillips, 1970. First US printing. First appearance in English of this fable by this Nobel Prize winning writer. Translated by poet Guy Daniels, and illustrated by Sarah Reader. NF/NF (small stamp on endpaper.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 11069 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALASSO, ROBERTO THE RUIN OF KASCH Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. First US printing. Taking as his focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution, Calasso recounts and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire called the Modern. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. 385 pgs including notes. NF/NF (crease on front flap of dj.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8527 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO DIFFICULT LOVES New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 First US printing. Collection of short stories; translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (creasing at top of spine). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 3176 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO. MR PALOMAR. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985.) First US printing. 'One of Calvino's most brilliant creations... Mr Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.... a witty, elegant, fantastic tale. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Index. 130 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-151628351 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 38700 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CANETTI, ELIAS. NOTES FROM HAMPSTEAD: The Writer's Notes, 19564-1971. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. First American edition. Excerpts from the notebooks of this Nobel prize winning author, translated from the German by John Hargraves. Fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-374-22326-2 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 17133 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CEBRIAN, JUAN LUIS. RED DOLL. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First US printing. First novel by this leading Spanish journalist, a thriller set in modern Spain. Translated by Philip W. Silver. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper.) ISBN: 1-55584-1457 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 21756 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CIXOUS, HELENE MANNA: For the Mandelstams For the Mandelas Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. First US printing. Originally published in 1988 in French. Translated and with an introduction by Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Fiction based on political realities - a story which brings together two men, who never knew each other, but who knew the same suffering - a Russian Jewish poet who died in exile in Siberia and a South African political leader who survived years in prison. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 9162 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COCTEAU, JEAN (TRANSLATED BY ROSAMOND LEHMANN.) THE HOLY TERRORS (Les Enfants Terribles) plus 1981 Exhibition Invitation. New York: New Directions, (1957.) First US printing. Illustrated with 20 black and white plates from drawings by Jean Cocteau. Translation by Rosamond Lehmann of Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, originally published in 1929. 193 pp. Laid-in is an invitation to a preview of a Cocteau exhibit being held at the Jack Gallery in New York City in 1981. One glossy sheet folded; cover is a reproduction of 'untitled' - a color pencil on paper drawing. Very good in yellow cloth (lettering on spine is faded and the cloth is showing some age-darkening.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 37734 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COLETTE. CHERI and THE LAST OF CHERI. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1953.) First printing. First thus - the second volume in a series planned to present all of Colette's work in new translations and in a uniform binding. Originally published in 1920 and 1926, these two novels about the love affair between a young man and a charming older woman, were translated for this edition by Roger Senhouse from the 1949 complete works of Colette. 296 pp. Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, sunning to spine of dj, toning and minor edgewear. Original price of 3.50 still present.) Rather uncommon. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 34443 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COULONGES, HENRI. FAREWELL, DRESDEN. New York: Summit Books, 1989. First US printing. Author's second novel, the story of a young girl caught up in the nightmare of war, winner of the Grand Prize of the Academie Francaise. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (price-clipped.) USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 12647 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).

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	(KUZNETSOV, ANATOLII.) THE JOURNEY. Original title: CONTINUATION OF A LEGEND: The Jottings of a Young Man. New York: New Horizon/ Transnational Publishers, (1984.) First US printing. Translated from the Russian by William E. Butler. From the dj, 'In this fictional journal, th renowned author of BABI YAR recounts his thoughts, feelings and activities during his first journey to Sibera in the mid-1950's. . . These vivid memoirs of a perplexed young socialist record the growth of a sensitive, perceptive human being caught between his love for - and disillusionment with - modern Russia. Translator's note. ix, 180 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 41847 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ADAN, MARTIN THE CARDBOARD HOUSE St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1990.) First printing. The great Peruvian poet's first book and his only complete work of prose (although described as a novel, it is more a long prose-poem), written between 1924-27 and first published in Spanish in 1928 when Adan was only 20 years old. Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver. A title in the Palabra Sur Series. 103 pp Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-55597-1296 USD 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 \| £UK 14.5 \| JP¥ 2118] Book number: 10275 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	AGNON, S. Y. TWO TALES: BETROTHED & EDO AND ENAM. New York: Schocken Books, 1966. 2nd printing. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. Translated from the Hebrew by Walter Lever. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 6795 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALDANOV, MARK. THE FIFTH SEAL. New York: Scribner's, 1943. Book club edition. A picture of Western Europe on the eve of the second World War, as seen by Soviet officials, written by this Russian writer mostly during his exile in Paris. Translated by Nicholas Wreden. Very good in good dust jacket (prev owner's stamp, edgewear to dj, staining to interior of dj.) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 17254 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALESHKOVSKY, YUZ. THE HAND, or the Confession of an Executioner. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. First printing. Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-374-167702 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 17929 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALESHKOVSKY, YUZ. THE HAND, or the Confession of an Executioner. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. First printing. Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-374-167702 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 20152 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ANDERMAN, JANUSZ. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. London: Reader's International, 1988. First US printing. Preface by Jerzy Pilch. Translated by Nina Taylor. Stories of Warsaw's changing world, since the clampdown on Solidarity and the coming of martial law in Poland. Very good+ in like dust jacket - toning to the pages, as is often found in this publisher's books. ISBN: 0-930523-490 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 19842 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ARRABAL, FERNANDO. TOWER STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) First US printing. An intellectual thriller set at a World Championship chess match in Paris. Winner of Spain's Premio Nadal award. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan and illustrated throughout with diagrams showing the actual chess matches. 242 pp. Remainder mark - otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-67081346X USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 41779 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BAROJA, PIO (1872-1956). THE RESTLESSNESS OF SHANTI ANDIA And Other Writings. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1959.) First printing. Contains the title novel - a story of a Basque seaman cought in the vileness of the slave trade - and 2 short stories, 4 essays and sketches, and a play The Legend of Jaun de Alzate. Translated and with a long introductory essay (The World of Pio Baroja) by Anthony Kerrigan. Back panel of dustjacket has a photograph of Ernest Hemingway with Baroja and a comment from Hemingway that Baroja was the writer who should have received the Nobel prize, not him. Considered one of Spain's greatest modern writers, Baroja was the author of almost 100 novels, including many set in Madrid, 7 volumes of his memoirs, short stories and more, he was an unconformist, anticlerical, anarchist, and he died at 83 self-exiled in Spain. While his Madrid novels are his best known, the writings set in his Basque homeland are more poetic and affectionate. 415 pp. Very good in a good dustjacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper, price-clipped, small chip and closed tear to dustjacket.) USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 33164 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BAZIN, RENE. (1853-1932.) THOSE OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD (Madame Corentine.) New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1914. First US printing. Translated from the French by L.M. Leggatt. First US printing of this novel of provincial life, set on Jersey island and the Lannion coast, originally published in 1893 (and which was filmed as a movie in 1914 in France under the original title of Madame Corentine). A lovely example of a decorative binding from the early 20th century - bound in blue cloth with white lettering, black horizontal lines, and a band of white flowers along the fore-edge of the front cover. 290 pp. Some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, previous owner's name, but otherwise very tight and near fine. Uncommon, and especially so in this condition. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.5 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5737] Book number: 41856 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BIELSKI, NELLA. ORANGES FOR THE SON OF ALEXANDER LEVY. London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) First UK printing. Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-906495709 USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 31749 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BIELSKI, NELLA. ORANGES FOR THE SON OF ALEXANDER LEVY. London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) First UK printing. Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-906495709 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 31750 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BLASCO IBANEZ, VICENTE UNKNOWN LANDS New York: Dutton, 1929. Later printing. Novel about Christopher Columbus, translated from the Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A very popular book in its time - this is the 7th printing, issued in the same month as the 1st. Striking dust jacket illustration. NF/VG (bookplate, light edgewear to dj, and small peeled spot on lower spine.) USD 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 \| £UK 17 \| JP¥ 2471] Book number: 9715 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DE BOSIS, LAURO (TRANSLATED BY RUTH DRAPER, PREFACE BY GILBERT MURRAY.) ICARO. New York: Oxford University Press, 1933. First US printing. A bilingual edition of this verse drama by a young Italian poet, translated into English by Ruth Draper. While the preface by Gilbert Murray states that the play should stand on its own, most of the interest in this work is because of the death of De Bosis in 1931 - when his plane disappeared (possibly shot down by Mussolini's air force) after he had scattered anti-fascist leaflets over Rome. The parallel with the story of Dedalus and Icarus is unmistakable. Text in Italian and English on facing page. 201 pp. Good condition in blue cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket (some minor soiling to the cloth covers, a typed synopsis is pasted onto the front endpapers.) USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 40314 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BOULLE, PIERRE THE GOOD LEVIATHAN New York: Vanguard, 1978. First US printing. Translated from the French by Margaret Giovanelli. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 7744 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BUNIN, IVAN VELGA New York: S. G. Phillips, 1970. First US printing. First appearance in English of this fable by this Nobel Prize winning writer. Translated by poet Guy Daniels, and illustrated by Sarah Reader. NF/NF (small stamp on endpaper.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 11069 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALASSO, ROBERTO THE RUIN OF KASCH Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. First US printing. Taking as his focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution, Calasso recounts and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire called the Modern. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. 385 pgs including notes. NF/NF (crease on front flap of dj.) USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8527 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO DIFFICULT LOVES New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 First US printing. Collection of short stories; translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (creasing at top of spine). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 3176 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CALVINO, ITALO. MR PALOMAR. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985.) First US printing. 'One of Calvino's most brilliant creations... Mr Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.... a witty, elegant, fantastic tale. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Index. 130 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-151628351 USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 38700 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CANETTI, ELIAS. NOTES FROM HAMPSTEAD: The Writer's Notes, 19564-1971. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. First American edition. Excerpts from the notebooks of this Nobel prize winning author, translated from the German by John Hargraves. Fine in a fine dustjacket. ISBN: 0-374-22326-2 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 17133 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CEBRIAN, JUAN LUIS. RED DOLL. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. First US printing. First novel by this leading Spanish journalist, a thriller set in modern Spain. Translated by Philip W. Silver. Near fine in a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper.) ISBN: 1-55584-1457 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 21756 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CIXOUS, HELENE MANNA: For the Mandelstams For the Mandelas Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. First US printing. Originally published in 1988 in French. Translated and with an introduction by Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Fiction based on political realities - a story which brings together two men, who never knew each other, but who knew the same suffering - a Russian Jewish poet who died in exile in Siberia and a South African political leader who survived years in prison. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 9162 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COCTEAU, JEAN (TRANSLATED BY ROSAMOND LEHMANN.) THE HOLY TERRORS (Les Enfants Terribles) plus 1981 Exhibition Invitation. New York: New Directions, (1957.) First US printing. Illustrated with 20 black and white plates from drawings by Jean Cocteau. Translation by Rosamond Lehmann of Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, originally published in 1929. 193 pp. Laid-in is an invitation to a preview of a Cocteau exhibit being held at the Jack Gallery in New York City in 1981. One glossy sheet folded; cover is a reproduction of 'untitled' - a color pencil on paper drawing. Very good in yellow cloth (lettering on spine is faded and the cloth is showing some age-darkening.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 37734 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COLETTE. CHERI and THE LAST OF CHERI. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1953.) First printing. First thus - the second volume in a series planned to present all of Colette's work in new translations and in a uniform binding. Originally published in 1920 and 1926, these two novels about the love affair between a young man and a charming older woman, were translated for this edition by Roger Senhouse from the 1949 complete works of Colette. 296 pp. Very good+ in very good- dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, sunning to spine of dj, toning and minor edgewear. Original price of 3.50 still present.) Rather uncommon. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 34443 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COULONGES, HENRI. FAREWELL, DRESDEN. New York: Summit Books, 1989. First US printing. Author's second novel, the story of a young girl caught up in the nightmare of war, winner of the Grand Prize of the Academie Francaise. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (price-clipped.) USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 12647 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).