The Laurels of Lake Constance
New York: Viking, 1977. First Edition. Boards. A Richard Seaver Book. Signed by author and translator (who were married at about the time that this book appeared in English). Very fine in like jacket. 8vo.
New York: Viking, 1977. First Edition. Boards. A Richard Seaver Book. Signed by author and translator (who were married at about the time that this book appeared in English). Very fine in like jacket. 8vo.
London: Rapp & Carroll, 1967. First Edition. Boards. Warmly inscribed in May of 1968 (in two colors) on the front endsheet by cotranslator Bly, who also contributes an introduction. Foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in a rubbed and creased dustjacket with closed tears and a small piece missing.....
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938. First Edition. Boards. 1/500 copies beautifully printed in two colors at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 111pp. An early New Directions title. Warmly inscribed by the translator--in Latin--and signed and dated January 14, 1938. According to the colophon, the book was printed in January, thus.....
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Mediodia, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. 109 pp., Spanish text. Poems from Empty Mirrors (sic), Howl, Kaddish, Reality Sandwiches, and Planet News, selected, translated, and prefaced by Covian. Edgewear, small bookseller's label inside front cover, and slight offsetting to back cover, otherwise a very good, unread copy.....
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. Third printing. Paperback. 134 pp. 8vo, perfect-bound in wrappers. Trilingual edition, with texts in Nom script, modern Vietnamese transliteration, and English. Slightly bumped at heel of spine; covers very slightly worn. Internally fine.
San Francisco: Kosmos, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 55 pp. 8vo, cloth. Inscribed by the translator. Covers and text fine; binding very slightly pulled at pp. 30-31. Dustjacket slightly worn, with a few small creases.
Portland, OR: Passages Bookshop, 2017. First printing. 15 x 22 inches. Three-color screenprint on Arnhem White paper, printed in an edition of 130 numbered copies, of which 30 have been signed and titled by the artist. This is one of 100 unsigned copies. New. A poster published to celebrate the.....
Portland, OR: Passages Bookshop, 2017. First printing. 15 x 22 inches. Three-color screenprint on Arnhem White paper, printed in an edition of 130 numbered copies. This copy one of 30 signed and titled by the artist. (Note: photos show an unsigned copy; signature and title added in pencil below image.....
Paris: Denoel, 1974. First French Edition. Wrappers. The novel Tlooth, translated "from the American" by the author's close friend and fellow Oulipo member Georges Perec. Mild creases and fading to red portions of spine, otherwise very good in lightly soiled and rubbed wrappers. Small 8vo.
Berlin: Literarisches Colloquium, 1969. First Thus. Wrappers. Translated and annotated by Klaus Reichert, with cover photograph by Gerard Malanga. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. Square 16mo.