Walking Through Mirrors
First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Paris France
Second American edition issued without the illustrations. 120pp. Blue cloth with black lettering. Pages lightly age-toned, cloth edges sunned and mottled, a slightly musty odor, about very good in a good only age-toned dust jacket with extremities chipped. Stein's tribute to France, written during the first several months of the war. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
First edition. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Translated by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Half-title with a few small spots from endpaper, spine and board edges lightly tanned, still near fine in a very good dust jacket with slight tanning to the spine and extremities, a few small chips and tears, and bottom corner of front flap clipped ($4.50 price intact). Seven tales drawn from middle-European Jewish folklore. El amor y Occidente [Love in the Western World / L’amour et l’Occident]
First edition. Translated by Antoni Vicens. Small octavo. 438pp. Text in Spanish. Owner stamp and signature of Latin American scholar Ilan Stavchansky (Stavans) on the title page. Gift inscription on half-title, wrappers with moderate wear and margins a bit tanned, very good. The William Saroyan Collection at Stanford
(SAROYAN, William) First edition. Slim quarto. 30, [3] pp. Fine in unprinted stapled wrappers and close to near fine pictorial dust jacket with a bit of creasing along the topedge and faintest bit of sunning on the cover panel. Prints facsimiles of previously unpublished letters to Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Robert E. Sherwood, Sean O'Faolain, and H.L. Mencken, along with brief introductions. Also prints text by Robert Setrakian, Michael A. Keller, and William McPheron. One of 1,000 copies printed.- $30
- $30
The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel & Gackeliah
BRENTANO, Clemens First edition. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Translated by Doris Orgel. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. A bit of fading and tanning to the spine and board edges, near fine in a lightly soiled about very good dust jacket with a 1 ½" chip at spine foot, a few other small chips and tears, and slight tanning to the spine and extremities. "An enchanting fairy tale translated from the German for the first time."- $75
- $75
Women Writers: Gertrude Stein
BOWERS, Jane Palatini Uncorrected proof. 169pp. Printed wrappers. Front cover with a faint label shadow and modest uneven tanning, very good. Publisher's material laid in. A study that focuses on Stein's experimental writing, the texts that present the greatest difficulty for her readers.- $25
- $25
Diaries. Volume One: 1939-1960 [Uncorrected Proof in Two Volumes]
ISHERWOOD, Christopher Uncorrected proof. Two volumes. Quartos. Comb-bound with acetate covers. liv, 1,048pp. Fine. Laid in is a publisher's promotional piece, one folio sheet folded to make four pages; the final two pages are perforated and can be separated into four postcards featuring portraits of Isherwood.- $85
- $85
