<p>Pardon my non-french! You are all forgiven, you strange strangers who delight us with your torrents of tongue, your lexicons of legend, your diamonds of idiom. Let us relish the ripeness of your rhetoric, the wild, unheard-of wonders you weave, told in the tongue of Shakespeare, Goethe, Li Po, Dante, Cervantes, Khayyam, Sappho - or in the translations of Gide, Nerval, Judith Gauthier, Rivarol, Oudin, Toussaint, or Ren&eacute;e Vivien!</p>

Foreign Literature

Pardon my non-french! You are all forgiven, you strange strangers who delight us with your torrents of tongue, your lexicons of legend, your diamonds of idiom. Let us relish the ripeness of your rhetoric, the wild, unheard-of wonders you weave, told in the tongue of Shakespeare, Goethe, Li Po, Dante, Cervantes, Khayyam, Sappho - or in the translations of Gide, Nerval, Judith Gauthier, Rivarol, Oudin, Toussaint, or Renée Vivien!

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Foreign Literature
  1. Un pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles
    Mark TWAIN

    Un pari de milliardaires et autres nouvelles

    Société du Mercure de France|Paris 1905|12 x 18.70 cm|relié
    First French edition, translated by François de Gail. Print run: 450. No mention of deluxe paper copies.
    Contemporary half orange sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets. Light rubbing. Original wrappers preserved. Good copy.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop upon request within 48 hours.
    €250
  2. Terre de diamant
    Kenneth WHITE

    Terre de diamant

    Grasset|Paris 1983|12 x 21 cm|broché
    Edition partly original because revised and increased.
    Signed autograph of Kenneth White to Jacqueline Piatier: "... out there, lights, world ..."
    Pleasant full copy of his prayer to insert.
    €100
  3. Tropique du cancer
    Henry MILLER

    Tropique du cancer

    Denoël|Paris 1945|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition in French, one of 1000 numbered copies on cream laid Johannot paper, the only deluxe copies.
    Spine and boards entirely sunned as usual, endpapers browned. Lacks to head and foot of spine.
    €100
  4. Le petit retable de Don Cristobal
    Federico GARCÍA LORCA

    Le petit retable de Don Cristobal

    Edmond Charlot|Alger [Algiers] 1944|11.50 x 18.50 cm|agrafé
    First edition of the French translation, printed on ordinary paper, one of the numbered copies.
    A handsome and rare copy.
    €100
  5. Bilan d'une nation
    John DOS PASSOS

    Bilan d'une nation

    Editions du Pavois|Paris 1946|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition of the French translation, one of 250 numbered copies on alfa, the only large paper copies.
    A very good copy.
    €150
  6. Le nuage dans le pantalon et suivi d'autres poèmes
    Vladimir MAIAKOVSKI

    Le nuage dans le pantalon et suivi d'autres poèmes

    Les revues|Paris 1947|14 x 20 cm|broché
    New edition of the French translation established by Benjamin Goriély, one of 2000 numbered copies on white vellum.
    Work illustrated with a portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Granovski.
    Signed autograph inscription from Benjamin Goriély to the journalist, screenwriter and producer Pierre Dumayet, one of the pioneers of French television.


    €50
  7. Pan. Revue libre N°1 de la troisième année
    COLLECTIF

    Pan. Revue libre N°1 de la troisième année

    Editions de Pan|Paris Janvier 1910|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Contributions by W. Whitman, E. Verhaeren, A. Fontainas, C. Vildrac among others.
    A very slight tear neatly repaired at foot of spine.
    Rare.
    €70
  8. En route
    (Arsène HOUSSAYE) Alexandre PIÉDAGNEL

    En route

    Librairie Fischbacher|Paris 1886|9.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
    First edition published in a small number of copies.
    Autograph inscription from the author.
    Marginal worming to front cover, two small tears neatly repaired without loss to spine.
    €45
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