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First edition (per publisher's statement upon copyright page). xx, 410 pages. Hardcover: H 24.5cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with very faint staining at spine heel and along rear panel's bottom edge. Dark purple cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine. Deckle fore-edge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Lady Maria St. Just was the executor of Tennessee Williams' estate. ISBN 0394564278.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Octavo, 283 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is brown with white print. Cover is brown with white print and illustration; slight edge wear, small vendor label on rear panel. Illustrated: "Illustrations from a 17th century Georgian manuscript of the poem" title page verso; color plates. "Reprinted from the original English edition London 1912" title page verso. Added title page and publishing information in Georgian. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403372. FP New Rockville Stock. Reprinted from the Original English Edition.

Condition: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Encuadernación: Rústica. Colección: Al margen. Ocho escenas de Tokio reúne, por primera vez en castellano, nueve relatos de uno de los escritores con más talento de la literatura nipona del siglo XX. Muy apreciado entre la juventud japonesa, Dazai goza en la actualidad de un reconocimiento equiparable al de ilustres compatriotas suyos como Soseki, Mishima y Kawabata. Aunque más conocido en Occidente por las dos novelas que publicó tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial Indigno de ser humano y El ocaso, Osamu Dazai mostró a lo largo de toda su vida predilección por el género breve. En sus relatos están presentes tanto el nihilismo como los demonios interiores que acecharon al escritor durante su corta vida, pero también encontramos un particular sentido del humor. Escritos entre 1933 y 1948, año en que Dazai se quitó la vida junto a su amante, los relatos aquí reunidos, a veces mordaces y sarcásticos, otras veces introspectivos y poéticos, nos ofrecen un retrato completo de un escritor avanzado a su tiempo y dotado de una sensibilidad poco común. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Softcover. 1st edition. Estonian Theological Society in Exile. 28 p.; 23 cm. VG, stapled, in tan wrapper. Inscription signed by author.

Condition: New.

Second Impression. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; The World today. Physical description; 138 p. illus., maps. 20 cm. Notes; "First printed 1942; second impression 1943." Subjects; World War, (1939-1945) France. France. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages; Physical desc. : 270 p. 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Great Britain - Social conditions - 20th century 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Second Impression. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; The World today. Physical description; 138 p. illus., maps. 20 cm. Notes; "First printed 1942; second impression 1943." Subjects; World War, (1939-1945) France. France. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages; Physical desc. : 270 p. 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Great Britain - Social conditions - 20th century 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with price unclipped DJ. A rare book. A fine book in a similar Condition of jacket. Top red stain from publisher. name to front end paper. 270pp.

Softcover. 1st edition. (Papers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile. Popular series = Eesti usuteadlaste selts paguluses toimetused ; 1) 64 p.; 25 cm. VG, sewn, in tan wrapper. Few pages roughly opened.

Copertina morbida. Condition: Ottimo. Nuova ed., riveduta e corretta. 167 p. ; 20 x 12 cm. Impronte. Attraverso la storia della rovina della propria famiglia narrata dalla giovane Kazuko, il romanzo adombra l'epopea tragica dell'aristocrazia declinante nel Giappone vinto e umiliato dalla guerra, e insieme propone la vivida e più vasta rappresentazione della desolazione spirituale di un paese che ha smarrito i valori della tradizione e va snaturandosi nell'incalzare di una civiltà industriale priva di idealità. Pubblicato nel 1947, un anno prima di annegarsi nel lago Tamagawa a Tokyo, Osamu Dazai vi consegnava un messaggio di disperata rivolta in cui si riconobbe e si identificò un'intera generazione - quella che visse il disordine e lo smarrimento del dopoguerra, nonché la frustrazione precoce delle speranze in un rinnovamento radicale della società. D'altra parte, il successo de Il sole si spegne, il richiamo straordinario che esercitò sul costume oltre che sulla vicenda letteraria giapponese, non si spiegherebbero senza quella potente contaminazione che fa di questa, come di tutta l'opera di Dazai, il riflesso e la cassa di risonanza della sua vita lacerata. Annullando ogni distanza da sé, sottolineando ed esasperando la corrispondenza tra le proprie esperienze e quelle dei suoi personaggi, Dazai trascrive sulla pagina letteraria una sofferenza esistenziale, il ribellismo e l'istinto di autodistruzione suggellati infine dal suicidio. Prefazione di Maria Teresa Orsi. Titolo dell'opera: «Shayo». Traduzione di Luciano Bianciardi. Brossura editoriale, coperta illustrata a colori in cartoncino flessibile con alette.

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Hardcover. Octavo, vi, 376 pages + 65 pages of plates. In Good plus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth with gold print. Slight wear to spine caps and corners, slight nick to fore edge. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1388964. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Octavo, vi, 376 pages + 65 pages of plates. In Good plus condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, light shelf wear. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece (portrait) and plates. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1384319. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 288.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 288.

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Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 288.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. First UK edition. A highlight of postwar Japanese literature, first published in 1948, Dazai's double suicide with his partner shortly before publication marked a dramatic end to an often tumultuous life and echoed many of the themes in his works. Sm 8vo. Cream cloth, gilt titles to spine, pink endpapers. In the Eric Patton designed unclipped jacket. With previous owner's name of Gary Pulsifer to half title, dated 10.12.05 to half title. Pulsifer (1957-2016), founder and owner of the independent publisher Arcadia Books, devoted to contemporary literary translation, fiction and autobiography, including black, Asian and gay literature. He previously worked for Peter Owen Publishers for seven years from 1989. Darkening to page edges, a little edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, some sun fade to spine, with some darkening to verso of jacket and accompanying offsetting and marks to the cloth. Slight lean to spine. Still a decent, sound copy, text clean and unmarked, binding firm.

The diary is a 4to, with around 100pp. (a week's entries on each leaf). In worn and marked printed olive boards with cloth spine; internally good and sound on lightly-aged paper. No ownership inscription, but from the E. V. Knox papers, and with entries in Knox's hand and that of his wife Mary, illustrator of Mary Poppins, and daughter of 'Winnie the Pooh' illustrator Ernest Shepard. The eighteen inserted items, in good overall condition, are described here before the contents of the diary. ONE: Part of an essay in Knox's hand, headed 'Joanna Baillie' (2pp, 8vo, on two leaves numbered 23 and 24). With his tongue in his cheek, Knox notes 'a curious cutting from "The Times" of some year in the early 1920's. It is a review by Sir John Squire of a book on the life and work of this poet by a young American woman. It is a thesis written for the Doctorate of Philosophy. It is the first book on Joanna Baillie to be published in English, unless you count a long introduction to her works in 1851. It is perhaps the only book in English on Joanna Baillie. Naturally there are three German works devoted to her.' The extract ends with an account of her 'Byron went to a performance of one of her plays ("The Family Legend"), with Miss Baillie herself & the Walter Scotts and this must have been the occasion she speaks of when she writes in a letter: | "Byron was provoked beyond measure at being here with us, & made faces as he sat behind us." Joanna Baillie of course was a Quaker. Lord Byron was not.' The extract is paperclipped to a cutting of Squire's long article (headed 'Books of the Day'), describing such works as the American author's 'monuments of misapplied industry and ingenuity'; chipped and creased, on browning paper. TWO: Autograph extract (1p, 4to) of draft essay by Knox on 'light verse'. Twenty-two lines, with a few deletions and emendations, on worn frayed paper chipped at the edges, but with text legible. Begins: 'Well that is the end of that nonsense and no doubt you are relieved. But there is I believe a quite truthful point in it.' He asserts that light verse has become 'an absurdly artificial and specialised thing, tied not only to rigid meters but mock poetical diction [.] It is done for he sake of brevity, for the sake of point, for the sake of easy remembrance, or just because we feel like it. [.]'. THREE: Three miscellaneous pages (all 8vo), on separate leaves, each extracted from a talk or paper (or all from the same one?) regarding Hampstead Topology. One, numbered 3, includes a discussion of how 'Hampstead Topographical History' could be divided 'roughly into four periods'; the second discusses how, in 'the middle of last century, old Hampstead reached I suppose its highest point of population'; the last, carries a few words beginning 'pamphlet by de Koch'. FOUR: Topographical notes by Knox. Brief autograph notes (1p, 12m), on Frognal letterhead, headed 'HAMPSTEAD as HAUNT OF DISREPUTABLE OR NOT TO REPUTABLE AMUSEMENTS | 1700-1800', and another page of notes (1p, 12mo), in green ink, on Hampstead topography ('HAMPSTEDE HETHE | WATER CONDUITS'). FIVE: Cancelled typed 4to page headed 'E. V. KNOX | Notes, conversations, recollections at Grove Cottage | 110 Frognal, Hampstead.' Unpublished. Apparently the start of a memoir by Mrs Knox. The author explains that Knox was 'reluctant to sit down and write solemn memoirs or make extra work with a lot of dictations. Some of his reminiscences were not to be drawn upon - well remembered but painful. | Evoe kept a few years' diaries in the 1950's and 1960's. The most recent are unread. | He told me about his life and as my memory isn't reliable I put down what I could and when, on envelopes and scraps of paper and in note-books, sometimes following him from room to room or into the garden. We had a tape-recorder but this was in a way an instrument of torture. As was the telephone - [.] Evoe was never brisk on he telephone. He answered it with a long "Hull-oh", that one would have known at once from any place in the world.' On the reverse of this page is the first page of the following. SIX: Parts of a manuscript inventory by Knox's widow Mary of incoming correspondence and ephemera. Seven autograph pages (5pp 4to; 2pp 12mo) on four leaves, each leaf dated to 1976, all in Mrs Knox's autograph. Mainly consisting of lists of authors and date of receipt of letters, occasionally with a single-phrase synopsis. One page is headed 'General Hampstead box 2 1976'. Other headings: 'Odds and ends Hampstead box 2 1976 | Note on Joanna Baillie'; '1976 Odds & ends & 60's letters'; 'Odds & ends Hampstead box 2. 1976.' SEVEN: Autograph synopses by Mrs Knox of diary entries for January 1954 (2pp, 12mo, headed 'Diaries EVK 14 Jan. 1954) and February 1954 (2pp, 12mo, headed 'Diaries 1954. EVK. Feb. 1954.'), listing appointments arranged for the coming months. EIGHT: Small collection of correspondence/ephemera, comprising: Typed Circular Signed and TNS from F. R. D'O. Monro, Clerk, Wells & Campden Charity (the latter with page of anagrams by Knox in pencil on reverse); card for AGM of Hampstead Subscription Library; receipt for Christ Church Centenary Fund; ACS from Katherine Beamish to Knox, giving details of AGM of Hampstead Parochial School; two Typed Circulars from P. H. Harrold, Hampstead Town Clerk, one regarding the laying of the foundation stone for West End Branch Library, the other a National Trust exhibition on Hampstead; typed circular regarding a planning appeal meeting; typed invitation to Hampstead Heath and Old Hampstead Protection Society committee meeting. NINE: The diary contains terse entries giving details of appointments, with names of individuals, libraries, associations (e.g. Hampstead Heath Protection Society and Wells & Campden Charity), educational establishments. There are a few evocative entries. On 15 July: 'Opener for Osbert Sitwell | 8.30 Stanfield House'. On 15 December: 'No Punch lunch'. Also: 'The Listener B.B.C. Party, the Dor.

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Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt/M., 1997. Original-Leinwand, Original-Schutzumschlag, 150 Seiten, 8° (20,5 cm). DEA / erste deutsche Ausgabe. Verlagsfrisches, original folienverschweißtes Exemplar ohne Gebrauchsspuren. Zustand: neu.

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