Apple Dark, First Edition (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.Translated by Benjamin Moser 'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century. The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation' TLS.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US trade paperback edition. Creasing to spine and three corners and light dings to spine ends with some fading. Interior clean and binding solid. 1st Printing.

Softcover. Condition: Neu. 1. Auflage.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.Translated by Benjamin Moser 'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century. The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation' TLS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a bit of smudging to the edges of the text block, and some effaced sellers' marks to the head of the front fly leaf. Overall, this is a solid, bright and tight, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, some wear to the edges, rubbing with smudging to the covers, and faint sunning to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition of the University of Texas 1986 edition, first printing. Minor toning to the covers and outer page edges, clean and tight with no markings. Following the original Spanish edition of 1961 and the 1st US edition by Knopf in 1967, this is the second US edition, this edition and all previous are now uncommon. All text in English.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK Edition. Fading to D/J spine. Very slight shelf wear to corners of D/J.

Hardcover. Condition: Near-Fine. First Edition. The first book by Lispector to be translated into English. First English Translation [Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1967]; xvi, 362, [4 blank] pages, green cloth, gold titling to spine, green & red decorations to front board & spine, green topstain, gently bumped at spine ends, a near-fine copy; in the excellent, unclipped [$5.95] dustjacket, a little bumped & rubbed along edges, slightly chipped at spine ends. The first book by Lispector to be translated into English [Gregory Rabassa]. Typography binding & jacket design by Anita Karl. Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian author who wrote in Portuguese.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Octavo. 361 [6, ads] pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear on the lower panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), rubbed and with some bumps and tears at the edges. Green buckram with green and red ink designs, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, some tidemarks at the top, clean internally. Lispector's first novel to be translated into English, the story of a man on the run who believes he murdered his wife.