Literature In Translation from Bookfever.com, IOBA

New York:: The Viking Press,, (2001). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The first novel by this award-winning Dutch author to be published in English, the story of a seemingly idyllic family living in Amsterdam, as told by the middle daughter. Translated by Hester Velmans. 243 pp.

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (appears unread, but with the usual toning to the pages and light toning to the dj). First US printing. Collection of 3 stories in which the senses - taste, hearing and smell - dominate the lives of the characters. Translated from… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. Includes a brief introduction by his wife in which she notes that these were an obsession with him in the last… Read more about this item

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First US printing. Posthumous publication of a collection of reminiscences never before published in English about some of the places Colette lived and visited - including a long piece on moving, chats about her friends, cats, travels, the maiden voyage of the… Read more about this item

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line). First US printing. A major novel, the first in ten years, by Hungary's most distinguished writer - the "rich, poetic story of a man, a family, and a country. David Kobra's enchanted childhood in a small town in… Read more about this item

New York:: Schocken Books,, (1947). Hardcover first edition -. Poor condition in light green cloth in a good only dust jacket (both hinges cracked, dj has tear and associated creasing to lower edge of front cover, other wear, price-clipped). First US printing. Collection of Kafka's mythological tales, from his short pieces diaries, letters and an excerpt from… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with a large chip on back cover, other edgewear.. First thus. First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1997.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The fourth novel by this highly praised Israeli writer,, the story of a hijacked locomotive and the fantasy world of an imaginative young boy. Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg. 308 pp.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, (1958). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in red cloth with some toning to the pages in a good dust jacket with overall light edgewear, beginning to split along fold of front flap. Original price still present.. First US printing. The first novel by this Hungarian/Austrian writer, a story of "love… Read more about this item

New York:: Schocken Books,, (1948). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to spine of dj). 3rd printing. Collects some of Kafka's best short stories (divided into Longer Stories and Short Stories and Fables) and aphorisms. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. Includes an introduction by Edwin Muir. A small volume bound… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, 1976.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in orange illustrated boards with a black cloth spine and paper label on spine (original dust jacket has been replaced by new mylar wrapper) . Limited, signed first edition. A short novel of obsession by this Morrocan author, taped and translated from the Moghrebi… Read more about this item

London:: Frederick Muller,, (1965). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of front cover of dj). First thus. The dust jacket proclaims this as "The Great Russian Satirical Novel" originally published in 1928, but then suppressed during the Stalin regime. The authors who met in Moscow in 1925,… Read more about this item

Boston:: Little Brown,, (1968). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the spine of the dj, but a tight and clean copy, original price of 4.95 on dj flap). First US printing. A novel of "ribald realism" by this award-winning writer. "In Luino, in the years just before Fascism when the… Read more about this item

London:: Quartet,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (tear to dj at top of spine). First UK printing. Considered one of the greatest novels by one of Sweden's most prominent writers this tells the story of an old man, who "looks back on his childhood in rural northern Sweden, attempting to… Read more about this item

New York:: HarperVia / Harper Collins,, (2021). First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A very highly praised novel by this Italian author, winner of the Strega Prize (the second time Veronesi won this award) and named to many best books of… Read more about this item

London:: Faber & Faber,, (2007). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to textblock). First UK printing. A collection of pieces from over 25 years, selected by this writer who received the Nobel award for literature in 2006. They range from "lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humor to… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (short tear to upper edge of front cover of dj, some wear to corners) . First US printing. A fictionalized autobiography, depicting life in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, the first in a series of novels that… Read more about this item

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First US printing. Sarah Bernhardt was considered the greatest actress who ever lived - she dominated the stage not only in her native France, but throughout the world for sixty years - literally until the week she died in 1923. ..… Read more about this item

New York:: The Viking Press,, 1929.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in decorative paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, and gold paper label on spine. Some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, but overall a tight and clean copy, no dust jacket. . First US printing. A member of the French diplomatic service,… Read more about this item

New York:: Liveright,, (1937). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in rust colored boards with gilt lettering on spine (some sunning to the cloth, fading to lettering on spine), no dust jacket... First American edition. A fictionalized biography translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Napoleon II and 10 glossy… Read more about this item