London: Calder and Boyars, 1973. Original hardcover boards, fine in fine dust jacket. 62 pages. Bold name in ink to free front endpaper and some some typical fade to spine else only minor wear to jacket corners. Jacket is unclipped and now protected. Overall a very good copy
The first English publication of Beckett’s own translation of Primier Amour which was written immediately after World War II. First edition thus, 1st printing
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Soft Cell recorded a song that nicked its title from this book, a song about a man “who goes to Los Angeles and just sees how many people he can have in a weekend. It’s a soundtrack of loveless sex…”
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Royal8vo. Original red cloth with overall well preserved jacket. This copy was Børge Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The…
Haruki Murakami talking with conductor Seiji Ozawa on music Penguin Random House Vintage Classics, 2020. XIX, 325 pages. New copy
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Inger Christensen Alphabet, into English by Susanna Nied. New copy. “doves exist, dreamers, and dolls killers exist, and doves, and doves haze, dioxin, and days, days exist, days and death, and poems exist, poems, days, death”
