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Published by New York: NYRB New York Review Books, 2005, 2005
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
PAPERBACK, cover price $15.95, attractive copy, appears unused. KEMAL, YASHAR. Memed, my hawk. Translated by Edouard Roditi. New York: NYRB New York Review Books, 2005, xiii, 371pp., . Young Memed, a peasant turned brigand, fights to save his sweetheart from a forced marriage and to free his Turkish village from tyranny. ISBN 9781590171394.
Published by London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1963, 1963
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.286; [2], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial and photographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with a printed price of 21s to flap. Occasional internal spotting; spotting to endpapers and edges of textblock, closed tear to rear panel of dust-jacket, minor toning to jacket spine, jacket a little frayed at head of spine. Very good. Kemal's novel is one of survival of a Turkish population aiming to reach the cotton fields; this is the first in The Wind of the Plains trilogy. Kemal was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature and is considered one of Turkey's most influential writers, he was also part of the Turkish Workers' Party.
Published by London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1961, 1961
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Turkish novel] FIRST UK EDITION, ADVANCE OR PROOF COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.352. A proof or advance reading copy (not stated as such), original marbled card wraps, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Sheila Stratton. Slight lean to the textblock, dustiness to the top edge, dust-jacket browned to the spine. Very good.