Kemal Thilda Translator (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U. S. Edition. 448pp. Hardback with DJ, VG, upper corner tips creased on c.20pp., pp389-412 short crease along upper edge, Part One of a trilogy that takes place in Turkey based around two families and their contuinued blood feuds over generations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. Stated First American Edition (First Thus). Originally Published In Turkey. The Book Is Bound In A Lavender Paper With The Title And Ocean Image Within A Rectangular Stamped On The Front Over One Quarter White Cloth With Lavender Lettering And Image Of A Seagull On The Spine. The Book Has Minor Wear And Light Fading Of The Board Edges. The Unclipped Jacket Has Moderate Wear And A Few Tiny Tears. One Quarter Inch Tear At The Upper Back Edge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Publisher: George Braziller, New York, 1985. FINE hardcover book in NEAR FINE+ mylar-protected dust-jacket. A bit of wear at the bottom of the DJ's rear panel, otherwise as new. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. First US Edition, First Printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. George Braziller, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1985. First (1st) Printing of the First (1st) American Edition, as no further printings are mentioned. Originally published in Türkiye by Milliyet Yayinlzari in 1978, with the title "Deniz Kustsu". Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean and tanned, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full black cloth with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, somewhat bowed, with white unmarked endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, and would be fully intact but for a couple very small holes in the spine, and the price has been clipped from the front flap. See the photos. 288, [i] pages. 5 5/8" x 8 3/4" . Translated by the author's wife, Thilda Kemal, from the Turkish. Set along the Sea of Marmara not far from Istanbul, the story, told as a first person narrative from an observer, abounds in violence, fear of change as a developer wants to bulldoze a village, ethnic discrimination, and more. ISBN 10: 0807611220 / ISBN 13: 9780807611227. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(+). Octavo in orange DJ, white spine, 287 pages, b&w map, 22 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. A violent chance encounter in a small Turkish fishing village results in a murder, for which Fisherman Selim is unfairly blamed. The story follows the fisherman and the actual villain, Zeynel, who committed the murder and leads a life of crime. Turkish fiction -- 20th century. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, light soiling to fore-edges, faint soiling to page six and edge to 8 pages, half inch closed tear to front DJ-top edge, extremely mild rubbing to DJ spine head and foot, tiny tear to rear DJ-top corner, exceedingly gentle rubbing to front DJ-top corner, pale soiling to DJ, else Very Good(+) to Near Fine(-) in Very Good DJ. in very good dust-jacket.…

dj. 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.…