Trans Ivan Morris (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1963. First British edition. 403 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black cloth spine with red lettering over green boards; under Muni Lieblein dust jacket priced $3.50, page edges untrimmed, 246 pp. DJ has faint crease to spine, very mild edgewear, looks sharp. First edition stated. Previous owner has written name, date, and place in a very small & neat hand to inner margin of title page. After writing some memoirs of his experiences in the war, Ooka turned to fiction. This title won the Yomiuri Prize in 1951, and was filmed by Ichikawa Kon in 1959.

Softcover. Ukrainian Male Authors, 1880-1920. pp. 410. 8vo. Appears unread; as new. Who is to blame? ; The Opryshok ; The Dnister's vortex ; The soldier's daughter / Yuriy Fedkovych (1834-1888) -- Mykytych's oak tree ; The Gypsies ; It's his own fault ; The forest nymph / Ivan Franko (1856-1916) -- A dearth of grain ; Little sister Halya ; The hut in the valley / Borys Hrinchenko (1863-1910) -- From days gone by / Hnat Khotkevych (1863-1910) -- A tormented soul / Oleksander Konysky (1836-1900) -- The proud couple ; A maiden's heart / Panteleymon Kulish (1819-1897) -- In the forest ; The mother ; The deceased ; Revenge / Bohdan Lepky (1872-1941) -- Ensnared by the evil one ; The thief / Pans Myrny (1849-1920) -- The married devil ; The devil's tavern ; The fated one ; The miller / Oleksa Storozhenko (1805-1874) -- The Gypsy girl / Sydir Vorobkevych (1836-1903).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Volume One only, hardcover in excellent condition (slight handling, small pale spot on the side page edges, otherwise unmarked, one dog-eared page corner), with merely good dust jacket (light wear, a few edge chips). The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 268 pages. [1.5 lbs]. Book.

Softcover. Ukrainian Male Authors, 1880-1920. pp. 349. 8vo. Appears unread; as new. The barbarians ; Snow / Mykola Chernyavsky (1868-1946) -- From the notes of a patient ; The high life ; The postal clerk / Ivan Franko (1856-1916) -- Bella Donna / Hnat Khotkevych (1877-1938) -- The storm / Yevhen Mandychevsky (1873-1937) -- Perdition ; The saviour ; The shot / Mykhaylo Mohylyansky (1873-1942) -- Behind stone walls / Stepan Vasylchenko (1879-1932) -- The chain ; Derision / Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880-1951) -- The cooper's wife ; That foolish girl . ; The illicit daughter-in-law ; The judge / Sylvester Yarychevsky (1871-1918) -- Dora ; She / Mykhaylo Zhuk (1883-1964).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second printing. Brown cloth, illustration stamped on upper board; in illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. Book is fine. Dust jacket faitly dust-soiled on spine, price-clipped, else fine. Slipcase is also in excellent condition.

Softcover. Ukrainian Male Authors, 1880-1920. pp. 409. 8vo. Appears unread; as new. Includes selections of prose by: Tymofey Bordulyak; Mykola Chernyavsky; Bohdan Lepky; Dmytro Matrovych; Les Martovych; Stepan Vasylchenko; Volodmyr Vynnychenko.

Softcover. Ukrainian Male Authors, 1880-1920. pp. 409. 8vo. Appears unread; as new.

First US edition, first printing. Based on Ooka's own experiences, Fires on the Plain explores the disintegration of the human spirit amid the horrors of war. Set on the Filipino island of Leyte as the Japanese army collapses under the weight of the American advance in World War II, the novel follows a soldier's descent into isolation, starvation, and moral ambiguity. Within this devastated landscape, moments of compassion clash with terror, and the boundaries between hope and despair grow increasingly blurred. A modern classic, it remains one of the most powerful antiwar novels of the twentieth century. Faint toning and rubbing extremities, still near fine in very good edge worn and rubbed dust jacket, in mylar cover. Publisher's black cloth and teal boards, in Muni Lieblein dust jacket ($3.50).