Translated by Michael Hofmann (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, (approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 1/2" tall) black cloth spine over black boards (with outline image of cows on top cover) and red spine titles. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 091306A.

Condition: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

First edition, first printing Fine and bright glossy wraps strong spine and clean text. Always strong work.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 240 pages. Trade size paperback. Collectable UNCORRECTED PROOF. An unread fine copy looks like new. Uncorrected Proof.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 7.64x4.72x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. 2010. 1st Edition. paperback. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 416. . . . . .…

hardback. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 161 p.

Condition: New. 2010. 1st Edition. paperback. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 416. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 608 pages. 7.68x5.08x1.42 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. zzz edition. 320 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. zzz edition. 320 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xxiv, 289 pages. Light creasing to spine. Else an unmarked, unread, tight mass paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of this translation. Virtually as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback. The Good Person of Sichuan. Some writing to end inside front cover. Slight wear to cover. Vibrant and hard hitting, this inetensely theatrical tale begins when the gods come to earth in search of a good person. They award money to the prostitute Shen Te but greedy neighbours instantly take advantage of her good nature. To save herself from bankruptcy she has to invent, and then impersonate, a ruthless male cousin Shui Ta. This famous parable was written on the eve of the Second World War. 86 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

First edition, first printing New and bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First UK Edition. First edition. First Printing. Numbers are printed inside, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Firmly bound, clean with some dust spotting on top closed page edges.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. zzz edition. 320 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. Second impression of the first UK paperback edition, published in Picador's Picador Classics series in 1990 - with the number string: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 on the printer's page. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. The book was first published in English in the UK in hardcover, in this translation, by Chatto & Windus in 1989. The book was recently reissued in 2022 in this translation by Granta Books. The book was originally published in German by Allert de Lange, Amsterdam as "Die Legende von Heilegen Trimker'. ***Near fine in glossy card illustrated covers, with the original publisher's printed price of £2.99 net on the back cover. The covers are just slightly rubbed and creased at the edges, commensurate with age and handling. Spine tight without any reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no annotations or foxing. The paper stock has tanned with age. No creases or tears. ***49 pages plus five printed pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. 198mm x 130mm. ***'"The Legend of the Holy Drinker" is Joseph Roth's last work, written and published a few months either side of his death in May 1939. Filmed by Ermanno Olmi as "La Leggende del Santo Bevitore" -- winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1988 Venice Film Festival'. [Quote taken from the back cover] *** Joseph Roth (1894-1939), was an Austrian writer and journalist. He was forced out of his country because of the rise of Nazism. "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" (German: Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker) is a 1939 novella by Austrian writer Joseph Roth, published posthumously by Allert de Lange Verlag in Amsterdam. It tells the story of a homeless alcoholic, Andreas, who wants to return money he has borrowed, but fails because he spends all of his money on alcohol. [Wiki] ***Second impression of the uncommon first UK paperback edition of Roth's final book to be published before the Second World War. Of interest to collectors of the work of Joseph Roth. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 250 pages. Published in 2005. The author's fourth memoir, published posthumously. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Elias Canetti's "Party im Blitz: Die englischen Jahre" in a felicitous English translation. The British Coda, written in the form of individual sketches, to his stupendous memoir-trilogy: "The Tongue Set Free", "The Torch In My Ear", and "The Play of The Eyes". Bitter and therefore thoroughly riveting, Elias Canetti, a lifelong misanthrope and misogynist (there are subtle nuances between the two hatreds, which are really disappointments in Canetti's case about humanity and women), resented being exiled to a country where no one knew him as the superlative equal of Hermann Broch and Robert Musil let alone as the "sui generis" writer who saw himself as modern German literature's savior-figure. He was not about to let his resentments go unpunished and undocumented, and wrote this memoir in his last years (after he finally won the Nobel Prize and became world-famous) : "He waited half a century to confront these memories, perhaps because 'in order to be truthful, I should have to track down every needless humiliation I was offered in England, and relive it as the torture it was'. Dissects that torture with unrestrained acerbity, recounting the ordeal of being in a new country where not a soul knew his writing. But not one to be ignored, 'the godmonster of Hempstead' (as John Bayley dubbed Canetti) soon knew everyone, and everyone knew him. Enoch Powell, Bertrand Russell, Iris Murdoch, Empson, Wittgenstein, Kokoschka, Kathleen Raine, Henry Moore, Ralph Vaughan Williams: Canetti knew them all, and he mercilessly rakes some of them over the coals" (Publisher's blurb). He especially detested T. S. Eliot, truthfully and unforgettably describing the rabid anti-Semite as a fraud who desperately wanted to be an Englishman because he was otherwise born in St. Louis, Missouri. Eliot wrote poetry so obscure and pretentious that it required footnotes (which Eliot himself helpfully supplied), "thin-lipped, cold-hearted, prematurely old". His hatred of Dame Iris (who worshipped him and dedicated her novel, "The Enchanter", to him) is unfortunate, more heartbreaking proof of Canetti's incurable hatred of women (hatred, as opposed to contempt, is a form of fear). Eliot deservedly aside, why such venom from such a great mind? "When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about" (Elias Canetti). An absolute "must-have" title for Elias Canetti collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/First-State DJ (American) still available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are in subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELIAS CANETTI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0811216365. no.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The companion volume to 'Emotion Pictures', in this book Wenders moves from a contemplation of pure cinema, to a consideration and analysis of his own films. Beginning with the question: Why do you make films? 113 pages ; 22 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. German edition. Book is unread; DJ shows light shelfwear. Autographed by Peck on title page. The author's first book, originally published in English in 1993 as "Martin and John" in America and "Fucking Martin" in the U.K. An uncommon edition, scarce signed. 239 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, published in J. M. Dent's Everyman's Library series in 1984. Translated from the German by David le Vay in collaboration with Beatrice Musgrave. With a nine-page Introduction specially written for this edition by author and translator Michael Hofmann. The book was first published in the UK in hardcover, in a different translation, by Hutchinson in 1938, and was reissued by Peter Owen in 1977 with the new translation as used for this Everyman edition. The book was originally published in German as "Die Flucht Ohne Ende" by Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1927. ***Near fine in glossy card illustrated covers, with the original publisher's printed price of £2.95 net on the back cover. The covers are virtually fine with very little rubbing or creasing at the edges. Spine tight without any reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no annotations or foxing. The paper stock and the inside of the covers have tanned slightly with age. No creases or tears. ***144 pages. 190mm x 124mm. ***'"Flight Without End", completed in Paris in 1927 in the aftermath of the First World War, is perhaps the most personal of Roth's novels.' [Quote taken from the back cover] *** Joseph Roth (1894-1939), was an Austrian writer and journalist. He was forced out of his country because of the rise of Nazism. ***The novel (Tarabas: A Guest on Earth, in English) is a fable set early in the Russian Revolution. "Tarabas" is the story of a Russian peasant who, in his youth, is told by a gypsy that it is his destiny to be both a murderer and saint. "Tarabas", a later novel, was written when Roth was living in exile in Paris. Five years later, an alcoholic, he died in a Paris hospital. [Wiki] ***First impression of the uncommon first UK paperback edition of Roth's first book to originally appear in English in 1930. Of interest to collectors of the work of Joseph Roth. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Translated from the German by David le Vay in collaboration with Beatrice Musgrave, New Introduction by Michael Hofmann (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 122 pages. Published in 2025. The author's second novel. By critical consensus, Markus Werner's masterpiece. Presented in its very first English translation as a "New York Review of Books Classics Original". Advance Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a tiny one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and editor. The Uncorrected Proof has the same ISBN as the trade edition. It is now rare. Presents, in its earliest-printing format ever, Markus Werner's "Froschnacht" in the definitive English translation by Michael Hofmann, one of the most brilliant translators of European literature of our time. Some of the most beautiful sentences ever written in contemporary German literature, now just as beautifully rendered in English. "This cult classic of Swiss literature is impossible to forget. In a small town in Switzerland, Franz - ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals - is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never spoke to him again. In death, Klement visits his son in the form of a frog in the throat, choking him, but also giving voice to an old dairy farmer devoted to the old ways, forever railing against his son and the whole modern mess he represents" (Publisher's blurb). "I sit around, I drink, I brood, I pat myself down for flaws, find many, and each evening I say: Starting tomorrow I'm going to get a grip on myself" (Markus Werner). An absolute "must-have" title for Markus Werner collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Advance Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: ALL other copies available online are subsequent printings of the regular trade edition. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1681379120. no.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.editiion.1st.printing/near fine hardback in vg dustwrapper.a nice looking copy.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition, small 8vo.,pp. x,138, hardcover, gilt; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly soiled.

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 4.75 x 7in. xi. 148pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Fine/As New dust jacket. A flawless copy. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with the no. "1" as called for on the printer's page. Translated from the original German by Michael Hofmann. The book was first published in English in the USA as "Every Man Dies Alone". Cover photograph: "Berlin 1936" by Wolff & Tritschler and author photograph to inner rear flap showing Hans Fallada playing chess (Ullstein bild/AKG). ***Near fine in black boards with white titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Small crease to the top edge of the front board. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright with no foxing and no creases or tears. ***In a very good monochrome-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. The dustwrapper is complete without any loss. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased. No creases or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***240mm x 162mm. 568 pages. ***'Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. In the house at 55 Jablonski Strasse, the various occupants are all trying to live under Nazi rule in their own different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler-loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm, and the unassuming working-class couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the devastating news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. ***Shocked out of his quiet existence, the usually taciturn factory foreman Otto is provoked into an action that will endanger his life. With his wife's help, he begins to drop hundreds of anonymous postcards attacking Hitler in buildings all over the city. If Otto and Anna are caught, they will be executed for treason. ***As the couple's silent campaign escalates, the cards come to the attention of the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between them. When the petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen become involved, blackmail, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, gradually tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks.' ***'Hans Fallada's gripping and haunting novel was first published in German in 1947. It is both a dark, fast-paced wartime thriller and a chilling portrayal of a paranoid, brutal society, where the smallest action can have fatal consequences, and love has to survive against the cruellest of odds. Michael Hofmann's powerful new translation brings this extraordinary masterpiece to English readers for the very first time.' ***'The greatest book ever written about the German resistance to the Nazis' - Primo Levi ***'"Alone in Berlin" is one of the most extraordinary and compelling novels ever written about World War II. Ever. Please, do not miss this.' ***'An unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in wartime Berlin.' (Quotes and review quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald, north-east Germany, as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen-name from a Brothers Grimm fairytale. His most famous works include the novels "Little Man, What Now?" and "The Drinker". Fallada died in 1947 in Berlin.' ***'Michael Hofmann is the author of several books of poems, a book of criticism, "Behind the Lines", and the translator of many modern and contemporary authors, including Joseph Roth. (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice, bright condition. Uncommon now in first impression. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.25 x 8in. 49pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows a single small former owner notation at the front endpaper, else remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the slightest shelf rubbing, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.…