Wallis Keene Translator (8 results)

Hardcover. 4 p. 1., 7-300 p. front., plates. ports. 21 cm. This was ublished in France under the title of "Moussia, Ou La Vie et La Mort de Marie Bashhirtseff." From Wikipedia: "Marie Bashkirtseff (born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva); was a Ukrainian diarist, painter and sculptor. She studied painting in France at the Academie Julian. Bashkirtseff would go on to produce a remarkable body of work in her short lifetime. Unfortunately, a large number of Bashkirtseff's works were destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. From the age of 13, Bashkirtseff kept a journal, and it is for this that she is most famous. Her personal account of the struggles of women artists is documented in her published journals. Bashkirtseff lived just long enough to become an intellectual powerhouse in Paris in the 1880s. A feminist, in 1881, using the nom de plume "Pauline Orrel, " she wrote several articles for Hubertine Auclert's feminist newspaper, La Citoyenne. She died in Paris. Fair. Pages foxed. Cover has wear, soiling/staining, and some edges rubbed. Some endpaper discoloration. Presumed first U.S. edition in English. Presumed first printing.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Front cover is almost detached. Liquid stain to top page ends and rear cover. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked. Sewn binding. Andre Gide writes about his marriage to Madeleine and his hidden homosexuality. Keywords: Biographies & Autobiographies, France, French, Andre Gide, Gay, Prison, Modernist, Modernism, Homosexual. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. Original grey-green cloth with gilt title and dat on title page. Small bookseller catalog entry tipped to endpaper; rear hinge starting but tight; else a near fine, unmarked bright and clean copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition hardcover, paper label at spine worn, some wear to edges of spine and points. Illustrated by 28 Masereel wood cuts. Fine facsimile dust jacket. 96 pages. M05974.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 96 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's deep chestnut cloth with black lettering to spine. Bumping and chipping to head and tail of spine. Bumping and chipping to corners. Mild rubbing to boards. Age-toning to text block throughout. Sunning to top edge of text block. Shelved in Case 2. 1413653. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, xxviii, 317 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine red with black and tan lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$5.00." Rubbing and mild tearing along edges of dust jacket. Moderate age toning and soiling to dust jacket. Penciling to rear inner flap. General shelf wear to boards. Spine cocked. Textblock clean. Shelved in Case 6. 1407992. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Limited Edition, 1/850 Copies. Octavo, 328 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Gilt decoration with red and gilt lettering to spine. Fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine and at corners and fore edge of front board. Small section of cloth missing on spine. Scuffing to cloth. Mild bumping to corners of boards. Mild scuffing to edges of textblock. Age toning throughout textblock, With rear cover of dust jacket included loosely within. 1390362. Special Collections - Downstairs. …

Chicago: The Black Archer Press. 1935. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine blocked in gilt, black endpapers, in dust-jacket designed by William Mazur; pp. 327, [1], with frontispiece designed by John Groth, title-page by G. Arthur Gillis printed in red and black; spine ends a little worn, slight staining to lower edge of front cover, spotting to upper edge of text-block, jacket with spine toned, and spine ends and corners chipped with tiny losses; light dampstaining to lower margin of frontispiece and prelims, slight foxing to prelims, but overall a very good, clean copy; early ink ownership stamp of Kenneth Ness, possibly the Michigan artist (1903-2001), to verso of front free endpaper.Second US edition, limited to only 850 copies for subscribers, of 'the strangest book ever written' (blurb), in the rare dust-jacket and with a haunting frontispiece by John Groth (1908-1988).First published in French in 1891, La-Bas is one of the most influential literary explorations of fin-de-siecle decadence and occultism. The novel follows the writer Durtal, who, disenchanted with modern life, immerses himself in the worlds of medieval mysticism, Satanism, and the occult. Assisted by his lover, Madame Chantelouve, he investigates contemporary black masses while researching the notorious fifteenth-century nobleman and serial killer Gilles de Rais (c. 1405-1440).The first English translation, by Keene Wallis, appeared in New York in 1924 from Albert & Charles Boni and was privately reprinted in Paris in 1928. This Black Archer Press edition, issued in Chicago in 1935 under the direction of bookseller and editor William Targ (1907-1999), was produced by arrangement with Boni using Wallis' copyrighted translation, but with the text entirely reset. Featuring a frontispiece by John Groth, a title-page by G. Arthur Gillis, and a striking dust-jacket design by William Mazur, it was limited to 850 copies and prefaced by a note restricting its sale to 'members of the Clergy, members of the learned professions and serious adult students of psychology, religion and occultism'.…