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01. Adolfo Bioy Casares. The Invention of Morel. And Other Stories (from La Trama Celeste). Austin: University of Texas Press, [1964]. First U. S. edition. Octavo (9 x 5.875 inches; 228 x 150 mm.). [8], 237, [3, blank] pages. Full-page illustrations by Norah Borges de Torre throughout. Publisher's light whitish-brown cloth, spine lettered in black, spine and front board stamped in green; variant with top edge of the text block stained yellow, others trimmed; green endpapers; in the original dust jacket, priced $5.00. Spine just barely askew; front board with the slightest splay; board edges very faintly foxed or soiled. Top edge of the text block faintly foxed; previous ownership signature in pen on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket spine panel tanned just a shade, visible only in the text of the title and on the verso; edges with a touch of wear with a couple tiny nicks and a very soft marginal crease on the rear panel. Near fine. An exceptional copy. Prologue by Jorge-Luis Borges; translated by Ruth L. C. Simms.

 

Direct source for the forgettable 1974 Emidio Greco film starring Anna Karina as Faustine but more famous for its relationship with the formalist masterpiece Last Year at Marienbad (1961), directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, which was the subject of Thomas Beltzer's "Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation" (Senses of Cinema, November 2000). Though their plots, superficially, have little in common, The Invention of Morel is also cited as the film's source material in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (#10050).

 

 

02. Alvin Langdon Coburn; Hillaire Belloc (introduction). London. London: Duckworth & Co; New York: Brentano's, [1909]. First edition. Folio (16.125 x 12 inches; 410 x 305 mm.). 21, [3, blank] pages. Twenty photogravure plates, hand-pulled by the photographer, following the text; each mounted by the upper corners to thick gray-green paper, sewn in gatherings of four leaves. Publisher's dark green quarter-roan over brown paper-covered boards; front board lettered in gilt; all edges of the text block trimmed; gray-green endpapers. In the original letterpress dust jacket (defective), plain gray paper with the title (since removed) and author printed in black. Boards very slightly warped; covers faintly dulled where exposed due to jacket defects, light discoloration to the top edge of the rear board and some general minor soiling; spine ends worn with a touch of loss at the base of the spine; front joint starting at the lower edge (for about four inches); very minor crimping to the paper covering the front board; board edges rubbed with a couple minor dings; corners softly bumped and worn with the boards partially exposed. Text very faintly foxed. Still, a very good copy; images fine. Dust jacket lacking the upper-third or so of the front panel, removing London but retaining all of the text in Coburn's name; moderate chipping along the bottom edge; spine panel lightly darkened with a few small interior holes; routine wear to the edges and folds with some tears stabilized with tissue paper to prevent further loss on the rear panel and in the rear flap fold; fair only, but it exists. The only jacketed copy currently in the trade (August 2019). Roth 38; Truthful Lens 36. (#10001).

  

03. [Comics]. Jolanka. Milan: Furio Viano Editore, 1970-1976. Original periodical appearances, Super issues, covers vary from the digest-sized issues, but the content and titles are the same (priority, if any, not known to us). 54 volumes. Quarto (approximately 9.5 x 6.625; 240 x 167). Various paginations. Fully illustrated in color (19 early issues, through number 27) or black and white (later issues). Publisher's perfect bindings, in the original full-color illustrated wrappers. Some spines leaning or creased, as expected; varying degrees of toning to the backstrips, one issue's, number three, perished, a couple others with tape mends; some spine ends chipped; occasional wear and tear to some covers with light creasing; relatively trivial soiling. Generally very good, some quite nice. Issue numbers range from 3 to 66, full listing available on request. Roughly double the number of individual issues currently available on eBay (March 2019), none of which are earlier than issue 28; no listings found in WorldCat. Text in Italian.