Search Results: POETRY / Continental European from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Near fine (page edges a bit browned) in very good dust jacket (part of front panel is sunned--see scan). Combination of poetry and prose. INSCRIBED by author. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury. Translated by Antonia W. Bouis, Albert C. Todd, and author.. Inscribed and Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated by the author and Robert Hass. Milosz was the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. 66 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt, 2000. Near fine (tiny spot by edge of spine on front cover, probably glue spot from manufacturing) in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Slovenian. Edited by Charles Simic, foreword by Edward Hirsch.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1983. Fine without dust jacket. An English translation of the great poet of Russian Romanticism, date 1837 at the end. 25 pages, beautifully printed and illustrated. . 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover. Illus. by Drawings.

London: London Magazine Editions, 1983. Translated by Ewald Osers from Czech. First English language edition. Very good (one signature, pages 17-20, never was attached properly during binding and remains detached but in fine condition; otherwise tight and clean, fine) in very good+ dust jacket (slight edgewear). 80 pages. Along with the book are reviews from the New York Times (10/12/84); from Ceskeflovo, a Czech literary journal; British Library exhibition notes from 1985; typescript introduction to a reading of Seifert poems at UCLA in 1984 by Michael Henry Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literature at UCLA. . 1st Edition thus. Hard Cover.

Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books/Miniature Books, 1954. Translated from the French by Roland Gant. Very good (faded spine, some foxing and offsetting on the first and last couple of pages) without dust jacket. Illustrated by Claus in color. Perrault was a 17th century French doctor and architect (he designed the Colonnade du Louvre) and writer. Known primarily for his Mother Goose's Tales, this is the first translation into English of this humorous poem which was part of an ongoing literary battle that also produced Swift's "The Battle of the Books.". 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Claus.