1271. Varadarajan, Mu.

A History of Tamil Literature. Translated from Tamil by E. Sa. Visswanathan.

New Delhi, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay, Shitya Akademi, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 375 pages. Photograph on inside front and back covers of sculpture from Nagarjunakonda, 2nd century A.D of three soothsayers interpreting Queen Maya’s dream. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Index slightly fingerstained. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1272. Johnson, Samuel.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Edited with an Introduction by Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins.

London, Oxford University Press, 1971. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. XXX, 145 pages. Illustrated with one photographic black and white reproduction of the title page of the first volume of the first edition, 1759. Original Hardcover (blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering). Name of prewoner on endpaper (tiny entry). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with a very few pencil marks in margins. [Oxford English Novels – General Editor: James Kinsley].

1273. IIda, Shotaro.

Facets of Buddhism. With Introductory Note by author.

London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1993. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. VII, 166 pages. Cover illustration on dustjacket of The Buddha entering into Nirvana (Japanese early 20th century, artist unknown). Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1274. Eliot, T.S.

Ausgewählte Gedichte [Selected Poems].

Bilingual Edition: Englisch und Deutsch / Erste Ausgabe. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 149 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Der Schutzumschlag minimal angeraendert und mit einigen wenigen Gebrauchsspuren / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

1275. Beckett, Samuel.

Die Welt und die Hose. Aus dem französischen von Erika Tophoven-Schoningh.

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1990. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 44 pages. Illustrated with one full colour reproduction of an untitled oil painting dated 1937 by Bram van Velde (Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris). Softcover with stitched binding. Bindung und Schnitt nur ganz minimal fleckig / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, with minor staining on back cover.

1276. Caruth, Cathy.

Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions – Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud. [Inscribed]

Baltimore, London, The Johns Hopkins Univesity Press, 1991. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. VIII, 167 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket design by Joanna Hill. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear with a personal, signed inscription by the author Cathy Caruth on the front free endpaper.

1277. Poe, Edgar Allan.

Complete Poems.

New York, New Jersey, Gramercy Books, 1992. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 128 pages. Jacket illustration of a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe from the Bettman Archives, Inc. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1278. Lily Tuck.

Interviewing Matisse or The Woman Who Died Standing Up.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1991. 15 cm x 22 cm. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and deckled edges. Jacket Design by Chip Kidd. Author photograph by Bill Hayward. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1279. Stein, Gertrude.

A Stein Reader – Gertrude Stein. Edited with an Introduction by Ulla E. Dydo.

Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XIV, 624 pages. Softcover. Cover portrait – ‘Gertrude Stein’ by Pablo Picasso 1906, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Gertrude Stein). Cover Design Rich Hendel. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1280. Taylor, D. J..

After the War – The Novel and English Society since 1945.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXVI, 310 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket illustration by Jeff Fisher. Author-photograph to rear dustjacket-flap by Andy Rott. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.