Translations from The Library Kit

2015 Penguin, Translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson, Edited with an Introduction by Benjamin Moser // Lightest wear along cover edges // 645 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 33mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2014 Penguin, Translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel, Preface by Angelo Pellegrino // Gentle wear along edges, Light crease along spine // 685 pages, 197mm x 128mm x 34mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Black Swan, Translated from the French by Dori Katz // Light overall wear // A profound evocation of life in Fascist Italy // 142 pages, 198mm x 127mm x 8mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1974 Tuttle, Translation from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker // Lightest wear along cover edges // A tenth century Japanese classic, an intimate firsthand account of the Heian aristocracy // 201 pages, 182mm x 110mm x 13mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1971 Penguin Classics, Translation from the Japanese by Ivan Morris // Light overallage wear // A tenth century Japanese classic, an intimate firsthand account of the Heian court lifestyle and drama // 411 pages, 197mm x 129mm x 21mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Harvill Press, Translated from the French by Grace Frick // Light wear along edges, Slight crease along spine, Gentle spotting along page edges // Another thoughtful Yourcenar exploration on the condition of man, via her ability to conjure up the internal lives of historical figures, this time in 16th Europe // 334 pages, 216mm x 135mm x 28mm // 100% of… Saber más sobre este artículo

1985 Secker & Warburg, Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz // Light foxing on page edges // The disillusionment of post-WWII Japan through the eyes of the ten-year old narrator // 253 pages, 222mm x 140mm x 26mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 polity Translated from the French by Peggy Kamuf // Ex-Library copy, Gentle wear along exterior, In excellent condition // Love and memory, Cixous' classic themes and style // 142 pages, 210mm x 141mm x 13mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2017 MacLehose Press, Translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth // Gentle wear along exterior, Light age tanning // The burden of the past culminating in a social and emotional decline of its people, playing out in our protagonist post-WWII // 399 pages, 210mm x 139mm x 37mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2020 Hamilton Hamilton, Translated from the Norwegian by Thilo Reinhard // Light wear along edges, Slight crease along spine, Black marker mark on first page // A haunting semi-autobiographical novel on family and memory // 392 pages, 214mm x 134mm x 34mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2019 Tilted Axis Press, Winner of the 2020 National Book Awards Translated Literature, Translation from the Japanese by Morgan Giles // Slight wear along edges // A creatively mournful spotlight on Japanese culture and history from the perspective of its marginalised // 197 pages, 197mm x 127mm x 19mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

2013 Sort of Books, Introduction by Ali Smith, Translation from the Finnish by Kingsley Hart // Slightly faded spine, In excellent condition // A lightly-fictionalised memoir of Jansson's bohemian Helsinki childhood // 162 pages, 205mm x 132mm x 19mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1995 Pimlico // Light foxing of page edges, Slight age tanning // The remarkable life of the artist Dora Carrington and her assocation with the Bloomsbury Group // 342 pages, 234mm x 151mm x 28mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 The Women's Press, Translated by Donna L Hoffmeister, Afterword by Christa Wolf // Slightest overall wear, Lightest age tanning of pages, // The psychological aftermath of a generation coming to grips with their Nazi past, based on the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd // 103 pages, 198mm x 127mm x 8mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1970 Hart-Davis, Translated by Derek Coltman // Lovingly wrapped in Mylar, Old library copy of the NSW Railways Institute, Slight age tanning // The emotional landscape of a young girl and her pervasively absurd environment // 165 pages, 206mm x 136mm x 24mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1988 The Women's Press, Translated from the Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt // Light overall wear, Previous owner's name written on top right of first page // A collection of women who struggling for their own autonomy against societal pressures, from the celebrated, prizes-winning Tsushima // 138 pages, 196mm x 125mm x 11mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1997 Folio Society, Some translated into the English by women translators such as Vera Volkhovsky, Louise Maude, R.S. Townsend, Liv Tudge, Emily Jakewleff, Dora B. Montefiore, Mirra Ginsburg, and Maria Gordon // Minor wear on slipcase, Light marks on top page edges, In otherwise excellent condition // A collection of classic Russian short stories (see pictures for full list) // 383 pages,… Saber más sobre este artículo

1952 Foreign Languages Publishing House, Translator uncredited, Winner of the Stalin Prize 1950 // Gentle overall wear, Light foxing along page edges, Old International Bookshop sticker on inside front cover, Looseleaf Key to Principal Characters included // A work of socialist realism, an ode to the collective economy // 622 pages, 200mm x 139mm x 34mm // 100% of book… Saber más sobre este artículo

2006 Harper Perennial, Introduction by Val McDermid, Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate // Gentle overall wear and rubbings along cover edge, Slight crease on spine, Lightest age tanning // #2 in the Martin Beck series, a Nordic noir pioneer // 198 pages, 198mm x 129mm x 16mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW

1968 Fontana Modern Novels, Translated from the French by Patrick O'Brian // Gentle overall wear and tanning along page edges, Slight creases on spine, Light rubbings along cover edge // A fictional microcosm of de Beauvoir's philosophy as enacted through the lives of its central women // 154 pages, 182mm x 109mm x 12mm // 100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters… Saber más sobre este artículo