101. [Moby Dick, in Romanian.] Moby Dick a fehér bálna. [Translated by Imre Szász]. [Budapest]: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1963.
$150
2 volumes, 16mo, pp. 242, [6]; 246, [2]; decorations by Miklos Rogdn; original pictorial wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 3 in the publisher's Olcsó könyvtár series.
First edition of this Hungarian translation (Moby Dick was first published in Hungarian in 1929).
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 21:3. OCLC locates four copies: Romanian National Library, Hungary Acadamy of Sciences, Strasbourg, and a copy at the Newberry.
102. [Moby Dick, in Russian.] Моби Дик / Mobi Dik. [Translated and adapted by David I. Dar and V. Paperno. Introduction by David I. Dar]. Leningrad: Izd-vo "Detskai︠a︡ lit-ra", 1968.
$125
8vo, pp. 237, [3]; pictorial endpapers, pictorial title page and decorative initials throughout, 11 full-page illustrations by S. Ostrov; about fine in original pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver on upper cover and spine.
A Russian abridgement for a juvenile audience.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 37:11. OCLC locates copies only at the Newberry, Dartmouth, and Providence Public.
103. [Moby Dick, in Serbo-Croatian.] Moby Dick ili bijelki kit ... S engleskog preveli Zlatko Gorjan i Josip Tabak. Zagreb: Kultura, 1954.
$250
8vo, pp. 561, [1]; original yellow paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth, preserving the attractive dust jacket which is a little worn at the edges and with shallow chips and tears; text a bit toned, else very good. The Afterword is by Leon Howard.
First edition of this translation into Serbo-Croatian. Two Serbo-Croatian editions of the full text appeared in 1954, the other translated by Milan S. Nedick.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 38:6.
104. [Moby Dick, in Serbo-Croatian.] Mobi Dik. [Translated by Milan S. Nedic. Introduction by Vidosava Jankovic]. Belgrade: Narodna Knjiga, [1969].
$250
8vo, pp. 691, [5]; text a little toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else generally fine in original gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, and in a near fine pictorial dust jacket with a small chip at the top of the spine.
This translation into Serbo-Croatian was first published in 1954.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 38:9. Not found in OCLC.
105. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. Illustraciones de Carlos Freixas. [Translated by Elsa Oesterheld]. Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, [1951].
$125
32mo (approx. 5" x 3¼"), pp. [4], 9-387, [3]; color pictorial endpapers, color frontispiece; original blue pictorial paper-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket; the jacket worn at extremities; generally very good. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page.
An abridgement of the novel in Spanish and published as no. 9 in the publisher's Biblioteca Codex Universale series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:14. Newberry only in OCLC.
106. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, S.A., [1955].
$85
12mo, pp. 399, [1]; original pictorial wrappers depicting Gregory Peck as Ahab; some toning of the text but generally a very good copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in the bottom margin of p. 7.
First edition of this printing and the full text of the novel in Spanish. No translator is given. Issued as no. 3 in the publisher's Obrasa Maestras series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:19. OCLC locates only the Newberry copy in the U.S. plus one copy at Macquarie in Australia and 2 in Spain.
107. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick (la ballena blanca). Madrid: Coleccion Popular Literaria, 1955.
$45
8vo, pp. 111, [1]; text in double columns, illustrated paper wrappers; wrappers lightly toned, text browning, pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson on title page, very good. A paperback abridgement. Translator and abridger not given
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:22.
108. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. La ballena blanca. Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, S.A., [1957].
$275
"Seconda edicion," 8vo, pp. [3], 6-376, [8] ads; 8 photographic plates from the Warner Bros. movie of 1956, directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Orson Wells; publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket, publisher's wrap-around bellyband printed in red; this whole volume has been uniformly subjected to damp, causing an overall swelling and slight wrinkling, but without any unsightliness. A very good, sound copy. Issued as no. 2 in the publisher's Colección Z sólo obras maestras series.
This is the complete text of the novel, but the translator is not given. The first edition in this series (October 1955) did not contain these illustrations. The first edition in Spanish was published by Lauro in Barcelona in 1943.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:27.
109. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. La ballena blanca. Barcelona: Editorial Juventud S. A., [1957].
$45
12mo, pp. 375, [9]; original pictorial wrappers showing a scene from the film version starring Gregory Peck; text lightly toned, else near fine. Issued as no. 2 in the publisher's Coleccion Z series.
"Segunda edicion en 'Coleccion Z', marzo 1957" (first published 1955). The first edition published in Spain was published by Lauro in Barcelona in 1943, although the first Spanish edition, which was abridged and adapted, was published in Buenos Aires in 1940.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:27.
110. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick (La ballena blanca). Illustraciones de Lozano Olivares. [Translated by Guillermo Guerrero Estrella, Hugo E Ricart, & Alejandro Rosa]. México, D.F.: Editorial Cumbre S.A., [1957].
$250
8vo, pp. 511, [6]; color frontispiece plus 7 color plates, black & white illustrations throughout the text (some full-page); fine copy in original brown cloth stamped in gilt and purple, and a very good dust jacket with a small loss at the bottom of the front panel. Issued in the publisher's Colección ilustrada de obras inmortales series.
This is the first edition printed in Mexico.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:26. OCLC locates only later editions.
111. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick (La ballena blanca). [Adaptación de Eías Reynal. Portada e ilustraciones de Sergio García Moreno]. Santiago de Chile: Zig-Zag, [1957].
$325
8vo, pp. [2], 9-140, [2]; 32 illustrations in the text (several full-page); text a bit toned, small abrasion on title page from erasure of a name, old library rubberstamp on p. 71, otherwise a very good copy in pictorial paper covered boards. Issued in the publisher's Biblioteca Juvenil Serie Amarilla.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41.28. Newberry only in OCLC.
112. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. La balena blanca. [Traducción y adaptación de Manuel Rossell Pesant. Portada e ilustraciones Fariñas]. Barcelona: Editorial Mateu, [1958].
$150
Small 8vo, pp. [3], 6-255, [1]; title page printed in red, blue and black; 6 full-page illustrations and 6 composite color plates, each showing 6 illustrations by Farinas; original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket; a very good copy. Pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson in the bottom margin of the half-title page.
The dust jacket on this printing bears an added sticker announcing "en colores, en colores" indicating that this printing may be the first to contain the color plates. An adaptation of the novel for a juvenile audience. This edition was first published in 1955 and went through numerous printings.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:21. Of this 1958 printing, only Newberry in OCLC.
113. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. [Adapted by Jose Antonio Vidal Sales]. Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Bogota: Editorial Bruguera, [1960].
$125
Small 8vo, pp. 255, [1]; illustrated title page, 62 full-page composite illustrations telling the story in comic strips separate from the text; pressure stamp of whaling collector Barbara Johnson at base of title page; all else near fine in pictorial jacket.
Third edition thus (first printing of this edition was 1956), a translation and adaptation of the novel for a juvenile audience in Spanish, issued in the publisher's Colección Historias series, with comic illustrations by Pedro Alférez.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:25. Of this edition, only Newberry in OCLC.
114. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick o La ballena. [Traducción de Guillermo Guerrero Estrella, Hugo E. Ricart, y Alejandro Rosa]. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1960.
$125
2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], vii-xxiv, [14], 349, [1]; [6], 9-431, [1]; text toned, else very good and sound. Issued as no. 18 in the publisher's Nuestros Clásicos series.
First edition of this translation. Fuentes' introduction runs 18 pages.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41.31.
115. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. La ballena blanca. Un libro de oro de estampas. Mexico: Editorial Novaro, 1961.
$50
11" x 8½", pp. 48; 4 perforated color plates, each bearing 12 color stamps showing scenes from Moby Dick, with glue on verso, and meant to be pasted into their proper place in the text; the plates loose from the binding, but all are present; original pictorial wrappers; very good. Issued as no. 37 in the publisher's Titilos de Esta series.
This copy with a business card laid of Shizuko Turu laid in, and addressed to Dr. Hughes: "Thank you for your letter. We have not forgotten to look for Moby Dicks. It is just that we have been quite busy at the office. Will try to write soon. Skizu." The card is wrinkled and was once attached by a staple to the upper cover.
The adaptation is by Emma Gelders Sterne, and the illustrations by Charles Andres. The book is published under agreements with Golden Press, Inc., Artist and Writers Guild, Inc., and the Western Printing and Lithography Company, in the United States.
See Tansell no. 96 and 101 for the American and British versions of the same. Phelps, L.R. Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:33. Three in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
116. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick (La ballena blanca). [Traducción de Guillermo Guerrero Estrella, Hugo E. Ricart, y Alejandro Rosa]. Buenos Aires: Editorial de Ediciones Selectas S.R.L., [1962].
$150
8vo, pp. 511, [5]; a number of full-page illustrations by an unidentified artist; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; pp. 233-234 with 2 tears and small loss of text at the beginnings of 3 lines at the bottom; all else very good, sound and clean in original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, and preserving the pictorial dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Coleccion Clasicos Selectos series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41.34. Newberry only in OCLC.
117. [Moby Dick, in Spanish.] Moby Dick. [Translated and adapted by Ramón Conde Obregón. Illustrated by Vincente B. Ballestar]. Barcelona: Instituto de Artes Gráficas, 1964.
$50
Square 8vo, pp. 235, [5]; text in double column; 11 color plates by Ballestar; original red cloth stamped in blind on upper cover and spine; cloth on front board bubbling, front hinge cracked, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else very good, sound, and clean. Issued as no. 26 in the publisher's Colección "Auriga" Serie Azul.
First edition of this adaptation. "Vocabulario de términos marítimos" on pages 228-235.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 41:37. Six in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
118. [Moby Dick, in Swedish.] Moby Dick: slutstriden : fyra kapitel ur boken om Den vita valen i nyöversättning och med förord av Einar Malm. [Stockholm: Sohlmans förlags AB, 1955].
$50
8vo, pp. 89, [1]; illustrations by Rockwell Kent; original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; near fine throughout.
Contains a foreword by Malm, and the last four chapters of the novel. Six copies in OCLC, only the Newberry, Dartmouth, Kentucky, and Minnesota copies in the U.S.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 42:17.
119. [Pierre, in German.] Pierre oder Im Kampf mit der Sphinx. Roman. Dt. von W. Weber. Hamburg: Claassen-Verlag, 1965.
$150
8vo, pp. 497, [5]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else fine in original red cloth stamped in blue and black on spine, and preserving a near fine dust jacket.
This is the first translation of the entire novel in German.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:90.
120. [Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, in German.] Der edle Hahn Beneventano. [Linolschnitte von Gerhard Gollwitzer. Übersetzung und Textfassung, Eckart Klessmann]. München: Heimeran, [1959].
$65
12mo, pp. 53, [3]; 21 linocuts by Gerhard Gollwitzer; text a little toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp, else a fine copy in original cream paper-covered boards stamped in red on upper cover and spine, preserving a fine dust jacket.
First edition of this translation of Melville's short story, "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo" into German. The story was first translated into German in 1948.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:134. Newberry only in OCLC.
121. [Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, in French.] Kikeriki. Holzstiche von Otto Rohse. [Übertragung von Wolfheinrich von der Mülbe]. Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1959.
$100
8vo, pp. [2], 40; 11 illustrations (3 full-page); Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else fine in original pictorial boards stamped in black and orange, publisher's slipcase.
"Cock-a-Doodle-Doo" in a handsome French edition limited to 1000 copies.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:135.
122. [The Encantadas, in German.] Die verfluchten Inseln: zehn skizzen. Ü̈bertragen von Walter Weber. Basel: Verlag Benno Schwabe & Co., [1946].
$75
12mo, pp. 109, [1]; map, 2 plates; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; near fine copy in original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover, and a near fine dust jacket.
First edition of "The Encantadas" in German.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:118.
123. [The Encantadas & Stories, in German.] Die verzauberten Inseln oder Encantadas. Daniel Orme. John Marr. Mit einem Vorwort von Manfred Pütz. [Translated by Richard Mummendey and Vera Pagin]. München: Winkler Verlag, [1982].
$40
12mo, pp. 111, [1]; frontispiece portrait, full-page map, 14 other illustrations (including reproductions of nautical charts) in the text; fine copy in the dust jacket.
First edition of this German translation of three of Melville's shorter works: "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles," "Damiel Orme," and "John Marr."
124. [The Encantadas & Stories, in Italian.] Le Isole Incantate (racconti della veranda). [Traduzione di Bruno Tasso]. [Milano]: Rizzoli-Editore, [1952].
$50
16mo, pp. 233, [7]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text a bit toned, else a very good copy in original printed gray wrappers. Issued as no. 402-404 in the publisher's Biblioteca universale rizzoli series. In pencil at the top of p. 5: "Melville gift 67-33a Hayford."
Also includes "The Piazza," "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno," "The Lightning-Rod Man," and "The Bell-Tower."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:109. 14 in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
125. [Benito Cereno & Stories, in French.] Benito Cereno et autres contes de la véranda. Traduit de l'américain par Pierre Leyris. [Paris]: Gallimard, [1951].
$425
12mo, pp. [7], 10-343, [7]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; decorative publisher's green, blue, and black cloth binding after a design by Mario Prassinos (1916-1985, French modernist painter), decorative endpapers; generally fine.
First edition of this translation, and copy no. 919 of 1000 copies on Navarre de Voiron. Includes also "The Piazza," "Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "The Lightning- Rod Man," and "The Bell-Tower."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:101.
126. [Benito Cereno, in German.] Benito Cereno. Mit der Novelle vom Blitzableitermann. [Ubertragen von Hans Ehrenzeller ... Illustrationen von Verena Niedermann]. Zürich: In Verlag der Arche, [1945].
$45
12mo, pp. 229, [7]; 5 full-page illustrations by Niedermann; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original terracotta cloth, printed paper label on spine; very good, sound, and clean.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:115.
127. [Benito Cereno, in German.] Benito Cereno. [Translated by Wilhelm Emmanuel Süskind. Edited by Marianne Kesting]. [Frankfurt]: Ullstein Bücher, [1972].
$30
12mo, pp. 251, [5]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original pictorial wrappers; text a little toned, all else very good and sound. Issued as no. 32 in the publisher's Dichtung und Wirklichkeit series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:146.
128. [Benito Cereno & Stories, in Italian.] Benito Cereno. Il paradiso degli scapoli e il Tartaro delle fanciulle, Il venditore di parafulmini, Il fiasco felice, Il violinista, Jimmy Rose, La torre campanaria. [Traduzione dall' Americano di Cesare Pavese, Enzo Giachino]. [Milano & Verona]: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, [1958].
$45
12mo, pp. [7], 10-198, [8]; text slightly toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original cream paper-covered boards stamped in red on both covers and spine; very good and sound. Issued as no. DXLIII in the publisher's Biblioteca Moderna Mondadori series.
Includes "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "The Lightning- Rod Man," "The Happy Failure," "Jimmy Rose," and "The Bell- Tower."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:114. OCLC locates 6 copies, 5 in Italy and one at the Newberry.
129. [Benito Cereno, in Italian.] Benito Cereno. Versione, introduzione e note a cura di Domenico Cerroni, illustrazioni di L. Del Zotto. Milano: Trevisini, [1965].
$75
First edition of this translation into Italian, 8vo, pp. 159, [9]; text a little toned, else a very good, sound copy in original pictorial wrappers.
"Benito Cereno" was first translated into Italian by Cesar Pavese in 1940.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:116. Newberry only in OCLC.
130. [Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, The Piazza, in Italian.] Benito Cereno. Billy Budd, gabbiere di parrocchetto. La veranda. [Traduzioni di: per "Billy Budd" Mariella Segre, per le altre opere Laura Dalla Rosa]. [Roma]: Gherardo Casini Editore, [1966].
$40
12mo, pp. 260, [12]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original pictorial wrappers; tear at the top of the spine, text a bit toned; all else very good and sound. Issued as no. 47 in the publisher's Libri del Sabato series.
First edition of these translations.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:117. Four in OCLC, only the Newberry in the U.S.
131. [Benito Cereno, in Romanian.] Benito Cereno şi alte povestiri. Traducere şi prefaţă de Petre Solomon. [Bucureşti]: Editura Pentru Literatură, 1967.
$35
12mo, pp. xlv, [3], 402, [6]; original pictorial wrappers worn, text toned; good and sound. Issued as no. 5 in the publisher's Biblioteca pentru toţi series.
This Romanian edition includes "Bartleby the Scrivner," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "Billy Budd."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 36:9. OCLC locates two copies in Romania plus the Wisconsin and Newberry copies in the U.S.
132. [Benito Cereno & Stories, in Serbo-Croatian.] Ukleta ostrva: izabrane pripovetke. Izbor i prevod Vera Ilić. Beograd: Srpska književna zadruga, 1975.
$100
8vo, pp. 324, [4]; edges stained red; small scrape at the bottom of the upper cover, else near fine in original blue cloth stamped in black.
First edition of this translation into Serbo-Croatian of some of Melville's shorter fiction, including "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles," "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby the Scrivner," "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "Jimmy Rose," and "The Bell Tower." Issued as no. 454 in the publisher's Srpska književna zadruga series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 38:20. Fourteen in OCLC, only Harvard, Newberry, and Cleveland Public in the U.S.
133. [Israel Potter, in Czech.] Izrael Potter. [Translated by Marie Kornelová]. Praha: Práce, 1958.
$75
12mo, pp. 188, [4]; original pictorial wrappers; some cracking along the spine but still generally good and clean. Issued as no. 2 in the publisher's Příliv Library series.
Second edition of this translation, but with a different setting of the text.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 8:16. Czech National Library and Newberry only in OCLC.
134. [Israel Potter, in French.] Israel Potter. Traduit de l'anglais par C. Cestre. Paris: Corrêa, [1951].
$100
8vo, pp. 254; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text toned, else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. In pencil on p. [5]: "Melville gift 66.131 Hayford."
First trade edition of Israel Potter in French. There was also an edition of 25 numbered copies on Johannot.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:79.
135. [Israel Potter, in German.] Israel Potters Irrfahrten und Abenteuer. Übersetzung aus dem Englischen und Nachwort von Walter Weber. [Zurich]: Manesse Verlag, n.d., [ca. 1967].
$45
16mo (approx. 6" x 4"), pp. 361, [3]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; generally fine in original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, and in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Issued in the publisher's Bibliothek der Weltliteratur series.
This translation first published in 1956.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:92.
136. [Israel Potter, in German.] Israel Potter seine 50 Jahre im Exil. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Uwe Johnson. [Frankfurt (Main)] : Insel Verlag, [1980].
$45
12mo, pp. 246, [2], [10] ads; fine in original gray pictorial wrappers. Issued as no. 517 in the publisher's Insel-Taschenbuch series.
First edition of this translation.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:97. OCLC locates 7 copies in Germany, 1 in Switzerland, and only the Newberry in the U.S.
137. [Israel Potter, in Italian.] Vita e avventure di Israel Potter a cura di enrico Damiani. [Translated, with an introduction by Guiseppe Antonelli]. [Roma]: Belardetti Editore, [1948].
$150
12mo, pp. 316, [4]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text a bit toned, else a near fine copy in original embossed printed wrappers. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's 'Dedalo' Gollezione di Narratori Stranieri series. In pencil at the top of p. 5: "Melville gift 66-134 Hayford."
First edition of Israel Potter in Italian.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:81.
138. [I and My Chimney, in French.] Moi et ma cheminée. Traduction de Armel Guerne. Paris: Falaize, [1951].
$75
12mo, pp. 153, [5]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; near fine copy in original green wrappers printed in red and black.
First book edition of "I and My Chimney" in French. The story originally appeared in Le Mercure de France earlier the same year. The text also contains "Jimmy Rose," and "The Happy Failure." There were also issues of 25 copies on Madagascar, and 250 on Alfa.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:103.
139. [I and My Chimney, in German.] Ich und mern Kamin: Eine Erzählung. [Übersetzt von Alfred Kuoni]. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, [1965].
$35
12mo, pp. 64; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original purple pictorial paper-covered boards.
First edition of "I and My Chimney" in German.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:141.
140. [Confidence Man, in French.] Le grand escroc. Traduit de l'américain par Henri Thomas. Préćédé d'une introduction de Nathaniel Hawthorne. [Paris]: Les Amis des Éditions de Minuit, [1950].
$150
12mo, pp. [2], vi, [1], 8-395, [3]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; slight abrasion at the top of the spine else a fine copy in original printed cream wrappers. Two excerpts from Hawthorne's journal serve as the introduction. In pencil at the top of p. [iii]: "Melville gift 66-135 Hayford."
First edition of The Confidence Man in French, limited to 30 copies on Velin de Ghaldwill, and 500 copies on Alfa des Papeteries de Navarre, this being copy 373 on Alfa.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:85.
141. [Confidence Man, in Italian.] L'uomo di fiducia (una mascherata). A cura di Sergio Perosa. Venezia: Neri Pozza, [1961].
$200
8vo, pp. [7], x-xxxvii, [2], 380, [2]; title page printed in green and black; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, and preserving a near fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's Tradizione Americana series.
First edition of The Confidence Man in Italian.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:82.
142. [Poems, in German & English.] Wracks am Strande der Zeit: amerikanich und deutsch. Ausgewählt, übertragen und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Ferdinand Schunck. Herausgegeben von Roswitha Th. Hlawatsch und Horst G. Heiderhoff. [Waldbrunn]: Horst Heiderhoff Verlag, [1984].
$100
12mo, pp. 99, [1]; parallel text in English and German; mounted color frontispiece portrait; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
First edition of this translation of Melville's poems in German, with a parallel English text. Schunck published his Ph.D. dissertation Das lyrische Werk Herman Melville in Bonn, 1976.
143. [Billy Budd & Benito Cereno, in German.] Billy Budd. Benito Cereno. Zwei Erzählungen. [Deutsche Ũbertragung von Billy Budd: Richard Möring (Peter Gan) ; von Benito Cereno: W. E. Süskind]. [Hamburg]: Fischer Bucherie, [1952].
$100
12mo, pp. 197, [7]; text toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; front wrapper partially loose, else very good. Issued as no. 22 in the publisher's Fischer Taschenbücher series. In pencil on recto of first leaf: "Hayford."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:104. OCLC locates 23 copies worldwide, only the Newberry in the U.S.
144. [Billy Budd & Stories, in German.] Billy Budd und andere Geschichten. [Deutsche Übertragungen von Richard Moering, W. E. Süskind, Wolfheinrich von der Mülbe]. Hamburg: Claassen Verlag, [1957].
$35
Second edition, 8vo, pp. 357, [3]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; boards a little warped, else a very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, preserving a rough but complete dust jacket with tears and chips.
First published in 1948. The book also includes German translations of "Bartleby," "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!" "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," "The Encantadas," "Jimmy Rose," "The Paradise of Bachelor Tartarus of Maids," and "Benito Cereno."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:102.
145. [Billy Budd, in Dutch.] Billy Budd Voormarsgast. Wat hem overkwam in het jaar van de Grote Muiterij. [Translated by Johan M. Palm]. Amsterdam & Antwerp: Wereldbibliotheek Vereniging, 1950.
$100
8vo, pp. 94, [2]; text a touch toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; very good copy in original printed blue wrappers. At the top of the first page of text in pencil: "Melville gift 70-33 G. Thomas Tanselle."
First edition in Dutch.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 10:22.
146. [Billy Budd, in French.] Billy Budd gabier de misaine. Traduit de l'Anglais par Pierre Leyris. Paris & Neuchatel: [Attinger] with a Gallimard cancel, [1937 or after].
$125
12mo, pp. [3]-197, [1]; largely unopened; text a touch toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; near fine copy in original printed cream wrappers. At the top of the dedication page in pencil: "Melville gift 66-174 Hayford."
First edition in French, Gallimard issue. This edition first published in 1935, and from 1937 on publication was taken over by Gallimard. This copy with Gallimard wrappers but the text block is that of the 1935 original.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:86.
147. [Billy Budd, in German.] Billy Budd und Andere Geschichten. [Translated by Richard Möring (Peter Gan), Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, and Wolfheinrich von der Mülbe]. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1948.
$75
8vo, pp. 358, [2]; publisher's slip tipped in after the last page; text somewhat toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; all else very good in original blue paper-covered boards, gray cloth spine with printed paper label.
Includes Billy Budd, "Bartleby," "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!," "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," "The Encantadas," "Jimmy Rose," "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," and "Benito Cereno." Billy Budd, "Bartleby," "The Encantadas,"and Benito Cereno had all appeared in prior German translations.
First printing of this edition. This looks to be the first German translation of "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!," "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," "Jimmy Rose," "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids."
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:102.
148. [Billy Budd, in German.] Billy Budd Erzählung. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, [1975].
$35
12mo, pp. 91, [5]; text a touch toned, Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; near fine copy in original printed yellow wrappers. Issued as no. 7707 in the publisher's Universal-Bibliothek series.
This edition first published in 1954. This is one of numerous reprints.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:105.
149. [Billy Budd, in German.] Billy Budd: novelle. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Richard Moering mit einem Essay von Albert Camus. [Zurich]: Diogenes, [1981].
$35
12mo, pp. 91, [5]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Issued as no. 226 in the publisher's Diogenes-Taschenbuch series.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:111.
150. [Billy Budd, in Italian.] Billy Budd e altri racconti. Prefazione e traduzione di Enzo Giachino. [Seconda edizion]. [Torino]: Giulio Einauda, [1965].
$50
8vo, pp. [5], viii-xvi, 520, [2]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original cream cloth and dust jacket, publisher's slipcase.
Includes "Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!" "The Two Temples," "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Happy Failure," "The Fiddler," "Jimmy Rose," "Benito Cereno," "The Bell-Tower," "I and My Chimney," "The Apple-Tree Table," "The Piazza," and Billy Budd.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:111.
151. [Journals, in French.] Journaux de voyage. Journal of a visit to London and the Continent. Journal of the clipper ship Meteor. Journal of a visit to Europe and the Levant. Traduits de l'anglais par Francis Ledoux ... Sixsieme edition. Paris: Gallimard, [1956].
$35
12mo, pp. [5], 8-274, [4]; uncut and largely unopened; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; text toned; all else near fine.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 14:121.
152. [Letters, in German.] Briefe. Herausgegeben von Merrell R. Davis und William H. Gilman. Zurich: Claassen Verlag, [1963].
$65
8vo, pp. 289, [1]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; fine copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and a near fine dust jacket with a few tiny breaks at the extremities.
First edition in German of Melville's letters, following the Yale University Press edition of 1960.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:159.
153. [Melville Criticism, in Japanese.] 鯨とテキスト : メルヴィルの世界 / Kujira to tekisuto. [Whales and texts: Melville's world.] [Edited by Ōhashi Kenzaburō]. [Tokyo: Kokushokankōkai, 1983].
$75
8vo, pp. [8], vii, [1], 467, [1], 64, [4]; 3 plates; fine copy in original blue moire cloth stamped in silver on spine, and preserving a fine dust jacket with a Rockwell Kent illustration from the 1930 Random House edition on the front panel. Includes a Bibliography of Melville Studies in Japan by Yumichi Makino.
First edition. A series of 14 critical essays on Melville's fiction by Japanese scholars.
Nine in OCLC, UCLA, Newberry and the Melville Society only in the U.S.
154. [Works, in German.] Typee. Omoo, Weissjacke. [Vollstandige Ausgabe, aus dem Amerikanischen ubertragen und mit einem Nachwort und Erlauterungen von Richard Mummendey].. Munchen: Winkler-Verlag, [1970].
$200
First edition of these three translations, 12mo, pp. 1055, [1]; a fine copy in original pale-blue cloth stamped in gilt, and a fine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase with printed paper label. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:11; 16:20; 16:31. Many copies in Europe but only the Newberry in the U.S.
With: Moby Dick oder der wal. [Aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen und mit einem Nachwort und Erläuterungen von Richard Mummendey]. Munchen: Winkler-Verlag, [1964]. 12mo, pp. 710, [6]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, preserving a nice dust jacket with a small crease at the bottom of the front panel, and a fine publisher's slipcase with printed paper label. There were many German editions with Mummendey's translation, including two in 1954; and even this edition went through many reprintings at various locations, but this is the first. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:58.
With: Redburn, Israel Potter und sämtliche Erzählungen. [Vollstandige Ausgabe, aus dem Amerikanischen ubertragen und mit einem Nachwort und Erlauterungen von Richard Mummendey]. Munchen: Winkler-Verlag, [1967]. First edition of these translations, 12mo, pp. 1077, [3]; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; a fine copy in original pale-blue cloth stamped in gilt, and a fine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase with printed paper label. Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 16:26; 16:95; 16:109, 16:144. Many copies in Europe but only the Newberry in the U.S.
Together, 3 uniform volumes containing most of the major prose works of Melville, Mardi and The Confidence Man notwithstanding. Richard Mummendey (1900-1978) was a German librarian, scholar, and translator, most notably of Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson.
155. [Works, in Italian.] Opere scelte. A cura di Claudio Gotlier. [Verona]: Arnoldo Mondadori, [1972-75].
$125
First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [9], x-xlii, 1206, [2]; [9], xii-xli, [1], 1093, [1]; title pages printed in green and black; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original full blue leather, gilt-decorated spines; a fine set in publisher's slipcases.
Amazingly, this title has gone through at least seven editions into the 21st century. Included are: Vol. 1: Moby Dick; "Bartleby; L'uomo di fiducia," "Lettere." -- Vol. 2: Pierre o delle ambiguità, "Le Encantadas," "Il venditore di parafulmini," "La torre campanaria," "Benito Cereno," Billy Budd, gabbiere di parrocchetto; Poesie scelte; Scritti letterari.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 24:1, 24:2.
156. [Works, in Swedish.] Melville: en samlingsvolym ... med en inledning av Artur Lundkvist. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren/Vi, [1957].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. 374, [2]; largely unopened; Newberry Library duplicate with bookplate and discreet release stamp; original card wrappers with pictorial dust jacket; near fine copy.
The first, and as of the early 80s, the only collected edition of Melville's works in Swedish. Includes "Bartleby," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Encantadas," "The Fiddler," "Hawthorne and His Mosses," Nine Letters, Redburn (chap. 37), White Jacket (chaps. 50, 63), Moby Dick (chaps. 8-9), "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "I and My Chimney," "Benito Cereno," and "The Berg." Translated by Reidar Ekner, Hugo Hultenberg, and Olov Jonason, Introduction by Artur Lundkvist, and Commentary by Reidar Ekner.
Phelps, Herman Melville's Foreign Reputation, 42:1. Only two in OCLC, and just the Newberry in the U.S.