Cape Editions

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The Cape Editions are a selection of short books, frequently in translation, issued by UK publisher Jonathan Cape from 1967 to 1971.

Contents

The collection has been described as "the remarkable Cape Editions series of seminal modern texts: poetry, prose, anthropology, drama, many of them pioneering translations". [1]

The general editor of the series was professor and poet Nathaniel Tarn. [1]

Cape Editions

#TitleAuthorYearOriginal title
or source
Cape yearTranslatorSBN / ISBN
1 The Scope of Anthropology Claude Lévi-Strauss after 1950?1967Sherry Ortner Paul, Robert A. Paul [2] S: SBN
H: SBN
2 Call Me Ishmael Charles Olson 1947S: SBN
H: SBN
3 Writing Degree Zero Roland Barthes 1953 Le Degré zéro de l'écriture 1967Annette Lavers, Colin SmithS: SBN
H: SBN
4 Elements of Semiology Roland Barthes1964Éléments de sémiologieS: SBN
H: SBN
5 I Wanted to Write a Poem William Carlos Williams 1958S: SBN
H: SBN
6 The Memorandum Václav Havel 1965Vyrozumění1967 [3] Vera Blackwell S: SBN
H: SBN
7 Selected Poems Nazim Hikmet 20th c.?1967 [4] Taner Baybars S: SBN
H: SBN
8 Aphorisms & Letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 18th c.?S: SBN
H: SBN
9 Tango Slavomir Mrozek 1964TangoS: SBN
H: SBN
10 On Love ... Aspects of a Single Theme José Ortega y Gasset 20th c.?S: SBN
H: SBN
11 Manhood Michel Leiris 1939 L’Âge d’homme S: SBN
H: SBN
12 Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language Karl von Frisch 20th c.?S: SBN
H: SBN
13 Lunar Caustic Malcolm Lowry 19681968S: SBN
H: SBN
14 Twenty Prose Poems Charles Baudelaire 1869?possibly selections from Le Spleen de Paris S: SBN
H: SBN
15Journeys Günter Eich 20th c.?S: SBN
H: SBN
16 A Close Watch on the Trains Bohumil Hrabal 1965Ostře sledované vlakyS: SBN
H: SBN
17 Mayan Letters Charles Olson1953 [5] 1968 Robert Creeley (ed.) [6] S: SBN
H: SBN
18 The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe Julian Huxley 1914S: SBN
H: SBN
19 The Supermale Alfred Jarry 1902 Le Surmâle S: SBN
H: SBN
20 Poems & Antipoems Nicanor Parra 1954Poemas y antipoemasS: SBN
H: SBN
21 In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali Various??S: SBN
H: SBN
22 History Will Absolve Me Fidel Castro 1953 La historia me absolverá S: SBN
H: SBN
23Selected Poems Georg Trakl after 1912?1968 Robert Grenier et al, Christopher Middleton (ed.)S: SBN
H: SBN
24Selected Poems Yves Bonnefoy after 1945?S: SBN
H: SBN
25 Ferdinand Louis Zukofsky 1968S: SBN
H: SBN
26 The Recluse Adalbert Stifter 19th c.?S: SBN
H: SBN
27 Dialectical Materialism Henri Lefebvre 1940Le Matérialisme dialectiqueS: SBN
H: SBN
28Missing from the available listingS: SBN
H: SBN
29 Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver 1968S: SBN
H: SBN
30 The Human Sciences and Philosophy Lucien Goldmann 1966Sciences humaines et philosophieS: SBN
H: SBN
31Selected Poems André Breton 20th c.?1969S: SBN
H: SBN
32 Soap Francis Ponge 1967Le Savon1969 [7] Lane Dunlop S: SBN
H: SBN
33 Histoire extraordinaire:
Essay on a dream of Baudelaire's
Michel Butor 1961Histoire extraordinaire :
essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire
1969 [8] Richard Howard S: SBN
H: ISBN   0-224-61664-1
34 Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss Georges Charbonnier 1961 Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss S: SBN
H: SBN
35 An Absence Uwe Johnson 1964Eine Reise wegwohinS: SBN
H: SBN
36 A Critique of Pure Tolerance Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Marcuse 1965S: SBN
H: SBN
37 The Garden Party Václav Havel1963Zahradní slavnostS: SBN
H: SBN
38 Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1924 Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada 1969 [9] W. S. Merwin S: SBN
H: ISBN   0-224-61725-7
39 Genesis as Myth and Other Essays Edmund Leach 19691969 [10] S: SBN
H: SBN
40 Cold Mountain Han-Shan 9th c.?1970 Burton Watson S: SBN
H: SBN
41 The World, the Flesh and the Devil J. D. Bernal 19291970 [11] S: SBN
H: ISBN   0-224-61831-8
42 The Death of Lysanda Yitzhak Orpaz 1964מות ליסאנדה1970Richard FlintS: SBN 224 61873 3
H: SBN 224 61874 1

Later additions

#TitleAuthorYearOriginal title
or source
Cape yearTranslatorSBN / ISBN
46Poems [12] Hermann Hesse 1953 (original copyright)/1970 (translated by James Wright)?1971 James Wright S: ISBN
H: ISBN   0-224-00554-5

Sources

A listing of the titles appears in The Death of Lysanda, Yitzhak Orpaz (p. 110).

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