A Gentleman’s Cabinet of Curiosities | The Collection of the late Naim Attallah, CBE

A Gentleman’s Cabinet of Curiosities | The Collection of the late Naim Attallah, CBE

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Quartet Books, a collection of 131 volumes

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Quartet Books, a collection of 131 volumes


Naim Attallah's personal collection, published by Quartet Books between 1974 and 1994, was exquisitely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with the original upper covers inlaid. Four works contain charming dedications from the author to Attalah, and these volumes were displayed in his office in West London. Notable authors include Abram Tertz, Peter Paul Fuchs, Julien Green and E. M. Cioran. Dedication copies include Tatsuichiro Akizuki, Nicholas Coleridge, J. P. Donleavy and Fleur Cowles.

Naim Attallah owned and directed Quartet Books from 1976, and this intimate collection is a testament to his adventurous spirit and success as a publisher.

Comprising:

Abram Tertz, A Voice from the Chorus, 1994

Abram Tertz, Little Jinx, 1993

Adrian Ham, Treasury Rules, 1981

Aharon Appelfeld, For Every Sin, 1995

Aharon Appelfeld, Katerina, 1995

Aharon Appelfeld, The Age of Wonders, 1993

Aharon Appelfeld, The Healer, 1992

Aharon Appelfeld, The Retreat, 1985

Aharon Appelfeld, To the Land of the Reeds, 1994

Alain, The Gods, 1988

Alberto Savinio, The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare, 1994

Ana Maria Matute, School of the Sun, 1991

Andrea Giovene, Sansevero I, 1987

Andrea Giovene, Sansevero II, 1987

Arnost Lustig, Darkness Casts No Shadow, 1989

Arnost Lustig, Diamonds of the Night, 1989

Arnost Lustig, Dita Saxova, 1994

Arnost Lustig, Night and Hope, 1989

Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream, 1988

Boris Vian, Heartsnatcher, 1989

Bruno Walter, Gustav Mahler, 1990

Carlo Emilio Gadda, That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, 1985

Claude Cockburn, Cockburn Sums Up, 1981

Denis Macshane, Francois Mitterrand: A Political Odyssey, 1982

Deszo Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes, 1991

Dezso Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes, 1991

Dr. Popescu, The Royal Hunt, 1987

L. Ranelagh, The Past We Share, 1979

E. M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay, 1990

E. M. Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations, 1992

E. M. Cioran, On the Heights of Displair, 1995

E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist, 1987

E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, 1993

Eca de Queiroz, Cousin Bazilio, 1994

Eca De Queiroz, The Illustrious House of Ramires, 1993

Edmond Tiffou, The Illuminator, 1981

Elio Vittorini, Conversation in Sicily, 1988

Ennio Flaiano, A Time to Kill, 1992

Ernst Junger, Aladdin’s Problem, 1993

Ernst Wiechert, The Simple Life, 1994

Eugene Ionesco, Fragments of a Journal, 1987

Ferdinando Camon, The Fifth Estate, 1994

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 1991

Fleur Cowles, All Too True, 1982 - Dedication copy

Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon, 1990

Gabriele D’Annunzio, Nocturne and Five Tales of Love and Death, 1993

Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Flame, 1991

Gaston Bachelard, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, 1987

Gerald de Gaury & H. V. E. Winstone, The Road to Kabul, 1981

Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door, 1992

Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1989

Giovanni Verga, A Mortal Sin, 1995

Grazia Deledda, After the Divorce, 1985

Grazia Deledda, Chiaroscuro and Other Stories, 1994

Grazia Deledda, Cosima, 1991

Grazia Deledda, Elias Portolu, 1992

Gustav Janouch, Conservations with Kafka, 1985

Hassan Bin Talal, Palestinian Self-Determination, 1981

Hazem Zaki Nuseibeh, Palestine and the United Nations, 1981

Heimito von Doderer, The Demons I, 1989

Heimito Von Doderer, The Demons II, 1989

Heimito Von Doderer, The Demons III, 1989

Henry Cattan, The Garden of Joys, 1979

Henry de Montherlant, The Bachelors, 1985

Herman Broch, The Guiltless, 1990

Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers, 1986

Ismail Kadare, The General of the Dead Army, 1986

P. Donleavy, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B., 1968 – Dedication copy

Juan Marse, The Fallen, 1994

Julien Green, Avarice House, 1991

Julien Green, Each Man and his Darkness, 1990

Julien Green, Midnight, 1992

Julien Green, Moira, 1988

Julien Green, The Dark Journey, 1993

Leonid Borodin, The Year of Miracle and Grief, 1984

Lou Andreas-Salome, The Freud Journal, 1987

Louis Couperus, The Hidden Force, 1992

Luigi Pirandello, Short Stories, 1987

Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession, 1986

Martin A. Hansen, The Liar, 1986

Miroslav Krleza, On the Edge of Reason, 1987

Miroslav Krleza, The Return of Philip Latinowicz, 1989

Nicholas Coleridge, Tunnel Vision, 1981 – Dedication copy

Norman Manea, October Eight O’Clock, 1993

Osip Mandelstam, The Noise of Time, 1988

Par Lagerkvist, Guest of Reality, 1989

Par Lagerkvist, The Dwarf, 1986

Patrick Cosgrave, R.A. Butler: An English Life, 1981

Patrick Seale, The Shaping of an Arab Statesman, 1983

Paul Claudel, A Hundred Movements for a Fan, 1992

Paul Gallico, The Boy who Invented the Bubble Gun, 1974 – Dedication copy

Peter Esterhazy, Helping Verbs of the Heart, 1992

Peter Paul Fuchs, The Music Theatre of Walter Felsenstein, 1991

Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Dream of Something, 1988

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Nights and Other Stories, 1994

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Theorem, 1992

Pierre Klossowski, Sade My Neighbour, 1992

M. Rilke, Rodin and Other Prose Pieces, 1986

Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Letters 1902-1926, 1988

Raja Shehadeh, The Third Way, 1982

Ramon Perez de Ayala, Belarmino and Apolonia, 1990

Ramon Perez de Ayala, Honeymoon, Bittermoon, 1990

Remy de Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love, 1992

Rene Crevel, Babylon, 1988

Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer, 1986

Robert Walser, Masquerade and Other Stories, 1993

Sally Magnusson, The Flying Scotsman, 1981

Sally Magnusson, The Flying Scotsman, 1981

Shirley Kay and Malin Basil, Saudi Arabia: Past and Present, 1979

Simon Vesdijk, The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, 1992

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Insatiability, 1985

Stig Dagerman, A Burnt Child, 1990

Stig Dagerman, German Autumn, 1988

Stig Dagerman, The Games of Night, 1986

Stig Dagerman, The Snake, 1995

Stratis Myrivilis, Life in the Tomb, 1987

Tatsuichiro Akizuki, Nagasaki 1945, 1981 – Dedication copy

Thomas Bernhard, Concrete, 1989

Thomas Bernhard, On the Mountain, 1993

Tony Wilkinson, Down and Out, 1981

Topol & Neznansky, Red Square, 1983

Valery Larbaud, A. O. Barnabooth: His Diary, 1991

Valery Larbaud, Fermina Marquez, 1988

Vasco Pratolini, Family Chronicle, 1991

Vaslav Nijinsky, The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, 1991

Victor Segalen, Paintings, 1991

Victor Segalen, Rene Leys, 1990

Wilfred Burchett, At The Barricades, 1980

Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic, 1991

Yury Tynyanov, Lieutenant Kije & Young Vitushishnikov, 1992

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, The Third World: New Direction, 1977