Cape Editions Explained

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

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

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or source		scope=col class="unsortable" Cape yearscope=col class="unsortable" Translatorscope=col SBN / ISBN
1The Scope of AnthropologyClaude Lévi-Straussafter 1950?1967Sherry Ortner Paul, Robert A. Paul [2] S: SBN
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2Call Me IshmaelCharles Olson1947S: SBN
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3Writing Degree ZeroRoland Barthes1953Le Degré zéro de l'écriture1967Annette Lavers, Colin SmithS: SBN
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4Elements of SemiologyRoland Barthes1964Éléments de sémiologieS: SBN
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5I Wanted to Write a PoemWilliam Carlos Williams1958S: SBN
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6The MemorandumVáclav Havel1965Vyrozumění1967 [3] Vera BlackwellS: SBN
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7Selected PoemsNazim Hikmet20th c.?1967 [4] Taner BaybarsS: SBN
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8Aphorisms & LettersGeorg Christoph Lichtenberg18th c.?S: SBN
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9TangoSlavomir Mrozek1964TangoS: SBN
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10On Love ... Aspects of a Single ThemeJosé Ortega y Gasset20th c.?S: SBN
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11ManhoodMichel Leiris1939L’Âge d’hommeS: SBN
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12Karl von Frisch20th c.?S: SBN
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13Lunar CausticMalcolm Lowry19681968S: SBN
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14Twenty Prose PoemsCharles Baudelaire1869?possibly selections from Le Spleen de ParisS: SBN
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15JourneysGünter Eich20th c.?S: SBN
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16A Close Watch on the TrainsBohumil Hrabal1965Ostře sledované vlakyS: SBN
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17Mayan LettersCharles Olson1953 [5] 1968Robert Creeley (ed.) [6] S: SBN
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18The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested GrebeJulian Huxley1914S: SBN
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19The SupermaleAlfred Jarry1902Le SurmâleS: SBN
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20Poems & AntipoemsNicanor Parra1954Poemas y antipoemasS: SBN
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21Various ??S: SBN
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22History Will Absolve MeFidel Castro1953La historia me absolveráS: SBN
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23Selected PoemsGeorg Traklafter 1912?1968Robert Grenier et al, Christopher Middleton (ed.)S: SBN
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24Selected PoemsYves Bonnefoyafter 1945?S: SBN
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25FerdinandLouis Zukofsky1968S: SBN
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26The RecluseAdalbert Stifter19th c.?S: SBN
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27Dialectical MaterialismHenri Lefebvre1940Le Matérialisme dialectiqueS: SBN
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28Missing from the available listingS: SBN
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29Soul on IceEldridge Cleaver1968S: SBN
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30The Human Sciences and PhilosophyLucien Goldmann1966Sciences humaines et philosophie S: SBN
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31Selected PoemsAndré Breton20th c.?1969S: SBN
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32SoapFrancis Ponge1967Le Savon1969 [7] Lane DunlopS: SBN
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33Histoire extraordinaire:
Essay on a dream of Baudelaire's		Michel Butor1961Histoire extraordinaire :
essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire		1969 [8] Richard HowardS: SBN
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34Conversations with Claude Lévi-StraussGeorges Charbonnier1961Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-StraussS: SBN
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35An AbsenceUwe Johnson1964Eine Reise wegwohinS: SBN
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36A Critique of Pure ToleranceRobert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Marcuse1965S: SBN
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37The Garden PartyVáclav Havel1963Zahradní slavnostS: SBN
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38Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairPablo Neruda1924Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada1969 [9] W. S. MerwinS: SBN
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39Genesis as Myth and Other EssaysEdmund Leach19691969 [10] S: SBN
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40Cold MountainHan-Shan9th c.?1970Burton WatsonS: SBN
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41The World, the Flesh and the DevilJ. D. Bernal19291970 [11] S: SBN
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42The Death of LysandaYitzhak Orpaz1964מות ליסאנדה1970Richard FlintS: SBN 224 61873 3
H: SBN 224 61874 1

Later additions

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or source		scope=col class="unsortable" Cape yearscope=col class="unsortable" Translatorscope=col SBN / ISBN
46Poems [12] Hermann Hesse1953 (original copyright)/1970 (translated by James Wright) ?1971James WrightS: ISBN
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Sources

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

Notes and References

  1. http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/tarnA.html Shearsman Books: Nathaniel Tarn
  2. [British Library]
  3. British Library System number 001619788, 112 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  4. British Library System number 001681277. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  5. British Library System number 002707613, Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  6. British Library System number 004074757, 91 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  7. British Library System number 002954015, 100 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  8. British Library System number 000553755, 174 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  9. British Library System number 010950789, 69 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  10. British Library System number 002098935, 124 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  11. British Library System number 000291550, 76 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
  12. http://www.abebooks.com/Poems-Cape-Editions-Hermann-Hesse-Translator-J/2309471319/bd Poems (Cape Editions), Hermann Hesse; Translator-J. Wright

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