Cape Editions

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

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

#	Title	Author	Year	Original title or source	Cape year	Translator	SBN / ISBN
1	The Scope of Anthropology	Claude Lévi-Strauss	after 1950	?	1967	Sherry Ortner Paul, Robert A. Paul [2]	S: SBN H: SBN
2	Call Me Ishmael	Charles Olson	1947				S: SBN H: SBN
3	Writing Degree Zero	Roland Barthes	1953	Le Degré zéro de l'écriture	1967	Annette Lavers, Colin Smith	S: SBN H: SBN
4	Elements of Semiology	Roland Barthes	1964	Éléments de sémiologie			S: SBN H: SBN
5	I Wanted to Write a Poem	William Carlos Williams	1958				S: SBN H: SBN
6	The Memorandum	Václav Havel	1965	Vyrozumění	1967 [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	1964	Tango			S: 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	1968		1968		S: SBN H: SBN
14	Twenty Prose Poems	Charles Baudelaire	1869?	possibly selections from Le Spleen de Paris			S: SBN H: SBN
15	Journeys	Günter Eich	20th c.	?			S: SBN H: SBN
16	A Close Watch on the Trains	Bohumil Hrabal	1965	Ostře sledované vlaky			S: SBN H: SBN
17	Mayan Letters	Charles Olson	1953 [5]		1968	Robert Creeley (ed.) [6]	S: SBN H: SBN
18	The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe	Julian Huxley	1914				S: SBN H: SBN
19	The Supermale	Alfred Jarry	1902	Le Surmâle			S: SBN H: SBN
20	Poems & Antipoems	Nicanor Parra	1954	Poemas y antipoemas			S: 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
23	Selected Poems	Georg Trakl	after 1912	?	1968	Robert Grenier et al, Christopher Middleton (ed.)	S: SBN H: SBN
24	Selected Poems	Yves Bonnefoy	after 1945	?			S: SBN H: SBN
25	Ferdinand	Louis Zukofsky	1968				S: SBN H: SBN
26	The Recluse	Adalbert Stifter	19th c.	?			S: SBN H: SBN
27	Dialectical Materialism	Henri Lefebvre	1940	Le Matérialisme dialectique			S: SBN H: SBN
28	Missing from the available listing						S: SBN H: SBN
29	Soul on Ice	Eldridge Cleaver	1968				S: SBN H: SBN
30	The Human Sciences and Philosophy	Lucien Goldmann	1966	Sciences humaines et philosophie			S: SBN H: SBN
31	Selected Poems	André Breton	20th c.	?	1969		S: SBN H: SBN
32	Soap	Francis Ponge	1967	Le Savon	1969 [7]	Lane Dunlop	S: SBN H: SBN
33	Histoire extraordinaire: Essay on a dream of Baudelaire's	Michel Butor	1961	Histoire 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	1964	Eine Reise wegwohin			S: SBN H: SBN
36	A Critique of Pure Tolerance	Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Marcuse	1965				S: SBN H: SBN
37	The Garden Party	Václav Havel	1963	Zahradní slavnost			S: 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	1969		1969 [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	1929		1970 [11]		S: SBN H: ISBN 0-224-61831-8
42	The Death of Lysanda	Yitzhak Orpaz	1964	מות ליסאנדה	1970	Richard Flint	S: SBN 224 61873 3 H: SBN 224 61874 1

Later additions

#	Title	Author	Year	Original title or source	Cape year	Translator	SBN / ISBN
46	Poems [12]	Hermann Hesse	1953 (original copyright)/1970 (translated by James Wright)	?	1971	James Wright	S: ISBN H: ISBN 0-224-00554-5

Source

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

References

1. Shearsman Books: Nathaniel Tarn Retrieved 2011-06-28.
2. British Library System number 002152956, Cape editions. no. 1. 53 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
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. Poems (Cape Editions), Hermann Hesse; Translator-J. Wright at AbeBooks.com. Retrieved 2011-06-28.