# Cape Editions

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".
The general editor of the series was professor and poet Nathaniel Tarn.

## 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 | 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 | Vera Blackwell | S: SBN H: SBN |
| 7 | Selected Poems | Nazim Hikmet | 20th c. | ? | 1967 | 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 | | 1968 | Robert Creeley (ed.) | 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 | 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 | 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 | W. S. Merwin | S: SBN H: ISBN 0-224-61725-7 |
| 39 | Genesis as Myth and Other Essays | Edmund Leach | 1969 | | 1969 | | 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 | | 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 | 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).