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".Shearsman Books: Nathaniel Tarn Retrieved 2011-06-28.

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

Cape Editions # Title Author Year Original titleor source Cape year Translator SBN / ISBN 1 The Scope of Anthropology Claude Lévi-Strauss after 1950 ? 1967 Sherry Ortner Paul, Robert A. Paul British Library System number 002152956, Cape editions. no. 1. 53 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28. 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 British Library System number 001619788, 112 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. Vera Blackwell S: SBN H: SBN 7 Selected Poems Nazim Hikmet 20th c. ? 1967 British Library System number 001681277. Retrieved 2011-11-27. 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 British Library System number 002707613, Palma de Mallorca: Divers Press, 1953. Retrieved 2011-06-28. 1968 Robert Creeley (ed.) British Library System number 004074757, 91 p. Retrieved 2011-06-28. 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 British Library System number 002954015, 100 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. 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 British Library System number 000553755, 174 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. Richard Howard S: SBN H: 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 British Library System number 010950789, 69 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. W. S. Merwin S: SBN H: 39 Genesis as Myth and Other Essays Edmund Leach 1969 1969 British Library System number 002098935, 124 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. 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 British Library System number 000291550, 76 p. Retrieved 2011-11-27. S: SBN H: 42 The Death of Lysanda Yitzhak Orpaz 1964 מות ליסאנדה 1970 Richard Flint S: SBN 224 61873 3H: SBN 224 61874 1

Later additions # Title Author Year Original titleor source Cape year Translator SBN / ISBN 46 Poems Poems (Cape Editions), Hermann Hesse; Translator-J. Wright at AbeBooks.com. Retrieved 2011-06-28. Hermann Hesse 1953 (original copyright)/1970 (translated by James Wright) ? 1971 James Wright S: ISBN H:

References

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