To reiterate what I said in my original posting on the subject: No. A Russian translation does exist, but the original does not. And Roy's very small beginning is the only one available in English AFAIK. Let me take this opportunity to describe the experience I had trying to get permission from Grothendieck. Some made the suggestion that TAC reprint the Tohoku paper. I had recently met one Jean Malgoire (not Magloire, incidentally) who claimed to be the unique mathematician who is in communication with Grothendieck. I started by writing the editors of Tohoku since in my experience these rights were kept by the journal. They told me that the rights were held by Grothendieck. So I wrote to Malgoire. He replied that it was so unlikely that Grothendieck would agree that he would not ask him. Later someone told me that in fact, Malgoire had full authority as Grothendieck's literary executor. I don't know if this in fact true, but even so he may well have felt that going against Grothendieck's known wishes was inadvisable (although he could have explained that to me, instead, apparently, of lying). So I assume that Grothendieck didn't want the original posted. By the way, the third word of the title is "semailles" (sowings, not seeds). On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Max Kelly wrote:
Recent communications about Grothendieck's "Recoltes et semelles" refer to the partial translation by Roy Lisker - but none, as far as I recall, gives an electronic reference to the French original. Is it not available in this form?
Max Kelly.