New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' SIGNED on the title page with a small flower drawing. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which uses a madcap adventure involving three unlikely co-conspirators with illuminated the plight of undocumented immigrants and a transformation of three people who thought they were in the winter of their lives. It "opens with endearingly oblivious academic Richard Bowmaster, who is rattled after taking his cat to the vet, and rear-ends a car driven by Evelyn Ortega. Ortega is not in the country legally, its her bosss vehicle, and he's not the sort of person you want to cross (ask the dead body in the trunk)." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 340 pp. ISBN: 978-1501178139.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. SIGNED by Allende on the title page. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Chilean writer's second novel. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. ISBN: 0-394-549627.

New York: HarperCollins, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel of a young woman who leaves Chile for the California gold fields in 1848. SIGNED on the half title page. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019491x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 272 pp. Dust jacket art by James McMullen. ISBN: 0-394-572734.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Chilean writer's second novel. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. ISBN: 0-394-549627.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017). First edition - A book which uses a madcap adventure involving three unlikely co-conspirators with illuminated the plight of undocumented immigrants and a transformation of three people who thought they were in the winter of their lives. It "opens with endearingly oblivious academic Richard Bowmaster, who is rattled after taking his cat to the vet, and rear-ends a car driven by Evelyn Ortega. Ortega is not in the country legally, its her bosss vehicle, and he's not the sort of person you want to cross (ask the dead body in the trunk)." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 340 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir, inspired by the tragic death of Allende's daughter. 330 pp,. ISBN: 0-06-0172533.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2006.). A lively retelling of the legend of the masked hero, born the son of two cultures, the child of an aristrocratic Spanish military officer and landowner in Southern California and of a mother who was a Shoshone warrior. Set in the early 19th century. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Double page map. 390 pp. plus an interview with Allende, reading guide, etc. ISBN: 0-06-0779004.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. INSCRIBED by Allende with her signature flower drawing on the front endpaper "To -- in celebration of poetry" 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. SIGNED by Allende on the title page with her signature drawing of a small flower 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in late 19th century Chile; it continues the story told in 'Daughter of Fortune.' Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Family tree chart on endpapers. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6211611.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this Chilean writer. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0170166.

New York: HarperCollins, (1993). First edition - The fourth novel by this Chilean writer. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 380 pp. Much less common than the trade edition which had a planned first printing of 100,000 copies.

New York: HarperCollins, 1999. dj. Hardcover - Historical novel of a young woman who leaves Chile for the California gold fields in 1848. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. ISBN: 0-06-019491x.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. INSCRIBED by Allende with her signature drawing of a small flower 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED first edition - A powerful memoir, inspired by the tragic death of Allende's daughter. SIGNED on the first page.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised young writer from the Dominican Republic, based on the true story of 3 young women who opposed Trujillo's dictatorship. Nominated for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 325 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-038-8.

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001 dj. Hardcover first edition - A lovely book on the growing of coffee illustrated with woodcuts by Belkis Ramirez, afterword by Bill Eichner, who talks about the importance of the traditional shade grown coffee, and how he and Alvarez came to be involved in an organic coffee farm in the Dominican Republic. 58 pp. ISBN: 193149800.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book on the growing of coffee illustrated with striking woodcuts by noted Dominican artist Belkis Ramirez, afterword by Bill Eichner, who talks about the importance of the traditional shade grown coffee, and how he and Alvarez came to be involved in an organic coffee farm in the Dominican Republic. SIGNED on the title page by Alvarez. 58 pp. ISBN: 193149800.

New York: Plume, (1999). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-452-280672.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 1565121937.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. SIGNED first edition - Uncommon advance issue of her highly praised first novel, winner of the Pen/Oakland Award. SIGNED by the author.

New York: Grove Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Very uncommon hardcover edition of the first book by this writer (who spent her earliest years in her parents' native Dominican Republic) to be published by a major press. Since this was issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover, the hardcover printing was very small. The central section of these poems is called 'housekeeping; and reconstruct her experiences as her mother teaches her housewifery skills, there is the underlying irony that 'at 33' Alvarez is not the 'heroine of her mother's stories' for she has neither a house, husband nor children. A title in the Grove Press Poetry Series edited by Robert Pack. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-394-538552.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 1-56512510x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about 'la musa de la patria', Dominican poet Salome Urena and her daughter, Profesora Camila Henriquez-Urena. SIGNED on the title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-273.