New York: New Directions, (1989.). A collection of poems rooted in the American Southwest by this award-winning writer. Glossary. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11029.

New York: New Directions, 1987. Two long narrative poems that revolve around the figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Introduction by Denise Levertov. Glossary. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-10324.

New York: New Directions, 1987. SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Two long narrative poems that revolve around the figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Introduction by Denise Levertov. ISBN: 0-8112-10324.

New York: New Directions, (1989.). First edition - A collection of poems rooted in the American Southwest by this award-winning writer. Glossary. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11029.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel. Set in El Salvador, this is about war and the lunacy of war as seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy. It begins at the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, where gunfire erupts, and his mother is killed as she is protecting him, A powerful and moving story. SIGNED on the title page with the word :Paz." 235 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61576.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel. Set in El Salvador, this is about war and the lunacy of war as seen through the eyes of a nine year old boy. It begins at the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, where gunfire erupts, and his mother is killed as she is protecting him, A powerful and moving story. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61576.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in a small coastal tourist town in Mexico, a story of dignity despite poverty, of love and anger. 'Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage' the author spent much of her youth in Mexico and El Salvador and she knows and appreciates the people of whom she writes. Dustjacket praise from Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez and Tim O'Brien. ISBN: 1-56689-011x.

New York: Hyperion, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this prize-winning writer, a "powerful saga" of three generations of Salvadorean women. 'Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage' the author spent much of her youth in Mexico and El Salvador and she knows and appreciates the people of whom she writes. 445 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61576.

New York: Hyperion, (1997.). First edition - Second novel by this prize-winning writer, a "powerful saga" of three generations of Salvadorean women. 'Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage' the author spent much of her youth in Mexico and El Salvador and she knows and appreciates the people of whom she writes. 445 pp.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in a small coastal tourist town in Mexico, a story of dignity despite poverty, of love and anger. 'Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage' the author spent much of her youth in Mexico and El Salvador and she knows and appreciates the people of whom she writes. Dustjacket praise from Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez and Tim O'Brien. ISBN: 1-56689-011x.

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1996. First edition - This Cuban born author's first book, an adventure story for young adults about a father and son who join with a group of balseros as they plunge their rafts into the sea, hoping to make the dangerous journey from Cuba to Florida.

Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1992. First edition - Mexican poet's third book, in Spanish, issued in an edition of only 1000 copies. Texto en espanol, La edicion consta de 1 000 ejemplares. Indice. 130 pp mas colofon. ISBN: 968-362460x.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this composer, poet, architect, who now lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York, set near the turn of the last century and based on the life of Cuban poet and revolutionary hero, Jose Marti. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-684-843897.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-born composer, poet, architect, the story of thirty years in the life of an extraordinary family in pre-Revolutionary Cuba. 301 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-born composer, poet, architect, the story of thirty years in the life of an extraordinary family in pre-Revolutionary Cuba. Letter from the publisher bound in describing this as a 'limited advance reader's edition.' 301 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although originally published in 1954, this novel of the Carnival in Buenos Aires in 1927 and 1930 is just now being published in the US. Translated by Diana Thorold with a translator's preface. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-525-246878.

New York: Dutton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by this award-winning Argentinian writer, a "mystery which blends the metaphysical and the mundane." Nicolas Almanza, a young small-town photographer, gets his first professional assignment, to photograph stills of the provincial capital of La Plata. On the train there, he meets an elderly man and his two daughters, and things get complicated. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-52524803X.

Milford, CT & London: The Toby Press, (2008.). First edition - "From Argentine Birmajer presents a complicated tale of political intrigue revolving around Javier Mossen . . . Mossen is reluctantly writing a Sunday feature on Elias Traum, a Jew and former Argentine revolutionary now residing in Israel and recently returned for a visit. When he goes to meet Traum at the airport, Mossen is assaulted and Traum kidnapped. Originally published in Spanish in 2001, translated by Sharon Wood.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the UC Irvine's 21st Annual Chicano/Latino Literary Contest, this is a carefully researched historical novel set on the island of Puerto Rico. ISBN: 0-385-486502.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel for older children by this Brazilian writer who has won many awards for her work, including the international Hans Christian Anderson Award. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Illustrated by Christopher DeLorenzo. ISBN: 0-15-2563407.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Omnibus edition of two novels by perhaps the most influential Latin American woman writer of the early 20th century, originally published in Spanish and then in English translations (by Bombal herself) in 1947 and 1948. Her books, with their mingling of fantasy, realism and surrealism are considered precursors of the magical realism in Latin American literature. Foreword by Naomi Lindstrom. A title in the Texas Pan-Am series. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-292-70836X.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.). First edition - The third and final volume in Viking's centenary edition of Borges' collected works in English. This includes over 150 selections of his nonfiction prose writings, more than 100 of which had never previously been translated into English. Although the topics are wide-ranging, many of the pieces are about books and authors - ranging from Shakespeare and Dante to Kafka, Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and Bret Harte. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. Notes, 547 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The most substantial collection of his poems to be published in the US - a bilingual (Spanish and English) edition which includes 200 poems from 14 books from 14 books covering his entire writing career. Includes some poems which had never before appeared in English translation. Edited by Alexander Coleman and translated from the Spanish by Willis Barnstone, Alexander Coleman, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, Kenneth Krabbenhoft, Eric McHenry, W.S.Merwin, Alastair Reid, Hoyt Rogers, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Alan S. Trueblood and John Updike. 477 pp. ISBN: 0-670-849413.

Housatonic, MA & New York: Lascaux Publishers / Grove Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wide-ranging conversations with this great Argentinian writee on topics ranging from Borges life and work to books, poetry, the detective story, the tango, the Kaballah, and more, translated by Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Willias Barnstone and Noemi Escandell. Includes a selection of poems translated by Willis Barnstone, Jorge Luis Borges and Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Frontispiece illustration by Roberto Paez, photographs by Willis Barnstone. A title in the Altamira Inter-American series. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-39453879X.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1985. First edition - A collection of both brutal and lyrical short stories from one of Guatemala's finest young writers.

Pittsburgh, PA: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1999. SIGNED - A novel written in a dizzying mixture of English, Spanish and Spanglish by this young & award-winning Puerto Rican author. Introduction by Doris Sommer. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Braschi. ISBN: 0-935480-978.

Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The memoirs of an undercover agent in the Columbian army, whose father was killed by the bandits, and of his sucessful infiltration of the bandit gangs, and his killing of many of the bandits during the wars known as 'La Violencia' which raged in Columbia from 1946 to 1965. Translated by Lasley M. Murray, edited with an introduction and explanatory notes by Ramsey W. Russell. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-817356002.