St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The great Peruvian poet's first book and his only complete work of prose (although described as a novel, it is more a long prose-poem), written between 1924-27 and first published in Spanish in 1928 when Adan was only 20 years old. Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver. SIGNED on the title page by the translator, Kathleen Silver. (Silver commented that this was her favorite book among all that she translated) A title in the Palabra Sur Series. 103 pp. ISBN: 1-55597-1296.

San Francisco: Watchword, 2001. First edition - First issue of this "nearly quarterly" journal specializing in East European translations and emerging American authors. Includes poetry and short fiction by Nina Schuyler, Jana Rotescu, Saviana Stanescu, Rebekah Eppley, Randy Lyman, Sam Tsitrin and others. Notes on contributors. 58 pp. Cover art by Helene Poulshock

New York: Random House, (2014.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of this, the final book in Adler's Holocaust trilogy, based on his experiences as a survivor of the death camps. Originally published in German in 1989, translated by Peter Filkins. List of characters and principle events. 630 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993066.

New York: Dutton, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel, a political thriller about an America in crisis by this award-winning Danish writer, best known as the author of the Department Q Novels. Originally published in Denmark in 2006 and set in what then would have been the near future. Translated by Steve Schein. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix 589 pp. ISBN: 978-1524742522
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New York: Dutton, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh thriller by this award-winning Danish writer in the Department Q series. It features chief detective Carl Morck, who was one on Copenhagen's best homicide detectives, until a bullet almost took his life and left one of his teammates dead, the other paralyzed, and who is now running Department Q, a special investigations division formed to look at cold cases. Translated by William Frost. Department Q is a highly praised 2025 television series. 470 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952480.

New York: Schocken Books, 1966. dj. Hardcover - By the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1966. Translated from the Hebrew by Walter Lever.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition - First English language edition of this classic Bolivian novel. Set in the early 1800s, this is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa, who tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Gabriel Waisman. A title in the Library of Latin America series with an introduction by the series editors, Jean Franco and Richard Graham. Edited and with a foreword by Alba Maria de la Paz Soldan. Notes. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-195113284.

New York: Random House, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel, set in the Soviet Union, during Stalin's reign and the Great Terror of 1937-38 and World War II, one which follows the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945. Translated from the Russian by John Glad and Christopher Morris. Selective glossary. 592 pp. ISBN: 0-39456961X.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2006). SIGNED (on a bookplate), hardcover first edition - The first Sister Pelagia mystery, set at the end of the 19th century in a small town in Russia, where a bulldog has been found poisoned. When Sister Pelagia is summoned by the bishop to investigate this, things take a more sinister turn with the headless body of a man and a young boy found in the river. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. SIGNED bookplate laid in. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-297848623.

New York: Random House, (2006). First edition - Mystery featuring Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, originally published in Russian in 1998. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. 320 pp.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, originally published in Russian in 1998. Translated by Andrew Bromfield.. Numbered 50 out of 80, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by H. F. R. Keating. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. 370 pp. ISBN: 1-873567715.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Moscow detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, set in 1873 Moscow where a young law student has just committed suicide. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. the first book by Akunin to be published in the UK. SIGNED on the title page by the translator, Andrew Bromfield. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-297829742.

New York: Translation Publishing Company, (1914). Hardcover first edition - A romantic adventure story set in 1848 by this Spanish novelist, war correspondent and member of Parliament, among other things. This is considered one of de Alarcon's best works. Includes both a translator's and an author's foreword. 103 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1943. dj. Hardcover - A picture of Western Europe on the eve of the second World War, as seen by Soviet officials, written by this Russian writer mostly during his exile in Paris. Translated by Nicholas Wreden.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (1991). First edition - Three novellas - the title story and 'The Talisman' and 'Village of God and the Devil' - which explore three critical stages in a woman's life. Translation from the Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson 191 pp. ISBN: 0-915306-948.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. ISBN: 0-374-167702.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Russian author's first novel to appear in English - one which takes the term "kangaroo trial" to extremes - set in 1949, this is a savage satire confronting the hypocrisy and cruelty of the Stalinist regime. Translated by Tamara Glenny. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374180687.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. ISBN: 0-374-167702.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Susan Brownsberger from a revised, but unpublished version of the 1980 Russian edition. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky. ISBN: 0-374-167702.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Atria / Simon & Schuster, 2015. First edition - A "love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma BelascoÕs parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the familyÕs Japanese gardener." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 322 pp.

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: 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: The Penguin Press, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59420-1219.