New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this acclaimed and controversial film director. The story of two men, opposites in almost every way, whose lives and fate become entwined from their first meeting as young boys in Venice in 1939 through a Polish concentration camp (they are both Jewish), escape and a flight across Europe - to America where they meet again after 40 years. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-688011241.

New York: Random House, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A play by the Nobel prize winning author which "illuminates the plight of Soviet Jewry as well as the anguish of individuals everywhere who must survive - yet long for something more than mere survival." Based on a translation from the French by Nathan Edelman. 172 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-49637X.

New York: SOHO Press, (2012). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in 1980 on the French Caribbean island of Guadelupe, still technically a part of France then and subject to French laws. Introduces Anne Marie Lavead, a French-Algerian juge d'instruction, recently relocated to the island, who is assigned a murder case where an elderly ex-con has been set up as a political scapegoat. Highly recommended. Translated from the French by the author, who has lived in the French West Indies since 1980. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2015 at Portland, Oregon. 316 pp plus an excerpt from the next book in the series. ISBN: 978-1616953638.

New York: SOHO Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1980 on the French Caribbean island of Guadelupe, still technically a part of France then and subject to French laws. Introduces Anne Marie Lavead, a French-Algerian juge d'instruction, recently relocated to the island, who is assigned a murder case where an elderly ex-con has been set up as a political scapegoat. Highly recommended. Translated from the French by the author, who has lived in the French West Indies since 1980. 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1616951566.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 2007. First edition - Includes poems Novida Tanic translated by Charles Simic, Rimbaud translated by Reynolds Price, Dante translated by Robert Pinsky, Jin Eun-Young translated by Peter Campion and much more.

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1985). Contains 136 poems, translated from the Japanese by Wright and arranged in a thematic sequence. These represent just a small selection from the Manyoshu - compiled in the 8th century, it contains 4,516 poems, one of the world's great collections of poetry) Includes an introduction by the translator. Illustrated throughout with classic Japanese paintings and drawings. Notes on the poems and poets. 94 pp. ISBN: 0-879512407.

Japan: Dai-Nippon Printing Co, (1947). Hardcover first edition - Three Japanese folk tales translated into English by Yasuda and illustrated with full color plates and some smaller black and white drawings by Yoshinobu Sakakura. Includes The Story of Shitakiri Suzume (The Tongue-cut Sparrow), The Story of Nezumi No Yomeiri (The Marriage of a Mouse) and The Story of Urashima Taro (The Fisherman). The first of four volumes of Japanese folk tales published just after World War II. Foreword by Elizabeth Grey Vining. 92 pp plus final illustration and a list of the 4 volumes. Decorative endpapers.

New York & London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd. (1993). A collection of poems originally published in 1979. translated from the Russian by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin. Introduction by Yevushenko. xiv, 193 pp. ISBN: 0-714526177.

New York: Norton, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj: "This extraordinary novel, rooted in Yurasov's own incredible life, is the work of a Red Army colonel who is also a poet and engineer. . . It is the tale of two Russians whose lives run parallel - Feodor, who burst his bonds and sought a better world, and Vasili, friend to Feodor, who returned to his rural community to fight for his self respect from within the Soviet system." Yurosav was arrested for subversion during one of Stalin's purges, spent 10 years in a concentration camp, escaping during the German advance on Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Titiana Balkoff Drowne. 628 pp plus 2 pp about the author.

New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another literate bibliomystery, set in a "dark gothic universe" in Barcelona, Spain, by the author of "The Shadow of the Wind." Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. 531 pp. ISBN: 9780385528702.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Books, (1985). First edition - Zamora is a Nicaraugan poet, painter and psychologist who was in the front lines of the Sandinista Liberation friont and served as Vice Minister of Culture after the 1979 Revolution. The 110 poems in this book were written between 1968 and 1993. A bi-lingual edition with the original Spanish and English translations by Margaret Randall and Elinor Randall. 193 pp. ISBN: 1-880684098.