New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fritz Tolm, publisher of a once liberal newspaper but now part of a gigantic consortium, has already seen his life and that of his wife become a slow suffocation - caught between the threatening violence of terrorists and the oppressive police apparatus and surveillance - the "safety net" - designed to protect them. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 313 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394514041.

NY & London: The Free Press. (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was also a great talker as well as a writer. These interviews, recorded over a period of more than 15 years, starting in 1978, in Brodsky's Greenwich Village apartment, recount his childhood in war-torn Leningrad, his life as an underground poet, standing trial in Kruschev's Russia, imprisonment in the icy north his expulsion from the Soviet Union and more. Photography by Mariana Volkov. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Photographs. 306 pp with notes and index. ISBN: 02982450.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three essays in which these poets - all Nobel laureates - explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374172463.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized biography written for older children about the rebellious youth of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a Spanish boy in a small town in 1886, who resisted his strict doctor father and wanted to become an artist, but grew up to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the nervous system. Illustrated by Arvis Stewart. ISBN: 0-395-194911.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Called the most important work of this great modern writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, this volume covers the years from his 59th to his 70th, the years leading up to World War II. Translated and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Includes a glossary of persons mentioned in the journal, a bibliography of works by Gide, index, frontispiece. 450, xx pages.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, c 1964. An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ca 1984. An early, and very powerful work, by the Nobel Prize winning novelist. The story of building a cathedral in the Middle Ages.

New York: Viking, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. ISBN: 0-670-656607.

New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long novella and a collection of short stories by this South African Nobel Prize lauriate. ISBN: 0-670-656607.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-374-180555.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel, fourth book, by this Nobel prize winning writer, set in her native South Africa. Shows the divided world of apartheit through the eyes of a young Englishman. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 312 pp.

New York & London: Penguin, (1980.). Novel set in South Africa; the story of a young woman trying to carry on the work of her parents, who, although Afrikaaner, were killed for their opposition to apartheid. Powerful novel by this Nobel prize winning author. 361 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0055932.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover - The eighth collection of short fiction by this Nobel Prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-374-180555.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - A funny, but tender, novel by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim. ISBN: 0-15-1257434.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981.) dj. Hardcover - From the dustjacket "While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. Now, with this collection of letters-the first to be published-a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly 600 letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait and an autobiography." Edited and with an introduction by Baker, Hemingway's biographer, these present his views on writing and reading, his enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, eating, living; they discuss women, politicians, prize-fighters and more. xxvii, 948 pp. ISBN: 0-684-167654.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first English translation of 22 stories written between 1923 and 1929 which provide fresh glimpses of his "haunting and haunted vision." Translated and with a translator's note by J. Martin Holman. x, 160 pp. ISBN: 1-887178147.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A vivid picture of communal life and of a woman, Alice, the 'good terrorist', who knows how to cope with everything except the vacuum of her own life. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-394-543394.

New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in the Cairo Trilogy, considered the most important novels by this 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1956 in Arabic, translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive B. Kenny. 498 pp. ISBN: 0-385264658.

New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - First Doubleday edition of this early novel by the 1988 Nobel laureate, the first Arab to win this award. Originally published in 1949 in Arabic and translated in 1985 by Ramses Awad for the American University Press in Cairo. In telling the story of one proud - and eventually shattered - Egyptian family, Mahfouz exposes the inequities of the country's society. Introduction by the translator; edited by Mason Rossiter Smith. 412 pp. ISBN: 0-385264577.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, (1981.). Hardcover - Novel by this Nobel Prize winning writer. Translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter and illustrated for this edition by Gonzalo Fonseca. Originally published in 1924. 724 pp.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Polish in 1955, this translation by Louis Iribarne is the first English language appearance (shortly after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980.). " 'The valley of the Issa has the distinction of being inhabited by an unusually large number of devils.' So begins the author's description of his child protagonist's Lithuanian countryside." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-283-987626.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Speech upon acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the 6th of November, 1996. Despite the fact that this little book was published so recently, it does not seem to be very readily available. ISBN: 0-375-40032-x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the US South - from Atlanta to Jackson, Tuskegee to Charleston, tobacco farms and the birthplace of Elvis, with visits to an old white Charleston family, a black woman minister, and Eudora Welty, by this Trinidadian born author, and Nobel prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-394-564774.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a visit to 4 countries in the throes of 'Islamization' - Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia and Indonesia - a subject more important now than ever. Naipaul's accounts of the Islamic world were specifically cited in the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. 430 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394-509692.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete English language translation of this work originally published in 1958, a collection of lyric poems written by Neruda after he had returned to Chile and settled at Isla Negra. A bilingual edition, with the original Spanish on the verso and the English translation by Alastair Reid on the recto. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Includes translator's note. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-374-15126-1.

New York: New Directions, (2004). A bilingual edition of these poems by the Chilean Nobel Laureate, originally written in 1953 while he was in exile on the isle of Capri, translated by Donald D. Walsh, with his 1972 introduction. NDP991. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-811215806.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his powerful novel 'Blindness.' A satire on government by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jill Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1012385.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both an epic adventure in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the continent and floats out to sea and a political fable about the European community by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1851980.