St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters from the middle of the 19th century by Norwegian immigrants to those they left behind - written orignally in Norwegian and here translated into English. Includes chapters on the "Sloopfolk" arriving, settling in Wisconsin, the Atlantic crossing; the Transatlantic gold rush; the Southwest and more. Edited and with a foreword by Theodore Blegen. Index xix, 463 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book to be published in the US, "a tangled web of art theft, blackmail, torrid sex and double crosses." Winner of Norway's Riverton Prize for Best Crime Novel. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0312375690.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.) dj. Hardcover - An appealing and rather sad mystery by this Norwegian writer. Features Inspector Konrad Sejer. Translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund. Awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery. 297 pp. ISBN: 9780151011827.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover - An appealing and rather sad mystery by this Norwegian writer. Features Inspector Konrad Sejer. Translated from the Norwegian by Felicity David. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-15-101885.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2011). Hardcover - Mystery by this award-winning Norwegian writer featuring Inspector Konrad Sejer. Translated from the Norwegian by K.E.Semmel. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-0547577524.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An appealing and rather sad mystery by this Norwegian writer. Features Inspector Konrad Sejer. Translated from the Norwegian by Felicity David. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-15-101885.

New York: Harper & Row, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the Lapps as they struggle to preserve their timeless, traditional way of life in the face of the Norwegian government's attempts to "settle them." Translated from the French by Douglas Garman. 335 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, which consist of four tales "about the nature of luck and chance.. . a story involving a young woman, her old uncle, and a blind, brilliant beekeeper; the story of a lighthouse keeper's harrowing experience during a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea; a story of art, love and treachery in Renaissance Italy, where religious paintings have miraculous properties; and the story of a mining engineer whose life is changed by a terrible fall 'over the edge'." Translated from the Norwegian by Nadia Christensen. 500 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272409.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult novel based on an actual event - A group of amateur frogmen must dive deep below the surface to inspect the foundation of a leaking dam high in the mountains of Norway.Translated from the Norwegian by Evelyn Ramsden. Map frontispiece. 137 pp.

New York: Grand Central, (2008.). First edition - The first book to appear in English by this Norwegian writer - a gripping police procedural, set mostly during winter in Oslo, where several important people are found dead and mutilated in significant ways. CIS detective Adam Stubo and his wife, Johanne Vik, former FBI profiler, who have a new child to care for, find themselves on the case, despite having a new baby to care for. Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson. Recommended. 385 pp.

Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1963. dj. Hardcover - Foreword by Merle Curti. The author of these memoirs was born in Norway, the son of a fisherman-farmer, and in 1909, at the age of 20, he emigrated to America - primarily because he could not get the education he sought in Norway. Includes information on living on a Norwegian fishing-farming island in the Arctic Circle and his early years as an immigrant in the rural Middle West, as well as life as a history professor. Index. 276 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring retired environmental activist Fred Hope - when he receives word that his colorful Uncle Ernie has died - a dedicated pacifist who has been accused of gun-running for the IRA - Fred is "drawn into a maelstrom of revenge, deception, and lust for power involving Nazis, the IRA, and a beautiful widow." 402 pp. ISBN: 0-671789953.

New York: HarperVia / Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - A novel set in the near future which explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought. "In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signes sailboat." Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley. 294 pp.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Kurt Wallender novel, translated by Laurie Thompson. Numbered 28 out of 80, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by John Harvey. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. ISBN: 1-873567588.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early Wallender novel, originally published in 1993, one which links a murder in Ystad to South Africa where Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. Translated by Laurie Thompson. Numbered 76 out of 90, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by Minette Walters. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. ISBN: 1-873567588.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand alone novel, set in 1977 Norway, where Olav, a contract killer, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, 'fixing' anyone who causes the man trouble. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. Translated from the Norwegian by Neil Smith. 207 pp. ISBN: 978-0385354196.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition - Thriller featuring police detective Harry Hole. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. 395 pp.

New York: Amulet Books (Harry N. Abrams), 2012. First edition - "Nazi Germany has invaded Norway and fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the resistance movement." Based on the real-life adventures of a Norwegian spy during World War II. Author's note, how to make invisible ink, a timeline of events from 1940-45 and bibliography. 284 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Her fifth book, an epic historical novel set in 14th century Greenland, in Europe's farthest outpost, settled by the Norwegians 500 years earlier. 558 pp,

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Her fifth book, an epic historical novel set in 14th century Greenland, in Europe's farthest outpost, settled by the Norwegians 500 years earlier. 558 pages, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-551206.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1972.) dj. Hardcover - Novel of romance and suspense set in the Norway.

Grants Pass, OR: Midgard Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This book, an account of a trading adventure in 1805 between Norwegians from Ranafjord and nomadic Lapps summering with their reindeer on a treeless island off the coast of Norway, is unique in that it is based on both Norwegian and Lapp oral tradition and written by an 'insider' to that oral tradition, who is passing on the stories of his Lapp grandfather. Glossary. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-9615948-02.