New York: Bantam, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exuberant story of love and freedom triumphant set during festival time in the Brazilian city of Bahia. Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. "The statue of Santa Barbara of the Thunder, most holy of icons, is bound for the city of Bahia to be enshrined at the Museum of Sacred Art. Despite all precautions, however, the unthinkable has happened: The lovely statue has vanished." But not stolen: St Barbara has come to live. Glossary. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-553-095374.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subttled: The whole truth concerning the redoubtful adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, Master Mariner. Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis. 298 pp.

Boston & New York: David R. Godine / Avon Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is now vacant - a colonel who had welcomed Nazi control is sure it should be his, but arrayed against him are two determined octagenarians and four remarkable women. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-879235527.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subttled: The whole truth concerning the redoubtful adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, Master Mariner. Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet de Onis. 298 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel with a city as the central character - "Tocaia Grande, a city in the Bahian backlands of Brazil's cacao region." Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-553051741.

New York: Hill & Wang, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all - Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. . . Bickerton has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. . . a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer." Double page map, glossary, index. suggested reading. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-28174.

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.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1990) dj. Hardcover - An award-winning children's book, illustrated by the author. "One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest's residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how 'all living things depend on one another' . . . and it works. Cherry's colored pencil and watercolor drawings of all the 'wondrous and rare animals' evoke the lush rain forests, as well as stunning world maps bordered by tree porcupines, emerald tree boas, and dozens more fascinating creatures." Large format, unpaginated. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-15200520X.

New York: HarperPerennial, (1999.). Fifth novel by this popular Brazilian writer, best known for "The Alchemist, 'a fable about following your dream' which has become a modern classic. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Set in the ninth century B.C., this is a story of the Biblical prophet Elijah. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175443.

New York: David McKay, n.d. (ca 1920). Hardcover - A lost race adventure written for boys and set in the Brazilian jungle. Young Van Briscoe finds his uncle in Itambez, a remote pre-Incan city surrounded by volcanoes inhabited by a Lilliputian white race. Despite the fact that it was reprinted many times after its first publication in 1891, it remains quite hard to find - which is the only reason why we are offering this defective copy which is the title page and all of the pages preceding pg 17. 249 pp plus 8 pp of publisher's ads.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: 'A literary thriller from Brazil's best-selling novelist....A grieving film director in Rio--the nameless narrator--is visited by a Carnival dancer who leaves him with a box full of precious gems. A few days later, the dancer is dead, a man in a raincoat lurks outside the director's door, and a mysterious German producer surfaces with an irresistible offer: to make a film based on a story by the director's favorite author, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel.' Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-5837.

New York: Norton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual collaboration by this writer from Uruguay- and artist from Brazil - one which "draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell 'the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write.' . . beautifully illustrated by the Brazilian woodcut artist JosŽ Francisco Borges" Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-393037827.

New York: Picador, (2004.). The second book in the Inspector Espinoza mystery series, set in Rio de Janero, by this Brazilian author. Translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-312-423438.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the history and culture of black Braziliams and of the social and spirtitual energies in the rhthyms and ritual of the samba. The story of Rio's carnival by this Mexican journalist and dancer. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-394-571894.

New York: Random House, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by this underrated, but important mid-20th century writer, wife of the poet Robert Lowell, novelist, one of the founders of the New York Review of Books and much. Incisive commentary on topics ranging from the Rolling Stones's concert at Altamont, Billy Graham and the television evangelists, to Memphis after the assassination of Martin Luther King, a protrait of Simone Weil, and essays on contemporary fiction and theatrical performances. Errata slip laid in. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-394528808.

New York: Random House, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by this underrated, but important mid-20th century writer, wife of the poet Robert Lowell, novelist, one of the founders of the New York Review of Books and much. Incisive commentary on topics ranging from the Rolling Stones's concert at Altamont, Billy Graham and the television evangelists, to Memphis after the assassination of Martin Luther King, a protrait of Simone Weil, and essays on contemporary fiction and theatrical performances. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-394528808.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002.). First edition - Novel set among the Lebanese immigrant community in a Brazilian port city - the story of a family's disintegration, of a changing city and of the culture clash between native-born inhabitants and a new immigrant group. Translated from the Portuguese by John Gledson. Glossary. 226 pp.

Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. First edition - The title poem is a long historical narrative poem set in Brazil in 1741, twenty years after the destruction of the second Palmares, one of the settlements founded in that country by escaped African slaves. 70 pp. Cover drawing by James Lewis. ISBN: 0-91641860X.

Amherst, NY: Pyr / Prometheus Books, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel, part science fiction, part history and part mystery in which past, present, and future Brazil come together. In the near future, a self-made man finds himself in a Sao Paolo of both riches and poverty and in a total surveillance society where every move, face and centavo is tracked. 354 pp plus playlist. ISBN: 978-1591025436.

New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Brazilian artist and poet, a story of 'murder, rebellion and revenge' set in Bahia, the capital of 17th century colonial Brazil. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontierro. The translator's note quotes a contemporary history as saying that Bahia was 'a hell for blacks, a purgatory for whites and a paradise for mulattos.'. ISBN: 0-670-834556.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1950. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A biography of the Brazilian statesman, a leader in the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and the first Brazilian ambassador to the US, by his daughter. This copy is INSCRIBED by Hilton, who translated it, and also provided a historical introduction. Issued in conjunction with the centenary of Nabuco's birth. Frontispiece, map endpapers, bibliographical note, index. 373 pages.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of the Brazilian statesman, a leader in the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and the first Brazilian ambassador to the US, by his daughter. Ronald Hilton, the translator, also provided a historical introduction. Issued in conjunction with the centenary of Nabuco's birth. Frontispiece, map endpapers, bibliographical note, index. 373 pages.

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in translation of this passionate denunciation of slavery and the evils it spawned, written by Nabuco in 1883 and sent to his countrymen from exile. This work triggered a renewal of interest in abolition, and just a few years later, in 1888, slavery was ended. Introduction and extensive footnotes by Robert Conrad, the translator and editor. Map. Illustrated with photographs. Annotated suggestions for further reading. A title in the Blacks in the New World Series, edited by August Meier. xxv, 186 pp. ISBN: 0-252006011.

Berkeley, CA: And / Or Press, (1976). First edition - While described as a novel, this is based on real life experiences in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the mid 1950s - it is told from the point of view of "a mother enslaved by her family duties and faced with the meaning of her life in the aftermath of a murder." Includes an 11 pp appendix on life in Sao Paulo; illustrated with photographs. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-91590411X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very readable and important survey of literature of Brazil, by a scholar and translator, and described at the time of its publication as the best study in English available. Includes criticism and analysis of Euclides da Cunha, Jorge Amando, Jose Lins do Rego, Machado de Asis, Gilberto Freyre and many other writers. Notes, bibliography, chronological table, index. xvi, 269, xii pp.

New York: Avon, (1984.). Novel by this Brazilian writer originally published in Portuguese in 1975. Translated by Dorothy Scott Loos. QPB edition. ISBN: 0-380-848228.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Brazilan writer - the story of a very young woman, a very old man, and a horrific murder in 1933.. Translated from the Portugese by Margaret A. Neves. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-110022.

New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, translated by the author from the original Portuguese. 'This vast and panoramic novel set in Brazil is once a national epic, a family saga, a rich tapestry of the life of generation upon generation covering nearly four hundred years from the arrival of the Portuguese to the present.' Jorge Amado states 'I don't know of any Brazilian novel published in the last 20 years more beautifully written or more important.' 504 pp. Dust jacket art by Greg Ragland. ISBN: 0-06-0156228.

New York: The Free Press, (1999.). First edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp.