Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel to be published in English, set in the mid-1950s, two years after the death of Stalin "in an unnamed East European country (strikingly similar to Hungary) on the eve of revolution, [it] portrays one of the great, intricate conflicts of modern history at the most human level." 422 pp. ISBN: 0-316008966.

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: Norton, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The author was at or near the center of diplomatic events during the post-World War II years as the superpowers swung from cold war to their cautious approach to co-existence or detente" - he was the charge at the US embassy in Moscow at the time of Stalin's death, involved in granting asylum to Cardinal Mindszenty in Budapest, and witnessed the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Bibliography, index. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-393075192.

New York & London: Thomas Yoseloff, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication in English of 27 stories, most set in the Eastern Europe of his youth and others dealing with the immigrant experience after his arrival in the United States at age 18. Translated from the Yiddish by Etta Blum. Translator's preface. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-498066754.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2012). SIGNED first edition - "In 1960s Czechoslovakia, Patrik participates in and rebels against the communist regime, knowing that anyone could become an enemy in the blink of an eye.. . As the moments tick toward too late, Patrik takes his family's fate in hand, risking everything for a chance at freedom." INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 2012. 174 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in an Eastern European country where a cardinal has maintained an uneasy balance between his religion and the totalitarian government, until one day there is an unsucessful attempt on his life, and he is spirited away against his will. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-525-245391.