New York: Vintage Books, (1991). One of the most important Japanese novels of the 20th century, this is reminiscent of Kafka's works. An amateur entomologist wanders into a remote seaside village in pursuit of a rare beetle, and is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he discovers that he is a prisoner and his only companion is a young widow, a pariah in the poor community, who the villagers have condemned to a life of shoveling back the ever-encroaching dunes that threaten to bury the town. Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saunders. Illustrated with drawings by Machi Abe. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-679733787.

New York: Harper & Row, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes ten pieces, selected both to provide an introduction to Heidegger's writing and for being particularly throught-provoking: six complete essays, two uncut excepts and two abridged pieces, four of them in translations especially prepared for this volume. Edited and with a preface, general introduction an introduction to each selection by David Krell. INSCRIBED by editor David Farrell Krell to the late noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens, on the half title page, and dated in 1996.Suggestions for further study. xvi, 397 pp. ISBN: 0-06063846X.

New York: Bantam, (1971.). The best known work of this Nobel prize winning author - one that has spoken to generations of young people. Translated by Basil Creighton. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-553-04789.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A refutation of the criticism that Sartre's later works are a betrayal of the existentialism he had earlier expoused. INSCRIBED by the author James Sheridan on the title page to the noted book collector Larry Owens "with my appreciation for your interest in things Sartrean" Notes. xii, 168 pp. ISBN: 0-82140055X.

New York: George Braziller, (1965.). Hardcover - Literary autobiography of this existentialist writer. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 255 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Notebooks kept by a young Jean-Paul Sartre when he was a mobilized reservist in Alsace, during the so-called Phoney War, and only discovered forty years later. Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and activist, who refused the Nobel Prize in literature he was awarded in 1964. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Quintin Hoare.Index. xix, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-394538137.