New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky".Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. .289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prequel to the author's award winning series set in Reykjavik, and featuring Detective Inspector Erlendur. In this novel Erlendur is a young patrolman in the traffic division, but when a homeless man he knew is found murdered, and a young woman goes missing at the same time, he investigates both cases on his own. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250048424.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning Icelandic author. Set in Reykjavik, featuring Inspector Erlundur. These novels are unique police procedurals, with the first two in the series awarded the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel . Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. 330 pp. ISBN: 9780312569914.

New York: Picador, (2008.). Third novel by this award-winning Icelandic author. Set in Reykjavik, where Detective Inspector Erlendur is investigating the murder of a hotel Santa. These novels are unique police procedurals, with the first two in the series awarded the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel . Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder. 313 pp. plus a brief excerpt from 'The Draining Lake.'. ISBN: 0-312-428065.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book, a collection of entertaining essays on visiting some offbeat places (although not all are as far off the beaten track now as they were back in 1993) - including North Korea, Paraguay, Argentina, Vietnam, Bhutan, Australia and Iceland. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-679-422641.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The author's second novel, a thriller set in Siglufjodur, a quiet fishing village in far northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors, and which in winter is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Features Ari Thor, former theology student, now a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. Translated by Quentin Bates. Includes a brief excerpt from the next book in the series. First book in the Dark Iceland series. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250096074.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller set in Siglufjodur, a quiet fishing village in far northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors, and which in winter is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Features Ari Thor, former theology student, now a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. SIGNED on the title page. Translated by Quentin Bates. Includes a brief excerpt from the next book in the series. First book in the Dark Iceland series. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250096074.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. SIGNED on the title page. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The highly praised first novel by this young Australian author, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, this brings to vivid life the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. A genuinely gripping and poetic novel, highly recommended. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780316243919.

London: Michael Joseph, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in 1686 Iceland, "an isolated, windswept land haunted by witch trials and steeped in the ancient sagas. Betrothed unexpectedly to Jon Eirksson, Rosa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkisholmur. Here, the villagers are wary of outsiders. But Rosa harbours her own suspicions. Her husband buried his first wife alone in the dead of night. He will not speak of it." Glossary of Icelandic words, author's note. 392 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0718188979.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays on books and authors - including the ghost stories of Henry James and M. R. James, the Japanese writers Tanazaki, Murikami and Abe, Flannery O'Connor and others. Other topics include Iceland -especially the novel 'Independent People' by Haldor Laxness - and mathematicians - the first book of essays by this award winning poet and novelist. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-679-429980.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - "An ebuLlient celebration of the lovely, exotic North. . . Loosely following a course first charted by the Vikings ten centuries ago, Millman wandered from Norway to Newfoundland by way of the Shetland Islands, the Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador." Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard and Howard Norman, among others. 242 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: -39543615X.

New York: St Martin's, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a little known Icelandic-Canadian immigrant culture. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a little known Icelandic-Canadian immigrant culture. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 344 pp.

Reykjavik: 1982. First edition - A collection of scholarly essays by Jonas Kristjansson, Bjorn Bjornsson, Sigurour Lindal, Olafur Halldorsson, and Finnbogi Gudmundsson, published in conjunction with the first exhibition of Icelandic manuscripts outside that country. Illustrated with photographs of manuscript illuminations and pages of early Icelandic printed books. 84 pp