London: Hamish Hamilton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth novel by this Booker Prize winning author, both a homage to the beauty of Umbria in Italy (where he was living) and a skewering of the multinational crew who've taken up residence there. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-241133424.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery novel in the award-winning series featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway, set in the ancient Italian hill town of Castello degli Angeli, where she is on a "working vacation" with her daughter Kate and friend Shona. 345 pp. ISBN: 978-0544417854.

London: William Heinemann, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 12th mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia, a Sicilian officer working at the Florence police force. ""Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia is an unusual protagonist for a crime novel - a Sicilian living in Florence, he's neither on his own turf nor in a strange land. A modest family man, a quiet and calm observer, he makes his way in a town he's come to know. " (PW) Like her protagonist, Nabb has lived in Florence, Italy since 1975 and has come to know and love it. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-434010545.

London: William Heinemann, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 13th mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia, a Sicilian officer working at the Florence police force. ""Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia is an unusual protagonist for a crime novel - a Sicilian living in Florence, he's neither on his own turf nor in a strange land. A modest family man, a quiet and calm observer, he makes his way in a town he's come to know. " (PW) Like her protagonist, Nabb has lived in Florence, Italy since 1975 and has come to know and love it. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map endpapers. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-434013382.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club by Doubleday, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring the Antiqua Players, a group of five young American classical musicians and amateur sleuths invited to perform at a Verona music festival -only to find themselves mixed up with double-dealing wine-makers and murder. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-385194838.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1997). First edition - Award-winning African American poet's third collection, inspired by Dante and Venice (Cassell spent 8 years living in Italy). Martin Espada these love poems "resonant, even haunting, born of an acute sensual awareness." 120 pp. ISBN: 1-556591241.

New York: Scribner, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Kushner's highly praised second novel (both her first novel and this one were nominated for the National Book Award). Christina Garcia calls this a "frequently dazzling novel [which] thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. It's an irresistible, high-octane mix . . Kushner's insights into place, society and the complicated rules of belonging, and unbelonging, can be mordantly brilliant." SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1439142004.

New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, set in Italy. "When Sir Alfred Aimslet hires January Esposito to investigate the disappearance of his son, Piers, Jan's peaceful days of teaching English in Verona come to an abrupt end. . . His search for Piers leads him to San Giorgio Veronese, a quaint village in the Veneto that has recently been troubled by racism, gas bomb explosions, and murder [and] he finds himself in a web of political ideology and drug dealing that takes the mystery fifty years into the village's past and its bitter memories of World War II." 263 pp. ISBN: 0-312110359.

New York: Penguin, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at Venice, telling the story of its rich history and some of its more eccentric residents, of attempts to save its archeological treasures and recreating the unique atmosphere of this city of canals, using as a starting point the 1996 fire which destroyed the Opera House. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary, lists of people and places. 414 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-594200580.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1958. First edition - Uncommon original printing of this collection of 14 of the best short stories of Verga, most written in 1880s and set among the poor of his native Sicily. Translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti. xxii, 197 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002). First edition - A novel about starting over late in life - "Candida Wilton - a woman recently betrayed, rejected, divorced, and alienated from her three grown daughters - moves from a beautiful Georgian house in Suffolk to a two-room walk-up flat in a run-down building in central London. Is the move perversity, she wonders, a survival test, or is she punishing herself? How will she adjust to this shabby, menacing, but curiously appealing city? And yet, as she climbs the dingy communal staircase with her suitcases, she feels both nervous and exhilarated." 307 pp.

New York: Other Press, (2024). First edition - Award winning Swedish author's fourth novel, set in Florence Italy, a "story of an Italian love affair gone bad which captures the irresistible pull of toxic relationships." Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel. Issued as a trade paperback original in the United States. 276 pp.

Geneva: Nagel Publishers (Cowles, distributors) (1968) dj. Hardcover - A small, but thick, volume which is a combination travel guide and reference work. Includes 15 pp of town plans in color, 40 plans in black and white and 2 folded maps in three colors, affixed to the versos of the front and back free endpapers. In addition to information on the towns and cities of the area, this also includes selected itineraries, practical information and a selected vocabulary list. Red silk page marker sewn in. Eglish edition by Mrs. H. S. B. Harrison. xii, 640 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977). Hardcover first edition - A look both at the America of pre-Depression years - from 1925 to 1930 - as experienced by a young journalist and student, a temporary immigrant from Italy - and then a look back at those years from the perspective of an established writer. He ends by commenting that he still believes that "the world would be a better place if some of the American ideals of my youth had prevailed everywhere and first of all in the United States itself." Sadly, they did not. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-060102268.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2002). Hardcover first edition - Told from the perspective of the youngest son, when he returns to the island 50 years later, this is a complicated tale of a family that heads for an island - Elba - off the coast of Italy hoping to make a fortune in jewels - the Tourmaline of the title - but instead becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl. "Details of Elba's rich history, and particularly of Napoleon's exile there, are artfully woven into the narrative. This is an absorbing picture of a family rediscovering themselves in a foreign land." (Publishers Weekly). ISBN: 0-316776181.

New York: Crown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a celebrated opera singer born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, who was castrated as a young boy to preserve his voice, even though castration was considered an abomination in the Swiss Confederation. Written as a letter to his son, Moses "recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europes celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired?" Historical note. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0307590527.

New York: Viking, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourteenth novel by this award-winning and prolific author, probably still best known for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." Set in Italy where she was living at the time, this is the story of a wealthy woman and those who try to exploit her fortune. Described as combining the pace of a thriller with magical undertones. 266 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Goodfellow. ISBN: 0-670691070.

New York: Doubleday, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An international thriller, set mostly in Bologna Italy - "a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life." SIGNED on the half title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-385510454.

Boston: Little Brown, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "ribald realism" by this award-winning writer. "In Luino, in the years just before Fascism when the 'nineteenth century drew to a long-overdue close,' Emerenziano Paronzini, a dour but distinguished looking man of 45, takes up residence, eyes the rather unattractive sisterhood - all unwed - Tarsilla, Fortunata and Camilla, and eventually proposes to Fortunata .. By the close is trigamously servicing all three sister. A wholly funny, bawdy, small story told with scapegrace irreverence and a knowing leer." (Kirkus) Translated from the Italian by Julia Martines. 180 pp.

New York: HarperVia / Harper Collins, (2021). First edition - A very highly praised novel by this Italian author, winner of the Strega Prize (the second time Veronesi won this award) and named to many best books of the year lists. Ian McEwan said "The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy. . . a thought-rich and ultimately comic meditation on human error and lost chances.Its a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders, strange and sudden turns, insights of great poise. ." and Roddy Doyle calls it "a spellbinding experience - clever, funny and deeply moving." Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala. Basis for the 2022 film "Il Colibri." Translator's note. 293 pp.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. Hardcover - The story of a 12 year old Italian boy from Palermo in Sicily in 1868, who could run so fast, he was called 'nimble-legs' and entrusted with taking secret messages to General Garibaldi. Illustrated by I.B. Hazelton with a color frontispiece, 4 plates on plain paper and drawings. Translated by Frederic Taber Cooper; introduction by Faith E. Smith. 191 pp.

London: Old Street, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize, a psychological thriller with two threads inevitably converging. Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, and the naive law student Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco, and finds himself slowly lured into a corrupt world of cheating at cards (which Francesco describes as "magic"), beautiful women and casual violence, until one terrifying night Giorgio is forced to realize just how far he has left his past behind. Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1905847273.

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - A thriller that follows a woman on the run from her crime boss husband and the assassin sent to kill her, set in the Italian region of Alto-Adige in the Dolomites mountain range, in the northernmost part of the county. Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis and Catherine Gregor. Issued in the US as a trade paperback original. 369 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of colorful and amusing books about cities around the world by this Czech author/illustrator. Large, tall format, printed in Italy. 60 pp.

London: W. H. Allen, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of colorful and amusing books about cities around the world by this Czech author/illustrator. Large, tall format, printed in Italy. 60 pp. Rear flap of dust jacket lists his first two books on London and Paris.

New York: The Library of America, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of Henry James travel writings in the Library of America series (number 65 in series), edited and with notes by Richard Howard. His travel writings display the distinctive charm of his style, serve as guidebooks and including penetrating reflections on the national characteristics and charm. This volume begins with the classic 'A Little Tour in France', illustrated with Joseph Pennell's drawings from the original 1900 edition. The final piece is on the American volunteer motor-ambulance corps in France, during the first World War. Includes chronology, glossary, notes, index. 845 pp. Lists to this title at rear of book. ISBN: 0-940450771.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery and novel of psychological suspense featuring Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen (the first in the series - Ratking - won the CWA Gold Dagger Award.) 261 pp. ISBN: 0-375-404295.

New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery and novel of psychological suspense featuring Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen (the first in the series - Ratking - won the CWA Gold Dagger Award.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-385-468067.