New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer who was born in Lima, Peru but grew up in Alabama and writes in English. These nine stories "take the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments.. . a devastating portrait ofa world in flux." SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-060594780.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of conquistadora Ines Suarez, who together with Pedro de Valdivia, struggled to build the city of Santiago. "Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure." Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Bibliographical note. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-061161535.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of conquistadora Ines Suarez, who together with Pedro de Valdivia, struggled to build the city of Santiago. "Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure." Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Bibliographical note. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-061161535.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of a novel written in 1989 but found among the papers of this award-winning Mexican writer after his death. The title refers to a tactical WWII-themed board game, and Udo Berger is the German national champion who, even on vacation at the Spanish resort of Costa Brava, is unable to tear himself away from the game. As one reviewer noted "Bolano draws a fine line between memory and reality, but blurs them in the final pages, as the novel slowly drifts from realism to a nightmarish fever dream - leaving readers with an ending that is ambiguous yet haunting." Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 277 pp. ISBN: 978-0374275624.

Sacramento, California: Crystal Clear Printers, (1987). First edition - Sacramento poet's second collection, containing many poems influenced by her Chicana childhood in South Texas. Illustrated with drawings by Jim S. Castellano. 97 pp plus final illustration.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. SIGNED first edition - His first book, a collection of ten interconnected short stories set in his native Domenican Republic and in the immigrant community in New Jersey. The New Yorker (where some of these stories were originally published) named Diaz as one of the 20 best young American writers - and in 2008, Diaz won the Pulitzer for his second book, 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.' An important debut. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - "This international anthology of prose and poetry pays tribute to the life of Pablo Neruda and to the legacy of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende, overthrown by a military coup in September 1973. This chorus of voices, which includes more than 140 poets from 27 countries, honors the determination of the Chilean people and affirms the struggle of all people to be free. Among the poets included are Rafael Alberti, Gayl Jones, Robert Hass, Muriel Rukeyser,Joseph Bruchac, Allen Ginsberg, Victor Jara, Andrew Salkey, Ismael Reed and many others. Chronology of Pablo Neruda. and a listing of "Some Dates in Chilean History ." ix, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-807063827.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1969. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her short story ("How I comtemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again"), commentary by Richard Ellman, Ezra Pound (on James Joyce) and Robert Bone (on William Denby), poetry by Dennis Schmitz, A.R. Ammons, Rosemary Daniell, Richard Hugo, six poems by Jean Follain translated by W. S. Merwin and more. Also includes a section of photographs and a Supplement to TriQuarterly's Contemporary Latin America Literature issues Nos. 13 and 14, with works by Julio Cortazar and Carlos Fuentes, essay on Neruda and Borges and more. Cover by David Smyth. 279 pp. plus ads.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1969. First edition - Included a short story by Joyce Carol Oates ("How I comtemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again"), commentary by Richard Ellman, Ezra Pound (on James Joyce) and Robert Bone (on William Denby), poetry by Dennis Schmitz, A.R. Ammons, Rosemary Daniell, Richard Hugo, six poems by Jean Follain translated by W. S. Merwin and more. Also includes a section of photographs and a Supplement to TriQuarterly's Contemporary Latin America Literature issues Nos. 13 and 14, with works by Julio Cortazar and Carlos Fuentes, essay on Neruda and Borges and more. Cover by David Smyth. 279 pp. plus ads.

Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1987. First edition - A collection of poems by this Chilean author, who divides his time between Toronto and Santiago, which "explore both new literary forms and a variety of subjects, including the psychology of exile" and life in his adopted country of Canada. Translated by Christina Shantz. Winner of the first prize in the Spanish writing competition of the University of Alberta. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-92095328X.

New York: Random House, 2005. First edition - "A corrosive and hilarious high-society whodunit . . . set at a luxurious Moroccan resort." Translated from the Spanish by Kristina Corder. The second mystery by this Uruguayan born author to be published in English (the first was the award-winning 'Little Indiscretions.') 299 pp.

Houston: Arte Publico Press, (1987). First edition - A selection of poems from five earlier books, and fourteen new poems by this award-winning Chicano poet, who grew up in a Texas border town. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-934770581.