Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover - The third volume in this Norwegian writer's "Alberta" trilogy, originally published in Norway in 1939. Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan, introduced by Solveig Nellinge and with an afterword by Linda Hunt. A small volume, measuring only 8" by 4 5/8" issues, one of 3 matching books in this trilogy. ISBN: 0-821407600.

London: Serpent's Tail, 1991. First edition - A biting look at the relationship between the sexes, described as a cross between Dorothy Parker and Franz Kafka. Translated by Helen Petzold.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. An "enigmatic and ironic, witty and tender' novel by this Nobel prize winning author.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple story of a potter who finds his craft obsolete, of the struggle against a faceless bureaucracy and most of all, a powerful allegory of modern life by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1004145.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both an epic adventure in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the continent and floats out to sea and a political fable about the European community by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1851980.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his powerful novel 'Blindness.' A satire on government by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jill Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1012385.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). First edition - Novel set in 18th century Portugal by this 1998 Nobel prize winning author. Included among the characters isPadre Bartholomeu Lorenco de Gusmao, who was ridiculed for his belief that man could fly, but in 1709 invented a rudimentary airship. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The first book by Saramago to be published in the US, . 303 pp plus translator's note.

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

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover - The third volume of the Roads to Freedom series, this opens in June 1940 with the fall of France in World War II. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 421 pp.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1957) dj. Hardcover - Seven essays on Camus, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Mauriac and Kafka. Translated from the French by Anne Michelson. 96 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.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Beginning with Sartre's autobiography Les Mots, the author "examines Sartre's work as steps in an increasingly dialectical movement." Sartre's comment in Huis Clos that "No one of us can save himself alone. You must either be lost together or get along together. Take your choice" sums up this book. Bibliography, index. x, 404 pp. ISBN: 0-226561003.

Ontario: Cormorant Books, (1997). First edition - "In The Blue Circus Jacques Savoie plunges into a world in which music harmonizes with the poetry of Baudelaire. In the same breath he transports us beyond words into a place where the memories that we think we share can be transformed into dreams." Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.154 pp. ISBN: 1-89695104X.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories and brief vignettes about life in Communist East Germany, written between 1969 - 1977. "Some of the stories have the nightmarish quality of Kafka, only they are not nightmares but meticulously noted reality. " Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Gunter Grass. ISBN: 0-151078475.

Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Hardcover first edition - A retelling of an Indian legend from Guatemala about a boy who is given a magic drink by a medicine man which sends him on an incredible trip deep inside himself. Illustrated with gorgeous full-color, full-page paintings by his wife and co-researcher into mescaline, Nan Cuz, who was born in Guatemala of Mayan and German descent. Foreword by Miguel Angel Asturias. Translated from the German by Dinah Livingstone. Large format. 40 pp. ISBN: 0-877730164.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). Novel set in postwar Germany, a haunting and erotic tale of love and secrets, horror and compassion. A NY Times Notable book and a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-375-707972.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel to be translated into English. A story of post-Communist Berlin, this is an account of a German who had long lived in California with his American wife and 3 children, but in the aftermath of re-unification finds that he has inherited an apartment building in East Berlin and he decides to return to his native country only to find his property occupied by squatters and his American wife increasingly resistant to living in Germany. Translated from the German by John Brownjohn. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-374146543.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel to be translated into English, a story of the difficulties of love in pre-unification Berlin. Translated from the German by Philip Boehm. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374130531.

New York: Summit Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning Afrikaans writer to be published in English. Originally published in 1978, this was reissued because changing circumstances in South Africa made it even more relevant - it presents a picture of South Africa in what was then 20 or 30 years in the future, with the former privileged ruling class of whites barely managing to survive - a warning of the consequences of apartheid (or of any misrule). Graham Greene described this novel as "a South African 1984" Translated by Marion V. Freedman. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-671-644254.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Hungarian/Austrian writer, a story of "love amid sudden death during Hungary's Battle for Freedom." Sebestyen actively participated in the Revolution, and fled to Austria afterwards. Translated from the Hungarian by Peter White. 246 pp. Dust jacket by Richard Powers.

Norman, OK: Basic Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people of the city, trying to live while under constant attack. Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-465076009.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first translation of this Czech classic which first appeared in serialized form in 1920 - the full color illustrations are taken from the original designs and watercolors which Sendak created for the 1981 NY City Opera production of Janacek's opera which was based on this story. A lovely book in every way. Afterword by Robert T. Jones. Slightly oversized format. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-374-133468.