New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical thriller set in Milan, Italy in 1497 when Leonardo da Vinci is completing his masterpiece "The Last Supper." Translated from the Spanish by Alberto Manguel. Author's notes, cast of characters. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287647.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thora Gudmundsdottir, one which combines long-buried secrets from the World War II era with murder at a coastal resort. Translated from the Icelandic By Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0061143380.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Italian by Darina Silone.

New York: Harvest / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981.). Novel of subtle psychological suspense, translated from the French by Eileen Ellenbogen. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6028514.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1985]. First edition - A psychological portrait of the little man - a petty crook and part-time gigolo - confronted by an insurmountable system when he is accused of murder. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. 147 pp. .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic novel of police detection and psychological suspense, by the great French writer, translated by Lyn Moir. Original title "Maigret et le Tueur." 165 pp. Dust jacket by Anita Walker Scott. ISBN: 0-151551278.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three novels of psychological suspense, set in a colonial Africa nearing its end, originally published in 1943, 1933 and 1933. Translated from French by Stuart Gilbert, Paul Auster, and Lydia Davis. vii, 325 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Milton Glaser. ISBN: 0-15-1039550.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958). Hardcover first edition - A crime novel which looks back to Maigret's first case in 1913, before the beginning of World War I. Translated from the French by Robert Brain. 191 pp.

Madison, WI: Sub-stance, 1974. First edition - A rather uncommon early issue of this journal - features an interview with Claude Simon and several articles on his work - also included are 'Sign Poems' from Ariel Marques's 'ABC da Criagao' and more. Translator's addendum to Serres and notice to subscribers laid in. 158 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Nobel-prize winning author originally published in serial form in 1967, but probably written earlier. Set in 1922, this is the story of a young man who is told he has qualified for a 'certificate' to enable him to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf, with a tranlator's postscript. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-374-120293.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an America Jew who travels to Israel only to find that much of modern Israel is an extension of the US, but who persists in his struggle to find his roots and the meaning of being Jewish. Originally published in Yiddish in 1973 and translated into English by Joseph Singer. Author's note. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-374-230641.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from savagery. Translated from the Yiddish. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181284.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this Novel laureate. Translated from the Yiddish by the author, Lester Goran and others. Author's note. viii, 310 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sequel to "The Manor," portraying the period between the Polish insurrection of 1863 and the end of the 19th century, a period during which the Jews began to play an important part in Polish industry, commerce, arts and science. INSCRIBED on the half title page and SIGNED I. B. Singer. Translated from the Yiddish by his nephew Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb and Elizabeth Shub. 374 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Retells a Hebrew legend with simplicity and eloquence, enhanced by the , and lovely medieval-style illustrations in full color by Antonio Frasconi. This is the story of Elijah, a messenger from God, who sells himself as a slave to help the faithful scribe, Tobias, and then earns his freedom by building a magnificent palace with help from a band of angels. . Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Singer's previous children's book, a memoir of growing up in Warsaw, was awarded the National Book Award for children's literature. Large square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-374-320845.

New York: Norton, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten short stories each featuring Eva Adam, "a nightclub singer and garrulous meddler in other people's affairs, [who] tours worldwide, each stop comprising a single story and a single crime, and each story violates one of Father Ronald A. Knox's rules for writing detective fiction." The list of Knox's Ten Commandments, written in 1929 during the Golden Age of Detective fiction in England, is printed at the front of the book. Translated from the Cxech by Kaca Polackove Henley. Introduction by the author, solutions at the back. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-393025128.

New York: Norton, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, dustjacket praise from Alice Walker and Robin Morgan, among others. Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac. ISBN: 0-393-031071.

Cleveland: Bits Press, (1985). SIGNED first edition - Love poems by this first century B.C. Latin poet, who was a supporter of Brutus and had his estates confiscated and who died young, translated and with a brief prefatory note by David R. Slavitt. SIGNED on the colopon page, which notes that this is part of an edition set in twelve point Times Roman by John Hoffa, printed by Robert Wallace in an edition of 370 copies, all signed by the translating poet . . 333 copies have been saddlesewn into Fabriano covers on which a copy of the etching has been printed from a zinc engraving. Unpaginated (14 pp), printed in dark brown and red.

New York: Pantheon, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Brazilian author's first novel - a mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes which begins with a stolen Stradivarius violin. Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. Special Preview Edition, with a hidden fold-out promotional panel on the front cover of the dust jacket. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. . Bibliography. 271 pp, Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-375400656.

New York: Pantheon, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brazilian author's first novel - a mystery featuring Sherlock Holmes which begins with a stolen Stradivarius violin. Translated from the Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers. Map endpapers, Bibliography. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-375400656.

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1977. First edition - A selection of poems by this little known Swedish- Finnish writer. Although she was born in Russia and attended German language schools in St Petersburg, when she started to write her poetry, she made a clear decision to do in Swedish. Translated and introduced by Samuel Charters. Sodergran was one of the first feminist poets, and one of the first modernists. Her work was bitterly attacked during her lifetime, and when she died at age 31, after years of suffering from tuberculosis, and living in abject poverty, one of the causes was malnutrition. Unpaginated.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A man travels into the future in search of a fabulous jewel, and finds himself having to cross "the line" - a heavily patrolled and war devastated area between the Northern industrialized regions and the Arab-ruled South, rich in oil, but dangerously overpopulated. A "deeply disturbing view of two societies, equally barbarous, truncated parts of what might have been a civilized whole." Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. In Barron, Anatomy of Wonder, 1981, 5-180. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-151285306.

New York: Bantam, (1971). A play set in a Stalinist slave-labor camp in 1945 by this Nobel winning author, translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. 133 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this Spanish author to appear in English, a postmodern murder mystery set in ancient Greece, translated by Sonia Soto. "Somoza intertwines two darkly compelling riddles. . . In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of Enigmas," to investigate.. . Simultaneously, a second plot unfolds: that of the modern-day translator of the ancient text, who, as he proceeds with his work, becomes convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning in the text." 262 pp. ISBN: 0-374106770.

New York: Other Press, (2019). First edition - A novel by this prize-winning Turkish writer, a story of "one man's search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory. . . [he] can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. . . His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him down different paths." Translated from the Turkish by Umit Hussein. Brief glossary. 177 pp.

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Nazi Germany where many are being drawn to Communism, but the focus is more on the evils of Communism, and how it entraps idealists, than on the oppression of the Nazi regime. Translated from the German by Barbara Barclay Carter. 272 pp.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Poems and short stories from the hebrew of Judah Steinberg by Emily Solis-Cohen Jr.. Colored frontispiece and three internal plates. 175 pp.

New York: Random House, 1993. Hardcover first edition - A highly praised short novella - about the conflict between a man and a bear, but also about a larger fatality: the death of the forest. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.

Paris: Chez Francois Fournier, 1722. Hardcover first edition - Engravings on title page and the first page of the letter dedicating this to Cardinal DuBois. The preface refers to this as the third translation of 'Dialogue des Orateurs' with the earlier ones appearing in 1630 and 1710 respectively. 2 pp of errata at rear of volume. In addition to being a translator of the classic, Morabin was also "one of the most noted and popular historians of the times" [blank] [8], lvii, [3], 262, [2] p. [blank] 17 cm. 12mo.