New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The four hands of the title refer to the hands of two investigative journalists, one Mexican and one American, and this novel travels back and forth in time, weaves together several seemingly disparate stories set in Mexico- from Stan Laurel witnessing the assassination of Pancho Villa, finding Trotsky's notes for a crime novel, to a miner's takeover of a coal mine in the 1930s and more. Translated from the Spanish by Laura C. Dail. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-312109873.

El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000.). First edition - Translated from the Spanish by Martin Michael Roberts. An elegant and literate adventure novel set in 1920Õs post-revolutionary Mexico. 161 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Japan just after their defeat in World War II. "Written by one of Japan's most popular mystery novelists, [this] was first published in Tokyo in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries." Translated from the Japanese and adapted by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 324 pp. ISBN: 1-569471088.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. dj. Hardcover - Classic erotic novel, told in the form of diaries kept by a husband and wife, by this Nobel prize winning author. Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. 183 pp plus notes about the author and the translator. Basis for the film "Odd Obssession" which won a special prize at Cannes in 1960.

New York: Putnam / Perigee, (1963). A collection of seven short pieces by this Nobel prize winning author, stories which span half a century of his career. Translated and with an introduction by Howard Hibbett. ix, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-399-505237.

New York: Pantheon, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A secret novel from young Russia." A surrealistic novel set during the last year of Stalin's life by a Soviet dissident, smuggled out of the Soviet Union, and published under a pen name. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward. Translator's note. 128 pp.

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Studies, (1968, c 1963). Hardcover - A translation in modern English verse, but one which "reflects the spirit and tone of the Idylls" according to the translator's preface. xiii, 113p.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first major novel, written while he was a political prisoner and originally published in Indonesia in 1950. New translation and introductory note by Willem Samuels, Set during World War II on the 16th and 17th of August, 1945 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-688-086985.

Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first major one-volume collection of Tolstoy's stories, edited and with an introduction by Charles Neider. Includes 46 stories from all stages of his life, ranging in length from short stories to novellas. Most were translated by Nathan Haskell Dole; the three Sevastapol stories were translated by Isabel F. Hapgood. 574 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this great French writer to be published in the US. Translated by Barbara Wright. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1980.). First edition - Translated and with an introduction by Robert Bly. Bilingual edition with the original Swedish text at the end of the book. Illustrated. Transtromer was awarded the Nobel prize in 2011. 55 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-2391.

Madison, Minnesota: Seventies Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book of poems by this 2011 Nobel laureate to be published in English translation - a bilingual edition with the orginal Swedish on the right, English on the left - translated and with an introduction by Robert Bly. 59 pp. plus colophon. One of 1000 copies printed in hardcover (there were also 1000 paperback copies) by Morgan Press.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, but not published in Spain until 1978, when she was 42, and after the ending of the censorship of the Franco regime - this was still controversial for its exploration of women's sexuality and especially for its portrayal of a lesbian relationship in a positive manner. Translated, and with an afterword, by Margaret E. W. Jones. Winner of the 1989 Kayden National Translation Award. ISBN: 0-8032-44223.

Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this important and unconventional Spanish feminist writer, one who explores eroticism from the point of view of women. Translated and with an afterword by Susan E. Clark. 230 pp. Attractive cover art reproduces "A Mermaid" (1901) by J.W. Waterhouse. ISBN: 0-916583-83X.

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown (2006). "Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra. Es la historia de una joven Mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan aura de santa." Spanish language edition, translated from the English by Enrique Hubbard Urrea. Nota del autor. 501 pp plus 12 pp reading group guide. ISBN: 978-0316014342.

New York: Orion, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very hard to find first edition of the first novel by this pioneering Hindi writer, the story of a young boy in a small village. It "has acquired the status of a classic in Hindi and, in a way, anticipates his literary journey . .. [He] had no predecessors in Hindi. He decided to depart the dominant mode of realism and explore reality in non-realistic, sometimes surrealistic ways. . . [and he] created a geography of empathy for those who have been thrown or pushed out to the margins of life, society and morality." (Ashok Vajpeyi) Translated from the Hindi by the author. 150 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - South African writer's first adult novel. Translated by Catherine Knox. ISBN: 0-525-939180.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1973). Hardcover first edition - A writer is assigned to write the biography of a living monarch - the exiled king of a small but strategic country in southwestern Asia, he is planning a coup to return to power, but it soon becomes clear to the author that he will be dead before his plan succeeds. A psychological thriller which combines political relevance with suspense, the author best known for "Z." Translated from the Greek by Mary Kelley. 216 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-672521393.

New York: Random House, (1938.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A modern classic, winner of the 1934 Goncourt Prize, translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Striking illustrated endpapers by Steinberg.

New York: Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Company, Inc., (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Verne's classic adventure novel, originally published in 1873, in an edition beautifully illustrated by Barry Moser with 16 full page watercolor paintings. Translated from the French by George Makepeace Towle; afterword by Peter Glassman. xii, 242 pp. Endpaper maps of the world. ISBN: 0-688075088.

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.

London: Putnam, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in a now vanished colonial world - set in Mozambique in East Africa, with a Viennese actress has come to recover her health, an English sisal planter, an Anglo-Portuguese elephant hunter and more, who become involved in the investigation of a Mau-Mau murder. First published as 'Der Koloss', Austria, 1959. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. 423 pp. Dust jacket design by Oscar.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984). dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by one of Germany's 'most articulate and socially aware' writers. Translated from German by Leila Vennewitz. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0593735.

San Francisco: China Books, (1988.). First edition - A collection of one novella and six short stories by the "most popular woman writer of Shanghai," stories which depict the humanism underneath the Cultural Revolution and in the movement away from it. Introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley. Translated by Howard Goldblat, Gladys Yang and others. A title in the New Chinese Fiction series, with cover praise from Tillie Olsen and Maxine Hong Kingston. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-8351-20325.

New York: Bantam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Unique, daring, and unforgettable, it tellls the story of an ordinary family who accidentally threaten the security of a hidden civilization as intelligent as our own--a colony of ants determined to survive at any cost." One review called this "a marvel of warped imagination and offbeat suspense." Translated from the French by Margaret Rocques. Glossary. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-553-096133.