New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth book by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. INSCRIBED by Allende with her signature drawing of a small flower 331 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121024.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Chilean writer (born in Peru, but now living in the US). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 272 pp. Dust jacket art by James McMullen. ISBN: 0-394-572734.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59420-1219.

New York: Bantam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel with a city as the central character - "Tocaia Grande, a city in the Bahian backlands of Brazil's cacao region." Translated from the Portuguese by Gregory Rabassa. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-553051741.

Boston & New York: David R. Godine / Avon Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is now vacant - a colonel who had welcomed Nazi control is sure it should be his, but arrayed against him are two determined octagenarians and four remarkable women. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-879235527.

London: Reader's International, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Preface by Jerzy Pilch. Translated by Nina Taylor. Stories of Warsaw's changing world, since the clampdown on Solidarity and the coming of martial law in Poland. ISBN: 0-930523-490.

Copenhagen, Denmark: Aristo, n.d. (ca 1950) dj. A charming set of five small "pin plates" each depicting a scene from a different Hans Christian Andersen story - Den flyvende Kuffert (The Flying Trunk); Kods Hans (Blockhead Hans); Pigen MedSvovlstikkerne (The Little Matchgirl); Tommelise (Thumbelina); and Hyrdinden Og Skorstensfejeren (The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep) - with a pastel border. Each is bordered in a pastel tones. Undated, but probably mid 20th century. Only one indicates "Aristo" on the base, another notes "handmade."

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1938). Hardcover first edition - "An entirely new translation of a number of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, including many of the short amusing ones which are not as well known as they deserve to be" although this also includes some of his most loved stories - The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Princess on the Pea, The Snow Queen and more. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac, with a foreword by Hugh Walpole and illustrations by Richard Bennett. Translator's note. x, 305 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five short stories and three novellas. Although the title story depicts the mind of a child with tenderness and pathos, other stories in this collection are much darker. Kunitz and Haycraft commented "In his work, if he resembles any other author, it is Poe - but a Poe who has crossed the border of fantasy into the realm of absolute blackness." However, during this period America was avid for anything relating to Edgar Allan Poe and, as Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. Translated from the Russian by Herman Bernstein, 361 pp.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of six short stories, based on the author's experiences as a former Soviet career officer, and which reveal the horror of the prison system. Andreyev became a political emigre and witness against the Soviet concentration camps. Translated from the Russian by Fred P Berry. 240 pp. Dust jacket by Gordon Martin.

New York: Bantam, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief novel by one of the most important Catalan writers of the twentieth century, translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent. "Written with lyrical simplicity and haunting beauty - and interspersed with chilling, actual Nazi documentation - [this] is more than just a novel: it is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of beauty, art, and hope to triumph over the darkest adversity." 109 pp. ISBN: 0-553807781.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Number fifteen in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a hardcover series of books which rank among the most creatively designed and published of the early 21st century. Stories by Steve Milhouser, Roddy Doyle, Jimmy Hen, Eric Hanson, Padgett Powell Benjain Rosenbaum and more. Includes a special section on Icelandic Fiction with contributions from Birna Anna Bjornsdottir, Sjon, Gyroir Eliasson, Bragi Olafsson, Einar Marguomundsson, Hallgrimur Helgason, Porarinn Eldjorn, Guobergur Brgsson, Oddny Sturludottir, Silj Hauksdotir, Andri Snoer Magnason. SIGNED by Eggers at the bottom of the copyright page. Notes on contributors. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-932416145.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Number fifteen in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a hardcover series of books which rank among the most creatively designed and published of the early 21st century. Stories by Steve Milhouser, Roddy Doyle, Jimmy Hen, Eric Hansonm, Padgett Powell Benjain Rosenbaum and more. Includes a special section on Icelandic Fiction with contributions from Birna Anna Bjornsdottir, Sjon, Gyroir Eliasson, Bragi Olafsson, Einar Marguomundsson, Hallgrimur Helgason, Porarinn Eldjorn, Guobergur Brgsson, Oddny Sturludottir, Silj Hauksdotir, Andri Snoer Magnason. SIGNED by TWO authors - by Eggers at the bottom of the copyright page and Sjon at "Fridrick and the Eejit." Notes on contributors. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-932416145.

New York: Schocken, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - In early 1900s Austria, a young Jewish woman converts to Christianity and marries a gentile laborer with disastrous results. Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. 231 pp. ISBN: 978-0805241792.

New York: Grove Press / Black Cat, (2005). First edition - Canadian author's semi-autobiographical first novel, a look at the world's oldest profession by a writer who worked within it. "Cynthia," as the nameless narrator calls herself professionally, is a French-Canadian Catholic who escapes her strict upbringing and schooling by the nuns, and moves to Montreal where she finds work in a bar. One day she answers the ad of an escort agency, and so she is found by new calling. Translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. Finalist for both the Prix MŽdicis and the Prix FŽmina. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-802170021.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An intellectual thriller set at a World Championship chess match in Paris. Winner of Spain's Premio Nadal award. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan and illustrated throughout with diagrams showing the actual chess matches. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-67081346X.

New York: Three Sirens Press, (1932). Hardcover first edition - Translated by Percy Pinkerton. Art deco illustrations by Cameron Wright. 328 pp.

San Francisco: Four Winds Press, (2015). First edition - A collection of essays which maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument, using "examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the 'suicide; of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots. . [He] demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common." Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil. Issued as a trade paperback original. 238 pp.

New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The authpr's second crime novel - her first won the 1997 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award - once again featuring Elise Andrioli who was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic after a terrorist bomb explosion in Northern Ireland that killed her fiance. and told in the first person. Now, after several surgeries, which have only restored some movement in her left arm, she is leaving for Switzerland to stay at her uncle's chalet in a small ski town. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Bien Cordialement." Translated from the French by David L. Koral. 248 pp.

Toronto: Exile Editions, (1998). First edition - A "Novella comprised of carefully observed short fictions." The first English language edition of this winner of the Governor's General award. Translated and with an afterword by Jill Cairns. 111 pp. ISBN: 1-550962469.

Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, (2002). First edition - Although an earlier version of these poems was published in 1972, this is a very attractive production and it includes a brief new introduction by Auster. Translates poems by Rene Char, Tristan Tzara, Antonin Artaud, Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Benjamin Peret, Phillippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, and Robert Desnos. One of only 300 copies, designed by Kelly Everding. 35 pp. plus colophon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about two expatriates living in Paris, and attempting to remake their lives; winner of the 1956 Prix Femina award for this novel. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. 243 pp.

Orlando, FL Harcourt (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - "After eight years in exile, Sergeant Genis Aleu returns to the city of Barcelona, Spain bearing the mark of a man who has seen many battles and has one last mission ahead of him. A soldier in the the ill-famed foreign legion, Aleu cuts a intimidating figure as he negotiates around the paranoid and suspicious citizens of Franco's Spain, while trying to fulfill his father’s dying wish." Translated from the Catalan by Cheryl Leah Morgan. Winner of the Ramon Llull prize. 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0-15-1012558.

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French by L.M. Leggatt. First US printing of this novel of provincial life, set on Jersey island and the Lannion coast, originally published in 1893 (and which was filmed as a movie in 1914 in France under the original title of Madame Corentine). A good example of a decorative binding from the early 20th century - bound in blue cloth with white lettering, black horizontal lines, and a band of white flowers along the fore-edge of the front cover. 290 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young girl discovers that even when abortion is legal and easily available, it is a complicated decision and one she has to make for herself. Translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-670473944.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, (1990). First edition - The first book to appear in English by this leading Chinese woman writer, who was in the US at the time of the Tiananmen riots, and because she spoke up then against the governement, she wound up remaining in the US. Includes a novella and three stories. Foreword by Amy Tan. Translated from the Chinese By Howard Goldblatt, 146 pp. ISBN: 0-879052929.