Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Belloc's first novel - one with many intentional autobiographical parallels. "In this brilliant tale of violent sexuality, set forth in stark, hypnotic prose, Denis Belloc presents a straightforward narrative of the homosexual underworld in 1960s Paris." Translated by William Rodamor. 103 pp. ISBN: 0-879238585.

Boston & Toronto: Little Brown, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this poet, essayist, and winner of the Prix Goncourt for his earlier novel 'Sacred Night.' The story of "a young Moroccan girl's confrontation with twin challenges of exile and immigration. The young heroine, who with her family has fled from and impoverished Berber village to the extravagant city of Paris, finds herself disoriented, torn between the sophistication of and unfamiliar society and the vibrant, mystial culture that is her true spiritual inheritance." Translated from the French by Joachim Neugroschel. 249 pp. ISBN: 9780316460590.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of six short novels, by this Russian emigree writer, novels rooted in the lives of those who fled the Russian Revolution to live in exile in Paris, as Berberova herself did for many years. Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-679402810.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Austrian writer who has been compared to Kafka and Beckett - Translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-394-41141-2.

London: Quartet Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short novel by this award-winning Austrian writer, who has been compared to Kafka and who is considered one of the most important voices of post-World-War II Europe. Translated from the German by Ewald Osers. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-27708.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1997.). A series of parable-like anecdotes, some drawn from newspaper reports, some from conversation, some from hearsay - one of most darkly comic works by this Austrian playwright, poet and novelist. Translated by Kenneth J. Northcott, 104 pp. ISBN: 0-226-044025.

Cambridge, MA: Ploughshares Inc, 1975. First edition - Includes contributions by James Merrill, Octavio Paz, John Peck, Mark Strand, John Malcolm Brinnin, James McMichael, Robert Lowell, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Margo Lockwood, Nicholas Christopher, Constance St. John Marchiel, Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, Alice Mattison, Richard Howard, Jonathan Galassi, Barry Spacks, Helen Vendler, Frank Bidart, David Ferry, F.R. Leavis, Eugenio Montale, Peter Taylor, Donald Gertmenian, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Kaplan, Todd Boli, Horace, William Nestrick, J.V. Cunningham, Robert Pinsky, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Eliot, Proust, Stein, and Dante and more - mostly poetry but some essays including Brinnin on first meeting Auden, and David Gertmenian on Rereading Howl. Illustrated with collages by Ralph Hamilton. Notes on contributors. 249 pp plus ads.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1989, c 1969). An example of oral folk literature, this epic, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Zaire, celebrated the feats of Mwindo. It is here presented in prose form, interspersed with song and proverbs in verse, and translated by the editors. Included is the original Nyanga text. Extensive footnotes, index. viii, 213 pp. ISBN: 0-520020499.

London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-906495709.

London: Writers and Readers, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book to be published in English - this slim novel is described as 'a uniquely feminine meditation on death and absence: the absence of the heroine's husband, of the intense life of her childhood in wartime Russia and her youth in Moscow, of friends and family who have vanished behind the tundra of the Gulag' and on the coming death of her mother. Although born and educated in Russia, Bielski now lives in France where this was originally published in 1979; translated from the French by John Berger and Lisa Appignasesi. 133 pp. ISBN: 0-906495709.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press. 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Experimental novel by this Polish writer, the story of a prisoner alone in his cell - Bienek was himself a political prisoner, sentenced to a Siberian labor camp. Introduction by Daniel Berrigan S. J. Translated from the German by Ursula Mahlendorf. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-771014031.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Egypt in 1970, this is the first novel by this Egyptian writer to appear in English. "A potent story of love and hate, of violence and ancient faith, it evokes the oppressive quality of village life in Egypt a generation ago." Co-recipient of the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Translated from the Arabic by Sami Bindari and Mona St. Leger. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-395285402.

New York: Dutton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by this award-winning Argentinian writer, a "mystery which blends the metaphysical and the mundane." Nicolas Almanza, a young small-town photographer, gets his first professional assignment, to photograph stills of the provincial capital of La Plata. On the train there, he meets an elderly man and his two daughters, and things get complicated. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-52524803X.

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1982). First edition - Translations of six 20th century Japanese women's stories - writers who choose not to recognize the docile stereotype of Japanese women, but rather to write probing, provocative and sometimes chilling explorations of the female pysche. Translated and with an introduction by Birnbaum. Among the writers are Kanei Mieko, Sono Ayako, Enchi Fumiko and others. ix, 147 p . ISBN: -824808177.

Hollywood: W. M. Hawley, (1956) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Parallel text translations Of T'ang Dynasty Poetry (618-906 A. D.) with the original Chinese on the left facing the English translation on the right. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and simply signed "Shirley." Black, a British born Sinologist, is perhaps best known for her 1960 translation of "Chapters from a Floating Life" by Fu Shen. 45 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring investigator Louise Rick, who is now heading up a new unit focused on old missing person cases. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Translated from the Danish by Signe Rod Golly. Note from the author. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1455581528.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring investigator Louise Rick. Translated from the Danish by Mark Kline. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1455581542.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third thriller in this award winning series featuring Detective Louise Rick, head of the police department's Special Search Agency, charged with missing person cases. Translated from the Danish by Mark Kline. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-1455541072.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Thriller featuring investigator Louise Rick. SIGNED and dated on the title page. Translated from the Danish by Mark Kline. 310 pp.

Toronto: Anansi Press, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in her trilogy chronicling the apocalyptic mood of the times; the first novel in the trilogy - These Festive Nights - won with the Governor General Award. Translated from the French by Nigel Spenser. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-887841767.

New York: Dutton, 1929. dj. Novel about Christopher Columbus, translated from the Spanish by Arthur Livingston. A very popular book in its time - this is the 7th printing, issued in the same month as the 1st. Striking dust jacket illustration.

New York & London: Thomas Yoseloff, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication in English of 27 stories, most set in the Eastern Europe of his youth and others dealing with the immigrant experience after his arrival in the United States at age 18. Translated from the Yiddish by Etta Blum. Translator's preface. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-498066754.

New York & London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd , (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning writer, best known for his poetry, set in a West Prussian village in 1874, it "tells the story of the narrator's grandfather, who plots and schemes to ruin the Jewish newcomer who has built a mill downstream from him." Translated from the German by Janet Cropper. 230 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 0-714500208.

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.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A new translation of this powerful novel which looks at the demands and emptiness of marriage among those imprisoned by their pasts, originally published in 1953 in Germany by this Nobel laureate and under the title "Acquainted with the Night" in the US. Now translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-0070064289.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1977). A collection of 26 early short stories (most written in the 1950s and 1960s) by this Nobel laureate. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-007006430x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fritz Tolm, publisher of a once liberal newspaper but now part of a gigantic consortium, has already seen his life and that of his wife become a slow suffocation - caught between the threatening violence of terrorists and the oppressive police apparatus and surveillance - the "safety net" - designed to protect them. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 313 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394514041.