Austin: University of Texas Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Omnibus edition of two novels by perhaps the most influential Latin American woman writer of the early 20th century, originally published in Spanish and then in English translations (by Bombal herself) in 1947 and 1948. Her books, with their mingling of fantasy, realism and surrealism are considered precursors of the magical realism in Latin American literature. Foreword by Naomi Lindstrom. A title in the Texas Pan-Am series. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-292-70836X.

New York: Other Press, (2019). First edition - A novel which tells the story of "the biggest, and perhaps most audacious, heist ever to occur in Europe. Meticulously researched, this thriller unfolds with incredible humanity, capturing the wit and intelligence of the men and women who executed a true crime so wildly far-fetched it seems the stuff of fiction. (Jake Gyllenhaal) Translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Issued as a trade paperback original in the US. 401 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.). First edition - The third and final volume in Viking's centenary edition of Borges' collected works in English. This includes over 150 selections of his nonfiction prose writings, more than 100 of which had never previously been translated into English. Although the topics are wide-ranging, many of the pieces are about books and authors - ranging from Shakespeare and Dante to Kafka, Walt Whitman, Ray Bradbury and Bret Harte. Translated by Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine and Eliot Weinberger. Notes, 547 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The most substantial collection of his poems to be published in the US - a bilingual (Spanish and English) edition which includes 200 poems from 14 books from 14 books covering his entire writing career. Includes some poems which had never before appeared in English translation. Edited by Alexander Coleman and translated from the Spanish by Willis Barnstone, Alexander Coleman, Robert Fitzgerald, Stephen Kessler, Kenneth Krabbenhoft, Eric McHenry, W.S.Merwin, Alastair Reid, Hoyt Rogers, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Alan S. Trueblood and John Updike. 477 pp. ISBN: 0-670-849413.

Housatonic, MA & New York: Lascaux Publishers / Grove Press, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wide-ranging conversations with this great Argentinian writee on topics ranging from Borges life and work to books, poetry, the detective story, the tango, the Kaballah, and more, translated by Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Willias Barnstone and Noemi Escandell. Includes a selection of poems translated by Willis Barnstone, Jorge Luis Borges and Nicomedes Suarez Araruz, Frontispiece illustration by Roberto Paez, photographs by Willis Barnstone. A title in the Altamira Inter-American series. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-39453879X.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes poems by Boris Pasternak, Arkady Mikhailov, Bulat Okukava, Yury Stefanov, Bella Aakhmadulina, Pavel Antokol'sky, Aleksandr Aronov, V. Kalugin and others, many which were originally printed in the pages of Grani. Selected and translated by Keith Bosley, Dimitry Pospielovsky and Janis Sapiets. Introduction by Janis Sapiets. xxvi. 92 pp.

New York: Vanguard, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French by Margaret Giovanelli.

New York: Vanguard, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Xan Fielding. Suspenseful novel involving an obsessed photographer, nearing the end of his career, by the author of 'Bridge over the River Kwai' and 'Planet of the Apes.'

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A short novel of obsession by this Morrocan author, taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Number 175 of 250 hardcover copies individually numbered and SIGNED by both Bowles and Mrabet on the colophon page. 125 pp. Cover illustration by Mrabet. ISBN: 0-876852568.

Saratoga Springs, NY : Pantheon, 1984. First edition - Includes a long play "The World's the World" by Alberto translated from the Italian by Arthur A. Coppotelli, an essay on "Poetry and the National Conscience" by Howard Nemerov , poetry by Adrienne Rich, David Wagoner and more. 112 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Saratoga : Skidmore College, 1984. First edition - A special issue of Salmagundi magazine devoted entirely to Nadine Gordimer, featuring a conversation with her by Robert Boyers, Clark Blaise and others, and the first appearance of the novella "Something Out There." Includes several articles on Gordimer - Multi-Racism by Stephen Clingman, Masters and Servants by Rowland Smith and more. 196 pp. . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume of poetry by this Nobel Laureate to appear in English. Combining two books of verse that were first published in his native Russian, this was published in 1988, the year after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes poems translated by Brodsky himself, this collection features many pieces translated by the poet himself as well as Alan Myers, George Kline, Jane Ann Miller and others. Notes. 174 pp. ISBN: 0374172536.

Barre, Massachusetts: The Imprint Society, 1974. Hardcover first edition - #561 of 1,950 copies printed from Centaur type at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona on Magnani paper - a handsome production of this collection of 5 novellas, translated from the Italian, edited and annotated by Bumgardner. Illustrated with four full-color and full-size reproductions of 16th century manuscripts. Notes. 144 pp plus colophon.

New York: S. G. Phillips, 1970. Hardcover first edition - First appearance in English of this fable by this Nobel Prize winning writer. Translated by poet Guy Daniels, and illustrated by Sarah Reader.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Taking as his focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution, Calasso recounts and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire called "the Modern." Translated from the Italian by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli. 385 pgs including notes.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991. First edition - Love story between two Mexican Jewish women, translated by Gina Kaufer. 211 pp plus glossary,. ISBN: 187996001.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991. First edition - Love story between two Mexican Jewish women, translated by Gina Kaufer. 211 pp plus glossary,. ISBN: 187996001.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 3 stories in which the senses - taste, hearing and smell - dominate the lives of the characters. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Note at end of book by Esther Calvino. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-151928207.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. Includes a brief introduction by his wife in which she notes that these were an obsession with him in the last year of his life; he had planned on writing the 6th memo on "consistency" at Cambridge, and so his untimely death prevented this one from being written. Frontispiece. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-674810406.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 'One of Calvino's most brilliant creations... Mr Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.... a witty, elegant, fantastic tale. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Index. 130 pp. ISBN: 0-151628351.

New York: Pantheon, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of short stories by this important 20th century writer. Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks. Editor's note. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442057.

New York: New Directions, (1977.). First edition - The second book by this revolutionary Nicaraguan poet-priest to be published by New Directions. Edited and selected by Robert Pring-Mill (who also contributed the introduction) and Donald D. Walsh. Translations by Thomas Merton, Kenneth Rexroth, Mireya Jaimes-Freyre and the editors. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-06629.

London: Old Street, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize, a psychological thriller with two threads inevitably converging. Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, and the naive law student Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco, and finds himself slowly lured into a corrupt world of cheating at cards (which Francesco describes as "magic"), beautiful women and casual violence, until one terrifying night Giorgio is forced to realize just how far he has left his past behind. Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis. 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1905847273.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990). First edition - The first book to be published in English by this award-winning Romanian poet, now living in exile after her works were banned in Romania, and a friend was tortured and killed there. Edited and with an Introduction by William Jay Smith. The translators include Barbara Howes, Carolyn Kizer, Stanley Kunitz, Naomi Lazard, Dana Gioia, Christopher Hewitt, Richard Wilbur and more. xxiv, 129 pp. ISBN: 0-393307212.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book to be published in English by this award-winning Romanian poet, now living in exile after her works were banned in Romania, and a friend was tortured and killed there. Edited and with an Introduction by William Jay Smith. The translators include Barbara Howes, Carolyn Kizer, Stanley Kunitz, Naomi Lazard, Dana Gioia, Christopher Hewitt, Richard Wilbur and more. xxiv, 129 pp. ISBN: 0-393027864.

New York: Red Dust , (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains two short experimental novels - An Unlikely Meeting and A Sentimental Talk - by a young French writer originally published in 1961. The second in a series of books by new French writers. Translated by Patrick Bowles. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-87376014X.

London: Reader's International, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in Spanish in 1957, this is considered the masterpiece of Mexico's most important woman novelist of the 20th century. Set against the Mexican Revolution in Chiapas, the southern Mexican state where Castellanos spent her childhood, and which has a strong Mayan presence. Translated from the Spanish and with a preface by Irene Nicholson. Includes a glossary of unfamiliar Spanish and Indian words. 272 pp, Uncommon in hardcover and especially so in this condition. ISBN: 0-93052389x.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this leading Spanish journalist, a thriller set in post-Franco Spain. Translated by Philip W. Silver. 162 pp. ISBN: 1-555841457.