New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in post-Franco Spain, a country rejoicing in newfound freedom but still beset by terrorist violence, corruption and the presence of neo-Fascists and Basque separatists, this is the story of a romance between a politician, advisor to the President, and a young girl, a militant member of the political left, who find themselves caught up in espionage and murder. The first novel by an award-winning journalist. Translated from the Spanish by Philip W. Silver. 162 pp. ISBN: 1-555841457.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which "represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 'Lionheart' Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka." Originally published in Spain in 1983 and translated by Patricia Haugaard. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-1222X.

London: Quartet, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which "represents a culmination of the 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela's literary art. In 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, 'Lionheart' Gamuzo is abducted and killed, an event recalled repeatedly by the widowed Adega, one of the several narrative voices. In 1939, when the war ends, Tanis Gamuzo avenges his brother. For both events, and for them only, the blind accordion player Gaudencio plays the same mazurka." Originally published in Spain in 1983 and translated by Patricia Haugaard. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-704370492.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated, with a substantial introduction and notes by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. A bilingual edition with the original French and English translation on facing pages. Born in Martinique, Cesaire studied in Paris where he met Leopold Senghor, and "discovered Africa" and began his lifelong dedication to the idea of Negritude. This collection begins with his important first book, written in 1939 upon his return to the Caribbean -Cahier du Retour au Pays Natal -Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. xv, 408 pp.

New York: George Braziller, (1986). First edition - The first trade edition of this collection of 10 intertwined surrealistic poems by this Carribean poet, one of the foremost advocates of negritude, illustrated with spare drawings by Picasso, originally published in a limited edition of only 219 copies in 1950. Introduction and translation by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Bi-lingual edition with the complete original French text at the end. 130 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-807611484.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.). First edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp.

London: Granta, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. Traces one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history through the events of the Texaco quarter of Fort-de-France in Martinique. Translators' afterword, glossary. 401 pp. ISBN: 1-862070075.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Translated from the French and Creole by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov. AN 'intriguing riff on the police procedural' set during Carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinque. Translators' afterword, glossary. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432361.

London: Serpent's Tail, (1989.). First edition - Algerian-born author's first novel, one that explores the conflict between growing up in an Arab family on the outskirts of Paris and wanting to be accepted as French. The first and best of the 'beur' novels (slang for 'Arab.'), translated from the French by Ed Emery. Basis for the prize winning movie of the same name (winner of the Prix Jean Vigo Award for best first film at Cannes.) 157 pp. ISBN: 1-852421517.

Boston: Little Brown, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "ribald realism" by this award-winning writer. "In Luino, in the years just before Fascism when the 'nineteenth century drew to a long-overdue close,' Emerenziano Paronzini, a dour but distinguished looking man of 45, takes up residence, eyes the rather unattractive sisterhood - all unwed - Tarsilla, Fortunata and Camilla, and eventually proposes to Fortunata .. By the close is trigamously servicing all three sister. A wholly funny, bawdy, small story told with scapegrace irreverence and a knowing leer." (Kirkus) Translated from the Italian by Julia Martines. 180 pp.

New York: Viking, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by the Flemish author of the highly acclaimed "The Sorrow of Belgium." A "cross-continental tale of Belgian gamblers seeking their fortunes in Las Vegas . . [It] begins in a bar called 'The Unicorn,' whose regulars includea group of cronies with colorful monikers. . Two of them, dark, brooding (half-Portuguese) Michel and enormously overweight Jake, impulsively light out for America, first to Los Angeles, then eastward to Vegas and the gaming tables. . . Claus builds a hilarious picture of southwestern American neon splendor . . [with] sequences variously reminiscent of the inspired demolitions of trash-culture Americana accomplished decades ago by Evelyn Waugh and Nabokov, as well as Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust." (Kirkus) Translated by Stacey Knecht. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-670867462.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of a collection of reminiscences never before published in English about some of the places Colette lived and visited - including a long piece on moving, chats about her friends, cats, travels, the maiden voyage of the Normandie and most of all, her beloved France. Foreword by Margaret Crosland. Translated from the French by David Le Vay. Photographic frontispiece. Notes, 157 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux- Noonday Press, (1976.). Companion novel to 'The Vagabond.' Translated from the French by Antonia White. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-374-513112.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1953.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First thus - the second volume in a series planned to present all of Colette's work in new translations and in a uniform binding. Originally published in 1920 and 1926, these two novels about the love affair between a young man and a charming older woman, were translated for this edition by Roger Senhouse from the 1949 complete works of Colette. 296 pp.

London: Gollancz, (1933). Hardcover - Translation of 'La Seconde', originally published in Paris in 1929. The New York Times review when this was first published in English called this a "subtle and penetrating study of a woman forced to watch her husband's endless and rather vulgar infidelities." However, when Farou has an affair with Jane, who is not only his secretary but Fanny's affectionate companion for four years, it is far more difficult to deal with. When the affair is discovered, Jane prepares to leave, but at Fanny's gentle urging, she consents to stay. Translated from the French by Viola Gerard Garvin. 283 pp.

New York & London: Quercus, (2013). First edition - The author's first thriller, set in Rome and introducing Commissario Balistreri. Translated from the Italian by N.S. Thompson. 564 pp.

Boston: L. C. Page and Company 1902. New edition. Includes a long introductory essay on Persian Poetry by Joseph Jacobs dated 1899. Illustrated with 11 illuminated pages with Persian motifs each with a tissue guard. All of the text pages have intricate red border designs. lil, 196 p. Top edge gilt.

New York: St Martin's, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as "The First Major Novel to Come Out of Contemporary China." Written by a former Red Guard and set mostly in Shanghai in the late 1970s, this is a novel of how the Cultural Revolution of 1957 and the fall of the Gang of Four in 1977 affected one woman, her husband and their friends around them. Translated by Frances Wood. Translator's note, list of principle characters and footnotes at the end of the book. ix, 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312762151.

New York: Penguin, 2014. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Brazilian author's fourth book, but the first to be published in the US. Awarded the 2013 Sao Paulo Literature Prize. Translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin. In 2013, Granta named Galera as one of the best young Brazilian authors. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-1594205743.

New York: Ecco Press, 1989. First edition - Includes essays by John Barth (on Poe), Rick Bass, Annie Dillard, Denis Donoghue (on T. S. Eliot), Michael Dorris, Peter Matthiessen (39 pp on the search for the forest elephant), Gary Snyder, William Trevor. and more. Notes on contributors. 245 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-88001-1637.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous look at the average Frenchman - Blot enters a newspaper contest to find an "average" Frenchman and to his surprise he wins. Illustrated with drawings by Bernard Buffet. Translated from the French by Robin Chancellor. 253 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in this series featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre. "In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the citys main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently, the police receive a claim of responsibility and the threat of more murders to come. But neither Caselli nor her eccentrically brilliant ally, Dante Torre, are yet ready to buy the terrorist link." Translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Author's note. 452 pp. ISBN: 978-1501174650.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2002). First edition - Translated from Italian by Michael Moore. The first book by this author to be published in the US, it is the story of a thirteen year old boy who lives in Montedidio (God's Mountains) in Naples in 1960. It is a year of discovery when he begins to become a man, has his first crush while working in a carpentry workshop. 168 pp.

London & Emmaus, PennsylvaniaL The Rodale Press, (1955). Hardcover first edition - A story taken from a book originally published in Madrid in 1621 by this dramatist, poet and Catholic monk, and here "freely translated from the Spanish" by Ilsa Barea and illustrated by Arthur Wragg. Includes an introduction by Arturo Barea. xii, 72 pp.

New York: Grove, 1956. Considered the finest literary work by this Basque Spanish writer; introduction by Angel Del Rio.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997). First edition - An insightful and provocative look at "the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies." Translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx-MacDonald. Illustrated with small black and white photographs throughout. Bibilography, Index, , , 280 pp.