New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.

New York: Viking, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long and complex political novel by this Nobel laureate- one which explores the role of revolutionary ideas in the then new African states, but mostly from the viewpoint of an English liberal, the title figure of this novel, a man who had been expelled by the British colonial office for siding with the nationalist movement who has now been invited back for the independence celebrations. Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Britain in 1971. 504 pp. ISBN: 0-670356549.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, most set in her native South Africa, by this Nobel Prize winning author. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-670656380.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful novel, written before Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. The story of a young white woman who rejects the "privileges" she is born into in South Africa, and, among other things, marries a black activist. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-394548027.

New York: Viking, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Booker Prize; described as Gordimer's finest novel, set in South Africa. "A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women, not yet fifty, Mehring wants for nothing that white privilege in a black country can bring him." 252 pp,. ISBN: 0-670-23883X.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A significant collection of the short fiction of this South African Nobel Prize winning author, containing 35 stories from 10 collections, spanning her career from 1952 to 2007, and including two new post 2007 stories. 549 pp. ISBN: 9780374270537.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of conflict between a father and his son, set against a modern South Africa where racial laws had been abolished, but racial tensions still remain. Nobel prize winning author. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-374-217513.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning the ages by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the German by Ralph Mannheim. 547 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tanzanian author's first novel, a bitter but poetic and haunting coming of age story set in a squalid seaport in East Africa. When it appeared in England, the Times called it "159 pages of sheer joy and magic. The story is deceptively simple..." In 2021, Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents." 159 pp. Striking dust jacket design by Bascove. ISBN: 0-8021-10185.

New York: Bantam, (1971.). The best known work of this Nobel prize winning author - one that has spoken to generations of young people. Translated by Basil Creighton. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-553-04789.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Noonday Press, (1970). Thirty-one poems from Nobel Literature Laureate Hesse's (1877-1962) Die Gedichte, selected and translated by Pulitzer Prize winning American poet James Wright. Bi-lingual edition with the German original facing the English translation - the first appearance of these poems in English. Translator's note. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-374508445.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this journey around the globe, we encounter true heroes including the Dalai Lama; Jane Goodall; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity. Despite the optimism expressed by these leaders, peace seems ever more elusive in the modern world. Foreword by Ela Gandhi. Notes, index. xiii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-062517414.

New York: Vintage Books, (2006.). A novel both unforgettable, unsettling, thought-provoking, and sadly beautiful - one of Ishiguro's best works - shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 288 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-78776.

New York: Putnam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ishiguro's first novel, a book which fuses past and present in the story of a Japanese woman living in England, who, after the suicide of her older daughter, shares with her English-born younger daughter memories of life in Nagasaki one summer after the bomb, as new buildings were just beginning to be built on top of the devastation. This book was the winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and Ishiguro went on to win the Booker Prize (four of his novels were short-listed for that prize) and in 2017 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 183 pp. Dust jacket by Joel Avirom. ISBN: 0-399127186.

1956-1966. An ephemeral but attractive production of these poems by the Spanish nobel laureate in honor of his wife, who died in 1956. Consists of a single sheet folded, laid-in to a tan cardstock folder with the title on the front cover, dates on the bottom of the front and a small drawing on the back cover. No place of publication, but possibly Puerto Rico, where Jimenez and Zenobia settled after 1948. Text is in Spanish (en espagnol)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. 288 pp. ISBN: 0*394-512316.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A vivid picture of communal life and of a woman, Alice, the 'good terrorist', who knows how to cope with everything except the vacuum of her own life. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-394-543394.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of her last novels, published the same year as she was awarded the Nobel Prize - an invitation "to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator embarks on what may be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, in the valley of an overshadowing mountain." 260 pp. ISBN: 978-0060834869.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A 65 year old woman, long widowed and with grown children, working as a writer in a London theater, finds herself in love again - first with a younger actor and then with the slightly more mature director. An ironic look at the complexities of love, of longing, grief, an older woman's sexuality and more. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-060176873.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in the Canopus in Argos: Archives series. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-512316.

New York: Harper Collins, 1997. First edition - Covers the period from Lessing's arrival in London from her native Rhodesia to the publication of her masterpiece, 'The Golden Notebook.'

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. SIGNED by Lessing on the half title page. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.

New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Nobel prize winning author, the first Arab to win this award. A parable set in a mythical timeless Middle East. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-385-423233.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - An ironically titled brief book, written after the Munich agreement of September 1938 in which Mann "castigates those whom he holds responsible for a settlement unfortunate for the future of the democratic peoples" - an event he calls the final triumph of fascism, aided by the ruling classes of England, as he lays out one betrayal after another - of the German people themselves, of the atrocities of the concentration camps and the torture and murder of Jews and Christians, of the annexation of Austria, and of the betrayal of the Czech Republic. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Bibliography. 38 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1981.). A collection of provocative and critical essays by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among the topics are 'Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist,' the importance of Simone Weil, Joseph Conrad's father and more. Various translators. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-520-045033.

New York: Ecco Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poems - "meditative lyrics" - by this Nobel laureate. Translated by the author and Robert Haas. 102 pp. ISBN: 0-060745665.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this writer who is known for his innovative and outspoken work (the name he writes under is a pseudonymic phrase meaning "Don't speak"), In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature Translated by Howard Goldblatt. SIGNED by Mo Yan on the half title page and dated in the year of publication, and scarce thus. 356 pp. ISBN: 1559705310.