New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this Nobel laureate, originally published in 1925 and now published in a new translation with a preface and commentary by William Arrowsmith. A bilingual edition with the original Italian on the left, the English translation on the right. xxvi, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-393-028038.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this Nobel winning author which explores the nature of love as it affects the lives of five women - ""May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey, the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort." 203 pp. ISBN: 0-375409440.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Morrison's first novel after winning the Nobel Prize for literature. This spans the years from the founding of Ruby, Oklahoma, an all-black town, in 1890 to the day of a fatal assault in 1979. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-679-433740.

New York: Scribner, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of adaptations of Aesop's fables. Morrison explains the books thus: 'We, the creators of 'who's got game' were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's Fables - their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions, the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings re-imagined. The victim might not lose; the timid gets a chance to become strong; the fool can gain insight; the powerful may lose their grip. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.' SIGNED on the title page by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Illustrated in full color in a graphic book style by Pascal Lemaitre. Slightly oversized, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-7432-22474.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 11 stories which won Canada's most prestigious literary prize: the Governor General's Award. Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. ISBN: 0-394-55272-5.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning Canadian author's eighth book, a collection of eight powerful short stories, which range back and forth in time and travel far from Canada to Albania and Australia. Nominated for the Governor General's Award. In 2013 Munro received the Nobel Prize for Literature for her body of work. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-771066996.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 10 short stories by one of the best writers in this form, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. Winner of Canada's Trillium Prize.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Canadian author's eighth book, a collection of eight powerful short stories. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-679-435751.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen stories, most set in the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron (although the characters sometimes travel out to the cities) by this award winning writer. It preceded her winning the Nobel Prize for literature - an award which cited her as a "master of the contempory short story." 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0307596888.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 24 of the best stories from two decades of writing by this Nobel Laureaute, arranged chronologically based on original publication. Foreword by Jane Smiley. An excellent introduction to the writing of this author. SIGNED by Smiley on the title page. Bibliographic note. xii, 620 pp. ISBN: 978-1101874103.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 4 essays by this Nobel prize winning author who was himself born in Trinidad to Indian parents. In addition to the title piece, it includes Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad; A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa and Conrad's Darkness. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-394509684.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in seven years by this Trinidadian born, Nobel prize winning writer, one which 'explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness.'. ISBN: 0-375-407375.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of the last collection of poems by this Nobel laureate, completed just months before his death in 1973 and composed entirely of unanswerable questions. Translated and with an introduction by William O'Daly. A bilingual edition with English at the top of each page and the original Spanish at the bottom. xiii, 74 pp. Uncommon in hardcover. ISBN: 1-556590407.

New York: Crown, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by then Senator, and soon-to-be President, Obama. True first edition with number line beginning with a '1,' original price of 25.00 on dust jacket flap. Index. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-307-237699.

New York: Kodansha International, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book published after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, a very personal nonfiction account which presents an intimate portrait of his son, born with a brain deformity, and reflects on the challenges and pleasures of raising a handicapped person and the healing power of the family - and ultimately to see his son find his voice in music. SIGNED by Oe on the title page and uncommon thus. Illustrated with drawings of the family, including a section in full color, by Yukari Oe, his wife. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Laid in is a flyer for the book signing event in NYC. 146 pp. ISBN: 4-770020481.

New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A novel by this winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature with its roots in a World War II tragedy. "His recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his fathers death during WWII: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel." Translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. 424 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of pieces from over 25 years, selected by this writer who received the Nobel award for literature in 2006. They range from "lyrical autobiography to essays on literature and culture, from humor to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter to provocative discussions of Eastern & Western art." Includes many selections on books and reading, and his interview from The Paris Review. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely. Index. 433 pp. ISBN: 978-0571236862.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). First edition - Novel set in 18th century Portugal by this 1998 Nobel prize winning author. Included among the characters isPadre Bartholomeu Lorenco de Gusmao, who was ridiculed for his belief that man could fly, but in 1709 invented a rudimentary airship. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The first book by Saramago to be published in the US, . 303 pp plus translator's note.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Both an epic adventure in which the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the continent and floats out to sea and a political fable about the European community by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1851980.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple story of a potter who finds his craft obsolete, of the struggle against a faceless bureaucracy and most of all, a powerful allegory of modern life by this winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1004145.

New York: Brentano's, 1928. Hardcover - A book written by George Bernard Shaw, the Irish dramatist, literary critic, ardent socialist, and winner of the Nobel prize in 1925, in response to his sister-in-law's request for a "few ideas on socialism." Includes a foreword for American readers. Index. xlvi, 495 pp. Laid in is a card with notes presumably from the previous owner who objected to this early example of "mansplaining" ("Both give me a fit, so I yearn to just stir up a fuss, he presumes he's quite qualified to act as a guide to intelligent women. . .")

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Nobel-prize winning author originally published in serial form in 1967, but probably written earlier. Set in 1922, this is the story of a young man who is told he has qualified for a 'certificate' to enable him to emigrate from Poland to Palestine. Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf, with a tranlator's postscript. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-374-120293.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an America Jew who travels to Israel only to find that much of modern Israel is an extension of the US, but who persists in his struggle to find his roots and the meaning of being Jewish. Originally published in Yiddish in 1973 and translated into English by Joseph Singer. Author's note. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-374-230641.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this Nobel prize winning author of his days as a young man in Poland in the 30s dreaming of getting to America, the sometimes perilous trip there, and the community he found in New York City, including his older brother, the author I. J. Singer. Illustrated with both full color paintings and black and white drawings by Raphael Soyer. A handsome production, printed on coated glossy stock, illustrated endpapers. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-385157568.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from savagery. Translated from the Yiddish. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181284.