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, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Retells a Hebrew legend with simplicity and eloquence, enhanced by the , and lovely medieval-style illustrations in full color by Antonio Frasconi. This is the story of Elijah, a messenger from God, who sells himself as a slave to help the faithful scribe, Tobias, and then earns his freedom by building a magnificent palace with help from a band of angels. . Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. Singer's previous children's book, a memoir of growing up in Warsaw, was awarded the National Book Award for children's literature. Large square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-374-320845.

New York: Bantam, (1971). A play set in a Stalinist slave-labor camp in 1945 by this Nobel winning author, translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. 133 pp.

New York: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second memoir by this Nobel laureate - an affectionate evocation of his father, Essay, who died while Soyinka was in political exile. Isara was the native village of his father and friends. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394540778.

New York: Random House, (2007). The second volume of memoirs by this Nobel Prize winning author, the first African writer to win a Nobel in literature. This covers his turbulent life both in Nigeria, where he was imprisoned for his opposition to dictatorship and in exile from his country. Maps, chronology. xx, 499 pp. ISBN: 978-0375503658.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. dj. Hardcover - Classic erotic novel, told in the form of diaries kept by a husband and wife, by this Nobel prize winning author. Translated from the Japanese by Howard Hibbett. 183 pp plus notes about the author and the translator. Basis for the film "Odd Obssession" which won a special prize at Cannes in 1960.

New York: Putnam / Perigee, (1963). A collection of seven short pieces by this Nobel prize winning author, stories which span half a century of his career. Translated and with an introduction by Howard Hibbett. ix, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-399-505237.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1980.). First edition - Translated and with an introduction by Robert Bly. Bilingual edition with the original Swedish text at the end of the book. Illustrated. Transtromer was awarded the Nobel prize in 2011. 55 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-2391.

Madison, Minnesota: Seventies Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book of poems by this 2011 Nobel laureate to be published in English translation - a bilingual edition with the orginal Swedish on the right, English on the left - translated and with an introduction by Robert Bly. 59 pp. plus colophon. One of 1000 copies printed in hardcover (there were also 1000 paperback copies) by Morgan Press.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detective novel by this Nobel Prize winning author: "Set on an air force base in Peru, where a young airman is found tortured and murdered. An entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, this book also takes up one of Vargas Llosa's great themes: despair at how difficult it is to be an honest man in a society based on a corruption of motives and feelings." Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 151 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-374289786.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). Collection of poems, set both in his native Caribbean and "elsewhere." 117 pp. ISBN: 0-37452099.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry by this Caribbean author to be published after he was awarded the Nobel Prize - many of the poems evoke his native island of Santa Lucia. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-374-115567.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of poems by this Nobel laureate, set both in his native Caribbean - "there" - and "elsewhere" including the final, long title poem, a meditation on race and American history. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105820.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (c 1990). Epic poem by Nobel winning author. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0-374-523503.

New York: The Viking Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting short novel, presented as the memoirs of "wild old wicked woman" Alex Gray and "edited" by White. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-670813206.

New York: Viking, (1974.) dj. Hardcover - Epic novel by this Australian Nobel Laureate. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-670-303747.

New York: The Viking Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting short novel, presented as the memoirs of "wild old wicked woman" Alex Gray and "edited" by White. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-670813206.

Toronto: Irwin Publishing, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting short novel, presented as the memoirs of "wild old wicked woman" Alex Gray and "edited" by White. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-772516502.

New York: Random House, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A play by the Nobel prize winning author which "illuminates the plight of Soviet Jewry as well as the anguish of individuals everywhere who must survive - yet long for something more than mere survival." Based on a translation from the French by Nathan Edelman. 172 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-49637X.