New York: Harper Collins, (2005). First edition - The first book by this award-winning writer who was born in Lima, Peru but grew up in Alabama and writes in English. These nine stories "take the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments.. . a devastating portrait of a world in flux." 189 pp.

New York: Viking, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth work of fiction by this award-winning Peruvian writer - a book about families, and writing and poetry, of course. "Zambra ends novels better than anyone alive, and the ending to Chilean Poet is one of the most memorable a reader can experience. Just before then, Gonzalo pages through poems about fatherhood to prepare for a meeting with Vicente, and Zambra best describes his own novel in this description of verse: 'He remembers when he thought he could affect other people with his poems'." (Chicago Review of Books)" Translated by Megan McDowell. ISBN: 978-0593297940.

London: Anaconda Editions Ltd, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A bilingual edition by this poet from Peru, who was living in England when this was published; Castillo-Florian writes in Spanish and he translated this on English with the assistance of Alison Dent. Preface/prefacio by Richard MacKane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in Sedona, Arizona in the year of publication. Notes, 86 pp. Author's card laid in. ISBN: -901990028.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the years from 1844 to 1903 this double portrait dramatizes the "lives of two bold, independent adventurers - the painter, Paul Gaugin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist. " A book which "pushes the boundaries of the traditional historic novel [in] a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance" (NY Times) Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-374228035.

Cambridge, MA: Botanical Musuem of Harvard University, 1977. First edition - Contains two articles by Richard Schultes, who was one of the world's leading authorities on hallucinogenic and medicinal plants, a botanical explorer, a pioneering conservationist, and a teacher and mentor, as well as being credited as the modern founder of the science of ethnobotany who documented the use of over 2000 medicinal plants, mainly from the Colombian Amazon. The first article on Hevea is illustrated with 2 plates of botanical drawings and 2 maps. The second article by Schultes, Tony Swain and Timothy C. Plowman is on the changing usage of Virola as a hallucinogenic and is illustrated with 1 map and 5 plates of photographs. . pp 243-272.

Alfred A. Knopf, The Adventure Library. (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book (originally published by Knopf 1989) a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the title endpaper "For.... Best of luck on all your adventures" and dated in 1995. This edition includes a new introduction by Alex Shoumatoff, and a new afterword by the author. Maps, photographs. xvii, 321 pp. ISBN: 1885283024.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer who was born in Lima, Peru but grew up in Alabama and writes in English. These nine stories "take the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments.. . a devastating portrait ofa world in flux." SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-060594780.

Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, (2009). First edition - An account of almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by this noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Although the Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, including de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this compound. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. Glossary, list of publications by de Rios, bibliography, index. xvi, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781594773136.

London: Hutchinson, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a trip undertaken by two young French ethnologists to trace the remote Indian villages in Bolivia and Peru, including around Lake Titicaca and near Machu Pichu, communities which had been respected by the Incas and not conquered by the Spanish conquistadores. This account is focused more on the people they encountered than on the scientific aspects of the trip, on the sexual and religious customs, on the rites of witchcraft, marriage and death. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrated with 36 black and white photographs and 3 drawings. Index. 198 pp.

Chula Vista, CA: By the author, (1996). SIGNED first edition - "Of Inca descent, the author describes his childhood in the Amazon jungle and his yearning to come to the United States. Through adversity, with tenacity, the young Peruvian immigrant becomes a doctor of medicine. . . In his medical missions to the desolate areas of his youth, the author reflects on the lives and culture of indians whose condition is worse than it was five hundred years ago." INSCRIBED in Spanish on the dedication page and SIGNED simply as "Carlos." 304 pp. ISBN: 0-965249905.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The great Peruvian poet's first book and his only complete work of prose (although described as a novel, it is more a long prose-poem), written between 1924-27 and first published in Spanish in 1928 when Adan was only 20 years old. Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Silver. SIGNED on the title page by the translator, Kathleen Silver. (Silver commented that this was her favorite book among all that she translated) A title in the Palabra Sur Series. 103 pp. ISBN: 1-55597-1296.

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: Simon & Schuster, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller set in Peru in the 1960s when the indigeneous revolt against the government and the haciendos is gaining momentum - and is also meeting with brutal suppression. An American climber becomes involved in their struggle and finds himself not only with a price on his head but struggling for his own survival. Cosgrove is an experienced mountain climber and his knowledge of climbing adds to this book. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684834146.

New York: SOHO Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a young couple in China who are torn apart when the Ah Lung is kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean to work in the deadly guano "mines" off the coast of Peru. The author's note states that between 1840-1875 multinational corporate interests operated traffic in Asian labor to Latin America and the Caribbean, with an estimated million men stolen or decoyed from southern China. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. "For --- a pleasure meeting you, luck always" 239 pp. ISBN: 978-1569474662.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly acclaimed first novel by this writer, born in Peru, but now living in California. A dystopian view of the future, set in a 'nameless, timeless South American country' where a war has been raging between the government and a guerrilla faction from the jungle. Alarcon's first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Writer's Award and he was chosen by PW as one of the top debut writers of 2007 and In 2010, he was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers in the US under the age of 40. SIGNED by the author. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0060594794.

New York: Vintage Books, (1990). SIGNED - The author's first book, a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the first page to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and dated in 1995. Maps, photographs. xii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-679-72902x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a firsthand account of the 1985 Amazon Source to Sea Expedition - the only expedition to travel the entire 4,200 mile length of the Amazon from its origins high in the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. Kane, an award winning environmental reporter was the only American to travel the full distance. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens - "run the rivers, hike the trails!" and dated in 1996. Maps, photographs. xiv, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-394-553314.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - "Nine miles down a primitive trail, over hills of sand and rock, across ankle-deep streams, and around mires of quickmud lies Kiet Seel, a thirteenth-century ancestral Puebloan ruin. This is the place, ancient and enduring, from which Margaret Randall begins her meditations in Stones Witness.. . Her words and photographs take us from the paintings surviving on the walls of Kiet Seel to the paintings preserved on the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With her we visit red rock canyons, touch ancient stones, and feel the ebb and flow of the natural world." SIGNED on the first page and dated March 13, 2010. A beautiful book, a collection of poems, prose-poems and full color photographs. Notes, 180 pp. ISBN: 9780816526437.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the unsuccessful 1542 revolt of the Inca Empire, led by conquistador Gonzalo Pizzaro against Emperor Charles V of Spain. Map. Historical note. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-688-033822.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, (1996.). First edition - An account of the expeditions of 1974 and 1975 on this 4000 mile long river, the source of the Amazon from high in the Andes of Southern Peru, and a river which has one of the most spectacular descents of any river in the world. Illustrated with both black and white and full color photographs. Maps. x, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-874805252.

New York: Granta, 1988. SIGNED first edition - "A Paperback Magazine of New Writing. " This issue features "Vargas Llosa for President," by Vargas Llosa.. This copy is SIGNED by T. C. Boyle at his story "Sitting on Top of the World." Also includes contributions from Martin Amis, Graham Swift and others. Illustrated. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-14-0086064.

London: Faber & Faber, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru. and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990." Translated by Helen Lane. 532 pp. ISBN: 0-571-169694.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - Highly acclaimed first novel by this writer, born in Peru, raised in Alabama, and now living in California, and writing in English. A dystopian view of the future, set in a 'nameless, timeless South American country' where a war has been raging between the government and a guerrilla faction from the jungle. Alarcon's first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Writer's Award and he was chosen by PW as one of the top debut writers of 2007 and In 2010, he was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers in the US under the age of 40. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the mountains of Peru, part detective novel and part political allegory. Translated by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0-374-140014.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the mountains of Peru, part detective novel and part political allegory. Translated by Edith Grossman. ISBN: 0-374-140014.