London: Harvill Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth book in the award winning series featuring Inspector Kurt Wallender. Four nuns and another woman - the fifth woman - are killed in a savage nighttime attack in Africa, Months later in Sweden the news of this killing inspires a cruel vengeance..Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray. Issued in a very small printing in the UK -reportedly just 1000 copies. 438 pp. ISBN: 1860468535.

New York & London: The New Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller set in Sweden, Spain and Mozambiqu (where the author has traveled and lived for more than 20 years) by this award winning novelist who is best known for the Kurt Wallender mysteries. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781595581846.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller which begins with a brutal massacre of 19 people in a Swedish hamlet by this award winning novelist who is best known for the Kurt Wallender mysteries. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 367 pp. ISBN: 9780307217860.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A generous selection of poems from his nine previous books, plus some previously uncollected poems and translations (from French, Latin and Bulgarian) by a writer many call "one of the best poets writing today." Dust jacket praise from W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Andrew Hudgins and others. Index of titles and first lines. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-395-631211.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this South African crime writer set in the complex world of post-apartheid South Africa, featuring "personal security expert" (aka bodyguard) Lemmer. Translated from the Afrikaans by K. L. Seegers. Highly recommended. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119032.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.). First edition - First novel by this South African crime writer to be published in the United States. Translated by K. L. Seegers. "Tiny Mpayipheli, a six foot three giant with a quiet demeanor, once earned his living as a government gun for hire".... now the daughter of an old friend has tracked him down in retirement and he can't say no to her plea for his help. Highly recommended. 372 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this South African crime writer to be published in the United States. Translated by K. L. Seegers. "Tiny Mpayipheli, a six foot three giant with a quiet demeanor, once earned his living as a government gun for hire".... now the daughter of an old friend has tracked him down in retirement and he can't say no to her plea for his help. Highly recommended. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-316-935492.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this South African crime writer to be published in the United States. Translated by K. L. Seegers. "Tiny Mpayipheli, a six foot three giant with a quiet demeanor, once earned his living as a government gun for hire".... now the daughter of an old friend has tracked him down in retirement and he can't say no to her plea for his help. Highly recommended. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-316-935492.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this South African crime writer set in the complex world of post-apartheid South Africa, featuring "personal security expert" (aka bodyguard) Lemmer. Translated from the Afrikaans by K. L. Seegers. Highly recommended. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0802119032.

Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this South African crime writer to be published in the United States, set in the complex world of post-apartheid South Africa and featuring former police officer Zapotek "Zed" van Heerden. . Translated from the Afrikaans by Madeleine van Biljon. Highly recommended. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-316-000124.

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. Hardcover first edition - From the German. Engraved frontispiece. Preface. Stories with a very strong moral bent - written "to illustrate the importance of the Scriptural injunction 'to train up a child in the way he should go'." v, 333 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition - Thriller featuring police detective Harry Hole. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. 395 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A literary thriller, by a master of the form - this involves a woman thrown into the world of cocaine smuggling. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 435 pp. ISBN: 0-399-151850.

New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A literary thriller, by a master of the form - this involves a woman thrown into the world of cocaine smuggling. SIGNED on the title page. Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley. 435 pp. ISBN: 0-399-151850.

New York: Aventura - Vintage Books, (1986.). First edition - A tour de force novel of paranoia and sexual obsession by this Argentian novelist. Translated from the Spanish by Elena Brunet. A title in the Vintage Library of Contemporary World Literature. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-394-746643.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition - Very uncommon proof of the first English appearance of this classic novel of a group of Norwegian pioneers and their struggles to build a home in the desolate prairie-land of the American Midwest. Originally published in Norwegian as two books in 1924 and 1925 and translated by Lincoln Colcord and the author. Includes a foreword by Rolvaag, introduction by Lincoln Colcord. xxii, 465 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A controversial and highly praised retelling of fifteen of the BibleÕs greatest greatest books - including Genesis, the Psalms, the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Esther Judith and others, which introduces 15 new authors (some of whom Rosenberg believes to be women) and which reveals the imaginative power of the original verse. 410 pp. ISBN: 1562829882.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 37 of Senghor's poems translated from the French and introduced by John Reed and Clive Wake. Although Senghor, the first President of Senegal, is often held up as a poet of negritude, a term which he and Aime Cesaire coined, in their introduction, the translators make the point that it is also 'genuine' poetry. Uncommon in any edition, but especially so in this, the true first edition.

Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1870 (c 1868.). Hardcover - Novel based on the life of Mozart, includes author's introduction and a translator's note, explaining differences from German edition. 323 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1954.) dj. Hardcover - Classic novel of police detection and psychological suspense, by the great French writer, translated by Louise Varese. Original title "Maigret, Lognon et les Gangsters." 187 pp. Cover by Sam Fischer.

New York: Crown, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about an international crime family. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith. 446 pp.

New York: Crown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about an international crime family. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0770436056.

Los Angeles: Red Hill Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A bilingual edition, with the Italian on the left side facing the translations by Vangelisti. Selected poems including early poems from 1961, "Various Devices (Divesi accorgimento)" originally published in 1975 and a final section entitled "Considerazioni sulla poesia nera (Considerations on the Black Poem) written in 1976-77. Includes a brief introduction from the publisher, John McBride and an afterword by Luciano Anceschi. SIGNED on the title page by Spatola.

Paris: Chez Francois Fournier, 1722. Hardcover first edition - Engravings on title page and the first page of the letter dedicating this to Cardinal DuBois. The preface refers to this as the third translation of 'Dialogue des Orateurs' with the earlier ones appearing in 1630 and 1710 respectively. 2 pp of errata at rear of volume. In addition to being a translator of the classic, Morabin was also "one of the most noted and popular historians of the times" [blank] [8], lvii, [3], 262, [2] p. [blank] 17 cm. 12mo.

New York: E. P. Dutton, (1931.). Hardcover first edition - A Christmas fantasy set in 1700 Nuremberg, translated from the Italian by Dorothy Emmrich. When one of the workers in the toy shop, Benno Claus, is falsely arrested, the toys go on strike and travel through Fairyland to rescue him. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and many black & white illustrations by Wilhelm Reetz. 178 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2016). An Inspector Irene Huss investigation, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. 291pp plus 15 pp preview of 'Protected by the Shadows.". ISBN: 978-1616958657.

New York: Grove Press, (1966.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes both Vidal's rather controversial adaptation and the original play by Duerrenmatt. as well as the original cast list from the Broadway play. "Vidal has supplied a specially-written Preface for this edition of his play, in which he sets forth his reasons for the kind of adaptation he has made. At Mr. Vidal's suggestion, Duerrenmatt's Romulus the Great is given in translation from the original German by Gerhard Nellhaus for the reader who wishes to make his own judgment concerning the merits of the two plays." xv, 165 pp.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published in association with The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. on the fiftieth anniversary of his mysterious disappearance of Wallenberg, this contains the letters and dispatches of this young Swede who was sent to oversee a rescue operation of Hungarian Jews being deported to the death camps by Adolf Eichmann. By the time of his arrest by the Soviet army in 1945, he had helped to save the lives of over 100,000 people. Translated by Kjersti Board. Edited by Timothy Bent. 16 pages of plates, viii, 286 p., [16] p. of plates. ISBN: 1-559702753.