New York Dodd, Mead, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Informative synthesis of people from South and Middle America. from Brazil' s favelas to Argentina, Uruguay, and a study of Chilean fundo life.Photographs, charts. 379 pp with footnotes, appendix, and index. Map endpapers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, the story of three generations - and especially of the women - of Firielli family of Uruguay, based on the author's own family. "An extraordinary first effort whose epic scope and deft handling reverberate with the deep pull of ancestry, the powerful influence of one's country and the sacrifices of reinvention." (Publishers Weekly.) SIGNED on the title page with the words "Thanks for loving books." 366 pp plus 6 pp of questions and answers from the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of three generations - and especially of the women - of Firielli family of Uruguay, based on the author's own family. "An extraordinary first effort whose epic scope and deft handling reverberate with the deep pull of ancestry, the powerful influence of one's country and the sacrifices of reinvention." (Publishers Weekly.) 364 pp. ISBN: 978-0307271631.

New York: Norton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual collaboration by this writer from Uruguay- and artist from Brazil - one which "draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell 'the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write.' . . beautifully illustrated by the Brazilian woodcut artist JosŽ Francisco Borges" Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-393037827.

New York: Adler & Adler, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uruguayan's author's first novel, a fascinating historical mystery about the Death of the Duchess of Alba, winner of the Editorial Planete prize when it was first published in Spain in 1980. Translated by Pamela Carmell. ISBN: 0-917561-422.

London: Quartet, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the novels set in the fictional provincial town of Santa Maria, on the banks of the River Plate, by this great Uruguayan writer. Originally published in Argentina in 1964, this is its first English language appearance. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-2797x.

New York: Pantheon, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the novels set in the fictional provincial town of Santa Maria, on the banks of the River Plate, by this great Uruguayan writer. Originally published in Argentina in 1964, but not translated into English until 1991. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-2797x.

London: Quartet, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the novels set in the fictional provincial town of Santa Maria, on the banks of the River Plate, by this great Uruguayan writer. Originally published in Argentina in 1964, this is its first English language appearance. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-7043-2797x.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Uruguayan literary critic's stunning first novel: a lyrical, powerful recreation of Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan's historic search for the Spice Islands and his expedition around the globe. Beginning in 1519, the explorer's journey is chronicled by Juanillo Ponce, a half-Jewish jester who has converted to Christianity because of the Spanish Inquisition." (Kirkus) The original Spanish edition won the Novela Casa de las Americas Award in 1989. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-151562962.