Search

First American Edition, hardcover, in fine condition. The front board is stamped in gilt with the author's GGM monogram, and the spine carries matching gilt lettering. The dust jacket is bright and clean, showing only light wear to the edges. The book is tight, appears unread, with pages crisp, unmarked, and deckle edged throughout. First American edition of Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1997. García Márquez, the Colombian 1982 Nobel laureate in Literature, reconstructs the 1990 kidnapping of ten Colombian citizens, most of them journalists, carried out on the orders of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar as leverage against extradition to the United States. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, winner of the 2006 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.

A German softcover edition in very good condition throughout. Boards are clean, with no creasing along the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. dtv paperback edition, 2016 (unabridged German edition first published 1999, translated from the Norwegian original Sofies verden, 1991). Jostein Gaarder's Sofies Welt: Roman über die Geschichte der Philosophie is an international bestseller translated into sixty languages, the novel is credited with introducing generations of readers to philosophy through storytelling. This German translation, by Gabriele Haefs, received the 1994 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, awarded jointly to Haefs and Gaarder.

A beautiful softcover edition in very good condition, first Anchor Books edition, first printing. No creasing to the spine. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Peter Theroux. Anchor Books / Doubleday, New York, 1996. First Anchor Books edition, first printing. Originally published in Arabic as Awlad haratina, Cairo, 1959. Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Translated by Peter Theroux, winner of the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award and the Columbia University Translation Center Award.

A hardcover edition in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is clean with a small tear to the bottom edge of the back panel. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House, New York, 2019. First American edition. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, winner of the Transatlantyk Award and the ZAiKS Prize for Translation. Tokarczuk was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018.

This handsome first edition of Gabriel García Márquez's celebrated memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, is in very good condition, the dust jacket likewise very good, with boards and pages remaining entirely unmarked throughout. First edition. This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 2003. Originally published in Spain as Vivir para contarla by Mondadori (Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A.), Barcelona, 2002. Translated by Edith Grossman, who over a long career translated some sixty works of Spanish-language literature and was, by García Márquez's own account, his trusted English voice; he reportedly told her directly, "You are my voice in English." Grossman received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation. Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist and journalist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, and is the most translated Spanish-language author of the past several decades, best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. The first of a projected three-volume autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale traces García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through his early career as a journalist. This copy carries a personal inscription on the front free endpaper, in Spanish, signed "Hugo" and dated November 2007 — a warm note from one neighbour to another, unrelated to the author or translator.

A Vintage International first edition, first printing trade paperback in very good condition. Covers are clean, square, and free of soiling or creasing. Pages are bright and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, annotations, or turned corners. Binding is firm and tight with no cracking. A clean, very good copy throughout. Published as the First Vintage International Edition in October 1998, this trade paperback presents Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in the award-winning English translation by Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Harvard University, PhD from the University of Chicago, and Murakami's primary English-language translator. Rubin's translation of this novel won the 2003 Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature — one of the most prestigious prizes in Japanese literary translation — and Rubin is also a recipient of the 1999 Japanese Literary Translation Prize. The translation was made and adapted from the Japanese with the direct participation of the author, an unusual collaboration that is noted on the copyright page. Widely regarded as one of Murakami's masterworks and a landmark of contemporary world literature.