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A softcover first printing edition in very good condition. Covers are clean and unmarked. Pages are clean and bright throughout, free of marks or annotations. Empress was originally published in France as Impératrice by Albin Michel in 2003, winning the Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche in 2005. The first US hardcover edition was published by HarperCollins in 2006 and reissued in 2009. Written by Shan Sa, a Beijing-born author who writes in French, the novel brings to life the extraordinary story of Wu Zetian, who rose from imperial concubine to become the only woman in Chinese history to rule as Empress in her own right during the Tang Dynasty. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter, an award-winning British translator, winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.

A softcover in fine condition. Covers are clean and unmarked throughout, with no creasing to the spine or corners. Pages are of fine quality, crisp and entirely unmarked; the book appears unread. Gustave Flaubert's last novel, left unfinished at his death in 1880 and widely regarded as one of the great unfinished works of European literature. Also includes Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas and Catalogue of Fashionable Ideas. Originally published in French by Éditions Gallimard, Paris 1950, this edition published by Dalkey Archive Press. Translated by Mark Polizzotti, who has translated more than fifty books from the French and is a recipient of the English PEN Award, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a recipient of the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. Cover and interior design by Mark Polizzotti.

A softcover edition in fine condition. Covers are clean, bright, and square, with no creasing to the spine. The pages are crisp and unmarked throughout. A tight, fresh book in excellent shape. First Vintage Classics edition, January 1992. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life, translated by Francis Steegmuller, published by Vintage Books, New York. Steegmuller was a prolific translator and authority on French literature, a National Book Award recipient, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; his 1957 translation of Madame Bovary is widely regarded by scholars as the standard English-language rendering of the novel, praised for its fidelity to Flaubert's rhythm and prose style. First published in French in 1856 and immediately prosecuted for obscenity before becoming a bestseller, Madame Bovary follows Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy.

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.