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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 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.

A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. A tight, clean copy. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. Penguin Modern Classics edition, Penguin Random House Canada, 2021. First printing of this edition. Originally published in 1971, this semi-autobiographical novel is widely considered one of Munro's most essential works, tracing a young woman's coming of age in small-town Ontario with the precision and quiet devastation that define her finest writing. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards are clean and unmarked, in blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. Dust jacket is bright, clean, and free of chips or tears. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. A tight, beautifully preserved copy. Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1990. A collection of ten stories widely regarded as among the finest of Munro's career. With her characteristically haunting prose and quiet formal mastery, Munro draws the reader into lives marked by the quiet devastations of ordinary existence — territory she navigates with an intimacy no other writer quite matches. Winner of the 1990 Trillium Book Award. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. 3

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is bright and unmarked, without tears or chips. Pages are clean throughout. A tight, unmarked copy. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1998. This collection won the Giller Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award upon publication. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. 1