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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

A beautiful softcover in very good condition. Wear is limited to light shelf rubbing at the bottom edges of the spine. The boards are square and unmarked, and the pages are clean throughout, with no marks. A tight, clean copy. This Scribner trade paperback gathers ten short stories representing Hemingway at the height of his craft. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature the following year.

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.

This is one of the most studied and widely read works of 20th-century German literature: Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig. My copy is brand new, unread, with no creasing to the spine or covers. Fischer Taschenbuch, December 2021. Text based on the 1913 S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin edition, newly reviewed; unabridged edition, first published by Fischer Taschenbuch in Frankfurt am Main, July 1992. Copyright Katia Mann, 1967. Printed in Germany on FSC-certified paper. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is counted among the most significant German-language writers of the twentieth century, also the author of Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus. Set in Venice during a cholera outbreak in the summer of 1911, Der Tod in Venedig follows the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach as a holiday taken to escape creative exhaustion becomes the site of an absorbing personal crisis. The novella draws extensively on classical mythology and the philosophy of Nietzsche, and has been the subject of extensive critical and scholarly study for over a century.

This beautiful German softcover holds a genuinely remarkable literary story: it is, in fact, Heinrich Böll's first novel, written in 1949-1951 but left unpublished in his lifetime, only emerging from his literary estate in 1992, on what would have been his 75th birthday. My copy is in very good condition, with light creasing to the front cover and pages that remain crisp and entirely unmarked throughout. From my personal library. 5. Auflage (5th printing), 1997. Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln. Text copyright 1992, 1994 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Edited from Böll's literary estate by Annemarie, René, Vincent, and Viktor Böll together with Heinrich Vormweg; prepared for publication by Werner Bellmann and Beate Schnepp, with an afterword by Bellmann. Cover photograph courtesy of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden. Heinrich Böll, born in Köln, received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. Der Engel schwieg was written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and is set, though never named outright, in the bombed-out ruins of Böll's native Köln.