New York: Doubleday, 1979. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped orange jacket has spine sunned to yellow, small chips to head of spine, VG otherwise. A magic realist novel by this Jewish Argentinian author.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. Red cloth. pp 92. Light yellowing to page edges, else a fine bright copy. Important Puerto Rican author, his second book

New York: Knopf, 1978. Black pictorial boards, without jacket, as issued. Touch of rubbing to spine tips, small ink stroke to bottom page edges, else fine. First edition, library issue. Uncommon collection of 8 short stories of Spanish Harlem in New York, by the Puerto Rican-American author of the popular DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS, which was about his experiences with gangs and drugs (he served 7 years in prison).

No place [San Francisco]: Kayak, 1967. [32] pp, unpaged, in card covers. Half title leaf and last (blank) leaf are on tissue paper, one tissue guard inserted in text, text on beige card stock. Short creased tears to top edge of printed paper coverng on front cover; soft bruise to lower outer corner throughout; some ink marks on rear cover where this copy was stacked on top of another copy on which the ink was not yet dry; VG copy otherwise. Edition of 500 copies. Erotic writing and drawings, with Spanish and English text on facing pages. Important Chilean exile poet, novelist, and critic.Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Greywolf, 1990. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket. Advance copy for review with promo sheets laid in. Originally published in Spanish in 1928, this is his only complete work of prose. Adán, a Peruvian, is considered one of the greatest Latin American poets. He succumbed to alcohol early and spent much of his life in institutions.

New York: New Directions, 1978. 147 pp, card covers. Text paper lightly toned, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. Chilean poet, winner of the prestigious Casa de las Americas Prize. Bilingual text. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1964. Black cloth and boards. Light sunning to the orange top page edges, light yellowing to other page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has a crease to front flap, thumbnail-size chip at head of spine, nice and bright otherwise.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963. White pictorial cloth. Fine in a bit used jacket, with small rubbed chips to spine ends, price-clipped, internal tape repairs, good-VG. Important Mexican author.

New York: Knopf, 1990. Green cloth. Fine in fine jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Cloth & boards. Fine in fine jacket. This novel, which won the Premio Casa de los Americos, is a comic and mordant tale of political terrorism in Argentina in the mid-1970s. Mexican author.

New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Blue cloth, gold endpapers, green top edges. A fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket a bit worn at spine ends, sticker stain on front flap, VG otherwise, no fading, flap price intact. The Peruvian author's second novel, it won the 1967 Romulo Gallegos Award, the most important Latin American literary prize.

No place (Montreal): Split quotation, 1989. Card covers. pp [2], (2), (56), [4]. Foreword by Jorge Etcheverry. Light cover rubbing. Poetry by this Chilean exile to Canada. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF in light green non-pictorial card covers. Book has the slightest of leaning; very light spine sunning with nick at foot; soft shallow bruise to lower edge of rear cover and last few leaves of text; else fine.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978. Black cloth gilt. Flaking to author's gilt initials on front cover (often flaked completely away), else fine in price-clipped jacket.

New York: Knopf, 1965. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has slight rubbing, nicks, tiny chips to spine tips, corners; light soiling to yellow rear panel; VG+ otherwise. Essays by this Venezuelan novelist and social historian who died in 1965.

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986. Black boards, blue endpapers. xviii, 198 pp. Fine in near fine (lightly rubbed) dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and signed again on the half-title leaf. Review copy with slip laid in.

New York: Viking, 1987. Cloth & boards. Fine in fine jacket, flap price intact. Translated by George R. Shivers with the author. 1.2 kg parcel

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989. Second printing. Advance review copy for Canada with info sheets laid in. Black cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis of a film.