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First printing. Translation by Natasha Wimmer of "Los sinsabores del verdadero policía" (Anagrama, 2011). Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in pale yellow paper spine and boards, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. 250 pages."The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled Chilean university professor and widower―through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his teenage daughter, Rosa, his passion for a former student, and his retreat from scandal in Barcelona.Forced to leave Barcelona for Santa Teresa, a Mexican city close to the U.S. border where women are being killed in unprecedented numbers, Amalfitano soon begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings. Meanwhile, Rosa, Amalfitano's daughter, engages in her own epistolary romance with a basketball player from Barcelona, while still trying to cope with her mother's early death and her father's secrets. After finding Castillo in bed with her father, Rosa is forced to confront her own crisis. What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano that involves a series of dark twists, culminating in a finale full of euphoria and heartbreak.Featuring characters and stories from his other books, "Woes of the True Policeman" invites the reader more than ever into the world of Roberto Bolaño. It is an exciting, kaleidoscopic novel, lyrical and intense, yet darkly humorous. Exploring the roots of memory and the limits of art, "Woes of the True Policeman" marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature."

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New in New dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374275629 . Book and DJ New. No notes. NO markings of ANY kind. DJ not price clipped ($25) ; 288 pages .

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 250 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 2008. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. None. xii, 226pp. Quarter bound in grey cloth under black paper-covered boards; red titles on spine; grey endpapers. 8vo. This volume is neat, clean, bright & tight throughout. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, not price clipped.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (small tear to front cover of dj). First US printing. Posthumous publication of a novel written in 1989 but found among the papers of this award-winning Mexican writer after his death. The title refers to a tactical WWII-themed board game, and Udo Berger is the German national champion who, even on vacation at the Spanish resort of Costa Brava, is unable to tear himself away from the game. As one reviewer noted "Bolano draws a fine line between memory and reality, but blurs them in the final pages, as the novel slowly drifts from realism to a nightmarish fever dream - leaving readers with an ending that is ambiguous yet haunting." Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 277 pp.

First US Edition, First Printing, 2010. Book is near fine, very slight bumping to top of spine. Dustjacket is fine, now in a mylar cover. Gift quality book.

London: Picador. F/F. 2014. First British Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. A fine unread copy in DJ. First British edition. ; 8.66 X 5.51 X 0.79 inches .

NY: New Directions. F/F. 2010. First American Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. A fine unread first American edition in a fine DJ. .

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 277 pages. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolano's papers after his death in Spain in 2003, this novel is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Just some light scuffing to the back dustjacket otherwise, a near fine dustjacket over a fine book. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box..

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 FE / FP with publisher's full number line. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Bolano's last unfinished novel. The author of The Savage Detectives and 2666. 250 pages.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.