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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First American Edition, 2007 stated on the copyright page with the full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Original price of $27.00 printed on front flap of dust jacket.

new york: new directions, 2013. first english-language edition, 2013. parallel-text edition of "la universidad desconocida" (2007), the massive posthumous gathering of bolaño’s poetry. spanning three decades, it brings together collections like "the romantic dogs" and "tres" with previously uncollected work, presents the writer as he always considered himself first: a poet. translated by laura healy. new york: new directions. isbn: 978-0-8112-1928-0. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. 835 pages. hardcover. bound in quarter cloth-covered boards. book condition: fine. jacket condition: unclipped (39.95). fine. from the library of richard perlbinder.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, heavy, thicker sturdy book, quality black cloth, very bright red lettering on spine, an illustration inside covers and adjacent end papers, 898 glossy pages. DJ gloissy beneath mylar and colorfully designed with complex color-illustration to front, spine and back, red lettering to front and spine. DJ and book, both As New.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used - Very Good. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. In Very Good mylar wrapped dust jacket (not price clipped). Complete numberline from 10-1.

[Poetry] Bolano, Roberto. The Unknown University. New York: New Directions, 2013. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear to the heel of the spine. Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." The sum of his life's work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano's gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. "Poetry," he believed, "is braver than anyone." This bilingual edition is 835 pages.

2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine first edition in fine dust jacket, the big breakthrough book for this amazing author in the US.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Advance review copy in wrappers, fine condition.

First printing of the first American edition, with full number line (issued without jackets), published simultaneously with 3-volume hardcover boxed set. Fine paperbacks, clean and unmarked. Near-fine cardboard slipcase, with some rubbing on spine (as pictured), otherwise fine. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. F3086.

1st Edition, 1st Printing. In Very Good mylar wrapped dust jacket (not price clipped). Complete numberline from 10-1.

Alcalá de Henares: Fundación Colegio Del Rey, 1993. First edition of this prize-winning crime novella in the original Spanish. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Cover painting by Hilla Schürholz. Accompanied by the original publisher's 'La Pista de Hielo' informational bookmark. "The imperative to present the sources of such emotion remains a central feature in Bolaño’s expanding shelf of astonishing fictions, the wellsprings of incomprehensible feeling that hide in even the most abject fool" (Wyatt Mason, The New York Times). Told from the perspective of three different male narrators, Roberto Bolaño's 'La Pista de Hielo' provides a complex and entertaining experience for the hungry minds of mystery readers everywhere. The book was published April 23, 1993, on the anniversary of the death of noble Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes and was translated into English sixteen years later in 2009.