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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [12], 898 pp. First edition, first printing. As issued, in publisher's boards with dust jacket. Light shelfwear, only; corners are very slightly bumped; spine ends softened; contents clean; dust jacket is fairly crisp; price intact on the front flap. This is the final and posthumously published novel by the Chilean author. It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2008.

New York: Farrar, Straus, 2008. First U.S. edition, simultaneous paperwraps issue. Three softcover volumes in publisher's card slipcase printed in red. (Also issued in single-volume hardcover.) Bolano's highly praised final novel, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Originally published in Chile in 2004, this is the first English translation and precedes the UK edition. 8vo glossy pictorial paperwraps with titling spanning the spines of all three volumes. Near fine with only a touch of minor wear; in very good to near fine slipcase with few small creases and tears. "This surreal novel can't be described; it has to be experienced in all its crazed glory." -- Stephen King.

[Roberto Bolano] Maristain, Monica. Bolano. A Biography in Conversations. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2014. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolaño best, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to years of tremendous literary productivity in Spain, and to his untimely death and the posthumous and unprecedented stardom that came with the international publication of his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666.

New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. black cloth, dec. endpapers, 898 pages,in protective mylar d.j., as new, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer, Size: 8 Vo.,.

[Poetry] Bolano, Roberto. Tres. New York: New Directions, 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light crinkling to the top edge of the rear panel. Tres is a showcase of the author's willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. "Prose from Autumn in Gerona," a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, "The Neochileans," is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on "A Stroll Through Literature" and remind us of Bolan~o's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

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

First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Jacket lettering by Jennifer van Dalsen. Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. James Wood wrote in The New York Times, "A novel all about poetry and poets, one of whose heroes is a lightly disguised version of the author himself: how easily this could be nothing more than a precious lattice of ludic narcissism and unbearably "literary" adventures...The novel is wildly enjoyable (as well as, finally, full of lament), in part because Bolaño, despite all the game-playing, has a worldly, literal sensibility."

Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1996. First edition. 237 pp. 8vo. Some light toning to spine and along spine on back cover of self-wrappers, otherwise fine. First edition. 237 pp. 8vo. A darkly-comic fictional encyclopedia or anthology of right-wing literary figures in the Americas. It is structured as a series of biographical sketches of major figures, followed by a glossary of further writers, publishers, periodicals, and a bibliography of works. The authors and works are invented, but weave among historical figures and milieus – namely World War II – in order to create a sinister tapestry of unofficial fascism in society and literature. Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was likely the first and biggest literary sensation of the Twenty-First Century. He was born in Chile, then moved to Mexico as a youth, but returned to take part in Salvador Allende's socialist revolution in 1973. He was imprisoned, but released by some guards who were his childhood classmates, and returned to Mexico where he founded an avant-garde poetic movement called Infrarrealismo, which he fictionalized in his most famous novel, The Savage Detectives (1998). He eventually moved to Spain, got married, and had children, and turned to novel writing to support his family. His first book published in English – By Night in Chile – was released by New Directions the year he died to critical praise. In the years after his death sixteen more books of poetry and prose have been released, including his magnum opus, 2666.