London: Orion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a dark psychological thriller - when Anne learns that their newly purchased house in the small village of Abbotts Newton was supposedly owned previously by a notorious child murderer, she thinks that researching this murder might break her writer's block - but instead it seems to be creating danger all around her. SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-752861433.

New York: Walker, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing wise-cracking, ex-cop, Vietnam veteran Mallory - not just the first in this series, but the first book by Collins to be issued in hardcover (Collins is also known for writing the Dick Tracy comic series for many years). SIGNED on the title page. Set in a small town in Iowa . 160 pp. ISBN: 0-802754759.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in his award winning series featuring sleuth Nathan Heller - in this, he tackles the Hollywood murder known as the "Black Dahlia. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. SIGNED first edition - A delightful book, both a cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of the famous chef/restaurateur Alice Waters of Berkeley's Chez Panisse. The often humorous, but always affectionate, tales of living with and traveling with her mother are interspersed with lots of informal recipes and descriptions of how to create a great meal with not much but a lot of ingenuity. A sheer pleasure to read (but also one that will inspire your own creativity) Illustrated with photographs by Brigitte Lacombe. Foreword by Alice Waters. SIGNED on the title page by Singer. 317 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early novel by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Well-written, thoughtful and funny, and one that makes you care about her characters. SIGNED by author on title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-17179521x.

New York: Delacorte, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this National Book Award winner, and the first published in hardcover. Set in rural Western Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-385-297718.

Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1977. First edition - A Special Issue of the Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 5 No. 2, 1977 with twelve articles on the topic, and an introduction by Bethwell A. Ogot. Slightly oversized trade paperback. pp 169-403.

New York: St Martin's Press, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American mystery writer's first book, set in Los Angeles and introducing Aaron Gunner. Winner of the Private Eye Writers of American Best First Private Eye novel contest. SIGNED by author on title page. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-312-017960.

New York: Walker, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel featuring Mallory, mystery writer and sometime detective, who is invited, along with his partner Jill, to participate in a mystery weekend at Mohonk Mountain House, a rambling resort in upstate New York. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-802755941.

New York: Walker, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Vietnam veteran Mallory, but a prequel to the first book - this is a complex mystery set in Iowa around Thanksgiving in 1974. SIGNED on the title page. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-802754759.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine interrelated stories which move back in forth in time to give us a picture of two generations of a Tennessee family. Praise from Robert Olen Butler, Peter Cameron and Annie Proulx who comments "These nine stories, spare and pellucid in style, sometimes wrenchingly painful in content, introduce a brilliant new American voice. These stories take up the contradictions of life where brutal situations are balanced by the blind and persistent human endurance that lets us continue to live." SIGNED on the title page. Picture of cover art stapled inside front cover. 161 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine interrelated stories which move back in forth in time to give us a picture of two generations of a Tennessee family. Cover praise from Robert Olen Butler, Peter Cameron and Annie Proulx who comments "These nine stories, spare and pellucid in style, sometimes wrenchingly painful in content, introduce a brilliant new American voice. These stories take up the contradictions of life where brutal situations are balanced by the blind and persistent human endurance that lets us continue to live." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-37540063X.

New York: Scribner, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - Coyne finds himself trying to unravel the story behind the hit-and-run death of a private eye. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-684187930.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Brady Coyne mystery, set in a small town in Maine, where an African American woman who had been the subject of harassment disappears after asking for Coyne's help. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. . ISBN: 0-312-185618.

New York: Delacorte, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing - the setting for this one is Concord, Massachusetts and rural New Hampshire. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302347.

San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing, (2001). Hardcover first edition - A graphic novel adapted from Beagle's most beloved novel, a story of magic and courage. Adapted by Peter B. Gillis and illustrated in full color by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon. Includes conversations with both Beagle and Gillis and several pages of additional art. 167 pp plus final illustration. ISBN: 978-1600108518.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - An ominbus edition reprinting four novels - Passage Of Arms, State Of Siege, The Schirmer Inheritance and Judgment On Deltchev - by the writer whom Graham Greene called "unquestionably our best thriller writer." In fact, Ambler was responsible for the modern "espionage" novel. In his novels, the main character is an ordinary person who finds himself in an extraordinary - and dangerous - situation. 592 pp.

New York: Grove Press, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first book, a novel set in a small town in North Carolina, where the Crosses are the oldest and proudest black family. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-802111181.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. ` + dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second book, and first collection of short stories - set in a small North Carolina town called Tim's Creek. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1498865.

Berlin: Morawe und Scheffelt, 1918. Hardcover first edition - A story in Polynesia by this German poet - laid in is a slip which notes "Dieses Buch wurde als Blockbuch gedruckt, es darf daher an den Seiten nicht ausgeschnitten werden" (This book was printed as a block book, it must therefore not be cut out on the sides.) Small format. 57 pp plus colophon: "Das Buch wurde wahrend des grossen krieges in der druckerei des Deutschen Kommunalverlags in Berlin-Friedenau gedruckt (The book was printed during the great war in the print shop of the German municipal publishing house in Berlin-Friedenau)" Although not one of the numbered 200 copies, this is bound in brown leather with gilt lettering on the spine, narrow gilt bands on cover.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., (1943) dj. Hardcover - Attractive vintage copy of this lighthearted account of the hotel business by the host of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City - including stories of the actors, writers and artists who frequented the hotel and its Supper Club. Illustrated by O. Soglow. Index. 326 pp.

Hammond, Indiana: Hammond Book Company (Indiana Botanic Gardens), 1934. Hardcover - A guide to herbs illustrated with both full color paintings and black and white botanical drawings by Meyer himself, published primarily as a promotional tool for Meyer's botanicals. Wikipedia describes Meyer as "a botanist, writer, illustrator, publisher, and supplier of pharmaceutical-grade herbs and roots to the drug trade who became a prominent citizen and eventually a millionaire in Northwest Indiana. He was the founder of the Indiana Botanic Gardens, Calumet National Bank and Meyer Publishing (now MeyerBooks). At his death he was said to be the world's largest distributor of herbs used in salves, cosmetics, and medicines." A small slim volume, measuring approximately 3 inches wide by 6 1/2 inches tall. 400 pp.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an unusual mystery set in Paris just prior to the French Revolution and depicting not only the social tensions of the time, and the glitter of the theater, but also the new signing for the deaf techniques of Abbe L'Epee. Finalist for the Agatha Award. SIGNED on the title page. Maps. Author's note. 325 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final novel in the Paddy Mehan trilogy, set in 1990's Glasgow (originally published in the UK under the title 'The Last Breath.') SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-316-01558x.

London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 282 pp. ISBN: 0-752852892.

New York: Delacorte, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A man who thought he had come to terms with the disappointments in his marriage comes together with a woman fleeing a trail of losses, and begin a passionate but eventually devastating affair. SIGNED on the title page. 469 pp. ISBN: 0-385297106.

New York: Harper & Row, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - a sensuous tale of two young people who come together on a remote Greek island, and find themselves involved in a struggle against the local opium-smuggling society which has survived since the Middle Ages. Illustrated with 18 erotic drawings, some double page, by Brad Holland. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For Larry Owens, with thanks for being such a loyal reader." 201 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0132094.

New York: Harper & Row, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - a sensuous tale of two young people who come together on a remote Greek island, and find themselves involved in a struggle against the local opium-smuggling society which has survived since the Middle Ages. Illustrated with 18 erotic drawings, some double page, by Brad Holland. SIGNED - in silver - on the black half title page. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0132094.

New York: Delacorte, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, the story of a fighter pilot, returning from World War II, after having been shot down and captured. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "with the hope that you like this, the book of mine I like the most." . 436 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-440-029163.

New York: Harper & Row, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens "who, I hope, will find a few things here to laugh about." Review copy with publisher's material, including a photograph of the author, laid in. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0131969.

New York: Regan Books / Harper Collins, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of a writer, a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper, and a London house haunted by the previous owner who was said to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens's Ebenezar Scrooge. Illustrated by Douglas Smith. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0393823.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bell's fourth book and first collection of short stories. SIGNED by author on title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-4893.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised collection of short stories by this writer who was included on Granta's list of the 20 best young American novelists. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-835X.

New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - an account of a Jewish American journalist who travels to Egypt shortly after the 6 Day War. In Cambridge, Massachusetts she had lived with Ali Mahmoud, an Egyptian physicist studying in the US for many years and unable to return home. Although their relationship ended, their friendship remained and on this trip to Cairo, she was invited to stay with his large extended family and so she is able to write with sensitivity and understanding about one segment of Egyptian society. ISBN: 0-841502420.

New York: Berkley, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in her award-winning series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico - the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Like her protagonist, Ault lives with a wolf and worked as a wildland firefighter. Review copy with publisher's material and promotional postcard laid in. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0425219225.

New York: Berkley, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The award-winning first book in the series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico - the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. SIGNED on the title page. this novel was the first debut novel to receive the Mary Higgins Clark Award. A press release noted that the first printing sold out in 9 days. Like her heroine, Ault lives with a wolf. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780425213698.

New York: Berkley, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth in her award-winning series featuring Bureau of Land Management agent Jamaica Wild, and her wolf Mountain. Set in New Mexico - the culture of the Pueblo Indians is an important part of each novel. SIGNED on the title page and dated in March 2010, in the year of publication. Promotional brochure laid in. 297 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.

Santa Barbara: John Daniel, 1990. SIGNED first edition - His first book - a collection of interrelated stories set on the streets of Oakland, told in the language of inner-city street kids. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1997. Winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-936784-814.

New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's award-winning first novel, set in Sri Lanka where she was born, during the civil war which tore that country apart. The story of two families - one Sinhala and one Tamil - and of the hopes and fears of a young woman in each of those families. Winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region and longlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1250043931.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book by this award-winning scientist and author, which "combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences." Includes a discussion of the work of Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Ashley Montagu as well as less well-known but influential figures like Ernst Haeckel, the father of the eugenics movement and Carleton Coons who became the subject of a bitter academic feud. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671754602.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Basis for the innovative and powerful Amazon series of the same name. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised 4th book (3rd novel), evocative and moving. Joan Didion calls it "her best work yet - assured, supple, exhilarating in its nerve and cool momentum." SIGNED by the author on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-375-400370.

New York: Morrow, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving the death and disappearance of a Haitian politician, and a murder that looks like a voodoo ritual. Set in Virginia and in Haiiti. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-688-105637.

New York: Random House, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of humor and wisdom, set in a California that doesn't quite live up to anyone's dreams. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material and a photograph laid in. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50155x.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1922) dj. Hardcover - Lists to this title inside book and to "Big Dirigible" on the dustjacket front flap and the ads in the back. Frontispiece. Bound in tan "quad" covers printed in black and red. 212 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Roaring Brook Press, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An hilarious story told entirely in letters between a hopelessly romantic ox and a conceited, beautiful gazelle and enhanced by Scott Campbell's eloquent illustrations. "Dear Gazelle, For some time now I have wanted to write a letter to say how much I admire you. You are so graceful and fine. Even when you are running from tigers you are like a ballerina who is running away from tigers. I think that what I'm trying to say is that I love you. XO, OX." SIGNED by Adam Rex on the title page with a small doodle. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1626722880.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Reflections on the missing piece in the history of human evolution - why, out of all the species, only mankind made the leap from homo habilus to modern with his high intelligence and advanced culture - a leap explained in Greek mythology by the metaphor of Promethean Fire. Illustrated with drawings by Whitney Powell. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens, by Edward Wilson, who has won many awards including the National Medal of Science and two Pulitzer Prizes. Extensive notes, index. vi, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-674714458.

New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published almost 50 years ago, and written with a light touch, this is still relevant today - maybe even more so - in its argument that the green stuff in your wallet is not the "real" money. Focuses on two individuals - a trader known as Seymour the Head, and Warren Buffett (Adam Smith was arguably the first to introduce this then obscure money manager to the world) - and asks what happens to individuals in a market dominated by professionals. Portfolio lists. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-671-448250.

New York: Henry Holt, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award winning writer, one which tells the life stories of two West Indian women in their own voices: Lilla, the white mistress of a dilapidated colonial mansion, and Vel, the Black servant who has been her only companion for ten years. The two women have always treated each other with a distant formality, but when Vel finds herself pregnant, Lilla puts her to bed in her own bedroom and finds herself caring for her. Praise from Christina Garcia, Rosario Ferre, Steven Dixon and Robert Olen Butler (who calls this an extraordinary and enduring work of art.)SIGNED by the author. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-805049258.

New York: Scribner, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine very highly praised prize-winning short stories, described as "fiercely funny and quietly heartbreaking portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting to navigate mainstream America." SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-0743270465.

New York: Atlantic Monthly (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel - the story of a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota and the story of a road trip in search of a son charged with murder, through the Badlands in their Airstream trailer, as told by 11 year old Reuben. Comments on the back cover from Jim Harrison, Rick Bass and others. Received the Borders Original Voices Award, SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-87113795X.

New York: Scribner's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist.) Wonderful background setting in the oilfields of the West. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684-815230.

London: George G. Harrap and Co., (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of the first century of women scholars at Oxford University. October 1959 marked the 80th anniversary of the establishment of women's colleges at Oxford - this is an account of the reforms that made this possible, of early prejudices and of some of the notable women who passed through Oxford by an author who was herself one of those women. Illustrated with eight plates in half tone. Definition of terms used at Oxford. Several appendices, bibliography, index. 272 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1913. Hardcover first edition - Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood, Laddie is both a classic poor boy, rich girl romance as well as the story of "Little Sister," a child of nature who is allowed to freely roam the woods. Basis for the 1935 film of the same name. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer with a frontispiece and three internal plates in color. Pale green screened illustrations on the endpapers and all of the preliminary pages. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard. 602 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, (1955). First edition - A summary of the philosophy regarding health and diet which has "been connected with the great Advent message from the beginning." After a lifetime of service to the Seventh Day Adventists as a missionary, minister and administrator, Branson was elected to the position of President of the General Conference in 1950. 78 pp. Surprisingly uncommon both in the market and in library holdings with WorldCat only identifying 6 such.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning writer "about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction." SIGNED on the title page. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-307263711.

New York: Viking, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new trilogy: "Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller. . . It's Britain but not as we know it. Democracy has been replaced by a Colortocracy.. . Eddie Russett lives comfortably in a world where fortune, career and ultimate destiny are rigidly dictated by the colors you can see. Until he falls in love with a Grey named Jane, and starts to question every aspect of the Rulebook." SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece. 388 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 978-0670019632.

London: Orion, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in the Bronx during the construction boom of the late 1980s - the lucrative construction rackets are in the hands of the Irish mob, sparking the envy of the Mafia, the attention of the feds, and all-out war. Two brothers are caught in the cross fire. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-752805088.

New York: Dial Press, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - This story of suspense involving computers in the basement of the Pentagon which hold the most valuable secrets of the US, is perhaps the most uncommon of Koontz's books - the publishers went so far as to create a "biography" for this "first novel." 246 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-83388.

Boston & Paris: Boston Book and Art / Andre Sauret, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A catalogue raisonee with 407 illustrations, many in full-color, of Picasso's lithographs printed at Mourlot between 1919 and 1930. Preface by Helene Parmelin in which she discusses that this contains some very rare proofs, which make it possible to view the progression of a given lithograph as Picasso refined it. Translated from the French by Jean Didry. [8] 299 pp plus a list of terms used in lithography and index. Printed by Andre Sauret in Paris.

New York: Dutton, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone thriller. With his life in a shambles, investigator report Rick Hoffman returns to his childhood home, which has been decaying since his father suffered a stroke that put him a nursing home. As he pulls apart the walls as the first step to repair them he finds money hidden there - millions of dollars - SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0525954613.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. 1940. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of poems about early California arranged in three sections: The Period of Spain and Mexico, Days of the 'Forty-nine, and San Francisco. Among the poets included are Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Bayard Taylor, Joaquin Miller and others. Very attractively illustrated by Barse Miller with hillside scenes of San Francisco on the endpapers continued on double facing pages preceding the title page and after the final page of text. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press. x, 46.

Ann Arbor, MI: By the author (printed by Edwards Brothers, Lithoprinters) 1960. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming - and very uncommon - children's book. Little Flip in a seal pup born on one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, but when his first attempt to swim is a disaster, he is convinced he will never learn how to swim, until one day he sees his friend threatened by a killer whale, and he jumps in to distract the whale. Illustrated with drawings by Mosinski, hand-lettered text. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Small oblong format. 35 pp.

Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, (1995). Hardcover first edition - Poet Gerald Locklin first met Bukowski in 1970, and they remained friends for over twenty years. A collection of memoirs, essays and poems about Bukowski from this first meeting and through his funeral in 1994. 69 pp. Cover illustration by R. Crumb. ISBN: 0-934953430.

New York: Smith and Street Publications, 1941. First edition - A notable issue of this pulp magazine - it includes the first appearance of Isaac Asimov's "Reason", the second published robot story, later collected in "I, Robot"; Part one of a new serial by L. Sprague De Camp's "The Stolen Dormouse" (featured on the cover); A.E. Van Vogt's "Not the First" and Theodore Sturgeon's novelette "Microcosmic God" which was named one of the best science fiction stories of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1970; the novelette "The Mutineers" by L. Ron Hubbard writing as Kurt von Rachen and more. Illustrations, ads. 162 pp.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1984.). One of the harder-to-find later titles in the series. Illustrated by Jim Spence. Square format front cover with illustration by Jody Lee. 188 pp. List through #39 at front of book.. ISBN: 0-307-215598.

Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Important early accounts of Easter Island. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three interior plates. Three folding maps in pocket at rear. Series II, Volume XIII of Hakluyt Society publications. The Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, and bamed after Richard Hakluyt, collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels, the society publishes scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material. Bibliography, index, lxxvii, 176 pp plus 40 pp of additional information related to the Hakluyt Society.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1962) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir of a woman who danced at the Moulin Rouge, sang opera, and hosted a 'salon' in Tahiti at her husband's plantation in the years before World War II forced them to leave. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper, and dated in the year of publication.

New York: Rolling Stone, 2006. First edition - A look back at the first 1000 issues of this iconic magazine, with an article by Wenner -"In the Beginning We Didn't Know What We Were Doing" and features on covers, photographers and move over the years. Notable for the double holographic covers - on the front a collage of 154 artists, writers and bands, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain as an angel, and many others by Michael Elins (key to illustration is included in the issue) and on the back cover a holographic Target advertisement.Large format. 236 pp in stapled wrappers.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1985.). One of the hardest-to-find later titles in the series. Inside lists to #39. Black and white illustrations by Jim Spence. Cover illustration by Jody Lee. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-307-21561x.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1985.). One of the very hard to find later titles in the series. After publishing several new titles in 1980, there was a gap of 4 years, and then over the next 3 years only 5 new titles were produced before the series ended in 1986. These last 5 titles had a different design on the cover (the 'square' format picture) and were illustrated with drawings at the head of each chapter - and they are all rather elusive. Black and white illustrations by Jim Spence. Cover by Jody Lee. Lists to #38 at front of book. (The first edition lists to self) 189 pp. ISBN: 0-307-215601.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1980.). First edition - One of the rather hard to find later titles in the series - inside lists to #34, with the notation "new" next to #32-34. While not as well known as Nancy Drew, this is many girls' favorite series: Trixie is a real girl, with chores, school to attend, a little brother to babysit - but lots of adventures! Cover price of $1.25. 210 pp plus 1 pp publisher's ad. ISBN: 0-307-215539.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, one which traces the descendents of two half-sisters across 300 years in Ghana and America. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1101947135.

New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although he had already won several awards for his short stories) introducing Hispanic homicide detective Lupe Garcia. Set in Detroit's music world, one Allyn knows well as a co-leader for a Midwest rock group. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter to collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-312033028.