New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. Hardcover - Dunbar's first novel, originally published in 1898, and uncommon for its time in that he
"crossed the colorline" to write about a white minister and the white woman who had raised him after the early death of his mother. 255 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's ads.

New York: Stewatt, Tabori & Chang, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book, slightly oversized, illustrated by Terrance Cummings. The poems are arranged thematically, and so in the section on "Freedom" Henry Dumas's "Root Song" is followed by the 19th c poet, Frances E. W. Harper's "The Slave Auction." SIGNED by SEVEN contributors - E. Ethelbert Miller on the title page, Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange on the half title page, and Michelle Clinton, Peter Harris, Al Young and Ishmael Reed at their contributions. Many of the signatures are dated 1994 in the year of publication. Index of title and of authors. ISBN: 1-556703392.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1995). First edition - Powerful and compassionate photographs which reveal the poverty in the Mississippi Delta region - and the strength and dignity of those who endure that poverty - in the cotton fields, in the cotton gins and in their homes. Foreword by Robert Moses and an afterword by Ken Light in which he describes the four and a half years he spent taking these photographs. Large square format. xvi, 125 pp. ISBN: -560984894.

New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third thriller written in collaboration by this father and son, one set in the world of thoroughbred racing, but which focuses on Ned Talbot, a licensed bookmaker who inherited the business from his grandfather. SIGNED on the title page by BOTH Dick Francis and Felix Francis. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-0399155918.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller set in northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters area. "Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness asnd never returned, until now." SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-1501177361.

New York: Norton, (2013). Hardcover first edition - A significant selection of poems from over 60 years of writing by this award-winning poet who was "influenced by Emerson and Thoreau, inspired by spiritual traditions from Sufism to Gnosticism." Includes eight new poems from 2012-2013. Index. xxii, 378 pp. ISBN: 978-0393240078.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - This story of a woman, married to a much older man as a young girl, who finds love with her neighbor later in life is, in many ways typical of her somewhat scandalous romantic novels of the time - but this one is distinguished by a rather open racism. The wife of her lover (and the lover to her son) is depicted as a beautiful savage of uncertain descent, despite being the daughter of a Lord - and Guinevere's more worldly sister describes her at one point as a "nigger out for a holiday." Frontispiece portrait. Rather uncommon in the first edition, 357 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Ace Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The third Sookie Stackhouse novel - a Southern vampire novel, basis for the television series TrueBlood. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-441010512.

New York: Ace Books, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The second Sookie Stackhouse novel. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-44109239.

New York: Ace Books, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The hard to find first Sookie Stackhouse novel published as a paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015979.

New York: The Literary Guild, 1929. dj. Hardcover - An early edition (same year as the first) of this extremely popular book at the time, a first hand account of voodoo rituals and witchcraft in Haiti that William Seabrook experienced during his stay there in the 1920s. It has been credited with introducing the idea of a zombies to Western culture. It also includes the the story of Faustin Wirkus, a young U.S. Marine Sergeant from Pennsylvania sent by the American administration to the remote island of La Gonave to take charge of the gendarme, who was declared king by the natives and reigned there for several years. Illustrated with 20 full page drawings by Alexander King and photographs by the author. x, 336 pp.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short mystery stories by this award winning author - it includes seventeen stories, four featuring Jill Smith and one with Kiernan O'Shaughnessy as well as two tales of "The Celestial Detective" who investigates crime in the Afterlife or rather crimes that sent someone to the Afterlife. Each section has an introduction by Dunlap. A limited edition, one of 250 copies, each individually numbered and signedby Dunlap on the limitation page. 213 pp plus a Susan Dunlap checklist, colophon and 4 pp publisher's ads. A separately printed pamphlet 'A Tail of Two Cities: A Jill Smith Story' in red stapled wrappers is in a pocket on the rear pastedown. ISBN: 1-885941536.

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with 29 plates, most with tissue guards, including a frontispiece and illustrated title page, two folding plates and one double page spread, as well 55 textual illustrations. A large octavo. Index. 204 pages.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2019. SIGNED first edition - A small volume of lyric essays written over one year by this award winning poet - while he notes that racism, kindness, politics, books, music and gardening are often on his mind, this is first of all a record of the small joys we often overlook in our busy lives. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018. 273 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another look at the relationship between the races in America by the National Book Critics Circle Award winning author. SIGNED on the title pag and dated in 1998, the year of publication. xv, 185 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168234.

New York: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of recent writing and speeches on contemporary culture and issues - ranging from the Pentagon to prisons to the dilemmas of third-world women. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To -- Peace" xv, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-394-569768.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1949. First edition - Contains the first appearance of four poems by Gwendolyn Brooks which will later be included in her Pulitzer Prize winning collection "Annie Allen." Also includes contributions from Paul Goodman, Dannie Abse, Patrick Anderson, James Broughton, Louis Johnson, Arthur Gregor, and Karl Shapiro: "Prosody as the Meaning". Six black and white photographs of the poets. Letters and book reviews. pp 311-372 plus an Index for Volume 73.

New York: Ecco Press, (1990). Hardcover first edition - The sixth collection of poems by this author, written during a 10 week period in the summer of 1991, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-880012811.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology containing eleven stories which fill the gap between Holmes's supposed death at the hands of Moriarty and his reappearance three years later, edited and with an introduction by Michael Kurland. SIGNED on the title page by SEVEN authors: Michael Kurland, Peter Beagle, Linda Robertson, Rhys Bowen, Bill Pronzini, Carolyn Wheat and Richard Lupoff. Notes about the authors. vii, 388 pp. ISBN: 0-312315139.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). SIGNED hardcover - A book which tells the story of over 2 million Jewish immigrants who came to in America in four decades beginning with the 1880s, many settling in New York City, and how they strived to keep their Yiddish culture while making their way in the new society. SIGNED by Irving Howe on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, reference notes, glossary of Yiddish terms, bibliographical notes, index, xx, 714 pp. ISBN: 0151463530.

New York & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1940. Hardcover - A classic poetry anthology, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, originally published in 1900 and reprinted many times. This is a US printing of the new edition of 1939. The preface notes that there are some "repairs" to the old edifice and more than 100 pages have been added, bringing it up to the Armistice in 1918. Includes an index of first lines. xxvii, 1172 pp.

London: Simon & Schuster, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collaborative novel, spanning the years from 1100 to modern times by these six noted writers (or actually five - since Susanna Gregory participates both under that name and Simon Beaufort.) SIGNED on the title page by all six authors. 502 pp. ISBN: 0-74326794X.

New York: Henry Holt, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in postwar Berlin, from 1945 to 1955, as one war ends - and another, the Cold War, begins. A book set in a city physcially and morally devasted, a novel which is a murder mystery, spy thriller, and historical novel. Basis for the 2006 Oscar nominated film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, and Tobey Maguire. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 482 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-805064222.

Edinburgh UK: Rebel / Canongate Books Ltd, (2002). Hardcover first edition - A book which re-creates Bukowski's life in with more than two hundred photographs -most in black and white, but some in color - including many images which have never been published before. They range from candid shots from his friends and families, to eportraits by professional photographers, and illustrations by Dave Geiser and R. Crumb. Introduction by Sounes as well as several essays and extensive captions throughout the book. Square format, handsomely produced. 154 pp. ISBN: 1-841950084.

New York: Dutton, 1972. Hardcover first edition - Collects sixteen mystery stories originally published in magazines during the past year, Among the authors are Michael Crichton, Jack Ritchie, Robert Block and others, but it is perhaps most notable as the first book appearance of "Duel" by Richard Matheson, basis for the very early - and unforgettable - Steven Spielberg film of the same name. Includes a Yearbook of the Detective Story with a 1971 bibliography of collections and anthologies, awards, necrology and more. 271 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the lives of African explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and of their search for the source of the Nile in 1857-1858, a search which began in companionship and ended in loathing and death. Afterword. Basis for the 1990 film "Mountains of the Moon." 420 pp. ISBN: 0-312108737.

New York: Macmillan, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection by this important modernist poet, one which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Includes poems from 'Selected Poems' (1935), 'What Are Years' (1941), and 'Nevertheless (1944)' plus nine previously uncollected poems. Notes, notes on notes and an index of first lines. 180 pp.

Cincinnati, Ohio: J. Church & Co, 1866. First edition - A striking picture, originally the cover to a sheet music booklet containing the "Fire Fiend Galop." This is a dramatic and brightly colored lithograph of Cincinnati's burning opera house overwhelmed by the bright red and orange flames filling the sky. A crowd of onlookers watch as firefighters spray their hoses at the building, and visible through the flames is the title of the current production "A Midsummer's Night Dream." Lithograph by the noted firm of Civil War lithographers, Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. of Cincinnati. Copyright information below illustration showing John Church, Jr., Ohio, 1866. Large format, measuring 10 1/2" x 13 3/4"

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very hard-to-find novel by McElroy, an intellectual work of science fiction,set in an unspecified future - the meditation, the experience, of a disembodied brain orbiting the earth in a capsule, and gradually developing a consciousness of itself separate from its function even as its health deteriorates. Early reviews called it "remarkable, brilliant" and "an exhausting disorienting work of discovery.' INSCRIBED on the title page. Surprisingly the hardcover first seems to be more uncommon than the advance proof. 215 pp. Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-394407946.

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book to be published in hardcover. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. Dust jacket by Donald Davis. ISBN: 0-8407-64561.

New York: Atheneum, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second fantasy novel, sequel to "God Stalk." INSCRIBED on the title page "to ___ best wishes, P. C. Hodgell." Double-sided map by the author on a separate sheet laid in. 386 pp. Dust jacket art by Michael Mariano. ISBN: 0-689-311710.

New York: St Martin's, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Volume II of the Domesday Books, the second in a series of historical mysteries set in England during the reign of William the Conqueror in the late 11th century and inspired by actual entries in the Domesday Book. Double page map of Maldon and Essex. INSCRIBED on the title page to another author of historical mysteries "with thanks and admiration." 342 pp,. ISBN: 0-312113307.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contains all of this award-winning Canadian writer's short stories, including a locked-room mystery, "An Irish Jig" and several set in the Hudson Bay area. Also included is the first short tale about Charlie Salter, a novella, "The Lady of Shalott," written especially for this book, a checklist of Eric Wright's works and a new introduction by Wright. Number 111 of 225 copies sewn in cloth and SIGNED and numbered by the author on a special preliminary page. Laid in is a separately printed pamphlet, "Lodgings for the Night" by Eric Wright. 211 pp plus colophon. Pamphet has 9 pp. ISBN: 1-885941870.

New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical theater mystery set in Elizabethan England - the fifth in his series featuring Nicholas Bracewell. INSCRIBED on the title page to another author "with all best wishes to a fellow author" and dated in 1993. In addition, this is INSCRIBED by the dedicatee "Barbara, Countess of Scottsdale" - that is Barbara Peters, of Poisoned Pen Press "with best wishes for your mysterius career." 253 pp. ISBN: 0-312-082592.

London: Little Brown, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the dark thriller series featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 978-1408700679.

London: Hutchinson, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of pyschological suspense which explores the different ways in which children, damaged by violence, grow up. SIGNED on the title page. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-09-180101X.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (ca 1950, c 1926.) dj. Hardcover - Originally subtitled "A tale of strange adventures befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby" upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa via the Panama Canal. Illustrated with black and white drawings and with great dust jacket art by Lawrence Beall Smith. Uncommon vintage juvenile adventure story by this popular California writer, who was born in Stockton (just down the road from us) and lived an adventurous life himself. 332 pp.

Los Angeles: Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1974. First edition - The first English language translation of this piece by Mallarme, #154 out of 500 numbered copies. Sewn in stiff rust-red paper wrappers with a photo illustration by Wallace Berman pasted on the front cover. 21 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-915148048.

Sand Dollar, 1972. First edition - Collection of poems, including some in the "author's script" which were written in 1955 to illustrate the artist's paste-ups. Most of the book is set in typescript. With a long preface and long epilogue. Illustrated with 23 paste-up by Jess. Sand Dollar / 8 published by Jack Shoemaker at Sand Dollar Press in an edition of 2600 copies, 2000 in wrappers. xlix, 73 pp plus colophon.

New York: Harper & Row, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven interlinked short stories featuring two unusual "spy catchers" - former M13 operatives Calder and Behrens now working for JSSIC(E) (the External Branch of the Joint Services Standing Intelligence Committee.) Both men were very quiet, neighbors in a small town in Kent where Daniel Joseph Calder lived with a golden deerhound named Rasselas, and John Calder indulged in his avocation of bee-keeping - and both sometimes silently disappeared for a while. The true first edition of this Queen's Quorum title (preceding the UK edition). Dust jacket praise from such diverse authors as Eudora Welty and Rex Stout. 246 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Spina.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2013). Hardcover first edition - A new definite edition of an early work by Snyder originally published in the 1958 issue of The Evergreen Review. This edition includes a preface by Lu Ch'iu-yin, Governor of the T'ai Prefecture and an afterword by Snyder in which he discusses how he came to this work and what it meant to his development as a writer and Buddhist and also an afterword by Michael McPherson on the calligraphy. Also included is a CD with a lecture given on May 11, 2012, at The University of California, reflecting on Chinese poetry, Han Shan, and his continuing work as a poet and translator. Illustrated, square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1619021686.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive edition of Spicer's work from 1945 to 1965, including some poems being published here for the first time. Winner of the American Book Award for Poetry. Includes an introduction by the editors, and notes on this edition. Bibliography, index of titles and first lines. .xxxi, 465 pp

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated, with a substantial introduction and notes by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. A bilingual edition with the original French and English translation on facing pages. Born in Martinique, Cesaire studied in Paris where he met Leopold Senghor, and "discovered Africa" and began his lifelong dedication to the idea of Negritude. This collection begins with his important first book, written in 1939 upon his return to the Caribbean -Cahier du Retour au Pays Natal -Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. xv, 408 pp.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (2007). Hardcover first edition - The collected work of this legendary San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poet, arranged chronologically. Whalen, who was also a Buddhist monk, was one of the most creative poets of the San Francisco Renaissance; he was part of the 1955 Six Gallery reading which was one of the most pivotal events in the West Coast Beat. Foreword by Gary Snyder, and introduction by Leslie Scalapino. Includes several appendices - one listing the contents of each of his books when first published, another with a brief biography and bibliography. Index of titles. xli, 871 pp. ISBN: 0-819568597.

Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - First hardcover edition of Snyder's first book of poems, originally only published in paperback. Includes a new afterword by Snyder in which he talks about the influence of Chinese and Japanese poetry on his work and describes this edition as the "fourth incarnation." 67 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4559.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of remembrances and writings about Snyder compiled in honor of his 60th birthday - with contributions from sixty-five individuals including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Wendell Berry, Jerome Rothenberg, Wes Jackson and scores of others. Photographs. Index. 451 pp plus a final comment "We are still making books" by Clifford Burke. ISBN: 0-87156-6362.

New York: New Directions, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book drawn from Snyder's essays and journals, including his studies of Zen Buddhism and American Indian culture. SIGNED on the title page. 143 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 'In May 2001, a group of 26 men. . . attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a deadly region known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 of them would survive.' An eloquent and moving book, SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing of cactus and dated in Davis (CA) in 1998.Index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-316746711.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Snyder's first collection after winning the Pulitzer prize for 'Turtle Island' in 1974 in the rather uncommon hardcover binding. The title refers to his son ('I am an axe, and my son a handle, soon to be shaping again.') and many of the poems are about family and community. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-1193.

London: Allison & Busby, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in his Lake County series, featuring DCI Hannah Scatlett, head of Cumbria's Cold Case Review Team. The title refers to a series of stone tunnels used to remove arsenic from tin ore. SIGNED on the title page. 380 pp. plus 3 pp ads. ISBN: 1-590583280.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1928). Hardcover first edition - A novel by this popular English author, who grew up surrounded by writers - the daughter of publishers and writers Wilfred and Alice Thompson Meynell; her brother Francis was one of the driving forces of the Nonesuch Press; an early supporter of D. H. Lawrence, even giving him a room in her country house to use to write, and friends with such diverse authors as Katherine Mansfield, Eric Gill, Hillaire Belloc, Cynthia Asquith and more. 319 pp.

New York: Marchbanks Press/Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover first edition - Classic and enduringly popular German children's rhymes originally published in 1845. Each portrays the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in a humorous and exaggerated way. In her foreword, Twain's daughter, Clara Clemens describes living with her family in 1891 in a drab flat in Berlin: this translation was a marvelous Christmas present to his three children! In addition to the foreword by Clara Clemens, this includes an introduction by Philip Hofer. A tall, slim book - 34 pp plus colophon, hand-numbered as 719 out of 1500.

New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, originally published in the UK in 1933, which creates an atmosphere of growing terror and suspense. A young girl, who has not been able to speak since childhood, has taken a position as a "lady help" in a remote mansion and finds herself threatened by a killer who has a penchant for strangling handicapped young women. Basis for several films including the classic 1946 RKO suspense movie, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, and Elsa Lanchester. 319 pp.

Los Angeles: Arundel Press, 1988. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 22 early poems, not previously published and written around 1912. The title comes from a 1912 letter by Jeffers to his sister Una. No. 21 of 200 numbered copies on Frankfurt paper. Printed by Patrick Reagh, binding by Bela Blau, on Frankfort paper. 33 pp plus notes and colophon.

Edmonton, AB: Tesseract Books / The Books Collective, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, first collection of short stories, including one written especially for this book - nine stories which journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings (A Niche), and which "push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death, watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and salvation to the human race" and more. Before turning to writing science fiction, Watts spent 15 years as a marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 167 pp plus publication history and 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-89583676X.

Clarkston, Michigan and Mission Viejo, California: A.S.A.P. 2007. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait and three tipped in plates by Phil Park (tissue guard before frontispiece), introduction by James Crumley. #L of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Box, James Crumley and Phil Parks. Bound in tan leather covered boards with dark brown lettering stamped on spine and cover and a color plate on the cover. Both the book and a metal medallion with a red, white and blue ribbon are packaged in a tan leather covered clamshell box. 47 pp. ISBN: 1-892011425.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon first major collection of poems, and the first to be published in the UK, by this Caribbean writer (born in Santa Lucia) who later went on to win the Nobel prize for literature, and many other awards. 79 pp.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1928) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this popular English author, who grew up surrounded by writers - the daughter of publishers and writers Wilfred and Alice Thompson Meynell; her brother Francis was one of the driving forces of the Nonesuch Press; an early supporter of D. H. Lawrence, even giving him a room in her country house to use to write, and friends with such diverse authors as Katherine Mansfield, Eric Gill, Hillaire Belloc, Cynthia Asquith and more. 319 pp.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, fourth book, set in Texas and Oklahoma in the early 1900s through World War I - an account of those trying to find justice for workers and the poor, of those opposed to war, and of the violent rise of the Knights of Liberty and the abuses of the Espionage Act. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-87074433X.

Boston: D. Lothrop And Company, (1886). Hardcover first edition - Each sign of the Zodiac has a poem by Johnson and an engraved plate by Jessie McDermott. Frontispiece with tissue guard by E. P. Hayden, who also provided the vignettes for each sign. 53 pp plus 2 final illustrations. Rather uncommon and lots of vintage appeal.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A massive anthology which spans the entire 20th century starting with Jacques Futrelle ("The Phantom Motor" in 1905) followed by stories from classic writers like G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary authors including Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. Other authors represented are Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald and more.SIGNED by contributor Sara Paretsky on the title page. Introduction by Jon L. Breen. 579 pp. ISBN: 0-786707097.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one which examines the decades leading up to the catastrophic event and the city's recovery from it. In their zeal to rebuild, leaders of the city downplayed the risks and took actions which increased the danger going forward. A book which combines urban environmental history and disaster studies and shows how the crisis and subsequent rebuilding reflect the interplay of natural and human influences that have shaped San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A title in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, index. xvii, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0295742465.

Tokyo: Printed in Occupied Japan by Toppan Printing Company Ltd, 1947. Double page color map inside front covers..Includes information on the top commanders, the Admiralty campaign, the Leyte-Samar campaign, the Luzon campaign and more. Maps, Black and white photographs throughout. xxii, 245 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - The first Martha's Vineyard mystery introducing Jeff (J.W.). Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-684-195526.

New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, which introduced psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. Winner of the Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel. Basis for the movie of the same name. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-689-115199.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction and a NY Times Notable book selection. A powerful coming-of-age memoir by this award-winning poet. It "tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. . . Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another and to one another as we fight to become ourselves." SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 978-1501132735.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014). SIGNED first edition - A novel described as "a parable of modern girlhood, full of longing and reckless behavior" The old Etruscan city of Grifonia is "filled with dangerous secrets of many kinds: ancient, eternal, infernal - as it swarms with year-abroad students - thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they've come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too well. There's a reason Henry James's young ladies went to Europe with chaperones. Today's young ladies don't." SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp plus author's note.

London: Allison & Busby, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller featuring lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel and the young lawyer Roxanne Wade. INSCRIBED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-749005181.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel - one which reintroduces Victorian private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn. SIGNED on the title page.Historical note. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-1250041043.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of one great horned owl "Bubo" - rescued by the author when it was too young to fly and how it grew into an independent hunter - and how the author and the owl came to know one another over three summers spent in the Maine woods. But his book is more than just a chronicle of one birdL it is also a series of thoughts on the natural world and its importance to us. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens and dated in 1995. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. References, index. x, 224 pp. ISBN: 0-69108470X.

London: Collins / Crime Club, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second police procedural featuring Chief Inspector David Webb. SIGNED on the title page. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-002319756.

London: Little Brown, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the award-winning series featuring Peter Diamond, head of the murder squad in Bath, England. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. dj. Hardcover - A very early printing of this posthumously published collection of Lardner's humorous writings, edited and with a preface by Gilbert Seldes. From the dust jacket "Ring Lardner illustrated in his own person the efficacy of laughter as a buckler against fate." 1934 date on title page, original price of $2.50 on dust jacket, but no A on the copyright page. 377 pp.

New York & London: Macmillan, 1903. Hardcover - A survey of life and travel on the Great Roads of England - the Bath Road, the Brighton Road, the Dover Road, and more - whether in the lumbering vehicles of the 17th century or in the light faster coaches of the early 1800s. Profusely illustrated with drawings by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Originally published in 1888, this is apparently the first edition in the Macmillan's Illustrated Pocket Classics series. Top edge gilt. A small volume. 376 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Oyez, (1966) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes all of the poems in three of the earliest works of Everson: These Are the Ravens (1935), San Joaquin (1939); and The Masculine Dead (1942). Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of only 1000 copies in an edition designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Second state with the spelling of "language" corrected on p ix. SIGNED by Everson on the title page. xii, 105 pp plus colophon.

New York: New Directions, (c. 1974.). SIGNED hardcover - Woodcut illustrations by Michael Corr. Winner of the Putitzer Prize for poetry - according to Snyder because it was "the only book that was quite that gutsy ..jumping-in-with-all-fours, taking a stand on things." Snyder explains in his introductory note that 'Turtle Island - the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millenia, and reapplied by some of the them to 'North America' in recent years.' SIGNED on the title page. A copy which was printed on demand. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-05460.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand alone novel set during the Great Depression by this award-winning writer. "1932, Minnesota - the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie OBanion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendents wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own." SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 450 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749297.

Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2003. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Numbered and SIGNED on a special limitation page - #169 of an edition of 250 copies. Includes thirteen previously uncollected short stories featuring Boston private investigator John Francis Cuddy. The "plus one" is a pamphlet with the short story, "The Safest Little Town in Texas" laid in. Sources. 272 pp., 12 pp pamphlet. ISBN: 1-885941943.

New York: Ballantine, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's fourth novel, a story of literary suspense which weaves together the past and the present - "Ellis Brooks, a first-time novelist, has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora and the infamous summer of 1893, when wealthy, powerful Milo Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the estate to help his wife contact three of the couples children, lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic. But when a seance turned deadly, Corinth and her alleged accomplice, Tom Quinn, disappeared, taking with them the Lathams only surviving child." Ellis becomes convinced that the true story is even darker. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-345462130.

Norfolk, Virginia: Crippen & Landru Publishers 1998. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Numbered and SIGNED on a special limitation page - #149 of an edition of 250 copies. Collects seventeen short stories about John Francis Cuddy with settings ranging from rural Maine, to Boston's mean streets, to a highway on the way to Florida, and characters who may be homeless or living in penthouses, and cases that run the gamut from brutal murder to a missing parakeet. Includes another story - "City Life" in a small pamphlet in rear pocket. 292 pp., 10 pp pamphlet. ISBN: 1-885941285.