New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Young adult fantasy that will appeal to adults also. Aurelia is a princess with magic powers, so they call her a witch. "A roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy thats layered with heady romance, bloodthirsty magic, and ghostly intrigue - an absolutely wicked delight." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is before publication - a unique copy with the author's notation "1st signature!!" 373 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1994). First edition - A general introduction to the life and work of photojournalist Lange that draws on family remembrances, scholarly evaluations, and a handsome picture portfolio. Includes six essays, an interview with Ansel Adams, and many black-and-white photographs. Lange was best known for her US Farm Security Administration images of Depression-era migrant workers. Editor Elizabeth Partridge grew up in Lange's loosely knit family fold and she provides a warm introduction to this book. Among the essays are one in which Roger Daniels looks at her work documenting Japanese Americans interned by the War Relocation Authority during WW II. Notes on contributors. Large format. xi, 168 pp. ISBN: 1-560984554.

New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel and the second in the award winning series featuring war veteran Peter Ash. He was seeking peace and quiet among the towering redwoods of northern California, but instead has a close encounter with a bear - and discovers a rope leading to a hanging platform. On the platform is a woman on the run, investigative journalist June Cassidy, who had escaped a kidnapping by the men who are still on her trail. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-0399174575.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Jane and Dagobert Brown mystery - they lightheartedly head off to Spain for some much needed rest - only to discover themselves once again embroiled in murder when they attend a bullfight in Barcelona and the matador is killed. 191 pp.

San Francisco / Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes over 150 images of sailors mostly from snapshots in private collections - although some are more formal and a few are large double page pictures - and never before reproduced. Many are early and mid twentieth century, US Navy sailors. Selected and with an introduction by editor. SIGNED by Bentley on the title pages. Square format. 109 pp. Photographic endsheets. ISBN: 1-571780947.

New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A definitive compilation of Baraka's poetry, from his first collection (when he was writing as Leroi Jones) to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. His early poetry "emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology." This includes poems from eleven of his published books, with a final section of recent poems compiled after his death. Selected and with a prefaced by his friend and colleague Paul Vangelisti. [16]. 528 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1925) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a Jewish boy, living in a gentile neighborhood in a suburb of San Francisco, who discovers both love with a gentile girl and racial prejudice. The rather hard-to-find third novel by this California born author who is probably best known for his pulp fiction, much of it set in the Orient. 302 pp.

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." 340 pp. ISBN: 0-451202635.

New York: Atheneum, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this British artist, a delightfully creative story written by his wife and featuring their daughter's three favorite stuffed animals. When Barley, the lamb, falls off a cliff into the sea, the others dive in after him, and go deep under the water - pat beautiful fishes, a crab and submarine, seahorses and mermaids. Illustrated in full color. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689305761.

New York: Atheneum, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this British artist, a delightfully creative story written by his wife and featuring their daughter's three favorite stuffed animals. Their attempt to reach a slide in the sky leads them up a very long ladder past cows, airplanes, a thunderstorm and witches, and the slide, when reached at last takes them over the sea and under the rainbow. Illustrated in full color. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689305761.

Arcadia, California: The Marvimon Foundation, (1914) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slim book containing a "new melding of time-old conceptions into a simple and workable philosophy of life for a mind that does not presume to know the beyond" - essentially, this life is all we have and we should find joy in this life (which doesn't sound so "barren.") Illustrated with a color frontispiece and symbolic design and sketches by Mary Carlin. 69 pp plus a final drawing.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When "Tim" wants the murder of his unfaithful wife to a "perfect" one, he decides to consult with five well-known mystery writers - and this book contains their letters back and forth over the course of a year. Preface by Jack Hitt, who suggested this idea, and who writes Tim's letters. SIGNED on the title page by FOUR of the authors - Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Sarah Caudwell and Peter Lovesey. vi, 195 pp. ISBN: 0-060163402.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist) set in Florida against the backdrop of a planned satellite launch and in a world now affected by 9/11 and the anthrax mailings. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-301960.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Sidewinder Publishing, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new introduction, "Natural Born Storyteller" by Ernie Bulow. Chapter headings and full page drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin. Hillerman's first mystery, introducing Joe Leaphorn, originally published in 1970. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0914001126.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Sidewinder Publishing, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new introduction, "Special Friend of the People Award" by Peter MacDonald, former Chairman of the Navajo Nation. Chapter headings and full page drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin. Hillerman's fourth mystery, originally published in 1978. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0914001195.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Sidewinder Publishing, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new introduction, "The Amazing Art of Tony Hillerman," by Margaret Coel, especially for this edition. Chapter headings and full page drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin. Hillerman's third mystery, originally published in 1973, this novel received the 1974 Edgar Award for best mystery. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0914001157.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947, dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Christopher "Kit" Storm, an unofficial artist-detective who uses his sketch pad to make drawings at the scene of the crime to assist the New York Homicide Squad solve a series of slayings among a group of young models and artists. Illustrated with more than 40 of his sketches. 292 pp.

London: Gollancz, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Robert Amiss, academic and reluctant sleuth - clever, satirical and very funny. He has left the Civil Service, "the bank writes impertinent letters to him, and he faces the indignity of life on the dole. So when his old friends in the CID ask him for help, he is in no position to refuse. Strange things have been happening at the Knightsbridge School of English. One teacher has met a suspicious death and another has been attacked." SIGNED on the title page with the words "With best wishes." Review copy with publisher's slip laid in, also signed by Dudley. ISBN: 0-575037881.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in this award-winning series featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. The appeal of these books is partly based on the character of Brunetti, a devoted family man, and a dedicated police officer, who quietly abhors the powers-that-be, and also on the author's knowledge of the mileu - she was a teacher at the US air force base near Venice. The first in the series won Japan's prestigious Suntory prize as the best suspense novel of 1991. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-333-616790.

Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Limited edition of this offbeat novel of suspense from this very good writer - this one is set in 1954, partly on the islands in Boston Harbor - and is a story with a unique mingling of fact and fantasy. #36 of 95 copies SIGNED by Lehane on a special limitation page. Appreciation by Ian Rankin.. Bound in marbled boards, with navy blue quarter leather spine, gold lettering on spine, top edge tinted blue. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-688-163173.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel about what it means to be a black American - sometimes brutally funny, other times starkly real - as he "sets forth his encounters with poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots, frustrated rage -and a variety of ways of loving." The third and last novel by this writer, whom Ishmael Reed notably described as "Richard Pryor before there was a Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor on paper." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-374-100365.

New York & Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1930). An early printing (rear flap lists to Phantom Violin, 1934) of this adventure story involving stolen jewels and featuring Petite Jeanne and Tico, the dancing bear; it begins in a lonely cabin on an island in Lake Huron. 265 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Gretta.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1940). Hardcover first edition - A two book series, both issued in 1940, under the name of Frank Bell, but written by Mildred Wirt Benson, the author of the Nancy Drew series. "Starting his career as a newspaper cameraman on The Brandale Ledger, Flash pursues the trail of adventure and mystery, getting the news in pictures. . . You'll find Flash Evans wherever news is breaking covering fires, bank robberies, ocean disasters, strikes, floods, earthquakes, and in the war zones shooting pictures of land battles, air raids and submarine attacks." Glossy frontispiece. 212 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Judge Dee book which includes three mysteries suggested by original Chinese plots and set in China during the Tang Dynasty. Judge Dee was a real magistrate who lived from 630 to 700 A.D. and whose accomplishments became the basis for legendary feats of detection, as told by storytellers in the following centuries. Illustrated with twelve drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes a historical postscript by the author, a Dutch diplomat, linguist and authority on Chinese history and culture. x, 211 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket by Olivia Kahn

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Judge Dee (630-700 AD), set during the Tang dynasty, illustrated with 8 drawings by Van Gulik. Illustrated endpapers. Postscript. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-684125609.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring Inspector Shan Tao Yun, who lost his position in Beijing and his family and freedom, when he ran afoul of a powerful figure in the Chinese government. Now released after four years in the gulag and living in Tibet, he is still trying to find justice - "Set against the astonishing landscape of this beleaguered Himalayan country and the epic struggle of the Tibetan people, [these novels become] a passage through the many layers of tragedy inflicted by China on Tibet and its people." SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the month of publication - April 2004. Author's note. 360 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312-277598.

London: Headline (Hodder), (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the highly praised series featuring Chief Inspector Barnaby. "When Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up at bell ringing practice, her fellow Fawcett Green villagers are neither surprised nor concerned. Unfailingly pleasant, extremely beautiful, and really rather dull, Simone has made her mark only as someone who has volunteered for too many activities in the community and stuck with none." Basis for the television series Midsomer Murders (although the books are much better). The scarcest title in this series in first edition. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-16657.

New York: Kensington, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery in this series featuring utility infielder and sometimes sleuth Mickey Rawlings,set in 1920 as labor unrest is roiling the US and the government is trying to take down the Wobblies.. SIGNED on the title page. A series which mixes suspense, period detail and legendary baseball greats. A small volume. 346 pp. ISBN: 1-575661500.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A Friendly Glimpse of Edwin Arlington Robinson" - a memoir of a friendship between two writers who first met in 1923 at the McDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 1923. Frontispiece of Robinson. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "to -- pursuer of the ends of the earth - if there are any - and of all standardized wolves in other places." 98 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eleventh novel in the highly praised Billy Boyle series, featuring a young Irish-American cop from Boston (or, as the NY Times review put it "a brash kid from Southie"), who had just made detective when the US joined World War II, and he is selected by Eisenhower to be his personal investigator. He faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1616956424.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second mystery, and the second featuring the team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis, set in the Los Angeles area. 257 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-689-116349.

New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Neal Carey, New York street kid turned reluctant private investigator, and the hardest title to find in the series. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-312-070993.

New York: Scribner's, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hurston's fourth, and final, novel. This is the story of Arvey and Jim Meserve - Jim had gumption and wanted to get ahead, and so they moved from the Suwanee to the citrus belt in Florida, but the heart of the story is Arvey's long stumbling progress towards self-discovery and fulfillment. On the back cover of the dustjacket is a 2 column brief biography headed by 'Zora Neale Hurston writes about herself:' Original price of $3.00 still present. 311 pp.

Praha (Prague): Albatros, (1985). Hardcover - Illustrated doublepage spreads with vocabulary words in Czech, Russian, German and English (with the pronunciation shown for the English). Index. Oversized oblong format. 200 pp.

London: Allison & Busby, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Detective novel featuring Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire County Constabulary and his assistant, D. C. William Crosby. Aird's novels have been described as witty and literate, straddling the line between cozies and police procedurals. She received the Crime Writers' Association 'Golden Handcuffs' Award for lifetime achievement. SIGNED on the title page. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-749083433.

New York Norton, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories about the life of one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, collected intermittenly over several years, by his friend Ralph Leighton (who said he found it an "inspiration" that "one person could invent so much innocent mischief") and edited by Edward Hutchings. Included are humorous and insightful stories from his childhood, education at MIT, work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his teaching and research career. Feynman was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965. Index. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-393-019217.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ridley's third novel, a standalone thriller in which a madman is holding 5000 people hostage in a giant mall in the suburbs near Boston, and is threatening to blow it up. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-312007035.

New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mistake from the past threatens to ruin the lives of Lou and Elizabeth Boldt. SIGNED by the author on title page and dated 4-13-04. Also laid in is the uncommon SIGNED pamphlet "The Connecting Chapter" connecting this title and "Undercurrents," the first novel in the Lou Boldt series. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-786867256.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second of Deighton's spy novels featuring his unnamed secret agent (the only one which was not adapted for the "Harry Palmer" films starring Michael Caine) First issue with the crossword endpapers. 255 pp.

Bolinas, CA: Tombouctou, 1977. dj. SIGNED first edition - Collection of poetry issued in an edition of only 500 copies. Cover and illustration by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Oblong format, unpaginated.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Six stories of the Port William Membership, spanning a period of time from 1930 to 1967, but tied together by the presence of Wheeler Catlett. SIGNED on the title page. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-2165.

Goshen CT: Chicory Blue Press, (1992). First edition - Zeidenstein's first chapbook of her own poetry, and the first title in the Crimson Edge Chapbook series. Zeidenstein founded Chicory Blue Press to create a place where women past sixty can find their voices and be published. Includes 15 poems and an afterword. 35 pp. ISBN: 0-961911131.

Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, (2010). First edition - An exploration of supernatural and natural healing practices all over the world through 270 colonial postcards from a private collection, published in conjunction with an exhibition of these postcards in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2009. Shown in their original colors, the cards are a rich source of visual information about native health and healing, but also a source which needs to be considered with care, since many reflect the colonial prejudices and racist attitudes of the time. Notes, references. Large format. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-9460220173.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, (1982). Hardcover first edition - A beautifully produced book with illustrations of 40 designs from ancient Mimbres pottery, of discussions of the possible meaning by the noted Hopi artist, Fred Kabotie. Originally published in 1949 in a limited edition, this includes a new foreword by David Laird which states "This revised edition of the original masterpiece includes two new interpretations. Except for minor modifications, the original preface, introduction, and interpretations have not been altered." Large format, xiv, 80 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-873583086.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, nd (ca 1909). Hardcover - Collects stories and poems by William Butler Yeats, Patrick Kennedy, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Douglas Hyde, Lady Wilde, Alfred Lord Tennyson and many others, with a preface and epilogue by the editor, Alfred Graves (who also contributed a story to this). Illustrated by George Denham with a color frontispiece and many full-page internal black and white drawings, as well as smaller vignettes at the end of most selections. .An uncommon early copy of this work by the original publisher. x, 310 pp,

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, an amateur and very prickly sleuth, now living in a small village in the Cotswalds. After her marriage to James falls apart, Agatha follows him to Cyprus, where they had planned to spend their honeymoon - and once again finds murder surrounding her. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the television series. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-312-20449.

New York: Henry Schuman, Inc., (1952) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written for older children, this is a colorfully written introduction to the idea of law and the place of law in our society, why we need laws, and how they change over time - including a chapter on some peoples who do not have a formal legal system - the Hopis and Eskimos - and another on vigilante justice. The topics include anecdotes that young people can relate to. Illustrated with drawings by Bunji Tagawa. 146 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1933). Hardcover first edition - Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually by her friend and lover Gertrude Stein. It recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. Listed by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp.

New York: Eagle Books, (1944). Hardcover first edition - Paratrooper training and action during World War II, especially in Tunisia, where the author led 1500 and up to 4000 members of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry (otherwise known as "the Raff force.") Illustrated with photographics. Foreword by Hanson W. Baldwin. Maps on front endpapers. xv, 207 pp.

New York: Aperture, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume (out of five) of the work of this revolutionary photographer to be published posthumously, and the only one which focuses on a single topic. It consists of photographs taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1966 and 1971, places she kept going back to every few months or so, to picnics, dances, on Halloween, in the years just before her death. Includes an afterword by her daughter, Doon Arbus. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 089381623X.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer, set in York, England in 1363. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, glossary. xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 0312-097824.

Philadelphia: David McKay (ca 1905, c 1889). Hardcover - A rather uncommon title in the Boys of Liberty Library, originally published in paperback by Street and Smith, and the only one credited to this author. Glossy frontispiece. 219 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York: W.L. Allison Co., (1894). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Two romantic short novels in one volume. SIGNED by the author opposite the title page under this comment "If to err is human, to forgive divine/ Pass lightly over the many faults/ in this littlle book of mine!" The inscription is fairly faint, but still legible. The first novel includes a case of mistaken identity, a visit to the Everglades, and a deliberate attempt to kill the heroine by giving her a scarf infected with yellow fever. Despite the title of the second novel, it is set mostly in New York City or in Paris. Mediums and hpynotism make brief appearances. 143, 107 pp.

New York: Berkley, (1984). First edition - " The Complete, Authorized Guide and Companion to Frank Herbert's Masterpiece of the Imagination." This definitive work features articles by both scholars and fans that cover all the many facets of the history, culture, religion, science, and people of Arraki, including some never before published material. Entries range from A - abomination - to Z - Zensunni, History. Illustrated with some small drawings. Printed with double columns on most pages. Brief note from Herbert at the front of the book. Includes a chronology and bibliography. ix, 526 pp. ISBN: 0-425068137.

New York: Orchard Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Farmer's classic novel of the best detectives in Africa searching for three children who disappeared in Zimbabwe in 2194. A Newbery Honor book INSCRIBED on the title page. Glossary. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-531-086798.

New York: Putnam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth in this author's highly praised series of mysteries set in Georgian England and feauturing the blind magistrate Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners, England's first police force. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-399-144196.

New York: Harper Collins, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in an epic animal fantasy series for older children by this Newbery award winning author, a story which teaches what fear and bravery and leadership really are. "To learn if she truly is the last dairne in the worldthe endling Byx and her friends must travel into the snow-covered mountains of the country of Dreyland, where they hope to uncover the truth behind the legend of a hidden dairne colony. But the threat of war across the lands continues to grow with each passing day." SIGNED by Applegate on an illustrated preliminary page. Illustrated by Max Kostenko. 391 pp plus 3 pp publisher's ads. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0062335562.

New York: Atheneum, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated book that tells how Teresa Carreo (1853-1917), a ten year old girl who played piano for Abraham Lincoln in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War. A revolution in Venezuela had forced her family to flee to the United States, but although Teresa felt lonely at first in New York City. , she soon realized the power her music had to give a few moments peace or happiness to others.SIGNED by Engle on the title page. Every page is a double spread of colorful paintings by the Mexican American artist Rafael Lopez. Historical note. Named by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Picture Book of 2019. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1481487405.

Seattle and New York: Seattle Mystery Bookshop / Avon, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Leo Waterman mystery, set in Seattle, Washington in a special dust jacket, featuring Ford's "working title" for the book - "Whatever #5." Numbered 98 out of 200 on the dust jacket flap and SIGNED and dated 2/13/99 on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-380-975572.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sergeant Troy's first case, set in spring 1941, a year after Dunkirk, with the US still struggling to stay neutral. "In Germany, after ten years spying for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl disappears during a Berlin air raid. . . MI6 convince US Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so Captain Cal Cormack, a shy American 'aristocrat', is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton of Stepney, fat, fifty, and convivial, and between them they scour London, but then things start to go terribly wrong and, ditched by MI6 and disowned by his embassy, Cal is introduced to his one last hope - Sgt Troy of Scotland Yard . . " SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-297643452.

New York: St Martin's / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1987-89) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Complete early fantasy trilogy by this author better known now for her mystery fiction. Each book is INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Frontispiece. 346, 374, 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312930755.

London: Century, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, but her first crime novel, a standalone thriller of obsession and revenge, preceding the Inspector Barnaby 'Midsomer Murders' books for which she is best known. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-712604618.

London: Flamingo / Harper Collins, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical thriller set in early 1800s England, and featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe (the "American boy"), who has been sent to a small village to be educated. Winner of the 2003 CWA Historical Dagger. SIGNED on the title page. Author's historical note. Cream and pale green patterned endpapers. 485 pp. ISBN: 0-00710961x.

New York: Kensington, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery in this series featuring utility infielder and sometimes sleuth Mickey Rawlings,set in 1921 as the trial of the Chicago "Black Sox" is just beginning. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A series which mixes suspense, period detail and legendary baseball greats. A small volume. 329 pp. ISBN: 1-575662868.

New York: Kensington, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery in this series featuring utility infielder and sometimes sleuth Mickey Rawlings. It is 1918 and anti-German feeling is raging - and and the Secretary of War is threatening to shut down baseball altogether until the war is over. SIGNED on the title page. A series which mixes suspense, period detail and legendary baseball greats. A small volume. 296 pp. plus author's note. ISBN: 1-575660237.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifteenth novel James Bond novel, and the first to be written by someone other then Ian Fleming after his death in 1964. The only one to be written by Kingsley and one of the best, now a classic in its own right. Amis's name is not shown on the UK edition. Map endpapers. 255 pp. Great surrealist wraparound dustjacket by Tom Adams.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - Huxley's longest and most complex novel, A story of 1920s intellectual life in which the characters are based on artists, politicians, and socialites of the time including D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray. Included in the Modern Librarys 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century. Basis for a BBC television series in 1968. First edition stated on copyright page, with Doubleday colophon, date of 1928 on title page. Original price of $2.50 on dust jacket flap. Bound in mint green cloth with deep purple top stain, lilac endpapers, printed title label on spine. (Bromer A18.4.1) 432 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of five shorter pieces featuring Leidi and Meiklejohn, including their first case "With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope" and two - "Torch Song" and "All for One" - which had never been published before. INSCRIBED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-312130759.

New York: Penguin, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex and fascinating historical bibliomystery which starts in Barcelona just after World War II with a young boy selecting a book -'The Shadow of the Wind' - from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. Decorated endpapers. 487 pp. ISBN: 1594200106.

New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh mystery featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen, set in Salt Lake City on the eve of the Olympics. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 307 pp,. ISBN: 0-312-253508.

London: Doubleday, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After her mother, an artist, dies, Marian's search for her own past and the identity of her father takes her to the remote Cornwall fishing village of St Ives. There she discovers that her identity and her mother's art are irrevocably tied to a 1939 lifeboat disaster, when all hands were lost except for one. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-385408471.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating look at our interactions with wild and domestic animals, especially as the lines begin to blur with more wild animals found in urban environment. David Orr called it Not just a brilliant, wise, and eloquent book, but a powerful summons to reconnect with the life all around us. Reconnecting with animals is a remedy for much of what ails modern life including loneliness and boredom. SIGNED on the title page. Notes, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-1616205607.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). SIGNED first edition - Southern author's second novel. "Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, a saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the worlds first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is, before publication. 384 pp.

Mildenhall, Suffolk: Suffolk Press, (2003_ dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Romance, rescue archaeology, buried treasure, ancient curses and a dash of the supernatural with an original twist are the elements that make up" this unusual thrillr by this writer best known for her historical mysteries set in India in the 1920s. A limited edition, one of 400 clothbound copies individually numbered and SIGNED by the author on a colophon page at the beginning of the book. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-954586603.

By the author, nd (ca 2017). SIGNED first edition - As a young boy, growing up on a farm outside Stockton, California, Bill Reynolds was fascinated by the pilots he saw training there, and, as soon as he could - in 1941 - he enlisted. He went on to be a pilot and served throughout the war. Illustrated with several photographs and maps, some in color, and many black of white photos of the various types of planes he flew, from the Ryan PT 22 to the Curtiss G-46 Commando and many others. SIGNED on the first page by the co-author, James Inman. 122 pp.

London: Michael Joseph, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sid Halley returns in this novel on the dark underside of racing. "Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow." SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-718749971.

San Francisco: Bedford Arts Publishers, (1988). Hardcover first edition - An accordion-fold book illustrated in color on both sides of heavy glossy card leaves. "This pictorial journal records an amazing adventure. The renowned grey-haired sage and his loyal companion, a spotted, red-faced sheep dog travel to the previously unknown "Great Canine Mountains," and through "Terrier Pass" to the unexplored lands beyond." Inspired by a spring family vacation to Yosemite.Note on the work by Steven Vincent. Unpaginated, large format. ISBN: 0-938491091.

London: Severn House, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller based on actual events beginning in 1941 - the prison at Spandau has only one inmate, the closely guarded Nazi Rudolf Hess. Originally published in 1986 under the pseudonym Peter Lear. SIGNED by Lovesey on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-727856590.

New York: Berkley, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Mystery Writers of America anthology containing an introduction by Lawrence Block and 19 stories by Brendan DuBois, Noreen Ayres, Shelley Costa, Tom Savage, Tracy Knight, Aileen Schumacher, Elaine Viets, G. Miki Hayden, Elaine Togneri, Henry Slesar, William E. Chambers, Stefanie Matteson, Charlotte Hinger, Dan Crawford, Rhys Bowen, Mat Coward, Marcia Talley, Elizabeth Foxwell and Jeremiah Healy. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Lawrence Block on the title page, and by Rhys Bowen and Brendan DuBois at their stories. Brief notes about the authors. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-425190358.

D. Appleton and Company, D. Appleton-Century, (1944) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in San Francisco before the US has entered World War II - the story of the West Coast's most popular radio commentator - who is both opposed to involvement in the war (despite the fact that her son is eager to join the military) and a woman who uses the misfortunes of others as stories on her program. Mitchell - wife the state senator, Sanborn Young - was active in Republican politics and the comments she made in this copy which is INSCRIBED on the title page reflects that "For -- in the bonds of DAR and GOP and P.P. - and in neighborly affection." Dated in the year of publication. 344 pp.

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc./Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery, a "locked room" novel introducing private investigator Aubrey Nash, who is called in to investigate the murders of a stock broker and his chauffeur."The prow mark of boat on a sandy beach leads to the unraveling of a death that was neither murder, suicide nor natural death." Bound in black cloth with a spine with black text on red panel. Frontipiece house plan. 322 pp.

New York: Kensington, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing "Mickey Rawlings, the oldest living ex-ballplayer", who "discovers his baseball card and is transported back to the Boston of April 1912 - when the newspapers are full of stories about the Titanic , which has just sunk, and Fenway Park is brand new. Rawlings, a utility infielder just brought up by the Red Sox, reports to Fenway and trips over the body of Red Corriden, whose head has been smashed by a baseball bat." (PW) A novel which mixes suspense, period detail and legendary baseball greats like Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Smokey Joe Wood and Tris Speaker." A small volume. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-821745182.

London: Little Brown, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eighteen short stories described as a "feast of criminally cunning surprises." SIGNED on title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-316912530.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the 'extra-large irascible British detective' Peter Diamond, who is called back to Bath when a man he was responsible for convicting escapes from prison and kidnaps the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable. The convict is demanding that his name be cleared, and Diamond has to face the possibility that he made a mistake years ago. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5517.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1937) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bound in lime green cloth, thicker format, pink endpapers with Judy on the stairs holding a flashlight, illustrated by Pelagie Doane with a glossy frontispiece, endpaper and dust jacket art. Both the list at the front of the book and on the front flap of the dust jackeet lists to this title; back cover lists to Nancy Drew #13 (1936). 216 pp.

Oakland, CA: The Women's Press Collective, 1971. First edition - Judy Grahn's uncommon first collection of poetry. illustrated with drawings by Wendy Cadden, Brenda Crider, and Gail Hodgins. The drawings are all printed on various colored paper. Unpaginated, oblong format.

London: Women's Press. (1993). SIGNED first edition - Fourth novel featuring journalist and amateur sleuth Lindsay Gordon, who returns from California to research women's roles in the trade union movement (in her note to the reader at the front of the book, McDermid describes her own activities in the National Union of Journalists.) SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-704343347.

London: Women's Press. (1991). SIGNED first edition - Third novel featuring journalist and amateur sleuth Lindsay Gordon, who has returned to Glasgow and finds herself investigating a murder in which a former colleague has been jailed for the crime. SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 0-70434274X.

By the author, (1975). First edition - A early collection of poems this writer who was named Alameda's Poet Laureate in 2002 and who was a tireless advocate for poets, artists, the homeless and those struggling to survive as well as an educator working for peace. The copyright page notes that "proceeds from this book will be used for bus fare." (One of her friends commented that she never owned a car - and that she "identified with the common man, with fellow bus riders in rich ethnic and cultural diversity.") Illustrated with drawings of partial bus tickets, transfer slips. Unpaginated (a slim volume of 24 pp).