New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thora Gudmundsdottir, one which combines long-buried secrets from the World War II era with murder at a coastal resort. Translated from the Icelandic By Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0061143380.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A series of interconnected narratives that follow the lives of the residents of a small house on Cape Cod over a period of 200 years. SIGNED on title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-385-507615.

Boston: Little Brown, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of three generations of a family 'haunted by love.' SIGNED twice by Hoffman - once on a bookplate on the half title page and also directly on the title page. 262 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-316-058785.

New York: Putnam, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her ninth novel. Bound in cream paper covered boards with a cream cloth spine with red lettering, red endpapers. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-399-139087.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a very highly praised collection of twelve short stories. Among those commenting are Chris Offutt, Stewart O'Nan and Lee Smith who said "There are large cracks in America, and a person can fall right down into them, and never be seen again. Many of Matthew Vollmer's characters are on the verge of doing that. Wacked-out teenagers, mountain survivalists, Adventist evangelists, compulsive gamblers, estranged mothers, Goth girls, world-class skateboarders, English department dopeheads, broken-hearted dentists, every one of them caught in the midst of an unimaginable situation." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1596923126.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, of the South from the Civil War to the present, told in the voice of a woman who lived through it all. SIGNED on the title page. 718 pp. ISBN: 0-394545370.

New York: Norton, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very highly praised first novel, by this award-winning children's author and illustrator. At 21 Ward Sullivan seemed to have it all, as a star player on the Boston Red Sox farm team - then tragedy intervened and he found himself just another ex-jock. Twelve years later, he is just beginning to learn how to come to terms with this. INSCRIBED on the title page to Larry Owens, the noted Oklahoma book collector. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-393015254.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of a death and its aftermath, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early nineties, a city 'fractured by class and race. Dustjacket praise from Russell Banks (who said "Here's that rare thing, a first novelist willing to measure his ambitions against the American Classics instead of the moment's marketplace."), Reginald McKnight and others. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-670894656.

San Diego: Atticus Press, 1984. SIGNED first edition - Poems spanning the years from 1954 to 1984. A 4 pp foldout broadside poem, signed in the plate, is bound-in at the center of the book. SIGNED by Norse on title page. 28 pp. ISBN: 0-912377-070.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book,a collection of twelve short stories, selected by Tobias Wolff as winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. O'Nan was named one of America's best young novelists by Granta Magazine. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-822937689.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. "THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde." SIGNED on the title page. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218993.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Highly praised debut novel. Although this can be simply described as a story of elevator inspectors, it has caused Whitehead to be compared to writers from Ralph Ellison to P. K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, and the last in the series of limited edition poetry pamphlets published by this press. Issued in a limited edition of only 300 copies. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to poet Barbara Guest, one of the dedicatees - "Having stumbled on the secret platform, the cartographer serenely gazed into the blue . . . with my love, Walter. The poem dedicated to Guest is titled 'Don't Speak to Me about Cartographers.'

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED first edition - As told by Paul Chowder, a failed poet, who is writing an introduction to a poetry anthology, this is both a funny story about life and a love story about poetry - from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns - Roethke, Bogan, Merwin. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. First edition - A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. Publisher's material laid in. 192 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material stapled inside front cover. 213 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Smiley's sixth work of fiction, Two novellas about the difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families - in the first a woman looks back on the choices that resulted in the loss of her children. In the 'Good Will" a man creates an idyllic life on a small farm in Pennsylvania but is unaware of the effect this isolation will have on his family. SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-394-577728.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. SIGNED first edition - A rather uncommon advance issue of this early work by Smiley. SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring skilled assassin Will Robie. SIGNED on the title page. 418 pp. ISBN: 978-1455521203.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller involving a kidnapping at a child's birthday party at Camp David, featuring former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwel. SIGNED on the title page. 449 pp. ISBN: 978-0446539753.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first collection of shorter fiction - the novels are set in suburban Connecticut, in Australia's Torres Strait, and in Vietnam, during the war. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450386.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in 18th century Brooklyn, this is the story of "a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span." SIGNED on the illustrated title page and dated 4/30/06, in the year of publication. 478 pp. ISBN: 0-374116903.

New York: HarperPrism / Harper Collins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in a "modern gothic world" - it begins at a strange university in Washington, D. C. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the 1996 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, finalist for the Locus and World Fantasy awards. Frontispiece drawing. 390 pp. ISBN: 0-061052140.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218955.

New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. The earlier of two advance issues, quite uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. Publisher's letter laid in. 677 pp.

New York: Dennis McMillan Publications. 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, the story of a Vietnam-vet cop who still carries the scars of war. Set in the North Precinct of Portland, the meanest streets in the city. Anderson himself worked as a patrol officer in Oakland and Portland after his return from Vietnam. SIGNED and dated by Anderson on the title page; and also SIGNED by the publisher Dennis McMillan, and the illustrator/jacket designer Michael Kellner on the copyright page; and finally SIGNED by James Crumley (as "Jim Crumley") at the end of his foreword, in which he calls this "the best cop novel I have ever read." One of only 1900 copies. Uncommon with all 4 signatures. xi, 522 pp. ISBN: 0-55310764X.

New York: Morrow, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A John Denson mystery, set in the area of Oregon's North Umpqua River. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page to Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "one step this way, one step that way." Laid in is a Christmas card in the original envelope with a hand-written note from Hoyt. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-688-016367.

New York: Random House, (1995). SIGNED first edition - When a lumber baron tries to clear-cut the part of the Algonquin Forest he considers his own, and in the remote Maine town of Abenaki Juntion, only Madeleine Cody, the owner of a small newspaper, The Forest Sentinel, tries to stand up to him. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Tobias Wolff (who calls Watkins "one of the most gifted writers of his generation") among others. 284 pp.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. INSCRIBED on the first page to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-671-624474.

London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a dark epic fantasy set in 2017. SIGNED on the title page. 499 pp. ISBN: 1-405052082.

New York: Richard Marek, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly acclaimed novel of the Great Depression, set in a small Kentucky mining town in the 1930s. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Books signed by Yount are quite uncommon. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-399-900616.

New York: Harmony, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of five stories which form Amis's protest against nuclear weapons, first by depicting a world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and then with postapocalyptic stories of nuclear war survivors deformed by its results. SIGNED on the title page. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-51756520X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.

London: Century Hutchinson, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first printing of Watkin's second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-091739144.

New York: Random House, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1921, this is the story of Ben Sheridan, son of an Irish immigrant who, in an attempt to understand himself and his origins travels back to Ireland and discovers himself in the midst of the bloody struggle between the newly formed Irish Republican Army and the British soldiers, called the Black and Tans. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419748.

New York: Random House, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised young author's first collection of short stories (her second book). INSCRIBED on the title page to noted book collector Larry Owens and Monica. Laid in are two brief handwritten notes, one in an envelope. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-394576632.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which "chronicles the fall and rise of Frank Copenhaver, a man so unhinged by his wife's departure that he finds himself ruining his business, falling in love with the wrong women, and wandering the lawns of his neighborhood, desperate for the merest glimpse of normalcy. . . a ruefully funny novel of embattled manhood, set in . . a Montana where cowboys slug it out with speculators, a cattleman's best friend may be his insurance broker, and love and fishing are the only consolations that last." SIGNED and dated in 1992, in the year of publication, on the half title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-395545404.

London: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, a psychological thriller, set in Glasgow. The story of a husband who cannot believe his wife, a forensic pyschologist, is guilty herself of killing a serial killer who had been released on appeal. SIGNED on the title page. Published as "Deception" in the US. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-593046579.

London: Bantam, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 6th novel by this exceptionally good writer, one who writes complex and satifsfying mysteries, with very real characters - set in Glasgow, this is the second novel featuring Paddy Meehan, a young Irish girl now working as a reporter. I cannot describe Mina's appeal as a writer better than Michael Connelly did when her said "[Her] work is really quite wonderful. She has an original voice, rough-and-tumble one moment, heart-touching the next. She paints a big picture with the subtleties of true life. It took only one book for me to become a fan." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-316-735949.

London: Century, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Gripping mystery set in China which begins with the discovery of an American archaeologist's body in the Yangzi river. Focusing on Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her American attorney husband David Stark, this is a picture of China at a time of change and uncertainty. SIGNED on the title page. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-712670262.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic - and then he develops a tumor on his face, that first distorts his vision and then continues to worsen. SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. Backgammon board illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0385539906.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first detective novel since "Motherless Brooklyn", a novel about "weird, off-the-grid America. Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble caught in the middle of a violent standoff." SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp. ISBN: 978-0062859068.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, based on the life of the Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) and on the women - sister, lovers, wife - who influenced him. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the Pen Faulkner award. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-671-695479.

New York: Warner, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in New Mexico, featuring Sonny Baca, by this award-winning Chicano writer. Map of Onate's route in 1598. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-446-523747.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised second novel, described as a "wonderfully written, vividly described, hilariously tragic and almost elegiac memorial to a childhood dominated by an unreliable father." SIGNED on the title page by the author, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-224-030051.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: 'the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of KingsleyÕs life, including the final crisis of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared without trace in 1973. and was exhumed nearly 20 years later from the back garden of Frederick West, BritainÕs most prolific serial killer.' Also includes descriptions and comments on many of his fellow writers - Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Philip Larkin, Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jane Howard and others. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, appendix, index. 403 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66527.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Slightly oversized.

New York: Pantheon, 1990. SIGNED first edition - First novel (3rd book) by this Filipina poet and playwright - set in Manila in the late 50's where Hollywood dreams collide with the violence of living under a dictatorship. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the National Book Award and selected as the best book of the year by the Before Columbus Foundation. 212 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2018) dj. SIGNED first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. Publisher's letter laid in. 365 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-0399576744.

New York: Pantheon, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which uses the author's background in philosophy to create the story of Cass Selzer, an author who finds his book a surprise best seller and who is dubbed "the atheist with a soul", as it addresses one of the major debates of our day - the clash between faith and reason. Includes a stand-alone appendix with the thirty-six arguments (and responses) that propelled Seltzer to stardom. SIGNED BY author on title page. 399 pp. ISBN: 978-0307378187.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Author's Presentation Copy" of this novel featuring black PI Derek Strange and white ex-cop, Terry Quinn (who also works part-time in a used book store.) Vivid picture of the underside of Washington D.C. where drugs and drug dealing are rampant. This copy does not have a limitation page - it is SIGNED by Pelecanos directly on the title page. Dust jacket by Michael Keltner. Bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper covered boardse, gilt lettering. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-316-695068.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Arthur's fourth, and most powerful, novel - the story of an expedition to Antarctica led by a young American woman inspired by Scott's tragic journey 80 years before. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 798 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679418954.

New York: Doubleday, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page (personally, not by her remote device.) A collection of interrelated stories that trace a life through the decades. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-385-503849.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. SIGNED first edition - Series of connected poems which together form a narrative about the experiences of an Englishwoman who emigrated to Canada in 1832, where she settled in the bush on a farm with her husband. The cover is a design by Atwood, (as are the collages in the book) but spoiled, according to her, by the publisher adding red to it, without her knowlege or consent. SIGNED on the title page. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5401697.

New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. . . . This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010 . . . [It] includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift." Among other things, she talks about the differences between speculative fiction and science fiction. SIGNED on the title page. Appendices. 252 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0385533966.

New York & Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel which begins in 1948 in a slave labor camp above the Arctic Circle in Stalin's Soviet Union. The Sunday Times called this 'a slender. moving novel, streaked with dark comedy. . . Amis's best novel since London Fields.' SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1400044559.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1976. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book,a collection of thirteen short stories, the winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction (selected by Donald Barthelme; T. C. Boyle received honorable mention.) SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-877450684.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, retired millionaire. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-316-154857.

Boston: Little Brown, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Third novel featuring Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, retired millionaire. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the vicious London of the tabloid journals. SIGNED on the title page. Short listed for the Booker Prize. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-224050613.

London: Orion, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring private investigator Elvis Cole, his partner Joe Pike and LAPD detective Carol Starkey. SIGNED on the title page and dated 14 April 05, in the year of publication. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-7528520004.

New York: Putnam, (2018). SIGNED first edition - After the death of Robert B. Parker in 2010, Southern crime fiction writer Ace Atkins was selected to continue the Spenser series. Reviewer Paul Saltzman commented that Atkins "has stayed true to [Parker's] voice and his literate, dialogue-driven vision while keeping his characters compelling and allowing them to grow." Spenser finds himself investigating the art theft from the Gardiner Museum which occurred more than 20 years ago. SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After the death of Robert B. Parker in 2010, Southern crime fiction writer Ace Atkins was selected to continue the Spenser series. Reviewer Paul Saltzman commented that Atkins "has stayed true to [Parker's] voice and his literate, dialogue-driven vision while keeping his characters compelling and allowing them to grow." Spenser finds himself investigating the art theft from the Gardiner Museum which occurred more than 20 years ago. SIGNED on the title page and dated 5-2-17, in the year of publication. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0399177019.

New York: Putnam, (2019). SIGNED first edition - After the death of Robert B. Parker in 2010, Southern crime fiction writer Ace Atkins was selected to continue the Spenser series. Reviewer Paul Saltzman commented that Atkins "has stayed true to [Parker's] voice and his literate, dialogue-driven vision while keeping his characters compelling and allowing them to grow." In this novel, a young girl had left her Boston home to make it big in Hollywood; two years later she disappeared from her apartment and Spenser is hired to find her, with the help of his former apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, now a Los Angeles PI. SIGNED on the title page and dated 11-24-19, in the year of publication. Double page map of Boston. 304 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of an obsessed singer who takes a modest 'Elvis impersonation' act from Portland Maine to the big-time in Las Vegas. INSCRIBED to Oklahoma collector Larry Owens on title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242643.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems that together form a powerful book length sequence on love, time, death, and hope - the eternal human paradox. This book was a finalist for the National Book Award. During her career Gluck has received many awards - National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize - and in 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 51 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-6348.

New York: Random House, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel (preceded by the award-winning 'Cold Mountain') It tells of "one mans remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Wills character." One of 1600 numbered and SIGNED copies. ISBN: 1400066395.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). SIGNED first edition - The author's controversial first novel, the story of a woman forced to look back at her relationship with an English teacher when she was fifteen, after another student has accused him of sexual abuse, In her review in the NY Times, Kate Roiphe said "It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichŽs, but Russell manages a brutal originality. In an era of neat furious accounts of victimhood, this novel stands out for elusiveness, its exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp.

New York: Horizon Press, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel, one which vividly evokes the vastness of Alaska and the long winter nights. SIGNED on title page. Review copy with slip laid in. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-8180-06366.

New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wickwire is a mountaineer with many accomplishments, including being one of the first 2 Americans to climb K2 in the Himalayas, but he also come close to death, and has watched friends die on climbing. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. 321 pages. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-671-019902.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006. Hardcover first edition - An informative and striking pop-up book by two modern masters of the art. Includes more than 35 pop-ups of pre-historic sea-going animals - sharks, whales and more - including some, like the horseshoe crab, which still survive today. Has 6 large double page spreads and smaller booklets on the corners and edges of every page. In the original plastic bag, with the printed cover sheet. ISBN: 0-76362229.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Booklet designed to promote a striking pop-up book by two modern masters of the art. SIGNED by both Robert Sabuda (with "best wishes") and Matthew Reinhart (with :Look out for the overbite) on the double page spread of the "new kings" - the meat-eaters. Includes one large popup and 4 booklets in each corner with 6 more pop-ups. Uncommon, especially signed

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An informative and striking pop-up book by two modern masters of the art. SIGNED by both Robert Sabuda (with "best wishes") and Matthew Reinhart (with :Look out for that big T-Rex!") on the first double page spread. More than 35 pop-ups with 6 large double page spreads and smaller booklets on the corners and edges of every page, with information on over 50 different species of dinosaurs. Separate cover sheet is included. ISBN: 0-763622281.

San Francisco: Night Shade Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A dystopian novel set in a future Thailand, still managing to hold back the rising seas. The author's first novel, this was the winner of the Nebula, co-winner of the Hugo award, as well as winning The John W. Campbell Award and the 2010 Locus Award for Best First Novel. SIGNED opposite the title page. This edition includes two short stories - 'The Calorie Man' and 'Yellow Card Man' - plus a conversation with the author. 466 pp. ISBN: 978-1597808217.

New York: Congdon & Lattes, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as a "psychosexual thriller," this is the story of two sisters, one of whom is murdered, set in Bar Harbor, Maine. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-312-926642.

Edinburgh: Polygon, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a series inspired by Armistad Maupin's 'Tales of the City-' Like those books, these stories about the residents of 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home town of Edinburgh were originally published as a daily novel in 'The Scotsman' newspaper in the first half of 2004. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Iain McIntosh. Preface by the author. x, 325 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-1904598169.

New York: Avon, (1958). First edition - From the back cover: "I found Ralph's body in the chemistry laboratory. The policy called it suicide. But I knew better. It was murder - cold-blooded, calculated murder! The trouble was, though, that if I told the police what I knew it would make me SUSPECT NUMBER ONE. . . the mystery-writing debut of one of the great science fiction writers of all-time." Avon Book # T-287, cover price 35c, good girl cover art. 189 pp.

Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walbert's very highly praised debut collection, containing fourteen interlocked short stories, set in the years ranging from 1954 to 1992. "The first half of the book chronicles the life of Marion Clark, a 'company wife' who repeatedly packs the household and accompanies her husband around the globe with a 'melancholy view before her of what seemed like endless houses with endless garages and endless kitchen windows.' In the stories that follow, her adult daughter, Rebecca, dutifully attempts to fulfill her mother's thwarted aspirations, 'but isn't sure where to go'." SIGNED on the title page. 197 pp. ISBN: 1-889330159.

New York: St Martin's, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, the story of her family. Photographs, sources. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-312-119976.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book in hardcover and the first to be published in the US. Introduces Mongo, a professor of criminology, a black-belt karate expert - and a dwarf. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-671-229667.

London: Little Brown, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second Jacobean thriller featuring gentleman spy Henry Gresham, set in 1612 and Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316860026.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this important African American writer and poet - not just for his own works, but also as an editor, as one of the founders of the literary magazine "Yardbird" and as a teacher. Poet laureate of California. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0122716.

New York: Warner, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1979-1981, this is the story of one of the darkest periods in modern Atlanta history - two years when at least 22 African American children were murdered. An evocative and moving first novel, which tells of the effects of these tragedies through the voices of three young children. SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Lee Smith, Pearl Cleage, Paule Marshall and others. Winner of the 2003 Hurston/Wright award for debut fiction. 255 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-446-528307.

London: Millenium, (1999.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new trilogy, set in contemporary times, and chronicling the history of a family of highly evolved and intelligent Mammoths on an isolated Siberian Island, and threats that face them: global warming, dwindling gene pool, and most deadly of all - Man. Both an adventure story and a fable for our time. SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-752814109.

New York: Scribner's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first mystery, winner of the Ellis award for best first novel and finalist for the Dilys award. Set in Montreal and featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, this is a gripping story of a serial murderer with a very realistic background. The author is herself a forensic anthropologist for both the state of North Carolina and the province of Quebec. SIGNED on the page preceding the title page. The popular television series 'Bones' is loosely based on these books. Recommended. 411 pp. ISBN: 0-684-841177.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel ranging from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century to New York City in the 1920's - when skyscrapers began to dominate the skyline of modern cities. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 435 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196343.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Was God truly dead as the nihilists and The New York Times believes?" Abaddon is another name for Hell, and god-hunting is not a sport for amateurs. Sequel to Morrow's award winning "Towing Jehovah." NIcely INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens, Laid in is a promotional postcard with a handwritten note from Morrow SIGNED "Jim." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1886563.