New York: Putnam, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of a love that could not die, and of a man who learned the pleasures - and the terrors - of a life after death. Bibliography. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-399-12148x.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. dj. Hardcover - An attractive vintage hardcover edition of this classic suspense novel set at the Cornwall estate of Manderley. Basis for the award-winning Hitchcock film of the same name. This copy is just one year after the first US, but, in an unusual promotional move which highlights the popularity of this title, the front flap of the dust jacket notes that this is Copy No, 341376. 457pp.

Berkeley, CA: Tonatiuh International, (1975). First edition - A collection of shorter pieces by this pioneering award-winning Chicana writer and actress. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-892290013.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first suspense novel written under his own name by this journalist and author of many non-fiction books, as well as a member of an alpine search-and-rescue team and an experienced cave diver. Set in Annapolis, Maryland, this is the story of a young girl who is abducted by a fanatical grieving father - while the police detective Howard Warner must piece together the clues that link three girls, Sarah has to fight for her survival. Can she fool this deranged man who wants to love her like a father, but who could kill her at any time? INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-531097056.

London: Peter Davies, (1974). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a psychological suspense story set in London - A disillusioned American journalist in London ignores a story brought him by a man later found murdered, and he starts a private vendetta against the man behind the murder. Dobyns is a prize winning poet, the author of the highly praised Saratoga detective series featuring Charlie Bradshaw as well as many stand-alone novels, both suspense and mainstream novels. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-432028102.

Springville, Utah: Christophers Publications, (1980). SIGNED first edition - A comprehensive look at cayenne's versatile and safe healing properties, which make it the most useful first aid herb available. Discussed are its history over thousands of years, botanical information, its cultivation (in modern times mostly in Ceylon and Africa but with instructions for growing it yourself) and a variety of modern medicinal uses. Included is a brief excerpt from Samuel Thompson's 'Botanic Family Physician' published in 1835. Illustrated. SIGNED on the first page and dated in 1981. Dr Christopher was a pioneering US herbalist and naturopath, who, among other things, founded The School of Natural Healing in Utah. Selected bibliography, index. 167 pp.

New York: Warner, (2003). SIGNED first edition - An anthology which collects 19 original stories of "magic and gods and mortals, set in locales that range from a pre-Civil War plantation to modern Oakland, from 19th England to underground New York City. The word mojo originated in West Africa and referred to a small cloth bag containing protective magic." This copy is SIGNED by FOUR authors: Hopkinson on the title page and by Tananarive Due, Barbara Hambly, and Steven Barnes at their stories. Other contributors include Neil Gaiman, Nisi Shawl, devorah major, Nnedima Okorafor and more. Introduction by Luisah Teish. Notes on contributors. x, 341 pp.

New York: American Book Company, 1885. Hardcover - Illustrated with 2 fine chromolithograph plates (pp 24 and 26), numerous color maps and many woodcut and engraved text illustrations. Large format. 141 pp plus an 8 page California/Nevada supplement (copyright 1891).

Santa Cruz, CA: Alcatraz Editions, 1989. SIGNED first edition - A rather hard to find book by this Chicano poet, who was both California's poet laureate, and the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 (the nation's first Chicana or Chicano poet laureate.) A bi-language collection: the poems, written in Spanish, were translated into English by a team of four translators, along with the author. The text in Spanish is on the left hand side, the English translations by Stephen Kessler and Sesshu Foster with Dolores Bravo and Magaly Fernandez are on the right. INSCRIBED by Herrera on the half title page and a 2nd inscription passing the book on. Slightly oversized format. 165 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. Biographies ranging from Joe Louis and Satchel page thru Wilt Chamberlain and Althea Gibson. Written for young adults. Index. 155 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1949). Hardcover first edition - Originally published in the US in 1938, this is the revised and corrected edition. Bilingual edition with French on the version and the English text on the recto. Bibliography of the works of St-John Perse - who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry" - and three prefaces from other editions of this poem by Valery Larbaud, Hugo Von Hoffmansthal and Giuseppe Ungaretti. Slightly oversized. 109 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer who was born in Lima, Peru but grew up in Alabama and writes in English. These nine stories "take the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments.. . a devastating portrait ofa world in flux." SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-060594780.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A collection of eleven short stories issued as a trade paperback original in the US. From the Booklist review: "Although some of the stories concern individuals caught in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - the ultimate circumstance beyond one's control - the majority are set in the past, usually rural Louisiana or Mississippi in the late 1940s. Whether the lead characters are abused children or prostitutes trying to escape the life, Burke always makes us see both the near certainty of tragedy to come and the smoldering embers of possibility in the ashes of blighted lives." SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1416548560.

Baltimore: Imaginator Press, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Young-adult fantasy novel, the fifth book in the award winning Named or Clan Ground series, set 25 million years ago when Earth was undergoing profound change. These books center on a band of intelligent wild cats - the Named - who have learned to herd animals and live by laws, and on their determined female leader Ratha. The author has succeeded in both having the cats speak with almost human voices, and still retain the characteristics of their nature. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author with a small drawing of a cat and dated in the year of publication. 368 pp. Cover art by Christian Alzemann. ISBN: 978-0974560366.

New York & London: Allison & Busby, (1986). SIGNED hardcover - A reprint of Lamming's allegorical novel which tells the story of a journey of a slave ship toward San Christobal during the early colonial period. Originally published in 1972, this is one of the most important novels by this award-winning author, who born and educated in Barbados. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-850316952.

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. ISBN: 0-316639710.

New York: Walker, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second mystery novel, and the firdt in the series featuring racetrack announcer and amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan, set in the world of horse racing in Southern California. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-802755755.

Seattle: Madrona Publishers, (1978). First edition - Extracts from the Second International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, held October 27-30, 1977 near Port Townsend, Washington. Contributors include R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Andrew Weil, Richard Evans Schultes as well as Bigwood and Ott. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs and botanical drawings. Bibliographies after each selection as well as suggested general reading, index. 175 pp plus notes on contributors. ISBN: 0-914842293.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book and the first in the series featuring Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saint turned blues historian at Tulane University. A novel which intertwines two mysteries - the murder of celebrated bluesman Robert Greenwod in 1938 and the disappearance of a Tulane professor who is following rumors of unknown Johnson recordings. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192541.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1932). Hardcover first edition - Glossy frontispiece by Nat Falk. The last title on the series listed on the verso of the title page and at end of book. Both lists also list to Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom (1931) 216 pp., plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Bound in the rather uncommon first issue binding in tan boards with the "quadrant" illustrations in red and black on the front cover.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1959) dj. Hardcover - A very early printing of this title - 1960A-2 per Carpentieri. Tan boards with dark brown lettering, brown endpapers with multiple small drawings,, dustjacket with wraparound illustration on spine. Frontispiece. Both the book and the rear flap of the dj list to #39 in the series. Dedicated "to the boys and girls of Alaska which became our 49th state during the writing" of this. 183 pp,

Vashon, WA: Natural Products Co., 1985. First edition - The subtitle goes on to state "Replete with divers historical and scientific discursions of both an entertaining and informative nature." This rather hard to find book by Ott is described as the first to treat chocolate first and foremost as a drug. In it, Ott pokes fun at 'organophiles,' the medical establishment, drug laws and himself. Illustrated with many photographs. References, index. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-961423412.

Lovedale, South Africa: Published in the Book Department, 1888. Hardcover - Uncommon second edition of this early work on South African indigenous medicine, which was first published in 1885. The preface notes that although there is still work to be done, the first edition has been sold out, and so a new edition was appropriate, Among the Native contributors who are acknowledged in the preface is W. W. Gqoba and the students of Lovedale. Includes indices of the botanical, Kaffir, English and Dutch names of the plants. viii, 163 pp. plus errata.

New York: Harper & Row, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Scarce first edition of Silverstein's first book of poetry for children, a book which demonstrates his understanding of their wishes, fears and even their love of silliness - a title which is still popular today almost 50 years later. Illustrated with his humoroua line drawings on almost every page. First edition stated on the copyright page. 166 pp plus index. ISBN: 0-06-0256672.

New York: Random House, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven new stories by this award-winning writer which "capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their lives. They roam out into the world to England, Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, or ricochet back home to Kentucky." SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-679449248.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. dj. SIGNED first edition - A substantial collection by this award-winning Northern California poet, who had close ties to the Beats. Includes three of her previous books of poetry - The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs, Instead of an Animal, and This eating and walking at the same time - as well as two sections of new poems. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-86547-0669.

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Desert Classic by the founder and former publisher of Desert Magazine. The titles of the chapters just give a hint to the information included in this book - from an old iron boat on the Colorado to gold seekers with burros, Scotty and his castle in Death Valley, the saga of a nomad artist - Edward Ruess - who left Escalante in 1934, and much more. Illustrated with photographs, maps by Norton Allen and drawings by Don Louis Perceval. Index. 357 pp.

London: Orion, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an edgy and dark psychological thriller. "To the casual eye, teenagers Jane and Beverley are opposites. Wealthy, beautiful and clever, Beverley seems to have everything while disturbed and lonely Jane has just seen her mother die in appalling circumstances. . . But Beverleys life isnt so perfect after all. When something terrible happens to her on holiday, she comes home to find theres nobody left to turn to except Jane herself. Gradually she begins to realise there is something different, something dark about Jane. Little does she know just how different, just how dark ..." SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-752837842.

London: Picador, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Lucy Fly, an English woman working as a translator in Tokyo. When the story opens she has been arrested for the murder of another English woman, Lily Bridges, whose partial remains have just been found. Otto Penzler called this "little gem of a book is a startlingly good debut - it grips you while you read and stays with you long after you've finished." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Crime Writer's Association John Creasey Memorial Award for the best first crime novel of 2001. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-330485016.

New York: Random House, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A journey across the country by Shannon Lanier, a descendent of Jefferson, and photographer Jane Feldmen, to meet the rest of his family, the descendants - both black and white - of Thomas Jefferson -and in some cases, of Sally Hemings. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author, Shannon Lanier, and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated throughout with photographs in both color and black and white. Introduction by Lucian K. Truscott IV. Index. Large square format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-375-805974.

London: Orion, (1996). SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition - True first edition (preceding the US edition) of this horror novel by an award-winning writer - "two gay necrophiliac lovers - both serial killers- who meet in New Orleans (where Brite lives) for a feast of corpse-eating and coupling with the rotting dead. SIGNED by the author on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the half title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-752802062.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, fifth book, set against the backdrop of World War II, the story of a young man who flees Nazi Germany and makes a life for himself in the United States. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-456791.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2004). First edition - A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning writer - "each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate." Publisher's letter laid in. 328 pp.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.

New York: Crown, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short essays by this award-winning writer, essays which take on the "taboos and sacred cows" that are rarely written about. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and his wife and dated in the year of publication. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-517706261.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). SIGNED hardcover first edition - the author's first novel - a "portrait of one young man's day at the office - actually, his lunch hour and, more exactly, his escalator ride back to his office on the mezzanine level, after purchasing shoelaces/." Complete with extensive footnotes, SIGNED on the title page. 135 pp. ISBN: 1-555842585.

London: Collins / The Crime Club, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Lovejoy of Lovejoy Antiques, antique lover, woman lover and sometimes sleuth. The moonspenders are those who illegally seek buried antiquities at night using metal detectors and other modern devices. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-002320851.

New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book 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. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140859.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of Atwood's second collection of short stories. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-08082.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Deighton's third spy novel featuring his unnamed secret agent. The second of these novels to be made into one of the Harry Palmer films featuring Michael Caine. Nominated for the Edgar award. 312 pp. Dust jacket by Raymond Hawkey.

London: Macmillan, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery, SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-333593820.

New York: Norton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of stories by this National Book Award winning writer, ranging across two centuries and from the Western Himalayas to a village in the Adirondacks, and each in different ways dealing with discovery and exploration. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Notable Selection. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-393-043487.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction, much of it (including the title novella) set in the nineteenth century. Winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03853X.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction, much of it (including the title novella) set in the nineteenth century. Winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Interestingly, this has a seal on the front cover noting that it was a finalist, but it went on to actually win the award! 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03853X.

New York: Walker, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in his award winning series featuring Southern California P.I. Will Hardesty. In 1990 a flash flood unearths the skeletons of seven murdered children. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-425-169030.

New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

New York: Random House, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning writer set in 1950s Wisconsin. "Ned Weaver, an internationally acclaimed painter, is famous in Door County, Wisconsin, for his luminous work - and for his affairs with his models. His wife, Harriet, has learned to accept these dalliances in the belief that his immense talent will ultimately make up for his shortcomings as a husband. Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she married Henry House, only to find herself defined, like so many other mid-twentieth-century women, by her roles as wife and mother." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with promotional material laid in, 241 pp. ISBN: 0-37580523x.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2001). SIGNED first edition - A very different book by this award winning writer who is best known for his novels set in the American West. This follows the relationship over almost 40 years between Paul - who first met Laura when he was just 12 years old - and Laura, nine years older and an aspiring poet at the time. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by the prizewinning author of "The Right Hand of Sleep", a writer named by Granta magazine in 2007 as one of America's best novelists. Inspired by the real life story of the notorious outlaw John Murrell and his protege Virgil, this novel, set on the eve of the Civil War, is about a gang of men hunted by both the Union and the Confederacy for dealing in stolen slaves. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 1-400040868.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Volume IV of the Domesday Books, a series of historical mysteries set in England during the reign of William the Conqueror - this one opens in York, 1087. SIGNED on the title page. 227 pp,. ISBN: 0-31214671x.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery set in the years immediately following the Norman conquest of England, during the reign of William the Conqueror. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-312-13472x.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2019, that is before publication. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery novel, introducing former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-684195224.

Providence, RI: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1892. Hardcover first edition - "Charles T. Dillingham, publishers - author's edition" rubber stamped over the publication information at the bottom of the title page. pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven internal plates on glossy stock, all plates present. 292 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. SIGNED on the title page and dated 1-29-2000, in the month of publication. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.

Norman, OK: St Martin's, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel - Midway through his triumphant tour of the American West, the young Oscar Wilde discovers that someone in his entourage has been savagely murdering prostitutes. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-312059973.

New York: Random House, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery in the DKA File series. Gores has commented about this book that 'this first of the file novels is also the most procedural. Except the murder, the whole book relates real events just as they occurred - even to the time deadline.' 184 pp. ISBN: 0-394481577.

New York: Warner, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second hard-hitting mystery novel by this former NYC police lieutenant. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-446517747.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A crime thriller - or maybe this is more accurately described as a humorous caper novel - set in Branson, Missouri, the new home of country music. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-892965320.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A retelling of Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' "On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Franciscos Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom . . . " SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0374166410.

New York: Delacorte, (1971) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in southern California in the years before World War II, as tensions are growing and this, the story of the relationship of a 15 year-old boy with an older married woman is an antidote to the harsh reality looming over them. SIGNED on the half title page and uncommon thus. 362 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small town in Pennsylvania in the mid-1950s, which follows an attorney for 48 hours - including his reminiscences of years past. An immediate bestseller, it was also the subject of some controversial and negative reviews - but despite that, in 1960, it received the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years. Basis for the film co-starring Lana Turner, First editions in collectible condition are surprisingly uncommon for a book which reportedly sold over 5000,000 copies. 370 pp.

New York: Meredith Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel written by Mertz using this pseudonym (she is best known for the Amelia Peabody series written under the name of Elizabeth Peters). A gothic tale set in 1960s Georgetown, where Ruth Bennett has inherited an old family house and is hoping to recover from the death of her husband there. However, her peace is broken when her niece Sara arrives and she finds herself confronted by a spirit that inhabits her niece's body. 252 pp.

London: Macmillan, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the first novel featuring Moscow Police Inspector Profiry Rostnikov, (published in the US as a paperback original under the title "Death of a Dissident.")
A dissident - the subject of a show trial in progress - is murdered with a sickle. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-333318463.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - and second collection of short stories. Collects twelve stories which probe our deepest fears as her characters struggle to grow up, to manage friendships and to grow old. nclude the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award winning story "Naomi Counting Time." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-531097609.

n.p. By the author, (1973). SIGNED first edition - The history of the gold mining community of Picacho in Yuma County, Arizona - one which boasted of a population of some 2,500 in 1904 and which was the site of a famous shootout in 1902. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Cover by Buachom Odens. 44 pp. ISBN: 0-960948449.

London: Heinemann, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a classic of cold-war espionage, and a successor to the award-winning 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' - which Graham Greene called "the best spy novel he had ever read." 245 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, and his young wife, Mary Russell. A wonderful series, thoroughly enjoyable. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, 354 pp. ISBN: 9780553805543.

Boston: Little Brown, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel set In the small college town of Hillston, North Carolina, and featuring Lt. Justin Savile and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Hours before his scheduled execution, a young Black man on death row gets a brief stay - the following day, his brother a controversial activist is found murdered. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. In addition to being gripping and literate mysteries, Malone's crime novels are also a picture of the changing politics and culture in the South. 537 pp. ISBN: 0-316544809.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, nominated for the Edgar, and set in a decaying Brooklyn neighborhood. Features NYPD detective Jack Leightner, who grew up in the area, and his estranged son, Ben, "a young documentary filmmaker fascinated by its history. The Hook has been home to dockworkers and drug dealers, Al Capone and Joey Gallo, a giant public housing project, and one of the nation's greatest ports. Ben wants to find out why the once-thriving waterfront community has become a beautiful ruin - and why it has damaged his own family." SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-312274580.

New York: The Viking Press, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Originally published in a different form as three separate books in 1986, 1990 and 1992, this large collection of amusing riddles features an assortment of snakes, flies, spiders, centipedes, and as well as the moon and stars of outer space very colorfully and humorously illustrated by Taback. SIGNED opposite the title page by Simms Taback and dated in the year of publication. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780670011216.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books / Yolla Bolly Press. (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon clothbound edition of this beautiful book. Published posthumously, it includes a long afterword entitled 'Remembering Kenneth Patchen by his publisher, James Laughlin of New Directions. Contains 37 full-page color reproductions of Patchen's poem-paintings, including some never before published. A fitting tribute to this 'painter, poet-novelist, pacificist and visionary.' INSCRIBED on the title page by his wife Miriam Patchen, who was very involved in the production of this book, and SIGNED by James Laughlin. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87156-8438.

London: The Bodley Head, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A light-hearted and entertaining Regency romance by this very prolific and popular author - who was known as the queen of romantic historical fiction. Her first novel to be published by The Bodley Head. 317 pp. Dust jacket by Arthur Barbosa,

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. SIGNED 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. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize. Basis for the 1994 American television miniseries starring Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson (who won the Emmy award for her role) and Anne Bancroft. The earlier - and far more uncommon - of the two proofs, with the page numbers handwritten in the upper corner. 737 pp.

New York: Summit, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Piercy's eight novel. Successful Boston cookbook author Daria Walker returns from grueling book promotional tour only to be met with a demand for divorce from her husband. When she begins to investigate their finances she discovers his horrifying second life, involving murder and arson. SIGNED on the title page. . 446 pp. ISBN: 0-671494198.

New York: Regan / Harper Collins, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second thriller, featuring Victor Carl, Philadephia lawyer and loser, who comes to Belize to chase his fortune and learn the truth about the death of a heiress. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted collector Larry Owens. Laid in is a brief typed and SIGNED letter to Owens in which Lashner notes that this book was already in its 4th printing. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391472.

New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A novel about the early years of Christ based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note, 322 pp. ISBN: 0-676-977685.

New York: Villard, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel, a legal thriller set in Chicago in 1983 and the basis for the film of the same name starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 418 pp. ISBN: 0+67940211x.