New York: Trident Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (and best known work) by African-American poet, novelist and civil rights activist - "the story of a light-skinned upper-class young woman from San Francisco who after hearing a record by bluesman Blacksnake Brown seeks him out and becomes embroiled in an ultimately tragic relationship with him." 180 pp.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New York: Grand Street Press, 1984. SIGNED first edition - A literary journal which is "straight from the jagged edge of the imagination. Fiction, art, poetry, science, travel, photography. Expect the unexpected." This issue features "Gulp" a story by William Gass. Also includes fiction and poetry by Penelope Gilliat, Mary Jo Salter, Allen Grossman, Kenneth Koch and many more. INSCRIBED by Gass at his story to noted collector Larry Owens.. Notes on contributors, ads. Square format. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-39330826X.

New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Nathan Heller, ex-cop turned private investigator set in 1946 as rival factions are fighting for control on gambling nationwide and Bugsy Siegel begins the transformation of Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312014848.

New York: Scholastic, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated adaptation of the spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," saluting the lives of all young people. SIGNED by Lopez on the title page. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1338177367.

New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. 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.) Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which traces the history of the United States as a military power from the end of World War II to today by a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. It "is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between Americas foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Photographs, notes, index. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1978800915.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which traces the history of the United States as a military power from the end of World War II to today by a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. It "is essential reading for anyone who wonders how America ended up where it is today: with a deeply divided and disillusioned populace, led by a dysfunctional government, and mired in unwinnable wars. It also finds startling parallels between Americas foreign military exploits and the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements." SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, notes, index. 313 pp. ISBN: 978-1978800915.

New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., (1927). Hardcover - A novel originally published in serial form in Black Mask Magazine in 1927, this is considered to be the first hard-boiled detective novel, preceding Chandler and Hammett. Introduced private detective Race Williams. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-060974354.

London: Anthony Blond, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - First English language edition of Genet's classic novel, originally published in French in 1947. Set in the port town of Brest, where "the idea of murder frequently evokes the idea of the sea and seafarers." Georges Querelle, a young sailor at large in Brest, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and even kills his lovers. Basis for the 1982 film "Querelle" directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Translated by Gregory Streatham and published as part of a uniform edition of Genet's works. 320 pp.

New York: Modern Library, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of eleven classic espionage stories by Eric Ambler, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky, Graham Greene, John Le Carre, W. Somerset Maugham, Charles McCarry, Baroness Orczy, John Steinbeck and Rebecca West. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Furst. INSCRIBED by Furst on the title page. xi, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-67964251X.

New York: Dutton, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early techno-thriller - "A novel about an electronic brain that decides to take over the world" and the first step is to have the men under its control kill the mathematician Steve Rand, who has spent his entire working life devoted to project 79. 316 pp.

Northwestern University Press, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the foreword to the 1956 First Census by Richard Ellman, a significantly expanded synopsis and a chart of "Who is Who". Thornton Wilder called this "indispensable" for all students of James Joyce's complex novel. lxvi, 285 pp.

New York: Gomme & Marshall, 1915. Hardcover first edition - In addition to including works by many poets: Sara Teasdale, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Edgar Lee Masters, Conrad Aiken, Joyce and Aline Kilmer, Ezra Pound, John Reed and Amy Lowell, to name only a few - this book is also a yearbook of poetry for Oct 1916 to Nov 1917 and it includes information on poetry books published that year, the contributors, and on magazines which publish poetry. Introduction by Braithwaite, an African American poet himself, and the foremost American poetry anthologist of his time. Biographical notes on contributors, index of first lines. xxvii, 412 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). First edition - A novel based on the life of her grandfather who worked as a night watchman and who, in 1953, carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.

Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories, one which won the Shamus award and three which were nominated for the Edgar Award. One of 225 copies SIGNED and NUMBERED by the author on a special limitation page. Includes a new introduction by DuBois and a complete checklist of his works. Laid in is a seperately printed 9 page pamphlet, "By the Light of the Loon" by DuBois. 208 pp. plus colophon and 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-88594182X.

New York: Random House, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book), set in Hawaii, "about an unconventional family forced to come together and re-create its own legacy. Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary ancestors were financially and culturally progressiveone even married a Hawaiian princess, making Matt a royal descendant and one of the states largest landowners. Now his luck has changed." Basis for the 2011 Oscar winning film of the same name. 283 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066339.

Batavia, NY: Hodgins Printing, (1988, c 1984.). First edition - An account of five brutal murders in the tiny hamlet of Linden in Genesee County, New York, between 1917-1924 by a local author who was personally familiar with the area. Murders which were never solved. This book also provides a picture of the birth of a modern state police force, and of changing times even in rural areas. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Although this has been reprinted several times, it remains difficult to find in any printing. 160 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. First edition - An illustrated folder with promotional material to introduce a new line of fantasy and science fiction books for younger readers - the Starscape imprint. Included in the folder are 12 cards on heavy glossy stock showing the cover art for such classics as Ender's Game by Card, Jumper by Steven Gould and The Garden Behind the Moon by Howard Pyle. Publication info is given on verso of each card. Also included is a brochure, a letter from the publisher and other sheets with publication information. Uncommon, attractive and interesting both for science fiction collectors and those interested in the history of publishing.

Palo Alto, CA: The American West Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "For five months, Frank Leslie and his ''Excursion to the Pacific'' traveled by private railroad car. They stopped over in Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and San Francisco. They peeked into gambling casinos, opium dens, and mining camps; banqueted with Comstock silver kings and reported every detail of their trip to readers of the newspaper." This is the first time the story has been assembled book form, complete with the original drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In addition this trip has been coupled with an account of the same journey by an American writer 90 years later. Footnotes (at end), index. Large format, a heavy book. 207 pp.

New York: The Heritage Press, (1968). Hardcover - Handsome edition of this classic vampire novel, with an introduction by Anthony Boucher. Illustrated with wood engravings by Felix Hoffman. xi, 410 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018). SIGNED ephemera, hardcover first edition - The final novel in the Shetland Island mystery series featuring Jimmy Perez, and the basis for the television series Shetland. A young English family moved to the islands with their autistic son, but the husband falls under suspicion when their nanny is found hanged in the barn. Laid in is a brochure with a map of the Shetland Islands showing the locations of the books in the series SIGNED by Cleeves. 398 pp. ISBN: 978-1250124845.

London: The Crime Club / Harper Collins, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth mystery featuring Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy, a book in which Moyes takes on the classic country house murder. In this case, Tibbett and Emmy are at the house as guests for Crystal Balaclava's 70th birthday, and also to make sure that Crystal is safe. When she is apparently poisoned in front of everyone, and the autopsy comes back with "natural" causes, Tibbett is determined to solve the mystery of a poison that left no trace. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-002318881.

London: Gollancz, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tenth mystery in the series featuring mountain climber Melinda Pink. "Miss Pink encounters more than bears while travelling through the Rocky Mountains in winter." SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-57503503X.

DeWitt, NY: New Persephone Press in conjunction with the Japanese American Citizens League, Imperial Valley, California. (2006). SIGNED first edition - "A collection of oral histories of five articulate Japanese-American women whose young lives had been interrupted by Executive Order 9066, a presidential order on 2/29/42, which put 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wires during World War II" - for these women in Poston, Arizona. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Notes, selected works and resources. Oblong format. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-977976904.

Mission Viejo, CA: A.S.A.P. Publishing, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of 18 short stories by this award-winning writer. Limited/first edition #22 of 100 copies SIGNED on the limitation page by all of the contributors: Jan Burke, Edward D. Hoch, who wrote the introduction and by Phil Parks, the dust jacket illustrator. 330 pp. ISBN: 1-892011247.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1938) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An entirely new translation of a number of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, including many of the short amusing ones which are not as well known as they deserve to be" although this also includes some of his most loved stories - The Litle Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Princess on the Pea, The Snow Queen and more. Translated from the Danish by Paul Leyssac, with a foreword by Hugh Walpole and illustrations by Richard Bennett. Translator's note. INSCRIBED on the first blank page by Leyssac, and dated in 1939. x, 305 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

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.