New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Harlem in the 1920s, during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. "He captures the fervor of post-World War I black optimism, contrasted by rampant racial bigotry, while chronicling the lives of three sisters: Velma, Barnard graduate and aspiring writer; Miriam, indefatigable activist for back-to-Africa nationalist Marcus Garvey; and Louise, whose fair skin leads her to the Cotton Club and show business." (Publisher's Weekly) Warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 12 March 89, in the year of publication. 447 pp. ISBN: 0-671658840.

Corte Madera, California: Khedcanron Press, 1983. SIGNED first edition - The author's rather hard to find first book. She was born in Ohio, but spent her summers in North Middletown, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. This is a history of her family and her ancestors - especially the Butler and Weather clans - who lived in Kentucky. Illustrated with photographs. Fold-out family tree of the Butler family. Both SIGNED in full on the half title page and dated in the year of publication, and warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and signed "Jackie." Includes a genealogy section. 166 pp. Maps inside covers. ISBN: 0-961026405.

New York & Boston: Arcade Publishing / Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A definitive biography, based in part on previously unpublished documents, of the artist who illustrated "The Wind in the Willows," "Peter Pan," and other classic works. It traces the various phases of his personal and professional life, and illuminates his talents as a portrait and landscape painter. A beautiful book with illustrations of his work on every page - including many full-page, full color paintings. Includes a glossary of printing terms, notes, chronology of his life, a complete list of books he illustrated, bibliography, index and more. Large format. 199 pp. ISBN: 1-559700963.

New York: Henry Holt, (2019). First edition - Her fifth novel, winner of the National Book Award, among other honors. The Washington Post commented "Choi's voice blends an adolescent's awe with an adult's irony. It's a letter-perfect satire of the special strain of egotism and obsession that can fester in academic settings. . . . [she is] a master of emotional pacing: the sudden revelation, the unexpected attack. . . . How cunningly this novel considers the way teenage sexuality is experienced, manipulated, and remembered. . . . The result is a dramatic exploration of the distorting forces of memory, envy, and art." 222 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A very early (2nd) printing of the first edition of the author's third book, containing two novellas of the Glass family which originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955 and 1957. Unusually, the comments on the dust jacket flap in which Salinger talks about these stories as part of a larger series he is doing on the Glasses serve as an introduction to this book. 201 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Seattle, a look at life from the viewpoint of an old dog in his last days - a way of telling the story which works incredibly well to create a moving, sometimes humorous, sometimes wise, story. "Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0061537936.

London: Ward, Lock and Co, (1931). Hardcover first edition - Introduction by Lorna, Countess Howe. Illustrated by Ward Binks with 8 tipped in full color plates and with 64 pages of black and white plates and many diagrams by Hay Hutchinson. Among the breeds illustrated in color are the Airedale, Harlequin Great Dane, Cocker, English Setter,Pekingese, Greyhound, Bloodhound, and Wire Fox Terrier. Glossary. Index. 449 pp. A large heavy book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Ominous Adventure of a Twentieth-century Gulliver" - A novel described as "half a thriller and half a parable, which relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden catastrophe too big for ordinary life." The author was born in Romania, educated in England, and came to the US to live in 1914. 271 pp. Dustjacket by George Salter.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1976) dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition - A novel set in 14th century Scotland, focusing on the relationships between the Douglases and the Stewarts, by an author who was well-known as a writer of serious historical fiction with his later novels "almost entirely composed around the historical record. These novels [which] gained a wide readership while providing a basic grounding in Scottish history to their readers." SIGNED with the words "with good wishes" on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 415 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Biro. ISBN: 0-340201789.

San Bernardino, CA: R. Reginald / Borgo Press, 1977. First edition - An examination of 16 of MacDonald's Travis McGee novels from "The Deep Blue Good-bye" to "The Dreadful Lemon Sky." Brief biography and bibliography. The Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today Volume Five. One of the harder to find titles in this series. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-893702080.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes stories by Damon Knight, Joanna Russ, Edward Bryant, Jane Yolen and more. SIGNED by Samuel R. Delany at his story "Prismatica." 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-152256.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long poem in two sections - "Strip" and "Scat Scan" - by this contemporary master of the form. This is Ammons at his "most original and unrestrained - it leaps from shock to shock, and from radiant epiphany to yet more radiance." (Harold Bloom) 294 pp. ISBN: 0-393040968.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter lyric poems, most using nature as a motif - although one poem - the slightly longer, and angrier, "The Role of Society in the Artist" stands in contrast to those. It begins "Society sent me this invitation to go to / hell and / delighted not to be overlooked. . " and ends with society "said it liked my unconventional / verses best & I invited society to go to hell." 51 pp. ISBN: 0-393015181.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. Newbery award winner. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of new, mostly shorter poems in the lyric mode by this award winning poet. The brevity and the economy of words add to the power of the images created - the poem "Parting" begins "She was already lean / when a stroke or two slapped / her face like drawn / claw prints: akilter she / ate less and / sat too much on the edge of beds...." Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-393014479.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper - 'For Jean Barr with love and deep appreciation' and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs and designed to appeal to young people, this book contains short biographies and poetic samples of 12 African American writers, including Arna Bontemps, Francis E. W. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunbar and Hughes. A title in the Famous Biographies for Young People series. Bibliography, index. 95 pp.

New York: Orion, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very hard to find first edition of the first novel by this pioneering Hindi writer, the story of a young boy in a small village. It "has acquired the status of a classic in Hindi and, in a way, anticipates his literary journey . .. [He] had no predecessors in Hindi. He decided to depart the dominant mode of realism and explore reality in non-realistic, sometimes surrealistic ways. . . [and he] created a geography of empathy for those who have been thrown or pushed out to the margins of life, society and morality." (Ashok Vajpeyi) Translated from the Hindi by the author. 150 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unconventional biography of the expat writer Paul Bowles, based on many interviews Dillon (the biographer of Bowles' wife, Jane) had with him in Tangiers. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. Works cited. xix, 340 pp. ISBN: 0-520-211049.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A first hand account of the early days of America's civil rights struggle. Inspired by the actions of the four black college students who refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, D'Army Bailey, the freshman class president at Southern University - the largest predominantly black college in the nation - joined with his classmates in their battle against segregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Now a circuit court judge in Tennessee, this is a look at the years that changed America and shaped his life. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bailey on the half title page. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Illustrated with photographs, index. xiv, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0807134764.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which looks at the history of the Civil Rights movement and after by this National Book Critics Circle Award winning author. In it, he argues that "calls for diversity and programs of affirmative action serve only to stigmatize minorities, portraying them not as capable individuals but as people defined by their membership in a group for which exceptions must be made." vii, 181 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0578629.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning author, set in Tokyo during the hours from midnight to dawn, and focusing on two sisters haunted by secrets. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. 191 pp. ISBN: 978-0307265838.

New York: Random House, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories, the first book in 17 years by the author of "Out of Africa." 341 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the complete text of 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night' and a selection of nine of his short stories. Compiled by his friend Dorothy Parker and with an introduction by John O'Hara. At the time this was published, Fitzgerald was once again just beginning to be recognized as a major American writer. Viking Portable Library #14. xix, 835 pp. Small format.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which Didion reflects on the loss of her daughter, Quintana Roo, not long after the death of her husband, and on the memories woven into her life with Dunne and Quintana - of Quintana's childhood in Malibu and Brentwood, and of her wedding, just 7 years before this book opens. 188 pp. ISBN: 978-0307267672.

London: Orion, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, and like her earlier books, a dark psychological thriller. The Guardian described her as having an "unsettling talent for small epiphanies and the horrors of so-called normal life." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-752853600.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir buddy novel,set in East Texas, featuring the world's most dangerous odd-couple, Hap and Leonard, one straight, one gay, one white, one black. SIGNED on the half title page. 273 pp.

London: Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young master illusionist, set in the early years of the 20th century. Includes black and white illustrations of magic posters. SIGNED on the title page. 563 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67345.

London: Orion, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this thriller, one which is also a story of love - between brothers - between lovers - and between family members. SIGNED on title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-752846043.

London: Orion, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of this thriller by this award-winning (and best-selling) author - a successful surgeon wakes up in the ICU - he has been shot, his wife killed and his 6 month old daughter has disappeared. And then he receives a ransom note. .. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-752852566.

New York: Delacorte, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in London in 1757 when England is battling France on three continents. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-385337477.

New York: Berkley, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney, Vicky Holden. INSCRIBED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-425-170594.

New York: Dial Press, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is a tribute to the ordinary things of life - "Way over yonder, sometime in the nineteenth century, a young farmer plants a plum tree. The farmer marries, plows the land, and sheds his solitary way of life. Children, then grandchildren, are born; summer melts in to blazing autumn, into frozen winter; the plum tree blossoms and sheds its blossoms; the farmer grows old. Gradually on family's history is illuminated till it becomes as vivid as our own. " SIGNED on the title page by Johnston and dated 1988 in the year of publication. Illustrated with glowing oil paintings by Llyod Bloom, Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-803702779.

London: Collins, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard, who is investigating the murder of 4 people in a studio rented out by a soft porn magazine, called 'Bodies.' The first appearance of Charlie Peace who is working managing a gym, and winds up agreeing to go undercover for the police. SIGNED on the title page. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-00232072x.

London: Collins, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Scotland Yard superintendent Perry Trethowan, who is placed in charge of the personal security of a young and rather reckless minor princess, as the bodies of murdered men around her continues to increase. SIGNED on the title page. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-002319225.

New York: A Yearling Book / Bantam Doubleday Dell, (1999). SIGNED - A story of the Danish Resistance during World War II and how the Danes helped over 7000 Jewish people escape the Nazis in 1943, told through the eyes of a 10 year old girl. INSCRIBED on the title page. Newbery award winner. Author's afterword. 137 pp. ISBN: 0-395-510600.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - Adventure story set in the San Luis Park region of southwestern Colorado in the 1880s by this prolific author of Western fiction, who, before he became a full-time writer, worked as a transitman for the railroads, as an engineer and a cattle rancher. 224 pp. Dustjacket by Charles Hargens.

Freeport, NY: Books for Libaries Press, 1971. Hardcover - A work by this pioneering Black education and activist, originally published in 1896. Includes a brief biographical sketch by Edward L. Parks, and talks given by Crogman over the 13 years preceding publication, all related to "the race of which I am a member" as he noted. Among the subjects are Frederick Douglass, Bishop Atticus Haywood, the 26th and the 32nd anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Negro education, needs and claims. xxiii, 330 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Hong Kong, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer. A very different police procedural. The murderer strikes silently and apparently randomly - from a shoe shine man to a British officer - with only one thing is common: each is found with a torn cholera vaccination certificate. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-030705274.

San Francisco: Friends of the Earth Foundation, 1983. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Catalog for photography exhibition in 1983 with text by by Stephen Johnson. Includes photographs from 1915 to 1982 by Ansel Adams, Robert Dawson, Brett Weston, Galen Rowell, Stephen Johnson and many others. Most are in black and white, but there is a significant number in full color also. Includes a 2 page inventory of the photographs. One of only 500 copies bound in cloth (out of a total edition of 5000). SIGNED and dated on the front endpaper by Johnson with the words "best wishes." Map, information about Mono Lake. Oblong format, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-913890561.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1959) dj. Hardcover - A baseball story., a title in what is considered one of the best sports series for young readers. Bee was a famous collegiate athlete and noted basketball coach who draws upon his own experiences for these stories (he was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968) Lists to #19 at front of book, and to 18 on back cover of dj. Frontispiece and small illustrations at the head of each chapter. Bound in rust-colored tweed cloth boards, illustrated endpapers with bats, basketball baskets, etc, in diagonal rows. 182 pp. One of the hard-to-find later titles in this series.

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishers, (1975). First edition - The third novel by this author whom Gary Phillips (writing in Crime Reads) described as a writer "who helped revolutionize 1970s pulp fiction, then disappeared." His protagonist, Joe Radcliff ("he's big, he's Black, he's bad"), was a professional hit-man, a Vietnam veteran, whose ruthlessness and expertise earned him the title 'Hit-Maker.' Holloway House became known in the 1970s for gritty Black urban fiction it published by authors like Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines and Joseph Nazel - and Roosevelt Mallory. HH# BH455, $1.50 cover price. 224 pp. Cover art by Monte Rogers, who clearly used Mallory himself as the model, based on the photograph on the back cover. ISBN: 0-870674552.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of never before published stories by this prolific writer. SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author. 182 pp. Dust jacket art by Neil Waldman. ISBN: 0-688-001807.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, (ca 1940, c 1929). dj. Hardcover - A new edition of the book originally published simply as "A Book of Mysteries." Includes the long title story, 'Cat's Cradle' and 'The Hexagonal Chest.' Retains some of the original illustrations by Kurt Wiese with small vignettes at the beginning of each story, but he is no longer identified as the illustrator on the title page. A title in the Young Moderns series. 224 pp Dust jacket art by Frank Dobias.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1951) dj. Hardcover first edition - A football story., a title in what is considered one of the best sports series for young readers. Bee was a famous collegiate athlete and noted basketball coach who draws upon his own experiences for these stories (he was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968) Lists to this title in front of book and only 4 titles on back cover of dj.. Illustrated with a frontispiece and internal drawings. Bound in rust-colored tweed boards, illustrated endpapers with bats, basketball baskets, etc, in diagonal rows. 216 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1952.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exciting football story by a famous collegiate athlete and noted basketball coach who draws upon his own experiences for these stories (Bee was inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968) Frontispiece and small illustrations at the head of each chapter. Bound in rust-colored tweed cloth boards, Lists to this title at the front of the book and to #8 on the back cover of dj. illustrated endpapers with bats, basketball baskets, etc, in diagonal rows. 211 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first commercially produced play by this African American writer, a story set in Harlem with its moments of triumph leading inexorably to the tragedy with which it ends. Richard Watts in the NY Post said this 'revealed [Elder] as one of the most important playwrights in America and an author of rare integrity and creative strength.' Although this has been printed many times, the first edition is quite uncommon. 180 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Frank Machianno is a late middle-aged ex-surf bum who now runs a bait shop on the San Diego waterfront - and a retired hit man known back in the day as Frankie Machine. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Japanese Maltese Falcon Society Thriller Award Best Hard Boiled Novel and nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Mystery Thriller. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-400044987.

New York: Hyperion, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery: a movie crew has come to New Iberia, Louisiana to film a Civil War epic. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-8827.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Neal Carey, New York street kid turned reluctant private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312-113897.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960 dj. Hardcover - An attractive early copy (the same year as the first), by the original publisher, of this classic post-apocalyptic novel, set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States, and considered one of the best science fiction novels of all time. Winner of the 1961 Hugo. Dust jacket art by George Sottung. 320 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in this highly praised series featuring Neal Carey, New York street kid turned reluctant private investigator. Neal is just a few months short of his master's degree and his marriage to Karen Hawley when he agrees to do his "boss" a favor by picking up an old man in Las Vegas and take him to Palm Springs, but the old man fails to tell him he's a witness to a crime and a pair of con artists are trying to kill him. SIGNED on the title page. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-312-144466.

New York: Dell, (1981). First edition - As in all book in this series, this features two novellas - both owing their plots to computers and featuring crimes that take place in the future - in a single book. A precursor of the cyberpunk movement. Illustrations by Hugo Award-winning artist Jack Gaughan. Introduction by series editor James Frenkel and each author has also contributed an afterword about his fellow writer's work. 239 pp.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer prize for fiction, the first time this award was given to a woman writer. A very inexpensively produced book and one in which the binding did not stand up well,which perhaps explains why the first edition is so uncommon. Includes the phrase from the burial service in the wedding scene. 364 pp. Accompanying this first edition is a facsimile edition from the First Edition Library. ISBN: 0-02-026478x.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1963 (c 1954). A graphic novel / comic strip from before the Cultural Revolution. Adapted from one chapter of Kao Yu-pao's autobiography, this tells of the part he played in the underground against the Japanese invaders in Northeast China before and in WWII. "The story thoroughly exposes the Japanese imperialists' oppression of the Chinese workers and faithfully brings out the militant struggle and lofty qualities of the Chinese working class led by the Chinese Communist Party." Illustrated in black and white on every page by Kao Yu-Pao, Tao Chih-an, Lu Tan, Pen Ching-yu, Wang Hsu-yang and Chou Li. Oblong format. 96 pp.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1962. A story told in the mountains of Tibet. An old couple are tricked by a rogue into giving him their beautiful daughter in marriage but she is rescued by a handsome young hunter, who in turn tricks the rogue. Illustrated in full color throughout by Yoa Yu-tuo and Yoa Yu-hsin. 92 pp.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1963. A popular folktale of the Chuang, one of China's ethnic minorities who live in the the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region in South China. Adapted by Chi Chih-hsi. Full color illustrations throughout by Yen Mei-hua. Small oblong format. 60 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the "Grand Old Man of Oil," an English engineer who traveled to Africa in 1896, to Baku two years later and then to the Caribbean, Peru, Egypt, Arabia and Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in the United States. A foreword by former President Herbert Hoover, but one which focuses on the association between his mining firm and Beeby-Thompson's oil firm. Stamped on the front pastedown is the notice "A personal reading copy for our bookseller friends whose opinions and criticisms we welcome and value." Photographs, index. 544 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1971,c 1970) dj. Hardcover - Includes all of Pound's cantos from 1 to 117 in one volume, originally published between 1930 and drafts and fragments in 1969. A very thick book at 802 pp.

London: Allison & Busby, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Crime novel featuring Charlie Peace and his boss detective superintendent Mike Oddie. "Actress Caroline Fawley and her children have been set up in a grand house in the Yorkshire village of Marsham by her lover, supermarket owner Marius Fleetwood. Her television work makes her something of a celebrity, and she relishes her role as 'mistress of Alderley', even agreeing to host the village fete. The children are happy and successful, especially her eldest daughter, an opera singer. Everything seems perfect - until a young man looking remarkably like Marius appears on her doorstep. Within a few weeks Marius has disappeared - and then a body turns up... " SIGNED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-749005548.

Salt Lake City: Deseret Sunday Schools Union, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A revised and expanded edition of 'The Deseret Sunday School Song Book' with over 100 additional songs based on suggestions from over 1000 wards, for a total of 395 songs, all arranged so that each selection may be sung or played without turning the page. Index.

Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tautly constructed satirical treatment of the Medea myth which explores its relationship to questions both of race and gender as told in the voices of Medea, her nurse, Jason, Polydeuces and Tamar. Early in the story, Medea comments on Jason "That he was not overly bright was apparent, though he was a talker I would not have let him touch me, but the gods... not even my gods, but some chalk-skinned, bitch voyeur caused me to fall in love with this Jason." Hard to find, especially in the first edition. 152 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Shere C. Everett. ISBN: 0-937699458.

New York: Putnam, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a legal thriller by this former trial attorney, introducing defense attorney Paul Madriani. SIGNED on the title page. 379 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137122.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller by this former defense attorney, Set in Portland, Oregon. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0735058.

New York: Harmony Books, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Cosmic Conclusion to the Hitchhiker's Trilogy - except the series continued - 227 pp. ISBN: 0-517-548747.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1984.). First edition - One of the harder-to-find later titles in the series. Illustrated by Jim Spence. Square format front cover with illustration by Jody Lee. 188 pp. Last title listed at front of book.. ISBN: 0-307-215598.

Racine, WI: Golden Press, (1980.). Hardcover first edition - Lists to #34 with "new" after 32-34. While not as well known as Nancy Drew, this is many girls' favorite series: Trixie is a real girl, with chores, school to attend, a little brother to babysit - but lots of adventures! This is one of the harder to find later titles in the series, especially in hardcover. Issued as trade paperbacks, a small number of these were bound in the "Goldencraft Reinforced Binding" primarily for use by libraries. ISBN: 0-307-215547.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. First edition - A book which exemplifies the 70s (although there are still more than 400 houseboats in Sausalito and Marin County, some of them are now AirBnBs, which exemplifies our era!) "A documentary of handmade houses afloat, with photographs mainly from Sausalito, Seattle, Sacramento Delta, and foreign lands, with information on marinas, galley recipes featuring houseboat soup, how to cope with children and animals aboard" and more. Illustrated with a map, drawings by Bill Oetinger and black and white photographs throughout. Large format. 127 pp. ISBN: 0-88496020X.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scarce true first edition of this book by a British Columbia journalist which recounts the bizarre murder spree of Dale Merle Nelson, a Canadian logger, who - reportedly under the influence of LSD - murdered eight of his neighbors - during one night in September 1970, as well as inflicting upon them acts of mutilation, necrophilia, and cannibalism. Despite the sensationalism of the crime, this is a serious look at how well the justice system deals with such events, and how it fails us in these cases. Nelson was deemed sane by state psychiatrists and sentenced to life. Map. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-771083394.

Bronx, New York: Gusto Press, (1980). First edition - Very uncommon early collection of this California author's short stories - the title story has been frequently anthologized; the realism of the description of depressed downtown Stockton and the small town in the Sierras is effectively combined with his deceptive simplicity of language. A title in the Gusto Press Regional Series (Central Valley, California). 125 pp. ISBN: 0-933906-145.

New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original anthology of all new science fiction stories by the following authors: Jay A. Parry, David F. Bischoff, Tanith Lee, Steve Rasnic Tem, Andrew Weiner, Roger Zelazny, Thomas F. Monteleone, Tetsu Yano, Leanne Frahm, Connie Willis and Gardner Dozois. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Connie Willis and Gardner Dozois. Edited and with an introduction by Roy Torgeson. 182 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Tom Barber. ISBN: 0-385-175981.

New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in October 2004 - tha is before publication - and uncommon thus. 293 pp plus author's referendum.

New York: Doubleday, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first Mamur Zapt mystery, set in 1908, as the "indirect" British rule in Cairo is beginning to wind down. The Mamur Zapt is Cadwallader Owen, the head of the Political Branch of the police. The author grew up in what was then the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Author's note. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385415206.

London: Allison & Busby, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in his Lake County series, introducing DCI Hannah Scatlett, the new head of Cumbria's Cold Case Review Team, and former Oxford historian Daniel Kind. SIGNED on the title page. Not quite a bibliomystery, but Hannah's partner is a rather unpleasant rare book dealer. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-749083204.

New York: The Viking Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel set in Charleston, South Carolina, the story of a disintegrating family and of the power of love, winner of the 1985 Hemingway Foundation Award for a first work of fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-670284793.

London: Gollancz, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the often-out-of work actor Charles Paris, so when he is offered a 3 month run in a new farce, he takes it - but when they get to Bath a darker mood sets in, and Charlie's old friend, who runs a recording studio is found dead. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-575064889.

London: Gollancz, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourteenth mystery featuring the often-out-of work actor Charles Paris. Charlie has taken a small role in a company's promotional video, and when a young woman is killed in the warehouse from an "accident" with a forklift, he is the only one who thinks it might be a murder. SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-684193973.

London: Macmillan, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh book in the Fethering series, featuring the unlikely duo of Home Office retiree Carole Seddon and her neighbour Jude, a healer, set in the historic village of Fedborough. SIGNED on the title page. An interesting series, and a picture of changing village life in England, as gentrification takes over. 377 pp. ISBN: 1-405041374.