New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1920. Hardcover first edition - Issued to assist the taxpayer in the oil and gas industry in preparing their federal tax returns. The three parts discuss the laws and regulations, issues around depreciation and how to estimate underground oil reserves. Includes many fold-out charts. xix, 190 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this author who was born in Japan, but grew up in England. Winner of the Whitbread prize and short listed for the Booker (an award which his later "Remains of the Day" won.) In 2008, Ishiguro was included on The Times list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-399-131191.

New York: The Viking Press, (1962.) dj. Hardcover - Jackson's final novel - "A strange, terrible, and beautiful tale. From the first page, a mystery hangs over the three people living in the big old house on the hill. Shunned by the villagers, they live their private life behind closed doors. As their story quietly and deftly unfolds, the reader is led into a situation both startling and macabre." 214 pp. Red topstain. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Association Press, 1938. dj. Hardcover first edition - Scarce second book by this writer who is best known for her World War I account 'Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces.' A biography of her husband, who died in 1916, but who had attained the highest position in the YMCA held by an African American at that time. Hunton herself remained active in the YWCA and in the fight for racial equality. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Colored Work Department of the National Council of the YMCA, and also the 50th anniversary of Hunton establishing a branch for colored men and boys in Norfolk, Virginia in 1888. Includes a foreword by John R. Mott. 176 pages.

Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing Co., (1930). Hardcover first edition - The second book featuring Roberta Langwell, Girl Sky Pilot "a new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air. Roberta Langwell is a heroine of modern times. She wins a plane by means of her remarkable air feats, and keeps the reader tense with excitement from cover to cover. The series concentrates on the efforts of the girls and women who, like their male counterparts, have obtained wonderful results in the air." The series was later renamed The Airplane Girls. 248 pp.

New York: Schocken, (1987). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first collection of fantasy tales - 30 stories based on ancient myth, medieval romance, fairy tales, and modern science fiction - compiled expressly for adults. It includes an introduction by Yolen and several new stories written for this volume. INSCRIBED on the title page. "For -- Enjoy the magic!" and dated in 2005. xii, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-805238433.

New York: Viking, (1995). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller which combines espionage with a murder investigation. Set in 1944 London, when the Luftwaffe is making its final desperate assaults on the city, this introduces Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy. A charred dismembered corpse has been found by some children in an East End bomb site. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-67085767X.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, (1962). Hardcover first edition - A book in which the focus has moved to the philosophy behind the physical sciences. Includes essays by Hilary Putnam (The Analytical and the Synthetic), Carl G. Hempel, Michael Scriven (Explanations, Predictions and Laws), Wilfrid Sellars (Time and the World Order), P. K. Feyerabend, May Brodbeck, William W. Rozeboom, Adolf Grunbaum and Grover Maxwell (The Onotological Status of Theoretical Entities & The Necessary and the Contingent.) Name and subject index. xv, 628 pp.

London: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The twentieth crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe novel, set in Mid-Yorkshire. "
Like father like son . . . Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier."" In each case, Pal's stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka, is suspected. SIGNED on the title page. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-00712340X.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1903. Hardcover first edition - The story of a little girl, a privileged city child, who goes to spend several months with her grandmother in a country cottage. Gaye, a rather prolific author, is best known for her books on nature, and much of this book is an account of the "little Cockney" learning about the wonders around her. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and half title page. The title page only indicates S. G. as the author, but Selina Gaye appears in full on the spine. 187 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

London: Harrison. 1864. Hardcover - An account by this British writer, historian and later member of Parliament, in which he describes his travel to the Holy Land through the Balkans. Includes chapters on Turkey, the Smyrna, Cyprus, Greece, the Black Sea, Lady Hester Stanhope, the plague in Cairo, the pyramids, the desert, Suez, Damascus and more, as well as the preface to the first edition. Both the first edition and this "new edition" were published anonymously. Engraved frontispiece, with a tissue guard, 319 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. 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hansen's first mystery, set in California, introducing gay claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is investigating an accident where a car went over a bridge on a narrow ranch track, but the body has disappeared. The first novel published by Hansen under his own name. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 187 pp.

Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the uncommon and award-winning Ellis Portal series featuring a disgraced judge, the son of Italian immigrants, who is now homeless and living in a makeshift shelter in a river valley that is a wilderness preserve running through the center of Toronto. In this, his friend Queenie tells him of a person who apparently froze to death. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 321 pp. ISBN: 1-882593278.

New York: Grove Press, (2020). SIGNED first edition - Fifth novel by this award winning author - the story of a young woman's struggle to become a writer and find independence - but that bare summary does not begin to capture the humor, intelligence and warmth of this book. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.

London: Heinemann, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fifth novel. As with most of his books, this is much more than just another 'spy thriller;' like the protagonist in this book, Le Carre served in the British Embassy in Bonn and this book has a gritty realism and a thoughtfulness unusual in the genre. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-434109304.

London: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume One only - but each tribal section is complete in itself. As noted in the preface, they are the result of five years of collecting reports on fifty non-Muslim tribes in northern Nigeria. Includes significant information on traveling in the area, on the different languages, and the customs of the various tribes. This volume includes studies of The Bachama and Mbula, Bura and Pabir Tribes, the Bata speaking peoples, the Kilba and Margi of Adamawa, the Chamba, the Verre, the Mambila and others. Vocabulary at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with 60 photographic plates, folding map tipped in at rear. x, 582 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012). SIGNED first edition - Young adult fantasy novel SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in the year of publication. "Murder and pleasure are for sale, favors are traded, and impossibilities are procured, but fighting to the death is the only way to live." 306 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes stories by J. G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Gary Wright, Samuel R. Delany, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock and Anne McCaffrey. Introduction by Zelazny and list of Nebula winners. xi, 272 pp. Dust jacket by Donald and Ann Crews.

El Monte CA: Understanding Publishing Co., (1958) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which describes "an unique and beautiful relationship between space beings and an earth mortal" starting from the author's first experience in the Philippines during World War II, an experience he was barely able to believe in, and how he was contacted by space beings in his dreams. SIGNED on the front endpaper with "sincerely." Very uncommon in hardcover and especially so signed, and now that UFOs are once again in the news, perhaps even more relevant than when it was first published. 168 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Hardcover first edition - Her second (and final) novel, a story about crossing the color line by one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Hard to find in any of the original Knopf printings, and especially so in the first edition. Basis of the highly praised recent film directed by Rebecca Hall. Bound in black cloth with red lines bordering the front cover and silver lettering. 216 pages.

New York: Norton, (1992) dj. SIGNED LETTER - hardcover first edition - Author's first regularly published book of poems, selected by Charles Wright as the winner of the 1991 Walt Whitman award. Laid in is a hand-written, signed letter to collector Larry Owens, in which Glazner briefly talks about some of his other works. 84 pp,. ISBN: 0-393030989.

Pleasantville, NY: Dragon, (1984). SIGNED hardcover first edition - As Delany notes, this book contains a baker's dozen of disparate pieces - pieces in which he explores the implications of his assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. Includes analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, and more. SIGNED by Delany on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes, 244 pp.

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains three stories by the author best known for Conan the Barbarian. These stories feature Steve Harrison, Howard's hard-boiled private detective as he confronts Erlik Khan, a villain influenced by Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu. Includes the first hardcover publication of two stories - "The Lord of the Dead" and "Names in the Black Book" - and the first publication of "The Mystery of Tannerhoe Lodge," a story completed by Fred Blosser. Introduction by Robert E. Briney. Illustrated with one double page spread, nine full page drawings and many small vignettes and decorations by Duncan Eagleson. 186 pp plus a final drawing. ISBN: 0-937986356.

New York: Dutton, (2008). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one he began as a young English teacher in 1974, and continued to layer and refine the manuscript until its completion in 2007. "The exiled scion of a prominent Boston banking family, forty-seven-year-old Wheeler Burden is living in 1988 San Francisco until he is mysteriously transported to fin de sicle Vienna, a city that he finds strangely familiar, where he finds a mentor in Sigmund Freud, falls in love with a young American woman, and gains insight into the war-hero father he never knew." SIGNED on the title page. With a reported first printing of 100,000 copies, this ARC is much more uncommon. 398 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1981). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, two linked adventures set mainly in Los Angeles and featuring cases of Treasury Agent Charles Carr. Money Men was the basis for the 1993 film Boiling Point starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1981. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-151698929.

New York: Macmillan, 1929. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by Goncharov, originally published in Russian in 1859, a satire on Russia's nineteenth-century landed gentry - Oblomov's distinguishing characteristic is his slothful attitude towards life. He raises this trait to an art fom, and in the first 50 pages, he does not even manage to leave his bed. This is the first translation of the complete work by Natalie A. Duddington (there was a 1915 translation by C, J. Hogarth, also published by Macmillan). 525 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five short stories and three novellas. Although the title story depicts the mind of a child with tenderness and pathos, other stories in this collection are much darker. Kunitz and Haycraft commented "In his work, if he resembles any other author, it is Poe - but a Poe who has crossed the border of fantasy into the realm of absolute blackness." However, during this period America was avid for anything relating to Edgar Allan Poe and, as Poe's Russian equivalent, translations of Andreyev's work found a ready audience in the English-speaking world. Translated from the Russian by Herman Bernstein, 361 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Another thriller on the cutting edge of medical technology - Crichton's 4th book, 3rd novel (2nd under his own name.) The true first edition of this book with a price of 6.95 on the flap ('false firsts' are common). Basis for the film of the same name. Annotated bibliography. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in greige boards with a mustard cloth spine, top edge tinted yellow. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-394-447689.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel featuring detective Sam Turner, a twice-married, former alcoholic and Dylan fan, and his unlikely sidekicks. When killer Norman (who had been told the only way out of Dartmoor for him is a coffin) gets the opportunity to escape when a bunch of politicos bomb the transport he is on, taking out the cab and the escort vehicle with the police, he takes off for York - looking for two women from his past. SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-575063815.

New York: Random House, (1940). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon young adult novel, set at a junior college for women where three students - 2 on scholarships, and one from a ranch in the West - are selected to work with an artist in creating a set of seven murals for the new art building on campus. Includes interesting details on the creation of frescoes and also a good coming-of-age story as these young women learn how to stand up for what is right. 269 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: B003VCCF2U.

New York: World Publishing Co., (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - An omnibus edition with two complete novels, including her first mystery - The So Blue Marble - a classic suspense novel set in New York City and a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone selection, and The Fallen Sparrow, the story of Kit McKittrick and how he avenged the death of his friend. This novel was made into a film in 1943 starring John Garfield. Each is paginated separately - 240 and 307 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight dramatic interconnected stories which reveal the hard, adventurous life of fishermen on the Labrador coast. Mott's own life included many years at sea and in the outdoors. In 1912, he sailed to China as purser on a freighter with a light opera singer disguised a cabin boy (many years later they were eventually able to be married), and in his later years he established a fishing camp on the North Umqua River in Oregon - where a section of the trail is named in his memory. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and five internal glossy plates. 296 pp. ISBN: B08MQ6D9FL.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming retelling by this Caldecott honor award artist of one explanation of how the Manx cat lost its tail - as the rain is increasing and flooding is threatening Noah and his family do not want to take off in the ark until the wayward Manx cat arrives - he comes at the last moment, and his tail gets caught in the door. The great illustrations enhance the story. INSCRIBED by the author/illustrator with a small drawing and dated in the year of publication, on the page opposite the first page of the story. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-152367659.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of four supernatural tales, consisting of two novellas and two short stories, set in California and Europe, including - in addition to the classic title story - the often-anthologized "The Striding." Two long and two short stories, the setting shifting from California to Europe. In first of the novellas - 'The Eternal Now' - a man relives his past existence in an earlier century at the height of a party he is giving in the here and now and in 'The Sacrificial Altar' a writer of crime fiction cannot prove his only crime and kills himself. 198 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the four eariy books of this award-winning poet (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and Bollingen among others) - Golden State in 1973, The Book of the Body in 1977, The Sacrifice in 1983 and the First Hour of the Night in 1990 - as well as a selection of new poems. The earlier books contained his notable dramatic monologues 'Ellen West' and 'Herbert White.' Also includes a 1983 interview with Mark Halliday. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Notes. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-374176604.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller by this award-winning novelist featuring Southern California surfer-turned-private eye, Wil Hardesty, who is hired by a Vietnamese refugee and fisherman, Vinh Tien who is sure that the disappearance at sea of his son, Jimmy wasn't accidental. One reviewer noted that "Burning Moon ignites slowly, as its underappreciated author outlines the cultural dynamics that are essential to this tale and reintroduces Hardesty. However, Barre's vivid but economical prose and strong character development eventually make this shine." #10 of only 200 copies numbered and SIGNED on the limitation page by Richard Barre, Dennis Lehane, S, J, Rozan, G. M. Ford and Don Winslow (all of whom contributed blurbs to this title) . 348 pp plus limitation page. ISBN: 1-592660118.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller by this award-winning novelist featuring Southern California surfer-turned-private eye, Wil Hardesty, who is hired by a Vietnamese refugee and fisherman, Vinh Tien who is sure that the disappearance at sea of his son, Jimmy wasn't accidental. One reviewer noted that "Burning Moon ignites slowly, as its underappreciated author outlines the cultural dynamics that are essential to this tale and reintroduces Hardesty. However, Barre's vivid but economical prose and strong character development eventually make this shine." #25 of only 200 copies numbered and SIGNED on the limitation page by Richard Barre, Dennis Lehane, S, J, Rozan, G. M. Ford and Don Winslow (all of whom contributed blurbs to this title) . 348 pp plus limitation page. ISBN: 1-592660118.

New York: Doubleday, (2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A follow-up to the best selling "The Da Vinci Code" and once again featuring Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who has been summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. This is a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C. As one reviewer commented " Is 'The Lost Symbol' as good as 'The Da Vinci Code'? Simply put, yes." SIGNED on the title page. 509 pp. ISBN: 978-0385504225.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel featuring Scotland Yard detectives Pollard (now a Detective-Superintendent) and Toye, a book which combines humor, skillful plotting and a thorough knowledge of police procedure. When a pair of inquisitive children on holiday discover a skeleton hidden in the boot of an abandoned car, their first problem is to determine the identity of the dead man. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-246639644.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1922). Hardcover first edition - A significant collection of poems for children (but a book which appeals to all ages) on fairies, witches and witchcraft and the world of dreams, beautifully illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop with a color frontispiece, 2 internal color plates plus a many striking black-and-white drawings, most full-page plates. viii, 193 pp. A tall and slightly oversized book.

Meadow Vista, CA: Heritage Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Autobiography of one of three sisters who, with their mother and the help of an old trapper, made their living running traplines in the remote Arctic wilderness, 200 miles beyond Fort Yukon. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Courtney Allen. 301 pp. ISBN: 0-963651188.

New York: Viking, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which is part thriller, part social comedy, part psychological suspense novel. Quinn is a struggling writer, now fired from his college teaching post, who becomes obsessed with Brahmin Sarah Slade, whom he spots shoplifting in Bonwit's and follows home to Louisburg Square. A decade earlier, Sarah had murdered and castrated her lover, and had been found mad. The other "woman run mad" is Quinn's tightly controlled wife, Claire, a successful professor, who is determined to win him back. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-67081752x.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thematic tour of the complete works - eleven books of fiction at the time this was written - by this important contemporary southern writer and literary maverick. SIGNED on the title page by Weston. A title in the Southern Literary Studies series. Bibliography, index. xii, 147 pp. ISBN: 0-807122904.

Berkeley, CA: Parnassus Press (1966). Hardcover first edition - A very early novel by Le Guin, a coming of age story which is both a fantasy classic and a classic of young adult literature, illustrated with maps and drawings by Ruth Robbins. A later printing per Currey without the smudge on the title page and with a printed illustration on the front cove, plain rear cover. However, although Currey specifically states no linen hinges for these printings, this copy does have the white linen hinges used in the library binding on the first printing. 205 pp,

Dublin: The Black Cat Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - The first publication of Beckett's first novel, written in Paris in 1932, and unpublished for 60 years (it was originally rejected by several publishers, and would never have been able to get past the Irish Censorship Board.) Introduction by Eoin O'Brien in which he discusses the history of this works, his conversations with Beckett about it, etc. xvii, 241 pp. ISBN: 0-948050098.

New York: Macmillan, 1917. Hardcover first edition - An early work by Robinson (who later went on to win the Pulitzer Prize three times), a long dramatic narrative poem set in the declining days of Camelot, a poem written as the first World War raged, and the first of three poems by Robinson which used the Arthurian legend. 168 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads for other works by Robinson.

New York: Dutton, 1939. Hardcover first edition - An early work by this pioneering travel writer - In 1934, Freya Stark travelled down the Red Sea to Aden, hoping to trace the frankincense route of the Hadhramaut (mostly now in Yemen), the hinterland of Southern Arabia and an area very few Western explorers had visited. She published her account of the region in three books, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (1936), Seen In The Hadhramaut (1938) and A Winter in Arabia (1940). This, the second book, is primarily a pictorial record of that journey with only a brief introductory text and illustrated with 130 plates from Stark's photographs. Includes a map of the Hadhramaut by Hawes on green paper. xxiii, 199 pp.

Los Angeles: Hyperion, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An "imaginative, wacky, hilarious sci-fi story" written and illustrated by Rex, his first book about Smek. The NY Times commented that, while it was written for children, adults will appreciate it as a satire about the conquering of foreign cultures. SIGNED on the dedication page with a small drawing. (Jennifer Lopez is one of the dedicatees and J.Lo is the name of a renegade Boov mechanic in this tale) 423 pp plus an epilogue and a final drawing. ISBN: 978-0786849000.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second thriller, a plot by two brothers from a DC crime family - one trying to leave his family behind, the other causght up in it - to discover a secret decision of the Federal Reserve Bank, a decision that will affect billions of dollars. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0316198646.

New York: Razorbill / Penguin, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel and the first book in the Embers Quartet, an epic fantasy saga for young adults, but inspired by brutal events taking place today. The story is told by two people - Elias, one of the elite, trained from a young age to become a skilled assassin, and Laia, one of the oppressed, forced into the role of spy and saboteur in order to save her brother, her only remaining family member. SIGNED by the author on the final pages of the pre-publication information bound in, with a small drawing incorporated into her signature. 443 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days" - a crisis which changed the world. Illustrated with photographs and maps. SIGNED on the title page. Appendix, source notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 978-0871139252.

New York: Norton, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part literary mystery, part love story, this is a novel about the lives of two women in two different eras and the surprising connection between them - Claire in 1960 when Kennedy is president and Vivien in 1919 who is still searching for her lover who disappeared in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0393081428.

Willimantic, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of sixteen original stories, from the most irreverent and visionary masters of the contemporary horror genre, written in homage to the classic zombie film "The Night of the Living Dead" of George Romero. Foreword by Romero and introduction by John Skipp and Craig Spector . Contributors include Stephen King, David Schow, Steve Rasnic Tem, Les Daniels, Richard Layman, Ed Bryant, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, Douglas Winter, Steven R. Boyett and others. SIGNED by Lansdale at his story "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks." Illustrated by J.K. Potter with handlettering by Arnie Fenner. Illustrated endpapers. Slightly oversized format. xiv, 334 pp. ISBN: 0-929480082.

New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book in her series of FBI thrillers, featuring special agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. When Sherlock foils a terrorist attack at JFK airport, she thinks her job is done and turns the reins over to the New York FBI, but that was only the beginning. .SIGNED on the half title page. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171277.

New York: Berkley, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the Royal Spyness series, set in the 1930s. and featuring Lady Georgiana, "34th in line to the throne and everyone's favorite penniless heiress." SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. plus historical note. ISBN: 978-0425283486.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2009. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, a stand-alone noir thriller set on Hawaiis Big Island which focuses on the battles over who will control the island's lucrative drug trade. In the middle of the muddle is criminal investigator Geronimo Souza, who simply wants to keep the collateral damage to a minimum. A book which draws a devastating picture of drug-induced carnage. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Striking dust jacket and interior artwork by Michael Kellner. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0939767618.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in English of the final work of Scheler, originally published in German in 1928. Scheller was known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology, and he developed the philosophical method of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. After his death in 1928, Martin Heidegger commented, along with Ortega y Gasset, that all philosophers of the century were indebted to Scheler. Translated from the German and with a long introduction by Hans Meyerhoff. Notes, index. xxxv, 105 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of how a little mouse discovered the great world outside his tunnel - the sun, the moon, night and day, plants - ending with a large two-page spread depicting some of the friends he will make on his journey. Includes an introduction by Jean Piaget who was also the director of the experimentation on how children reacted to the pictures and this story, reactions which determined the final format. Translated by C. Ross Smith. Piaget's foreword was translated by Kenneth Grinling. Illustrated with wonderful full color drawings by the author/artist . Large format, unpaginated.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida author's second novel featuring postal inspector Max Diamond who is dragged down by a snuff film / child porn investigation. SIGNED on the front endpaper and uncommon thus. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-312-878710.

London: Little Brown, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The seventh book by award-winning writer - the story of two boys who shared a passion for mountain climbing. When 40 years later, Jamie is found dead at the base of a sheer granite slab in Wales which he apparently he had tried to solo-climb, Rob is compelled to return to where they grew up and to confront the past. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 442 pp.

Ithaca, NY: Dragon Press, 1931. First edition - A slim chapbook, one of 500 copies. Cover drawing by Alison Mason Kingsbury. A title in The Dragon Series edited by Angel Flores. 29 pp. plus a list of other titles in the series.

Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects over 100 works written over more than 40 years by this Zen Master, poet, and peace activist, translated from the Vietnamese by the author. Many of the poems have additional comments added by the author. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-938077619.

New York: The Hampton Publishing Company / William Morrow, 1944. Hardcover first edition - A scarce classic locked room mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters and set against the backdrop of blackouts and bombings in the early days of the London Blitz. "Patience" is tree-snake from Borneo, and when it appears that Benton, the director of the Royal Albert Zoological Gardens has committed suicide, his daughter is sure that he did not do it, because "he wouldn't kill Patience."

Rome, Italy: Carlo Bestetti, (1954). Hardcover first edition - Introduction to the American edition by Richard Griffith. This history is divided into three sections: the beginnings, 1904-1930, by Ferdinando Palmieri; transition period, 1930-1942. by Ettore Margadonna; and the post war period, 1942-1954 by Mario Groma. Among the directors discussed are Antonini, Fellini, Comencini, Tellini, and many others. The text for each section is followed by many pages of black and white photographs mostly of stills from the films. There are a total 76 pages of text and 217 pages of photos, usually with multiple photos on each page. Large format.

New York: Crown, (1997). Hardcover first edition - A book which documents the plight of the estimated 100 million Africans brought against their will to the United States for the purposes of slavery, from the slave trade to the Day of Jubilee. A three-dimensional interactive book with historical papers, memoirs, documents, personal effects, & photos tucked in pockets and behind flaps or revealed by pull tabs. Based on materials from the Black Holocaust Exhibit (which the author curates.) Large square format, illustrated throughout. Transcriptions, notes, 32 pp. ISBN: 0-609600303.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A history of the islands, from the first contact with Captain James Cook, and the arrival of the missionaries and those who were intent on exploiting the islands for their wealth. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Isami Kashiwagi. INSCRIBED on the dedication page and signed Nancy and Jean. Includes a list of the rulers of Hawaii, outstanding events in the history. Index. Illustrated endpapers. ix, 262 pp.

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.