New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937 (c 1936). Hardcover - The first book in this popular, and now quite hard-to-find, series. Foreword by Helen Rogers Reid which addresses the inequality in attitude when it comes to hiring young women versus young men, even when the woman is as or more qualified. In 1911, the author, Emma Bugbee, was the first woman hired by the New York Herald as a reporter, and she worked there for 55 years. Her assignment was to cover a weeks-long march of suffragists from New York City to Albany. She was also a founder of the Newspaper Womens Club of New York, and one of just a "few prominent female reporters who sought to expand the role of women in the male-dominated world of journalism that existed when she began her career. She was best known for her intimate coverage of Eleanor Roosevelt, beginning in 1933amidst the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelts terms of office and ending with a reminiscence of the former First Lady, written on the day of her death in 1962." x, 270 pp.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Charles' tenth mystery novel, and the second in the series featuring the Reverend Callie Anson exploring church issues such as women priests and gay bishops. SIGNED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 1590583566.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999). First edition - An account of his childhood and his coming of age by this award-winning poet. 198 pp.

New York: Random House, (1955). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - one based on the history of England in the fifth century and the medieval era, and the legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinivere and Sir Launcelot. vi, 272 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Tracy Sugarman.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five previously unpublished pieces - her only autobiographic writing. Contains "Reminiscences", on the death of her mother, "A Sketch of the Past", which she wrote shortly before her death, and three contributions for the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of the Bloomsbury group. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jeanne Schulkind. Appendix, index. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-151620342.

Lincoln and London University of Nebraska Press (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interview with Scott N. Momaday, a 20th century American Indian author and artist, Illustrated with photographs of some of his work. SIGNED by Momaday on the title page. Notes, index, xiv, 229 pp plus a final photograph. ISBN: 0-8032-47494.

New York: Dial Press, (2004,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The authors' first book, a literate mystery and a coming-of-age story set at Princeton - like Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code', this involves a secret which has been protected by the deaths of many over the centuries. Nelson DeMille said 'if Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be 'The Rule of Four' - an extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment - a must-read.' Went quickly into later printings. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337116.

New York: Dutton, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "'Starr Bright' is the tormented, murderous side of Sharon Donner, a model and exotic dancer turned avenging angel. A drifter who has staked out the Nevada desert as her own personal hell, she lives in a desolate landscape of endless highways and seedy motel rooms." SIGNED on the title by Joyce Carol Oates with "RS" in quotes. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-525944524.

New York: Fantasy House, Inc, 1954. First edition - The complete first appearance of one of Heinlein's best juvenile novels "Star Lummox" (later issued in book form as "Star Beast"), a story which can be read on many levels. Other contributors to these issues include Poul Anderson, Roger Dee, Gordon R. Dickson; Michael Shaara; Leslie Charteris; Andre Norton; Levi Crow - aka Manly Wade Wellman; Ruth Laura Wainwright, Robert Sheckley, ,David Grinnell - aka Donald A. Wollheim, Avram Davidson, Randall Garrett and others. Cover art by Jack Coggins (May) and Kirberger (June and July). 127 pp in each issue.

New York: Weird Tales, 1949. First edition - Includes Heinlein's novelette "Our Fair City," John D. MacDonald's "The Great Stone Death," and Eric Frank Russell's "The Big Shot" and more. Cover by Lee Brown Coye for the long novellette "Four from Jehlem" by Allison Harding. 94 pp.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, 1942. First edition - Includes "Goldfish Bowl" by Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein), "Recruiting Station" by A.E. Van Vogt, "Runaround" by Isaac Asimov (a robot story), "The Embassy" by Martin Pearson (Donald Wollheim) and more. Pulp magazine in the larger bedsheet format. 130 pp. Cover painting by Hubert Rogers

New York: Harper & Row, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars," a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 162 pp. . ISBN: 0-06-0160977.

London: Doubleday, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. SIGNED on the title page. Short-listed for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-38560484X.

New York: Carleton Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's somewhat fictionalized biography of her grandfather: as a young man, he fled Prussia and abandoned his medical studies because of his father's violent discipline, and stowed away on a ship to the US. He first worked for a farmer, but when the German consulate wanted to have him returned to Germany, he headed West and found himself in Arizona, in the calvary fighting the Apaches. Later he became a properous cattle rancher and farmer in southern California, but by repeating the same practice of rigid Prussian discipline as he grew up with, he also drove his family away. 167 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Formerly America's best military sniper with a record kill in Vietnam, Owen Gray just wants to live out his life peacefully as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York with his three adopted children, but now, 25 years later, he finds himself hunted by a sniper. Clive Cussler described this as a "compelling yet thoughtful thriller." INSCRIBED on the title page. 303 pp. .

Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, (2015). Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book featuring "rustic Middle Eastern dishes infused with the flavors of East Africa, India, and Persia. [It] presents the delicious diversity of the tiny Arabian Sultanate through 100 recipes, lush photography, and stories from the people behind the food in an immersive introduction to a fascinating, little-known corner of the world." Brief history of Oman. Foreword by James Oseland; full-color photography by Ariana Lindquist; recipes by Dawn Mobley. Index. Large format. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-1449460822.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a mystery introducing Inspector Nick Trevellyan and Alison Hope, owner of a computer software business, set in an English West country village. Review copy with author photograph and publisher's material 206 pp. ISBN: 0-684193876.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1938). Hardcover first edition - Novel by the author of "Bambi," set in the same forest, but featuring the squirrels Perri and Porro, and the child Annerle, who when she learns to talk can no longer understand the language of the squirrels. Foreword by Donald Culross Peattie; translated from the German by Barrows Mussey. Illustrated with drawings by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel. While this is described as a "woodland book of love and tenderness" is was being published as the world was on the brink of World War II, and as the Nazis were invading Austria, the home of Salten. 228 pp.

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, (2003). SIGNED first edition - "When the world is too stupid, brutal or annoying to believe, strike back by laughing at it ... [An] anthology of sardonic fiction emphasizes SF/fantasy tales sparkling with wit and edgy attitude. The stories, both originals and reprints, cover a wide range of satire. Writers include James Morrow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Allen Steele, Paul Di Filippo, Robert Silverberg, and Pat Cadigan." SIGNED by Cory Doctorow at his story "I Love Paree." Other writers include Jeffrey Ford, Don Webb, Pat Murphy and more. Notes on contributors. 343 pp. ISBN: 1-568582560.

New York: Dutton, (1938, c 1929) dj. Hardcover - Uncommon novel for older children and young adults written by the wife of a member of the engineering firm - May, Jekyll and Randolph - who were contracted by the wealthy American entrepreneur Percival Farquahar to build the line from the Bolivian border to Porto Velho. As she notes in the preface "day by day, for months, I witnessed its construction." Constuction of this now long abandoned Madeira-Mamore Railroad took almost 6 years, from 1907 to 1912, and it became known as the Devil's Railroad because of the thousands of deaths of construction worker. This book tells the story of "two brothers in search of fortune and fame, travel from New York to Porto Velho, 1,700 miles up the Amazon & Madeira Rivers beyond the last outposts of civilization. The path of adventure takes one of boys to the front line camps, where he has many startling and unusual experiences with poisonous snakes and Indians and is kept captive by a white man on his rubber plantation."Illustrated with "strong black and white drawings" by Beth Krebs Morris (a frontispiece and 7 internal plates) ix, 167 pp.

New York: American Tract Society, (1881). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with a frontispiece and two internal plates. 237 pp.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1893. Hardcover - A charming "gift book" - Tennyson's poems illustrated with 100 new drawings by Charles Howard Johnson. 400 pp. Small bookseller sticker - W.P. Furnall, Sacramento - on lower corner of front pastedown.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1911, c 1902) dj. Hardcover - A collection of nine short stories. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. A lovely vintage copy in blue cloth with a cream panel on the front cover, edged in gilt with gilt lettering, depicting a blue flower. Dark blue lettering on spine. 299 pp plus 9 pp publisher's ads.

New York: DAW Books, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Includes stories by Camille Bacon-Smith, Nnedi Okorafor, Tracy HIckman, Diane Duane , Laura Resnick, Seanan McGuire, and an early sneak peek at Tad Williams' novel 'Shadowheart.' SIGNED by Seanan McGuire at her story "An Artificial Night." 138 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's lists of forthcoming books.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walker's fourth book of poetry. SIGNED by Walker on title page. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1421692.

New York & London: Harlem River Press, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Contains a generous selection of poems from his five earlier books - Sentryofthefourgoldenpillars, Songs from an Afro/phone, etc -as well as final section entitled Funky-Grace. INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- luck, love, poetree!" and dated in 1993. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-863163076.

New York: Putnam, (2001_ dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Grafton on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A Kinsey Milhone mystery. ISBN: 0-399-147195.

New York: Bantam, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A gripping thriller - one which starts with an unusual wedding gift: an invitation to join Pact, an exclusive and secretive organization dedicated to making marriages succeed. At first the rules seem simple: always take a call from your spouse, exchange thoughtful gifts monthly, plan trips together, and never mention the Pact. But then one of them breaks a rule and discovers that The Pact will go to any length to ensure each couple meets the terms of their contracts; and that no infractions, no matter how minor, are unpunished. SIGNED on the second half title page and dated in April 2017, before publication. 418 pp.

n.p. [Canada?] By the author, n.d. (ca 1982). SIGNED first edition - In the preface to this book, the author explains that he started writing these poems in 1942, while he was engaged in "underground" activity in Japanese occupied Hong Kong, and that the original notebook survived his arrest and imprisonment for espionage (he escaped execution only because of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought an abrupt end to the war.) INSCRIBED on the verso of the title page with a note referring to the kindness of his American cousin. 87 pp.

New York: Berkley, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first anthology consisting entirely of stories by African American mystery writers. Preface by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Introduction by Eleanor Taylor Bland. Contributors include Frankie Y. Bailey, Jacqueline Turner Banks, Chris Benson, Eleanor Taylor Bland and Anthony Bland, Patricia E. Canterbury, Christopher Chambers, Tracy P. Clark, Evelyn Coleman, Grace F. Edwards, Robert Greer, Terris McMahan Grimes, Gar Anthony Haywood, Hugh Holton, Geri Spencer Hunter, Dicey Scroggins Jackson, Glenville Lovelll, Lee E. Meadows, Penny Mickelbury, Walter Mosley, Percy Spurlark Parker, Gary Phillips, and Charles Shipps. Notes on the authors. xii, 353 pp. ISBN: 0-425194027.

New York: Atheneum, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of this then-new national park, a 100 square mile piece of land which juts into the Pacific Ocean about 50 miles north of San Francisco, written for older children. Introduduction by Stewart Udall. Illustrated with drawings by Earl Thollander. Notes. 118 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a man whose career spanned much of the 20th century, including the Great Depression and World War II. The title refers to his childhood home, a boxcar set on arid land near the Columbia River. After the crash of 1929, he worked for the Federal Land Bank, and later he "had risen to become Farm Security Director in the San Francisco Bay area when he was drafted to help carry out the dramatic and still controversial executive order to relocate West Coast Japanese-Americans at Tule Lake. Later he was sent to negotiate ad organize farm labor recruitment in Mexico, and drafted by General Arthur for an important role in his land reform program in Japan." This is an interesting association copy with a note tipped onto the front pastedown dated January 16, 1957, SIGNED by the author as "Larry" and noting that the book will be published in February and that it includes a description of his first meeting with these friends. Also laid in a Christmas card with a handwritten note (undated, but probably about the time this book was written) and a longer letter, in pencil on both sides of a lined yellow sheet dated in 1965 and describing Hewes' experiences in India. (Note: many of Hewes' papers are at the JFK Library) Laid in is a clipping of a NY Times review which says that "Hewes seens unable or unwilling to pretty up ugly incidents" whether it is recruiting Mexican laborers or the involuntary evacuation and imprisonment of Japanese-Americans. Index. 262, vii pp.

New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, 1931. Hardcover first edition - A collection of papers on various topics such as Color and Achievement, the Superiority of the Mulatto, the personality of mixed-bloods and more. As President of the American Sociological society, Reuter's books -almost all on the topic of race - were quite influential, but a review (of a different title) in the Journal of Negro History sums them up quite well - "an unscientific compilation of facts by a man who has devoted some time to the study of the Negro but just about enough to misunderstand the race." Index. 224 pp.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic Miss Marple novel. 191 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The work which Tolkien himself considered the most important - published posthumously, edited by his son Christopher Tolkien. Fold out map tipped into rear of book.Several family tree charts, index of names, notes. 365 pp Bound in green cloth with silver lettering, gilt designs. ISBN: 0-395-257301.

San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Beijing journalist. Based on his own childhood, it tells of the daily lives of 10 poor families who live around a central courtyard in a back-alley Beijing slum who find themselves caught up in the Cultural Revolution that shook the People's Republic of China. Editor's note. Drawing of the courtyard. Glossary. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-835121461.

New York: William Morrow & Co / Lothrup Lee & Shepard (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 20th century poems for young people by poets from a wide range of ethnic and cultural traditions. Among the poets are W.S. Merwin, Alice Walker, Al Young, Kenneth Patchen, Nikki Giovanni, Margaret Atwood, Mary Oliver, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ana Castillo, Simon Ortiz and mnay others. Art and design by John Reuter-Pacyna. Author-title index. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-688417450.

Mt. Lemmon, AZ: Mt. Lemmon Women's Club (2006). SIGNED - "An in-depth look into the lives and times of the people who shaped the history of the Catalina Mountains." Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. This revised edition includes a final chapter with many color photographs taken during the Aspen Fire - this fire occurred just two months after the first edition of the book was published and in the 21 days that it raged, it not only destroyed thousands of acres of forest but almost the entire community of Summerhaven. SIGNED on the title page. Large format. List of photos, bibliography, index. x, 317 pp. plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-9740628-12.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2011). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Flyover Fiction series. "Young HarrietÕs father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric IndianÑand her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, HarrietÕs story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original." SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 978-0803226821.

New York: Penguin, 2017. First edition - The author's first novel, a low-keyed dystopian novel (the future looks familiar, but not like a world in which we would to live) combined with a story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." This will be published in the US in August 2017 as a trade paperback original. Translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. 278 pp.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, Publishers, (1911). Hardcover first edition - An early novel by this Maine author - one set in the Maine woods, an account of a young city boy learning the ways of the woods, and of the timber industry. The first book in the Camp and Trail Series. Illustrated by Charles Copeland with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. 408 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement. Includes many selections previously unpublished. llustrated with photographs. Includes a calendar of all documents related to this period. Footnotes, index. 484 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-520079507.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement. Includes many selections previously unpublished. Illustrated with photographs. Includes a calendar of all documents related to this period. Footnotes, index. 645 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-520079515.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1992-2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first six books (Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929 -June 1951; Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values; July 1951 - November 1955; Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955 - December 1956; Volume IV: Symbol of the movement, January 1957 - December 1959; Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959 - December 1960 and Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948 - March 1963) in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement. Includes many selections previously unpublished. Each volume is illustrated with photographs, and includes a calendar of all documents related to the period. Footnotes, index. All are in matching somewhat oversized formats bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in red dustjackets with white and yellow lettering, photographs on front cover. 484, 645, 567, 637, 673, 720 pp. respectively. ISBN: 978-0520248748.

New York: Praeger Publishers, (1969). Hardcover - Facsimile edition of the third revised and corrected edition published by Hezekiah Huntington, in Hartford, 1849, with a new introduction to this edition by C. Harley Gratton. Gratton describes this book as a "very good" one by an early missionary but cautions that even when valuable data is included, it must be looked at carefully and corroborated. For the most part, these missionaries were intent on reforming much of the Hawaiian way of life, including land holding and economic principles, seeking to bring them into line with US values at the time. Frontispiece portrait. vi, 616 pp plus a double page map and a 4 pp list of Missionaries of the American Board to the Sandwich Islands.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, (1929). Hardcover first edition - A story of high school baseball by the writer best known for his turn of the century St Timothy boarding school series. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and four glossy internal plates by Frederic A. Anderson. 244 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.

New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1964. First edition - These three issues of this digest magazine feature the first appearance of Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein. "Farnham's Freehold is a post-apocalyptic tale. The setup for the story is a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, which sends into the future a fallout shelter containing Farnham, his wife, son, daughter, daughter's friend, and domestic servant. In writing the novel Heinlein drew on his experience of building a fallout shelter under his own house in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the 1960s" (wikipedia). While the book has some popularity with survivalist groups, one review called it "an anti-minority, anti-woman survivalist rant. It is oftentimes frustrating. It is sometimes shocking. It is never boring." and Charlie Stross said he "so wrong he wasn't even on the right map ... but at least he wasn't ignoring it." Other stories in these digests include novelettes by Keith Laumer (The Prince and the Pirates), A.E. Van Vogt (The Silkie) and short stories by R.A. Lafferty, Jerome Bixby,Kit Reed and more.

Evanston, IL: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1953. First edition - Featured story in this issue is the first appearance of "Sky Lift" by Robert Heinlein. Also includes The Time Armada by Fox B. Holden (conclusion); Roll Out the Rolov by Harry C. Crosby; Guaranteed - Forever! by Frank M. Robinson; The Music Master by Galouye; Test Problem by Alan Ramm and more. Cover by W. A. Terry for 'Sky Lift.' In addition to his cover story, Heinlein is also featured on "introducing the author" inside the front cover, where he talks about his take on life (long-term optimist and short-term pessimist). Illustrations, cartoons. William M. Hamling, editor. 161 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by this Canadian born author, a story in which two childhood friends - a young doctor who left India to work in a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and a young woman struggling to adapt to an arranged marriage - must balance the expectations of their culture and their families with their own desires. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in October 2015, before publication, and very uncommon thus. 393 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a memoir of a woman in science, a geobiologist, and a portrait of a longtime collaboration in work and life. SIGNED on the title page and stamped with a green flower. Winner of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. 282 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel based on the four horsemen of the apocalypse - when 18 year old Gideon dies before he can become a US Army Ranger, he finds himself living a new life with strange new powers as War, one of the four horsemen - with a mission to save humanity from a re-emerging ancient evil. SIGNED on the title page and dated in October 2015, before publication. 364 pp.

Browning, MT: Blackfeet Heritage, (1978). First edition - Includes a pronunciation guide, simple words illustrated by line drawings, ready to be colored, arranged alphabetically, and the numbers one to ten, in both English and Blackfeet, Illustrated by Marilyn Woods, Blackfeet transcription by Sharron Racine. The illustrated pages are printed on the recto of each leaf only. 65 plus 2 pp Vocabulary list.

Seattle: Museums West / University of Washington Press, (1998). First edition - Exhibition catalog which looks at the ways in which Indians have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present. Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects - neon signs, toys, automobiles, cigar boxes - are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans. Foreword by Peter Hassrick; introduction by Dave Warren. Illustrated in full color throughout. Large format. Index. xvi, 144 pp. ISBN: 0-295976756.

New York: Avon, (1988). First edition - The final book in the series featuring Chance, a legend on the Mississippi River paddlewheels. "When Chance and his old compadre, Sam Clemens (alias Mark Twain), take a New Orleans bound sidewheeler, theyre plundered by river rogues and plunged into the killing currents of the Mississippi. Getting rescued by a raft riding runaway and his friend, a fugitive slave, begins one of the riskiest journeys Chance has ever taken." 154 pp. ISBN: 0-380755246.

New York: Simon & Schuster/ ATRIA, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a literate thirller about three apparently isolated thefts in three different cities, but they turn out to have more in common than first suspected. SIGNED and dated in Aug 08 on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1416550303.

New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentine.' As Michael Cunningham states, 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Stanley Hastings mystery. INSCRIBED and dated by the author on the title page, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5215.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by the daughter of Anita Desai (her second novel won the Booker Prize.) Salman Rushdie calls it 'lush and richly imagined.' SIGNED on the title page.A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the UK Betty Trask Award for first novel. 209 pp. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7119.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which moves back and forth between the 16th century Florence and Paris of Catherine Medici, where a young orphan has been trained to be her perfumer - and poisoner - and modern France where a young woman is attempting to uncover the secrets of his work.INSCRIBED on the title page. 368 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 9781451621532.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2004). First edition - After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Africa in 1815, Captain James Riley and his crew were captured by desert nomads and sold into slavery, and eventually dragged on an incredible journey through the heart of the Saharan desert. Illustrated with maps at the head of each chapter and small photographs. Includes an appendix on the publication of Riley's original account, a glossary of Arabic terms, notes and index. Maps. xi, 336 pp.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller set on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana where a vaccine against the hanta virus is being tested. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-312868995.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this African American writer - set 5 years after 'God Don't Like Ugly' the two girls are now grown - but their childhood secrets can still come back to affect their lives. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Includes a reading group guide. 311 pp,. ISBN: 1-57566-9129.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates / Forge, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Novel of the Mountain Men and fur trappers, set in the Great Plains and the remote West in the 1820s this is peopled both by fictional and real characters, including Captain William Clark and Jedediah Smith. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a reading list and sources for this novel. 395 pp. Dust jacket painting by John Thompson. ISBN: 0-765-305739.

New York: Dial Press, 1927. Hardcover first edition - Includes chapters on Cordelia Botkin, Carlyle Harris, Dr Buchanan, Dr. Bowers and Dr Crippen and much more. Preface by the author. 340 pp.

London: Harrap, (1978). Hardcover first edition - A detailed account of the search for the ruthless and notorious murderer Donald Neilson, better known as "the Black Panther", his eventual arrest and trial. Foreword by Leonard Reed, head of the Regional Crime Squad Network. Appendices, index. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-245532579.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995). First edition - A compelling holocaust memoir - a Slovene from Trieste, Italy, Pahor was a medic/prisoner in several concentration camps, including Belsen and Dachau during the final 14 months of World War II. This memoir, first published in Slovene in 1967 (under the title Nekropola, "graveyard"), describes his 1966 visit to a camp in the Vosges mountains of Eastern France, where he recalls how helpless he felt in his attempts to render medical aid in the face of extreme brutality, the endless procession of the dead and dying, and how it feels to be freezing, starving, and completely dehumanized. Translated from the Slovene by Michael Biggins. 189 pp.

New York: Viking, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation award. Perhaps even more relevant now than when it was published, since it deals with the issue of whether or not cocaine-addicted mothers can be prosecuted. INSCRIBED on the title page (For -- with warm regards") and dated in the year of publication. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670-852635.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - When Madonna was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the tech wars transforming the city, he found himself "yet another victim of San Franciscos overheated boomtown housing market, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions. He decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience, and to capture the complex, highly charged atmosphere of a cityand a lifebeing forced through a painful transition.. . The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately, in real life and in his comic. Absurd, maddening, and all-too-poignant, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world." SIGNED on the title page with a small drawing and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. 77 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0872867420.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Guatemalan-American writer's first novel - a bicultural story in the tradition of both Salinger and Garcia Marquez. Winner of the Sue Kaufman award for first fiction, nominated for the Pen/Faulkner. 450 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-5094.

London: William Tegg and Co. 1850. Hardcover - The Seer in two parts, bound in one volume, each with separate title pages, printed in two columns on each page. A collection of essays from his writings for periodicals. vi, 87, 79 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems which show Aiken's mastery of the form, published the year after he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and written during one of his most productive periods. It begins with the captivating and often anthologized "Winter for the moment takes the mind." 112 pp.

A Schilling Co, 1926. First edition - Booklet consisting of 3 pages of text in the front and 3 pages of ads for Schilling in the rear (text begins and ends inside the covers), plus 18 leaves of blank pages with 4 horizontal strips of dry gum adhesive to use to mount recipes on the recto of each leaf. Measures 9 1/8" x 7 1/16" in tan wrappers with red, green and black decorations.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Colorado author's second collection of poetry - 38 poems rooted in the prairies and peaks of the Mountain states. Winner of the "Open Competition National Poetry Series", selected by Marvin Bell. 77 pp. ISBN: 0-06015294X.

New York & London: Macmillan, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "authoritative and controversial study," from the American Revolution to the atomic age, which contends that the military strategy behind the "American Way of War" has emerged to mean "total destruction of the enemy, first of his armed forces, often of the whole fabric of his society. A title in the Macmillan Wars of the United States Series. Maps, notes, bibliography and index. xxiii, 584 pp.

New York: Bluejay Books, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Hugo Award winning novel. SIGNED on the title page. Striking cover illustration by the Dillons. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-7739-6.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. 414 pp. ISBN: 9780007149827.

New York: Blue Rider Press / Penguin Random, 2017. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in a near future United States - twenty years after their fall, the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota, and tens of thousands of people are drawn to this "American stonehenge." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 300 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. SIGNED first edition - After watching the breakdown of modern society, Hubert, Etc, has nowhere left to be except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. But when he falls in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. But it is still a "dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 379 pp.

Cincinnati: F & W Publications, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Includes works by Kiana Davenport, Carold Shields, Andrea Barrett, Peter Christopher, Elizabeth Graver , the first published story by Jeff Maehre and more. SIGNED by Jacqueline Woodson at her story "Fire." We specialize in literary journals, and have many more than we have listed on line.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2005). Hardcover first edition - A volume in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement and on. This focuses on his trip to India in 1959 and the beginning of the sit-in protests (and his arrest in October 1960) llustrated with photographs, maps and facsimiles of some manuscript pages. Includes a calendar of documents, index. xxx, 673 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-520242394.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2000). Hardcover first edition - A volume in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement and on. During this period he is involved in establishing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, attending teh independence ceremonies in Ghana, West Africa, and finally visiting the White House. llustrated with photographs and facsimiles of some manuscript pages. Includes a chronology, calendar of documents, index and more. xxxiii, 637 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-520222318.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement. Includes many selections previously unpublished. llustrated with photographs. Includes a calendar of all documents related to this period. Footnotes, index. 565 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-520079523.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988.). SIGNED first edition - His second novel - a humorous thriller set in Massachusetts, where something is rotten in Boston Harbor, a whole generation of complacent materialists have been spawned by Route 128's high-tech prosperity and mysterious speedboats are shadowing the Zodiac rafts of the local environmental group. SIGNED on the title page. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1811.

New York: Random House, (2014). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A slightly expanded version of a convocation address which Saunders gave at Syracuse University: it core of his message is "what I regret most in my life are failures of kindness." Boldly SIGNED on the title page. A small slim volume designed by Chelsea Cardinal. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0812996272.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Hardcover first edition - Begins with five pages and sauces, followed by 20 pages of shellfish and lobster recipes and so on, including a group of shredded wheat recipes - and cocktails (that do not need a chafing-dish) 84 pp. 2 pp ads at beginning, 1 p at end.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1920. Hardcover first edition - #171 out of a total edition of 400 copies of this collection of three short stories. Printed by John Henry Nash with decorations by Ray F. Coyle. 37 pp plus colophon.

New York: Ballantine, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy, SIGNED on the title page by Martin. Map endpapers. 1016 pp. ISBN: 9780553801477.

New York: Bantam, (1996). SIGNED first edition - The second thriller written under this pseudonym. SIGNED on the title page by Nea Stephenson. 384 pp. ISBN: 0-553-378287.

New York: The Century Co., 1922. Hardcover - A story for older children or young adults which is set against one of Seaman's more unusual locations: Number Six in the title refers to a now abandoned pool from a phospate mine, and the idyllic loveliness of this pool is contrasted against the scenes of the working mine. Interesting picture of Florida during the early 1920s - references to selling an alligator hide for a dollar, the young people attend a moving picture show, etc. Illustrated by W. P. Couse with 3 inserted plates on glossy stock. (missing the frontispiece) 254 pp.

New York: Century, (1918.). Hardcover - One of Seaman's earlier mysteries, and one of her more appealing stories in many ways: it is the only one of her books to be set in Connecticut, in a thinly disguised version of her mother's hometown of Stratford, and is notable for its careful attention to pre-Revolutionary architecture. It is also the first of her mysteries to bring in the theme of the survival of Louis, Dauphin of France. Written in the first person, in lively journal entries by a young Helen Roberta - called Bobs - this is set against the backdrop of the first World War raging in Europe, although the United States is not yet involved. This book was dedicated by Seaman to 'the real Helen Roberta', her daughter, called Bobbie. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea with a frontispiece and 3 glossy plates. 275 pp.

New York: Arbor House, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of growing up in the "Polish-Jewish enclave of Crotona Park, New York in the 1940s'" INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted collector Larry Owens from "catfish Jerome." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-877952493.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1999). SIGNED - A significant anthology which collects the works of seventy-six contemporary California poets, including Philip Levine, Peter Everwine, Mark Jarman, Adrienne Rich, Dennis Schmitz, Carolyn Kizer, Gary Soto, Al Young, Kim Addonizio, Charles Wright, Carol Muske, David St. John, Larry Levis, Robert Hass, Gary Snyder, William Everson, Gary Soto, Luis Omar Salinas, Diane Wakoski, Garrett Hongo, Jane Hirsheld, and Brenda Hillman, Sherley Ann Williams, and many more. Each poet has written an introductory statement for their selections, and each is accompanied by a photograph of the poets. SIGNED by TWO poets at their selections: Gary Soto and Carol Muske (Dukes). 444 pp. ISBN: 1-890771198.

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1948. Hardcover first edition - First edition of this landmark work in the study of human sexuality - dedicated to 'the twelve thousand persons who have contributed to these data.' Graphs, charts, bibliography, index. 804 pp.

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

New York: Vintage Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - An anthology described as "the first book to gather Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts in one volume that summarizes the richness and depth of a great national literature. From the turn of the century to the present, from Havana to Miami, New York, Mexico City, Madrid and beyond, the spirit and diversity of Cuban culture converge in one vibrant literary jam session. Cristina Garca has ingeniously grouped her selections according to 'the music of their sentences' into five sections named for Cuban dance styles." INSCRIBED and signed by Garcia on the title page "To Mary, warm wishes." Introduction by Garcia, Notes on the authors. xxii, 378 pp. ISBN: 0-385721374.

New York: Oxford University Press, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Biography of the author of "Gone With the Wind" - one which explores how her Southern upbringing, in which she was imbued from childhood with tales of the Civil War, affected the novel. Overall a sympathetic and perceptive look at a woman who in many ways defied the cultural expectations of her time. Photographs. Notes, index. xix, 533 pp. ISBN: 0-195052765.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains the complete text of The Hard Hours (1968), Millions of Strange Shadows (1977) and The Venetian Vespers (1979). Notes.272 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585054.

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eighty-four writers pay tribute to their favorite bricks-and-mortar stores. Contributors include Martha Ackmann, Isabel Allende, Rick Atkinson, Wendell Berry, Jeanne Birdsall, Rick Bragg, Charles Brandt, Douglas Brinkley, Liam Callanan, Ron Carlson, Kate Christensen, Carmela Ciuraru, Meg Waite Clayton, John Clinch, Mick Cochrane, Ron Currie, Jr., Angela Davis-Gardner, Ivan Doig, Laurent Dubois, Timothy Egan, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Jonathan Evison, Kathleen Finneran, Fannie Flagg, Ian Frazier, Mindy Friddle, David Fulmer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter Geye, Albert Goldbarth, John Grisham, Pete Hamill, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, Elin Hilderbrand, Ann Hood, Pico Iyer, Ward Just, Lesley Kagen, Stephanie Kallos, Larry Kane, Laurie R. King, Katrina Kittle, Scott Lasser, Ann Haywood Leal, Caroline Leavitt, Mike Leonard, Robert N. Macomber, Jill McCorkle, Mameve Medwed, Wendell and Florence Minor, Barry Moser, Howard Frank Mosher, Arthur Nersesian, Kate Niles, Ann Packer, Chuck Palahniuk, Ann Pratchett, Edith Pearlman, Jack Pendarvis, Francine Prose, Ron Rash, Tom Robbins, Adam Ross, Carrie Ryan, Lisa See, Brian Selznick, Mahbod Seraji, Nancy Shaw, Jeff Smith, Lee Smith, Les Standiford, Nancy Thayer, Michael Tisserand, Luis Alberto Urrea, Abraham Verghese, Audrey Vernick, Matt Weiland, Stephen White, Joan Wickersham, Terry Tempest Williams and Simon Winchester. SIGNED by Francine Prose at her selection - New York's Strand Bookstore. Introduction by Richard Russo; afterword by Emily St John Mandel and illustrations by Leif Parsons. List of bookstores by location. xiv, 378 pp. ISBN: 978-1579129101.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A volume in the definitive edition of his speeches, sermons, letters, published writings and unpublished manuscripts, which cover the period of King's emergence as a public figure in the Civil Rights movement and on. While the other volumes in this series are more chronological, this focuses primarily on his unpublished sermons, which were found in the King family house in 1997. llustrated with photographs and facsimiles of some manuscript pages. Includes a sermon file inventory, a list of selected books from King's personal library, a calendar index. xxxiii, 720 pp. Somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 978-0520248748.