London: Michael Joseph, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early suspense novel set in the world of horse racing and training by this Edgar award-winning writer. 215 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-718108981.

London: Gollancz, 1988. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery set in Chicago and featuring private investigator V. I . Warshinsky. The UK edition preceded the US edition, which was published under the title Blood Shot. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-575043725.

London: Michael Joseph, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final volume in his epic trilogy on the life of King Arthur. This series "introduces us to an Arthur who is both utterly convincing and a true hero: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant." SIGNED on the title page. List of characters. Map endpapers. Historical note. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-7181-00573.

London: Michael Joseph, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second volume in his epic trilogy on the life of King Arthur. This series "introduces us to an Arthur who is both utterly convincing and a true hero: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant." SIGNED on the title page. List of characters. Map endpapers. Author's note. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-7181-00514.

London: Michael Joseph, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first volume in his epic trilogy on the life of King Arthur. This series "introduces us to an Arthur who is both utterly convincing and a true hero: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant." SIGNED on the title page. List of characters. Map endpapers. Brief excerpt from the second volume in the series. Author's note. 435 pp. ISBN: 0-7181-37620.

London: Michael Joseph, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A complete set of the three volumes published between 1995 and 1997 in this epic trilogy on the life of King Arthur. This series "introduces us to an Arthur who is both utterly convincing and a true hero: a man of honor, loyalty, and amazing valor; a man who loves Guinevere more passionately than he should; a man whose life is at once tragic and triumphant." Each book is SIGNED on the title page Each includes list of characters. Map endpapers. Author's note. 435, 397 and 436 pp. ISBN: 0-7181-37620.

London: Bloodlines / Do-Not Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Novel introducing Dectective Inspector Christy Kennedy, who is investigating the disappearance of the manager of a record company. The first novel by this author who is best known as music promoter and agent. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 232 pp plus author's note and 5 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-899344161.

San Francisco: Elders Academy Press, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first separate book appearance of Steinem's long inspiring essay, "Doing Sixty" in which she shares her views on age stereotyping, the unexpected liberation that comes with growing older. Includes a new preface, "Into the Seventies", written when Steinem was just past seventy and twelve years after the essay was first published. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2008. Notes. 4 pp publisher's ads. 72 pp. ISBN: 0-97587442X.

New York: Harper & Row, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery featuring Lovejoy of Lovejoy Antiques, antique lover, woman lover and sometimes sleuth. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-060114622.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978). Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Lovejoy of Lovejoy Antiques, antique lover, woman lover and sometimes sleuth. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0114630.

London: Michael Joseph, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the world of horse racing, featuring Matt Shore, a pilot for a racecourse charter plane. 206 pp. Dust jacket design by Jay J. Smith. ISBN: 0-7181-07802.

New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first mystery, winner of the Edgar for best first crime novel of the year. Introduces homicide detective Casey Martinelli. INSCRIBED by King on the dedication page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-088043.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 32nd - and final - Miss Silver mystery. The story of a young woman who discovers a body at the foot of the cellar stairs but has no recollection of who she is or how she came to be there. 190 pp.

Bhaidaini, Varanasi, India: Shree Shree Anandamayee Sangha, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Scarce first edition of this account of the life of Sri Anandamayi Ma, an Indian Hindu spiritual leader who was called "the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced." This covers her childhood through the last year in Dacca in 1931. Photographs, Glossary, iv, 213 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book contrasting the disintegration of society in two different centuries: the early 18th c of Nicholas Dyer, architect, and the 20th c of Nicholas Hawksmoor, senior police officer involved in a murder investigation. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0155035.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth V. I. Warshawsky mystery, set in Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-688064485.

New York: Morrow, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh mystery featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-688145736.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh mystery in the award-winning series featuring Faith Fairchild, caterer and minister's wife, set in the fictitious town of Aleford, Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, recipes. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-380-978423.

New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this significant Supreme Court decision, this is an anthology by ten of today's top writers for children - both African American and white - including Eloise Greenfield, Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, Lois Lowry, Jean Craighead George, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Patterson, Michael Cart, Leona Nicholas Welch and Thomas herself - which presents their experiences and recollections of life before the historical Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools in 1954, and afterwards. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Thomas on title page and uncommon thus. Illustrated with full page color pastel drawings by James Curtis. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-786808217.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd mystery novel featuring former FBI agent, Ella Clah, who has returned to the reservation as a special investigator with the Navajo police force. Explores the conflicts between the traditional and modernist ways of life.SIGNED on the title page. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-312-863284.

Cincinnati: Benziger, 1930. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon early novel for older boys by this Jesuit priest - a contemporary review described it as "a sparkling story of Catholic High School life. Throughout we enjoy thrilling plays made by Harry Brown, left-half on the Barchester Minors, guard on the Minor Five, and their snappy second baseman. Delightful incidents of the classroom, amusing episodes outside of class, and unexepected occurrences in the big university of life are neatly and artistically painted in this enjoyable picture of Sophomore activities at Barchester High. Boys will admire and like, and will want to imitate Harry Brown 'a real boy of boys, excellent at games, cheerful, ready for jollity and a joke-even a fight for a good cause,'and a fine student." Frontispiece. 254 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the front cover of the dust jacket:"More than 200,000 words of the best Mystery and Suspense fiction from around the world by Doug Allyn, Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Bill Pronzini and many others." Other contributors include Val McDermid, Susan Isaacs, Bill Crider and many others. Introductory essays on the year in crime fiction and reports from Canada, Great Britain and Germany. SIGNED on the title page by Carole Nelson Douglas. 638 pp. ISBN: 0-765308487.

San Francisco: Travelers' Tales, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of an unusual quest: "'Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America.' Brad Newsham was only 22 when he scribbled this note in his journal with 'only an immature sense of the staying power of ideas.' Years later, this casual prophecy came true, and Newsham documents the events that led up to it in . . the story of his 100-day journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as he seeks just the right person to bring to America." SIGNED on the title page. Double page map, photographs. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-885211511.

New York: Pantheon, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but powerful account of the history of the African American slave from Africa into enslavement, from Virginia to Mississippi, and to emancipation. ISBN: 0-394-416414.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, the first book in an epic fantasy series, a retelling of the Celtic 'swans' myths, by this young Australian writer. 400 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by John Jude Palencar. ISBN: 0-312-84879X.

New York, Cincinnati & Boston: John Bradburn / Rickey & Carroll / A. Williams & Co., 1864. Hardcover first edition - A contemporary review in the New Englander and Yale review, July 1864, described this book thus: "This very fruitful theme is treated by the author with great boldness of speech and with no little force of conception. The Principle of Secession, Slavery, The Democratic Party, The Romish Church, and other topics, are all discussed in the most energetic fashion. If it were possible for any deliverances to be too strongly expressed perhaps exception might be taken to some in this volume, especially to the free use of personalities. But the sincerity of the author, and the truthfulness of the most of his representations, are fitted to reconcile the loyal reader to what would otherwise be deemed offenses against good taste The author writes in a religious spirit, and with the earnestness and energy of strong convictions." In addition to the topics singled out by this reviewer, there are chapters on the South in 1776 and in the framing of the constitution, on the role of the slave master, etc., all written from a strong abolitionist viewpoint. Appendix. 328 pp.

London: Collins Crime Club, (1988) 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. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-00232167x.

New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, an amateur and very prickly sleuth, set in a small village in the Cotswalds. SIGNED on the title page. Basis for the television series. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312-145381.

London: Headline (Hodder), (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Volume V of the Domesday Books, the fifth in a series of historical mysteries set in England during the reign of William the Conqueror in the late 11th century and inspired by actual entries in the Domesday Book. SIGNED on the title page. Map of Canterbury.. 307 pp,. ISBN: 0-7472-19796.

London: Allison & Busby, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth book in the Restoration Mysteries series,set in 1670 London (after the Great Fire of 1666) and featuring young architect Christopher Redmayne. SIGNED on the title page. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-749082852.

London: Bantam, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery under this pseudonym - an Elizabethan whodunit introducing an acting troupe led by book holder Nicholas Bracewell. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-593017749.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing half-Cherokee Police Chief Mitch Bushyhead, set in modern Oklahoma Cherokee society. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-029233.

Minneapolis: The Board of Foreign Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, (1947). SIGNED first edition - A first hand account of eight years in China during the Japanese occupation in World War II, by a Norwegian born missionary, sponsored by what was then the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. He served in China some 40 years, principally from 1926 to 1951 in Sinyang. During the US-Japan hostilities he was interned in Wuhan. Preface by A. S. Burgess. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs, map. vii, 119 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the highly praised Duncan Kincaid - Gemma James mystery series, set in Glastonbury, a town revered as the site of an ancient abbey and in legend as the burial place of King Arthur. SIGNED on the title page. 325 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-553-109561.

London: Piatkus, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his boss Gerry Heffernan. An interesting series both for its combination of historical mysteries which parallel the contemporary story and for its protaganist: Peterson is the son of two Trinidian doctors who emigrated to England, a university graduate with a degree in archeology and a young married father trying to balance the demands of his job with the needs of his family. "Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day. . At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows. And a few days later her bridegroom is found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. . . . Meanwhile the skeleton of a young female is found buried in a farmer's field - a field that once belonged to the family of Ralph Strong, an Elizabethan playwright whose play, 'The Fair Wife of Padua' is to be performed for the first time in four hundred years" SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-749907835.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of the author's second book. Illustrations by Captain Louis Keene. Mayo was known as a Nativist and for her xenophobia. In addition to her three books on the Pennsylvania state police, she was influential in the efforts to establish a state police force in New York and "supported their ability to control immigrants and blacks whose involvement in labor rights agitations were viewed by Mayo as a threat to white supremacy." She is best known for her 1927 polemic on India - "Mother India" - a racist and pro-imperialist work which attacked Hindu society and religion, and the culture of India, and one which was used by the British authorities to counter the growing support for an independent India. 324 pp.

London: W. H. Allen, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of obsession by one of the great writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction - a "what if" exploration of the story behind one of the most puzzling maritime mysteries of all time: on December 4, 1872, the Mary Celeste was found adrift off the coast of Portugal with cargo in her hold, food upon her tables, and half-written letters on her captains desk, but not a soul on board. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-49102133X.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1914. Hardcover first edition - A title in The World To-day Series - a look at the history, geology, people and future of Hawaii. Illustrated with 37 photographs including a frontispiece of "world-famed Waikiki Beach." Bibliography, index. x, 329 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1997). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1996 Betty Trask Award. Charlies Wooldridge, a "mildly shady antique dealer" has acquired an antiquarian book shop, and finds his life changed drastically when he discovered it contained a cache of letters which describe an encounter with Lord Byron. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-22404317X.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel to feature Charles Paris, professional actor and amateur sleuth. "It is a lighthearted frolic that is, at the same time, a beautifully ingenious puzzle" 192 pp. ISBN: 0-684-147076.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel set in 1676 in Restoration London, one which recreates the London of Pepys and Dryden and interweaves fact and fiction as it features spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn. "King Charles is on his rocky throne, surrounded by a full complement of spies, lackeys, and mistresses. . .. Nell Gwyn, a longtime favorite, is also still on the scene when a poet-playwright friend, Aphra Behn, enlists her help in the tutelage of would-be actress Elizabeth Decker, mistress of the Earl of Rochester, for the leading part in her newest playa move Aphra hopes will improve her near-penniless state." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-575-061324.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1921. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon brief biography of this noted Jewish leader. Jacob Henry Schiff (1847 - 1920) was an "American banker, businessman, and philanthropist. He helped finance, among many other things, the Japanese military efforts against Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Schiff migrated to the United States after the American civil war, and joined the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. From his base on Wall Street, he was the foremost Jewish leader from 1880 to 1920, grappling with all major Jewish issues and problems of the day, including the plight of Russian Jews under the Tsar, American and international anti-Semitism, care of needy Jewish immigrants, and the rise of Zionism." 69 pp.

London: Macmillan, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel featuring Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard - in this, his ex-wife who is researching the life of a poet, one supposedly committed suicide and she becomes convinced that the poet did not take her own life and asks Kincaid's help. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-333717325.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the highly praised Duncan Kincaid - Gemma James mystery series. INSCRIBED on the page and dated in the year of publication. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-060525258.

Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the The Seven Deadly Sins Series. Includes a new novella, 'Speaking of Greed', by Block and 19 stories by other contributors: F. Paul Wilson, Doug Allyn, Gabrielle Kraft, Jack Ritchie, Jeremiah Healy, David Morrell, Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Matt Coward, John F. Suter, Peter Robinson, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Ed Gorman, Marcia Muller, Helen Nielsen, Gillian Roberts, Sue Dunlap and Brendan DuBois. INSCRIBED on the title page by Block and dated in the year of publication. Authors' biographies. 360 pp. ISBN: 1581822219.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Award winning author's second novel - a modern Gothic novel and an exploration of a priest's faith. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-224050397.

New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "When dog writer Holly Winter receives her first book contract, her research leads to some surprising - and deadly- discoveries." SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-385486693.

London: Bloodlines / Do-Not Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring Dectective Inspector Christy Kennedy. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 268 pp plus 7 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-899344292.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the highly praised Duncan Kincaid - Gemma James mystery series. Gemma accompanies her friend Hazel Cavendish to Scotland for a cookery weekend, only to have the friend suspected of murder. A "limited and signed first edition, specially bound by the publisher" and SIGNED on the bound-in preliminary page. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0525231.

London: Orion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A suspense thriller - Eight years after his wife disappeared and her body was found, Dr Beck receives a message saying there is evidence his wife is alive. SIGNED on the title page. True first edition, and issued in a much smaller printing than the US edition. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-752846027.

New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fast-paced thriller featuring hot-headed sports agent, and reluctant private eye, Myron Bolitar. SIGNED on the title page. the fifth novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-385323697.

New York: Delacorte, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fast-paced thriller featuring hot-headed sports agent, and reluctant private eye, Myron Bolitar. SIGNED on the title page. The seventh novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-385334338.

New York: Delacorte, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fast-paced thriller featuring hot-headed sports agent, and reluctant private eye, Myron Bolitar. SIGNED on the title page. The sixth novel by this Edgar-award winning writer. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-385323719.

New York: George Braziller , (1985). Hardcover first edition - The first printing of this facsimile of the original 1948 limited edition with twenty sonnets by the sixteenth century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote,each illustrated with a full-page drawing (19 of them portraits of women) by Picasso. In addition, Picasso wrote out each sonnet by hand. New introduction to this edition by John Russell. Translated by Alan S. Trueblood. Large format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-807611336.

Mill Valley, CA: D'Aurora Press, (cc 1988, c1978). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems born out of a woman's poetry group in 1973 (the copyright date is apparently a typo, since these were not published until 15 years later - that is, 1988). INSCRIBED on the title page by FOUR of the poets - Judy Askew, Doreen Stock, Barbara Gravelle, and Nona Nimnicht - to poet Elizabeth Harrod, whose work is also included in this book. Introduction by Askew and Nimnicht. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-933022034.

New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A re-creation of one of the most enigmatic cases in American history - "After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. . . . Four years later, in 1936, Heller - now a private detective, and considered an expert and insider on the Lindbergh case - is hired by the governor of New Jersey in an eleventh-hour quest to determine the guilt or innocence of Bruno Hauptmann, who sits on death row convicted of the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh child." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note - "I Owe Them One." 516 pp. ISBN: 0-553071335.

Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A later mystery featuring an antiquarian bookseller by this author who was himself a bookseller. "Jack Quinn, a dealer in rare books, is asked by an American customer to discover what happened to the papers of Gerald Despain, a fanatical anti-Semite and British traitor who joined the Nazis in 1939." #5 of 50 numbered copies printed on French Speckletone paper, designed by Ellis H. Neal Jr and SIGNED by the author (out of a total edition of 650 copies). 146 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-961969334.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which combines insights from business practices, government policies and individual decision-making. "Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. . . . [this ranges from] joyous celebrations at the Nobel Prize ceremony to angry airport protests against the Trump administration's travel ban. It explores why talented migration drives the knowledge economy, describes how universities and firms govern skilled admissions, explains the controversies of the H-1B visa used by firms like Google and Apple, and discusses the economic inequalities and superstar firms that global talent flows produce." Extensive notes, index. xiv, 237 pp. ISBN: 978-1503605022.

New York: Grove Press, (1968). First edition - A book of aphorisms which take on the stereotypes of what being Black in the US is like. Published at the height of the civil rights movement, perhaps the saddest thing about this book is how much is still true now, fifty years later. " Black is being accused of causing trouble but always winding up as the casualties . .. Black is when folks say you've got to earn the rights the Constitution guaranteed you already had" and more. Each is printed in white lettering on black paper with an illustration by Ann Weisman on the facing page. Unpaginated.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of the 11th Olympiad in the late 21st century. SIGNED on the title page by both Niven and Barnes. Illustrated and with dust jacket art by Boris Vallejo. ISBN: 0-312-850999.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1960.) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated on the double title page, three en texte illustrations. Bound in rust tweed cloth boards, map of Spindrift island on endpapers. Lists to #16 at front of book and to this title on the rear dj flap. 181 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1959) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A love letter to San Francisco, a "flagrant unabashed valentine" illustrated with 200 photographs, including 4 in color, by photographers from Ansel Adams to Jerome Zerbe. Boldly SIGNED by Conrad on the half title page. Maps, index. Large format. 228 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes as Mary investigates the disappearance of a woman on a supervised outing from Bedlam. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 306 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in contemporary Oxford by this author best known for his series of mysteries featuring Aurelio Zen. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-571162169.

London: Bloodlines / Do-Not Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring Dectective Inspector Christy Kennedy and his Camden town team. SIGNED by the author on the title page with the words "All the best" and dated in the year of publication. 230 pp plus 10 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1-899344381.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original short stories by members of the 1994 Sycamore Hill Writers' Conference. INSCRIBED by James Patrick Kelly at his story "The First Law of Thermodynamics. Also includes "Sex Education" by Nancy Kress; "T Hardened Criminals" by Jonathan Lethem; "The Marianas Islands" by Karen Joy Fowler and other stories by Richard Butner, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Frazier, Gregory Frost, Alexander Jablokov, John Kessel, Maureen F. McHugh, Michaela Roessner, Bruce Sterling, and Mark L. Van 384 pp. ISBN: 0-312-860900.

New York: Ace Books, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A fantasy world where everything - even murder - is real. Story was inspired, in part, by the Cargo Cults of the Melanasian Islands in the South Pacific. SIGNED on the title page by both Niven and Barnes. .Originally issued as a limited edition by Phantasia Press and in pocket paperback only. 341 pp. Dust jacket art by Carlos Ochagavia.

New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original science fiction stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Raylyn Moore, Bruce McAllister, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Siverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Joseph A. Howell, Joseph L. Green, Joe Haldeman, and Gene Wolfe. Introduction by Jack Dann. SIGNED by FIVE authors at their stories: Raphael. A. Lafferty, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman and Ben Bova (INSCRIBED by Bova at Torcon 2) 191 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0111771.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel, winner of the Macmillan First Crime Novel Competition. Set in 1879 during a rather bizarre athletic - or endurance - contest, known as a 6 Day Wobble. Introduces Sergeant Cribb. A Red Badge Novel of Suspense. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-396-062334.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery novel in this series festuring psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase, set in the San Diego / Escondido area, where an arsonist is setting deadly fires. SIGNED on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-312-202997.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte. Published in the UK a year later under the title "The Cake in the Hatbox." 187 pp. Dust jacket art by Franklyn Webber.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's seventh novel featuring Detective Chief Inspector Ian Roper. set in a small town in Cornwall. Even though an arrest has been made for the murder of a woman in her kitchen, and the case is officially closed, it continues to bother Roper and he is given the go-ahead to search for her missing daughter. 170 pp. Dust jacket art by Terry Pastor. ISBN: 0-094773505.

London: Allison & Busby, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth book in the Restoration Mysteries series,set in London after the Great Fire of 1666 and featuring young architect Christopher Redmayne. SIGNED on the title page. Map. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-747275858.

The Ferdinand Phinizy Lectures, University of Georgia, 1978. First edition - Slim brochure printing the lecture given by Percy, foreword by George O. Marshall and introduction by B. Phinizy Spalding. x, 18 pp. . Bound in stapled beige wrappers with dark brown lettering and photograph of Percy on front cover. Laid in is a program for the event with biographical information on Percy and information on the lecture series, a single sheet folded, with the same photograph on the front cover. Uncommon.

New York: Ballantine, 1968. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page, and scarce thus. The first book publication of the first novel in the classic Dragonrider series (it incorporates material from two award winning novellas- 'Weyr Search' which received the 1968 Hugo and 'Dragon Rider' which received the 1968 Nebula. ) U6124. 309 pp.

New York: Dell, (1976). SIGNED first edition - First mystery featuring Matt Scudder - "New York's answer to Lew Archer." "The hooker was young, pretty . . . and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. The prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, the victim of a jailhouse suicide. The case is closed, as far as the NYPD is concerned. Now the murdered prostitute's father wants it opened again - and that's where Matthew Scudder comes in. But this assignment carries the unmistakable stench of sleaze and perversion, luring ex-cop-turned-investigator Scudder into a sordid world of phony religion and murderous lust where children must die for their parents most secret, unspeakable sins." SIGNED on the title page. DELL 7991. 189 pp plus 3 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Ballantine, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel originally published as a paperback original Movie tie-in edition with a page showing the cast. SIGNED on the title page by Donald Glut, and uncommon thus. Second printing with code of K41. 183 pp

San Francisco: Night Shade Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Stormy weather and turbulent revelations charge the tense atmosphere of this cunning exercise in magic realism, first published in the U.K. as a paperback original in 1998. Set in the French countryside, it presents the daily interactions of a group of British travelers who discover that vacationing together is no holiday." (PW) Edition limited 1000 copies all of which have been SIGNED by the author on a special illustrated preliminary page. 271 pp. ISBN: 1-892389363.

New York: The Viking Press, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of an American family who consider themselves just 'ordinary people' but find themselves dealing with the death of one son, and the attempted suicide of another. Basis for the 1980 movie by the same name, first film directed by Robert Redford, winner of an Oscar as best Picture, of a Golden Globe forfor Mary Tyler Moore as best actress. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-670528315.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery novel in this series festuring psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase, set in Southern California. INSCRIBED on the title page. "To -- Pisces Rules!" 254 pp. ISBN: 0-312-202989.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the award-winning series featuring Irene Adler, the beautiful opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Map, selected bibliography and reader's guide. 492 pp. ISBN: 0-765-306824.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the award-winning series featuring Irene Adler, the beautiful opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Cast of characters, double page map, selected bibliography and reader's guide. 494 pp. ISBN: 0-312854935.

New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book in the award winning detective series featuring private investigator John Cuddy, set in Boston. SIGNED by author on title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-671-009532.

New York: Viking, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Eight deaf schoolgirls and their teacher are taken hostage, and their captors, escaped prisoners, threaten to kill one per hour until their demands are met. SIGNED by Deaver twice - on the title page and on a bookplate on the front endpaper. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-670866229.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Washington DC featuring special agent Margaret LuKas and Parker Kinkaid, a retired FBI agent. SIGNED by Deaver on the title page. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-684-852926.

London: Pan / Macmillan, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the sixth book in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-3336573751.

London: Heinemann, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of the tenth book in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-3336573751.

New York: Pegasus Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one inspired by true events - Set in the 1950s, this is the story of a young woman, a Texan art student, who follows her dream and relocates to Mexico, where she finds herself under the instruction of Fermin, a retired matador who is intent on asserting his dominance in their partnership. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1681774268.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel -a story about a young boy who believes in magic and a disillusioned old man who believes in nothing. Ranging from 1934, where a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp" to 70 years later, when a 10 year old boy finds a scratched LP that captures Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 375 pp. ISBN: 978-1501155826.

New York: Nation Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the science and psychology behind fear-based politics: "Why is an unarmed young black woman who knocks on a stranger's front door to ask for help after her car breaks down perceived to be so threatening that he shoots her dead? Why do we fear infrequent acts of terrorism more far more common acts of violence? Why does a disease like Ebola, which killed only a handful of Americans, provoke panic, whereas the flu--which kills tens of thousands each year--is dismissed with a yawn?. . . a journey through a divided nation, where everything from immigration to disease, gun control to health care has become fodder for fearmongers and conspiracists, . . . exposing deeply ingrained strains of racism, classism, and xenophobia within our culture, as well as our growing susceptibility to the toxic messages of demagogues." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Index. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1568585192.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the people and stories behind "the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years and thirty-five miles, five major industriespersonal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logicwere born.. . Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators like Steve Jobs, Regis McKenna, Larry Ellison, and Don Valentine are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who kick-started the Arpanet and masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first wildly successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from an assembler on a factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future." SIGNED and dated on the title page. Illustrated with photographs, both black and while and in color. Notes, index. xvi, 494 pp. ISBN: 978-1451651508.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set on a greatly changed earth in the 24th century. "Ecological and biological catastrophe have raged across the planet, but for the survivors, it is a world of plenty. Even the poorest live in abundance, and the upper class - the ascendant - command technological marvels." 480 pp. ISBN: 0-765311283.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A classic 'first contact' novel; on the front of the dj is a quote from Heinlein calling it 'possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read.' SIGNED on the title page by Larry Niven. 475 pp. ISBN: 0-671218336.

New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014). SIGNED - The second book in her award-winning trilogy - the first book was the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula ,Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, and this one was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula. Continues the story of Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp plus an excerpt from 'Leviatian Awakes' by James Corey. ISBN: 978-0316246651.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixth mystery novel, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Ian Roper. set in a small town in Cornwall. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 176 pp. Dust jacket art by Terry Pastor who SIGNED the front flap of the jacket (an award-winning illustrator, Pastor is perhaps best known for his iconic album covers for David Bowie.). ISBN: 0-094765006.

London: Methuen, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book featuring Juan Llorca, a member of the Spanish Civil Guard. When a Texas oil millionaire with a penchant for paintings is murdered, Juan finds himself distracted by the beautiful but enigmatic young English widow Julia Fairfax and distraught when she becomes a prime suspect in the murder case. There are hints of blackmail and art forgery as well. An enjoyable mystery with an authentic background of life in a Spanish village - a village much like the one where the author lives. 200 pp.

Creston Books, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the the true story of Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and spent twenty-two years, from 1960 to 1982, to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village in India from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Illustrated in full color by Danny Popovici. SIGNED on the title page by the author with the words "May you move mountains!" Large format. ISBN: 978-1939547347.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase, set in the San Diego / Escondido area. In this book, she becomes involved in the search for a violent serial rapist. SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-145691.

London: Chatto & Windus, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Ackroyd's definitive account of the city of London from its earliest days to the beginning of the 21st century - a city which, for him, is an organism with its own laws of growth and change - thus this book is called a biography rather than a history. He reveals many of the ways in which the continuity of the city survives, in ward boundaries unchanged since the Middle Ages, in vocabulary and in various traditions, and also shows London as constantly changing, yet forever the same in essence. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color, and drawings. SIGNED on the title page. Sources, chronology from 54 BC to 2000 AD, maps. Index. xxiii, 822 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-856197166.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing psychic investigator Elizabeth Chase, set in the San Diego / Escondido area. She is asked to investigate the death of a young woman, apparently caused by an automobile accident. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the Edgar for best first novel. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-312-13567x.