Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures series, and the first comprehensive look at the history of Hamas. "Neither a democratic political party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization, one rooted in the nationalist claims of the Palestinian people. . . Drawing on interviews with organization leaders, as well as publications from the group, Tareq Baconi maps Hamas's thirty-year transition from fringe military resistance towards governance. He breaks new ground in questioning the conventional understanding of Hamas and shows how the movement's ideology ultimately threatens the Palestinian struggle and, inadvertently, its own legitimacy." Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0804797412.

New York: Penguin, 2013. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of how Pollan learned the magic of cooking - "Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, [he] learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. . . A North Carolina barbecue pit master tutors him in the primal magic of fire; a Chez Panissetrained cook schools him in the art of braising; a celebrated baker teaches him how air transforms grain and water into a fragrant loaf of bread; and finally, several mad-genius "fermentos" (a tribe that includes brewers, cheese makers, and all kinds of picklers) reveal how fungi and bacteria can perform the most amazing alchemies of all." SIGNED on the title page. Sources, index. 468 pp. ISBN: 978-1594205422.

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Dream Park, "the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest Game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made--or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented was going to be tested." SIGNED on the title page by BOTH authors. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-345365984.

New York: Random House, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second volume of memoirs by this Nobel Prize winning author, the first African writer to win a Nobel in literature. This covers his turbulent life both in Nigeria, where he was imprisoned for his opposition to dictatorship and in exile from his country. SIGNED on the title page. Maps, chronology. xx, 499 pp. ISBN: 978-0375503658.

Boston: Charles Fox, n.d. [1847]. Hardcover - Although the book has only the orginal copyright of 1838, a letter to Charles Fox (the author's son) from Jared Sparks in 1847 is printed on the copyright page (Sparks was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister who went on to serve as president of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853). Ebenezer Fox joined the Roxbury, Massachusetts militia in 1779, and a year later he signed-on as a deck hand on the gun ship Protector. When the Protector was taken by the British, Fox Fox was imprisoned on the Jersey, and in this book he described the conditions very vividly and in detail: "The idea of being incarcerated in this floating pandemonium filled us with horror, but the ideas we had formed of its horror fell far short of the reality. . . I now found myself in a loathsome prison, among a collection of the most wretched and disgusting looking objects that I ever beheld in human form. Here was a motley crew, covered with rags and filth; visages pallid with disease; emaciated with hunger and anxiety; and hardly retaining a trace of their original appearance." Illustrated with eight full page engravings. Small format. vi, 240 pp.

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, (1991.). Hardcover - A lovely edition of this classic novel illustrated by Mario Stasolla. Foreword by Edmund Wilson (who prepared this novel - unfinished at the time of Fitzgerald's death -for publication.) Collector's edition bound in dark brown leather with red, white and gilt lettering and design, hubbed spine, all edges gilt, ribbon book mark, moire silk endpapers, slightly oversized. 171 pp.

New York: Random House, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by the author of the Man Booker finalists "Cloud Atlas" and "Number9 Dream." Set in 1799 on Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, an artificial island which is the Japanese Empire's sole window onto the world, and the farthest outpost of the Dutch East Indies Company. Among his many awards, Mitchell has been selected as one of the best young British authors by Granta. SIGNED on the title page. 479 pp. ISBN: 9781400065455.

New York: Delacorte, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book, second collection of short stories. The title story is a four part novella about the adventures of an early 20th century immigrant. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-440-02204-5.

London: Methuen, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first collection of poems by this Nobel Prize winning author, published when he was in prison in Nigeria for allegedly supporting secessionist Biafra. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. Notes, 88 pp. ISBN: 0-416-46310x.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1972. SIGNED first edition - Early collection of poems by this Nobel Prize winning author - this is the publisher's paperback edition, but in a glossy hardcover binding. SIGNED on title page and uncommon thus. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-13649.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of essays by this Nobel Laureate writer, originally delivered at Harvard University in 1997 as the inaugural lectures at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute Macmillan series. " In the face of centuries-long devastation wrought on the African continent and her diaspora by slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism, what form of recompense could possibly be adequate? .... Soyinka examines the question, illuminating the principle duty and 'near intolerable burden' of memory to bear the record of injustice." Leopold Senghor, Martin Luther King, the genocide in Sudan, the atrocities in Nigeria are just a few of the topics Soyinka touches on. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5122054.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A time traveling novel featuring a 1990s Los Angeles lawyer with no special technical or historical knowledge. Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a single mother of two, struggling with daycare, a deadbeat ex-husband and being overlooked for promotion. And then one morning she awakens in second-century Carnuntum, a town near the Roman Empire's borders where death, disease, and dirt are commonplace. Slavery and corporal punishment are facts of life, and war, pillage, and rape are constant threats. Mere survival is hard work, especially when plague and war come to the time. SIGNED by Turtledove on the title page. 508 pp. ISBN: 0-312864876.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Book One of a new fantasy series set in the world of Corus, a civilization that has fought its way up from disaster milleniums ago, but remembers little of its roots, a place of magical powers and of a few people talented enough to use them. Illustrated map endpapers. SIGNED on the title page. 558 pp. Wraparound dustjacket art by Daniel Horne. ISBN: 0-765305615.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel in the Imager fantasy series set in an alternate early modern era. SIGNED on the title page. Maps, list of characters, 461 pp. Dust jacket art by Donato Giancola. ISBN: 9780795321268.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - The illustrated letters sent by Tolkien to his children each year. "To the children of J.R.R.Tolkien, the interest and importance of father Christmas extended beyond his filling of their stocking on Christmas Eve; for he wrote a letter to them every year, in which he described in words and pictures, his house, and his friends, and the events, hilarious or alarming, at the North Pole. The first of the letters came in 1920" when John, the oldest, was just three years old and they continued for 20 years. Includes an appendix with the polar bear alphabet. Large format, beautifully illustrated in full color. ISBN: 0-395249813.

Little Rock, Arkansas: August House Publishers, Inc, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A writer's notebook" - a series of vignettes about this noted historian (author of 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee') in which he shares his memories of growing up in Arkansas where his mother in 1920 became the postmistress and put him in charge of special deliveries, his years as a printer's devil and reporter in the Ozarks, his education and military service, his fascination with the American West, his devotion to writing and more. SIGNED by Brown on the title pabe. Illustrated with photographs. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-874832675.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1937.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in this rather uncommon series by the original author of the Nancy Drew books. In these, 'Barbara, Ginger and Jimmy Gibson. . . follow the highways in their trailer - the new American way for travel - overcoming obstacles, aiding in the apprehension of those individuals whose operations are outside the law and all the while having an enjoyable time in the future American home on wheels.' Glossy frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 208 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements. Lists to itself at the front of the book and on the front flap of the dust jacket.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Lessing - who was awarded the 2007 Nobel prize for literature - writes about four visits she makes to her homeland - 1982, 882, 89 and 92 - after 25 years of exile by the former white government of Rhodesia. She discusses every aspect of life there - from political corruption to lost animals in the bush, AIDS to communal enterprises by rural black farmers and more - but mostly she evokes "the marvellous African laughter born somewhere in the gut, seizing the whole body with good-humoured philosophy. It is the laughter of poor people." SIGNED on the half title page. Maps, glossary. xii, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-060168544.

Sausalito, California: Windgate Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover - A centennial reissue of the photographic album Artistic Homes of California, originally published by the San Francisco Newsletter in 1888, this includes all 50 "artotypes" of the grand Victorian mansions in their original states, before alterations, plus the original descriptive text - 37 in San Francisco, 7 in Oakland and 6 in San Jose. Includes a new introduction by Alex Brammer. Glossary and index. Large oblong format, silk ribbon marker bound in. ISBN: 0-915269058.

London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's unclassifiable third novel which begins with "chapter 1 of a bad murder mystery being written by Effie Andrews for a creative-writing course at the University of Dundee in 1972. But the action soon shifts to a wintry island in the Hebrides, where Effie is trying to elicit the story of her parentage from her single mother, Nora, while spinning a humorous first-person narrative of her college life. Only near the end of the book does she finally wrench the story from her mother: Effie's bizarre origins; the identity of her father; and the whole unlikely tale of her mother's family." Longlisted for the Giller Prize. SIGNED by Kate Atkinson on the title page with her full signature. 343 pp plus an excerpt from Effie's novel and "last words.". ISBN: 0-38540882X.

New York: Pantheon, (2006). SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED and dated by with his large Z in green on the "you were there" page on the green side. His second book, a 2006 National Book Award finalist. Two books, printed back to back, with a timeline in fine print running down the interior margins of each page. The yellow side tells the story from Hailey's point of view, and the green side from Sam's. The publisher suggests alternating between Sam and Hailey, reading eight pages at a time. Two ribbon markers - green and yellow - bound in. ISBN: 0-375421769.

New York: Norton, (2001). SIGNED first edition - A novel about the bonds of friendship by the author of 'Trainspotting' - the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects. SIGNED by Welsh on the title-page. ISBN: 0-393322157.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, many of them autobiographical, set across the United States and Europe. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-679434763.

New York: Henry Holt, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A recollection of growing up biracial in America - and living in an America where black lives still often don't matter. Bryan Stevenson called this A compelling, incisive and thoughtful examination of race, origin and what it means to be called an American. Engaging, heartfelt and beautifully written, Lythcott-Haims explores the American spectrum of identity with refreshing courage and compassion. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1250137746.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - A nice copy of this hard to find early nonfiction juvenile book (just the 8th book of the many he wrote for children) - on time and how we measure it, illustrated with diagrams by John Bradford. Index. 160 pp.

Garden City, NY: Anchor / Doubleday, 1973. First edition - Poems are arranged geographically - from the West, South, etc. Included are contributions from Solomon Deressa, Okot p'Bitek, Dennis Brutus, Ama Ata Aidoo, Wole Soyinka, and many others. Introduction by Kgositsile. Brief biographies of the contributors, indices of titles, authors, and first lines. xvii, 173 pp. ISBN: 0-385-01516x.

New York: Ballantine, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover - 'A Novel About the Four Days of Gettysburg' - that is, the day leading up to the battle and the three days of the bloody battle itself - July 1-3, 1863. Originally published in 1974, this was Shaara's second novel, one which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, but which also became a modern classic - considered one of the best novels ever written about the Civil War. An interesting copy INSCRIBED on the title page by Jeff Shaara, the son of Michael Shaara and a novelist himself, with the comment "For my father's legacy" and dated in 2001. Basis for the movie 'Gettysburg.' Several full page maps and situation plans throughout the book. Foreword and an afterword. xiv. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-345-444124.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Nobody's Fool' - a novel "filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can't help but love." SIGNED on the title page. 477 pp. ISBN: 978-0307270641.

New York: Atheneum, 1976. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fourth book in 'The Dark Is Rising' sequence, and winner of the Newbery award for 1976. Illustrations by Michael Heslop. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-689-500297.

New York: Melomime Publications Inc., 1922. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of these poems, #364 out of 999 numbered and signed by his widow, Dorothy Usner Baxter, who has also INSCRIBED this copy. Frontispiece portrait of Baxter. 64 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1971. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning third generation Japanese American poet and jazz musician, and possibly the first collection of poems published by a Japanese American about his family's experiences during World War II. " Before the war meant Fresno" and during the war meant internment camps in Fresno, Arkansas and Colorado. In 2006 Inada was named poet laureate of Oregon. 124 pp.

Columbia, Pennsylvania / San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1980. First edition - A short work originally published in 1966 and issued here in an edition limited to only 600 copies - 200 signed in cloth and 400 (of which this is one) in wrappers. New illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian. 66 pp plus final illustration and colophon. ISBN: 0-934438277.

Portland, OR: Pendragon Press, (1976). SIGNED first edition - Contains a single short story. Number 512 out of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Although not called for, this is SIGNED by Le Guin on the title page. Frontispiece by Leo and Diane Dillon, calligraphy by Robert J. Palladino. 16 pp plus colophon, handsewn in stiff sage green outer wrappers, gold inner wrappers. ISBN: 0-914010034.

London: Gollancz, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this award winning and highly praised Welsh writer, a stand-alone thriller and a time travel story involving a 23rd century archeologist who discovers a way back to the 20th century. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a few suggestions for further reading. Slightly oversized format. 506 pp. ISBN: 0-575074361.

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco (Harper Collins), (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by the percussionist for the Grateful Dead, part memoir and part an exploration of the historical and spiritual heritage of drums - including among shamans, Native Americans, in Africa and elsewhere. Illustrated with both sepia toned and full color photographs. Selected readings, discography, Somewhat oversized square format, 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-2503723.

New York: Pocket Books, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sequel to their classic novel of alien contact, THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. SIGNED on the title page by Niven. 401 pp. Illustrated endpapers with a map of the 'Mote System.'. ISBN: 0-671-79573-2.

New York: A. L. Burt, (1933). Hardcover first edition - One of four titles in this series published in 1933 - lists just those four titles at the beginning of the book. One of the earlier series about girls scouts and written by a Girl Scout leader from Mississippi, the 6 books in this series are set entirely in Mississippi. The girls are given an old house to use as their club house - the only problem is that is said to be haunted! Includes some racial stereotypes. Glossy frontispiece. 253 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon first edition of this classic children's book, the 5th in the series of stories about a lovable and mischievous monkey, written for beginning readers by Margret Rey, and illustrated by H. A. Rey. 80 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Morrow, (1947.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic Perry Mason mystery. cover artwork by Barye Phillips. 250 pp.

New York: Ace Books, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Elric saga, SIGNED by Moorcock on the title page. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-441-191231.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2018) dj. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an account of his four years in the Border Patrol, between 2008 to 2012, and afterwards - a book which reveals the violence our border and policies wreak on both sides. The son of a park ranger, Cant grew up in the southwest and when he joined the Border Patrol, he became a witness to the stark realities of the desert, where the obligations of his job weighed heavily against his sense of humanity. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-0735217713.

New York: Portland House, (1996.). Hardcover - Contains the complete Hitchhiker Series in one very thick book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and including Mostly Harmless, plus a bonus story, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe. Illustrations by Peter Cross. 815 pp. Deluxe edition in black leatherette with gilt lettering and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. ISBN: 0-517-124858.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1932.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set on a plantation in South Carolina Like Peterkin's Pulitzer prize-winning 'Scarlet Sister Mary" this is written in dialect. 348 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. SIGNED hardcover - Re-issue of the first three books in the Rice's famous Vampire series of novels. Each volume is SIGNED by Rice on the front endpaper. ISBN: 0-394-581865.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - Golding's highly praised and powerful second novel, published as "Pincher Martin" in England. 208 pp.

New York: Random House, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighteenth collection of 2 novelettes and 18 short stories, selected by the editors from among the hundreds published in the magazine over the past year. Short stories by William Faulkner (Race at Morning), Philip Wylie, William Fay, Leon Ware, Harriet Frank, Jr., David Walker, Charles Tazewell, Charles Rawlings, Arthur Gordan, William Heuman, Farley Mowat, Jacland Marmur, James Street, Gerald Kersh, Gilbert Wright, Steve McNeil, Robert Murphy and Paul Horgan. Novelettes by Phillip Wylie and Paul Gallico. 345 pp.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in his highly praised "Holmes" series, set in Russia. SIGNED on the title page. This is the first state with the pages with the rather numerous errors still intact (most copies were recalled so that a section of new corrected pages could replace the original pages. According to Lescroat only about 1 in 20 have the original pages) 285 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 1-556110111.

London: Faber & Faber, (1964) dj. Hardcover - A weaving of the 'Tarot imagery into a parable of love and power that is at once a compelling novel of the supernatural and a brilliant statement of his unique mysticism.' Originally published in 1932, this is one of seven "supernatural thrillers" (the term applied to his novels by T. S. Eliott) by this poet, author, theologian and editor at Oxford University Press. Williams was a member of C. S. Lewis's literary society, the Inkings, along with Tolkien and many others. 230 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1965) dj. Hardcover - Perhaps Williams's strangest novel, this is the story of a charismatic occult leader who has discovered how to extend his life almost indefinitely. He has spent time in Africa teaching his new Gospel and is now leading an invasion of hordes of African warriors. There is riot, murder, and mayhem, including "a horrific scene of our heroes in a car, driving over the bodies of fallen Africans." This was the first novel he wrote, in the 1920s, but it was not published until 1933. One of seven "supernatural thrillers" (the term applied to his novels by T. S. Eliott) by this poet, author, theologian and editor at Oxford University Press. Williams was a member of C. S. Lewis's literary society, the Inkings, along with Tolkien and many others. 230 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1961) dj. Hardcover - Considered Williams's best novel, this deals with selfishness and "how the cycle of sin brings about the necessity for redemptive acts." Originally published in 1937, this is one of seven "supernatural thrillers" (the term applied to his novels by T. S. Eliott) by this poet, author, theologian and editor at Oxford University Press. Williams was a member of C. S. Lewis's literary society, the Inkings, along with Tolkien and many others. 222 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), 2018. First edition - "It isn't paranoia if it's really happening" - In her review for the New Yorker, Joyce Carol Oates called this "a superior example of thrillers featuring 'unreliable' female protagonists who, despite their considerable handicaps [in this case, agoraphobia, trauma, medication and lots and lots of merlot] manage to persevere and solve mysteries where others have failed." A fast and engrossing read, soon to be a movie. A rather uncommon advance issue. 432 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of obsession, thwarted love and privilege, set in New England. "Maisie Danston, a rich, sexy senior at Dartmouth College, has everything--brains, beauty and a boyfriend. But [a jobless townie,] Teddy Leskovitch, becomes obsessed with her, spying on her at every opportunity - until his overwhelming desire drives him to kidnap her in a wild, desperate attempt to prove his love." 220 pp.

New York: Atheneum, 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A hard to find first edition of the author's first book, one which introduces Jame, a Kencyr who has forgotten the last 10 years of her life and only remembers the last week when she found her home destroyed and all of her family killed. SIGNED on the title page. Double page map. Attractive dustjacket by Michael Mariano. ISBN: 0-689-308442.

New York: Crown, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A paranormal thriller, set in San Francisco and featuring homicide detective Bryan Clause. "Doubting his own sanity and stripped of his badge, Bryan begins to suspect that heÕs stumbled into the crosshairs of a shadow war that has gripped his city for more than a centuryÑa war waged by a race of killers living in San FranciscoÕs unknown, underground ruins, emerging at night to feed on those who will not be missed." SIGNED on the title page. 566 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 978-0307406347.

New York: Crown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book in the "Infected" trilogy about pathogens unleashed by an alien invader, that turns humans against themselves, featuring Dr Margaret Montoya, broken by guilt from her previous battles, but called once more to save earth from the last container left by the murderous invader before he was destroyed. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. 682 pp. ISBN: 978-0307408976.

Clarkston, GA: White Wolf Publishing, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First in a planned Edgeworks series of omnibus volumes, in uniform format, of Ellison's works; this contains "Over the Edge" and "An Edge in My Voice" as well as a new introduction by Ellison. SIGNED by Ellison on the title page. Photographs. Cover art by Jill Bauman. 399 plus 2 pp acknowledgments and 31 pp index. ISBN: 1-565049608.

New York: Berkley, (1985). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of thirteen short stories, including one previously unpublished story - "The Road to Dune"- set in Herbert's Dune universe. #4 out of 175 copies SIGNED by Herbert on an illustrated preliminary page. Illustrated by Welsh artist Jim Burns. A title in the "Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy." Bound in white cloth with polychromatic paintings of key characters on the front and rear boards, with red and purple on the spine. 327 pp plus notes on the author and illustrator and on the illustrations themselves. ISBN: 0-425083993.

Eugene, OR: Axolotl Press, Pulphouse Publishing, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of 300 copies (out of a total edition of 900 copies), individually numbered and signed by the author. Cover illustration by Donna Gordon. 110 pp. plus colophon.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the 2006 Hugo Award. An artificial barrier has been placed around the Earth by aliens, the moon and stars disappear (the Great Blackout), and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet. One review called this a combination of a tender love story, science fiction thriller, ecological parable and apocalyptic fable; it is a novel at once thought-provoking and entertaining. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-765309386.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all the prose poems of Clark Ashton Smith known to exist - including five which had not previously been published and one uncompleted one. Introduction by Donald S. Fryer. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel with 12 glossy plates. One of only 1,000 copies (or to be more precise, 1,016 copies) . xxiv, 54 pp.

New York: Dutton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Charming story written and illustrated by Kleven. "With its cheery, chewy rhyming text - perfect for reading aloud - & its host of animal characters - expressive as only Kleven can make them - this happy picture book pays tribute to the alchemy of both the baker and the sun." A NY Times Best Illustrated Book, Parents Magazine Reading Magic Award and more. SIGNED by Kleven opposite the title page with a drawing of a small bird. Recipe on back cover of both the book and the dust jacket. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-525466746.

New York: McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a tiger looking for the perfect pumpkin, since a perfect pumpkin will make a perfect jack-o-lantern. Illustrated in full color by Valeria Petrone. SIGNED on the half title page by Serfozo and dated in the year of publication. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689838344.

New York: Ballantine, (1956.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first hardcover copy of Vance's first adult novel - one about the problems of over-population in a society which has discovered the secret of immortality. 185 pp

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects thirty stories set in the worlds of Averoigne, Atlantis, Hyperborea, Lost Worlds and Zothique. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Full-page illustrations and wrap-around dust jacket art by Jeffrey K. Potter. 472 pp plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-870541560.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Massive novel by Willis, one which marries time travel to the realities of history - in this case, a group who travel back in time from Oxford in 2060 to World War II in 1940. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards. This edition was limited to 500 numbered and 26 lettered copies, each SIGNED by WIllis on the limitation page. Frontispiece. 577 pp. Marbled endpapers. Dust jacket art by J. K. Potter. ISBN: 978-1596063181.

[College Station]: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A & M University Libraries, 2013. SIGNED first edition - A beautifully illustrated catalogue for an exhibition held in the Spring of 2013. Includes essays by Cait Coker on Martin as the American Tolkien, by Stephen Smith on the beginnings of the collection and by Lisa Tuttle. Illustrated in full color throughout. SIGNED by George Martin on the title page, and by artists John Picacio (at the essay "about the artist") and Lee Moyer on the page highlighting his illustrations. Slightly oversized square format. 96 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A joyous exploration of the unpredictable world of time travel by this Hugo and Nebula Award winning author. Winner of the 1999 Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-553-099957.

New York: Armchair Detective Library, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Reissue of the second mystery featuring Amelia Peabody, with a new introduction by the author. SIGNED on the title page. iii, 285 pp. ISBN: 0-922890-390.

London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.

New York: Katherine Tegen Books / Harper Collins, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book and the first in a new science fiction/fantasy series that "explores a world painted new by the Time Collision. Integrating art and text, this epic and cinematic adventure features more than 150 full-color illustrations. You've never seen Earth like this before: continents reshaped, oceans re-formed, cities rebuilt, and mountains sculpted anew. Dinosaurs roam the plains alongside herds of buffalo, and giant robots navigate the same waters as steam-powered ships. This is the world Diego Ribera was born into. The past, present, and future coexisting together." SIGNED by the author/artist on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 607 pp. ISBN: 978-0008258955.

New York: The Viking Press, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A weaving together of fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this portrait of his boyhood in the Cypress Hills of southern Saskatchewan, near the Montana border, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. Map endpapers. 306 pp. Light green topstain.

New York: Dutton, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of essays on topics ranging from Moby Dick to Emily Dickinson, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Charlotte Bronte, from Kafka to Mike Tyson and boxing, on Hemingway and on using a pseudonym. SIGNED on the title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-525-246525.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his acclaimed tetralogy "The Sea of Fertility." Translated from the Japanese by E. Dale Saundes and Cecilia Segawa Seigle.

New York: Henry Holt, (ca 1946, c 1929.). Hardcover - Hesse's best known and most autobiographical novel, named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes, and blending Eastern mysticism with Western psychoanalytical concepts. Translated from the German by Basil Creighton. Copyright page only has original 1929 date but synopsis pasted in at rear of book is from a later printing and laid in front flap refers to "Nobel Prize winner, 1946", 309 pp.

San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - A small lot of Eldridge Cleaver ephemera, dating from the mid 1970s and slightly later - after he returned from exile in 1975 and was defending himself against the charges of attempted murder dating from the shoot-out in Oakland. Included are 2 brochures: 1. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END by Henry Mitchell, 8 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches - black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 2. THE FBI OPD AND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER by the Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, San Francisco, 32 pp including the covers, stapled - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, red white and blue covers, blue text and photographs in the interior. Includes reprints of several newspaper articles about events surrounding the Black Panthers, as well as some matter apparently written specifically for this brochure. Includes much information on the FBI's Cointelpro "war" against the Panthers. Illustrated with many photographs. Plus a plain white business card with Eldridge Cleaver and his address.

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book for "those who are ready to share the beautiful truth" about Santa Claus. "In a series of letters, a young girl writes to Santa to ask about the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, and of course, Christmas goodies. Year after year, Santa writes back, and a heartwarming relationship develops, until one year, the girl writes to her mother instead: Mom, are you Santa?" Illustrated in full color by Lee White. Several of the letters are removable from the envelopes on the pages. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0545700306.

London: Macmillan, 1876. Hardcover first edition - Carroll's classic nonsense poem, illustrated by Henry Holiday with nine black and white plates, plus a blank ocean chart. Tissue guard at frontispiece. Very attractively rebound in half green leather over marbleized boards, matching marbleized endpapers . Gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, top edge gilt. 83 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An adventure story set in Cental America, an ironic Swiss Family Robinson, with some of the dark overtones of 'Lord of the Flies.' Basis for the movie starring Harrison Ford, River Phoenix and Helen Mirren. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Frampton. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 374 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon studios. ISBN: 0-395-318378.

London: Macmillan, (1996). Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this title in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. One of the best in the series, this is set against a Venice as it floods with high tide - 343 pp. ISBN: 0-333656547.

New York: J. C. Reklar & Co / Cosmopolitan, (1934) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A near future novel of a world in which a modern Khan appears, "not less cruel than Ghengis," who almost succeeds in establishing a world empire. The author's prologue discusses the state of the world in 1934, and its unreadiness for war, but he sees communism as a greater threat than Hitler, and in fact credits Hitler for keeping Germany from becoming a communistic state. A presentation copy, very personally INSCRIBED on a blank preliminary page "To Sylvia Zaro, in memory of the day when I wrote the first words of this work, and for the loyal friendship and undying faith in the final outcome of this work. The author, Jerome Oliver, 7/12/34" Although the rear flap of the dust jacket advertises his second novel, The Ghost of Mars, that was apparently never published. 337 pp.

London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in this series featuring Inspector Vera Stanhope. Basis for the BBC series "Vera." SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. ISBN: 1405046473.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. dj. Hardcover first edition - A locked room mystery with a twist: a scientist under observation in a sealed room is killed during an experiment in a laboratory where a research team is studying electroencephalography. The author's only novel, this was published posthumously under the pseudonym "Willard Rich" a few weeks after its author, William T. Richards, took his own life. Although the setting was moved to the Boston area, this novel was a thinly veiled account of the secret laboratory founded in New York by Alfred Lee Loomis, and nicknamed "Tuxedo Park." Loomis went on to establish the MIT Rad Lab and later was instrumental in setting up the Manhattan Project. When this novel appeared, Loomis threatened to sue, and Patty Conant, Richards's sister, urged her husband, Harvard President James B. Conant, to recall all the copies (although he apparently refused to do, this is still a remarkably scarce book) 244 pp.

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1856. Hardcover first edition - The true history of the extradition of Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave, the court house attack and martial law in Boston. Stevens was an eyewitness to many of the events described in the book. The extradition of fugitive slaves was a rallying point for abolitionists, and violent incidents such as occured in Boston, as described in this book, marked the slide of the nation toward civil war. The historical perspective offered in these pages is compelling, especially considering the role Boston had in the nation's fight for independence. Illustrated by With 3 full page engravings. 295 pp.

New York: DAW Books, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in epic fantasy trilogy. SIGNED on the title page.Maps, lists of people and places. 656 pp. Dust jacket art by Todd Lockwood. ISBN: 978-0756403584.

New York: DAW Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which begins a new cycle in Williams' landmark Osten Ard fantasy trilogy. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 210 pp. ISBN: 978-0756412487.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moving novel which begins in 1988 when an Ojibwe woman is attacked on the reservation, an event which leaves her traumatized and her family devastated. Her most powerful novel, the recipient of the National Book Award for fiction. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0062065247.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring former FBI agent, Ella Clah, who has returned to the reservation as a special investigator with the Navajo police force, and is now balancing life as a new mother with her career. Explores the conflicts between the traditional and modernist ways of life. SIGNED on the title page by both authors. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-312-870604.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A combination of off-world adventure and political intrigue. A "reboot" of H. Beam Piper's classic 1962 novel, Little Fuzzy. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0765328540.

New York: Viking, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation of Bradley's epic saga about King Arthur and the world he lived in. Preceded by a list of all the names in the story and a map. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. xvi, 394 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Steve Stone. ISBN: 978-0670038701.

New York: Viking, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation of Bradley's epic saga about King Arthur and the world he lived in. Preceded by a list of all the names in the story and a map. SIGNED on the title page. Afterword. xvi, 394 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Steve Stone. ISBN: 978-0670038701.

Boston: Little Brown, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's important first book, a collection of 14 short stories that mingle the grotesque with the matter-of-fact, and test the limits of the short story.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by California writers published for the Spinners' Benefit fund, the first beneficiary was to be poet Ina Coolbrith, who had lost everything in the earthquake. Some of the stories, including that of Atherton, were written especially for this book. 6 full color full page illustrations by different artists, including Maynard Dixon, Merle Johnson and others According to Priscilla Oaks (who wrote the introduction to the Gregg press edition of this), in 1912, Paul Elder produced a statement for this book showing 372 copies printed, of which 249 were sold, 113 were still on hand (a few were damaged or returned to the printer.) The benefit fund raised a grand total of $90.80, of which $49.80 were royalties from this book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of "Catch-22," INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1975. 569 pp. ISBN: 0-394-465689.

New York: Dix and Edwards, 1856. Hardcover first edition - A classic in the literature of slavery and abolition. "[Olmstead] discovered that the slaves in the seaboard states were generally well treated. They received enough food to keep them in good physical condition. However, Olmstead believed that the slaves were not as well fed as American free laborers, and he devoted considerable space to one of his favorite theories, namely, that slavery was a destroyer of self-respect and initiative." Clark, Travels in the Old South, 482. Vignette engravings in the text. 715 pp plus two Appendices, 4 pp publisher's ads.

Worcester, John Thompson, 1856. Hardcover first edition - John Thompson was born a slave, in Maryland, in 1812. In this book, he describes his captivity, and the often cruel treatment he encountered or witnessed, until his escape from slavery in 1837. After living in Philadelphia, fearing capture as a fugitive slave, he joined a whaling voyage in 1837 to the Indian Ocean, which he describes in detail. An interesting combination of both fugitive slave and whaling narrative." 143 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Four essays on pre-Socratic Greek philosophy by this major German philosopher , who is credited with reviving these ideas - concepts of aletheia, logos and moira - in the 20th century . Originally written between 1943-1954, this is their first publication in English, translated by David Farrell Krell and Frank A. Capuzzi, and with an introduction by Krell. Glossary. 129 p. ISBN: 0-060638583.

New York: Albondocani Press, 1980. SIGNED first edition - First separate appearance of this long poem, a lovely production, hand-sewn into a wrapper of French marble paper. Limited to 300 numbered and signed copies (only 200 were for sale.)

Prime Books, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - An interesting anthology of stories about werewolves, including some original stories, edited and with an introduction by Sedia. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Laura Anne Gilman at "Werelove", N.K, Jemisin at "Red Riding Hood's Child" and Susan Palwick at "Gestella." Also includes stories by Carrie Vaughn, Mike Resnick, Marie Brennan, Jeffrey Ford, C. E. Murphy and more. 339 pp plus notes on the contributors. ISBN: 978-1607012191.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen stories that "trace the development of modern science fiction" from Ambrose Bierce in 1893 to Robert Silverberg in 1969. Also includes stories by H. G. Wells, Jack London, Jack Williamson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delany and more. SIGNED by Harry Harrison at this story "Captain Honario Hornplayer, RN." Includes an introduction and notes to each story by Clareson. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-385016573.

New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Set in San Francisco in 2063, but looking back to the events of 2013 when an uncontrollable epidemic depopulated the earth. A former university professor, one of the few survivors, is trying to impart the value of knowledge to his barbaric young grandsons. A classic post-apocalyptic and dystopian novel, one which deals seriously with society's decline and has a protagonist who wishes to rebuild it. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several drawings throughout. 181 pp.