New York: St Martin's, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although he had already won several awards for his short stories) introducing Hispanic homicide detective Lupe Garcia. Set in Detroit's music world, one Allyn knows well as a co-leader for a Midwest rock group. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a brief typed, signed letter to collector Larry Owens. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-312033028.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Detroit cop Lupe Garcia. Kirkus Reviews called this a "carnage caper - heavy on sex, ammo, showdowns, and car chases." SIGNED and dated opposite the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-312088515.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who returns to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, leaving behind her diving work in the Gulf of Mexico. After she takes over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, she begins to discover that maybe her father's death was not an accident after all. SIGNED on the title page. An interesting new series by this Edgar award winning author. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312118295.

Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1980. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Illustrated with a wood engraving by Michael McCurdy on the front cover and title page. Quarter bound in navy leather over light blue boards. One of only 30 deluxe copies, numbered in Roman numerals, and printed on Mohawk Supefine (out of a total edition of 180 copies). SIGNED by both Heyen and McCurdy. These copies also include the collection's final poem, 'This Night' in holograph opposite the title page. 20 pp plus colophon.

New York: The Vanguard Press, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third collection of poetry and one of his most important. In this he looks at his heritage as an American born son of a German immigrant, one whose relatives were fighting for Germany duing World War II, and at the horrors of the Holocaust. One of only 50 numbered and SIGNED copies out of a total edition of 3500 copies. Notes. 82 pp. ISBN: 0-814907806.

New York: Viking, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 378 pp. plus 3 "ads." Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-340835710.

New York: Viking, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series featuring Jack Spratt, investigator, family man, and head of the nursery crime division. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 0-670-034231.

New York: Viking Penguin, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eccentric and clever bibliomystery - the second featuring Special Operative Thursday Next, a literary detective, whose job is to keep characters in books from being stolen. Set in "1985 Great Britain where time travel is routine, cloning is reality and literature is taken very, very seriously." SIGNED on the title page, Color plate. Winner of the Dilys Award. 399 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031909.

New York: SOHO Press, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The second book in this highly praised series, set in 1930 in an England still suffering from the effects of the Great War. Maisie, who has journeyed from a 13 year housemaid to a student at Cambridge and a nurse in the war, has now set up on her own as a private investigator. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Agatha award. 311 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (2007, 2008, 2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first three novels, featuring Jonathan Quinn, "a freelancer working for 'the Office', a shadowy criminal organization. His job is to clean up crime scenes - dispose of bodies, wipe away prints, anything to help them get away with it." Each is SIGNED on the title page. The first in the series, The Cleaner, was nominated for both a Barry Award and a Shamus award. 353, 358 and 393 pp. ISBN: 978-0440243700.

New York: Delacorte, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Jonathan Quinn, "a freelancer working for 'the Office', a shadowy criminal organization. His job is to clean up crime scenes - dispose of bodies, wipe away prints, anything to help them get away with it. His latest job seems simple enough: investigate a suspicious case of arson. Until the moment a dead body turns up where it doesn't belong, and Quinn's Office handlers go strangely silent. The Office is under threat, and someone wants him dead." SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for both a Barry Award and a Shamus award. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0440243700.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second espionage novel, set in Washington, DC in 1958, in the final days of Batista's regime in Cuba. Based on the life of William Morgan, an American who fought for Castro until he was accused of being a CIA spy and executed in 1961. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-1501110382.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: .

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-1501110382.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Lara Blackwood, a genetic engineering entrepreneur. When she receives a call from an old college friend asking her help in solving a ghastly epidemic in Tokyo, she agrees to help and, with a single phone call, sets in motion a chain of death and mayhem stretching from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., Amsterdam, and Japan. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Watch Your Back" and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 367` pp. ISBN: 0-312-301113.

New York: The Century Co., (1924.). Hardcover - Classic Seaman tale of a house with many mysteries - in this book, set around 1910, and featuring two young girls, one from New York and her Southern cousin, the mysteries are rooted in the years right after the Civil War. Set in Georgia - in Savannah and on an old antebellum planation near the coast. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 glossy inserted plates by Harold Sichel. Wonderfully atmospheric illustration on the front cover in black and deep blue with a gold moon rising, a moss-hung tree standing guard over a small pool. 242 pp.

New York: Disney / Hyperion, (2006). SIGNED - The first book in Riordan's extremely popular series, basis for the film of the same name. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. ISBN: 378-0786838653.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1993. SIGNED first edition - Lescroart's sixth novel, a courtroom suspense story, and the third featuring San Francisco's Assistant DA Dismas Hardy, but surprisingly uncommon both in the first edition and as an advance issue. SIGNED on the title page. 478 pp.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in the award-winning series featuring PI Duncan Sloan, set in Orlando, Florida. Letter TT out of 104 hand lettered copies and sound copies, bound in quarter morrocco leather with handmade paper covered boards (the total edition was just 1104 copies). SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. 220 pp. Interior art and dust jacket by Michael Kellner. ISBN: 0-939767465.

New York: Viking, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the colorful and outlandish life of architect William Lloyd Wright as seen through the eyes of four women - three wives and one mistress - who loved him. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 451 pp. ISBN: 978-0670020416.

New York: Viking, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel based on the colorful and outlandish life of architect William Lloyd Wright as seen through the eyes of four women - three wives and one mistress - who loved him. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 451 pp. ISBN: 978-0670020416.

New York: Penguin, (1994). SIGNED - Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' Packaged in a unique "cereal box" designed by Paul Buckley which lists the first ingredient as "enriched humor." SIGNED on the front of the box by Boyle. Box is still sealed and unopened, but assumed first trade paperback printing. Basis of the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-140167188.

New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins) (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A provocative new novel by this award-winning writer "It is 1994, and in the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. " SIGNED on the title page. 508 pp. ISBN: 978-0062349408.

London: Bodley Head, (1989). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story "of two sisters and the ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them . . . Willie, the elder, is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow her grandfather to his home in Labrador." A New York Times Notable Book and the winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-370312414.

New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth novel by this award-winning author (her first novel, "Three Junes," won the National Book Award) - the story of a 70 year old man, a widower for 30 years, who is settling happily into retirement at his historic farmhouse outside Boston, until he starts to re-examine his solitary life and detachment from those around him. SIGNED on the title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 978-0307377920.

New York: Pantheon, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning author (her first won the National Book Award.) SIGNED on the title page. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-375-422749.

London: Michael Joseph, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery combining glass-blowing with the world of racing by this award winning writer. He is, so far, the only mystery novelist to win the Edgar three times, and received the Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award and the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award. Not only does he know the world of racing intimately as a former championship jump jockey, he thoroughly researches the other occupations of his protagonists. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-718144538.

New York: Four Walls, Eight Windows, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of all the shorter works of Butler - including the title story - a novella which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, her Hugo award winning short story "Speech Sounds" and 2 essays. The year this was published - 1995 - was the year in which Butler received the MacArthur "genius" award - the first science fiction writer to be so honored. 144 pp. ISBN: 1-56858-055x.

New York: Putnam, (1966) dj. Hardcover - A humorous and somewhat scandalous autobiography by the famous San Francisco madame, who made history when she ran for office in Sausolito. This dustjacket has a very unflattering photograph of Stanford on the back, one which was apparently replaced on later printings. 255 pp.

New York: Fawcett Columbine (Ballantine), (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this poet and novelist - a twelve story cycle which chronicles the lives of several Los Angeles women. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-449-905519.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the brink of modernity." Winner of The National Book Award, and Sontag's last novel. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175403.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel (the first - 'Labrador' won the Kafka Prize.). The title refers to a Danish folktale, retold by Hans Christian Andersen, about a willful girl who steps on a loaf of bread intended as a gift, rather than get her shoes muddy. SIGNED on the title page. Small octavo. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-679414258.

New York: Pantheon, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's critically acclaimed debut novel, which was the surprise winner of the 2002 National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Richard Russo, John Casey and Michael Cunningham ('almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains... it's extraordinary.') Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-375421440.

New York: Pantheon, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's critically acclaimed debut novel, which was the surprise winner of the 2002 National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Richard Russo, John Casey and Michael Cunningham ('almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains... it's extraordinary.') 353 pp. ISBN: 0-375421440.

New York: Pantheon, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning author (her first won the National Book Award) - told in alternating voices, this is the story of two sisters over 25 years. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0375422751.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A prequel to Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery series - this is set in the months leading up to the Great War, when Ian was not only new to the police but he is also recently engaged. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. ("Charles Todd" is the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 358 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A selection of the best poems from this critically acclaimed gay writer's five previous collections, as well as several new poems. SIGNED on the title page. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-802115691.

New York: Dial Press, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel, third book, the story of the 'flawed passionate friendship' between two halves of a comedy team, spanning 30 years from the waning days of vaudeville to the golden age of Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp.

New York: Crown, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a mysterious ashram in the Southwestern US desert, and of a long man, a loner, who meets up with a woman journalist, another loner. A story of discovery, love and a little magic, described by Christopher Bram as 'ambitious, yet goofily friendly.' SIGNED on the title pagel 311 pp. ISBN: 0-517-575493.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - Huxley's longest and most complex novel, A story of 1920s intellectual life in which the characters are based on artists, politicians, and socialites of the time including D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Nancy Cunard, and John Middleton Murray. Included in the Modern Library's 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century. Basis for a BBC television series in 1968. First edition stated on copyright page, with Doubleday device, date of 1928 on title page. Very pale green cross-hatched endpapers. 432 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens. The comments fill the entire page and describes his working with a director and a producer to try and get a film version. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-892962984.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller that ranges from Northern California to the Louisiana bayous. When Eddie Dain's life is blown up, he returns as a "dead man" - dead to joy, dead to his past, as he hires himself out as a hitman. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - a long inscription which fills the whole page and starts out "I don't know if I told you the herpetologist story about this book . . . ". 260 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-541x.

New York: Random House, (1972) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first mystery in the DKA File series. INSCRIBED by Gores to late Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens on the title page with a long and informative inscription that begins: "Skip is the first DKA and the most procedural. Except for the murders and the attack on Bart Haslip, it's almost exactly a replay of real life. . . " He then goes on to suggest comparing several pages to a Don Westlake novel to see something they dreamed up "one boozy night in 1971.". ISBN: 0-394481577.

New York: Scribner, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring former rancher and now deputy chief of the New Mexico state police, Kevin Kerney. Third novel in this highly praised series. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850761.

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring forensic pychiatrist Dr. Lazlo Kreizler (from 'The Alienist') but this time the mystery is told by former street urchin Stevie Taggert. Set in the late 19th century. SIGNED on the title page. 629 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679-435328.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this popular series of beginning chapterbooks, featuring Princess Magnolia - who is also the Princess in Black when danger threatens. Illustrated in full color throughout. SIGNED on the front endpaper by LeUyen Pham, the illustrator with an original drawing of a masked Princess Magnolia. 90 pp. ISBN: 978-0763665104.

New York: Putnam, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp.

New York: Viking, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories which "showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." The long title story is an imaginative retelling of the story of a feral boy who was "captured" in Napleonic France. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021420.

New York: Viking, (2010). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories which "showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of our time." The long title story is an imaginative retelling of the story of a feral boy who was "captured" in Napleonic France. SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0670021420.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Follow the adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands - to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa." The author's blackly-funny first novel (second book.) SIGNED on the title page. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-575030682.

New York: Viking, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 'A brilliant and vividly rendered wildwoods adventure about a hippie commune that attempts to establish itself deep in the wilderness of Alaska.' An evocation of the sixties, and a look at how that era affects us today. SIGNED on the title page. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031720.

New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022328.

New York: Viking, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-670-826901.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His sixth collection of short stories. The title story is an account of life in a post-apocalyptic world, where the narrator only survived the plague that destroyed almost the entire human population because he was camping in a remote Sierra cabin, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-670030058.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of twins that can understand the language of the lion, Max, and help him straighten out emergencies, illustrated in black & white, duotone and in full color by Jan B. Balet. Large format.

New York: Firebird / Penguin, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of original fantasy and science fiction stories by Lloyd Alexander, Meredith Ann Pierce, Patricia A. McKillip, Nancy Farmer, Garth Nix, Emma Bull, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Diana Wynne Jones and others. SIGNED by GarthNix at his story "Hope Chest." Brief author's biography and author's note following each story. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-142501425.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Twelve authors select one of their stories and include an essay which focuses on how they crafted a particular aspect of that story: style, character, etc. SIGNED by FOUR authors: Nancy Kress on the title page; Greg Bear at his story "Sisters"; John Kessel at "Buddha Nostril Bird" and Joe Haldeman at "Feedback." Other authors include Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling, Lucius Shepard, Harold Waldrop, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pat Murphy, Karen Jay Fowler, James Patrick Kelley. xii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-312140231.

New York: Baen Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Collects 22 short stories - 13 science fiction and 9 fantasy - with a preface by Flint and Resnick. SIGNED by SIX contributors: by Mike Resnick on the title page and by Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Garth Nix and L. E. Modesitt at their stories. 487 pp. ISBN: 1-416555706.

New York: Viking, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His 4th novel, the story of a young Japanese seaman who jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and winds up on one the barrier islands. SIGNED on title page. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-670-832200.

New York: The Century Co., 1919 (c 1917.). Hardcover - Seaman's books have become hard to find in recent years, but they are wonderful stories for girls - many involving history and hidden mysteries rooted in the past. In this story, a girl moves to the city, and next door to her apartment building is a ramshackle old house known as "Benedict's Folly" - and living in that house is a strange girl. Missionaries to China and the Boxer Rebellion all play a part in this story - this book is dedicated to Hoa-Sian-Si-Nui (Margaret Gillespie Fagg) and Hoa -Sian-Si (John Gerardus Fagg, the author of Forty Years in South China.) Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 glossy inserted plates by C. M. Relyea, 240 pp.

New York: The Century Co., (1924.). Hardcover - Classic Seaman tale of a house with many mysteries - in this case, the mysteries are rooted in the Civil War. Set in Georgia - in Savannah and on an old antebellum plantation near the coast. Illustrated with 3 glossy inserted plates by Harold Sichel. Wonderfully atmospheric illustration on the front cover in black and deep blue with a gold moon rising, a moss-hung tree standing guard over a small pool. 242 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, third book, a thriller which "unleashes a formidable senior citizen's vengeance when his only grandchild dies of a cocaine overdose. After disposing of her domestic predators, the old geezer sets sail in his yacht for the Amazon, bent on eliminating the Peruvian drug lord in his jungle redoubt. Buckley subtly merges the sheer entertainment of a good travel yarn with the vicious motivations of greed." SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-394571932.

New York: Disney / Hyperion, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Blue whales - longer than 30 dogs - make terrible pets. Just ask Billy Twitters ! Billy's parents threaten that they will buy him a Blue Whale to care for if he doesn't clean up his room and sure enough, the next day there is a whale blocking the front door - but don't worry, Billy comes up with a great way to handle his problems! SIGNED by Adams on the title page with a small drawing of an octopus. Oblong format, unpaginated. Wrap-around dust jacket showing the Golden Gate Bridge. ISBN: 978-0786849581.

New York: Viking, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fourteen short stories, by one of the best American short story writers of his time. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-670034355.

New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mix of suspense and horror, as a young woman attempts to save a handicapped girl from her stepfather who claims to have had a vision that by her 10th birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better world. INSCRIBED "Open it!" and dated by Koontz on the half title page. 606 pp. ISBN: 0-553801376.

New York: Putnam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0399181797.

Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, (1994). SIGNED first edition - Includes an introduction discussing "why written interviews" and ten interviews, some published here for the first time. SIGNED and dated by Delany on the title page. Index. 322. ISBN: 0-819562807.

Dynamite Entertainment, 2016. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "reworking of one of the classic stories of all time - An all-new, in-continuity story set within the universe of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein novel series." Graphic novel written by Chuck Dixon and Rik Hoskin, art by Andre Ponce, colors by Mohan. A limited edition SIGNED by Koontz on a special preliminary page. Slightly oversized format, illustrated in full color throughout. ISBN: 978-1524100896.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A high- tech thriller, which begins in a chance meeting in a bar in Santa Monica, and turns into a terrifying flight for survival. INSCRIBED and dated on the half title page - "Never lie to the dog!" Author's afterword. 487 pp. ISBN: 0-679-425241.

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot: 1932. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this influential Harlem Renaissance writer - considered the first 'modern' African American woman novelist, editor of 'The Crisis.' Introduction by Zona Gale and a foreword by Jessie Fauset. This book is known in two English bindings, a blue and a light green. While no definite priority has been established, the blue binding bulks slightly thicker than the light green and has a stylized EM logo on bottom on spine , an argument can be made that the blue would be priority A. Certainly the blue binding is the more attractive version. x, 310 pp.

Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Paul Mariani and commentary by Sanford. Letters between two giants of 20th century American literature. One of 500 copies in hardcover designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh (out of a complete edition of 2500 copies). 53 pp. plus a brief afterword by Sanford and colophon. ISBN: 0-933114052.

Brooklyn, NY: McSweeney's Books, (2001). First edition - An early, rather surrealistic and funny novella by Lethem and an early production by Dave Eggers press. Scarce advance galley consisting consisting of tapebound 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on rectos only. Laid in are seven loose sheets which were the basis for a promotional flyer for the book - "the third book from the McSweeney's line" and an interview with the author. 49 pp.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, (2001). First edition - The author's first book, one which juxtaposes her own story with excerpts from her father's World War II journal, written while he was the Pharmacist's Mate on the Liberty Ship "George E. Pickett." Scarce advance galley consisting consisting of tapebound 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on rectos only. Laid in are seven loose sheets which were the basis for a promotional flyer for the book - "a very sad and very moving and very great book." 92 pp.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which uses black and white photographs and brief text to "introduce children to women of all ages and from diverse walks of life who have chosen nontraditional careers as fire fighters, airplane pilots, house painters, zookeepers, orchestra conductors, and astronauts" - as well as recognizing that being a parent is "work" as in training for an athletic career and more. Information at the end of the book on the women photographed for it. Oblong format. 44 pp. ISBN: 0-690038992.

New York: Dutton, 1970. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by this experimental novelist. His first novel was compared to Pynchon's V and Pynchon himself contributed a blurb to this novel noting that this is "hopefully another sign that the novel of bullshit is dead. . . Wurlitzer is very, very good." Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including the 1971 Monte Hellman film "Two-Lane Blacktop," Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", the cult film "Candy Mountain" with Tom Waits, (which he co-directed) as well as the wrote the libretto for Philip Glass's opera "In the Penal Colony." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page "For Larry Owens, All the way in Ponca City." 159 pp. ISBN: 0-525106456.

New York: Random House, (1968) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wurlitzer's very offbeat first novel, about a Sixties road trip that begins in a small town on the California coast to San Francisco, through the Southwest desert to New York through the Panama Canal (and maybe back again.) Comment by Richard Poirer on the dust jacket that this is the "most exciting, talented and original new novel since Pynchon's V." Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", the cult film "Candy Mountain" with Tom Waits, (which he co-directed) as well as the wrote the libretto for Philip Glass's opera "In the Penal Colony." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page "For Larry Owens, Ponca City Literary Outlaw." 164 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, set mostly in San Diego in the 1950s. Among the comments praising it - "It is suffused with hazard and touched by grace, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is, simply put, a masterpiece. (Anthony Marra) and "On Swift Horses is a marvel, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahls mid-century West is dead-on right, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope." (Jess Walter). SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a novel about two young people, both looking for a new start in life, who meet at a hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin district - "the story of two perfectly normal, intelligent, attractive, educated people who somehow become killers." SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from John Barth, Pinckney Benedict, Madison Smartt Bell (who called it a thinking person's thriller) and more. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-385484208.

New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Constable Hamish Macbeth mystery, set in a small town in Scotland. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-312-097832.

New York: Hastings House, (1949) dj. Hardcover - A volume in the 'American Guide Series', part of a project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) during the Depression to provide employment for writers. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Originally published in 1937, this was the second book issued in this series - this revised edition includes much new material, but it is smaller in size, and better arranged. Includes sections on the history of the state, the points of interest within the city and in the environs. List of statues and memorials, chronology, selected reading list, index. Folding map in rear pocket. xxx, 528 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. The title refers to the almost imperceptible movement of water when there are fish underneath. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312337442.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. The son of an old friend was apparently the victim of a tragic accident but his body has still not been recovered from the river,and the not-knowing is the worst of all. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312266790.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. When Coyne finds the body of a teenage girl buried in the snow in his garden on Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, he is determined to find out who she is and how she came to diel SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-312337469.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven humorous stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, featuring Mr. Colin Glencannon, a "canny old Scot," the Chief Engineer of the rusty S.S. Inchcliffe Castle, by this author who was also a figher pilot in World War I, a war reporter and professional aviator and much more but who remains best known for the Glencannon stories. 240 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (2000). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel (third book), a story of "two tough-talking drifters forced to confront their vulnerability in the Alaskan wilderness." When Jack and Burke agree to help a favor rescue his daughter from a strange milennial cult, in return for $10,000, they find themselves in a struggle for their lives. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obessed society." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. In this novel he goes to Montana in search of some golden leopards stolen during a brutal robbery from his invalid friend on Cape Cod. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302339.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Boston attorney Brady Coyne. A drunken bum found frozen to death is considered routine for the police - until it turns out the "bum" is really a wealthy heir masquerading as a bum to gather material for a book - and he was brutally murdered. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-684-186810.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring this Boston attorney, this one involving the kidnapping of the son of a former Red Sox pitcher. SIGNED and dated on the title page, 228 pp. ISBN: 0-68418446X.