New York: Ballantine, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - Brooks' third novel, an epic fantasy. Includes the original illustrations by Darrell K. Sweet. 467 pp. In general, this book is somewhat more elusive than the first two books in the series, and it is especially hard to find in hardcover. ISBN: 0-345318234.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the dustjacket: "A Novel of the War Between Science and Superstition ...It's the eve of Armageddon, and the gates of hell are about to yawn open. Jesus Christ is a homeless schizophrenic living in a cardboard box, Lucer commands the forces of light, and humanity's best hope is a tormented young beat cop from Albuquerque, New Mexico." 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0765315168.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1938.). Hardcover first edition - This series features sisters Jean and Louise Dana, who attend Starhurst Academy, and was written under the same Stratemeyer house pseudonym as that used for the Nancy Drew series - in fact, the names of the Dana Girls' guardians - Uncle Ned and Aunt Harriet - refer to the Ed Stratemayer and his daughter Harriet. Dark green and white illustrated endpapers, green tinting to the top edge, glossy frontispiece by Frederick Warren. Lists to this title at the front of the book and on the front flap of the dust jacket and it lists to Nancy Drew The Haunted Bridge (1937) on the rear flap of the dj and in the front of the book. 218 pp.

New York: Bantam, 1992. dj. Hardcover - Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. A landmark time travel story where the reseachers go back to the 1350's, the time of the Black Death in Europe. Uncommon in hardcover in any edition. ISBN: 0-553-081314.

New York: Putnam, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco during the Gilded Age. Dustjacket praise from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem (who callled it 'full of shimmering melancholy and ruminative irony... a dazzling book.') Finalist for the Pen Faulkner award. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-399-147500.

Nashville: The Vanderbilt University Press, 1942. Hardcover first edition - A detailed study of this federally owned corporation which was established in 1933, during the Great Depression, to bring navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley - an area which covers most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky and even small sections of Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Frontispiece chart, many charts, figures and tables included in text. Appendices, bibliography and index. xx, 486pp [

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.The Underground Railroadis at once a kinetic adventure tale of one womans ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel (fourth book) , one which "follows an already fragile family in crisis, and examines how they approach their fractured marriage through their religious identity as Jewish Americans and Israelis."SIGNED by the author on a special preliminary page. 571 pp.

New York: George H. Doran, (1921) dj. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel by this prolific Irish writer who was one of the founding members. along with Dorothy Sayers and Chesterton, of The Detective Writers Club. An attractive little Irish girl is carried off to a new way of life by a very worldly English gentleman. "The quaint life of an Irish village, the glittering unreality of an unskilled girl alone in London who endures the tyranny of domestic service and the injustice of the courts rather than yield one jot of her integrity, and the true love that she wins out of circumstances which would have ended everything for a less valiant soul." 301 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1922. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel centered on a talented young woman at a turning point in her career and a college professor and book collector. "When on one blustering afternoon in late March Professor Mark Fenn came into the dingy old college book-shop which was one of his favourite haunts, he passed by the magazine stand in a hurry, though it was thick with all the newest April publications and vivid with their colour. His mind was upon a certain row of bookshelves in the dimmest part of the back of the shop, where he had yesterday discovered rich treasure. Almost an hour later, when he had decided, rather against his judgment but wholly according to his inclination, to purchase the full tale of seven books which he needed to complete a special group in his collection, he passed the magazine stand again, and this time he halted. He had caught sight of the name of Mary Fletcher, emblazoned in large letters upon the cover of The Centrepiece." Although almost forgotten now, Richmond was both a prolific and highly-paid popular author who was never out of print for almost 40 years - reportedly Doubleday sold over 2 1/2 million copies of her books. Green white illustrations on the title page and other preliminary pages, Decorations by Lee Thayer and frontispiece by H. R. Ballinger. Black and white illustrations on the first page of each chapter. green illustrated endpapers with the design reproduced on the dust jacket. Attractively bound in darker green cloth with gilt lettering, design and border. 358 pp.

New York: New American Library - ROC, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Includes fiction and commentary by Catharine Asaro, David Drake, Ursula LeGuin and others. SIGNED by THREE authors at their contributions: Kevin Anderson, Mike Resnick and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Introduction by Bill Fawcett. Information on the Nebula Awards, including lists of previous winners. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0451463166.

New York: New American Library - ROC, (2004). SIGNED first edition - Fiction by Ted Chiang, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross and others. Commentary by Edward Bryany, Molly Gloss, Eileen Gunn and more. SIGNED FOUR authors: by McIntyre on the title page and by Molly Giles, Michael Swanwick and Charles Stross at their contributions. Information on the Nebula Awards, including lists of previous winners. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-451-458788.

New York & London: Hogarth, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The second novel by the author of 'California,' described as "a sinister sexy noir about art, motherhood and the intensity of female friendships, set in the posh hills above Los Angeles." SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp.

New York: Arno Press, 1975. Hardcover - A juvenile science fiction classic originally published in 1907- "Two boys who save the life of a visitor from Mars (who turns out to be the planet's king) are abducted to that planet, where they have various adventures and help to suppress a revolt." Illustrated with a frontispiece and five inserted black and white plates by W. H. C. Groome.

New York: Ballantine, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in California's Silicon Valley, featuring black ops soldier Ben Treven by a former CIA operative. Includes an author's note in which he says that much of the back story and many of the incidents are based on real events. SIGNED on the title page. List of sourcess. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780345505088.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women - from an arranged marriage, which sent the matriach, Sava, to America, through their internment during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her family, first on the overland journey, then in Sacramento and Nevada CIty. The author won the 1999 Women Writing the West Willa Literary Award. INSCRIBED on the title page Preface by the author. x, 268 pp. ISBN: 0-87081-5660.

New York: MIinotaur Books - St Martin's, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, set in Quebec province. Nominated for the Edgar and Agatha awards, and more. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 404 pp. ISBN: 9780312655471.

Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David Publishers, (1972). Hardcover first edition - A massive and comprehensive work, which "presents a well-rounded social history of the African-American, and demonstrates very graphically, in each of its eight sections, the close relationship between folklore and orthodox history." It is far more than just folklore and humor - for example, in the section "The New Breed" there is a chronological listing of slave uprisings and race riots and also a long list of inventions by Negroes between 1870 and 1900. Introduction by J. Mason Brewer. Illustrated with drawings by Rue Knapp. Addenda with soul food recipes. Bibliography, index. xviii, 589 pp.

New York: Crown, (1964) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a comic story of space exploration featuring a robot in a body designed by Disney with a human brain to pilot the space craft - and with the mating instincts of a Casanova! INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1977. Anderson spent 22 years in the air force as a pilot and in the Space and Defense branch, so the technical aspects in this book are based on actual space advances. 255 pp.

New York: Morrow, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in a Florida "verdant with lost drug money; a center of lunatic, gravity, drawing fugitives, gangsters, losers, sociopaths and psychos of every flavor and degree to its tropic environs. And they all congregate in one sleazy, run-down motel perched on the Gulf of Mexico, just a short spitting distance from Tampa Bay." INSCRIBED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-688167837.

San Francisco and Portland: Night Shade Books, (2006). SIGNED first edition - Fantasy novel by this African American writer now living in Canada. Includes an introduction by de Lint and an introduction by Saunders on revisting the early Imaro novels. "The tribal tensions and histories presented in this fantasy novel reflect actual African tribal histories and tensions, and provide a unique perspective to current and recent conflicts in Africa, particularly the Rwandan genocide and the ongoing conflict in The Sudan." SIGNED by de Lint on the title page. Glossary. Afterword by Benjamin Szumskyj. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-1597800365.

Santa Barbara: Woodstock Press, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Journalist Allison Tyler-Wilcox sees a good story in that of Jake Sorenson, a man who had been unsuccessfully married seven times, but who still thinks that he has been 'lucky in love' - and who has changed occupations as many times - he is now working as a mule-breeder on his ranch in Eastern Oregon. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-977627802.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). First edition - Novel set in 18th century Portugal by this 1998 Nobel prize winning author. Included among the characters isPadre Bartholomeu Lorenco de Gusmao, who was ridiculed for his belief that man could fly, but in 1709 invented a rudimentary airship. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The first book by Saramago to be published in the US, . 303 pp plus translator's note.

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this comprehensive book on the making of bows starting with cutting the wood. Illustrated with drawings by G. P. Haynes and a glossy photographic frontispiece and two internal glossy plate. x, 173 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery, set in Northwestern Australia. The US edition preceded that of the UK. 204 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery set in the outback of Australia, featuring Upfield's unusual detective: a half aborigine police inspector named Napoleon Bonaparte. 188 pp. Striking dust jacket art by Harold Josephs.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes,set on the fringes of the world of theater. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180863.

London: Gollancz, 1981. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A theatrical mystery featuring Charles Paris, professional actor and amateur sleuth, one which "wittily exposes yet another aspect of showbiz - commercial television." INSCRIBED "to -- with all good wishes" on the front endpaper. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-575029730.

London: Bloomsbury, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars. The adventures of a 14 year old boy forced to join the British Royal Navy, where he is told he will be a powder monkey on board - that is, he will carry the powder from the barrels to the men standing by the cannons on deck. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small illustrations at the head of each chapter, illustrated endpapers with a drawing of the Frigate Miranda. 276 pp plus notes on sources. ISBN: 0-747577048.

London: Collins, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third book, a novel of suspense. A woman wanting to be free of her marriage uses Billy, a good-natured and eager to please man of thirty with the mind of a child as her dupe in the attempted murder of her husband. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For ---, Something to read for the New Year." Babson was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for her body of work. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-002316331.

London: Hutchinson, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Reginald Wexford mystery novel. The coming of a new highway which will destroy Framhurst Great Wood brings opposition and death, and leaves lingering political and moral questions, which go beyond this novel. SIGNED on the title page by Rendell. Another complex and satisfying suspense novel by this writer, who, among other awards, received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-091792304.

London: Hutchinson, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense set in the decaying Nottinghill neighborhood in London. "Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. In musty old St. Blaise House, where he is the lodger, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms. .. His elderly landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, was born in St. Blaise House, and lives her life almost exclusively through her library of books, so cannot see the decay and neglect around her. . . Both landlady and lodger inhabit weird worlds of their own. But when reality intrudes into Mix's life, a long pent-up violence explodes." SIGNED on the title page. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-091799759.

London: Headline (Hodder), (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of her novels set during World War I. "1916 and Britain faces possible starvation. Can a way be found to beat the deadly German U-boats?" SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-755302885.

London: Review (Headline Hodder), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1915, against the background of trench warfare in World War. "It is the spring of 1915, but deep in the trenches, there is no summer in sight." The second novel in her World War I series. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-755302869.

New York: Ballantine, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in her World War One series - set in England in 1914, in the last golden days before war engulfed their world. Introduces Cambridge professor Joseph Reavey and his brother Matthew, an officer in the intelligence service. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-345484231.

London: Headline (Hodder), (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh book in this series of historical mysteries set in England during the reign of William the Conqueror. SIGNED on the title page. Map of Cheshire and Wales. 246 pp,. ISBN: 0-7472-1980X.

London: Collins, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An offbeat novel by this author of more than 40 novels, mostly traditional stories featuring amateur sleuths - and then there are novels like this one. A "tale of transposed personalities. Famed Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue, soon to be knighted, has suffered a fall from a ladder, possibly accidental, during rehearsal of his new play, knocking skulls with Monty, the theater's cat, on his descent. Now Win, living in a nursing home, has Monty inside of his psyche. Meanwhile, Monty is thinking like Win and serving as his protector when further attempts are made on the actor's life." [Kirkus] It sounds crazy, but it works... INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 12 Sept 1992 with the notation that the publication date was 5 Oct. In 1996, Babson was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for her body of work. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-002324148.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing 25 year old Julie Hayes - Adrift in New York, she opens a store on a dare as "Friend Julie, Advisor" & finds herself helping an odd assortment of neighborhood and street people. An association copy SIGNED on the title page, and also INSCRIBED to mystery author Dorothy B. Hughes "with a long and abiding affinity." In addition Dorothy Hughes has SIGNED her name on the front endpaper. A very special copy commemorating the friendship between these two "Dorothys", both trailblazing female suspense writers in the 1950s-1970s and both recipients of the the Mystery Writers of America grandmaster award (in 1985 for Davis, in 1978 for Hughes) . Review copy with publisher's slips laid in. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-684146606.

New York: Putnam, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third book, a suspense novel set among the Egyptian pyramids in the Valley of the Kings. Boldly SIGNED on the front endpaper. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-399-123288.

London: Collins, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her sixth book, a novel of suspense. Four women, each vulnerable in a different way, sail in first class on an Italian liner - and also on the ship is a hired killer. A dual mystery - who is the intended victim, and who is the killer. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For ---, in the hope that you won't find too many 'first class' errors in it" and dated in the year of publication. Babson was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for her body of work. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-002311445.

New York: St Martin's, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Stephanie Plum, who works for her bail bondsman cousin in New Jersey - two books in the series won the Dilys award (given by independent booksellers for the mystery that is the most fun to sell - and the later ones in the series continue the fun). Evanovich has also received the Silver Dagger and John Creasey awards, among others. Funny and fast-moving. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-312-265867.

New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Florida: "the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner - and the losers die trying. . . The wealthy world of the Palm Beach horse set seems a long way from a cop's world in the narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detective Elena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living by her wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserve to have a future." SIGNED on the title page. 435 pp. ISBN: 0-553801929.

New York: Warner, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense thriller based on the actual mid-air explosion of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island, New York.SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 485 pp. ISBN: 0-446-576638.

New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery feauturing Florida marine biologist (and former deepcover operative) Doc Ford. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. Map endpapers of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. ISBN: 978-0399155406.

New York: Putnam, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell, ranging from 1906 San Francisco to 195's Montana. The first book in the Isaac Bell series. SIGNED on the title page. Map endpapers. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-399-154386.

New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical thriller featuring detective Isaac Bell -it is 1902 and Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship, is hired to hunt for radical union sabateurs in the coal mines. Instead he witnesses a terrible accident which makes him realize that it is not the union members who are the problem. SIGNED by Cussler on the facing title page. Pittsburgh map endpapers. 375 pp. ISBN: 9780-399-161773.

London: Gollancz, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Three antique dealers form a conspiracy and discover that they have landed in the middle of something far more dangerous than they can handle. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-575020490.

New York: Bantam, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 21 short stories SIGNED by Bradbury on the title page. N8304, cover price 95c. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-553-08304.

Holyoke, Massachusetts: The Elizabeth Towne Company, 1918. Hardcover - An uncommon early edition, by the original publisher of this book by Atkinson, an attorney and a prolific author and a pioneer in the American New Thought movement. This book is a combination of logical "body language" reading - "We know that certain mental attitudes will produce the corresponding physical expressions of a smile, a frown, an open hand, a clenched fist, an erect spine or bowed shoulders, respectively. We also know that certain feelings will cause the eye to sparkle or grow dim, the voice to become resonant and positive or to become husky and weak; according to the nature of the feelings" with a significant emphasis on phrenology - even as he admits that many phrenological theories have been rejected, they still form a basis for understanding of the brain. Illustrated with many drawings. 202 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - First edition of this book which has become a classic - Entries are arranged alphabetically from "abstract poem: (a term used by Edith Sitwell) to "wrenched accent" (with an example from Rossetti) and includes examples from over 150 poets ranging over many centuries. 170 pp plus list of poets cited. An association copy with the signature of the artist Kitaj (Rpnald Brook Kitaj, 1932-2007) on the front endpaper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Mrs Norris, the redoubtable crime-solving Scottish housekeeper of the Jarvis family (which includes the young lawyer Jimmie Jarvis), and Jasper Tully, a veteran special investigator for the DA's office. 189 pp.

New York: Modern Library, (1951.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Handsome edition of one of Faulkner's most important novels. Introduction by Harvey Breit. Modern Library # 271. In the first issue dust jacket which lists "352 Outstanding Books." on the verso (Spring, 1951) The rear panel of the jacket is style "h5", used by the ML from 1947-54. xii, 378 pp, plus a chronology, genealogy, maps and catalogue.

Toronto: The Dundurn Group, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The last in the series featuring Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police, who is feeling useless as his time to retire gets closer - and then he is given one last homicide investigation. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-0888822391.

New York: Random House, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the 2018 Man-Booker Prize. "February 1962. The Civil War rages while President Lincoln's 11 year old son is gravely ill; in a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returns to the crypt several times to hold his boys body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory - called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo. Within this transitional state, where ghosts mingle, gripe, and commiserate, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willies soul." 343 pp. ISBN: 978-0812995343.

New York: Ballantine Books / Del Rey, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Text and illustrations by Whelan, foreword by Isaac Asimov, introduction by Donald Munson.Shows both the cover art on the book and his original paintings used in creating the covers. Includes a section on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series. A beautiful book, printed on glossy paper throughout. Large format, 109 pp. ISBN: 0-345326792.

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award, a finalist for the National Book Award, this is a book that truly deserves all of the acclaim it has received. The story of free colored slaveholders in 1840's Virginia is both historically accurate and moving. Author Jeffrey Lent called this "a modern masterpiece that staggers the imagination...the most powerful and deeply realized novel I've read in a long time. This is a work that transforms and transports to such a thorough degree that when you finally step out 'The Known World,' you're shaken and turned around, never again to be the same. This novel is what literature can and should be.' Cover featuring a Eudora Welty photograph. 388 pp. Went quickly into later printings and rather uncommon in the true first. ISBN: 0-06-0557540.

New York: Penzler Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The most infuriating man in American letters is back . . . More than 50 previously uncollected essays, over 160,000 words of smoldering opinion." SIGNED and dated on the title page by Ellison. Index. xxvii, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2399.

New York: Delacorte, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth in the Outlander series of historical and time-travelling novels following the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser. It is1772 and the colonies are on the eve of Revolution. A massive book at 980 pp. ISBN: 0-385-324162.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which combines mystery, violence, and the supernatural in a "raw and gripping thriller. . . Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree." SIGNED on the title page. 406 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-340826177.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes, a complex story in which Julie matures a great deal. After her husband told her that he wanted a divorce, she left their apartment in anger and confusion. When walking by a construction site she is lured to a trailer and brutally raped by two men. This crime becomes intertwined with a trip to Ireland in search of the father she never knew. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-68418887.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Barner shakes the dust off the bones found in museums to bring dinosaurs back to life." Colorful and filled with fun dinosaur facts, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780811831581.

New York: Atheneum, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A selection of nine speeches from those given over a period of twenty-five years -speeches which she thought captured the essence of her years as a writer of children's books, including winning two Newbery Medals (one for her classic "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler') The speeches are arranged chronologically by the decade. Illustrated in full color. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout, slightly oversized format. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-689319932.

London: Collins, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, the story of a young American woman, recovering in a nursing home in London, who has nothing to do but to look at the mews - knowing that a criminal who is thought to have been killed will be coming after her. 192 pp.

Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Association, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A colorfully illustrated book featuring animals found in our National Parks - each letter is illustrated by a full page color paintings by Daniel San Souci and tells which park the animal frequents, as well as giving a bit of general information on their habits. SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator and dated in the year of publication. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 1930238037.

New York: Harper Collins, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Collects 30 of the best stories published between 1939 and 1990, selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Includes stories by Shirley Jackson, Peter Beagle, Ray Bradbury, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Bisson, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Philip K. Dick and many more. SIGNED by Beagle at his story "Come Lady Death." Introduction by Silverberg. xii, 562 pp. ISBN: 1568658583.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of ten classic stories of the future, none previously anthologized, by Ray Bradbury, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Chad Oliver, Robert Sheckley and others. SIGNED by William F. Nolan on the title page, and uncommon thus. Introduction by Shelly Lowenkopf, xiii, 276 plus a postscript by Nolan.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Walker's second book for children, once again produced in collaboration with illustrator Catherine Deeter. ISBN: 0-15-227538x.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third children's book by this Irish writer, one which returns "to the delightful world of Tim, the little boy whose friendship with Mattie, the mouse the magic dazzle, leads him into fantastic adventures. This time it is Mattie himself who is in mortal danger, and even with the help of a new friends, Minerva, Tim fears that all is lost." SIGNED by O'Brien on the title page, and uncommon thus. Illustrated by Peter Stevenson. Large format. 44 pp. ISBN: 0-340338962.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1961). Hardcover - Young adult novel set during World War II, which begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor. A '"young Navy flyer undertakes dangerous mission on a remote South Pacific island in a desperate attempt to aid harassed forces on Guadalcanal." Code c33 indicating that this was printed in1961. 215 pp.

London: Cecil & Amelia Woolf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects 31 poems, 15 appearing in print for the first time, by this eccentric artist and writer. Edited and with an introduction by Cecil Woolf. Illustrated with photographs of Rolfe's handwritten poems with his illustrations and decorations. Footnotes and textual notes. 79 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-900821116.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A new of poems by this award-winning Native American poet, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin. SIGNED in full on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1995. Volume 30 in the Sun Tracks Literary Series. Notes, 128 pp. ISBN: 0-816514658.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery in the award-winning series featuring Chief Inspector Barnaby and his faithful partner, Troy. One of the books which inspired the television series 'Midsomer Murders.' 375 pp. ISBN: 0-688100244.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, set in 1920 in the isolated Fen country where there is a seemingly unconnected series of murders. A highly recommended series of historical mysteries. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. ("Charles Todd" is actually the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 344 pp. ISBN: 978-0062015662.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1958) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the heart of historical Philadelphia, where Connie has been sent on a research assignment to an old mansion which is being restored. PLain frontispiece. Lists to this title in the front of the book and on the rear flap of the dust jacket (back cover lists to Vicki Barr Silver Ring Mystery.) 184 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the Children's House series, featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel and named best crime novel of the year by the Icelandic Crime Writers Association. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 455 pp. ISBN: 978-1250136268.

New York: Vantage Press, (1964) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Semi-autobiographical adventure novel, a story of bootlegging and racketeering, set against the background of prohibition in San Francisco. Very warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper ("We had a lot of good laughs together and after Herb and I had consumed about one gallon of wine, we would take off for the beach") and SIGNED with both names. 344 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second volume in 'The Dancers at the End of Time' series. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-060130024.

New York: Aspect / Warner, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy by this award-winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. Dust jacket art by Robert Gold. ISBN: 0-446-577022.

San Francisco: McSweeney's (2009). SIGNED hardcover - The story of one man's experiences after Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a successful Syrian-born painting contractor, decides to stay in New Orleans and protect his property while his wife (born in Louisiana and a convert to Islam) and children leave for safety. After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to assist other stranded residents, before being arrested at one of his rental properties along with three other men by an armed squad. They were swept into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality and imprisoned as suspected terrorists; for a long time all his family knew was that he had "disappeared." Highly praised at the time of its publication, this received the American Book Award. A few years later, his wife filed for divorce and he was arrested and indicted not only for extremely violent abuse but for allegedly conspiring to have his ex-wife murdered. He was acquitted of the murder-related charges which came from a "non-credible" source, but convicted of abuse, and for some this cast doubt on the entire story - although itis undeniable that the government's response to Katrina was not only inadequate but focused more on protecting property than on saving lives. At the end of the book, Eggers portrays them as broken but hopeful - unfortunately, they were not only broken but destroyed. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp plus ads. ISBN: 978-1934781630.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Walker's first book for children, beautifully illustrated in full color by Catherine Deeter SIGNED by Walker on the title page. Unpaginated, oblong format. ISBN: 0-15-2890750.

Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover - A traditional American cookbook- and one of the most popular - incudes over 1000 recipes, many new to this ediiton, substitutes in cooking, cookery tools and utensils recommendations. Recipes range from salads and pasta dishes to poultry, beef and seafood recipes, and sweets. Illustrations byAlison Mason Kingsbury. Food imagery throughout, table of calories, index, contents xi, 624 pp.

New York: MIRA, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "Just as opposites attract, they can also cause friction, and no one feels that friction more than Rex and Rosies daughter, Willow. Rex is serious and unsentimental and tapes checklists of chores on Willows bedroom door. Rosie is sparkling and enchanting and meets Willow in their treehouse in the middle of the night to feast on candy. After Rex and Rosies divorce, Willow finds herself navigating their two different worlds. She is clearly under the spell of her exciting, fun-loving mother. But as Rosies behavior becomes more turbulent, the darker underpinnings of her manic love are revealed." Bound in is a printed letter from the author to the reader describing how this book was an attempt to understand the story of her own mother, who was much like the Rosie in the book, and who died when she was just nine. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1909). Hardcover - The fourth title in this six-book series of young adult adventure novels by L. Frank Baum (best known for his Oz books). Unlike most of BaumÕs work, the series is told in first person narrative by the protagonist, teenager Sam Steele. Sam, his father the Captain, and his uncle, are the owners of the Seagull, which sails any sea and to any country where it might be profitable - Also onboard is his friend Archie and Joe, who is a little younger. Includes a brief foreword by the author. Glossy frontispiece. Lists to #5 at the beginning of the book. 325 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

North Vancouver, BC: Gallerie Publications, (1992). SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays in which several lesbian artists discuss their work - Shani Mootoo, Jean Weisinger, Lenore Chinn, Victoria Hamlin and others - and reproduction of paintings, photographs and mixed media works. Introduction by the editor. INSCRIBED by Caffyn Kelley on the title page. Illustrated with b&w photos and several color plates. 96 pp. ISBN: 1-895640016.

Elk Grove, CA: Gabari Publishing, (1984_. First edition - The second book in a three part series on witchcraft in Ghana, written from the perspective of an African, born in Nigeria to Ghanian parents, and raised in Ghana. Includes an interview with Ama Nisin. Bibliography. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-916073-009.

New Haven: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Includes essays and articles, fiction, poetry and reviews. Among the contributors are Amy Hempel, Vladimir Nabakov, Louise Gluck, Gary Snyder, Adrienne Rich, Peter Gay, James Merrill, Sandra McPherson and more. SIGNED by Francine Prose at her story "Talking Dog." Notes on contributors. 260 pp plus ads.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in New York City during the 1960s, this is an account of his years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's Magazine. He knew them all - Styron, Capote, Bobby Kennedy, Woody Allen, Leonard Bernstein and more. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-316584215.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, (1962). Hardcover first edition - An early novel by this Nobel laureate, set in Poland in the 17th century immediately after the destruction of many Jewish communities by the Cossacks. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Cecil Hemley. 311 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel (the 9th) featuring Sir John Appleby. The weight, in this case, is a meteorite which someone let fall on a professor as he took his mid-day nap. 250 pp. Schematic drawing on endpapers.

London & New York; Heinemann / Africana Publishing Co., (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A book which provides a critical assessment of twelve major novels by African writers, arranged thematically, in pairs - from Ferdinand Oyono and Alex La Guma on colonial injustice through Ngugi and Sembene Ousmane on commitment. Other authors whose novels are included are Achebe, Armah, Soyinka and more. SIGNED and dated by Ngugi wa Thiong'o at the essay on his work and uncommon thus. Bibliography, index. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-435913204.

Regina, Saskatchewan: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2013. Hardcover first edition - The second volume which surveys the Dunlap Gallery's past year of exhibits - Since the Gallery is a unit of the Regina Public Library it is appropriate that some of the exhibits were related to the book. Includes contributions from and about Sarah Abbot and Jeremy Drummond, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Nelson Henricks, Jinhan Ko, Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Deirdre Logue, David Poolman, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Steve Reinke; Joseph Anderson; Joi T. Arcand; Lee Henderson and Eve K. Tremblay; Kathleen Irwin and Jeff Morton; Carmela Laganse and more. A beautiful production printed on heavy glossy stock and illustrated in full color throughout. 176 pp.

New York: Dial Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel about sisters, romance and survival. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 361 pp. ISBN: 978-0735228115.

New York: Charles E. Merrill Company, (1918). Hardcover first edition - Mostly first person accounts about heroism during World War I - the Great War - and depicting the love of country. Many of them are articles which appeared in various magazines, adapted slightly for this book. Published for use in schools. Illustrated with photographs. List of military terms. 176 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology collecting fifteen original short stories set at the poker table including Walter Mosley's "Mister In-Between," "One Dollar Jackpot" by Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman's "Hardly Knew Her," and works by Joyce Carol Oates, Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver, Parnell Hall, Sam Hill, Peter Robinson, John Lescroart, and others. SIGNED by FOUR contributors - by Otto Penzler on the title page with the comment "Know when to fold'em!" and by Jeffery Deaver, Parnell Hall and John Lescroart at their stories. Foreword by Otto Penzler and introduction by Howard Lederer. xv, 384 pp. ISBN: 9780151012770.

Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Tess Gallager. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "Incident at Imuris." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Alistair MacLeod, Marilyn Hacker, Julian Barnes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Brenda Hillman, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Doty, Lorna Goodison and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 534 pp. ISBN: 0-916366588.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - An annual anthology of essays, short stories and poems, selected from small literary journals across America - a reflection of the diversity and excellence to be found in offbeat publications from across the United States. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates at her story "The Hair." Also includes Li-Young Lee, Ursula Le Guin, Marvin Bell, Katha Pollitt, Susan Straight, Linda Gregg, Eric Chock, Jess Mowry, Yann Martel, Brenda Hillman and many more. List of special mentions, brief notes on the author, and index to the first 16 volumes. 574 pp. ISBN: 0-671734350.

New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover first edition - A novel partially based on London's voyage around Cape Horn in 1912 - it is unfortunately marred by overt racism and the concept of white supremacy (those in command on the ship are fair-skinned, while those who toil are of the 'swarthy races.' Color frontispiece. Basis for three films. 378 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2018). 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.

Los Angeles: Disney, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "What of the dark fairy, Maleficent? Why does she curse the innocent princess? Many tales have tried to explain her motives. Here is one account, pulled down from the many passed down through the ages. It is a tale of love and betrayal, of magic and reveries. It is a tale of the Mistress of All Evil." SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. Dust jacket art by Jeffrey Thomas. ISBN: 978-1368009010.