New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning" published on the hundredth anniversary of Wodehouse's birth. Edited and with a Preface by D.R. Benson. INSCRIBED by Isaac Asimov at his preface - to Kevin Anderson (the science fiction writer?) - and dated in the year of publication. xvii, 282 pp. ISBN: 0-899190448.

London: Printed for W. Sharpe and Son, Allason and others, 1820. Hardcover - Volume XII only in the complete works of Robertson, complete in itself. A history of ancient India starting with Romans through the establishment off Portuguese in East Asia. Large folded map tipped onto page in between the two title pages. Includes an appendix, notes and illustrations, index. v, 402 pp.

Philadelphia: American Poetry Review, (2007). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first collection of poems, winner of the American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize, and nominated for several others (his second collection, Digest, won the Pulitzer award in 2015) INSCRIBED on the title page. Introduction by Brenda Hillman. 87 pp. ISBN: 978-0977639533.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's 20th book, 12th novel. Both sad and funny, this is the story of an aging man, with a bad heart, asthma and more, determined to once again, on his 65th birthday, climb Spoon Mountain with his two grown children. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To -- please always remember that on the top of every mountain there is always another mountain beckoning you to climb higher" with a doodle around his signature, dated in 2013. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0826352705.

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 Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1968.). SIGNED first edition - Early poetry collection - in 1967, her first book of poems 'The Circle Game' won the Governor's General Award. INSCRIBED by Atwood on title page. 68 pp.

California Retired Teacher's Association, (1990). SIGNED first edition - Histories of all the one-room schoolhouses in El Dorado County, arranged by school district, and prepared by former teachers in those schools. Illustrated with photographs, maps.SIGNED on the first page by Lola Wells, one of the contributors. Large format. 359 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 dj. Hardcover first edition - The great vampire Marius -once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome - returns. SIGNED bookplate laid in. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454470.

London: Heinemann, (1987). SIGNED - A title in the African Writers Series. A powerful critique of modern Kenya, written by Ngugi while imprisoned on the only paper available to him - toilet paper. Translated from the Gikuyo by Ngugi. Many feel that Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have already received the Nobel Prize for literature. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-435908448.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1900). Hardcover - London's first book, a collection of nine stories set in the Far North. Glossy frontispiece by Maynard Dixon with tissue guard. 251 pp.

New York: Three Rooms Press, (2018). SIGNED first edition - "Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects all his best time travel fiction in one place, with new introductions detailing the back story behind each tale." Includes a new introductory essay praising early time travel stories. Special Worldcon 76 edition, SIGNED by Silverberg on the half title page and numbered 58 out of 60. xxi, 463 pp. ISBN: 978-1941110720.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - #93 out of 275 numbered copies (of 301) SIGNED by the author. Designed and printed by Tom Jamieson and Robert Sheridan for the Lord John Press. 32 pp plus colophon.

Eureka, South Dakota: Eureka's Golden Jubilee Organization, (1937). Hardcover first edition - Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this South Dakota town, this includes many articles on the residents of the community and other articles on the churches, the history, including the German and Russian roots of many of the settlers, the sod homes, wheat growing and much more. Illustrated throughout. Also includes many ads from local businesses. Large format. 287 pp.

Kennewick, WAL Natural Products Co., 1995. First edition - A re-examination of the history of Western civilization focusing on the suppression of ecstatic experiential religions by the medical and pharmaceutical powers. The Angels' Dictionary defines 318 words pertaining to sacred inebriants, including quotations from classic drug and general literature. The first edition of this book was limited to 5000 copies, of which 500 were casebound and 126 were signed and numbered. 159 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-961423471.

Boston: Christopher Publishing House, (1960) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon third collection of poems by this writer - her first, Symphony, received the California Book Award in 1955. An association copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to poet Edythe Hope Gener - :fellow poet and friend, with admiration for your own lovely poetry" and dated in 1961. 106 pp.

New York: George H. Doran, (1925). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A slim collection of poems by the wife and widow of Joyce Kilmer (who as killed in action during World War I) SIGNED on the title page with the words "A Merry Christmas from Aline Kilmer" and dated 1925, in the year of publication. An attractive volume, bound with a pale green cloth spine and decorative paper covered boards. 46 pp.

Chicago: Modern Poetry Association, 1946. First edition - A scarce issue of this magazine - it includes the first published poems by then 19 year old James Merrill. Other contributors include Clair Burch, Virginia Berry, an essay on "Oscar Wilde's Poetry as Art History" by Eduoard Roditti, notes on the contributors and an index to Volume 76. pp 293-352 plus advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

By the author, nd (ca 1975). An uncommon work by this beat poet. Printed on the recto only, Dedication page plus 36 numbered leaves. Illustrated. Large format - 8 1/2 by 11 inches.

New York: Liveright, (1975.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An association copy INSCRIBED on the half title page "For Robert, with friendship and admiration" and dated in the year of publication. "Robert" is Robert Chrisman, activist , poet, and co-founder of 'The Black Scholar' (his name and address appear on the front pastedown, underneath the dust jacket flap) 131 pp. ISBN: 0-87140-6136.

San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eight poems, set in Linotype Janson by Wesley B. Tanner; printed on antique laid paper and bound by Leigh McLellan, who also did the woodcut on the title page. Number 61 of 100 bound in light-blue cloth-backed boards with marbled Gainsborough paper sides, titling on white paper label on upper board (total limitation was 200, with the remaining 100 bound in wraps). Numbered and SIGNED by both McPherson and McLellan on the limitation page. A slim square volume. Unpaginated.

New York: Grossman & Goliard, 1972. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon poetry anthology, rather hard to find in hardcover : Each of the 13 contributors ( Michael McClure, Clark Coolidge, Dick Gallup, Aram Saroyan, Ed Dorn, Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Philip Whalen, Tom Clark, James Schuyler, Robert Creeley, & Ed Sanders) was asked to present some 20 pages of new work - the result is a book which contains, in effect, 13 chapbooks. SIGNED by FIVE poets - by Ed Sanders on the front endpaper with the words 'still in th' crawl mode', by Tom Clark on the title page and by Michael McClure, Ron Padgett and Alice Notley at the first page of their sections. Large format, handsomely produced work, 347 pp. ISBN: 0-670-114197.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - This book consists of the poems in the 1937 edition of "Man with the Blue Guitar" and the 1936 edition of "Ideas of Order." Despite the fact that Stevens, arguably the best American poet of this century, had won the National Book Award in 1950, and been awarded the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1949, this book still had a small printing of only 2000 copies.

New York: Macmillan, (1905.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel of mystery and romance set in 17th century Puritan England by this profilic author and 'legendary' woman screenwriter of the silent film era. In its review, the New York Times summed this up nicely - "Whoever loves a doughty fight -- in fact, a series of seemingly never to be ended fights, and a hero stubbornly refusing to be worsted no matter how hardly fate treats him -- let him read this novel of Puritan England. There is not much history to trouble about, (which perhaps is little fault,) but there is good style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix's now known manner." 351 pp plus 5 pp of ads for her earlier books.

New York: Scribner's, 1937. dj. Hardcover first edition - Bogan's third book of poems, and quite uncommon. 42 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Novel of adventure and intrigue by prolific English novelist and playwright, now best remembered for The Prisoner of Zenda. "The heroine, a high spirited, penniless English girl, goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune. She has the good luck to save the life of the Prince, who falls in love with her. The story of her career becomes a galloping romance, in which adventures, court intrigues, and hair breadth escapes follow one another in quick succession." Basis for a 1920 silent film. Tinted frontispiece with tissue guard. 332 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very personal account of their lives, by the wife of one of the most influential men of the 20th century, from his childhood, his early years as a civil rights activist and minister, to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and his assassination. INSCRIBED by Coretta Scott King on the front endpaper "To --- with deep appreciation for your support and commitment to the dream. " ix, 371 pp plus a section of 16 pages of photographs. ISBN: 0-03-0810221.

New York: F. M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1900. Hardcover first edition - Collection of six short pieces by the woman who is considered the "mother" of American detective fiction. Also includes the Gray Madam and the Bronze Hand. 344 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel transcending time and place - as the stories of a young Jewish woman in 20th century Germany becomes intertwined with that of an African general hired by the Doge in 16th century Venice - by this award-winning and highly praised Afro-Caribbean writer. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1997. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454705.

[Fort Lee, NJ:] Barricade Books, Inc., (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Boldly SIGNED by Eartha Kitt on the front endpaper. Autobiography of the singer and actress, from her childhood in rural poverty in South Carolina to her early career struggles and her constant determination to do what she thought was right, including an account of the famous luncheon with Lady Bird Johnson when Kitt spoke up against the war in Vietnam. Photographs. Index. 280pp. ISBN: 0-94263733X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - An attractively produced book, and a carefully selected volume which provides an excellent introduction to the work of Olson. Edited and with a long preface by his friend and fellow Black Mountain poet Robert Creeley. 225 pgs. Bound in beige linen with blue endpapers. ISBN: 0-520075285.

New York: Picador, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel - her first won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes instructions for playing the game at the end of the book, complete with a picture of the game in progress. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-385-4093516.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1930.) dj. Hardcover - Farah's (10th edition) 1938A-28. Front flap has 15 Nancy Drew titles listed, rear dj flap has 6 Dana Girl titles. Blue cloth with orange silhouette endpapers. Glossy frontispiece and original dust jacket art by Russell Tandy. 200 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ad (lists ND to #13).

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A massive work with selections from the old outlaws - Beat poets or "renegades" as they are called in the table of contents - and the younger outlaw poets. This copy has been SIGNED by several of the contributors who read from their selections at the San Francisco Book Festival on October 17, 1999. Editor & contributor Alan Kaufman signed on the title page; Sarah Menefee, pg 117; Jack Hirschmann, pg 121 (inscription); Harold Norse, pg 129; Dominique Lowell, pg 188; Bucky Sinister, pg 478; Jack Wiler, pg 481; Sapphire, pg 13; Geoge Tsongas, pg 537 (inscription); Gerald Nicosia, pg 546 (dated inscription) and also - at a later date - by Anne Waldman (p 533.) Photographs, notes on the contributors. 685 pp. ISBN: 1560252278.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1935.) dj. Hardcover - The book is the first printing, (1935A-1) according to Farah's, 10th edition, format 3, lists to Nancy Drew #12 in the front of the book and to Nancy Drew #10 and Dana Girls #3 in the ads at the rear. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy with frontispiece and 3 internal plates on glossy stock. Orange silhouette endpapers, orange tinting to the top edge of the textblock. 218 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifteenth mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - set in a formerly grand country home, which is now rather rundown. SIGNED and dated on the title page with the words "best wishes." 192 pp. ISBN: 0-094688907.

Boston: Little Brown, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth book featuring Richard Jury, set at an old pub at Christmas time. Classic British mystery in the tradition of Christie and Sayers; in fact, Grimes does this so well that she is often mistakenly considered British. SIGNED on the title page. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-316-325790.

Boston: The New York Graphic Society / Little Brown, (1983). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Adams "shares his experiences and details the circumstances, methods, and technical and aesthetic problems surrounding the creation of forty of his most famous photographs." SIGNED on the half title page. Large square format, printed on heavy glossy stock. Glossary, x, 177 pp. ISBN: 0-821215515.

New York: Padell, (1948) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A single volume, combining the complete the texts of First Will & Testament, The Dark Kingdom, and Cloth of the Tempest, each separately paginated. Copy number 50, signed by Patchen on the colophon affixed to the front pastedown. List of contents at the end of the book.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this Edgar-award winning author set against the assassination of JFK. . . "Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out. A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But now its his turn - he knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy." SIGNED on the title page and dated 3/2/19. Winner of the Lefty Award for best mystery novel. 299 pp. ISBN: .

London: Collins, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays and brief comments on topics ranging from a royal wedding to the situation in South Africa, the bombing of Libya and the radiation from Chernobyl. Introduced by Salman Rushdie. Cartoons by Gibbard, Brian McAlister and Steve Bell. SIGNED by Martin Walker at his essay "Back Room Boys." Although Walker is best known now as the author of the popular Bruno mystery series set in the Perigord region of France, he worked for the Guardian from 1971 to 1999, including as foreign correspondent and US bureau chief. Index. 256 pgs. ISBN: 0-002177021.

New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a 'freeway flyer' who stumbles upon the possibility of some unrecorded history in the story of a 93-year old woman, Lucy Boomer, who had worked for (and maybe been more to) five US Presidents. She promises Jack her journals, and in return he slips her out of her nursing home and begins the long drive to Iowa with her and a free-spirited hitchhiker. SIGNED on the title page. Long after this novel was first optioned, an adaption is scheduled to begin filming in the summer of 2019 with Director Howard Deutch. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-345-372252.

New York: Ballantine, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a 'freeway flyer' who stumbles upon the possibility of some unrecorded history in the story of a 93-year old woman, Lucy Boomer, who had worked for (and maybe been more to) five US Presidents. She promises Jack her journals, and in return he slips her out of her nursing home and begins the long drive to Iowa with her and a free-spirited hitchhiker. SIGNED on the title page. Long after this novel was first optioned, an adaption is scheduled to begin filming in the summer of 2019 with Director Howard Deutch. 186 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The surprisingly uncommon third Kat Colorado mystery. SIGNED on the title page and dated March 1992, that is in the month of publication. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385420951.

New York: Scribner's, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Perry's second novel, a fast paced - and often humorous - thriller set in Los Angeles His first book won the 1982 Edgar for best first mystery. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-684-179482.

New York: Harper Collins, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture.SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-062277022.

Dublin, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, (1966) dj. Hardcover - Work originally published in English in 1946. Translated from the German by D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin. Translators' preface. Indexes. xxi, 688 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book in this award-winning humorous crime series featuring Junior Bender - "burglar turned private investigator for Hollywood crooks." SIGNED on the title page. Author's afterword. 377 pp. ISBN: 978-1616957483.

Delavan, WI: G&G Books. (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Matthew Scudder novel, originally published as a paperback original in 1976 and issued here in a SIGNED limited edition (26 lettered, 500 numbered copies). Includes a new introduction by Martin Cruz Smith. and a new afterword by Block. 164 pp Dust jacket design by Gail Cross. ISBN: 0-964919303.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1940, c. 1932.) dj. Hardcover - The Boltons have moved into a large old house with a reputation for being haunted - Bound in lime green cloth, thick format, pink endpapers with Judy on the stairs holding a flashlight, illustrated by Pelagie Doane with a glossy frontispiece. Front flap of dj lists thru #13, back of the book thru #12. 212 pp plus 4 pp of advertisements. Purple topstain. Dustjacket with white spine.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1942, c. 1936) dj. Hardcover - Thicker format in blue cloth with orange lettering, orange and white illustrated endpapers. Glossy frontispiece and dust jacket art by Russell Tandy. Lists through #18 in ads at back, and thru #19 on the front flap and thru Judy Bolton #15 on back cover. Farrah's (10th edition) 1942B-15 (the last thick printing), 216 pp. plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910). Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, written between 1887-1889, a companion to 'Main-Travelled Roads', inspired by Garland's return to the West of his youth - Iowa, Dakota, & Wisconsin. Bound in tan cloth with gilt titling a gilt Art Nouveau corn motif decoration. viii, 350 pp.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A single long poem by this award-winning writer. This book was the winner of Bollingen Prize for poetry for 1973-1974. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393043886.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - the twelfth collection of poetry by this writer who has won both the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-393034467x.

Bonn & Los Angeles: Kunstmuseum Bonn - Museum of Contemporary Art, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Catalogue for the 1992-93 exhibitions in Bonn and Los Angeles. Includes three essays on the work of Laib, plus 51 full-color plates. SIGNED by Laib on the title page. Bilingual edition with the text in German and English. Includes a biography, listings of solo and group exhibitions, and selected bibliography. Large square format. 145 pp. ISBN: 3-893225161.

New York: Putnam, 1907. Hardcover first edition - A look at the lives and loves of several well-known literary figures including Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, Samuel Johnson and Esther Thrale, and Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Whitman as well as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Lawrence Sterne, William Cowper and John Keats. Bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and flowers, and her monogram on the front board. Frontispiece portrait of Shelley and Mary Shelley with a tissue guard, and double portraits of all the other writers included. Title page with a floral design, and each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 204 pp.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of the last collection of poems by this Nobel laureate, completed just months before his death in 1973 and composed entirely of unanswerable questions. Translated and with an introduction by William O'Daly. A bilingual edition with English at the top of each page and the original Spanish at the bottom. xiii, 74 pp. Uncommon in hardcover. ISBN: 1-556590407.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The fourth collection by this award-winning poet, a sequence of poems which chronicles a father's illness and death as seen by his daughter. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-679-740023.

Boston: Da Capo Press, 2000. SIGNED first edition - A single poem printed in blue and green on stiff cream paper, and SIGNED by Oliver. Printed letterpress for Da Capo Press to celebrate the publication of 'The Leaf and the Cloud' in which this poem appears.

London: Faber & Faber, (1948.) dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A great American poet - winner of every major prize America can offer its poets, from the Pulitzer to the Bollingen-opens his life to us in a memoir that puts wit, sensibility, and elegance of mind to the service of unflinching autobiographical truth." A presentation copy, INSCRIBED on the title page "with love to J -- from her old neighbor." 271 pp. ISBN: 0-679-423176.

Philadelphia: Dufour Editions, 1963. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Irish writer's first major collection of poetry - a selection from 10 years worth of work. Includes a few notes by Montague where 'the Irish references might be particularly unfamiliar.' SIGNED on the front endpaper. 59 pp.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book length translation of this noted German poet's work into English - most of the poems are from the last two decades of her life, and many deal with confronting the past - that is, the years under Hitler and World War II. Bilingual edition with the original German on the verso, the English translation on the right. Introduction by the translater. SIGNED on the title page by Mueller and uncommon thus. A title in the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. xii, 111 pp. ISBN: 0-691-064423.

New York: International Workers Order, 1938. First edition - A book published by the IWO "to make available literature which would otherwise be out of the reach of wage earners." In his introduction, Michael Gold describes an incident early in Hughes's career: in 1925, Vachel Lindsay was giving a recital in Washington D.C. and he recited 3 poems by a young unknown Negro poet - Langston Hughes - who was working as a busboy at that dinner at that white man's hotel. In addition to the title poem, this includes 'Song of Spain,' 'The Lynching Song' and 14 others about inequality of all kinds -racial, economic, social -as well as a call for action and justice. Cover illustration by Joe Jones. A slim chapbook. 31 pp.

New York: Hachette Books, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A portrait of a young mother surviving by cobbling together working long hours in a physically demanding and sometimes degrading job as a house cleaner and a group of governments benefits (WIC, SNAP, child care credits, etc) that show just how far these are from a realistic "safety net." It begins with the poignant comment that her daughter took her first step in a homeless shelter, where she was living after fleeing an abusive relationship. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. SIGNED on the title page. 270 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book by this author and engineer who is perhaps best known for his works on such objects as the book on the bookshelf, the toothpick and the pencil. These essays attempt to bridge the gap between technical and literary cultures. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Karen Petroski. Notes and references. xii, 256 pp. ISBN: 0-312-077858.

New York: Bantam, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes as Mary investigates the disappearance of a woman on a supervised outing from Bedlam. SIGNED on the title page. Author's notes. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0804177962.

New York: Doubleday, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The runaway bestseller, basis for the movie of the same name. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To -- with my best wishes" and dated March 25, 2003 - the month of publication. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-385-504209.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of those impossible to classify novels - part homage to 1940's noir, part alternative history set in the Federal District of Sitka in Alaska where for 60 years Jewish refugees have prospered after the Holocaust and the 1948 collapse of Israel. Winner of the Nebula Award, nominated for the Edgar. INSCRIBED on the title page. 414 pp. ISBN: 978-0007149827.

New York: Random House, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Massive novel of the history of islands of the Caribbean. Suggestions for further reading. SIGNED by Michener on the title page. 672 pp plus 1 p on the facts of the islands. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-565614.

Greenwich, CT. & London: New York Graphic Society and George Rainbird, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated throughout with the artist's holograph and drawings. Color autolithograph printed on handmade paper, watermarked with Moore's signature, bound in at the front of the book. Commentary by Geoffrey Grigson. Large format, bound in cloth-backed pictorial boards.

New York: Picador, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a complex story of murder set in Minnesota in 1939, winner of the Edgar award for best novel of 1998. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192177.

Boston: Beacon, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors by this Mexican American writer. SIGNED on the title page. Several pages of dichos/sayings at the end of the book. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-807072001.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains examples both of Ammons' longer poems and his shorter ones. "The Ridge Farm," which begins the book, and "Tombstones," at its center, are fine longer meditations, while "Motion's Holdings," the concluding section, contains a number of his best new shorter poems. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-393024687.

New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 160 very short poems, spanning his entire career and proving that "brevity is the soul of wit." One seems especially appropriate to today "The burdens of the world / on my back / lighten the world / not a whit while / removing them greatly / decreases my specific / gravity." 79 pp. ISBN: 0-393028704.

New York: Norton, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of four novellas. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sixth novel by this writer who has been called "agressively original," "audaciously assured" inventive, original and much more - this is the story of a young man who must battle his Tourette's syndrome as he attempts to find a killer. Winner of 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Gold Dagger award. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-385-491832.

New York: Mysterious Press, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Edgar for best novel in 2001. A mystery, but also a coming of age story set in racially divided East Texas during the depression era 1930s. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7048.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). SIGNED first edition - His first detective novel since "Motherless Brooklyn", a novel about "weird, off=the grid America. Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. Shes looking for her friends missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious troublecaught in the middle of a violent standoff." SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-1590588147.

New York: Tin House, Bloomsbury, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The 'best of the nonfiction published' published in the literary magazine 'Tin House.' SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions: David Shields at his essay on Bill Murray and Ann Hood at "Little Audrey." Also includes contributions from David Gates, Amy Bloom, Rick Moody, Francine Prose, Ann Hood, Russell Banks, Kathryn Harrison, Jeffrey Eugenides, Lisa Zeidner and many others. Introduction by Charles d'Ambrosio. Notes on contributors. 322 pp. ISBN: 1582344868.

London: Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A book which depicts the attractions of Cairo ("one of the most popular of all winter resorts") and its environs in text and with lovely color illustrations. In addition to the sights of Cairo this book includes some more distant places, including Luxor, Aswan, Philae, Thebes, Karnak and more. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and 50 internal color illustrations of watercolors done by the author, each with a printed tissue guard. A large octavo. xxi, 191 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a story of the bonds formed by three women, and set on a "dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk." SIGNED on the title page.

New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the Indian Wars on the Western frontier, told from the viewpoint of three very different characters: the driven George A. Custer; his wife, Libbie; and a young woman captured by the Cheyennes. An engrossing book. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019. Illustrated with photographs, author's note, bibliography. 370 pp. plus photo credits. ISBN: 978-0374249311.