New York: Everest House, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A contemporary novel of unutterable terror." The author's first novel - dust jacket praise from Stephen King who called it "a hypnotic journey into darkness. You'll be a long time forgetting this book - if you ever do." The story of a young couple who move to a small farm in upstate New York. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-337, Reginald 37369. etc.) 272 pp. ISBN: 0-89696-0218.

New York: Everest House, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A contemporary novel of unutterable terror." The author's first novel - dust jacket praise from Stephen King who called it "a hypnotic journey into darkness. You'll be a long time forgetting this book - if you ever do." The story of a young couple who move to a small farm in upstate New York. (Barron, Horror Literature 4-337, Reginald 37369. etc.) 272 pp. ISBN: 0-89696-0218.

Milwaukee, WI: Gardenia Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - A nuclear physicist is conducting dangerous experiments - and some will stop at nothing to learn his secrets. Non-stop action, INSCRIBED on the first page by the author "To ... Best of luck with Silicon Secrets. Enjoy this adventure" and dated in 2002. 390pp. ISBN: 0-967889545.

New York: Dial Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Hawaii's transition from a mid-Pacific paradise to a modern industrial community - with a focus on the emergence of the islands' so called 'second-class' citizens - Hawaiians, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese - after World War II, and of the political and economic reform movement led by Jack Burns and war-hero, Senator Daniel Inouye. Photographs. Notes, index. 304 pp.

New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins), (2008.) dj. Hardcover - The author's impressive first novel, the story of a mute young man, growing up in remote Northern Wisconsin. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Stephen King (who called it 'wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying'), Richard Russo, Mark Doty (who said 'This remarkable novel seems like an impossibility: an American Hamlet, both ghost story and melodrama, a coming-of-age tale, a hymn to the land - and central to it all, some of the best writing about the inner lives of dogs anywhere. .. a woolly, unlikely, daring book, and wildly satisfying.') and more. 566 pp. Dust jacket art by Debra Lill. ISBN: 9780061768064.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1962. A story told in the mountains of Tibet. An old couple are tricked by a rogue into giving him their beautiful daughter in marriage but she is rescued by a handsome young hunter, who in turn tricks the rogue. Illustrated in full color throughout by Yoa Yu-tuo and Yoa Yu-hsin. 92 pp.

Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - First separate publication of this short story, the second in Wu's critically acclaimed series of stories about Jack Hong's search for his heritage . A slim volume, 44 pp. SIGNED on the title page. Rather uncommon, especially signed. Cover art by George Barr. ISBN: 1-56146-5607.

New York: Walker, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Millenium series. High -tech Wild West story: a post-apocalyptic novel. Illustrated by Phil Hale, Darrel Anderson and Richard Berry. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-8027-68628.

New York: St Martin's, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with full color photographs by Maren Caruso and drawings. Each recipe includes a "lagniappe" or cooking tip or fact. Bibliography, index. Slightly oversized square format. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-312343051.

Amsterdam: V.O.C., (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - A small, slim book with 38 paintings of angels by German artist Sulamith Wulfing - most in full color. Wulfing's parents were theosophists and for the first years of her life they lived in complete seclusion. From an early age, she had visions of angels, fairies and elvin spirits and these inspired her art. Each illustration is accompanied only by a brief title because she wanted to leave any "explanation of the drawings completely to the viewer." Unpaginated. ISBN: 9-065600914.

[La Crosse] Sumac Press, 1953. First edition - A look at footnotes from the point of view of the compositor, complete with footnotes in the text. One of an edition of 450 total copies ('350 for The Typophiles'), hand set and printed at the Sumac Press. Small booklet measuring just 6 inches tall by 4 1/8 wide, 19 pp plus a colophon.

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first collection of poetry, a series of love poems for the end of the millenium. 57 pp. ISBN: 1558492003.

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: 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.

Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic fantasy novel, one which creates a 'richly imagined and vividly rendered' alternate world (Diane Gabaldon). Glossary. 374 pp. Interior illustrations, includinga full color frontispiece and a double page map and more, and the full wrap-around dustjacket art by Janny Wurts. ISBN: 1-592220819.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of the public lands in America - one of blue sky promoters, land grabbers, speculators, and unscrupulous political windbags. Includes index, bibliography, notes, and black-and-white photographs. 536 pgs.

New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Beginning with the accidental introduction of wild oats by the Spanish, Wyatt uses catastrophic happenings to analyze the history of California: the gold rush, the 1906 earthquake, the post-WWII defense-industry boom, and the 1965 Watts riot. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 288 pages. ISBN: 0-201-144794.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (c 1961.). Hardcover - The fifth Brains Benton mystery story - Illustrated with drawings in green by Al Schmidt. Six books in this series listed on back cover. 187 pp plus 2 pp publisher's advertisements Brown endpapers.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a story of love and murder in East Texas.

Cleveland, Ohio: Falcon Books / World Publishing Co., (1948) dj. Hardcover - The first book in this series featuring the cadets, Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson, at Woodcrest Military Institute. Illustrated. 218 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co., (1929) dj. Hardcover - The fourth book in this series featuring the cadets, Don and Jim Mercer and their friend Terry Mackson, at Woodcrest Military Institute. Original text, 256 pp.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1934) dj. Hardcover - The second book in a four book series by this prolific author best known for his Mercer Boys series. After high school graduation, four friends from a small town in Vermont decide to vacation at Lakeside Camp in New Hampshire, a camp run by the college they are planning on attending. As they are walking from the train station to the camp, a storm forces them to seek shelter at an old Opera House where they hear strange footsteps. Plain frontispiece. 250 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in a southern California beach town where a psychiatrist is found brutally murdered - perhaps by a patient whom he had helped to "regress" to childhood through hypnosis. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-881844721.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926.) dj. Hardcover - Perhaps her best known novel , this is a fantasy based on the poet Shelley, rescued from the waters of the Meditterean in 1822 and transported to pioneer America.

New York: John Lane Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - While many of Wyllarde's popular novels were romantic and set in exotic locations, this is an ironically titled story of a very young girl whose beauty was her curse. 368 pp. plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club by Doubleday, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring Dr. Quarshie, set in West Africa. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-385127839.

New York: A. L. Burt, (1928). Hardcover - The second book in this "thrilling aviation series for boys 12 to 16 years. Bill and Gordon Hunniwell, two enterprising and inventive young Americans, have many thrilling experiences far above the clouds in the 'Albatross,' their new electric airplane." Five titles listed at front of book. Glossy frontispiece, 222 pp. plus 1 pp publisher's ad,