New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series of thrillers featuring ex-CIA agent turned bar owner, Sam Capra. Set in Miami and Puerto Rico, where Sam has gone undercover in an attempt to find out who was responsible for the death of a friend. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in May 2014, that is, before the official publication date. 388 pp. ISBN: 978-145528455.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning and highly praised writer, born and raised in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the Bright Leaf Short Fiction series, edited by Shannon Ravenel. 182 pp. Cover art reproduces the painting 'New Mexico Landscape #5' by David Mason. ISBN: 0-912697-30x.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). SIGNED - A novel about family and ambition by this Edgar award winning writer. "How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk." SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-0316251060.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015). SIGNED - A novel about teenage life today by this Edgar award winning writer. Gillian Flynn called this "dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. plus a 20 pp reading group guide. ISBN: 978-0316231046.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A pyschological thriller about the secrets two ambitious women - once friends - know about each other. Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0316547185.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2018). SIGNED - A novel about family and ambition by this Edgar award winning writer. "How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. plus a 20 pp sneak preview of "Give Me Your Hand.". ISBN: 978-0316519021.

New York: Liberty - Time, Inc, (2016.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book of essays in which Abdul-Jabbar "uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts and authentic experience on the country's seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide - both racial and political, parenthood, and his own experiences as an athlete, African-American, and a Muslim. . . he also offers keen assessments of and solutions to problems such as racism in sports while speaking candidly about his experiences on the court and off." SIGNED by Adbu-Jabbar on the title page. Index. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1618931719.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book and second suspense novel featuring Cuban-American lawyer Charlie Morrell - a story based on the worlds of santeria and the darker one of palo mayombe. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Dust jacket praise from Michael Connelly and T. Jefferson Parker. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-684814269.

New York: Crown, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as the first Cuban-American thriller, this is a story of witchcraft, crime and law, set in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles. Charlie Morrell, himself Cuban, is a court-appointed investigator assigned to take on the case of two marielitos, followers of the santeria cult, who are accused of a vicious killing. SIGNED on the half title page, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-517-58509X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book and second suspense novel featuring Cuban-American lawyer Charlie Morrell - a story based on the worlds of santeria and the darker one of palo mayombe. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Michael Connelly and T. Jefferson Parker. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-684814269.

New York: Crown, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as the first Cuban-American thriller, this is a story of witchcraft, crime and law, set in the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles. Charlie Morrell, himself Cuban, is a court-appointed investigator assigned to take on the case of two marielitos, followers of the santeria cult, who are accused of a vicious killing. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, 308 pp. ISBN: 0-517-58509X.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970. SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, and the last in the series of limited edition poetry pamphlets published by this press. Issued in a limited edition of only 300 copies. An interesting association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to poet Barbara Guest, one of the dedicatees - "Having stumbled on the secret platform, the cartographer serenely gazed into the blue . . . with my love, Walter. The poem dedicated to Guest is titled 'Don't Speak to Me about Cartographers.'

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' SIGNED by the author on the title page, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-679-418679.

New York: Pantheon, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a psychological thriller about the pathology of murder. Ablow is himself a forensic psychiatrist. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Jonathan Kellerman, among others. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442111.

New York: St. Martin's Press (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third thriller by this forensic psychiatrist writing suspense novels, featuring his alter ego, forensic scientist Dr. Frank Clevenger who receives a phone call from his close friend and former colleague North Anderson, now the Chief of Police on the island of Nantucket. One of the infant twin daughters of billionaire Darwin Bishop has been murdered in her crib at the family's estate. The suspected killer is her adopted brother Billy, and investigators believe that the fugitive teenager has targeted the surviving twin. But Clevenger uncovers some revelations that lead him to believe Billy may be innocent - the Bishops are a deeply troubled family. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-312266413.

New York: St. Martin's Press (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth thriller by this forensic psychiatrist writing suspense novels, featuring his alter ego, forensic scientist Dr. Frank Clevenger who is tasked by the FBI to investigate several still-open murder cases across the nation, a task which puts him on the trail of a gift architect, a sociapath who not only wants to design perfect houses but wants to perfect the lives of those who live in them. SIGNED and dated in the month of publication on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-312323921.

New York: Dutton, (1989) dj
. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller in which two different story lines come together - that of a woman, a successful publicist in New York City whose baby is kidnapped from the hospital and a man, owner of a rustic resort in the Bahamas, on the verge of losing it all because of a lawsuit alleging negligence in a diving fatality. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-525248218.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.). SIGNED - The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Include stories by Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nelson, Ann Packer, and Kate Braverman. SIGNED by Ann Packer at her story "Babies." Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421923.

New York: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, an "Iraq war comedy." SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Karl Marlantes (who called it "hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious"), Jonathan Evison ("it deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch 22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war") and more. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780802120328.

New York: Doubleday, (2023) dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition - The second thriller featuring Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene. SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate on the half title page by this political and voting rights activist. 348 pp. ISBN: 978-0385548328.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel and the first in the series of Elderhostel mysteries. "Unable to generate enthusiasm for anything since his wife's death, retired physical therapist James P. Dandy has let his children cajole him into attending an Elderhostel at the Jersey shore. But the other participants seem indistinguishable except for their name tags - sall but Dodee Swisher, a gallery owner determined to create her own laboratory component for their class in bonsai gardening. . . A bonus in this winsome, if guileless, debut is a short course in how to style a bonsai plant and use it as a murder weapon." (Kirkus Reviews) SIGNED on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-885173342.

New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-39305747X.

New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).

Belem: 1992. SIGNED first edition - Collection of poems, in Portuguese, illustrated with drawings by Frederico Mergulhao. INSCRIBED by the author.

New York: Broadway Books, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a quiet New Jersey town in 1983, this is a coming-of-age story of an 'overly theatrical and sexually confused' 17 year old. Boldly SIGNED on the half title page with the words 'Be Splendid!' 276 pp. ISBN: 0-76791841X.