New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second book, like her first a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172541.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, after two collections of short stories. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination, this coming-of-age story is told through the voice of Suzanne, a young girl when the novel opens. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-06017434x.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on two years of living in the market town of Eldoret, in the highlands of Kenya, this is a look at how Africans 'make do' with both modern and traditional materials, both imported and indigenous, to create a useful technology. An unconventional approach to cultural anthropology and a lively picture of a growing urban area. Illustrated with line drawingsby the author. Bibliography, index. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-14941.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by the recent winner of the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-671-546139.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised fourth novel by this writer who was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists. ISBN: 0-671-658271.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by this Booker Prize winning author. ISBN: 0-671-546139.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-679-409548.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition - Uncommon advance issue containing just the opening chapters of this book, and highlighting the fact that this is the first one of his novels to be published by Knopf. 52 pp.

London: Picador, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-330-323318.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early collection of short stories by this Booker Prize winning author. ISBN: 0-671-546139.

New York: Washington Square Press, (1985.). First edition - Author's 2nd novel, a psychological thriller, but not published in the US until after he had begun to receive some recognition for 'Waterland." Swift was nominated for the Granta "Twenty Best Young British Novelists" and this novel was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-671-546120.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised fourth novel by this writer who was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists. ISBN: 0-671-658271.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, 1989.

London: Picador, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this prize-winning author. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. 261 pp. ISBN: 0-330-323318.

New York: Clarkson Potter, (1980) dj. Hardcover - An introduction to Swift's classic satire, originally published in 1726 (this book is based on the 1734 edition with Swift's corrections) edited by Asimov, with a biographical introduction and extensive notes on the politics, geography, medicine at the times - and even addressing the science fiction aspects of the book. Includes 200 illustrations from over three centuries of different editions. Bibliography, index. Large format. xxi, 296 pp. ISBN: 0-517539497.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Interesting and rather off-beat mystery introducing Sally Adler - who was known in her wilder days as a hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally. Now a history professor (although still singing sometimes) she returns to Laramie, Wyoming when she is offered a chair endowed by a woman poet who recently died. Among the terms of the endowment is that she is to live in the Dunwoodie House and write a biography of Meg Dunwoodie. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019555X.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Mustang Sally mystery, featuring Sally Adler - who was known in her wilder days as a hell-raising singer known as Mustang Sally - but who is now a history professor back in Laramie, Wyoming. Set during Jubilee days. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0195541.

Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1996. First edition - In 1939, when the author was just 7 years old, he and his family moved from Nebraska to Torrance in Southern California - where he found an idyllic world for boys to grow up in. 188 pp. ISBN: 1-564741818.

New York: George H. Doran, (1923). Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel by this prolific English writer, the author of more than 50 books, including biographies and essays in addition to his novels. He also worked as an editor and as was a literary critic. 439 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown / Mulholland Books, 2017. SIGNED first edition - Second thriller featuring private investigator and ex-cop Frank Marr, whose addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced his retirement from the DC police. He takes on a family case, as a favor to an aunt - and finds himself with his own life on the line. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.

New York: Crown, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fast-paced and trenchant book about how 'a company without assets acquired a company without a clue' - and the deal of the century became a messy and doomed merger. SIGNED by Swisher on the half title page and dated in the year of publication, Index. xi, 306 pp. ISBN: 1400049636.

New York: The Free Press, 1965. Originally published as 'Gentlemen Freeholders.' Index, bibliographical notes, 160 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover - The life story of Nancy Astor from her childhood in Virginia, her unhappy first marriage and her second to one of the richest men of the era, to being the first woman Member of Parliament. Illustrated with photographs, Notes on sources at the end of each chapter, index, 543 pp. ISBN: 060141840.

Point Reyes Station: Floating Island Publications, 1976. First edition - The first issue in this series of anthologies of poetry, fiction, photography and graphic arts. Includes contributions from Diane Di Prima, jackson Allen, Thomas Weir, Thomas Sanchez, Robert Bly, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Morgan Alexander and more. Features a photography section on "Point Reyes Nation" by Art Rogers. 120 pp. Large format. ISBN: 0-912449284.

Point Reyes Station: Floating Island Publications, 1989. SIGNED first edition - The fourth and final volume in this series of anthologies of poetry, fiction, photography and graphic arts. Includes works by Kirk Robertson, Sam Hamill, Frank Stewart, Michael Hannon, Jane Hirshfield, Stefanie Marlis, William Witherup, Stephan Torre, Etel Adnan, John Montgomery, Cole Swensen, Michael McClure, Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Walter Pavlich, Chitra Divakaruni, Joanne Kyger, Douglas Blazek, Joseph Bruchac, Bill Berkson, John Brandi, Arthur Sze, Stanley Noyes, Nathaniel Tarn, Lew Welch, and more. Photography by Michael Sykes, Kevin Bubriski, Evvy Eisen. Cover photographs by Michael Sykes. SIGNED by McClure at his poem "Czechoslovakia." 151 pp plus index to volumes I-IV, editor's afterword and more poems. Large format. ISBN: 0-912449284.

New York: Villard, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring William Warner, London wine merchant and bon vivant, driven by circumstances to become an amateur sleuth. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-394-567897.