San Francisco: Isthmus Press, (1975). SIGNED first edition - Other contributors include Gerald Malanga (with a translation of Cesar Vallejo's poems), Jerome Rothenberg, Ira Cohen, Paul Vangelisti and more. This copy was signed twice by William Talcott, once on the copyright page where his name appears as Assistant Editor and at his poem "My Vegetable Soul."

New York: PublicAffairs, (2002). First edition - A blend of travelogue, history and biography, this is an account of how "Rushmore was conceived and built, and why controversy surrounded the project from the start. [It] is about the meaning of public art, the rise of automobile tourism, and the development of kitsch culture. At its center is Rushmore's feisty sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who waged an energetic campaign on behalf of his artistic vision and then carved the faces of four presidents into a mountainside. Taliaferro discusses every conceivable aspect of the monument, from the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (a minor hullabaloo) to the Native American activists who have threatened it." Photographs, bibliographic notes. 440 pp.

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Books, (1994.). A classic on the subject, originally published in 1946. 247 pp plus a brief bibliography. ISBN: 0-88289-336x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel - set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN: 0-394-539281.

New York: Collier Books/ Macmillan, 1988. SIGNED - A highly praised collection of short stories, INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page.

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of short stories, third book. Four interlinked stories are set in London, another set takes place in New Mexico. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-394-557832.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thirteen award-winning women mystery writers - including Gayle Lynds, Rita Mae Brown, Lisa Gardner, Linda Fairstein, Kay Hooper, Kathy Reichs, Julie Smith, Heather Graham, Jennifer Crusie, Tina Wainscott, Anne Perry, Talley and Katherine Neville - collaborated on this serial novel. SIGNED by Heather Graham on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-312-290578.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by J. A. Jance and Laurie King. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by J. A. Jance. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the left title page by Laurie King. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A serial novel written by thirteen women novelists including Laurie King, Diana Gabaldon, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Faye Kellerman, Val McDermid, Nancy Pickard and more. SIGNED on the title page by THREE authors: J. A. Jance, Laurie King and Nevada Barr. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-251947.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1882 in San Francisco (where Oscar Wilde is appearing during his tour of America), this is the fifth mystery featuring Sarah Woolson, the daughter of a judge who is herself an attorney with her own practice, defying the expectations of a woman's "proper" role in society. 341pp. ISBN: 978-1250010438.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1880s San Francisco, this is the third mystery featuring Sarah Woolson, the daughter of a judge who is herself an attorney with her own practice, defying the expectations of a woman's "proper" role in society. 340pp. ISBN: 978-0312386979.

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: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third 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: 0-312-333854.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, part-time 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. 206 pp. ISBN: 1-590583183.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in Talton's Cincinnati series, where he makes the Cincinatti come alive - and revels in it it beauty - just as the Mapstone series created a vivid picture of Tucson. "Thanks to spinal tumor surgery, Cincinnati Homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. . . When a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend, pain nurse Cheryl Beth Wilson, is now teaching nursing." SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-1590589991.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second 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. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304048.

New York: Putnam, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tan's wonderful first novel, the basis for the movie of the same name. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134204.

New York: Ecco Press, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir on her "life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory." Photographs. 357 pp. ISBN: 978-0062319296.

New York: Ecco Press, (2013). First edition - An historical epic, spanning more than forty years from 1897-1937 and two continents - Asia and North America, this is an account of two women's (a mother and daughter) search for identity. Set against "pivotal episodes in history: from the collapse of Chinas last imperial dynasty, to the rise of the Republic, the explosive growth of lucrative foreign trade and anti-foreign sentiment, to the inner workings of courtesan houses and the lives of the foreign 'Shanghailanders' living in the International Settlement, both erased by World War II." 589 pp. ISBN: 978-0062107312.

New York: Putnam, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very enjoyable novel of twelve American tourists who join an art expedition in "the true Shangri-La" bound for Burma through the jungle. The tour goes bad when the leader dies; .then eleven of the travelers take a boat across a lake on Christmas morning and completely disappear. 447 pp. ISBN: 0-399-153012.

New York: Putnam, (2005.). A very enjoyable novel of twelve American tourists who join an art expedition in "the true Shangri-La" bound for Burma through the jungle and the tour goes bad when the leader dies..then eleven of the travelers take a boat across a lake on Christmas morning and completely disappear. 447 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-67263.

New York: Harper Collins / Flamingo, (2001.). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in contemporary San Francisco and in a small village in China. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146431.

New York: Putnam, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in contemporary San Francisco and in a small village in China. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146431.