New York: Walker, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this New Zealand author to be published in the US - set in London and featuring a part-time futures broker, this is a noir thriller, "hallucinatory and erotic, an exploration of violent and sexually charged obsessions." 232 pp. ISBN: 0-802733506.

New York: Time-Life Books, 1966. Based on the 1964 second edition of this classic look at the impact of Asian culture and civilization on one man (originally published in 1945.) Still a valuable book. With a new introduction by Robert Trumbull. 446 pp

New York: The Viking Press, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eleven short stories of men and woman suddenly confronting the unfamiliar. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-670270679.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised, funny and energetic first novel, about a young woman learning to waitress at a diner in Los Angeles. Cover praise from Ann Beattie, Carolyn See and others. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-689-12130x.

New York: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised, funny and energetic first novel, about a young woman learning to waitress at a diner in Los Angeles. Cover praise from Ann Beattie, Carolyn See and others. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-689-12130x.

New York: Putnam, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a dark-edged fantasy for young adults, set on the Yorkshire coastline of cliffs and moors. "Vicar Obadiah Demurral isn't satisfied running the affairs of his village--now he wants to control the world. And if his plan works, he will obtain a weapon so powerful even God and his angels will fall down at his feet. Demoral will stop at nothing ,and as a shadowmancer - a sorcerer who speaks to the dead - he even commands restless souls to do his bidding." Originally self-published by the author in England. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-399242562.

New York: Vantage, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of this collection of mostly light-hearted poems. "Although several of these poems have appeared previously in various newspapers, they were composed primarily as a hobby during the years from 1918 to 1955." Frontispiece photograph. 65 pp. ISBN: 0-533053234.

New York: Dial Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel about sisters, romance and survival. SIGNED on the title page. 361 pp. ISBN: 978-0735228115.

New York: Scribner's, 1997. Author's first novel - the story of Julie, 19, determined to get thru school, who has had it with guys - until she meets Franco.

New York: Haymarket Books, 2016. First edition - In this analysis, "activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and argues that the persistence of structural problems such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment have created a context in which this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation." Extensive notes. 254 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original.

New York: St Martin's, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A science fiction adventure, set on a previously barren moon of Erda that is being life-stocked - a story "that pits one strong smart woman officer against the power of a corrupt fleet." 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312085214.

New York: Walker, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Walker, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Joseph Jamison, whose hobby is investigating ufo sightings.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley, 1930. dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories of where the things that are all around you come from - Aunt Edith's ivory pendant, silk, tobacco, coral, salmon, writing, paper & printing, ships and more. Printed on glossy paper, illustrated with many drawings and photographs. 327 pgs. Attractive art deco drawings on endpapers and dustjacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery set in a "slick Floridacity with a wicked past" and featuring journalists A. J. Egan, a newcomer, and Palmer Kingston, a shrewd and legendary reporter. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-396-091709.

Tucson: Junction Press, 1992. First edition - First collection of poetry by this Trinidadian writer. Cover commentary from Derek Walcott.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010.). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in his Irish country series, this one tells the story of Maureen Kincaid, the doctor's housekeeper, as a young girl back in 1922. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in Oct 2009, before publication. Includes an afterword with recipes and a long glossary. 319 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The last novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was born in Tennessee, a story of obsession and of the crossroads in life. "In 1916, a young boy..... is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life." 226 pp. ISBN: 0-394-56264x.

New York: Ballantine, (1986.). Collection of short stories by this Southern author, originally published between 1941 and 1985. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-345327780.

London: Chatto & Windus, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter pieces by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Includes a novella, 10 stories and three one-act plays. set mostly in early 20th-century Tennessee, St Louis and North Carolina. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-701160020.

Boston: Twayne, 1988.
dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book length study of Taylor's shorter works - focuses on 26 representative short stories, includes interviews with Taylor, chronology & a bibliography. Fronstispiece. Index. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-8057-83032.

New York: Norton, (1971) dj. Hardcover - An Asey Mayo mystery, set in a 'friendly' Cape Cod town, originally published in 1951. 244 pp. Dustjacket design by Robert Ritter. ISBN: 0-393086348.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1999). A wide-ranging general history of African Americans in the land West of the Mississippi, "beginning with Esteban, a black slave who accompanied a party of Spanish explorers in Texas and the Southwest in the 1500s, [and including] the experiences of black explorers, black mountain men, black cowboys, buffalo soldiers, and black women who joined clubs and "progressive associations" and helped found all-black towns.. . Includes discussions of groups of African American wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything from the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party" Illustrated with photographs, maps, extensive notes, bibliography and index. 415 pp. ISBN: 0-393318893.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book, second novel based on the history of the author's own family, set in Oklahoma City in the 1920s, during the oil boom years. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-912697245.