New York: HarperCollins, 2000. A 36 year old bookstore manager is given the task by aliens of conveying their message of peace to Washington - a task that turns out to be very perilous -

New York: TOR, (1988.). Tepper's 14th novel - one which creates the fantasy world of the River. ISBN: 0-812-556178.

San Francisco: Night Shade Books. (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, an "explosive, action-packed occult thriller" set in Seattle, SIGNED on the title page. (don't miss the picture of the author, a self-described bibliomaniac, in a bunny suit in front of his packed bookcases). 341 pp. ISBN: 1597801380.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second thriller (the first was nominated for the Edgar and winner of the John Creasey Award for Best First Mystery Novel) "When a gang of criminals finds themselves in need of a fall guy, they target Los Angeles County Sheriff John Victor Scully, plant a myriad of evidence, and send their most vicious member and her thirteen-year-old daughter to kill him - but he survives to seek revenge a decade later." 366 pp. ISBN: 0-312271158.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second thriller (the first was nominated for the Edgar and winner of the John Creasey Award for Best First Mystery Novel) "When a gang of criminals finds themselves in need of a fall guy, they target Los Angeles County Sheriff John Victor Scully, plant a myriad of evidence, and send their most vicious member and her thirteen-year-old daughter to kill him - but he survives to seek revenge a decade later." 366 pp. ISBN: 0-312271158.

New York: E. P. Dutton, (1931.). Hardcover first edition - A Christmas fantasy set in 1700 Nuremberg, translated from the Italian by Dorothy Emmrich. When one of the workers in the toy shop, Benno Claus, is falsely arrested, the toys go on strike and travel through Fairyland to rescue him. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and many black & white illustrations by Wilhelm Reetz. 178 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1923). Hardcover - Book of stories about the collie, Lochinvar Bobby. Full color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. 309 pp.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc., (c 1922). Hardcover - Contains 11 stories which tell the further adventures of Lad. A title in The What Every Child Should Know, third series. Full-color frontispiece. Bound in blue cloth with an embossed border of children in different poses and a pasted-on illustration reproducing the frontispiece. 341 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1924.). Hardcover - The adventures of a young collie on a sheep ranch in the Southwest. Frontipiece. An afterword in which Terhune describes the real dog from Sunnybank who served as his inspiration and model for Treve. 312 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1944, c 1921.) dj. Hardcover - Despite the title, Buff was a brave and intelligent mixed breed dog, mostly collie but also part pit-terrier. Contains a notice that this was printed under wartime conditions on dust jacket flap and on title page. vii, 341 pp. Illustrated dark blue and white endpapers.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of international suspense set during the Cold War, and featuring Brian Loss, an ex-combat pilot in Vietnam. Map endpapers. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-684163837.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of a death and its aftermath, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early nineties, a city 'fractured by class and race. Dustjacket praise from Russell Banks (who said "Here's that rare thing, a first novelist willing to measure his ambitions against the American Classics instead of the moment's marketplace."), Reginald McKnight and others. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-670894656.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of a death and its aftermath, set in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early nineties, a city 'fractured by class and race. Dustjacket praise from Russell Banks (who said "Here's that rare thing, a first novelist willing to measure his ambitions against the American Classics instead of the moment's marketplace."), Reginald McKnight and others. 358 pp. ISBN: 0-670894656.

New York: Bantam, (1961.). First edition - F2201, cover price 50c. The cover blares "The shocking facts about the flesh markets of Europe: a story of lust and moral depravity unequalled in civilized times" but this is actually a fairly serious, if dramatic, account of the traffic in young women which flourished in Victorian England, including the work of the rescuers - women like Josephine Butler - and of government hearings. Bibliography, index. 199 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as covering dance from the days of the minuet to the TV spectacular. The rather uncommon first editionof this work (a much more easily found revised edition was published in 1971.) Illustrated with many photographs. Includes biographical sketches of leading dance figures like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and others, a chapter on ethnic dance, etc. Index. 248 pages.

New York: Pantheon, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A secret novel from young Russia." A surrealistic novel set during the last year of Stalin's life by a Soviet dissident, smuggled out of the Soviet Union, and published under a pen name. Translated from the Russian by Max Hayward. Translator's note. 128 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel of life in the gritty side of South Central Los Angeles - of gang wars, drug-peddling and sudden death, and also of the struggle for integrity and self-respect. The dust jacket includes comments from such diverse writers as Henry Gates, Jr. , Whitney Otto, Jess Mowry and Susan Straight, among others. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-688-04560x.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.

New York: Morrow, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Page tipped in, identifying this as a special advance copy. Highly praised first novel of life in the gritty side of South Central Los Angeles - the dust jacket includes comments from such diverse writers as Henry Gates, Jr. , Whitney Otto, Jess Mowry and Susan Straight, among others. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. SIGNED on the title page and dated 1-29-2000, in the month of publication. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.

New York: Morrow, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel of life in the gritty side of South Central Los Angeles - of gang wars, drug-peddling and sudden death, and also of the struggle for integrity and self-respect. The dust jacket includes comments from such diverse writers as Henry Gates, Jr. , Whitney Otto, Jess Mowry and Susan Straight, among others. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-688-04560x.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning African American novelist's third book, a story drawn upon his own heritage and set in his native New Orleans right after World War II - in a city and a world that no longer exists. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-671-034685.

New York: Atheneum 1980 dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second and highly aclaimed occult, werewolf, vampire book.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first collection of short stories. 192 pp. Cover art by Leif Nilsson. ISBN: 0-918949-173.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1997.). First edition - Author's second book, a collection of short stories which Wally Lamb called 'spare, impressionist, and finely crafted' and which 'build a fascinating, sinous path to then final title story - a tale of love and loss that, like the undertow, pulls you under, scares the hell out of you, and tosses you back up again.'. ISBN: 1-57601-0201.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1997.). First edition - Author's second book, a collection of short stories which Wally Lamb called 'spare, impressionist, and finely crafted' and which 'build a fascinating, sinous path to then final title story - a tale of love and loss that, like the undertow, pulls you under, scares the hell out of you, and tosses you back up again.'. ISBN: 1-57601-0201.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first collection of short stories. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 192 pp. Cover art by Leif Nilsson. ISBN: 0-918949-173.

Meadville, PA: The Chautauqua-Century Press / Flood & Vincent, 1892. Hardcover first edition - A lovely edition of this humorous work - to quote a small sample - in writing of George the III's household, Thackeray comments "It was a model of an English gentleman's house. . it was kindly, it was charitable, it was frugal, it was orderly, it must have been stupid to a degree which I shudder now to contemplate." Illustrated with a frontispiece of King George I, and other drawings and decorations by George Wharton Edwards. Top edge gilt. 211 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945. dj. Hardcover - A title in the 'Great Illustrated Classics' series. With an introductory sketch of the author and with illustrations of characters and scenes belonging to the novel. A well-produced series, and rather uncommon in dust jacket.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., nd [1901.]. Hardcover first edition - Early, and previously uncollected articles and short humorous pieces from, among others, The Snob and The Gownsman (both undergraduate publications at Cambridge University), The National Standard, The Times, The Pictorial Times, and Fraser's Magazine. Edited and with an introduction and notes by Melville. Includes an appendix with the short novel 'Elizabeth Brownrigge: A Tale .'16 illustrations taken from the original publications. 492 pp.