Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A trip through some of the most threatened and beautiful land in the world, by train, dugout canoe, chicken bus and truck. Forty years after Theroux first went to Africa to teach in the bush in Malawi, he finds devasting changes - poorer, more decrepit, more pessimistic, less educated, more corrupt. 472 pp. ISBN: 0-618-134247.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - A novel which is immediately gripping: the title refers to both the protagonist's writer's block (which he calls a dead hand) and the actual hand a young boy found dead. 279 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 51 essays on travel from Plymouth to Cape Cod and Nantucket to Hawaii, Palau, Florida, Amsterdam, London, Britain, the Zambezi river, the Yangtze, the Mosquito Coast, the edge of the Great Rift and more. SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography ix, 466 pp. ISBN: 0-618034064.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work 'The Great Railway Bazaar,' Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. . . In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it." 496 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-618-418873.

New York: Putnam. (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Theroux's massive dystopian novel of America in the near future, a land of nuclear waste, mutants, the incredibly rich and the masses. A wasteland not due to nuclear war but to "the inexorible pressing of what we already see about us - from the Third World to Times Square, from the halls of the mighty to the haunts of terrorists and killer survivalists." 527 pp. ISBN: 0-399-131858.

New York: Putnam, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the hidden life of an American writer, spanning almost thirty years from his days as an altar boy on, and ranging across Africa, Siberia and the US. 511 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134247.

New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of sexual obsession - a tautly witten and compelling erotic thriller by the author of 'The Mosquito Coast.' 196 pp. ISBN: 0-679-401881.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. dj. Hardcover - Complex thriller set in London, where a fired American consul casts his lot with a group of provisional IRA members and other dubious terrorists. ISBN: 0-395-244005.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. dj. Hardcover - A collection of interconnected short stories. ISBN: 0-395-331072.

New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the physical side of Los Angeles from the La Brea tarpits to the Northridge earthquake and upscale Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and at the people who shaped the city - those who find a center in this city 'without a center' and make it their home. 271 pages. ISBN: 0-393-036472.

New York: Scholastic, 2003. First edition - This issue focuses on California artist Wayne Thiebaud's still life paintings, including articles on his use of pastry, cakes, and cityscapes. Illustrated throughout in full color. Includes artist of the month, and the critic's corner on the rear cover. 16 pages, including the covers, stapled. Measures 8 1/2 in by 11 in.

Rutland, VT: Charles Tuttle Co., 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Excerpts from classic works of Chinese literature, carefully translated and with extensive, and very personal, comments by the author. Readable and entertaining. bibliography, index. 159 pages.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, the story of two generations of an extended family in China from the days of Mao's Cultural Revolution to their children who were among the students protesting in Tiananmen Square, as two young women- Marie and Ai-Ming - try to piece together the story of their fractured family now living in Vancouver. Winner of the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award and the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 473 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover - Classic novel of English country life, featuring a very appealing woman in Mrs. Brandon. 358 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - Summertime in Barsetshire -

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2009.). First edition - The author's first collection, winner of the Walt Whitman award. vii, 84 pp. ISBN: 9780807134412.

New York: The Viking Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1948, in the first months after the United Nations voted for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. SIGNED by both authors on a tipped in page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-670-889113.

New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel, featuring Boston private investigator Fina Ludlow. SIGNED on the title page. 433 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171192.

New York: Putnam, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Boston, this is the author's first novel, introducing private investigator Fina Ludlow, the black sheep of a dysfunctional family of attorneys, who is retained by her family's firm as an investigator after she drops out of law school. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the Shamus award. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0399162121.

New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel, featuring Boston private investigator Fina Ludlow. 450 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171185.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1992). First edition - A beautifully illustrated book which "showcases the elaborate artistry of Native American women's clothing and explores the ritual custom, and skill inherent in its design. . In addition to the vivid full-color photographs, the book also includes a brief introduction, bibliography, and index, as well as legends myths, and stories focusing on the powers of Native American women." Slightly oversized oblong format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-811801659.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interlinked stories, which follows four New Yorkers living in a single square block of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Rather than bring these lonely people together in a conventional way, Thomas instead allows them to brush by each other in the street without ever noticing, much as they might in real life. Her characters haunt the same bookstores, the same neighborhood cafs - but as much as these characters want to connect to the world around them, this quietly witty book points out their inability to do so. 199 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0248.

New York: Algonquin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of stories about "open-hearted, unsuspecting women of all ages." 204 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0248.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992). First edition - A novel of international espionage as Sir Kenneth Aubrey and tough Patrick Hyde as they race across Africa in an attempt to thwart an evil and greedy man. 425 pp.

New York: Viking, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel about nuclear submarines - the title refers to a secret anti-sonar device that can render a submarine virtually undetectable. Map endpapers.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel to be published in the US - a tale of vengeance and international intrigue - "For almost half a lifetime ex-agent Richard Gardiner has buried his searing memories of treachery and torture at the hands of the Gestapo in Paris. But in the mid 1960s, back in France on holiday, he is confronted by the past." 324 pp.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of four improvisational novels dedicated to Pushkin, by this writer who is also a poet and translator. Set in present day Leningrad, Rome and London, in Stalin's Moscow and in St Petersburg of the Czars, this is a novel of the war between truth and lies, between love and betrayal. A title in the publisher's International Fiction List. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-886191467.

New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in his Russian quartet, a set of four improvisational novels - a book that is like a Russian doll with layer after layer. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-670130095.

New York: Scribners, 1992. A novel - an interweaving of fact and fiction - about Kennedy's assassination .