New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning author, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 292 pp.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (her second book - preceded by a collection of short stories), the story of a young woman in the 1960s who is eager to leave her stultifying family and all-too-predictable college and get on with life. As she heads west, she not only has to deal with normal coming of age issues, but a volatile era, influenced by the counter-culture, the war in Vietnam and increasing polarization. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-531098702.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - and second collection of short stories. Collects twelve stories which probe our deepest fears as her characters struggle to grow up, to manage friendships and to grow old. nclude the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award winning story "Naomi Counting Time." SIGNED on the title page. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-531097609.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - and second collection of short stories. Collects twelve stories which probe our deepest fears as her characters struggle to grow up, to manage friendships and to grow old. nclude the John H. McGinnis Memorial Award winning story "Naomi Counting Time." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-531097609.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-74320512X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. SIGNED on the title page. The earlier (and less common) of two advance issues, this has a sticker on the front cover with an incorrect publication date. 367 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). First edition - The author's third novel - set in Springfield, Illinois, this is about "a family ruled by the weather, the drastic changes that hit their atmosphere, and a midwestern town where chaos doesn't reign - it pours." Named a New York Times Notable Book and Chicago Tribune Best Fiction selection. 367 pp.

Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Akashic Noir series, this contains 16 new stories by Nick Petrulakis, Kim Addonizio, Keenan Norris, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Katie Gilmartin, Dorothy Lazard, Harry Louis Williams II, Carolyn Alexander, Phil Canalin, Judy Juanita, Jamie DeWolf, Nayomi Munaweera, Mahmud Rahman, Tom McElravey, Joe Loya, and Eddie Muller. Introduction by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller - Kirkus Reviews commented that they "have taken such pains to choose stories highlighting Oakland's diversity and history that the result is a volume rich in local culture as well as crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/7/17, in the year of publication by TWO authors : Jerry Thompson and Nick Petrulakis. 267 pp plus 4 pp of Notes on contributors. ISBN: 1-617755303.

New York: Popular Library, (1967.). First edition - Popular Library # 60-2244. Novel based on the television series of the same name starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside, a wheelchair-bound special consultant to the San Francisco Police Department. 144 pp. Photograph of Burr and other cast members on the front cover.

New York: Fawcett, 1967. First edition - Gold Medal #d1793.

New York: Henry Holt, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery and morality collide in this book for young adults, a novel which blurs the line between reality and fiction. . ISBN: 0-805028811.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. This is the advance issue for the new "revised jacket edition" issued in 2000. The fourth (and final) book featuring 6 year old Eloise, although now she has traveled far from her home at the Plaza Hotel. Lively rhymes and delightful illustrations by Hillary Knight, mostly in gold and black and white, but with a large double fold-out center illustration in full color. Large format, unpaginated and unbound (six sections laid into a proof dust jacket..

New York: New York University Press, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hans J. Morgenthau commented 'In its combination of historic knowledge, philosophic insight and political judgment, this book makes an extraordinary contribution to the understanding of American diplomacy, past and present.' A title in the James Stokes Lectureship on Politics series. Index. 273 pp.

New York: Whitston Publishing Co., 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - An extensive listing of works available on microform. 576 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, (1989). A fully revised edition of his pioneering work on oral history - a work which challenged the accepted myths of historical scholarship and emphasized the importance of the voices of the ordinary people. Includes a new chapter present on memory and the self, more on historical interpretation and practical advice and more. Prefaces to both the first edition and second editions, model questions, index, ix, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-19-2192302.

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1986.). First edition - A collection of sometimes gently ironical, sometimes moving, always quite lyrical, poems - cover praise from Shirley Kaufman and Maxine Hong Kingston (who refers to her 'plain language, powerful as rocks and mountains.') 62 pp. ISBN: 0-252012925.

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (ca 1946, c 1935.) dj. Hardcover - The 29th of the "Famous Forty" Oz books. After L. Frank Baum's death, Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz series, writing 19 Oz books. John R. Neill, the original illustrator of the Oz books, also went on to write and illustrate his own Oz books. The list of books on the rear flap of the dj list to The Magical Mimics of Oz (shown in the list as 36, but actually 37).Black and white illustrations by John R. Neill 298 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

Boston: Little Brown, 1928. dj. Hardcover - Novel of what is a vanished way of life now (with hunt balls and other rituals of upperclass country living) as seen through the eyes of a wealthy American woman who married into a family of moderate means. Obviously a very popular novel in its time, as this second printing was in the same month - June 1928 - as the first printing. 322 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1926. Hardcover - A novel by this English writer of the ten years between 1914 -1924 - that is the years leading up to the Great War and just afterwards. One of the top 10 bestselling novels of 1926. 366 pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960. dj. Hardcover - Extensive study of the economy, politics, and infrastructure of Gabon, Chad, the French Congo, and the Central African Republic in the 1950s. 529pp plus bibliography, notes, index.

New York: Holiday House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A lovely collection of tale tales for older children, illustrated sepia toned drawings by the Hawaian artist Herbert Kawainui Kane. Glossary, bibliography. 128 pages. ISBN: 0-823401928.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). SIGNED first edition - The story of a group of young African American men and women who defy stereotypes and reconnect with the long history of Black cowboys in the West. The Compton Jr Posse was founded by Mayisha Akbar in 1998 to provide a safe alternative to the streets. This account is based on a year which the author, a NY Times reporter from Compton himself, spent with the group, SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp

New York: Thames and Hudson, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "a critical history, or 'biography' of the six-decade television era" organized thematically. A large and heavy book, befitting the enormous amount of material in it, illustrated with photographs in both black and white and full color. SIGNED on the half title page. Notes on sources, index. 412 pp. ISBN: 978-0500519165.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book described as "part contemplation of an America both austere and flamboyant, part love letter to the Old West and part idiosyncratic travel guide." Illustrated with original photographs by Lucy Gray. SIGNED on the half title page by the author. Notes, recommended readings and index. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454861.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifteenth mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - set in a formerly grand country home, which is now rather rundown. SIGNED and dated on the title page with the words "best wishes." 192 pp. ISBN: 0-094688907.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixteenth mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - a woman is found murdered at the museum she had established in honor of her brother, a now almost forgotten writer. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2001. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-09469530x.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic country house murder mystery novel featuring the quiet, but perceptive Inspector Peter Finch - a stage adaptation of the best known novel of a 1920s detective writer is the feature of the Centenary celebration on the grounds of the mansion which had been his home. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-094707103.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery featuring Inspector Finch, who is investigating the murder of a young woman. Dust jacket praise from H. F. R. Keating. 233 pp. Dust jacket art by Rene Eyre. ISBN: 0-094621500.

London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Inspector Finch, who is investigating two murders in Chelmsford, but murders with their roots in London's underworld. At the same time, he is trying to deal with tensions on his team as his longtime Sergeant - Boyce - is showing jealousy of an ambitious newly arrived Sergeant - and his unexpected attraction to the new temporary pathologist. 190 pp. Dust jacket photograph by Granville Davies. ISBN: 0-094656908.