Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1999. First edition - Thomason's first novel. A story of working-class couples in middle-class America in the nineties. ISBN: 0-88739-2040.

New York: G. K. Hall, (1996). Hardcover first edition - Three collections of poetry by African-American women - Clara Ann Thompson, J. Pauline Smith, and Mazie Earhart Clark - which form a bridge between an 19th century traditions and the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. A volume in the series "African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940", Introduction by Mary Anne Stewart Boelcskevy with bibliography. xxxvi, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-783814305.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous young adult fantasy - or as one reviewer described it: "A wickedly barbed low fantasy. It's 2287, and due to a combination of bad planetary management and sheer funk, the human population has shrunk to just a handful. Having spent a year in an abandoned penthouse subsisting on roof-garden veggies and the occasional rat, young Jay gathers up his chicken, Ethel, and heads for the streets, driven by the urge to roam. Imagine Jay's surprise when Ethel suddenly introduces herself as a superbeing from Megaton, sent to rescue humans from extinction, even though they're 'Dumb as cluckin' cardboard'." 248 pp. ISBN: 0-689839790.

New York: The New Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Thompson was both a leading historian and an activist who influenced a whole generation of historians; this book, published shortly after his death, contains essays by both American and British historians that are a tribute to his work and an examination of the scope of his influence. Topics range from Edward Thompson as a teacher to essays on William Blake (by Alec Morley), feminist and anti-war agitator Sylvia Pankhurst (by Barbara Winslow), Black, Italian and Irish longshoremen and the New York harbor stike of 1919 (by Calvin Winslow), 'dangerous classes' in Victorian England (by Victor Bailey) and more. Includes a bibliography of Thompson's work. ISBN: 1-56584-114x.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a young African American girl growing up in North Dakota after her family moved there in 1914. 300 pp.

Boston: John Lane, 1910. Hardcover - Later printing (orig published in 1897), but a handsome edition. Colophon states that this is one of an edition of only 500 copies, bound in olive green cloth with gold lettering and design on front cover.

New York: Books for Libraries, Inc. 1965. dj. A facsimile of the original 1910 book.

Boston: John Lane, 1915. Hardcover - With a biographical noteby Wilfred Meynell. Frontispiece, bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering and design on front cover. Top edge gilt.

New York: Random House, (1983) dj. Hardcover - The author's third mystery, featuing San Francisco attorney Dade Cooley and his wife Ellen. "Seven members of a back-biting, glamourous Hollywood family are aboard a luxury canal barge in the south of France, one is a killer" and Cooley must find out which one before the barge reaches Carcassonne. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-394530756.

New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel the story of a young woman who finds herself on trial for murder - by witchcraft. Author's note. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-39441988x.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Trapped like a rat in Mr Bill's neighborhood" - Thompson's take on the behind the scenes mania of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Illustrated throughout. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-679-424474.

Chicago: Chicago Literary Club, 1917. First edition - One of 310 copies which were printed at the Marion Press in Jamaica, New York for the members of the club in 1917. Includes a long "Proem" and extensive notes. An association copy INSCRIBED on the cover "To Ripley Hitchcock with the compliments of James Westfall Thompson." Hitchcock (1857-1918) was an author and an editor, who edited the works of Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane, Zane Grey and others. Westfall was a noted historian and author himself, on the faculty of the University of Chicago at the time he gave this address. Decorative vignettes on the title page and as a tail piece. 92 pp plus the colophon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004). First edition - The author's fourth novel (seventh book), set during a hot Chicago summer where Jack, newly wed and very much in love with life itself, finds his perceptions shattered by an inconsiderate neighbor's perpetual partying. 306 pp.

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. 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. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-74320512X.

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.