New York: Bantam, 1990. First edition - A title in the Bantam New Fiction series.

New York: Bantam, 1990. A title in the Bantam New Fiction series.

New York: David McKay, (1953). Hardcover - A rather hard-to-find book about high school football - and some unconventional training techniques. 186 pp.

New York: St Martin's, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a mystery set in Salt Lake City featuring lawyer, and former FBI agent, Adam Leer. Thurman is an administrative law judge who was born and raised in Salt Lake City and he knows well this city where business and religion sometimes come into conflict. ISBN: 0-312-011121.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1934.) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Story set in a remote lumber camp. 250 pp.

New York: Berkley Putnam, 1978. Hardcover first edition - A science fiction novel set in the not so distant future where some can live forever as "retreads" - surgically implanted in new young bodies.

Boston: Little Brown, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Police novel set in Cleveland as the city is about to explode in racial violence, by the author of "Shaft." 292 pp. ISBN: 0-316-845116.

New York: Bantam, (1921). First edition - A novel which was the basis of the adventure film of the same name starring Richard Roundtree as "Shaft" and directed by Gordon Parks. Tidyman (who won both an Oscar and Edgar award for his script for 'The French Connection') commented that with Shaft, he wanted to create "a black hero who thinks of himself as a human being, but who uses his black rage as one of his resources, along with intelligence and courage."[Los Angeles Times, Jan 21, 1972]" Photograph from film on front cover, movie credits on page opposite title page. 170 pp.

San Francisco: By the author, 1965. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems illustrated with graphics by Tom Ide. INSCRIBED by the author on a blank preliminary page. 42 pp plus final illustration.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1912) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the Chesapeake Bay in 1920, but containing stories from an earlier time -of slavery, of attempts to turn the retreat into a peach orchard, of growing up in a fractured family. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Novel, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0374203481.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's third book, a collection of short stories. A 1999 New York Times notable book of 1999. The title story was selected by Robert Stone for the 1992 Best American Short Stories and "Things Left Undone" was chosen by Tobias Wolff to appear in the 1994 Best American Short Stories. SIGNED on the title page. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-67944971X.

New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a family who return to the their crumbling family estate on the eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-67945200.

New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a family who return to the their crumbling family estate on the eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "with greetings and high hopes you enjoy this tale" and dated in the year of publication. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-67945200.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of short stories. A 1999 New York Times notable book of 1999. SIGNED on the title page. The title story was selected by Robert Stone for the 1992 Best American Short Stories and "Things Left Undone" was chosen by Tobias Wolff to appear in the 1994 Best American Short Stories. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-67944971X.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a powerful collection of short stories, with cover praise from Andre Dubus, Richard Ford, Wright Morris and others. SIGNED on the half title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175586.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems which trace the life of this Maryland woman from her young womanhood in Baltimore to the death of her husband and an unexpected fling late in life. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, 56 pp,. ISBN: 0-8059-29320.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon hardcover first edition of this Tennessee-born poet's first book, a work of quiet power, one which gains in both intensity and depth the more one reads. 83 pp

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1983.). Tennessee-born poet's first book originally published in 1969, but re-issued here with the poems slightly rearranged., A work of quiet power, one which gains in both intensity and depth the more one reads. 84 pp. ISBN: 0-8195-10483.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1980). First edition - His second collection of poems, a title in the Wesleyan Poetry series. Ends with two long previously unpublished poems. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-8195-11005.

New York: Poseidon Press / Simon & Schuster, (1992). First edition - A literary mystery, set in an eccentric community of expats living in Crete in 1975 - including Horace, a gay American writer of crime novels. 239 pp

New York: Bermingham & Co., 1882. Hardcover - In his preface to this edition, the British author makes the statement that gynacology is the youngest branch of medical literature, and in discussing surgery, he comments that "it is difficult for us simple-minded Englishmen to withstand American advocacy of surgical operations." Index. 250 pages. Bound in dark green embossed cloth with gold lettering on the spine.

New York: Vintage Books, 1988. A very personal description of the oppression that has grown in Chile durng the 14 years of Pinochet's dictatorship. Translated from the Spanish by Rober t Cox. 134 pages. ISBN: 0-679-72012x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover - An account of his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Argentinian goverment as a dissenter and as a Jew. Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-394-514483.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover - An account of his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Argentinian goverment as a dissenter and as a Jew. Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot. 164 pages. ISBN: 0-394-514483.

New York: Vintage Books, 1982. Chilean born writer, who adopted Israel as his home, attempts to come to terms with the impact on his life (his son went to the front in the Lebanon war) and on the country of Israel as the aggressor. ISBN: 0-394-714717.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999). Winner of an American Book Award from the before Columbus Foundation. A novel about " two young women and the transformative power of art. . . a baroness locks herself up in the Green Palace, only to have her seclusion interrupted by a parrot that flies through the window. When a sailor arrives to retrieve his companion, the young man and his pet delight her with three inspiring stories, while an unscrupulous suitor schemes to lure her out of her house and into his arms." 183 pp. ISBN: 0-375-707220.

London: Longmans, (c 1967). Described in the introduction as an attempt to outline the history of a large area in Africa. Illustrated with many maps and photographs. List of selected readings, glossary, index. 348 pp.

Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Jenna Murphy, a young art curator. Cover praise from Sheldon Siegel and Nina Schuyler who says this "beautifully weaves together lush language, the intricacies of the Asian art world, and page-turning tension." The author is herself an Asian art historian and consultant, who worked as a museum curator. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0804011853.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Author's first book.