New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. The second Ben and Carrie Porter mystery.

New York: Greenwillow Books, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Folk artist Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1854 or 1856, and when he was in his eighties, between 1939 and 1942, he created over 1,200 paintings. This book contains ten full-page, full-color reproductions of his paintings with a story (many based on folktales) by Barbara Ann Porte to accompany each. Frontispiece self-portrait. While published as a children's books, the paintings will appeal to all. Slightly oversized format, 48 pp. ISBN: 0-688143741.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon vintage mystery by this Edgar award-winning writer who is credited as being the first to write police procedurals. This novel features a private investigator and a patrolman trying to get back onto the homicide squad, both of whom are convinced that the other one is guilty of the murder of the former movie queen Vivian Vixen. 191 pp.

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, (1970). Edited and with an introduction by Harry M. Trebing. Includes essays by Andrew Hacker, Adolf A. Berle, Elizabeth B. Drew, Emmanuel Cellar and others on on the beginning of the multi-national corporations. A New York Times Book. Suggested reading, index. 273 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A story told 40 years later by the man who was the wireless radio operator on the tramp steamer, the Normandier, and one of the few survivors of this tragedy.

New York: Hyperion, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page by Lucille Treganowan. Includes tips on buying a car. Illustrated with photographs, glossary, index. xi, 257 pp. ISBN: 0-786862017.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 382 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-374126054.

New York: Norton, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens in Switzerland in the years after World War II, where Gustav, the only child of a single mother who treats him severely becomes friends with Anton, a young Jewish boy his age and a talented pianist, despite his mother's anti-Semitism. A story which moves back and forth in time. one in which friendship is lost, regained and transformed. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-0393246698.

London: Chatto & Windus, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's eigth novel, set in Denmark in 1629. SIGNED on the title page. 454 pp. ISBN: 1-86056027X.

New York: Summit Books, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - her first collection of short stories. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 174 pp. ISBN: 0-671-504630.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Mary, who - at age 6 - realizes with perfect clarity and conviction that she is a boy, not a girl, and of the struggles of Mary/Martin in the years to come. A highly praised novel by a writer who is not as appreciated as she should be. ISBN: 0-689-121709.

New York: Summit Books, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - her first collection of short stories. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 174 pp. ISBN: 0-671-504630.

Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, (1990.). First edition - A collection of poems illustrated with photographs of the author's mixed media fiber sculptures. Foreword by Colleen McElroy. 71 pp. ISBN: 0-934971-137.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019). First edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nineteen stories of psychological suspense and literary horror by this award winning author, including ÒThe Teacher,Ó a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story. "From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored." Notes. 333 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020). First edition - In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun with an incredibly fast acting rabies-like virus - as society disintegrates, a man is killed by an infected neighbor and, in attempting to help save him, his pregnant wife is bitten. Calling upon her best friend, a pediatrician, the 2 embark on a dangerous journey to obtain a C-section to save the baby before the mother succumbs to the infection. 303 pp. ISBN: 978-0062679130.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young journalist's trip across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan, in an attempt to find out what was happening at the notorious salt mines at Taoudenni - where they being worked by Malian slaves, as was reported? Map, photographs, index. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-897330285.

New York: Parents Magazine Press, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pieter Vanderloon was a very fortunate man with a fine wife, six children, and a mill overflowing with corn but when two tiny mice begin to eat some of corn begins to disappear, he goes to buy a cat. Instead he comes home with an elephant - after all, it cost him nothing except a promise to never return it!. A "Good Reader" Book, Illustrated by Tom Vroman. Thin square format, unpaginated.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this talented young author, an Ojibwe, who grew up at Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. Moving back in forth in time from 1980 to the 1960's this begins The grave we with dug for my brother Little remainded empty even after we filled it back in. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Louise Erdrich and Toni Morrison who described this as 'a wonder. Out of the seasons and landscapes of a Minnesota reservation David Treuer has forged a strong intricate narrative complete with the intimate voices of fully realized characters.' 248 pp. Dust jacket art by Jim Denomie, also of the Ojibwe Nation. ISBN: 1-55597-2314.

New York: Crown, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of supsense set in a small Basque French village in 1914. ISBN: 0-517-548291.

New York: Crown, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of suspense set in a small Basque French village in 1914. ISBN: 0-517-54829-1.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fast paced novel with an ironic switch on the traditional blackmail caper - when traveling salesman Charlie Berlatsky is the only witness to a fatal crash involving a California governor candidate and his passenger, a hooker from Las Vegas, he recognizes a good thing. INSCRIBED by Trevor on the front endpaper and dated "Fountain Hills, Spring 1975." Published under the title of 'The Paragon' in the UK. Trevor is perhaps best known for his Cold War thrillers written under the Adam Hall pseudonym and featuring secret agent Quiller. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-385-074727.

New York: Sheed and Ward, (1957). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon early science fiction novel for young adults by this prolific Catholic author. The story, published in 1957, follows a teenage boy named Gil whose brother, Hilary, a botanist, is a member of a crew of scientists who are making an expedition to the moon. Gil is not supposed to go along, but he falls asleep in the crew's ship and inadvertently becomes a stowaway. When they reach the far side of the moon they discover a livable atmosphere and two races of men in conflict. Illustrated with drawings by Martin Thomas. 179 pp. Dust jacket art by Arno.

New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A haunting and powerful novel by this award winning writer - "the tale of a young girl whose Protestant family is driven from its rural Irish home in 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy is in love with Lahardane: the old house itself, the woods,. . The day before her family is scheduled to flee Ireland, leaving the house and furnishings in the care of trusted servants, Lucy runs away. Her parents, finding a scrap of her clothing on the beach, assume the worst." 228 pp. ISBN: 0-67088202X.

New York: The Viking Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve new stories by this award-winning writer. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670870072.