Sibling Press, (2002). Hardcover first edition - One woman's tribute to the art of Edward Gorey, published shortly after his death. Includes a large 6 part fold-out drawing. Bibliography. Small oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-965426513.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Historical novel based on the life of Horatio Nelson, nominated for the Booker Prize. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486529.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Early novel by this Booker Prize winning author, set in 1908 on a Greek island off the coast of Asia Minor in the crumbling Turkish empire. Originally published in the UK under the title 'Pascali's Island.' 192 pp. ISBN: 0-671253573.

New York: Norton, 1995. A virgin carved in the 15th century holds the key to the secrets of an Italian family - an historical and romantic tour-de-force by this Booker Prize winning author.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of Horatio Nelson, nominated for the Booker Prize. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486529.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - A virgin carved in the 15th century holds the key to the secrets of an Italian family - an historical and romantic tour-de-force by this Booker Prize winning author. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-395-354129.

New York: Doubleday, 1992. First edition - Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the story of a slaving ship, of mutineers and African captives who establish a secret community in Florida, of hope and greed and a desire to start over again. An incredible achievement. 630 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's 4th novel, set in "exotic Istanbul and a thermal pool in Anatolia," winner of the Heinemann Award. 288 pp. Dust jacket by Peter Unsworth.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1908 in the final year of the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II; With his wife and young son, Englishman Robert Markham has returned to Constantinople, where--twelve years earlier--he had saved himself as the Turks raped and murdered his Armenian fiancee. 443 pp. ISBN: 0-395-325269.

New York: Norton, (1993). Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the story of a slaving ship, of mutineers and African captives who establish a secret community in Florida, of hope and greed and a desire to start over again. An incredible achievement. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-393-311147.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tale as taut as a thriller about foul doings in fourteenth century England." Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Basis for the 2004 film "The Reckoning" with Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe. 188 pp. ISBN: 0-385-479530.

New York: Norton, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early work by this Booker prize winning novelist, originally published in the UK in 1970 and for the first time appearing in the US in this edition. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039552.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel, co-winner of the Booker Award (with Ondaatje's English Patient.), a book which explores one of history's greatest tragedy - the inhumanity of the slave trade. Beginning in 1752 Liverpool, this is the story of a slaving ship, of mutineers and African captives who establish a secret community in Florida, of hope and greed and a desire to start over again. An incredible achievement. 629 pp. ISBN: 0-385-265301.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of Horatio Nelson, nominated for the Booker Prize. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385-486529.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Twin Palms, (1995) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Ingrid Sischy and 120 very striking black and white photographs - mostly of women, some erotic. Limited to 6,000 copies - the photographic plates are sheet-fed gravures on uncoated paper stock. Large tall format. ISBN: 0-944092-292.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the 2001 Whiting Award. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618-247270.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition - A collection of stories set against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies which have claimed thousands of lives - they show Nepal's citizens strugglng with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage. 207 p. ISBN: 0-618-517499.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. INSCRIBED on the title page "For... Thanks for showing me San Francisco." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the ideas of haunting and being haunted, of absence being as much of a shape as presence is. "A young woman sees the same mysterious face at each stop of a cross-country train trip. A gay psychiatrist is haunted by the ever-encroaching specter of AIDS. These are the intertwining threads of this gothic-tinged literary ghost tale set in Seattle." 369 pp. ISBN: 0-393038653.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this author, the son of writer John Updike. The settings of these fifteen stories range from New England to New York and Italy; many focus on the passage from youth to adulthood. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-879237287.

New York: Fawcett Crest, (1965). First edition - The first combined appearance of these two early books of poetry - The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures and Telephone Poles and Other poems - in one volume with a new "foreword" (an 8 line poem) by Updike. 175 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in Updike's award-winning series about Rabbit Angstrom. 467 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Updike's fifteenth novel, one which alternates between two men - Presidents James Buchanan and Gerald Ford - "two lives, two American centuries - one Victorian, the other modern - shining an irreverent, witty, and sometimes caustic light on the contrasting views of social fictions and sexual politics." Brief bibliography. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-679416811.

New York: Random House, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, who has now "acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo and a second grandchild - an exploration of the bleak terrain of late middle age." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 794 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58936X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. dj. Hardcover - A novel in which an errant minister is sent west to a forced desert retreat. ISBN: 0-394-495519.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - His eighth novel. ISBN: 0-394-40856-x.