New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "to... with all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. Her first book, the story of an interracial friendship, forged in 1913 between a black woman and a white woman, in defiance of the times and the place - a small Texas town of modest farms and sharecroppers. Partially based on the oral history of the author's family. Von Herzen won the Los Angeles Arts Council Award for fiction in 1990. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-688-106889.

Waukeeshka, Wisconsin: Cultural Press, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes eleven love stories linked together by a quotation from Shakespeare, and set in ancient Greece, Judea, and in more modern Europe. Introduction by William Miller and twelve illustrations. 399 pp.

New York: Delacorte, 1979.

New York: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, 1953. First edition - Great cover art by Schomburg ("Still Life in Space"). Includes 3 novelets: "Made in U.S.A." by McIntosh; "University" by Phillips; "The Sentimentalists" by Leinster; 2 short stories: "Seventh Victim" by Sheckley; "Unready to Wear" by Vonnegut; and nonfiction: "Origins of Galactic Law" by Wellen. Article: "The Birth of the Space Station" by Ley.

New York: Crown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a woman rock musician, and popular disk jockey, who finds her life in a shambles after a night of partying ends in a horrible accident. The author worked for years in the music industry, which gives this novel an authentic feel. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609-608924.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - "a road map to the locations of American political violence and ruminates on their lessons ....much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue--it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and--the author's favorite--historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored.... there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult." 258 pp. ISBN: 9780743260039.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America as only Vowell can write it. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489990.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so investigates the bumpy roads in her own life. Her second full length book. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-743223527.

New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the coast of British Columbia in the early years of the 20th century, and based on the life of Emily Carr, painter and naturalist. Illustrated with reproductions of some of Carr's work, author's afterword. Map endpapers. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-670-032670.

New York: Viking, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. SIGNED by author on title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.

New York: Viking, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of Artemisia Gentileschi(1593-1653), a painter in post-Renaissance Italy and the first women elected to the Accadamia dell'Arte. . 288 pp. ISBN: 0-670-894494.

New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories, many set in the art worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-670-031771.

New York: Penguin, 1999. Her highly acclaimed and prize-winning first novel. 342 pp plus a 15 page Penguin Reader's Guide with an interview with Vreeland. ISBN: 0-14-029628X.

Denver: MacMurray and Beck. 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly acclaimed and prize-winning novel, a surprise best-seller which went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 0-878448-900.

Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - an historical novel that "provides an authentic and vivid portrait of Greece during World War II." Occupied by the Nazis, there was also resistance from guerrilla fighters, which in turn led to reprisal killings by the Germans. 182 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A project of The Obsidian Society, edited and with an Introduction by Kelvin Shawn Sealey. Includes conversations with Harry Belafonte, Bill Bradley, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, The Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., and the Reverend Dr. James M. Washington, Wynton Marsalis, Patricia Williams, Haki Madhubuti, and Maya Angelou. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; preface by Cornel West and the poem "Catch The Fire" by Sonia sanchez. Notes on the contributors, photograph. xx, 226 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-09423.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Reissue of a book originally published in 1982 with a new introduction for this edition by the author. SIGNED on the title page. A story of grand larceny set in Idi Amin's corrupt Uganda. Map. xi, 475 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 0-89296-533-9.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-734.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-734.

Boston: L. C. Page (1908). Hardcover - A title in the "Our Little Cousins" series. Includes the story of the Rough Riders and the Cuban fight for freedom. Also included is a visit to the quarters on the plantation, and although the black workers are shown as happy, as they celebrate with music and food, there is, at least, an account of the slave ships and the death toll of those ships. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman with a glossy frontispiece and 5 internal glossy plates. vii, 106 pp plus 18 pp publisher's ads.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1991). First edition - A collection of poems which stand "at the interval between the real and the surreal, between the earthly and the eternal." A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series edited by Bin Ramke. 72 pp. Cover illustration by Debora Greger. ISBN: 0-820312797.

Redlands, CA: Esri Press, (2006). A useful resource with "more than 1,800 terms, nearly 400 full-color illustrations, and seven encyclopedia-style appendix articles about annotation and labels, features, geometry, layers in ArcGIS, map projections and coordinate systems, remote sensing, and topology." 268 pp. ISBN: 978-1589481404.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Johnnetta B. Cole. Autobiography of this writer who grew up in segregated Memphis, through her activism and arrest in the civil rights movement, to her position as professor at Spelman College. One photograph at beginning of book. xi, 276 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-90229.

New York: Arcadia House, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Tale of a American women who travels to Orkney Islands, Scotland and finds herself in the midst of an adventure that involves witchcraft ,murder and danger. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-312-272545.

New York: The Viking Press, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a hard-boiled novel about the manager of a Mexico City gambling casino - Waer's own occupation in Las Vegas: "Jim Foster, manager of gambling casinos and an honest man in a dubious profession, transfers his curious talents to Mexico City . . . The irregularities happen to include two murders, an international crime ring, various beautiful women, none of whom could ever be accused of innocence, a bewitched roulette wheel, and any number of operatives from the police and underworld." While all 3 of Waer's novels were set in the world of gambling, this was the only one to be published in hardcover. 241 pp. Dust jacket design by Bill English.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Warm and intimate reminiscences by this prolific author, focusing not only on his childhood in Illinois, but also on the "world within." Included are selections on the Oz books, on Howard Pyle and Maxfield Parrish, on Gamaliel Bradford and Marjorie Bowen.