London: Macmillan, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of fifteen short stories including three with supernatural elements - The Tarn, The Tiger and Major Wilbraham. x, 371 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984). dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by one of Germany's 'most articulate and socially aware' writers. Translated from German by Leila Vennewitz. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0593735.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of poetry by this author who has also written several books of prose on Christianity, C. S. Lewis, etc.

New York: Putnam, 1926. dj. Hardcover first edition -

Los Angeles Silver Lake (1998). SIGNED first edition - "The news is full of modern variations of the Ponzi scheme, which uses money from new investors to pay existing ones, setting up "levels" of investors to keep growing which always eventually collapse. This book uses case studies to suggest several explanations, plus helpful tips to detect Ponzi schemes and offers ways to respond. SIGNED on title page, index. 354 pp. ISBN: 1563431696.

London: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fifth adult novel - "serious, important and philosophically provocative - and infused with narrative urgency, suspense, pathos and passion as well. . . Set in Comenia, a fictional Czech- and German-speaking Eastern European country, the book chronicles the swift and brutal progress of communism in the years following WWII. Walsh follows nine characters over four decades, from 1945-1990, as their lives - already shattered by harrowing wartime experiences and now dislocated by political tyranny - intersect." (PW review) 333 pp. ISBN: 0-385601212.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring a very unusual heroine - Imogen Quy, the "quietly competent college nurse" at St Agatha's College in Cambridge. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-340-637943.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1994.). A story involving a feral child, d set on a Mediterranean island like Mallorca, around 1850 in pre-Reformation Europe. A "late medieval theological thriller, complete with the Inquistion."Shortlisted for the Booker. 268 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood is rocked by a violent crime when a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is, before publication. 303 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, in a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A charming tale featuring two dogs and a fast-talking squirrel: Olive takes off on a journey to return Dexter's (Mr Lunch) heart. SIGNED by Vivian Walsh on the illustrated dedication page and dated in the year of publication. Colorfully illustrated throughout by J. Otto Seibold. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-15-2047204.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Two animals who share a love of the night sky meet in the daylight and are surprised to discover how different they are." SIGNED and dated in the year of publication, on the page opposite the title page, by both the author and illustrator. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780810984103.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1979.). Hardcover first edition - Contains 8 stiff cardboard pages, spiral bound, with each cut into 4 pieces so they various sections can be mixed and matched in "thousands of funny combinations.". ISBN: 0-531-051501.

New York: Gallery Books, 1986. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Disney Classic series. Large format. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-831706813.

Racine, WI: Whitman - Golden Books, 1973. Hardcover - Thick board book with colorful illustrations, cloth spine.

Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1971.). Hardcover first edition - A Golden Book, a board book, unpaginated [10] pps. Bound in thick illustrated cover, with yellow cloth-tape spine. Donald and his nephews and Goofy travel from the North Pole to the Everglades to the jungle.

New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus.

New York: Regan - Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A darkly comic novel by this Edgar award winning writer - it begins with a hero cop who awakes to find that he has shot himself in the head. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0898658.

New York: Regan - Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A darkly comic novel by this Edgar award winning writer - it begins with a hero cop who awakes to find that he has shot himself in the head. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0898658.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2006.). SIGNED - Edgar award winning novel. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0989297.

New York: Regan Books (Harper Collins), (2005.). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, set in Spokane, Washington in the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election pitting Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter - a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in October 2004 - tha is before publication - and uncommon thus. 293 pp plus author's referendum.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny -but serious - look at our financial meltdown. After gambling everything on an internet business, Matt wakes up one morning to find himself jobless, saddled with debt, reduced to spying on his wife's online flirtation and six days away from losing his house. Scoring some weed doesn't help the situation at all. Walter has proven he can do it all - non-fiction, Edgar award winning mystery and National Book Award finalist. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1916048.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2013). First edition - First collection of short stories by this award-winning author, which "veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once hip Seattle to never hip Spokane" and more. Issued as a trade paperback original, 177 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.

New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. SIGNED on the title page by co-author Jess Walter (who gets the small type, but said he just wanted it large enough for his mother to see.) Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.

New York: Bradbury Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of African Americans in Mississippi told by this award-winning author in a major, two-part work of nonfiction - the first covering the period through slavery, reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, the second focusing on the civil rights era, and the drive for voter registration. Whenever possible, the story is told in the words of the participants. Illustrated throughout with historic photographs, map of Mississippi. Ssource notes, bibliography, index, xv, 205 pp. ISBN: 0-02-7923010.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which begins by asking children, "Are you afraid of the dark?" and then goes on to describe all the wonderful things that can happen in the dark - from "falling stars to the shadows of friends, from the safety of the womb to the crystal waters that bubble from beneath the earth." Vividly illustrated with with striking double-page-spread acrylic paintings by Marcia Jameson. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0+689803052.