New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An account of "a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined." Full of great recipes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrations by Camilla Engman. Recipe index. 320 pp. ISBN: 1416551050.

London: Herbert Jenkins, (1958.) dj. Hardcover - Although the copyright page states 'first published . . .1958' this is the reissue in the Autograph Edition, in blue boards, with plain printed salmon-colored wrappers. 222 pp.

New York: International Polygonics, (1990) dj. Hardcover - "A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning" originally published in 1981 on the hundredth anniversary of Wodehouse's birth. Edited and with a Preface by D.R. Benson. A title in the Library of Crime Classics. xvii, 282 pp.

New York & London: James H Heineman / Curwen Press. 1989. First edition - For two months in 1982 there was, in the foyers of the National Theatre in London, an exhibition to celebrate P. G. Wodehouse's centenary. In conjunction with this exhibition, there were frequent talks in the Lyttelton Theatre on Wodehousian subjects. Three are printed here along with an after-dinner speech. Printed in letterpress and limited to 500 individually numbered copies, of which this is 76. Tall thin format. 52 pp. plus 2 pp of information on the series. ISBN: 0-870081268.

New York: Granta, 2000. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. Includes the long piece 'The Assassin' by Henk van Woerden about Demetrios Tsafendas, the part African, part Europeon man who stabbed the South African premier who was considered the architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, to death. Also includes contributions from Diana Athill, Graham Swift, Hanif Kureishi, Paul Theroux, a photo-essay on the HIV infected children of Romania by Kent Klich and an essay on searching for lost jazz trumpeter Dupree Bolton by Richard Williams. Photographs, notes on the contributors. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-964561190.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the woods of Upper Michigan. Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award. 309 pp. Went quickly into later printings, and rather uncommon in the first printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer and poet, a concise story of a single day in which the entire life of a failed elderly actor begins to unravel. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374236305.

New York: Atheneum, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this Western writer which brings back the characters - Chris and Ellen - and the setting - a cabin in the Upper Michigan woods - as his first book, the prize-winning 'What I'm Going to Do I Think.' 290 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121555.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer and poet, a concise story of a single day in which the entire life of a failed elderly actor begins to unravel. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-374236305.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. First edition - The author's third book, and first collection of poems.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised collection of short stories by this Western novelist. ISBN: 0-629-121598.

Pebble Beach, CA: Pebble Beach Press, 1993. An uncommon title by this Newbery award winning author. The story of two friends one the son and grandson of coal miners in Pennsylvania and the other a Japanese kid who share the dream of playing pro football.

New York: St Martin's, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Wold's first novel. "Larson McCade, wandering grandson of a nameless refugee, has come to the decadent planet of Seltique, culturally isolated from the rest of the galaxy after its bid for political mastery two thousand years ago. He claims to be researching a pro-galaxy group known as The Core, but he is actually looking for The Book of Aradka, a non-human artifact that could make him a wealthy man for the rest of his life." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-312613989.

New York: Penguin, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, published only as a trade paperback in the US. "Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. . . the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but - equally strong and much harder to control - is his obsession with causing it." 547 pp. ISBN: 978-0143123828.

Greenwich, Conn: Fawcett Publications, Inc., (1973). First edition - A collection of classic science fiction by contemporay authors, those from the 19th and early 20th centuries and those whose stories were precursors to speculative fiction. The authors include Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Graham Greene, B.F. Skinner, Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Francis Bacon, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and many others. Preface and introduction by the editors. 544 pp. ISBN: 0-44900606.

New York: Random House, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this sometimes rather controversial feminist author, perhaps more relevant now than ever. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xix, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-67942718X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). First edition - Her second novel, an international espionage thriller which begins when a Soviet photojournalist sneaks into an American embassy in West Africa asking for asylum. 322 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A literate thriller involving a forner SAS trooper and a San Diego librarian.

New York: Times Inc, (1964.). Introduction by Allen Dulles, who comments that this book does not deal with 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, but rather with how Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin used their years of exile and underground activity to prepare themselves for the coming revolution. Includes editor's preface and author's introduction. Illustrated with photographs. Sources, pronunciation guide and index in Volume 2. Vol 1: 420 pp; vol 2: 413 pp.

New York: Praeger, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, California. Illustrated with a section including 20 plates. Selected bibliography, index. x, 180 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book (Carson Wolfe is a pseudonym for a NYC criminal lawyer). Combines courtroom drama with a witty Puerto Rican detecting couple - Maria and Carolito are the Nick and Nora Charles of the South Bronx. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-312-552858.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005). Epic fantasy novel. Illustrated with drawings by Gregory Manchess. 477 pp. ISBN: 0-765-314703.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel (2nd book), a psychological thriller about two brothers, both doctors. ISBN: 0-671-22858-7.

New York: Putnam, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories of nine men who were important in the exploration and history of Africa, from the slave Cinque who led a shipboard uprising, to Howard Carter, the archeologist who discovered the tomb of Tuthankhamen and empire builder Cecil Rhodes. Illustrated by Steele Savage. Written for older children. Index. 155 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1935. dj. Hardcover first edition - FIrst issue with the error on page 59. Wolfe's third book and only collection of short stories.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of two posthumous novels by Wolfe, delivered to his publisher shortly before his death - the story of a writer in New York City. In his prefatory note, Wolfe calls it a novel "about one man's discovery of life and the world. . . being young, and in love, and in the city are only part of the whole adventure of apprenticeship and discovery." 695 pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A book which brings together all of the published material on the Southern characters and the settings that run through this North Carolina born novelist. Photographs. Index. xii, 194 pp.

New York: Beach Lane / Simon & Schuster, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Both a delightful counting book and an introduction to the changing seasons, as fall heralds winter. SIGNED on the title page by the author/illustrator with a drawing and the words "You are the one!" and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated. ISBN: 9781442441583.

New York: Dutton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth book in this series featuring Miss Bindergarten, the kindergarten teacher. Both an exploration of all the fun places the class goes, and an alphabet book - "Adam's dad's a chaperone. Brenda's mom is, too. Christopher says, 'Hey, don't leave yet--a stone hopped in my shoe.'" SIGNED on the front endpaper by the illustrator Ashley Wolff and dated in the year of publication. Large format, unpaginated. Laid in a stiff card promotional piece about Wolff and her books, folded. ISBN: 0-525467106.