New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - A child's-eye view of the grown-up world. 193 pages.

New York: Four Winds Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a young girl in San Francisco, Oakland and Emeryville in the 1880's. Based on the experiences of the author's mother. ISBN: 0-590-07415-0.

New York: Viking, 1989. Hardcover first edition - First mystery by this Canadian writer (and father of singer Neil Young.) Introduces Mountie Matthew "Matteesie" Kitologitak, a full-blooded Inuk.

Prospect, CT: The Catalyst Press, (1978). SIGNED first edition - A slim collection of poems, dedicated to her brother who was killed in action during World War II. INSCRIBED by the author inside the front cover to another poet with the comment "a fine poet" and dated in the year of publication. 32 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. Author's first novel, dj comment from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling.". ISBN: 1-57322-6580.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1998. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.

Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI Teens, (2001). SIGNED - A book which "tackles the pressures of being a teen through a combination of stories and compassionate wisdom provided by the mother/daughter team of Bettie and Jennifer Youngs.. . Stories written by teens demonstrate the issues that are a source of stress for them, including schoolwork, dating, moving, parents' divorce, weight problems and sexual identity." SIGNED on the page following the title page by author Bettie Youngs. Suggested resources and readings. 310 pp. ISBN: 1-558749322.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). SIGNED - A new Joan of Arc for a world almost destroyed by global warming and unending world wars. "Fleeing the unending violence and the planets now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home.. . Out of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men, a charismatic and bloodthirsty cult leader who turns CIEL into a quasi-corporate police state. A group of rebels unites to dismantle his iron rule - galvanized by the heroic song of Joan, a child-warrior who possesses a mysterious force that lives within her." A NY Times Notable book. SIGNED on the title page. 267 pp. ISBN: 978-0062383280.

New York: St Martin's, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an interesting alternate history involving a woman in Edwardian England who sets out to assassinate Hitler and her granddaughter in New York, who is also prepared to sacrifice herself to alter the course of history. ISBN: 0-312-243693.

New York: Norton, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj: "This extraordinary novel, rooted in Yurasov's own incredible life, is the work of a Red Army colonel who is also a poet and engineer. . . It is the tale of two Russians whose lives run parallel - Feodor, who burst his bonds and sought a better world, and Vasili, friend to Feodor, who returned to his rural community to fight for his self respect from within the Soviet system." Yurosav was arrested for subversion during one of Stalin's purges, spent 10 years in a concentration camp, escaping during the German advance on Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Titiana Balkoff Drowne. 628 pp plus 2 pp about the author.

By the author, n.d. (ca 1970). SIGNED first edition - A collection of poems by this writer now living in Southern California, illustrated by the author. SIGNED on the second page with the words "who loves life, beauty and art." Unpaginated.

Rutland, VT Charles E. Tuttle, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A book originally produced for the boys and girls attending the American schools on the military base of Okinawa. This included information on the island, its people, industries, religion, festivals, customs, fairy tales and more. Includes approximately 30 pages of native songs. 200 pp.

New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Amazing first novel by this jazz musician and journalist - the hero is "an alto saxophone virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Shakespeare- and Blake-quoting bear whose keen sense of irony protects him from the double loneliness of the artist and animal in an underappreciative metropolis." Surprise winner of the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. A lyrical, funny, and also realistic portrait of a jazz musician. Small first printing (reportedly of only 5000 copies.) 480 pp. ISBN: 0-393040372.

Rosemead, CA: Hazel Pearson Handicrafts, (1977.). First edition - Includes basic techniques and complete directions for a variety of projects, illustrated with full color photographs. Diagrams. Measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches in stapled color wrappers. 16 pp including the cover.

New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another literate bibliomystery, set in a "dark gothic universe" in Barcelona, Spain, by the author of "The Shadow of the Wind." Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. 531 pp. ISBN: 9780385528702.

New York: Blue Hen (Penguin - Putnam), (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very enjoyable, and suprisingly different, first novel - a story which starts with the discovery of thousands of dollars stashed in the trunk of a car, the remains of a drug deal gone bad. Dust jacket praise from Alyson Hagy, Lewis Nordan (who called this a 'dazzling novel, exceeding all my expectations... this book will stay near your heart and mind for a long time.') and others. ISBN: 0-399149228.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. Hardcover first edition - Striking illustrations by Hannes Bok include a frontispiece, title page vignette, 3 full page black and white drawings and headpieces. 240 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Zahares's wonderful illustration enhance this collection of poems about animals who might "bite back" - a collection which includes such verses as "Sparrow Hawk" by Russell Hoban and "Viper" by Eve Merriam, and poems by John Gardner, Hillaire Belloc, Maxine Kumin, Dick King-Smith, Karla Kuskin, and Ogden Nash and more. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-670-035130.

New York: Bantam, (1999). Hardcover first edition - An epic novel by this Hugo award winning writer featuring a renegade space pilot, his unusual alien partner, and an unknown cargo that can change the course of galactic history. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-55310702X.

Seattle: Camel Press, (2016). Third novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1976, during the US bicentennial, when NY Harbor is full of tall ships from around the world. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812115.

Seattle: Camel Press, (2015). Second novel in the award winning series, featuring New York police reporter Coleridge Taylor. Set in 1975 against the backdrop of New York City's financial crisis. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-1603812092.

New York: Crown, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, second book, a psychological thriller. "Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brlliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband, and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp.

Austin TX: Synergy Books, (2004). SIGNED first edition - A book by a former Oregon state representative which challenges everyone to "rejoin the political scene as public leaders, actively participating in the evolution of the rapidly-changing phenomenon we call democracy." SIGNED on the title page with the words "Help keep hope alive." Bibliography, index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-974764485.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which is even more necessary now than when it was first published, as attacks on liberal education continue. "Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the worlds most valuable educational tradition.. . [he] expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education - how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. For example, engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning precisely the gifts of a liberal education." SIGNED on the half title page. Extensive notes. 204 pp. ISBN: 978-0393247688.

New York: Ace Books, 1981. dj. Hardcover - Black and white illustrations by Esteban Maroto.

New York: Henry Holt, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story for older children - "When an exotic new neighbor moves into her building, Alexandria, 11, and her best friend Jenny suspect the woman of having supernatural powers. Madame Van Dam bills herself as a spiritual advisor, owns a crystal ball, and has a pet rabbit. Still grieving over the death of her father, Alexandria learns that life goes on, but when the elderly woman discovers the girls have gone through her belongings, she reveals that she is a survivor of a concentration camp for gypsies and Alexandria comes to realize that the pain she still feels is not unique." 148 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-80501537X.

Paris: Flammarion (1934.). Hardcover - En francais. Text in French. 213pp.

New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic work of magic realism by this Pakistani author, his fourth novel but only the second to be published in the US. "Extravagantly imaginative and acidly satiric. .. Its hero, Cyrus Cyrus, is so utterly disenfranchised that he has no real surname, and merely repeats his given name when asked to identify himself. Convicted of the murders of three children (two of them his own), he narrates an autobiography teeming with 'images of sex and survival, death and after-death, madness and genius' from his prison cell in Britain. . . a brilliant work" (Publisher's Weekly) 577 pp. ISBN: 0-670832235.