New York: Grove Press, (2010). First edition - Novel set in 1950s Sudan, as British rule is coming to an end, by this award winning author, the story of a powerful dynasty trying to reconcile the pull of tradition and the need to move forward in a rapidly changing country. 308 pp plus author's note.

New York: Riverhead Books (Putnam), 1995. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young girl in the Hasidic world in Brooklyn - a secret reader of Charlotte Bronte and Victoria Holt in violation of the prohibition against reading books in English.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A post-Vietnam novel about people fragmented by their violence during the war. But not Vietnam vets- rather, anti-war radical terrorists. It is a thriller, a mystery, and a compelling novel of love and hate, good and evil, idealism and corruption, all deliberately chosen. ISBN: 0-89296-4812.

New York: Dutton, (1998) dj
. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller with its roots in the late sixties and the Woodstock festival. When Jessie Shapiro's daughter and ex-husband disappear, she finds a warning on his answering machine - and then her best friend, wearing Jessie's slicker, is run over. The police dismiss her fears so she sets out to track her daughter across the United States, and in doing so she uncovers a deadly secret from her ex-husband's college days during the Vietnam era. Library Journal called this "a solid mystery/political thriller about a self-reliant average woman thrown without warning into a smoky conspiracy. Riveting." SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-525245812.

New York: Dutton, (1989) dj
. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller in which two different story lines come together - that of a woman, a successful publicist in New York City whose baby is kidnapped from the hospital and a man, owner of a rustic resort in the Bahamas, on the verge of losing it all because of a lawsuit alleging negligence in a diving fatality. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-525248218.

New York: Warner, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of pyschological suspense involving a celebrity baseball player and an obsessed fan. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518603.

New York: M. Evans and Company, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second thriller, a story of the Israeli-Arab conflict and one man's determination to get revenge for the death of his wife and daughter and the destruction of his village. ISBN: 0-87131-374x.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. First edition - A post-Vietnam novel about people fragmented by their violence during the war. But not Vietnam vets- rather, anti-war radical terrorists. It is a thriller, a mystery, and a compelling novel of love and hate, good and evil, idealism and corruption, all deliberately chosen. 325 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Psychological thriller set at a small and exclusive New England college, by a writer who has been praised both for the twists and turns of his plots and for his elegant prose (LA Times). Stephen King stated that Abrahams was his 'favorite American suspense novelist.' 329 pp. ISBN: 0-345423852.

New York: Pantheon, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the dual origins (old English and African) of the corn-shucking ceremony on antebellum plantations. Illustrated, extensive notes, appendix with original accounts of the ceremony, index. 342 pages. ISBN: 0-394-555910.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.). SIGNED - The winning and finalist short stories for the O. Henry Award for 1992, .edited and with an introduction by William Abrahams. Include stories by Cynthia Ozick, Lucy Honig, Tom McNeal, Amy Herrick, Murray Pomerance, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Michael Wagner, Yolanda Barnes, David Long, Harriet Doerr, Perri Klass, Daniel Meltzer, Les Myers, Ken Chowder, Alice Adams, Frances Sherwood, Antonya Nelson, Millicent Dillon, Kent Nelson, Ann Packer, and Kate Braverman. SIGNED by Ann Packer at her story "Babies." Biographies of the authors. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421923.

New York: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, an "Iraq war comedy." SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Karl Marlantes (who called it "hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious"), Jonathan Evison ("it deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch 22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war") and more. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780802120328.

New York: Doubleday, (2023) dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate) hardcover first edition - The second thriller featuring Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene. SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate on the half title page by this political and voting rights activist. 348 pp. ISBN: 978-0385548328.

New York: Henry Holt, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which "offers a blueprint to end voter suppression -about how and why we fight for our democracy and win." After her loss in the gubernatorial election in Georgia. Abrams has become a leader in organizing voter education campaigns and get out the vote efforts to increase representation by all people, but especially young voters of color. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1250257703.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel and the first in the series of Elderhostel mysteries. "Unable to generate enthusiasm for anything since his wife's death, retired physical therapist James P. Dandy has let his children cajole him into attending an Elderhostel at the Jersey shore. But the other participants seem indistinguishable except for their name tags - sall but Dodee Swisher, a gallery owner determined to create her own laboratory component for their class in bonsai gardening. . . A bonus in this winsome, if guileless, debut is a short course in how to style a bonsai plant and use it as a murder weapon." (Kirkus Reviews) SIGNED on the title page. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-885173342.

New York: Morrow, 1989. Hardcover first edition - First solo novel by Abshire, former cop and private investigator - a mystery introducing Texas PI Jack Kyle.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Prix Femina in France, this historical novel brings to life the 11th century of the Normans.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).

New York: Norton, (2007). First edition - Her third novel, fourth book - a suspenseful literary mystery set in Syracuse, New York, where there is a number of unexplained 'crib deaths.' 388 pp.

New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.

New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-39305747X.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set among a large and loving Arab family living in a mostly poor-white small town in upstate New York - a community where "ethnics" are few and far between. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-151078629).

New York: Norton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, the story of a thirty-nine year old, and still unmarried, Iraqi-American woman who lives and works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant in the Persian and Arab-American community of Los Angeles known as Irangeles - a novel both sensible, realistic and romantic. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Sigrid Nunez, Whitney Otto and others. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-39305747X.

Belem: 1992. SIGNED first edition - Collection of poems, in Portuguese, illustrated with drawings by Frederico Mergulhao. INSCRIBED by the author.

London & USA: Severn House Publishers, (2018). Four women combine their diverse backgrounds and talents to create an enquiry agency based in a small town in Wales. 203 pp. ISBN: 978-1847518545.

New York: Anchor Books, 1988. A novel of contemporary Africa, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of contemporary Africa by this Nigerian writer. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-385-016646.