New York: Bantam, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - While best known for his award-winning suspense novels, Byrd is also an expert on 18th century literature, and he spent 5 years researching this historical novel about Thomas Jefferson in Paris. SIGNED on the title page. 424 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in 1718 where 16-year-old Eliza Tally arrives in a London rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 as an apothecary's maid, "a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child - a wealthy merchantÕs son - from scandal. . . On one of her visits to the friendly Huguenot bookseller who keeps the apothecary supplied with scientific tomes, she finally realizes the nature of her master's obsession. And when she learns that Mary too is pregnant, she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself." Author's note. xi, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0151012060.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in 1718 where 16-year-old Eliza Tally arrives in a London rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 as an apothecary's maid, "a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child - a wealthy merchantÕs son - from scandal. . . On one of her visits to the friendly Huguenot bookseller who keeps the apothecary supplied with scientific tomes, she finally realizes the nature of her master's obsession. And when she learns that Mary too is pregnant, she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself." Author's note. xi, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0151012060.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel for older children in which mystery, romance, horror, and adventure overlap. Beginning in England in 1741, this is the story of the brutal work of the "Coram man," a monstrous character who pretends to be a representative of the famous Coram foundling hospital, but who either abandons, buries, or sells into slavery the unwanted children he takes. Winner of the Whitbread 2000 Children's Book of the Year Award, this is the first book by Gavin to be published in the US. vii, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-374315442.

New York: Crown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a celebrated opera singer born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, who was castrated as a young boy to preserve his voice, even though castration was considered an abomination in the Swiss Confederation. Written as a letter to his son, Moses "recounts how his gift for sound led him on an astonishing journey to Europes celebrated opera houses and reveals the secret that has long shadowed his fame: How did Moses Froben, world renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he never could have sired?" Historical note. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0307590527.

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - Full size edition, easily mistaken for the first, since it states "first edition" on the copyright page and has the correct number line - main differences are the lack of price on the dj, plain endpapers. The second massive epic novel by the author of "Through a Glass Darkly" set in the early 18th century. Focusing on a 20 year old widow, Barbara Devane, who finds herself financially and emotionally devasted from the death of her husband in suspicious circumstances, the story sweeps from the tobacco plantations of Virginia to Hanoverian England to the South Sea Bubble scandal. Author's historical note, list of characters. 733 pages. ISBN: 0-394-569296).

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second massive epic novel by the author of "Through a Glass Darkly" set in the early 18th century. Focusing on a 20 year old widow, Barbara Devane, who finds herself financially and emotionally devasted from the death of her husband in suspicious circumstances, the story sweeps from the tobacco plantations of Virginia to Hanoverian England to the South Sea Bubble scandal. Author's historical note, list of characters. 733 pages. The true first edition with a price on the dj flap, pale green decorative endpapers, dark blue cloth spine. ISBN: 0-394-569296).

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second massive epic novel by the author of "Through a Glass Darkly" set in the early 18th century. Focusing on a 20 year old widow, Barbara Devane, who finds herself financially and emotionally devasted from the death of her husband in suspicious circumstances, the story sweeps from the tobacco plantations of Virginia to Hanoverian England to the South Sea Bubble scandal. Author's historical note, list of characters. 733 pages. The true first edition with a price on the dj flap, pale green decorative endpapers, dark blue cloth spine. ISBN: 0-394-569296).

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second massive epic novel by the author of "Through a Glass Darkly" set in the early 18th century. Focusing on a 20 year old widow, Barbara Devane, who finds herself financially and emotionally devasted from the death of her husband in suspicious circumstances, the story sweeps from the tobacco plantations of Virginia to Hanoverian England to the South Sea Bubble scandal. Author's historical note, list of characters. 733 pages. The true first edition with a price on the dj flap, pale green decorative endpapers, dark blue cloth spine. ISBN: 0-394-569296).

New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel of romance and adventure set against the backdrop of eighteenth century Venice. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421907.

New York: Scholastic, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1769, thirteen year old Maria Antonia, daughter of Empress Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her days at the Austrian court and preparations for her to become queen of France. Illustrated with photographs.A title in the Royal Diaries Series. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-439-076668.

New York: Scribner's, 1926. Biography of this Dutch born 18th century 'bluestocking' whose captivation of the young Boswell resulted in a series of extraordinary letters from the persnickety Scotsman and who had an 8 year liason with French writer Benjamin Constant, beginning in 1787 when she was 49 and he 20. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 3 other plates. 216 gs. Bound in blue paper coverered boards with a black cloth spine, gold lettering on front and spine, uncut edges.

New York: Citadel Press, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel woven around a true story of murder, witchcraft and a hanging in England in 1797, a story with attracted poet Samuel Coleridge's attention (and whose musings form the basis of this novel.). ISBN: 0-8065-1159-1.

New York: St Martin's, (2003). First edition - The author begins this novel with "This is the imagined life of a woman who really lived in the late Eighteenth Century - Catherine Sophia Boucher, called Kate - wife of the English poet and artist, William Blake. If you read between the lines of his poetry and letters, this is a story you might find." Illustrated. Biographical notes and author's note. 371 pp.