Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth book, third novel "about love in the 1950s when the solution to a failed marriage was separate bedrooms and teenage sex was a furtive activity" and everyone slow danced to 'Lady of Spain' played on the accordion. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-945575793.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Boxing and Boxiana - a Ringside View." Uncommon first edition of these essays which originally appeared in the New Yorker on the high points (and some of the low points) of boxing in that era. "Named the best sports book of all time by Sports Illustrated in 2002, The Sweet Science offers a lively and idiosyncratic portrait of boxing in the early 1950s that encompasses boastful managers, veteran trainers, wily cornermen, and the fighters themselves: Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Archie Moore, 'a virtuoso of anachronistic perfection.' No one has captured the fierce artistry of the ring like Liebling. (Pete Hamill) . 306 pp.

Davis, California: John Natsoulas Press, (1996). First edition - Comprehensive survey of the Beat and avant-garde galleries of Northern California in the '50s and '60s including the King Ubu Gallery, the "6" Gallery, Batman Gallery, Spatsa, and others. Includes biographies (and "Sidebars") of the artists whose work appeared in these galleries, ranging from Miriam Hoffman, Roy De Forest, Fred Martin, Art Grant, and many others. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Includes poetry By Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsburg, Bob Kaufman, Bill Margolis, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen. Epilogue by Seymour Howard. Includes several chronologies, a selected bibliography and index. A definitive reference for this period. Large format. 227 pp. ISBN: 1-881572889.

New York: The Viking Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this New York playwright and author, based on a point-shaving scandal from the 1950s, a compassionate story of five street-smart kids from the ghetto who play for a city college basketball team, driven by their coach to become champions. Even though they faced greatness they lacked the wisdom to resist the "easy money" that came from winning, but not by too much - A book which is an indictment of the greed behind sports, and sees the boys as victims as much as they are guilty themselves. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-670317047.

Sunriver, Oregon: Fallbrook Publishing Group, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel. "Life is a plunge through the dark. Only a few have the courage to survive." The story opens in 1958 in a post-war Los Angeles torn by corruption and social upheaveal, when a school yard dare sends 8 year old Wade Parker and his younger brother on a late night adventure that will change their lives. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1997. ISBN: 0-965288803.

New York: Random House, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer set in a small town in Tennessee in the 1950s where a young man is believed to be trapped in a cave, and the town becomes the center of national attention - a catalyst which changes the lives of many in the town. 403 pp.

Colorado Springs: David C Cook, (2012). SIGNED first edition - A novel by a member of country musics Grammy award-winning Statler Brothers - the story of three boys growing up together in a small Virginia town. "Now its 1959, and police lieutenant Buddy receives an early-morning phone call: his friend Harlan, a store owner, has been shot in a break-in. Cal, now a preacher, meets Buddy at the hospital, and together, as professionals and as friends, they begin to unravel what might have happened to Harlan." SIGNED by author on the half title page. 326 pp plus a reading guide and an interview with the author. ISBN: 978-1434764942.

London: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press (1984). A novel which tells of one girl's childhood and adolescence in 1950s Australia. 156 pp. Cover art by the author/artist. ISBN: 0-701127597.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1988) dj. Hardcover - Sunny is 22, her first novel just published, when she meets noted poet David Harvey, who's divorced, Jewish, and 15 years her senior. Instant attraction is followed by a marriage typical of the early 1950s, with Sunny a supportive wife and mother following where David's work takes them - and thru it all, despite his philandering, Sunny remains a "true believer." But when interest in his work wanes, and hers begins to catch the public interest, the 2 decade long relationship is in trouble. "While Birstein pokes fun at everyone involved in producing literature - writers, editors, critics - this is primarily a rueful story about the loss of passion." 315 pp. ISBN: 0-39302587X.

Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of the author's first novel (preceded by short stories and a biography of Simone de Beauvoir), this is the story of "ten-year-old Eva Hoffman's family, Austrian refugees, who have found precarious safety in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, the year of the landmark desegregation case. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice and courage both within and outside her family." Rosellen Brown described this as "sensitively observed, full of affection and life, and . . . passionately concerned with crucial moral questions." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-895942275.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1990). Novel set in Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s, where many Black men and women have come north to work the line at the Ford Motor plant. This focuses on the many and varied relationships between these Black women, their struggles and how the support each other. 179 pp plus a 2 pp glossary. ISBN: 1-879960028.

Fort Collins, CO: Capital Crime Press, (2006). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this screenwriter, and the first in this hard-boiled 1950s thriller series, introducing 17 year old Kristin Van Dijk (aka Baby Shark) for whom revenge for the murder of her father and a brutal sexual assault by a motorcycle gang who left her for dead is the only alternative to a lifetime of hiding and fear . SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0979996023.

Fort Collins, CO: Capital Crime Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Set in Texas and Oklahoma, this is the third novel in this hard-boiled 1950s thriller series, featuring poolshark-turned-PI Kristin Van Dijk (aka Baby Shark.) SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0979996023.

New York: Viking, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel, second book, set in 1950s southern California. A coming of age story in which Burt has to come to terms both with his own attraction to men and his older brother's slow death from leukemia. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Amy Hempel, Paul Monette and others. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670847321.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, set mostly in San Diego in the 1950s. Among the comments praising it - "It is suffused with hazard and touched by grace, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is, simply put, a masterpiece. (Anthony Marra) and "On Swift Horses is a marvel, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahls mid-century West is dead-on right, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope." (Jess Walter). SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.

New York: Arbor House, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fitfh novel, sixth book, by this award-winning writer. A "coming-of-age story about Jack, a shiftless young man in a very odd family," set in the small town of Far Cry in the 1950s. SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp . ISBN: 0-877958157.

New York: Celadon Books, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel. "Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. . . a novel about marriage, love and sexuality, and the lifelong repercussions that meeting a group of debauched cosmopolitans has on a new marriage." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is, before publication. 243 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel to be published in English, set in the mid-1950s, two years after the death of Stalin "in an unnamed East European country (strikingly similar to Hungary) on the eve of revolution, [it] portrays one of the great, intricate conflicts of modern history at the most human level." 422 pp. ISBN: 0-316008966.

New York: Scribner, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her first novel, set in the American community in Cuba - the 300,000 acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane - in the years leading up to Castro's revolution. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the National Book Award. 322 pp. ISBN: 141656103x.

New York: Scribner, (2008.). First edition - Her first novel, set in the American community in Cuba - the 300,000 acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane - in the years leading up to Castro's revolution. Nominated for the National Book Award. 322 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. First edition - A novel set in 1950s Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. 324 pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth mystery set in Lydmouth and featuring Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill and reporter Jill Francis, both outsiders in the village. Set against the backdrop of the Korean War and the fears of Communism, this opens with a group of squatters who have taken over a disused military base from World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-340695978.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which combines dark calamity with comedy, set in 1952 in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), where the main occupations "seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles." 390 pp plus index to recipes and author's note. ISBN: 0-060183489.

New York: SOHO Press, (1999). First edition - Set in the 1950s. this is the story of a girl who had it all - except what she wanted. She is "a prom queen, a popular sorority girl-class of '57. Her father is vice president of a steel company and her mother is a society matron. Gloria is attractive, popular, and pinned-engaged to be engaged. So why is she so dissatisfied?" Although the author is from West Virginia, he was teaching in British Columbia when this was published and it was short-listed for the Governor General's Award. 643 pp.