New York: Akashic Books, (2007). First edition - A collection of short fiction, from the early 70s to the present, most not previously published: 'the first section of the book, "War Stories," offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, "Tales of the Out & the Gone," reveals Baraka's increasing literary adventurousness, combining "an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration." Among his many honors, Baraka was the controversial "last" Poet Laureate of New Jersey and awarded the James Weldon Johnson medal for outstanding contribution to the arts. 221 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements. ISBN: 1-933354127.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. First edition - Novel set in New York City in the 1970s - cover praise from Philip Lopate and Paul Auster (who calls Brownstein a 'singular and haunting writer.' 338 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first novel - third book - a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone and her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone. One reviewer noted that "Chambers paints a vivid image of the political and socio-economic climate of New York in the early 1980s. The most entertaining and heartfelt scenes of this novel come when Angela describes her parents' riveting admiration for Assata Shakur's escape from prison, or her father's sense of pure joy at meeting Muhammad Ali after performing at a PBS telethon to benefit the United Negro College Fund." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.). Hardcover first edition - Historical mystery set in Harlem in the 1970s - a story of the intersecting lives of two shattered men, one a Vietnam veteran and the other a man determined to avenge the death of his brother. 260 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in his Detroit series, set in Motown in the early 1970s when it has earned the reputation of the Murder Capitol of America - a city where a police crackdown squad (STRESS) had been formed, but the result was more dead young Black men, and a Black community outraged and aggrieved. Although set 50 years ago, the problems this deals with are still occuring today. In his afterword Estleman notes that one of Coleman Young's - the city's first Black mayor - first acts was to disband STRESS and the following year the murder rate declined for the first time in 13 years. SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-892965533.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2015). First edition - Based on interviews with surviving band members and their friends and associates, this is the first definitive biography of the 1970s band Little Feat. Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, it created music that was an irresistible mix of rock, blues, R&B, country, jazz, soul, and funk - including their signature outlaw trucker anthem 'Willin'. Bibliography, list of interviews. 256 pp.

New York: Available Press / Ballantine, (1988). Award-winning author's second novel, set in California in the 1970s, where the author grew up. Kiddo is back and a decade older, but not much wiser. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-345349296.

New York: Available Press / Ballantine, (1988). First edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in California in the 1970s, where the author grew up. Kiddo is back and a decade older, but not much wiser. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-345349296.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (2016). First edition - The 25th book by this award-winning author, published 60 years after his first. Set in the 1970s in far northern Vermont, this is the story of a 46 year old former stockbroker, going blind at age 46, who is living in a farmhouse near a hippie commune and bordering an old smuggling trail, not used to move drugs across the border. It is about learning to adjust to life with limitations, to be able to rely on the kindness of others, and is made more poignant by the fact that Hoagland himself has been dealing with diminishing vision for more than 10 years, 184 pp.

New York & London: Liveright, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this Canadian author to appear in the US. Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, these interconnected stories are set in a brand new subdivision in 1970s Toronto. "When a series of inexplicable suicides begin to haunt their community, no one is more fascinated by the terrible phenomenon than young June. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she sits hawk-eyed at the center, bearing witness to the truth behind pulled curtains: the affairs, the racism, the hidden abuses." 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1631495526.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Loosely inspired by the Trailside Killer case that terrorized Marin County, California, in the late 1970s, 'After Her' is part thriller, part love story. . . a poignant, suspenseful, and painfully real family saga that traces a young girl's first explorations of sexuality, the loss of innocence, the bond shared by sisters, and the tender but damaged relationship between a girl and her father that endures even beyond the grave." SIGNED on the title page, with a drawing by Maynard. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-0062257390.

New York: Dial Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny and touching memoir of a crummy - and crumby - childhood in the 1960s and 70s. Each chapter includes a recipe. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342988.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in the late 1970s, in the affluent suburbs of Detroit, this novel of a serial killer known as 'Babysitter' is a "scathing indictment of corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and the enabling of sexual predation in America." 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0593535172.

New York: Random House, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the mid-1970s. "18-year-old Robbie Bookbinder is bummed out and bored. . Sex feels outmoded, drugs don't seem to deliver like they used to, and rock and roll's a bust in tired old Montreal. Quebec's arming up for a cultural revolution, and bike gangs are warring in the streets." 310 pp. ISBN: 0-679411887.

New York: Delacorte, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Atlanta, Georgia in 1974, in a city changed by the civil rights movement, and the end of the Vietnam War, this is the story of a woman in her first week on the force - a force which is not welcoming to women. Meanwhile a serial killer is stalking cops. Nominated for an Edgar award for best novel. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 398 pp. ISBN: 97-0804177412.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in the 1970s where a young draft dodger, Jimmy Cotton listens to and retells the "tall tales" of his partner, Joe Ready, "a 98-year-old former cop and kidnaper-hunter, on his deathbed, including run-ins with the twentieth century's notorious bad guys and some unfinished business." Dust jacket praise from James Crumley and Kent Anderson. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-0939767564.