New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. dj. SIGNED first edition - His second novel, a story of corruption in Philadephia's old political machine, by a prize winning jourmalist. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. SIGNED first edition - His second novel, a story of corruption in Philadephia's old political machine, by a prize winning jourmalist. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. SIGNED first edition - A quirky tale of love, fatherhood and death - Jonathem Lethem described Carroll's writing as being that of 'a master of sunlit surrealism' SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1994. First edition - Highly praised first novel - James Ellroy called it "a stunner...maybe the greatest prison novel ever." The story of an uprising in a mean East Texas prison by an English writer and practising psychiatrist who specializes in treating heroin addicts - the writing is sometimes uneven, and is definitely not for squeamish readers, but the overall effect is compelling and powerful.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. First edition - The author's highly acclaimed 4th novel set on a remote Greek island, as WWII is approaching - basis for the movie of the same name, featuring Nicholas Cage.

New York: TOR, 1997. First edition - Despite the rather prosaic title, this is a wild and satisfying romp through the mid-19th century, a combination of historical fiction and science fiction with magical undertones. SIGNED by Emma Bull on the title page. 443 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A story of the loss of innocence, in this novel set in a West Virginia girls' camp in 1963. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. SIGNED first edition - Bell's third novel - a dark story of 'romantic duplicity, drug deals and double-crosses' set in Rome, Brussels and New York. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. First edition - A quirky tale of love, fatherhood and death - Jonathem Lethem described Carroll's writing as being that of 'a master of sunlit surrealism' 304 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1994. First edition - Highly praised first novel - James Ellroy called it "a stunner...maybe the greatest prison novel ever." The story of an uprising in a mean East Texas prison by an English writer and practising psychiatrist who specializes in treating heroin addicts - the writing is sometimes uneven, and is definitely not for squeamish readers, but the overall effect is compelling and powerful.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First edition - His 7th novel, the first to be set in large part in the US, and one of his most significant books. On one level this can be called a 'rock'n roll love story', on another it is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and on still another level it is about the flawed encounters between East and West.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First edition - His 7th novel, the first to be set in large part in the US, and one of his most significant books. On one level this can be called a 'rock'n roll love story', on another it is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and on still another level it is about the flawed encounters between East and West. Publisher's letter laid in and audio tape of Rushdie reading selections from this book included.

New York: Dial Press, 1995. First edition - Includes fairly long excerpts from the following books which were due to be published by Dial: "Blown Sideways Through Life" by Claudia Shear. "The Dead School" by Patrick McCabe. "The Education of a Woman: The Life and Times of Gloria Steinem" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun. "Big as Life: Incidents in the Lives of Men" by Rand Richards Cooper and "The Burning" by Frank Norwood. 169pp

New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Author's third novel is a ghost story that explores the boundaries of illusion and real horror.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Much less common than the first printing of this novel which was 100,000 copies. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Putnam, 1996. The story of a single mother raising a spirited 16 year old daughter in Washington, D. C.

New York: Random House, 1994. Story of Blue Tyler, a child movie star who diasappeared from Hollywood in disgrace, and reappears, 45 years and 11 marriages later, in a trailor park outside Detroit - written by a novelist and screenwriter who really knows Hollywood.

Boston: Little Brown, 1998. Suspense novel.

New York: Dutton, 2001. Novel set in the Appalachian Mountains at the border of Tennessee and North Carolina - and also at the border of history and contemporary times, and the traditional ways and the changes which have come to the area recently. In her afterword McCrumb explains that for the first time in one of her books she used her own family's history.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First edition - Novel of greed, goldfever, black magic and feuding families set in a remote mountain town of South Africa. Winner of the WA Hofmeyer Prize for best Afrikaans literature. Translated by Catherine Knox.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999. SIGNED first edition - First novel by this actor (who was in two Star Wars movies, among others) and an Edgar award winning writer - the story of a former Air Force Major who had been used as a 'psychic spy' and found his marriage and his life ruined as a result - and now his past is returning and threatening to damage him again.

Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the small Alabama town of Piper - a south of racial turmoil and supernatural events, of teenage girls experimenting with Satanism and of love sought and found. Praise from Lee Smith - who calls it 'visionary, comic and sometimes all too real' and from Pat Conroy.

New York: Viking, 2002. First edition - A novel in his prize-winning Albany series - this is set just after the end of World War II.

New York: St. Martin's, 1988. Author's first book - story of 3 women coming of age during WW II in England.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. First edition - A marvelous novel - the story of Rejoice Jackson and the shrine she has set up to the King in a run-down section of St. Elmo. This novel will leave you humming Elvis's tunes for days. The title on this ARC ( "Graceland" ) was changed to "Graced Land" upon actual publication.

New York: SOHO Press, 1996. A send-up of intellectual life, set at a university in Northern California.

New York: Henry Holt, 2000. A look at what the storms can do, what causes them - and especially a study of those who fly into the hurricanes in an attempt to gain more knowledge about these storms. 262 pages, including several appendices, section on resources, etc.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Piercy's highly praised science fiction novel - an interweaving of 2 stories, one that of a young woman in the 21st century in the vast toxic wasteland that used to be North America, the other a kabbalist in the 16th century in Prague's Jewish ghetto.

New York: HarperCollins, 2000. First edition - Born in prison to a single mother, author Antwone Fisher was a ward of Cleveland's foster care system until he broke free at age 17, only to face the hardships of life on the streets. Yet Fish, as he was called, resisted the lure of crime and enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he found a "family" of his own. Before he could make peace with his past, he journeyed from the mean streets of Cleveland to high society Hollywood in a triumphant feat of self-discovery. Basis for the Denzel Washington movie of the same name. 340 pgs.

New York: Picador, 2000. At the turn of World War II, David Halifax is a young American painter who receives a scholarship to come to Paris and work under the tutelage of the brilliant Russian painter, Alexander Pankratov. Halifax is quickly subjected to Pankratov's rigid will, and beguiled by the nude model who poses before them.