Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, (2003.). First edition - Epic fantasy novel, the second book in the Hunter's Blades Trilogy, A Forgotten Realms novel. 346 pp. Cover art by Todd Lockwood.

Marietta, GA: Cherokee Publishing, 1995. First edition - The author's first novel, a story about twin boys growing up on a hunting plantation in Georgia in the 1940s, told with a "balance of lyrical nostalgia and gleefully coarse humor. It is narrated by Matty MacDonald in one of those distinctive Southern voices that creates color on the page. He and his brother Patty are twins whose mother died giving birth to them and whose father committed suicide shortly afterward. The boys are raised on a 15,000-acre South Georgia hunting property named Ecowah Plantation by their delightfully eccentric Uncle Charlie, who gives up his carefree bachelor life to accept the responsibility." (Publisher's Weekly) 238 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). First edition - His first novel - and the first book in his highly praised trilogy on what it means to be gay and young in America. 245 pp including 10 pp of information re resources for gay teenagers.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), 2016. First edition - The author's fifth novel, but the first to appear in English - the story of an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid by his father to close a failing literary magazine and the five fiery, close-knit Spanish women who must devise a plan in order to keep the jobs they love. A combination of farce, mystery, literature and love. Translated from the Spanish by Lucy Greaves. 324 pp.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2016). First edition - This biography, by the author of the classic book on the Manson cult, "The Family" "takes a close look at Tate's lifeÑfrom her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's 'Sharon Tate' offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household." IIlustrated with drawings by Rick Veitch and photographs. 271 pp.

New York: Viking, (2008). First edition - Suspense novel set in September 1940 - the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe.. . Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man who was recently traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk and is now a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. . . a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices." Historical note. Select bibliography. 537 pp.

Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay, (2006.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-American author, the story of the lives of three women from their childhood in a small town in Cuba to their lives in 1960's New Jersey, 282 pp plus a 14 pp reading group guide that includes an interview with Santiago. Issued as a trade paperback original.

New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Author's highly praised first book, a memoir of a childhood in two worlds - Puerto Rico where she lived until she was 13, and a Brooklyn tenement. The advance issue was for the paperback edition, a year after the first edition was published.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987). First edition - Novel set in 18th century Portugal by this 1998 Nobel prize winning author. Included among the characters isPadre Bartholomeu Lorenco de Gusmao, who was ridiculed for his belief that man could fly, but in 1709 invented a rudimentary airship. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. The first book by Saramago to be published in the US, . 303 pp plus translator's note.

New York: Three Rooms Press, (2015). First edition - A book in which Saroyan "harnesses the hardboiled styles of Chandler, Hammett, and Ross MacDonald into a contemporary tale of information age intrigue. Michael Shepard is hired one morning by a fashionable young woman at her Hollywood apartment. Soon hes embroiled in a murder investigation that may shed light on a nearly forgotten tragedy." Illustrated with cell phone photos taken by Saroyan. Issued as a trade paperback original. 149 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2016). First edition - The author's first novel, a story for older children set during World War II. "Krakow, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. . . . Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, linguistics professor during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone. And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver. . . Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgement, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man." Letter from publisher bound in. 232 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (1998.). First edition - Award winning Australian novelist's story of the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father, jazz drummer, Gerry Sayer.

New York: Ballantine, (1998.). First edition - Award winning Australian novelist's story of the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father, jazz drummer, Gerry Sayer.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Author's fourth novel, one which reveals her own brand of Southern humor as she follows her heroine from her girlhood in South Carolina and all the romantic detours in betwen.. 520 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. SIGNED on the page facing the title page. 475 pp

Orange County, CA: Nortia Press, 2012. SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel, set in a Persia a hundred years ago, in a world on the brink of change. Anahita, a nomadic weaver, is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding and thrown into the world of slavery and the mystical Sufi faith. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary, double page map. references. 280 pp. Cover art by Rashin Kheirieh.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A stand-alone novel in his award-winning "Old Man's War" series. SIGNED on the title page and dated before publication on 6/1/2008. 335 pp.

New York: Bantam, 1985. First edition - Epic fantasy novel published as a paperback original, in the earliest pre-publication format. Measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches, pad bound, cardboard backing as rear cover. 231 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1986.). First edition - Her seventh novel, the story of a woman, in her forties, who contracts a fever of mysterious origin, and although she is now 'officially cured' she finds that the brush with death has changed her perspective on life. 305 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). First edition - A fresh and comprehensive look at the Salem Witch trials, and their aftermath, by this Pulitzer Prize winning historian. Notes, bibliography. xiv, 482 pp.

New York Picador, (2003.). First edition - First novel by this acclaimed short story writer, set in the 1970's.

Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2009. SIGNED first edition - A book which presents a series of simple practices to help us cultivate happiness and fulfillment in the course of our daily lives - deceptively simple, in fact. How often do we really stop to appreciate the beauty around us - and stop long enough to take 10 breaths? Foreword by Thich Naht Hahn. INSCRIBED on the first page. 108 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, an epic fantasy, the first novel in the Psalms of Isaak series. SIGNED on the title page and dated 5/31/08 - that is, before the book was published. 361 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Set in upstate New York where Peter Herman, the author of the influential book "Love is a Canoe" has been living a quiet life until his wife dies, and he finds himself at a loss. "A smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other." SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Set in upstate New York where Peter Herman, the author of the influential book "Love is a Canoe" has been living a quiet life until his wife dies, and he finds himself at a loss. "A smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2012 (that is, before publication). 340 pp.

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books, 2015. First edition - The author's first novel, set in Los Angeles, and named a Sports Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2015. "Nick Pafko knows he can't be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly, and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end? Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for somebody desperate enough to work security." 298 pp

New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - A novel in verse by this Pulitzer prize winning poet. It tells the story of "a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mothers diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941.. . it is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war." 177 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The story of the program set up by Schwartz in the San Francisco prison system - RSVP - Resolve to Stop the Violence - which brings together violent offenders and their victims and gets the offenders to accept responsibility for their actions, in an attempt to break the cycle of recividism. INSCRIBED on the title page. 201 pp plus a list of resources.