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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in a small Connecticut town, a thriller about a man determined to hunt down the hit-and-run driver who killed his ten year old son. SIGNED on the title page. 301 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. First edition - The author's hightly praised first novel, set mostly in Southern California as the events of Nixon's impeachment play out on the radio in the background. Publisher's material laid in. Tall format. 223 pp.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2013). SIGNED first edition - "In 1898, a young wife travels from the Midwest to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the fog and the sea, will change her life irrevocably." SIGNED on the title page and dated October, 2012 before this book was published. 274 pp.

New York: Flatiron Books, (2022). First edition - Australian author's first novel, introducing Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels, still reeling from a break-up with her girlfriend, who is sent to a small town where a twelve year old girl disappeared on her way home from school. Told in numerous voices, which bring this dying town to life. 328 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A searing novel of twenty-four hours in the life of a woman who has stepped over the line into the unthinkable. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2017). First edition - "For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention - overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers [and] now, he shares his private writings with the world. . . Written with a sharp eye and ear for the bizarre, the beautiful, and the uncomfortable, and with a generosity of spirit that even a misanthropic sense of humor can't fully disguise, [this is] a potent reminder that when you're as perceptive and curious as Sedaris, there's no such thing as a boring day." 514 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - The author's debut novel: "When Roisin and Francois meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica, they are immediately drawn to each other.. . . Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. Francois, the bases chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet the two are connected by devastating tragedy, the longing for a fresh start, and an indelible yet unknown bond that stretches back centuries." 290 pp.

New York: Scribner, 2017. SIGNED first edition - A novel which "explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple." Set among the Akha, a Chinese ethnic minority living in remote Yunnan. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp.

Hoboken, NJ: Polis Books / Agora, 2019. First edition - Includes brief excerpts from new books by thirteen authors, plus a page of information about each author, and an illustration of the cover of each book. IGNED by TWO authors at their contributions - Gary Phillips and Alex Segura. Also included contributions from Steph Post, J. D. Rhoades, , Erica Wright and more. 75 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A moving and highly praised novel which "presents two very different American stories, tied together by the fate of a child. When Soli Castro-Valdez leaves her small Mexican village for the United States, she endures the difficult journey but arrives pregnant and undocumented. Meanwhile, Kavya Reddy, whose parents immigrated to the US from India, is living a more peaceful life with her husband in Berkeley. Unable to have a child, Kavya becomes a foster parent and when Soli winds up in immigrant detention, her son Ignacio winds up with Kavya." SIGNED on the title page. 472 pp.

New York: The Penguin Press, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel , one which focuses on the complicated relationships among members of an African family and the "transformative power of unconditional love." 321 pp.

New York: The Penguin Press, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel , one which focuses on the complicated relationships among members of an African family and the "transformative power of unconditional love." 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1594204494.

New York: Grove Press, (2013). First edition - A tour de force which moves between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. 397 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - His second book, but the first to be published in the US - two twin gender-bending novellas. Bull, of course, winds upin San Francisco.... INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 310 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, cure him of his illusion that he's human?" SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 404 pp.

New York Riverhead / Penguin Books 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young man, born in Guatemala, but raised in the US by his immigrant parents, who travels from the states to a tiny town in Guatemala where is mistaken for a priest. Includes a section of questions and answers with the author, 321 pp.

New York Riverhead / Penguin Books 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young man, born in Guatemala, but raised in the US by his immigrant parents, who travels from the states to a tiny town in Guatemala where is mistaken for a priest. Includes a section of questions and answers with the author, 321 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First edition - The 20th century as seen and lived by a woman of the South - joining the Red Cross after making her debut at the beginning of the depression, she becomes embroiled in a miners' strike in Kentucky - later she volunteers for the war in Spain, and returning to the US in the 60's, she becomes involved in the Civil Rights movement.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2019, that is before publication. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1982. First edition - His fourth novel, an international thriller. 419 pp.

New York: Random House, (2006). First edition - A book which "focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeares enchantment and illumination - the astonishing language itself. . . [It] takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experience." xvii, 550 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Mystery novel set in Key West, Florida .SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Mystery novel set in Key West, Florida -" a touching and hilarious tale of love, the mob, revenge, redemption, and some minor cross-dressing." SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, 1993. SIGNED first edition - Sixth novel in the Samantha Adams series. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Pocket Books, 1998. First edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans reporter/sleuth Samantha Adams mystery, but set in Santa Fe, New Mexico.