Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2015. SIGNED first edition - Author essays and excerpts from forthcoming fiction by Andrew Roe, Heidi Pitlor, Aline Ohanesian, Yglesias, Roland Merullo. Each excerpt is preceded by an essay from the author describing the genesis of the novel. SIGNED by Yglesias at his contribution. 39 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007). First edition - First book - and first in a trilogy - by this young author, who was born in China, came to the US with her parents at age 7, and wrote this just a few years later to give a message of peace to the world. Illustrated. 219 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - The first novel by this writer whose first book, a collection of short stories, won several awards. This is a spare and beautifully written account of a Korean, who after two years as a prisoner-of-war refused repatriation to the North, and instead accepted a chance to go to Brazil, where he was placed in a job working for a Japanese tailor. 194 pp.

New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, (2003). First edition - A novel of life, loss, and learning and experiencing loving with one's whole heart. Set in a old Northern California fishing town, called Seal Bay, where superstious tales of superstitious sixty foot sea monsters are told. Issued as a trade paperback original. 208 pp.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks / Media Fusion, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - "Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues." 120 poems in the book plus this includes an audio CD with "More than 60 minutes of gripping, dynamic blues poetry (often with a live band), plus Langston Hughes' soulful reading of 'The Weary Blues'."SIGNED on the title page. Square format. 254 pp.

New York: Crown, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, second book, a psychological thriller. "Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brlliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband, and a historical landmark home, her life is picture perfect. But living in this matriarch's determinedly cheerful yet subtly controlling domain hasn't been easy for her family." SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp.

New York: Gotham / Penguin, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - His last book - a tribute to hopes we have for our daughters - "Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker's Bridal, in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride's image into infinity. . . Run by the same family for four generations, Becker's has witnessed transformations in how America views the institution of marriage: some of the shop's clientele are becoming stepmothers, some are older brides, some are pregnant." SIGNED on the title page, and very uncommon thus - Zaslow was killed in an automobile crash just a month after this book was released.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's letter bound in at the front of the book. 375 pp. .

New York: Tom Doherty Assoc, 1994. First edition - Epic novel of the Mexican Revolution of 1914; blurbs by Tony Hillerman among others. Author has won the Golden Spur award twice.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010). First edition - The first novel in a series based on the seven deadly sins. When the battered body of Irini Asimakopoulo is found at the foot of a high cliff it is written off as a suicide or accident, until a mysterious investigator Hermes Diaktoros ("the fat man") arrives from Athens on the island of Thiminos to look into her death. 322 pp.