New York: Scribner, (2003). First edition - First novel by this young writer who was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England, the story of two sisters, one living in London, the other still in Bangladesh. . Short-listed for the Booker Prize. 268 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young Indian woman who faces the choice of giving up freedoms she became used to the United States and submitting to the marriage arranged by her family or being banished from her family. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-374-195625.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories, set mostly in Southern California. 112 pp

New York: Crown, 1972. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set on an Indian reservation in Montana - the story of a well-meaning do-gooder, the new Presbyterian minister, bucking tradition, and bringing tragedy upon a people.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. INSCRIBED by author on title page. While not a first, this is a very nice affordable alternative. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. INSCRIBED by author on title page. While not a first, this is a very nice affordable alternative. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Ecco Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a lighthearted look at the world of NY food - by the former owner of a 3 star restaurant in Manhattan. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-5225.

New York: Ecco Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a lighthearted look at the world of NY food - by the former owner of a 3 star restaurant in Manhattan. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-5225.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a funny, wild, imaginative and often bawdy odyssey. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312-105193.

New York: Grove Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of twelve short stories that "take a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence." Stewart O'Nan calls it a "brilliant sexy debut." SIGNED on the title page. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-802116302.

Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the Southwest of empty motels, atomic test sites and love affairs in road-strung desert towns. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from James Crumley and Stephen Dixon, among others. 347 pp. ISBN: 1878448625.

Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the Southwest of empty motels, atomic test sites and love affairs in road-strung desert towns. DJ praise from James Crumley and Stephen Dixon, among others. 347 pp. ISBN: 1878448625.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59420-1219.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set at a nearly deserted hill station in India.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first book - the title refers to the uncensored home movies made by the heroine. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-394-498364.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2017. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a Palestinian family forced first from their home in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and then from Kuwait in 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded it. A book which tells the story of those caught up in Mideast conflicts. 321 pp.

New York: Dial Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novella "grounded in a very slim conceit. Of two brothers born into a trendy Cambridge, Massachusetts, household, one twin is set for success, the other for chronic failure. Although ill-fated William actually beat Clive into the world by seven minutes, it's straight downhill from there." Author Thomas Mallon comments that "His witty, sorrowful hero speaks in a voice that snares the listener as fully as Salinger's Seymour Glass once did. An Underachiever's Diary - the cleverest literary monologue in a long while - is in fact an extremely precocious debut." SIGNED on the title page. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-385319983.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.

New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. The earlier of two advance issues, quite uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. Publisher's letter laid in. 677 pp.

New York: Random House, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.

New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. A rather uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 677 pp.

New York: Random House, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the half title page. 659 pp. ISBN: 0-375-500081.

New York: Putnam, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as 'a brawling novel of the bawdiest Irish playright ever to lift a glass.'. ISBN: 0-399-11065-8.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1988). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, loosely based on events in his own childhood. Set in 1942 in Billarooby, a remote community in the Australian Outback, this is the story of 11 year old Lindsay who encounters a Japanese soldier who had escaped from a nearby prisoner of war camp. "Empathy between the boy and the prisoners strengthens as he secretly visits the encampment and sees them brutally treated. Tensions in the community are exacerbated by a devastating drought and by incitements to riot when Jack and fellow racists make Billarooby a war zone." (PW) 321 pp. ISBN: 0-899197361.

New York: Atheneum, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first work of fiction - a collection of interrelated stories set in many of the places Hemingway wrote about. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-689-131032.

New York: Atheneum, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first work of fiction - a collection of interrelated stories set in many of the places Hemingway wrote about. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-689-131032.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first work of fiction - a collection of interrelated stories set in many of the places Hemingway wrote about. ISBN: 0-689-131032.

New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, "The mysteries of life are not easily understood by Plantagenet, the swiftest, the skinniest and certainly the most charming pig in all of thirteenth century France. . . A social character with the predictable yearning to belong, he cannot seem to choose between the free but frightening forest life of his cousin the boar, Grondin and his own limited but pleasant existence in the farmyard of the Maister's lovely daughter, Adele." Wraparound dustjacket art, illustrated endpapers and interior line drawings by Michael Foreman. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-670555010.