Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Finalist for the Lambda award. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-395-585627.

New York: Norton, (2014). First edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of eight short stories, longlisted for the National Book Award. WVery good in very good dust jacket.ith settings ranging from the United States to Israel to Russia, this has been called "a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history." Author's note. 260 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, "an erotic, darkly satirical tale - a story of alienation and despair, of war and revolution played out on shipboard, in a dozen different ports and on a strife-torn Carribbean island." 236 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "ambitious, captivating debut, a Victorian novel with a twist: her lovers are "men of the lavender persuasion." Pale, blond 16-year-old Simion Satterwhite, the battered child of a hateful West Virginia fundamentalist preacher, arrives at Yale in 1878. His path soon crosses that of the darkly handsome, 31-year-old Doriskos Klionarios, a Greek-born professor and artist with his own shrouded past." (Publishers Weekly) 478 pp. ISBN: 0-679428313.

New York: Dial Press, 1969. Hardcover first edition - Her first book, a novel set in a small town in upstate New York.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's first novel.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a couple who, seeking to escape from the materialism of city living, build a house on a small island in a remote Canadian lake. ISBN: 0-06-0101563.

Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of the author's first novel (preceded by short stories and a biography of Simone de Beauvoir), this is the story of "ten-year-old Eva Hoffman's family, Austrian refugees, who have found precarious safety in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, the year of the landmark desegregation case. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice and courage both within and outside her family." Rosellen Brown described this as "sensitively observed, full of affection and life, and . . . passionately concerned with crucial moral questions." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-895942275.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Funny first book by this Hollywood insider. "Dani Hale is obsessed with Hollywood murders, from Marilyn Monroe's suspicious death to the killings she writes about for the TV crime series Flesh and Bone. Smart, sexy, savvy, but not a little unsure of herself, Dani is determined to carve a place among the Los Angeles entertainment elite - becoming a creditcard-carrying member of the very world whose rituals and absurdities she loves to satirize." SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 1602860173.

New York: Dutton, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in Los Angeles in 1912.

New York: Shaye Areheart Books (Crown), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a book told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, which explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0307337825.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories) - the story of a young woman whose artist husband has fallen into a coma, and six years later she is still waiting,still dealing with his legacy and his life. 291 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (her second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a young woman waiting for six years while her artist-husband is in a coma. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1594889525.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - California-born author's first and apparently only novel (although she also published many short stories), a story set among the simple people of the Andes, who guard the secret of the hiding place of the lost Inca treasure. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words "Best Regards."

New York: Harmony, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a story about a jaded high-priced call girl and a man with a unique fantasy. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-517546744.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book) set in a California convent perched high above the Pacific Ocean, with "six nuns and one prurient priest, falling away day by day - a book as recessive as the life there which is in turn a reduction of the world outside to pain, loneliness and violence." The author herself spent 5 years in a convent before leaving the religious life. 190 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-030075661.

Seattle: Hara Publishing Group, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - This engrossing novel tells the story of one woman's determination to find a better life in the US, giving a dimension to the immigrant's life not often seen. The protagonist, Anya Fishman, orphaned during World War II, suffering a life of deprivation as a woman and mother, flees the Soviet Union with her daughter to find a better life in the United States. Includes a Russian glossary, 474 pp. ISBN: 0-971072485.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

London: Picador, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s. SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8158.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First edition - Her first novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in England (the only debut novel on the shortlist that year), set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales in the 1960s.

New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Author's first novel is the story of a young woman, professional and successful by day, and caught in the allure of cybersex at night, when she signs on "as Francesca."

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First edition - Author's first book - a collection of short stories described by John Nichols as "resonant with magic ... beautifully balanced gems of quirky compassion and surprising observation.". ISBN: 0-8118-03244.