New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Australian author, short listed for the Vogel Award. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-312071272.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book a " humorous and evocative debut novel about a food journalist's desperate attempt to save his career - and possibly his marriage - by tracking an extremely valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis over half a century ago." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1501112515.

New York: Putnam, 1964). dj. Hardcover first edition - Baker's first published book, described as a 'serio-comic novel' Winner of The New Putnam Award Novel. Considered by many as a modern masterpiece, this story of an 'aging, raging poet' was the basis for the Sean Connery movie of the same name. Rather uncommon in the first edition.

New York: Putnam, 1964. dj. Hardcover - Baker's first published book, described as a 'serio-comic novel' Winner of The New Putnam Award Novel. Considered by many as a modern masterpiece, this story of an 'aging, raging poet' was the basis for the Sean Connery movie of the same name.

New York: Crown, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a 'wildly funny, deeply moving, utterly exuberant novel' about John Barr, the greatest baseball player of all time. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-517590883.

New York: Crown, (1993.). First edition - The author's first book, a 'wildly funny, deeply moving, utterly exuberant novel' about John Barr, the greatest baseball player of all time.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." 341 pp. ISBN: 0-446194204.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." SIGNED by the author on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-446194204.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). First edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." 341 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." 341 pp. ISBN: 0-446194204.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." Ribbon book mark bound in. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-446194204.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The author's rather offbeat but very highly praised first novel - Publisher's Weekly says that this "mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving's Garp, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and the plangent voice of Margaret Atwood. . . Haunting the margins of Truly's story is that of Tabitha Dyerson, a rumored witch whose secrets afford a breathtaking role reversal for Truly. It's got all the earmarks of a hitÑinfectious and lovable narrator, a dash of magic, an impressive sweep and a heartrending but not treacly family drama." SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 341 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a "weird and haunting parable for our times" set in New York City in what was, at the time this was written, the near future. Winner of the Bram Stoker award and a New York Times Notable Book. ISBN: 0-374-189870.

New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in Canada but grew up in India. Opening in 1937 in India, it is set "against the backdrop of changing Anglo-Indian relations; sometimes the political bleeds into the personal, as the novel juxtaposes India's struggle for independence with the smaller outrages and betrayals Satya and Roop suffer at their husband's hands--and each other's." (Sheila Bright) Winner of the Commonwealth Writers regional prize (Caribbean and Canada) for Best Book and long listed for the Orange Prize. Map frontispiece. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-385496044.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, (1993.). First edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story set in 1916 in a tiny low country Carolina town. Map. Winner of the the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. 457 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993 dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story set in 1916 in a tiny low country Carolina town. Winner of the the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction. Map endpapers. 457 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-0256.

New York: Picador, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in a dying town in upstate New York. Dustjacket praise by Elizabeth Strout, Jonathan Franzen, and Dan Chaon (who called this 'somewhere between the Coen Brothers and Richard Russo') among others. SIGNED on the title page. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-312-287968.

New York: Picador, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in a dying town in upstate New York. Dustjacket praise by Elizabeth Strout, Jonathan Franzen, and Dan Chaon (who called this 'somewhere between the Coen Brothers and Richard Russo') among others. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-312-287968.

New York: Picador, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in a dying town in upstate New York. Dustjacket praise by Elizabeth Strout, Jonathan Franzen, and Dan Chaon (who called this 'somewhere between the Coen Brothers and Richard Russo') among others. SIGNED on the title page. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-312-287968.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "an outrageous tall tale that follows one desperate, disgruntled Silicon Valley exec through a his surreal three-day scramble to cash out his stock options and leave behind his hated high-tech job before outrageous villains (and even crazier friends) completely destroy him." SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp plus an interview with the author and a list of his recommendations of other books to read. ISBN: 978-0062127716.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of postpartum depression before this condition was even acknowledged, told from the point of view of the mother who feels unable to love her second child or to overcome her disappointment that he is a boy and not the girl she wanted. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-060102292.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an account of a season when - at a bleak moment in his life - he dropped out and left home for a season at the racetrack - Golden Gate in Northern California. . Part meditation on life and nature, and part a classic on horse racing and on life at the track and on the people who are drawn to racing, this is a fascinating book. Afterword. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670419974.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an account of a season when - at a bleak moment in his life - he dropped out and left home for a season at the racetrack - Golden Gate in Northern California. . Part meditation on life and nature, and part a classic on horse racing and on life at the track and on the people who are drawn to racing, this is a fascinating book. Afterword. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670419974.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008). First edition - The author's first novel, written in verse, about an ancient race of lycanthropes who have survived to the present day and are growing in strength. Caught in the middle is Anthony, a kindhearted dogcatcher, and the girl he loves, a werewolf, 312 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First American edition of Barne's first novel, a semi-autobiographical coming of age story set in the late 1960s. Printed in Great Britain. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-312-531699.

New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in New York City in the 10 years between 1974 and 1983. From the dj: "For Gil the dream was to leave the Midwest,arrive in New York and become a Famous Actor... And then there's Emma... She is a fiction triumph: an exhilarating, exasperating, totally unique heroine. She is the center around which this heartfelt, exuberant novel turns." Illustrated endpapers. 470 pp. ISBN: 0-312-02911X).

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - Chapters and Verse is the name of a small bookstore in a small southern town. Delightful picture of the world of bookselling. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-87905-3402.

New York: St Martin's, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in a slightly different formal under the title of "Chinese Alice" in the UK. While the author has written books on nonfiction about Asia, this is her first novel - an epic spannng 40 years of the nineteenth century. 597 pgs.

New York: Delta, (1988.). SIGNED first edition - Not only is this the ARC for Barrett's first novel, it is the first book to be published as a trade paperback original by the revised Delta Fiction imprint (in the 60's they published such writers as Vonnegut and Brautigan.) The advance issue of this title is printed on noticeably better paper stock than the trade edition and, as such, it is much less prone to browning. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp.

New York: Delta, (1988.). First edition - Not only is this the ARC for Barrett's first novel, it is the first book to be published as a trade paperback original by the revised Delta Fiction imprint (in the 60's they published such writers as Vonnegut and Brautigan.) The advance issue of this title is printed on noticeably better paper stock than the trade edition and, as such, it is much less prone to browning.