New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a novel about a 'nice girl's' descent into the world of heroin dealing. Dustjacket praise from John Waters and Michael Cunningham, among others. SIGNED opposite the title page with the words "Knock, knock." 325 pp,. ISBN: 0-374-270244.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning Mississippi writer's first book, a collection of eleven short stories. Dustjacket praise from James Lee Burke, Lewis Nordan, Larry Brown and others. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-1619X.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover - Prize-winning Mississippi writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Dustjacket praise from James Lee Burke, Lewis Nordan, Larry Brown and others. ISBN: 0-8071-1619X.

New York: Vintage Books, (2008.). The author's very powerful first novel, nominated for the National Book Award, originally published in 1961. Yates is probably one of the most underappreciated writers of our time - although recent comments by Kurt Vonnegut (who called this book 'the Great Gatsby of our time') and others have begun to rectify this situation. Movie tie-in edition with a photograph of DiCaprio and Winslett on the front cover. 355 pp. ISBN: 9780307454621.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007) dj. Hardcover 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. ISBN: 978-0061243356.

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: Grove Press, 1993. First edition - The author's first book, which was a sensational bestseller in Japan when it was first published in 1988, and the winner of two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes. Translated by Megan Backus.

New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Amazing first novel by this jazz musician and journalist - the hero is "an alto saxophone virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Shakespeare- and Blake-quoting bear whose keen sense of irony protects him from the double loneliness of the artist and animal in an underappreciative metropolis." Surprise winner of the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. A lyrical, funny, and also realistic portrait of a jazz musician. Small first printing (reportedly of only 5000 copies.) 480 pp. ISBN: 0-393040372.

New York: Blue Hen (Penguin - Putnam), (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very enjoyable, and suprisingly different, first novel - a story which starts with the discovery of thousands of dollars stashed in the trunk of a car, the remains of a drug deal gone bad. Dust jacket praise from Alyson Hagy, Lewis Nordan (who called this a 'dazzling novel, exceeding all my expectations... this book will stay near your heart and mind for a long time.') and others. ISBN: 0-399149228.

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.

London: W. H. Allen, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist and biographer, set in England during World War II where the Colonel's regiment is waiting to be sent to France and into action. Warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For my dear friends ---- just so you will know how I suffered. Love and good luck to your book" and dated in the year of publication. 256 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about the effects of working in the "service economy" - of the conflicts between personal values and corporate manipulation. Cover praise from Madison Smartt Bell, Douglas Unger and Robert Olmstead. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160446.

Rockville, MD: Ariadne Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Prize-winning coming-of-age story of a young Chinese American girl. SIGNED on the title page. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-918056136.