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.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, (1993.). First edition - Southern author's first novel, a very unusual coming of age story - about a woman who learns who she is and how to be herself at age 28.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's very hard to describe first novel about a family of women from Salem, Massachusetts who can read the future in the patterns of lace. SIGNED on the title page. Author's disclaimer. 300 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which explores the two-edged sword of modern technology. Dust jacket praise from Thomas Pynchon who called it "Blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt-a story that moves with ease and certainty, deeply respecting the given world even as it shines with the integrity of dream." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-374221790.

New York: New American Library - NAL, 2016. First edition - The author's first novel, part pyschological suspense and part examination of what a marriage is, one which explores the question of "how much do the wives of men who commit terrible crimes actually know.?" Told in alternate voices, from the perspective of the widow, the police detective and the reporter. 324 pp.

New York: Norton, (1989). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "best of luck and wishes" and dated in Montana in December 1989. 191 pp.

New York: Norton, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02623x.

New York: Norton, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-393-02623x.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, 1990. Author's first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-671-692224.

College Station: Texas A & M University Press, (1985) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. SIGNED on the title page. 123 pp. ISBN: 0-890962286.

New York: Norton, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first work of fiction, a collection of short stories. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02623x.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage (c.2002.) dj. Hardcover - A collection of short stories about the secret lives of girls and women, told with much humor and grace. ISBN: 1-931561-354.

New York: Viking, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel - Paul Auster commented that it "moves backward in time, traveling from past to present as though through a tunnel of memory. . . . Baxter is both tough-minded and compassionate, and he never makes his characters more or less than what they are. They are human, and that in itself is a rare achievement for a writer, a thing to be celebrated above and beyond all other achievements in this splendid book. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-670817015.

New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel within a novel in the tradition of Byatt's 'Possession' in which two researchers use letters and journals to recreate the lives of a Victorian novelist and her family. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page. ISBN: 0-312-06926x.

New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel within a novel in the tradition of Byatt's 'Possession' in which two researchers use letters and journals to recreate the lives of a Victorian novelist and her family. ISBN: 0-312-06926x.

New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel within a novel in the tradition of Byatt's 'Possession' in which two researchers use letters and journals to recreate the lives of a Victorian novelist and her family. ISBN: 0-312-06926x.

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009). First edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." 304 pp,

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp,

New York & Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's best-selling and very funny first novel. "Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital. He has a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden." SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp,. ISBN: 978-0316032223.

New York: Norton, 1991. Author's first book - an "on-the-road" novel -

New York: ROC - Penguin, (1992.). SIGNED - Author's classic first book, an enduring work of fantasy, about love which transcends the boundaries of the grave. The New York Times called this "one of literature's most beautiful works about ghostly places." This edition is illustrated by Darrell Sweet. INSCRIBED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-451-450965.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2013, before publication. 240 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014). First edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. 240 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (second book) by this young writer from Sierra Leone - at its center are two long time friends who return to their hometown in Africa after a devastating civil war, and attempt to forge a new community. ISBN: 978-0374246020.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An incredible first hand memoir on how war looks to a child soldier - at the age of 13, he was involved in the fighting in Sierra Leone, but at 16, he was removed by UNICEF. Chronology. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0374105235.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999) dj. The author's very highly praised first book, a collection of 'fierce, funny and wholly unforgettable' autobiographical essays, ranging from her childhood to the present day, forty years later. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-316086251.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of short stories that won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1995 (selected by Charles Baxter) Dust jacket praise from Madison Smartt Bell who commented that Becker has a "musician's ear for the lives he listens to." 161 pp. . ISBN: 0-822938995.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Becker's second book, and first novel. His first book won the 1995 Drue Heinz prize for short fiction, and the final stories in that book was 'Bluestown' which became this novel. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-312-142234.

Hampton, CT: Golden Grove Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this critically acclaimed poet and playwright - a hard-edged story in which a man comes to grips with his past and tests his values. The day after advertising executive achieves his flashiest coup, he comes across his former wife, a brilliant musician who is now a hallucinating homeless person living in the bowels of Grand Central station. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-96512441x.

Hampton, CT: Golden Grove Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this critically acclaimed poet and playwright - a hard-edged story in which a man comes to grips with his past and tests his values. The day after advertising executive achieves his flashiest coup, he comes across his former wife, a brilliant musician who is now a hallucinating homeless person living in the bowels of Grand Central station. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-96512441x.