New York: Delta, (1989). The author's first novel, the story of a young man who waits for ten years to exact revenge on the man who killed his older brother. Nominated for the Rosenthal Award. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-440550254.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Years after Guy Phersson left Minnesota and became a sucessful entrepreneur in California's Silicon Valley, he gets a letter from his grandfather saying "come now. Trouble." A coming of age story set in Minnesota's farm country in the 1950s, a look at who owns the land, and Indian rights, and a book about learning to be able to become fully human. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-671619772.

New York: Scribner's, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this former nun - the story of three generations of women in northern Minnesota. ISBN: 0-684-868660.

New York: Scribner's, 2000. First novel by this former nun - the story of three generations of women in northern Minnesota.

New York: Crown, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Granta regional finalist. 262 pp. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as May Sarton, Wally Lamb, Madeleine L'Engle and more. ISBN: 0-517-598906.

New York: Crown, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Granta regional finalist. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as May Sarton, Wally Lamb, Madeleine L'Engle and more. ISBN: 0-517-598906.

New York: Putnam, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a medical thriller with two newborns in a plush Manhattan maternity hospital stricken with an unknown deadly virus. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-11548X.

New York: Putnam, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a medical thriller with two newborns in a plush Manhattan maternity hospital stricken with an unknown deadly virus. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-399-11548X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel - a story of Boston politics - by this former governor of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-684853469.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this acclaimed and controversial film director. The story of two men, opposites in almost every way, whose lives and fate become entwined from their first meeting as young boys in Venice in 1939 through a Polish concentration camp (they are both Jewish), escape and a flight across Europe - to America where they meet again after 40 years. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-688011241.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins."274 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New York: Random House, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer - a novel which tells the story of Elaine Collier, an antiques restorer, who is hired by a wealthy man to eradicate from the family possessions all traces of his son's existence - a son who was killed in the Vietnam War - and in doing so, she has to confront her own and her mother's past. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "a truly rare book" and with a brief handwritten note laid in and signed simply "Walter." Review copy with publisher's material. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-394516621.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first book, a collection of fourteen stories, many about love in all its forms. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-813515351.

UK: Penguin, (1980). An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-394-425693.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 310 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-394-425693.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An extraordinary first novel, the story of a boy - and later a man's - obsession with flight, an obsession that both liberates him and drives him to madness. Winner of the National Book Award. Basis for the film of the same name starring Nicholas Cage. 310 pp. Dust jacket by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-394-425693.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - a highly praised collection of short stories, which was nominated for the National Book Award, chosen as a NY Times Notable Book, etc. Wheeler was selected as one of the 20 best young novelists in America by Granta magazine. This book had a small first printing - rumored as being just 4,000 copies. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-395-665159.

New York: Random House, (1973) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a Kafka-esque puzzle - in his review for the NY Times, Alan Friedman called it "an astonishing first novel, obsessively fussy, and yet uncannily beautiful." SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-394483413.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Highly praised debut novel. Although this can be simply described as a story of elevator inspectors, it has caused Whitehead to be compared to writers from Ralph Ellison to P. K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon. SIGNED on the title page.

Norwich VT: New Victoria Publishers, (1991). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman who leaves her home in Wyoming who is literally down and out in San Franciso, when she is taken in by an older woman. A story of coming to grips with her sexuality, of learning independence and of love. 216 pp. Review copy stamped on first page. ISBN: 0-934678286.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First edition - Her first collection of short stories, imaginative and rooted in her knowledge of wildlife. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas stated: 'Each story is a masterpiece, as beautifully written as it is intelligently conceived.'. ISBN: 0-618-119809.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In this rich, shocking, and darkly comic debut novel, Alix Wilber introduces the reader to four generations of understandably melancholy Dufores, as well as those members of the LaFleur, LaStrange, and Woodie clans unfortunate enough to mix with or marry into the Dufore family... a magical and horrifying family narrative." 351 pp. ISBN: 0-393029751.

New York: Arbor House, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), set in the dangerous world of crab fishing in Alaska. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-877957142.

Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.

Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.