New York: Putnam, 1998. dj. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman, living in seclusion with her mother in a small Illinois town, who is introduced at her mother's funeral to some lively and eccentric Southern relatives she did not know even existed. Dust jacket praise from Stewart O'Nan (who described it as a 'true midwestern gothic, part romance and part family saga') and Robert Olen Butler (who called this 'a haunting novel, rich with sensual detail..an exciting literary debut'). ISBN: 0-399-143319.

New York: Hyperion, (2007). First edition - The author's first novel, one which uses humor to "weigh in on nearly every maternal controversy (from extended breastfeeding to the return to paid employment). Thirty-one-year-old Amy Crane, six months postpartum, is stuck between two groups of mommy friends. On one side are the women from her childbirth class, dedicated mothers with chubby figures and comfy clothes. . On the other side is Amy's new friend Alice, a so-called 'yummy mummy,' who, with her similarly slim and elegant West London friends, takes Amy on as her newest project." (Publishers Weekly) 372 pp.

New York: Picador, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the rough Oakland, California of the 1960s and 70s, from Hells Angels to schools overrun by gangs. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198612.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A sweeping novel about the life of women pioneers on the Montana frontier, from 1879-1886.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A sweeping novel about the life of women pioneers on the Montana frontier, from 1879-1886.

New York: Scribner's, 1979. Hardcover first edition - Author's uncommon first novel, set in a small mining town in West Virginia. Anne Tyler praise on dj: "so deftly and subtly written, I hardly noticed how involved I'd become until I reached the last page and turned it, wanting more."

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000). First edition - Set in Sherman, New York in the spring of 1954 , Tamara and her family begin to settle into their farmhouse. The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's coming to age and the fears she encounters with a mother ill with tuberculosis and a father who escapes into his art. 275 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. First edition - The uncommon first US printing of Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) At least 3 issues have a copyright page which states "1st printing" but only the first does not include the publisher's name or a number line on the copyright page, has a price of $6.95 on the rear cover. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) Although the copyright page states "1st printing" this is a later printing as shown by the price of $10.95. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Winterson's first book (only issued as a trade paperback in the US.) Although the copyright page states "1st printing" this is a later printing as shown by the price of $10.95. ISBN: 0-87113-1633.

Ecuador: Publicaciones del Departamento de Difusion Cultural de La Universidad de Cuenca, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a bilingual edition of two plays, which Cecilia Suarez Moreno in her introduction describes as combining the sharp irony of Woody Allen with Beckett's Theater of the absurd. Translated by Mercy Peno; Maria Eugenia Paz y Mino, Spanish language editor. SIGNED by author on title page. Wishnia's self-published first novel, "23 Shades of Black," was a finalist for the Edgar and Anthony Awards for best first mystery. ix, 109 pp.

New York & London: Scribner, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in remote Pick, Kentucky - "A riveting story of ancient friends and ancient enemies played on a stage that evokes the swamp forest prehistory. . . A book in keeping with the finest Southern gothic comic tradition." 416 pp. ISBN: 0-684815354.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the woods of Upper Michigan. Winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award. 309 pp. Went quickly into later printings, and rather uncommon in the first printing.

New York: Penguin, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, published only as a trade paperback in the US. "Meet Tristan Hart, a brilliant young man of means. The year is 1751, and at the age of twenty he leaves home to study medicine at the great hospital of St. Thomas in London. . . the intellectually ambitious Mr. Hart, in addition to being a student of Locke and Descartes and a promising young physician, is also, alas, psychotic. He is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but - equally strong and much harder to control - is his obsession with causing it." 547 pp. ISBN: 978-0143123828.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel (third book), set at a New England prep school. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-375401466.

New York: Ecco Press, (1984.). SIGNED - Wolff's second novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella), a PEN Faulkner award winner, the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam who forge bonds of friendship when they confront a fire near an ammunition dump, only to see those bonds break under the stress of suspicion when there is a series of thefts. SIGNED on the title page, and rather uncommon thus. 101 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-0495.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1987.). SIGNED first edition - Wolff's second novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella), a PEN Faulkner award winner, the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped to Vietnam who forge bonds of friendship when they confront a fire near an ammunition dump, only to see those bonds break under the stress of suspicion when there is a series of thefts. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in 1988. 101 pp.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - one which creates a disturbing world in the violent decaying New York of the 21st century - a world with its own language, culture and religions and such Goyaesque horrors that volunteer "normals" mutilate themselves and join the sinking. ISBN: 1-55584-0825.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - one which creates a disturbing world in the violent decaying New York of the 21st century - a world with its own language, culture and religions and such Goyaesque horrors that volunteer "normals" mutilate themselves and join the sinking. ISBN: 1-55584-0825.

New York: Persea Books, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - a collection of interrelated short stories about an immigrant Chinese family in Hawaii, and especially about their number-one son who comes of age with the secret that he is gay. Dj praise from such diverse writers as John Barth, Randall Kenan, Oscar Hijuelos and Stephen DIxon. Recommended. ISBN: 0-89255-1976.

New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - a novel based on her own experiences as an undercover narcotics officer and the basis of the movie. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-394-576713.

New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins), (2008.) dj. Hardcover - The author's impressive first novel, the story of a mute young man, growing up in remote Northern Wisconsin. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Stephen King (who called it 'wonderful, mysterious, long and satisfying'), Richard Russo, Mark Doty (who said 'This remarkable novel seems like an impossibility: an American Hamlet, both ghost story and melodrama, a coming-of-age tale, a hymn to the land - and central to it all, some of the best writing about the inner lives of dogs anywhere. .. a woolly, unlikely, daring book, and wildly satisfying.') and more. 566 pp. Dust jacket art by Debra Lill. ISBN: 9780061768064.

New York: Random House, (1968) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wurlitzer's very offbeat first novel, about a Sixties road trip that begins in a small town on the California coast to San Francisco, through the Southwest desert to New York through the Panama Canal (and maybe back again.) Comment by Richard Poirer on the dust jacket that this is the "most exciting, talented and original new novel since Pynchon's V." Wurlitzer also wrote numerous screenplays including Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", the cult film "Candy Mountain" with Tom Waits, (which he co-directed) as well as the wrote the libretto for Philip Glass's opera "In the Penal Colony." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page "For Larry Owens, Ponca City Literary Outlaw." 164 pp.