New York: Counterpoint, (2005.). First edition - Author's excellent first novel (and second book), the story of a young Chinese girl who is torn apart by family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Canadian town in the 1950's. Originally published in Canada - where the author, like the narrator in this novel, came as a young girl - this is being published as a trade paperback original in the United States. 315 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (2007, 2008, 2009). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first three novels, featuring Jonathan Quinn, "a freelancer working for 'the Office', a shadowy criminal organization. His job is to clean up crime scenes - dispose of bodies, wipe away prints, anything to help them get away with it." Each is SIGNED on the title page. The first in the series, The Cleaner, was nominated for both a Barry Award and a Shamus award. 353, 358 and 393 pp. ISBN: 978-0440243700.

New York: Delacorte, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Jonathan Quinn, "a freelancer working for 'the Office', a shadowy criminal organization. His job is to clean up crime scenes - dispose of bodies, wipe away prints, anything to help them get away with it. His latest job seems simple enough: investigate a suspicious case of arson. Until the moment a dead body turns up where it doesn't belong, and Quinn's Office handlers go strangely silent. The Office is under threat, and someone wants him dead." SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for both a Barry Award and a Shamus award. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0440243700.

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). 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) 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: Bantam / Spectra, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, set in the dystopian near future on the "hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut in the year 2062." SIGNED on the title page. In 2005, Bear won the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. 324 pp plus a brief preview for the second book in this series. ISBN: 0-553587501.

New York: Picador, (1997). First novel by this African American poet - a funny and moving satire on issues of race, life in Los Angeles, and the coming of age story of Gunnar Kaufman, who is not typical in any way. Praise from such writers as Walter Mosley, Clarence Major and Jessica Hagedorn. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28019X.

Dublin: The Black Cat Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - The first publication of Beckett's first novel, written in Paris in 1932, and unpublished for 60 years (it was originally rejected by several publishers, and would never have been able to get past the Irish Censorship Board.) Introduction by Eoin O'Brien in which he discusses the history of this works, his conversations with Beckett about it, etc. xvii, 241 pp. ISBN: 0-948050098.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Benioff's first book, the story of the last night of freedom for Monty Brogan before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Basis for the Spike Lee film starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-340822287.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of modern-day crime and violence set in the border area between southwestern New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Foreword by Max Evans. vii, 280 pp. ISBN: 0-826331947.

Boston: Little Brown, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of a 12-year-old boy in South Africa whose life is drastically changed when a severe drought nearly destroys the farm he lives on. Highly praised first novel.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022). First edition - The first novel by this British-Nigerian author, the story of a previously close Nigerian immigrant family that is beginning to fall apart and a daughter's attempt to find out why. 386 pp.

New York: The Century Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. Although the actual publication of this book preceded the Great War and the beginning of the Golden Age of Detective fiction, Haycraft considers this the first detective novel of the modern era ('Murder for Pleasure, p. 113) This was first accepted for publication by Century, but both the US and UK editions (under the better known title "Trent's Last Case") appeared virtually simultaneously in March 1913. Not only was this novel extremely influential, it remains a pleasure to read (or re-read) more than 100 years later. Despite the UK title, this is the first novel to feature Trent. 300 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-born composer, poet, architect, the story of thirty years in the life of an extraordinary family in pre-Revolutionary Cuba. 301 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-born composer, poet, architect, the story of thirty years in the life of an extraordinary family in pre-Revolutionary Cuba. Letter from the publisher bound in describing this as a 'limited advance reader's edition.' 301 pp.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Trudy Roundtree, who has returned from Atlanta to her hometown of Ogeechee, where she works as the only detective on the small police force headed up by her cousin, the chief of police. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 1-88517344X.

New York: Ballantine, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first suspense novel - "a riveting cat-and-mouse game set within the world of international art thieves, assassins, and age-old rivalries. From the opening shocker set in a Nazi concentration camp to the chilling battle within a mountain-top castle, [it] carries the reader on a harrowing journey into a past best left undiscovered." (James Rollins) SIGNED on the title page. Writer's note. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-345460030.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel with dust jacket praise from Anne McCaffrey, Robin Hobbs and Joan Vinge. 397 pp. Dust jacket art by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-312-864299.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - features Muriel Axelrod, a secretary for Lovell Munitions in San Francisco. Funny and absorbing. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-89733-1079.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - features Muriel Axelrod, a secretary for Lovell Munitions in San Francisco. Funny and absorbing. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-89733-1079.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press. 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Experimental novel by this Polish writer, the story of a prisoner alone in his cell - Bienek was himself a political prisoner, sentenced to a Siberian labor camp. Introduction by Daniel Berrigan S. J. Translated from the German by Ursula Mahlendorf. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-771014031.

London: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a pyschological thriller involving a serial killer who doesn't really want his victims dead. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316856975.

New York: Morrow, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a pyschological thriller involving a serial killer who doesn't really want his victims dead. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212995.

New York: Morrow, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first novel, a pyschological thriller involving a serial killer who doesn't really want his victims dead. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212995.

New York: SOHO Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book), winner of the 1993 Washington Prize for Fiction, set in 1938 when the Japanese army has occupied Nanking in China - the story of a Chinese woman who is unexpectedly rescued by a junior Japanese officer, and their complex relationship. Dustjacket praise by Ann Beattie and Reynolds Price (who comments "Soldier and captive live out a kind of love which is riveting to watch and deeply instructive."SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 1-569470383.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in San Francisco, this is a realistic tale of sordid corporate wealth, murder and revenge, and the debut of a memorable investigator, former sportswriter Sinclair Lewis Maxwell, who gets involved when his girlfriend is savagely murdered while investigating organized prostitution. The first and only book written under this pseudonym. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-698-108914.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this veteran LAPD cop. "Calico" Jack Walker is getting ready to retire, but first he has accepted a challenge: the Citadel Run - a race to Las Vegas and back against anothe patrol car, all in an 8 hour tour - and so he sets off with his partner, a rookie (and a woman and Japanese American, but just as stubborn as Calico.) SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-31293047X.