Boston: Little Brown, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Former FBI agent turned head of security for a cruise line gets embroiled in a heist by his ex-con stepbrother. Author's first book - jacket praise from James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Jeffery Deaver and Les Standiford. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-316-011746.

New York: Henry Holt, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's award-winning first novel, a mystery set in 1909 New York City during a week when Sigmund Freud, accompanied by Carl Jung, made his first - and only - trip to America. Author's note. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-80988.

New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a thriller introducing professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-553-102443.

Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this defense attorney: the story of a young Mexican American boy, raised by his grandmother - a religious fanatic - in Northern California and abused and brutalized by those who should protect him, and who, as a result, becomes a monster himself who marks his coming of age by raping a prostitute and maiming the parish priest he both hated and feared. William Kunstler called this a 'depressing but fascinating book. The courtroom scene , exposing them utter hypocrisy of jury selection in cases involving minority defendents, is as riveting as it is revealing. Jesus never had a chance, in court or out.' 314 pp. ISBN: 1-55885-1089.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1992). The first novel by this groundbreaking, and award-winning, Canadian-American author. The story of two women who fall in love with each other was originally published in 1964 5 years before homosexuality was de-criminalized in Canada. Basis for the 1985 film 'Desert Hearts.' Movie tie-in edition with cover and one photograph from the film. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-930044738.

New York: Random House, (1975.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award-winning screenwriter - featuring an amoral but resourceful operator who comes to a small Midwestern town to heist a few million dollars for a relative in trouble. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-394-48993.

New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter, who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.

New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.

New York: Walker, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery and the first featuring private investigator Stuart Winter who is hired to find a beautiful deaf young woman, one who had been involved in a project to teach gorillas to sign. Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57677.

New York: World Editions, Inc, 1950. First edition - The first paperback edition of the author's first novel, originally serialized in 'Unknown' magazine 1939, and published in hardcover in 1943 and 1948. In addition this is the first novel in the Galaxy Science Fiction Novel series. 158 pp.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First crime novel featuring former DEA agent John Marquez, now head of a special unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, and where he is trying to stop an abalone poaching ring on the north coast of California. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-41863.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First crime novel featuring former DEA agent John Marquez, now head of a special unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, and where he is trying to stop an abalone poaching ring on the north coast of California. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-41863.

New York: Vintage Books, (1989). Novel set in a small town in upstate New York which lies "almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks." A title in the Vintage Contemporary series. 418 pp. ISBN: 0-679-725776.

Madison, CT: St. Clair Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (his previous books were about science and space), set in the Bahamas in the near future. An ex-lunar scientist businessman who never made it to the moon has created his own 'moon colony' on earth on a tropical island, and when the crew of his supply ship is killed for allegedly running cocaine, and his daughter is kidnapped, he tries to rescue her. SIGNED on the front endpaper. A massive novel at 536 pages, this has dj blurbs from Arthur C. Clarke and Scott Carpenter among others. ISBN: 0-963235702.

New York: Hyperion, 1995. SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. SIGNED by author.

New York: Hyperion, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. SIGNED on the title page by the author. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-6135-5.

New York: Norton, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Very highly praised first novel,winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel and nominated for the Canadian Governor's General Award. To quote from just a couple of the comments made about this book, Pico Iyer described it as 'Spooky, atmospheric, and unveiling its secrets with an uncanny assurance.. [it]becomes impossible to put down.' and Shani Mootoo calls it 'full of prickly darkness, made magnetic by the author's unabashedly wry and and subversive sense of humor.' Set in the 1970's, this is the story of how a double murder affects the Japanese community shaped by the dark shadow of the internment camps during World War II. ISBN: 0-393-046923.

New York: Grove Press, 1967. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this important Chicano writer, a highly praised novel condemning the cruelty found in juvenile institutions in this country,

New York: Warner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - "When POW/MIA Zach Johnson mysteriously emerges from the jungles of Southeast Asia 25 years after his capture, a number of interested parties -- including the U.S. government -- are deeply disturbed by his reappearance. As a spiral of pursuit, ambush, and betrayal escalates, a dedicated New York cop, a renegade international adventurer, and a soldier who refuses to die are propelled on a desperate journey that will test the limits of passion, justice, and human endurance." SIGNED on the title page and dated 10/97, just one month after publication. 372 pp. ISBN: 0446520799.

New York: Stein & Day, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - a gothic suspense novel. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-812816617.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent first novel, introducing television producer Robin Ballantyne, who has taken a year off to be the mother to her twin babies, and is now struggling to get her life together. Dust jacket praise from Ayelet Waldman who says " Sampson is a first novelist who writes with the sure confidence of a pro. She manages to juggle dead-on accurate details of mothering with terrifying suspense, a trick not many could master. A thriller in every sense of the word." 311 pp. ISBN: 0-892968133.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). First edition - His first novel - and the first book in his highly praised trilogy on what it means to be gay and young in America. 245 pp including 10 pp of information re resources for gay teenagers.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - story of Kelly Palomino, who, at 29, is the best dishwasher in Jackson, Wyoming - dust jacket praise from John Nichols and Larry McMurtry. 277 pp. Dust jacket art by George Corsillo. ISBN: 0-8050-01689.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Pat Montella, one in which events from the Civil War are still affecting the present. "Pat Montella is summoned from her dreary office job in suburban Pennsylvania by an unusual request from a stranger. Ninety-one-year-old Magnolia Shelby wants to bequeath to Pat, in her will, her house and acreage in rural Virginia. The only condition is that Pat must visit during the first week of May in order to learn what this is all about. What she finds is Bell Run, a Civil War-era estate and battleground inhabited by the enigmatic Miss Maggie, a retired history teacher with a passion for the Civil War. " 326 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209606.

Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay, (2006.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-American author, the story of the lives of three women from their childhood in a small town in Cuba to their lives in 1960's New Jersey, 282 pp plus a 14 pp reading group guide that includes an interview with Santiago. ISBN: 0-316-014125.

Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay, (2006.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-American author, the story of the lives of three women from their childhood in a small town in Cuba to their lives in 1960's New Jersey, 282 pp plus a 14 pp reading group guide that includes an interview with Santiago. Issued as a trade paperback original.