Riverdale, New York, Baen Books, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - cover praise from Orson Scott Card (who says "I want this to be a series") and Jack McDevitt among others. Terrorist groups and elite mercenaries, gun runners confronted by a man with a violent past, but a sense of honor, on the frontier of space. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 1416520856.

Toronto: Macmillan, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7715-98149.

Lulu.com (2010). SIGNED - Young author's first novel - "sixteen-year-old Collin has always dreamed of having an adventure. He gets his wish when he accidentally stumbles into a fantasy world; a world of lavish royalty, medieval villages, and a "haunted" forest. In one of the villages, he meets a passionate girl named Gwyn, who brings him into the world of the strange creatures called Sylvans." A story about family, friendship, love and acceptance. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-0557254965.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a nine-year-old boy struggling to find his place in the world - his mother has fled the old ways for life in California, his grandfather is a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother a Spanish curandera with a passion for the music of Duke Ellington. Set in 1958 in the desert outside Phoenix on Buckeye Road, an area of adobes, tar paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and an indomintable spirit symbolized by la maravilla - the blanket of marigolds laid upon graves in Mexican cemeteries. INSCRIBED (in Spanish) on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935886.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young black girl in the Deep South who comes to confront the realities of sex, race, disease, and the brutal finality of death, as she watches her tough, strong-minded aunt waste away. 263 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - The author's first mystery: Holmes and Watson are called in to solve the real-life assassination in 1911 of American journalist David Graham Phillips. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-312-082916.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: .

New York: Viking, (2000). First edition - Poet's first novel - "a story about identity and meaning, and the difficult journey two damaged people make toward each other." The Lake is the name of an ad hoc orphanage in the middle of the Louisiana wildernes.. 326 pp.

New York: Crown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning filmmaker, a thriller which explores murders devastating effects years later on those left behind. "Twenty years ago, college student Dani Lancing was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The killer was never found. Danis family never found peace. . .Danis childhood sweetheart, Tom, handles his own grief every day on the jobhes become a detective intent on solving murders of other young women, and hopes to one day close Danis case himself." And then one day he finds a promising new lead... 391 pp. ISBN: 978-0804136822.

Boston: Little Brown, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - an historical novel that "provides an authentic and vivid portrait of Greece during World War II." Occupied by the Nazis, there was also resistance from guerrilla fighters, which in turn led to reprisal killings by the Germans. 182 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-734.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-734.

New York: The Viking Press, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a hard-boiled novel about the manager of a Mexico City gambling casino - Waer's own occupation in Las Vegas: "Jim Foster, manager of gambling casinos and an honest man in a dubious profession, transfers his curious talents to Mexico City . . . The irregularities happen to include two murders, an international crime ring, various beautiful women, none of whom could ever be accused of innocence, a bewitched roulette wheel, and any number of operatives from the police and underworld." While all 3 of Waer's novels were set in the world of gambling, this was the only one to be published in hardcover. 241 pp. Dust jacket design by Bill English.

New York: Walker, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing "Fowler McFarland, former FBI agent and best-selling true crime author, who returns to his hometown of Nacogdochees, Texas hoping to find a little peace and tranquility teaching constititional law at the local college." Instead he finds murder. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802732089.

New York: Random House, (2012). First edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Cover praise from Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. Letter from publisher bound in. 272 pp.

New York: Random House, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Dust jacket praise from Amy Bloom, Yiyun Li, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780812992977.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996). Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, set in the near future, a time when government means multinational corporation and life means a struggle to survive the effects of overpopulation, poverty, pollution, and hunger. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-312857659.

New York: St Martin's, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, set in Oakland where a young girl and a friend are picked up in a stolen car - the same car from which a shot had been fired, killing a man who "was not a nice man." Three detectives from the Oakland police force are determined to get to the bottom of his life, just in case Tricia really was as innocent as she claimed to be. ISBN: 0-312123329.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this noted epidemiologist, veterinarian and ecologist - "On the islands of Java and Bali in the early 1980s, Western governments are pouring millions of dollars into development schemes even as Indonesian strongman President Suharto violently stifles dissent. For Canadian veterinarian Abner Dueck, the spice islands are an exotic locale for the seemingly mundane work of examining dead cows and working with old friends" - until two of his friends are murdered. 223 pp. ISBN: 1590583493.

New York: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, (2006). The author's first novel - a "literary mystery about a womans search for her long-missing sister [which] takes readers to the ruggedly beautiful Dordogne region of Franceand into the exotic world of orchid-hunting, where the discovery of a new species can be deadly." 301 pp. ISBN: 1400079527.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, a fantasy story for both adults and children, set in a time before there were humans on earth. A story of good fighting with evil as Chaunticleer the Rooster takes on the ancient evil Wyrm. Winner of the National Book Award for Science Fiction and a NY Times Best Children's Book of the year. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-06263466.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, a fantasy story for both adults and children, set in a time before there were humans on earth. A story of good fighting with evil as Chaunticleer the Rooster takes on the ancient evil Wyrm. Winner of the National Book Award for Science Fiction and a NY Times Best Children's Book of the year. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-06263466.

New York: Walker, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a Regency romance based loosely on the lives of opera singer Martha Ray, her lover, the Earl of Sandwich, and their daughter. SIGNED. ISBN: 0-802711332.

New York: Putnam, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the 2010 Governor GeneralÕs Award for fiction (under its original title of "Cool Water.") This novel tells the interlocking stories of the residents of a small prairie town - "Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of townÑa dusty oasis on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. ItÕs easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there." 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0399157998.

New York: Grove Atlantic Press, Black Cat, (2007). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel set in the 1870s. "With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, this brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of a privileged young man finding self-truth against the birth of a nation struggling to come together, in a novel filled with wit, brilliant characterizations, and descriptions that will leave you feeling as if you can still feel the dust of a buffalo stampede settling around you." (Jodi Picoult) 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0802170361.

New York: Norton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a prize-winning collection of short stories). Set in the small town of Mercury, Mississippi and spanning over 80 years from 1906 on - finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-393-047571.

New York: Norton, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a prize-winning collection of short stories). Set in the small town of Mercury, Mississippi and spanning over 80 years from 1906 on - finalist for the National Book Award. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-393-047571.

New York: Razorbill - Penguin, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Northern California educator, musician and songwriter. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Choose kindness." From the dust jacket: Everything was leading up to this moment - the point at which the teasing, the cruelty, the pressure all became too much. And someone finally snapped. Now - six kids, from six different cliques - are trapped in the student store while a shooter terrorizes their school. ... This gripping thriller by C. G. Watson examines in heartrending detail how even the most casual cruelties can build, multiply and eventually tear people apart." 296 pp. ISBN: 1595141383.

New York: Viking, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.