New York: Delacorte, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of the fictionalized biography of the Bronte family begun in 'Dark Quartet.'. ISBN: 0-440-069858.

London: Viking Penguin, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in her highly acclaimed WWI trilogy, a novel based on Siegfried Sassoon's relationship with his psychiatrist and drawn from the writings of the First World War poets and W.H.R. Rivers, an army doctor who worked with traumatized soldiers. The final novel in this trilogy won the Booker Prize, but in reality that was awarded to the work as a whole. Author's note. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-670-828769.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in London in the autumn of 1940 during the Blitz. "As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raid warden." The final book in the Life Class trilogy, this can also be read as a stand-alone novel. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537728.

New York: Doubleday, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about several young artists caught up in the Great War. 311 pp. ISBN: 978-0385524353.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel about Hernan Cortes in early 16th century Mexico, and Marina, the Nahua woman (one of twenty enslaved people given to the Spanish) who became his mistress, advisor and interpretor, and bore his son. This novel treats her sympathetically, but she has also been called a traitor for the assistance she gave to Cortes. Author's note, bibliography. 378 pp.

San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.

San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.

New York: St Martin's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a young girl's search for love, set in the 1820's against the literary London of Byron and Shelley. ISBN: 0-312-025971.

New York: Norton, 1998. First edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 386 pp.

New York: Norton, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on title page. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 399 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-393-04632x.

New York: Norton, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

New York: Norton, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

New York: Norton, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award, set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 . Map endpapers. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-393-04632x.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction, much of it (including the title novella) set in the nineteenth century. Winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03853X.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction, much of it (including the title novella) set in the nineteenth century. Winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Interestingly, this has a seal on the front cover noting that it was a finalist, but it went on to actually win the award! 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03853X.

New York: Norton, (2007). First edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree.

New York: Village East Books, (1998). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Hong Kong in 1857, focusing on Andrew Adams - a "rogue with a social conscience. He's an American seaman, smuggler, and gambler who has settled down to running a buzzing bar called the Bee Hive Tavern in the Chinese section of Hong Kong - a long way in every respect from 'the Peak,' where the wealthy and powerful Europeans who control the island's destiny live." 538 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-966189914.

New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - The fourth in this delightful series with Jane Austen off to the Canterbury races with the rich and the fashionable. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. 290 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth in this delightful series with Jane Austen off to the Canterbury races with the rich and the fashionable. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. x, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-553-10733X.

New York: Bantam, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth in this delightful series with Jane Austen using her keen powers of observation and her insight into the follies of others to solve a brutal murder. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's foreword. vii, 277 pp. ISBN: 0-553-107348.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in 18th century Brooklyn, this is the story of "a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span." SIGNED on the illustrated title page and dated 4/30/06, in the year of publication. 478 pp. ISBN: 0-374116903.

Lake Forest, CA: The Westbound Stage,
(2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Gold Dust, Slaves, And A Sing-song Girl." Historical novel which follows the adventures of Reef Atherton from his days as a slave-trading ship owner to California during the Gold Rush, where he signs on as "Messenger Twelve" for Wells Fargo. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-967875909.

New York: Norton, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, an epic historical novel set during the Civil War. Includes a list of the characters and a calendar of the War. 570 pp. ISBN: 0-393-022110.

New York: Norton, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, an epic historical novel set during the Civil War. Includes a list of the characters and a calendar of the War. 570 pp. ISBN: 0-393-022110.

Orlando, FL Harcourt (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - "After eight years in exile, Sergeant Genis Aleu returns to the city of Barcelona, Spain bearing the mark of a man who has seen many battles and has one last mission ahead of him. A soldier in the the ill-famed foreign legion, Aleu cuts a intimidating figure as he negotiates around the paranoid and suspicious citizens of Franco's Spain, while trying to fulfill his father’s dying wish." Translated from the Catalan by Cheryl Leah Morgan. Winner of the Ramon Llull prize. 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0-15-1012558.