New York: Random House, (1979). Hardcover first edition - The second of his novels set in post-World War II China, where Becker lived for four years - "In January 1949, Jack Burnham (thirty five, ex-major, ex-guerilla, ex-Christian and born-again rebel, who has quarreled with, among others, God and MacArthur) is asked by the U.S. government to fly into Peking and track down a Japanese war criminal." A suspenseful novel, set in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Chinese Communists, a love story and also an exploration of the good and evil in man. 294 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394499271.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of Phillips sixth novel set in West Virginia in 1864 near the end of the Civil War and in the aftermath in 1874, the story of a mother and daughter who suffer from the fallout of the war. Shortlisted for the National Book Award and Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Illustrated. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-0451493330.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about cannibalism and rites of human sacrifice among the Aztecs in the time of Cortez. "The anthropology of Aztec cannibalism (lifted from Marvin Harris' controversial 'Cannibals and Kings): Mexico is ravaged by an enormous and endless food-shortage while trying to support an estimated 25 million inhabitants; and a warrior caste has developed which not only eats its prisoners after sacrificing them to the Sun God but also expects its own members to be sacrificed and eaten when captured." (Kirkus) Includes a factual epilogue (Harner was a professor of anthropology who spent many years doing fieldwork among the Indians of the Upper Amazon). 312 pp. ISBN: 0-688034993.

New York: Harper Collins, (2016). First edition - Southern writer's second novel "set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions - an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian - who are being tracked down for murder.In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. . . In the few days they spend together, the makeshift trio commits a shocking murder that soon has the forces of the law bearing down upon them." 352 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing John Shakespeare, brother of the playwright, and Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator. A story of murder and conspiracy that succeeds as both historical fiction and a crime thriller. Notes. 387 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342827.

New York: St Martin's, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the male-dominated art world of Belle Epoque Paris. "Out of The Gilded Age comes this glittering canvas of a novel, full of light and life, shadow and darkness, stillness and movement. A rich portrait of a world and one unconventional familys place in it, . . a love story, a mystery, a tragedy, and a moving study of the human capacity to contain both reckless error and surprising redemption. (author Carrie Brown). SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 978-1250082671.

New York: Doubleday, (2021.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0385545136.

New York: Random House, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel, set in the Soviet Union, during Stalin's reign and the Great Terror of 1937-38 and World War II, one which follows the Gradov family from 1925 to 1945. Translated from the Russian by John Glad and Christopher Morris. Selective glossary. 592 pp. ISBN: 0-39456961X.

New York and Toronto: Beaufort Books, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, supposedly based on the 1604-1607 diaries of French/Scottish youth Sodric du Gaelle, who - eager to escape gambling debts and hoping to improve his station - pretends to be a seminarian and sails to the New World where he becomes part of an ill-fated Canadian colony there. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-825301211.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2017). First edition - A retelling Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre through the eyes of Mr. Rochester. 449 pp.

Kansas City, Missouri: Lowell Press, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which tells the stories of ten men and one women who were involved over the years with the fictitious Molly Pitcher mine in the Rocky Mountains from the placer discovery in 1871 to its end during the Great Depression in 1932. Illustrated by Tom Phillips with a full color double title page and drawings. 298 pp. ISBN: 0-913504181.

New York: Henry Holt, (2024). SIGNED first edition - The author's third novel, one in which "the rich Asian tradition of fox folklore provides the backdrop for a complex and atmospheric tale of identity and discovery set in early 1900s Manchuria." (kirkus) SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best wishes." Notes. 328 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in 1718 where 16-year-old Eliza Tally arrives in a London rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 as an apothecary's maid, "a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child - a wealthy merchantÕs son - from scandal. . . On one of her visits to the friendly Huguenot bookseller who keeps the apothecary supplied with scientific tomes, she finally realizes the nature of her master's obsession. And when she learns that Mary too is pregnant, she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself." Author's note. xi, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0151012060.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2020). A Kopp Sisters Novel. Set in 1917, this is the fifth novel featuring the real life Constance Kopp, one of the country's first women deputies. With war on the horizon, she and her sisters have enrolled in one of the National Service Schools Historical note and sources. 349 pp. plus a preview of the next book in the series 'Dear Miss Kopp.'. ISBN: 978-0358299646.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Hardcover - An historical novel set in New Orleans in the early 19th century - shortly after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. It focuses on the extended Grandissime family, many of whose members are mixed race, and contrasts a romanticized view of the Creole way of life against the inhumanity of slavery. 448 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Sister Fidelma of Cashel series. "In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ships captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Once safely ashore, Fidelma sister to the King of Muman and an advocate of the Brehon law courts is determined to bring the killers to justice." 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0312551209.

New York: ReganBooks / Harper Collins, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the world of opera in New York City in 1908. and inspired by her father's stories about her grandmother who came to America as a mail-order bride. 433 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-060558008.

New York: Duffield & Company, 1910. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific author, born in New York, who was brought to the West as a child, and the daughter of a noted author and editor in early Califonia.. The story of those who traveled on a wagon train leaving Missouri in 1848, before word of the discovery of gold had arrived, and one which ends in the 'promised land' - that is, in the early placer mining years on the American River, but one which focuses more on the two very different men who loved Susan. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by John Rae. 496 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2008) dh. The final volume in her trilogy set in the 12th century, which tells the story of the tempestous marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Acquitaine. Cast of characters, double page map, author's historical note. 736 pp. ISBN: 978-0399155260.

Huntington, WV: University Editions, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel set in 16th century Mexico, which tells to the stories of four women who marched with Hernan Cortes and the Conquistadors. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. Cover by Katheryn Davis. ISBN: 1-560028300.

New York: Pantheon, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, third book, shortlisted for the Orange Prize. In the 19th century, an English missionary arrived on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. The Boston Globe called this "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory." 175 pp. ISBN: 0-679439838.