New York: Random House, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - An "ambitious, captivating debut, a Victorian novel with a twist: her lovers are "men of the lavender persuasion." Pale, blond 16-year-old Simion Satterwhite, the battered child of a hateful West Virginia fundamentalist preacher, arrives at Yale in 1878. His path soon crosses that of the darkly handsome, 31-year-old Doriskos Klionarios, a Greek-born professor and artist with his own shrouded past." (Publishers Weekly) 478 pp. ISBN: 0-679428313.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1991. First edition - Author's first novel, a mystery set in the lesbian society of Chicago. The catchy beginning will draw you in. 171 pp plus 9 pp publisher's ads,. ISBN: 1-562800043.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Immediately after graduation, Jess and her best friend, Chunk, embark on a road trip from San Jose, CA, to Chicago. Trans teen Jess has tried to fly under the radar, but now she's ready to show her true self. Where better to make her debut than a surprise appearance at her transphobic dad's wedding to her mom's former best friend?" SIGNED by the author on the title page with the comment "first book I've signed" and dated in 2016, the year of publication. 263 pp. ISBN: 978-0374380069.

New York: Viking, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel, second book, set in 1950s southern California. A coming of age story in which Burt has to come to terms both with his own attraction to men and his older brother's slow death from leukemia. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard, Amy Hempel, Paul Monette and others. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670847321.

Tallahassee, Naiad Press, 1991. First edition - The author's first novel introducing travel writer and romance novelist Robin Miller as she investigates the death of her estranged lover in San Francisco's gay community and down the coast to Mary's house on the cliffs of Big Sur. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-94148372X.

New York: Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A novel inspired both by Hans Christian Andersen's tale "The Red Shoes" and the history of a "dancing plague" which began in Strasbourg, France in the summer of 1518, when a strange sickness swept through the city - and five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Olivas feet, making her dance uncontrollably. A novel which combines the magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2019 (that is, before publication) Author's note. 306 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1990. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED("keep the dream alive")on the title page and dated in 1982,the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.

New York: Feminist Press / Amethyst Editions, (2017). First edition - The author's first novel - a "raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane" as DeShawn returns from San Francisco to his Alabama hometown for his uncle's funeral. A book with a "fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told. (author Michelle Tea) 148 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (2018). SIGNED first edition - African American poet's first collection winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. "Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, [this] documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape." SIGNED on the half title page. A title in the Pitt Poetry Series. xii, 90 pp. ISBN: 978-0822965602.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this writer born in the United States, who chose to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen. This follows a group of friends, artists, and lovers in Vancouver, BC in the 1970s, a time when gay and lesbian politics were just emerging. Margaret Atwood called this her "most outspoken and sensitively handled book to date." 339 pp. ISBN: 0-151225788.

Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Former Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese shares powerful lessons learned from negotiating and collaborating with others who disagreed and even despised him." Foreword by Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard who was brutally murdered in Wyoming; she was instrumental in passing the anti-hate crime bill named after her son. SIGNED by Solmonese on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Index. 190 pp. ISBN: 978-1626565883.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A highly praised and compelling collection of poetry and prose poems and more, one which uses the spaces on the page as part of the message. "Tempestt is a self-proclaimed 'daughter of California, ' and her collection begins by gazing inward, before moving seamlessly into questions of queerness and Blackness that drive a searing social and political critique." (Alta Magazine) SIGNED by the author. 130 pp. ISBN: 978-0872869257.

Levine Querido, (2023). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel of friendship and girlhood set in Houston, Texas. SIGNED on the half title page. 252 pp.

Levine Querido, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A graphic novel telling the story of six witches - Black, Choctaw, Asian and queer - who get caught up in the excitement and danger of illegal broom racing in an alternate historical 1930s Mississippi. Teo DuVall's art is beautiful, clean and luminous but also very understated. SIGNED by Walls on the half title page. 230 pp plus a heartwarming and uplifting scrapbook-style epilogue showing the witches futures. ISBN: 978-1646142675.