New York: Norton, (1991.). SIGNED - The second Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in years after World War II. SIGNED on title page. 284 pp.

New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel featuring Easy Rawlins, set in Los Angeles in 1956. Edgar award nominee. SIGNED on the total page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03366x.

New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel featuring Easy Rawlins, set in Los Angeles in 1956. Edgar award nominee. SIGNED on title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03366x.

New York: Norton, 1996. First edition - Author's fifth mystery featuring African American veteran, janitor, landlord and sometimes private investigator Easy Rawlins. The San Francisco Chronicle review of this book described Mosley's novels as suffused 'with an incisive, brilliant analysis of life from the point of view of a long-overlooked segment of the American people. Once again, Walter Mosley succeeds in both brilliantly, leaping past the mystery genre to create novels of historic significance.' 304 pp.

New York: Norton, 1996. SIGNED first edition - TWO copies of this title - a SIGNED hardcover first edition and an uncommon uncorrected proof. Author's fifth mystery featuring African American veteran, janitor, landlord and sometimes private investigator Easy Rawlins. The San Francisco Chronicle review of this book described Mosley's novels as suffused 'with an incisive, brilliant analysis of life from the point of view of a long-overlooked segment of the American people. Once again, Walter Mosley succeeds in both brilliantly, leaping past the mystery genre to create novels of historic significance.' 304 pp.

New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in years after World War II. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-393-029980.

New York: Doubleday, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins crime novel, set in Los Angeles in 1967, where he and Mouse are cruising the streets searching for a young black man known as "Little Green" who disappeared during an acid trip. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0385535984.

New York: Grove Press, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two young gang girls set in the rough LA Echo Park neighborhood, a world exploding with drugs and violence. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page "Dear ---- Thank you for attending our panel on magic!" and dated in 2008. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16051.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring freelance studio private investigator, former LAPD detective, widow and father of a teenage daughter, Vic Eton. Set in the world of prostitution and porn films. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0166363.

Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first humorous mystery novel set in Los Angeles and introducing Tracy Eaton - "mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars - a heroine as impulsive, energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Recipe card for Bailey's Irish Cream tiramisu laid in. 294 pp. ISBN: 1-568250436.

Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second humorous mystery novel set in Los Angeles and featuring Tracy Eaton - "mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of eccentric Hollywood stars - a heroine as impulsive, energetic and imaginative as the city that shaped her." SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 1-568250770.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997 dj. Hardcover first edition - An examinationof conflicts within the African American community and between blacks and Asians. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-395-771919.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2018). First edition - An investigation of the most devastating library fire in US history - that of 29 April 1986 at the Los Angeles Public Library, which destroying more than 400,000 books, and which is still unsolved. Orlean uses this event as "a lens through which to tell the story of all libraries - their history, their meaning and their uncertain future as they adapt and redefine themselves in a digital world." 310 pp.

New York: Dutton, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles sheriff's deputy is kidnapped by the leader of the Gulf cartel in the Yucatan and ordered to compose a narcocorrido that will tell his story. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952572.

New York: Dutton, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A songwriter married to a crooked Los Angeles sheriff's deputy is kidnapped by the leader of the Gulf cartel in the Yucatan and ordered to compose a narcocorrido that will tell his story. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952572.

Boston: Little Brown, (1996.). First edition - Second thriller featuring dectective Alex Cross of the Washington, D. C. police department - this one involves serial killers in the southeast and in Los Angeles, who appear to be competing with each other. When Cross's niece is kidnapped from Duke University, it becomes personal. Basis for the movie of the same name. 451 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A clueless couple rob an aging, but still formidable, gangster at his Los Angeles strip club. A crime novel by one of the best writers in the genre. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 9780151015221.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A clueless couple rob an aging, but still formidable, gangster at his Los Angeles strip club. A crime novel by one of the best writers in the genre. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 9780151015221.

New York: Dafina Books / Kensington, (2003). SIGNED first edition - "On the streets of LA, the most dangerous person can be a cop." California noir, set on the gang infested streets of Venice Beach and Los Angeles. SIGNED on title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-758203829.

Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Elton Dancer 'part-time everything' - piano player, movie actor, surfer, and freelance unlicensed private investigator. ISBN: 0-38150-0844.

New York: Ecco Press, 2017. SIGNED first edition - A novel set against the backdrop of skid row in Los Angeles, where the homeless set up their tents on the sidewalk, and in the Mohave desert. It tells the intertwined stories of six people, misfits and lost souls, but who manage nevertheless to find some hope and redemption. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a little girl in Los Angeles's Chinatown (moy moy means little sister) Illustrated in both duotone and full color, with 3 two-page spreads in full-color. Bright and beautiful. Uncommon first edition, with the 'A' and the date 8-60 on the copyright page, but in a later dustjacket. ISBN: 0-684-131781.

New York: Scribner's, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a little girl in Los Angeles's Chinatown (moy moy means little sister) Illustrated in both duotone and full color, with 3 two-page spreads in full-color. Bright and beautiful. Uncommon first edition, with the 'A' and the date 8-60 on the copyright page, but in a dustjacket provided from a later printing. ISBN: 0-684-131781.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of life on Olvera Street in old Los Angeles for a four-year old girl, told with Politi's sensitiveness and beautifully illustrated with his paintings throughout. Born in Fresno, California, Politi studied art in Italy, but when he returned to California he settled in Los Angeles near Olivera Street. Included in the story is the music to three songs. INSCRIBED by Politi on the page facing the title page "Horace with best wishes from Juanita and me" and dated in 1950. The large 'H' in Horace is embellished with watercolor paintings of flowers.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." SIGNED on the title page. 414 pp. ISBN: 1-568654979.

New York: Ace Books, (1985). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A novel set in a near future gone mad, in a California where life continues, often in bizarre ways, after the end of civilization. Winner of the 1985 John W. Campbell Award and 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel, nominated for the 1985 Nebula. 294 pp. Cover art by John Berkey. ISBN: 0-441-148794.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.). "Los Angeles is full of ghosts - real ghosts and solid ghosts, ghost hunters and ghost junkies - chasing and being chased in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes the city, the lives of three innocent people converge in a wild escapade through a landscape haunted by the dead, the mad and the just plain strange." 627 pp. ISBN: 0-812-555198.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a suspenseful story of fathers and sons, set in the underworld of corporate takeovers. "Sharply observed morality tale of contemporary American life." Dust jacket praise from Russell Banks and Paul Auster, 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374-291012.

New York: Penguin, (2015). First edition - Set in Los Angeles and on Catalina Island, this is "a gripping paranoiac thriller about an unwilling participant in the Witness Protection Program." 284 pp.

New York: Penguin, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by an author who is also a screenwriter and director. Set in Los Angeles and on Catalina Island, this is "a gripping paranoiac thriller about an unwilling participant in the Witness Protection Program." 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171642.