New York: Norton, (1988). SIGNED first edition - A collection by this award-winning poet and poet laureate for Maryland which explores "the connections between the quotidian and the mythic [in] poems that are direct and passionate, yet controlled. SIGNED on the title page. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-393-305244.

Ocean City, Maryland: Skipjack Press, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A compilation of all the known poems of Steve Ward, most of which have never been published before. Although both Steve Ward and his brother Lem only had a high school education, they achieved fame as folk artists carving duck decoys, as well as working full-time as barbers and singing in a barbershop quartet. Introduction by Don Briddell, illustrated by Jack Schroeder, who was using the original Ward wood shop as his studio. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ida Ward Linton and Jack Schroeder. 67 pp. ISBN: 1-879535025.

New York: Norton, (1988). First edition - A collection by this award-winning poet which explores "the connections between the quotidian and the mythic [in] poems that are direct and passionate, yet controlled. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-393-305244.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1912) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the Chesapeake Bay in 1920, but containing stories from an earlier time -of slavery, of attempts to turn the retreat into a peach orchard, of growing up in a fractured family. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Novel, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0374203481.

New York: Norton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection by this award-winning poet which "explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surfaces of ordinary life.". ISBN: 0-393037274.

New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - In a planned community in Maryland in 1973, two men and their families struggle with failing ideals, racism and the exodus from urban space to "shiny new suburbs." 445 pp.

New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a family who return to the their crumbling family estate on the eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "with greetings and high hopes you enjoy this tale" and dated in the year of publication. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-67945200.

New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a family who return to the their crumbling family estate on the eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-67945200.

Bryn Mawr, PA: Dorrance & Company, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of poems - some lighthearted, others more sentimental - which begins with an "Ode to the Baltimore Orioles." SIGNED on the front endpaper with the inscription "In memory of happy days of youth in Baltimore." and dated in 1983. 123 pp. ISBN: 0-8059-28545.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first novel, and the first Hitchcock Sewell mystery, featuring Baltimore's most eligible undertaker. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-65709.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and the first Hitchcock Sewell mystery, featuring Baltimore's most eligible undertaker. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-65709.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel, a story of love and murder, set in a small Maryland town which is still after the Civil War. Based on a true story about the author's family. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 158243512X.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (1996.). Collects 30 of the best short stories by this award-winning poet and writing. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-801863384.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj flap: "Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in mid-Chesapeake Bay, 9 miles from the mainland, home to 150 watermen and their families.. . Tom Horton lived for nearly three years on Smith Island, recording through observations and interviews the traditions of oystering, crab catching, churchgoing, hunting and poaching, and the social rituals of these fiercely independent men and women. His beautiful elegiac story is about community and isolation, harvest and exploitation, and the risks and charms of being different from the surrounding world." 316 pp. ISBN: 0-393039382.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection of poems, the author's sixth book, rooted in nature ...'do not let me hear / the complaints of old ladies. Let me hear/ the wisdom of walkers, even when home/ is three more hours and a lifetime burning/ in every mirror.". ISBN: 0-8071-13875.

New York: Pantheon, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon book for children by this prolific author: the animals observed on the author's Maryland farm include a cigarette- eating donkey, a rabbit, bantams, turtle, squrrel, cat and 4 year old boy. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Joseph Bartolli. 116pp.

New York: Doubleday, 2000. First edition - In a planned community in Maryland in 1973, two men and their families struggle with failing ideals, racism and the exodus from urban space to "shiny new suburbs."

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in Shapiro's autobiography. Photographs. 287 pgs.