New York: Pantheon, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth collection of short fiction, SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442677.

Boston: Branden Press, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems rooted in a long life listening to the sounds of the Midwestern prairie. Index with the date each poem was written - a period of more than 50 years from 1910 to 1967. 218 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Noted African American dancer's memoir (written in the third person) of her childhood in the Midwest. Her second book, and quite uncommon in the first edition, especially in this condition. 312 pp. Dust jacket design by Jules Maidoff.

New York: Scribner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel (fifth book), SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-684-83507X.

New York: Random House, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, set in the Midwest which she knows so well - this is the story of Walter McCloud and his ambition to become a great ballet dancer. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-679-457550.

[Northfield, MN;] Carleton College, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Collects work by nine writers, all of whom teach at Carleton, but who explore their worlds in very different ways, in poetry, fiction, essays and dramatic monologues. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Wayne Carver, one of the contributors. Other contributors include Clare Rossini, Robert Tisdale, Mary Moore Easter, Gregory Blake Smith and others. Notes on contributors. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-961391154.

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful large format book containing almost 100 reproductions of paintings - most in full color - by Jackson, a contemporary American realist and one of the leading landscape artists of the Midwest. Included are'the Illinois prairie landscapes, as well as the cityscapes, townscapes, interior views, works with social and political themes, and murals done by Jackson over the past forty years, all of them reflecting his fascination with the subtle yet pervasive impact of time and light on art and on life.' Extensive text by Wooden, notes, listings of the figures and of Jackson's exhibitions, index. 147 pp., oblong format, printed on heavy glossy paper throughout. A volume in the series Visions of Illinois. ISBN: 0-252017358.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - An affectionate account of 'a horse-and-buggy lawyer in a Kansas town and 'short-grass country' of the eighteen nineties' up to 1922, by his son, also a country lawyer in the same offices in Lyons, Kansas that his father used. Illustrated with humorous drawings by Dick Underwood. 218pp

New York: Crown, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this winner of the PEN/Nelson Algren Award (the judges were Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme and Roger Groening.) This contains ten stories, set in the Great Lakes Region of the American midwest, which examine the courage and loneliness of misfits in a society that values conformity 242 p. ISBN: 0-517567822.

New York: Picador USA, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of short stories set in a small midwestern town. The title novells is the story of two sisters growing old together, who finally face a lifetime of betrayals. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186827.

New York: Picador USA, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a collection of short stories set in a small midwestern town. The title novells is the story of two sisters growing old together, who finally face a lifetime of betrayals. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-312-186827.

New York: Dutton, 1969. dj. Hardcover - A story of nature and a boy set in the Midwest of one hundred and forty years ago; the ally of the fictional boy in the story is the real great Swedish-American naturalist, Thure Kumlein (1819-1888). Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award in 1969. Illustrated with black and white drawings by John Schoenherr

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by the author of Morte d'Urban, winner of the 1963 National Book Award. Powers has been called the greatest Catholic writer of the 20th century (although he rejected the label of Catholic writer), one whose writing contrasts the foibles of priestly life with the ideal of what it should stand for. These stories are of the people -laymen and priests, faithful and not-so-faithful - who live in the heartland of America. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-394496086.

New York: St Martin's, 2001. A weaving together of World War II and the present day in a moving tale of love, loss and family.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1949. Hardcover first edition - The author's first (and apparently only) novel, set in midwinter in a small town in the Midwest, a story of quiet intensity as it follows three very different families. 313 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Laune.

Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1985.). Reprint of this novel of a Jewish girl and and African American girl who forge a friendship in an atmosphere of anger and rage, originally published in 1955. This edition includes an afterword by Nellie McKay, an essay 'On Racism and Ethnocentrism' by Johnetta B. Cole and Elizabeth A. Oakes, and a brief biographical sketch of the author. 352 pp plus 2 pages of advertisements. ISBN: 0-935312-404.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-577736.

New York: Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover - A collection of four stories, originally published in 1907 and 1909, which present a picture of Lincoln as told, in informal midwestern dialect, by Billy Brown, a young Illinois neighbor. Includes an introduction by Tarbell in which she talks about the connection between the "Billy Browns" found in many small towns and Lincoln. In addition to her muckracking journalism regarding Standard Oil, Tarbell was also known for her biography "The Life of Abraham Lincoln." Illustrated with 6 full-page glossy plates, all in the first story. xix, 179 pp.

Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, (1967.) dj. Hardcover - Whimsical stories about the author's home town, set in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries, illustrated with drawings by the author. 185 pp. Original price of 4.50 present on front flap, but family bookshelf notation on rear flap.