New York: Putnam, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' SIGNED by the author on the title page, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-679-418679.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh book by this award winning writer, a complex story set in modern Mexico, which 'explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in business, politics, education.' William Gass called it 'a truly magnificent achievement.' 335 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418679.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Prix Femina in France, this historical novel brings to life the 11th century of the Normans.

Franklin, PA: Franklin Library, 1992. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in the Signed First Edition Society series, SIGNED by Ackroyd on a preliminary page and with a special two page message to subscribers. The story of a boy with psychic powers, whose visions draw him into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. This edition also has a special full color illustration at the front by Norman Walker. 400 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book contrasting the disintegration of society in two different centuries: the early 18th c of Nicholas Dyer, architect, and the 20th c of Nicholas Hawksmoor, senior police officer involved in a murder investigation. Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0155035.

London: Hamish Hamilton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a boy with psychic powers and of his visions where he is drawn into the creations of Charles Dickens and William Blake, Thomas Mallory and Arthur Conan Doyle. Frontispiece and eleven other illustrations. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-679-409688.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set around the excavation of an astronomically aligned neolithic grave in Dorset. ISBN: 0-8021-11610.

London: Allen Lane, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this first issue printing still has the original name of Kathe) but it was produced for the Canadian market with the price - $12.95 - in Canadian dollars. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-713913452.

London: Allen Lane, (1980.). SIGNED first edition - A very different novel by the author best known for 'Watership Down.' A love story with a steadily growing undertone of horror. It is ironical - in light of the fact that in the preface to this book, Adams says that he "cannot be sure of unraveling the experienced from the imagined" - that this novel was the subject of a libel suit, and the first printings were suppressed and the name of the main character - Kathe - was changed (this proof copy is, of course, the first state with the original name.) INSCRIBED by Adams on the first page "To - yours sincerely." 397 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning poet, a follow up to her National Book Award finalist 'Little Beauties.' The story of a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the streets of late 1990s San Francisco. Cover praise from Andre Dubois III who calls this 'one of the finest American novels I've read in some time. A night blooming flower you will not be able to put down.' SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-97725.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a "tough, sexy & spirited" woman who owns a ranch in the high country of Washington State.

New York: Morrow, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of infidelity and betrayal, by the author of "The War of the Roses." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-688-101208.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A retelling of Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' "On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Franciscos Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom . . . " SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0374166410.

Washington, D.C.: Sun & Moon Press, 1984. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories by this highly praised young author.

New York: Grove Press, (2013). First edition - Seventy-two year old Aaliya Sobhi lives alone in her apartment in Beirut, surrounded by a pile of books. Every year she translates another book in Arabic and stows it away. Godless, childless and divorced, she is her family's unnecessary appendage. "As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left." A book filled with musings on literature, art, Lebanon's Civil War and Aaliya's own past, this homage to the power of books. Winner of the California Book Award, finalist for the National Book Award. 291 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." INSCRIBED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which creates a "portrait of a man and an era of profound political and social upheaval. Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, [it] follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS." SIGNED on the title page with both his English and Arabic signatures, and dated in October 2016. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125767.

New York: Hyperion, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page. A simple, but haunting, novel that explores the love between a mother and a son, a love extending beyond death - a fable that poses the simple question: what would you do if you could spend one more day with a loved one? The third book by the bestselling author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven,' this also went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 1-401303277.

New York: Hyperion, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A simple, but haunting, novel that explores the love between a mother and a son, a love extending beyond death - a fable that poses the simple question: what would you do if you could spend one more day with a loved one? The third book by the bestselling author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven,' this also went quickly into later printings. ISBN: 1-401303277.

New York: Scribner, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which imagines what Princess Diana's life might be like if the tragic accident which took her life had been averted. Joanne Harris calls this "a terrific, clever, multilayered and subtle book." Ali is one of Granta's twenty best young British novelists. 259 pp. ISBN: 9781451635485.

New York: Norton, 1992. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - a story of sx, gambling and higher education.

New York: Ecco Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, third book, a story of greed, deception and betrayal set in the Arizona desert. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-269x.

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: 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."

New York & London: Viking, 1991. Hardcover first edition - A short novel about a 17 year old boy, confronting the choices that he has made, and that have been made for him.