London: Constable, . (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (his first won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award). ISBN: 0-094695903.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. 473 pp. ISBN: 0-060166533.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. SIGNED on the page facing the title page. 475 pp

New York: Shaye Areheart / Harmony/, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Author's third novel, the story of a brilliant violinist with San Francisco Symphony and of an infatuated fan. SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp.

New York: Shaye Areheart / Harmony/, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Author's third novel, the story of a brilliant violinist with San Francisco Symphony and of an infatuated fan. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2004. 345 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - 'An evocative and diversely populated novel of race, politics and identity in civil-rights era San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 275 ppl. ISBN: 0-670894923.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel - 'An evocative and diversely populated novel of race, politics and identity in civil-rights era San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. 275 ppl

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Set in upstate New York where Peter Herman, the author of the influential book "Love is a Canoe" has been living a quiet life until his wife dies, and he finds himself at a loss. "A smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other." SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Set in upstate New York where Peter Herman, the author of the influential book "Love is a Canoe" has been living a quiet life until his wife dies, and he finds himself at a loss. "A smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each other." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2012 (that is, before publication). 340 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A documentary novel" by the author of 'What Makes Sammy Run' and 'Waterfront.' This is the saga of Joey Hopper, 'a rough-and-tumble working-class opportunist who learns how to beat corrupt union bosses at their own game as he carries their traditional swindles to unprecedented heights'. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-385005210.

New York: Doubleday, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. The author's third novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, in France. From the front flap: [this] 'brings readers into a world so real and beautifully drawn that one does not want the story to end. ..A chance meeting in a rainstorm becomes a defining moment of transforming emotion for graduate students Claire Marvel and Julian Rose, two people whose hearts have long been protected behind walls of wit, intelligence, and innate caution. Neither could imagine what lies in store for them: The unexpected unfolding over a dozen years of a great and difficult love.' Cover praise from Frank McCourt. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-38550344X.

New York: Doubleday, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and in France. From the front flap: [this] 'brings readers into a world so real and beautifully drawn that one does not want the story to end. ..A chance meeting in a rainstorm becomes a defining moment of transforming emotion for graduate students Claire Marvel and Julian Rose, two people whose hearts have long been protected behind walls of wit, intelligence, and innate caution. Neither could imagine what lies in store for them: The unexpected unfolding over a dozen years of a great and difficult love.' Cover praise from Frank McCourt. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-38550344X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set in a small Connecticut town, a thriller about a man determined to hunt down the hit-and-run driver who killed his ten year old son. SIGNED on the title page. 301 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by the author of 'Love Story.'. ISBN: 0-06-0140313.

New York: Harper & Row, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by the author of 'Love Story.'. ISBN: 0-06-0140313.

New York: Grove Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, cure him of his illusion that he's human?" SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 404 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Controversial author's third novel, the story of an aging American in the final stages of cancer, drugged with painkillers, moves in and out of consciousness, railing against the unfairness of the world around, the sins of those around her, and her coming death - only to discover the incredible banality of life after death. 404 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-80211671x.

New York: Grove Press, (2013). First edition - A tour de force which moves between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. 397 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - His second book, but the first to be published in the US - two twin gender-bending novellas. Bull, of course, winds upin San Francisco.... INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. 310 pp.

New York & London: Little Brown, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "'Today will be different,' Eleanor Flood tells herself, and oh baby hang on for a wild ride that's like nothing Eleanor sees coming. In this brilliant depiction of a woman hanging on by her fingernails, Maria Semple delivers a perfect panic of a day on which the barely tolerable, muddle-through-it desperation that so many of us have known at one time or another suddenly erupts with life-shattering force." SIGNED on the title page. A full-color mini-graphic novel, The Flood Girls, is bound into the center of the book, 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0316403436.

New York: Broadway Books, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel is a love story on many levels - of a woman lost, found and lost again - but especially of the love of music. 381pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 1-861591-179.

London: Phoenix House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this novel: a love story on many levels - of a woman lost, found and lost again - but especially of the love of music. ISBN: 1-861591-179.

London: Phoenix House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this novel: a love story on many levels - of a woman lost, found and lost again - but especially of the love of music. ISBN: 1-861591-179.

Toronto: McArthur and Company, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - This novel is a love story on many levels - of a woman lost, found and lost again - but especially of the love of music. 381pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 1-861591-179.

New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page with a long and wonderful inscription "For Joy, brave brave, lady, stay shining in the light of all the rivers, all the bright blue seas they give themselves to. See you again, yes? someday, down around the bend' and dated in 1992. His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.

New York: SOHO Press, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (third book), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Set in 2006, and moving from Manhattan to Florida, it has been described as a "brilliant examination of the way we live now, a novel that's as much about the role technology and spirituality play in shaping our reality as it is about the undying bond between brothers, and the redemptive possibilities of love." 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1569479759.

New York: SOHO Press, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (third book), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Set in 2006, and moving from Manhattan to Florida, it has been described as a "brilliant examination of the way we live now, a novel that's as much about the role technology and spirituality play in shaping our reality as it is about the undying bond between brothers, and the redemptive possibilities of love." SIGNED on the title page. 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1569479759.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very funny novel which manages to skewer the entire publishing world - no one - authors, publishers, academic critics, corporate bigwigs or even the reader - comes off unscathed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A "perfect comic novel about art, life and sex in a literary hamlet in the Hamptons" in which two rivals race to be the first to write the perfect comic novel about art, life and sex in a literary hamlet in the Hamptons, as they also struggle to ready the writers' softball team for a match against a movie crew. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-39455874x.