New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. SIGNED bookplate, hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. Bookplate SIGNED by the author is laid in. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised collection of short stories by this writer who was included on Granta's list of the 20 best young American novelists. SIGNED on the titlepage. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-835X.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Seventh novel by this highly praised writer - like many of his books, a gritty look at the underside of modern life. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-151794324.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta winner & highly praised writer's third novel - a dark story of 'romantic duplicity, drug deals and double-crosses' set in Rome, Brussels and New York. ISBN: 0-89919-4389.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Granta winner & highly praised writer's third novel - a dark story of 'romantic duplicity, drug deals and double-crosses' set in Rome, Brussels and New York. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN: 0-89919-4389.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, SIGNED on the title page. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-4907.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised collection of short stories by this writer who was included on Granta's list of the 20 best young American novelists. SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-835X.

New York: Harcourt Brace 1991 dj. Hardcover first edition - Gritty thriller set in London. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1261008.

New York: Pantheon, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-679-442464.

New York: Harcourt Brace 1991 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on title page. Gritty thriller set in London. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1261008.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the title page ("Come back to see us. Letter soon (he promised.: Hope you like this one." Laid in is a 2 page typed chatty letter -"have been saving these items for months, as you can tell. Took me a while to read Madison's book, but found it much better than the first, which is to be expected..." 322 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-3773.

New York: Norton, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised young author's second book, a continuation of the adventures of Alex Fader. ISBN: 0-393-049256.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel which follows the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba "from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his countrys first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people." Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (awarded every other year). SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-1616200428.

New York: Random House, (1991) dj. A high seas adventure novel by the author of "Jaws." 350 pp. ISBN: 0-679403558.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - West Virginia author's second powerful collection of short stories. Dustjacket praise from Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and others. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-385-420218.

Boston: Little Brown, 1965. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in South Africa, Mozambique and Tanganyika - the story of an old safari hunter.

New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of a road trip from Massachusetts to California - by way of the Amish Country, Graceland and the Alamo - a 60s novel - and a coming of age story: "Listening to Teddy tell the story, we are exactly back in the mind of a precocious boy in the late sixties. He's being bombarded with news about the moon landing and the conflicting feelings people are beginning to have about the Vietnam War, but his real concern is his disintegrating family." 356 pp. ISBN: 0-385-470959.

London: Review / Headline (Hodder), (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Irish writer's highly praised third novel, set in the former Belgian Congo during the 1960s--when the charismatic Patrice Lumumba was leading the fight for independence-- shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. A thriller, an erotic love story, and a reflection on the role of the artist and outsider during times of turmoil. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-74723210x.

New York: Richard W. Baron, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - His fifth book, and the final novel in the Rinehart trilogy.

Boston: Little Brown, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 16th provocative and thought-provoking novel by the author best known for 'Little Big Man'. Approaching age 60, a chance encounter during a sudden rainstorm, gives Walter Hunsicker, "chief copy-editor for a major publisher, the opportunity to remake his life - and he learns the horror of having one's wishes come true. . . Berger touches on the most alluring yet ultimately terrifying fantasy, 'What would my life have been like if?'." 283 pp. ISBN: 0-316091499.

New York: Delacorte, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A spoof of the classic spy thriller - "Self-proclaimed playwright and investigator Russel Wren is recruited to investigate the Sebastiani Liberation Front, a terrorist group from a principality nestled between Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia and run by a buffoonish, gluttonous monarch." 190 pp. ISBN: 0-385294018.

Boston: Little Brown, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A re-creation of the Oresteia, set in small-town America at the close of World War II, where a returning war veteran is killed by his unfaithful wife and her lover. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-316-092207.

New York: Delacorte, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berger's take on the hard-boiled crime thriller as practised by the masters of noir. 247 pp, Dust jacket and title page art by John Sposato. ISBN: 0-440-095468.

Boston: Little Brown, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A re-creation of the Oresteia, set in small-town America at the close of World War II, where a returning war veteran is killed by his unfaithful wife and her lover. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-316-092207.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Six stories of the Port William Membership, spanning a period of time from 1930 to 1967, but tied together by the presence of Wheeler Catlett. SIGNED on the title page. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-2165.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover first edition - Poet John Berryman was in the process of writing this novel at the time of his death, a novel about, as he called it, "the disease called alcoholism." Foreword by Saul Bellow.

New York: Random House, 1966. Hardcover first edition - Despite the author's statement that this book is fiction, it created a lot of controversy at the time of its publication because of the belief that the movie star in the book was based on Marilyn Monroe. Martha Gellhorn called it "a magical achievement" as a novel by a man who invented a totally believable woman.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by Bessie, and considered by many as one of his best. Story of the comedy nightclub circuit in the 50's.

New York: Warner, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, inspired by the story of King Lear, this is a gradual revealing of the secrets behind a man who built with his own hands a school in the Oregon high desert for the children of the Neige Courante tribe. Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-446-533319.