New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "The Empire of the Sun" - based on Ballard's own experiences as a boy, this follows James from the Japanese prison camps and Shanghai to England after the end of the war. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-374-181101.

New York: George Braziller, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth book by this author best known for novel "Poor Things." Anthony Burgess described Gray as the first major Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott, and the Observer called him a 'true original.' In this novel, Kelvin Walker departs his native Scotland for London, the center of the universe, plotting to make it very big by starting at the . . . top, and using another man's identity to do so. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-807611441.

New York: Random House, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hav is like no place on earth - because of course, it isn't. Originally published as if it were a genuine travel book - but in reality, a delightful fiction short-listed for the Booker. "After reading 'Last Letters from Hav', what travel writer would ever want to report from an actual place? . . . a vigorous literary hybrid; elegant fiction in its own right but also a respectfully witty homage to indomitable English travel writers like Lawrence, Burton and Blanch." (Elaine Kendall, LA Times) Illustrated with a double page map. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-394532627.

New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a gritty, realistic novel set in the 'lost world' of New York City's toughest streets, one which focuses on the evolving relationship between journalist Alex Shaw and Leonardo Ruis, a young thug struggling for survival in a world of drugs, danger and decadence. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312023014.

New York: Kensington, (2017). First edition - Uncommon advance proof of this book issued as a trade paperback original. "Fresh out of college, Carter Quinn has returned to his home in North Providence, Rhode Island, unsure of just about everything except his plans to go to Italy and pursue the woman of his dreams. To do that, he needs to learn to speak Italian, and only one man is right for the job - Giancarlo Rosa.... What begins as an apparent mismatch between mentor and student soon blossoms into something deepera friendship that carries them into the old country, where forgotten secrets may hold the key to a new lease on life." 348 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual short novel by this award-winning author but one written in his "usual style: details accrue slowly, very slowly, through repeated examination of a few key dramatic episodes. In the late 1940s, a teenage boy receives a letter from his recently deceased father. Found among his papers after his death, the letter is full of stern, fatherly platitudes. Friends of the family praise the letter extravagantly; copies are printed up and mailed to their friends. A few years later, one of the boy's college professors analyzes the letter in class." (Library Journal) 152 pp. ISBN: 0-394571967.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in the Aubrey - Maturin series, set in the Indian Ocean in the early 1800s. 318 pp. Striking wrap-around dustjacket painting by George Sottung. ISBN: 0-397-009984.

New York: Pantheon, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel set in New York, a city on edge after 9/11. "In shifting points of view Alexs, Ruths, and the little dogs man, woman, and one small tenacious beast try to make sense of the cacophony of rumors, opinions, and innuendos coming from news anchors, cable TV pundits, pollsters, bomb experts, hostages, witnesses, real estate agents, house hunters, bargain seekers, howling dogs, veterinarians, nurses, and cab drivers." Review copy with publisher' s material laid in. 193 pp. ISBN: 978-0375425226.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, fourth book, set in a Connecticut town where a beekeeper is struggling to save a family business, and his son has joined a cult with a malevolent leader. "This is storytelling at its best - gritty, high-minded, ever vigilant in the life and death matters that are ours."(Lee K. Abbott) "This gem of a book should bestow on Penner the literary eminence he deserves." (Publishers Weekly) 170 pp. ISBN: 0-671664239.

New York: Dutton (2002). First edition - Set in Italy, this is a love story about the most difficult decision of all - choosing between romantic love and the love for her child. 289 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's second novel - a love story filled with humor featuring a violinist embittered by a truly horrific gig. . Kirkus Review called it a novel of "bite and raging intellect . . from a mean and lean fabulist." 198 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - Selections from Mark Twain's most representative writings, including a complete Huckleberry Finn and The Mysterious Stranger and selections from many other works including the short story The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and much more, including some previously unpublished letters. Edited and with an introduction by Bernard DeVoto. #20 in the Viking Portable Library. Usual small format. 786 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's sixth book, a "tender and troubled love story about a man trapped in the conflict between his responsibilities as a father and husband and his sudden love for a young girl." 147 pp. ISBN: 0-151124809.

New York: Grove Press, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, this novel - which begins 'When I was in eighth grade my sister helped kill another girl' - is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do." 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0802159274.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (1988). First edition - First book publication of this novel originally written in 1948 - set just after World War II, this is "a startling immense and detailed tableau of longshoremen, communist labor organizers, gangsters, thugs, brilliant yet cynical bosses, and the many ordinary people unwillingly drawn into the battle and forced to choose a side." Foreword by Joe Doyle. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-938410636.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, fourth book, set in a Connecticut town where a beekeeper is struggling to save a family business, and his son has joined a cult with a malevolent leader. "This is storytelling at its best - gritty, high-minded, ever vigilant in the life and death matters that are ours."(Lee K. Abbott) "This gem of a book should bestow on Penner the literary eminence he deserves." (Publishers Weekly) INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-671664239.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book publication of this novel originally written in 1948 - set just after World War II, this is "a startling immense and detailed tableau of longshoremen, communist labor organizers, gangsters, thugs, brilliant yet cynical bosses, and the many ordinary people unwillingly drawn into the battle and forced to choose a side." Foreword by Joe Doyle. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-938410636.

New York: Dial Press, (1965) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An important and relatively early work by Mailer. SIGNED on the title page by Mailer. 270 pp. Dustjacket art by Paul Bacon.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2017). First edition - In the intertwined lives of two couples - one from Chicago, the other from New Mexico - both of whom head to New York, Spencer has created "a stunning, stinging portrait of class and creativity - and the double-edged sword of success." Newsday describes it as "An old-fashioned story of love, money and social class told through a clever artifice: a series of 13 awful parties (from 1976 to 1990) that give the narrative the immediacy of a series of snapshots, even as the story spills engagingly beyond the boundaries of each image." 366 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award-winning writer, a chronicle of the single long day of a family's annual Thanksgiving gathering. A book which "burrows deep into the psyche of architect Jack Fletcher. Jack, his wife Gwen and their children are visiting Gwen's efficient sister Penny and her successful husband Peter at their Connecticut home.. . Hobbie gently unfolds a moving story of illusions, antipathy and love, he captures the nuances of character and situation in a way that adds a startling dimension to a familiar family holiday.. . a wry, stirring, richly allusive novel." (Publishers Weekly) 241 pp. ISBN: 0-805025197.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2012). Hardcover first edition - A book described as "part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter as he joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed 'suicide' of Vincent van Gogh." Afterword by Moore "So Now You Have Ruined Art." 403 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0061779749.

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: Viking Penguin / Granta Books, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 75 essays and reviews written over a period of 10 years by this award-winning author. "Whether he is analyzing racial prejudice in Britain or surveying an India riven by fundamentalism and politics of religious hatred, Rushdie writes as an impartial observer, a citizen of the world. His sympathies range from Grace Paley's stories to Thomas Pynchon's political allegories. He situates such writers as Gunter Grass, John le Carre and Mario Vargas Llosa in a political context. Along with a . . withering portrayal of Margaret Thatcher's class-ridden, jingoist Britain, there are two resounding replies to critics of 'The Satanic Verses'." (Publishers Weekly) INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1992. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-670839523.