New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, fourth book, a "richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune . . . about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way - and not - in New York City" in the years just before 9/11. SIGNED on the title page. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-307-26419X.

New York: Norton, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third crime novel featuring New York city cop Detective John ("Little John") Rawlings. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-393022528.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - When Santiago Diaz, a former soccer star and candidate for president of Mexico, observes an overt act of sexual display as he is speaking from the stage, he becomes intrigued and "draws the couple into his world of Mexican politics, economics, and danger. Invited to visit Diaz and his wife at their home in Mexico, Andrew and Edith find themselves first seduced by the glamour of a political campaign and then increasingly endangered by a skein of conspiracy, violence, and death." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-679416927.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1921. Hardcover first edition - A collection of mostly humorous sketches originally published in the New York Evening Post and the Literary Review and other newspapers and journals. Includes a short piece on McSorley's and several on various authors - Gissing, Conrad, etc. Illustrated with drawings by Walter Jack Duncan viii, 242 pp., publisher's ads at rear.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Leonid McGill mystery, set in Manhattan. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488245.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Leonid McGill mystery, set in Manhattan. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488245.

New York: Grove Press, (2016). First edition - An "epic, ambitious, and deeply poignant novel, [this] follows a diverse group of people whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattans East Village, the Christodora. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and the activism of the 1980s to a future New York City of the 2020s where subzero winters are a thing of the past, it recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, portrays the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life a bohemian Lower Manhattan of artists and idealists." 430 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth novel of psychological suspense, featuring Kathy Mallory and set in New York City. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0399157745.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a mystery introducing Raymond Donne an ex-cop who, after a knee injury ended his police career, is now teaching in the same Williamsburg, Brooklyn neighborhood he once policed. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for a Barry Award. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-1250008985.

New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring photographer T. T. Baldwin. The rodeo has come to Madison Square Garden in New York City, and an assistant vet is found dead in the pen of a prized yellow bull. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-366981.

New York: Harper Collins, (2009). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, Part thriller, part satire, part period piece. "Taylor Schmidt - twenty-three, single, and jobless - arrives in the Big Apple desperate for work and hungry for love. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment Agency she finds the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend . . . but perfection has its price." Bruce DeSilva called it a "darkly comic, beautifully written tale of conspiracy, sex and obsession in 1990s New York City" 270 pp. ISBN: 978-0061735295.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third book - a collection of 35 essays by this New Yorker writer and the author of "The Orchid Thief" (which was the basis of the film, "Adaptation" featuring Meryl Streep.) The subjects include people, famous, infamous, and obscure and even a dog with a resemblence to Bill Clinton. Among those profiled are the eponymous Cristina Sanchez, the first woman to become a matador in Spain; Bill Blass and Tonya Harding, a traveling gospel group, the Southernaires, and an African king who is a New York city taxi-driver. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-679462988.

New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1919). Hardcover - The second book in this popular mystery series by this Canadian author, set in a New York City of "evil-smelling tenements and back alleys as the haunts of dope fiends, thieves and murderers." Dale, who was known as the Grey Seal, was a wealthy New Yorker by day and an expert safecracker at night - Able to surreptitiously change from one identity to the other, he worked to expose the seedy and corrupt underbelly. 340 pp plus 12 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Clarkson Potter, (1986) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, a "witty tart" comedy about the interconnected lives of four sophisticated women in New York City. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-517559986.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Regency Romance writer Juliet Bodine, who has agreed to help turn Dickens' Great Expectation into ballet form - and NYPD detective Murray Landis. SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312280335.

New York: Harper Collins, (2013). First edition - Based on interviews with others and on previously unexamined sources, this is a detailed look at a young Sylvia Plath and the month that would lay the groundwork for her novel, The Bell Jar. "In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselles annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plaths words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life." Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Notes, bibliography. 262 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of this mid-century American author (Hemingway called her his favorite living author) whose work was almost unknown until a fairly spectacular revival in the 1990's. Gore Vidal called this biography 'not only a distinguished work in itself but [it] illuminates one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her.' Frontispiece and glossy photographic inserts. Notes, bibliography, index. INSCRIBED by Page on the title page and dated March 2002 in Charlottesville. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-5068x.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, "a darkly lyrical, charged exploration of the double-edged sword of urban anonymity" set in New York city, 234 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A delightful story written and illustrated by this Caldecott-award winning artist, and featuring the traditional commedia cast: Judy and the Baker & The Black Man, the Cop and the Crocodile, The Devil, The Hangman and the Clowns. When a thief takes off with Mr Punch, he and his gang discover that Punch is more than a match for them, as he leads them on a merry chase through New York City. Illustrated with oil and ink on vellum. Large format, unpaginated, bound in red boards with a blue cloth spine, gilt lettering and illustration on the front. Selected as the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year. ISBN: 0-670827908.

Boston: Little Brown, (1963) dj. Hardcover - Mystery novel featuring NY Police commissioner Richard Queen and his son Ellery Queen - unlike the other books in this series, it was writtn by the noted scrience fiction author Theodore Sturgeon. 213 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of psychological suspense and mounting horror - after an arduous search, a young woman finally finds an apartment she can afford in Greenwich Village. What she didn't know at the time was that in the mostly vacant building, she had a neighbor from hell. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-060135166.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - An authoritative biography of Michael Bloomberg: businessman, politician, innovator, publisher, philanthropist, activist, former mayor of New York City, and presidential candidate - "a revealing portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country." Photographs in both black and white and full color, notes, index. viii, 467 pp. ISBN: 978-1476772202.

New York: Dutton, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which re-creates in simple text and evocative black and white photographs by Binzen, the vitality of a city park. Binzen, who also wrote and illustrated many children's books during his years as a photographer was known for his attention to composition and the evocation of mood - both characteristics seen in these photographs, taken over a period of several months in various parks in New York City. Unpaginated, a slim slightly oversized book. ISBN: 0-525366202.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Told from the viewpoint of fifth grader Deja, who is living in a homeless shelter with her family, this is a powerful story about young people who weren't alive to witness this collapse of the Twin Towers, but begin to realize how much this disaster colors their every day lives.SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 232 pp.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this husband and wife team originally published in the US under the title "The Blonde Died Dancing." The authors were best known for their breezy mysteries featuring amateur detectives (or meddlers) Jeff and his actress wife Haila Troy, and while this novel does not feature the Troys by name, it grew out of a novella which did. Basis for the movie "Come Dance with Me" starring Bridget Bardot (in which Connie Barton was once again renamed as Haila Troy) INSCRIBED "for the Liverights" by both authors on the front endpaper with the cryptic notations "C.O.D" and "pd 21/9/58" 192 pp.

New York: Clarkson Potter, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery novel, set in New York City's Greenwich Village where lighthearted questions at a party to the ancient Book of Oracles are met with warnings of doom, followed by a murder. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-517-540290.

New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth and final volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, which was begun in 1979 and completed just months before Roth's death in 1995. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312169809.