Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Author's highly praised first novel. Kirkus Review in their starred review commented that it "feels just right for our desperate and despairing time, when a miracle - any miracle - will do" INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in Oct 2014 (that is, before publication). Finalist for the 2015 L.A. Times Award for First Fiction. 322 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1989.). First edition - Irish writer's first novel, highly praised upon its' original publication in the UK.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel featuring several people from different countries and backgrounds who find themselves together in Istanbul on the eve of the 1999 earthquake. Among them are Jeff Hartig, an American Peace Corps volunteer to Krygyzstan (as Rosenberg was himself) and Anarbek Tashtanaliev, the owner of a Soviet cheese factory. 312 pp.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (2003). First edition - "Kate Weyland loses a lucky earring on the morning of an important job interview. Running late, she asks her husband to drive their seven-year-old twin daughters to school. He and the girls end up in the path of a speeding police car, and all three of them die. While she's still reeling from grief, Kate goes on a trip to Nantucket Island to help a friend close her cottage, and she hears of a local recluse. Kate is normally skeptical, but in her vulnerable state the idea of communicating with her family beyond the grave captures her imagination, and she consults the mysterious Gabriel Farr." (PW)

New York: Viking, (2008). First edition - An old man nearing death looks back only his only true friendship back when he was 16. 209 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1993.). First edition - The first book in the author's highly praised series of historical mysteries, set in 1820s Regency England and introducing amateur sleuth and dandy Julian Kestrel. 333 pp

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel based on the four horsemen of the apocalypse - when 18 year old Gideon dies before he can become a US Army Ranger, he finds himself living a new life with strange new powers as War, one of the four horsemen - with a mission to save humanity from a re-emerging ancient evil. SIGNED on the title page and dated in October 2015, before publication. 364 pp.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (2006.). First edition - "An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.. . This book creates a dialogue among Palestinian and Israeli authors, who examine opposing versions of the historical narratives in the context of contemporary Israeli-Palestinian relations" Contributors include Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Mordechai Bar-On, Daniel Bar-Tal, Nathan J. Brown, Saleh Abdel Jawad, Eyal Naveh, Ilan Pappe, Dina Porat, Robert I. Rotberg, Nadim N. Rouhana, Gavriel Salomon, and Mark Tessler." Notes at the end of each essay. 273 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2012). SIGNED first edition - His second international thriller - a former federal agent has started over as a private investigator in Buenos Aires, but then he runs into a long lost friend - who has converted to Islam - and who is soon the chief suspect in a terrorist attack. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First edition - Roth's 21st book, the story of Mickey Sabbath, an "aging, raging powerhouse." Winner of the National Book Award. 451 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1994.). First edition - The second in the botanical mystery series featuring microbiologist Claire Sharples, a 'prickly sharp-witted sleuth' transplanted from Boston to California's Central Valley. Notable for their intelligence and wit and for the careful detail to the scientific facts and the environment inwhich they are set, this wonderful series was cut short by the author's early death in 1998. 293 pp.

Amherst, NY: Seventh Street Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - A complex and engrossing legal thriller, set in Southern California. Cover praise from Sue Grafton and Robert Dugoni, among others. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2019. First edition - A memoir of this trailblazing African American civil rights attorney, published shortly after her death in 2018 at the age of 104. "At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washingtons white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of 'separate but equal' and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence." Foreword by Tayari Jones.
Notes, selection of discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, index. 271 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.). First edition - A thriller involving mutant bats: "Investigating the bizarre bat attacks throughout New York City, scientist Nancy Joyce and detective Robert Gentry team up to uncover the source of these malevolent attacks." 309 pp

New York: Random House, 1994. First edition - The author's first book, a historical mystery set in 17th century Japan - nominated for several awards.

New York: Delacorte, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - The suicide of a reporter and a colleague's search for answers in the aftermath of the collapse of the Twin Towers uncover secrets hidden for years. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - The autobiography of this mathematician, beat writer and science fiction writer who was one of the creators of cyberpunk. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography. 327 pp.

New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1994.). First edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'The Alchemy of Culture' this is a look at the uses and abuses of mind-altering drugs through history, from opium in the stone age to crack on our city streets. Includes a look at the traditional mind-altering substances - like magic mushrooms in Siberia, tobacco and peyote in the Americas, qat in Africa, and betel in Southeast Asia - to the psychoactive plants of medieval witchcraft, hallucinogens like LSD and marijuana, and stimulants like coffee, tea, and cocoa, and why some are considered culturally acceptable, others are forbidden. Foreword by William Emboden Illustrated with line drawings, notes, bibliography index .ix,195. 36 t

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Ruff's second novel - described as part mad Max, part "Monkey Wrench Gang" and part Dickens - set in Manahattan in 2023, this novel includes an attempt to solve a murder mystery with Ayn Rand resurrected from the dead by computer acting as an unwilling assistant, a mutant great white shark swimming in the sewer tunnels beneath Times Square, and a Volkswagon Beetle possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman, and more. SIGNED by the author on the title page with a small drawing, 515 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A celebrity photographer accidently causes a car crash that kills two celebrities, and finds himself being blackmailed by a CIA operative. SIGNED on the title page. 370 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). First edition - Novel set in the 1930's in the Adirondacks, with the character of Jordan, the artist, based loosely on that of Rockwell Kent. Part love story, part murder mystery. 287 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's controversial first novel, the story of a woman forced to look back at her relationship with an English teacher when she was fifteen, after another student has accused him of sexual abuse, In her review in the NY Times, Kate Roiphe said "It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichŽs, but Russell manages a brutal originality. In an era of neat furious accounts of victimhood, this novel stands out for elusiveness, its exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power." 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0062941503.

New York: Random House, (2005.). First edition - Long-awaited new book by the author of the thought-provoking science fiction novel 'The Sparrow.' Set in Italy during World War II, and based on actual stories told Russell by the survivors, this is the almost unknown story of how the Italian people hid and sheltered almost all of the Jews in Italy - those who had lived there for generations and those who came seeking sanctuary - from the forced 'removals,' prison camps and death of the Holocaust. Includes an author's note and an interview with Russell. 448 pp.

New York: Random House, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - Long-awaited new book by the author of the thought-provoking science fiction novel 'The Sparrow.' Set in Italy during World War II, and based on actual stories told Russell by the survivors, this is the almost unknown story of how the Italian people hid and sheltered almost all of the Jews in Italy - those who had lived there for generations and those who came seeking sanctuary - from the forced 'removals,' prison camps and death of the Holocaust. SIGNED by author on title page. Includes an author's note and an interview with Russell. 448 pp.

New York: Random House, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - Long-awaited new book by the author of the thought-provoking science fiction novel 'The Sparrow.' Set in Italy during World War II, and based on actual stories told Russell by the survivors, this is the almost unknown story of how the Italian people hid and sheltered almost all of the Jews in Italy - those who had lived there for generations and those who came seeking sanctuary - from the forced 'removals,' prison camps and death of the Holocaust. SIGNED on the title page. Includes an author's note and an interview with Russell. 448 pp.

New York: Razorbill / Penguin, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a young adult science fiction series inspired by astrology. "At the dawn of time, there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now only 12 remain...." SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp.

New York Weinstein Books (2008). First edition - "Published for the first time in the U.S., real-life SAS hero Chris Ryan brings nonstop battle action to this military thriller set in Iraq." 353 pp.