New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.). First edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. Unlike most ARCs, this advance issue has a very different cover than the design used on the dust jackets of the trade edition. Author's letter to the reader. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. SIGNED on the title page. Novel written for young adults or older children. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of five perfect summers spent at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418946.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. dj. First edition - From the dustjacket flap: 'Traveling by tugboat, canoe, train, a nd on foot, Ben Bachman takes us on a voyage up the Connecticut, from its mouth on Long Island Sound to its headwaters in the wildness of Northern New Hampshire. .. He writes of wildlife and plant life, of the rise and fall of the mills and railroads, of Indians and pioneers, of the Gilded Age on the lower river and dairy farming on the upper.' ix, map, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-395-343895.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1936.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the "Children of America Stories" series. A combination of fiction and fact, this is the story of 9 year old John who is left at his uncle's house while his parents motor through New England, and his mother sends him letters every week describing the sites they have visited. Meanwhile, John has encountered a mysterious old man named 'C.F.' Illustrated with photographs. Green and white map endpapers. Bound in glossy white boards with a blue cloth spine and a full color illustration on the front (illustration is repeated on the dust jacket.) and printed throughout on good quality semi-glossy paper. 156 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (she is the granddaughter of novelist John Buchan), a fable set in rural Vermont. The story contrasts the 20th century Vermonters, including city slickers, idealistic back-to-the-land young people and Jesus freaks, with their early 19th century counterparts in one of the most difficult years in rural Vermont - 1816 - the year without a summer. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-316114073.

New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel with a deceptively simple title by this National Book Award winning writer - it "starts with the return of Dennie Hensley to America for her mother's funeral. (The wife of a diplomat, she now lives in Rome.) When Marilyn Groves, a woman Dennie has known casually for years, invites her to an outing on a Vermont lake, she accepts, despite misgivings. . . the women are interrupted by an intruder whom they fear, although he leaves them unharmed. The next day the man who had invaded the camp returns, this time bent on rape and murder. The women survive the horror, but later revelations, up to the ironic close, leave the reader shaken." (Publisher's Weekly)223 pp.

Rutland, VT: Tuttle Company / Marble City Press, 1895. Hardcover - Well-illustrated reader (photographs, drawings, maps, decorations), bound in light brown clothwith dark brown titles and decorations and a silver-stamped coats-of-arms on each cover. 227 pages and 5 pgs ads. Both "Parts" are included in this one volume. End-papers are printed in red with a map & state flower on the front, ads on the rear.

New York: Viking, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 5th collection of poems by this writer - many of them are related to Vermont, especially the long narrative poem 'An Xmas Murder' which tells the story of a crime committed in Vermont in the 1950's as told by one of the witnesses. Also includes a sequence of poems on Irish themes, and others on figures drawn from nature. ISBN: 0-670-819565.

New York: Macmillan, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - "It's time to return to the city, but Jemima isn't ready. Only after she takes one last solitary walk on this cold, rain-pricked autumn day, remembering the full summer she's shared with her aunt, can she leave the Vermont farm." Illustrated in color by Troy Howell. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-027330702.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book discussing the author's exploration of a northeastern mountain habitat, in this case the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness area near the author's home in Vermont. He hike through this "new" wilderness area, the result of a 1974 act, protecting re-forested (formerly farmed) mountains, noting the many subtle changes and details, and using Robert Frost's poem "Directive" as a guide. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with maps and drawings by Mal Schroder. Notes, selected readings, index. x, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-674748883.

New York: Kensington, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Fifth novel by this award-winning writer and like her first novel, this is set on Lake Gormlaith in Vermont where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up and where he hopes he can rescue his son from a destructive path, salvaging what's left of his family and overcome a writer's block, and a looming deadline. SIGNED on the title page. Reading guide bound in. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0758228789.

Montpelier: Vermont Life Magazine, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - "From deep within the green mountains- thirteen incredible tales of mystery, criminality, hardship and humor." Illustrated with both full page and small en texte black and white drawings by Jane Clark Brown. Prologue, notes. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-828901171.

Charlotte, Vermont: Charlotte Historical Society, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical account of three towns in the mid-Champlain valley, all chartered on June 24, 1762. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, reproductions and maps. A large and rather heavy octavo. Several appendices, endnotes, index. xxvi, 332 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-914960881.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (2016). First edition - The 25th book by this award-winning author, published 60 years after his first. Set in the 1970s in far northern Vermont, this is the story of a 46 year old former stockbroker, going blind at age 46, who is living in a farmhouse near a hippie commune and bordering an old smuggling trail, not used to move drugs across the border. It is about learning to adjust to life with limitations, to be able to rely on the kindness of others, and is made more poignant by the fact that Hoagland himself has been dealing with diminishing vision for more than 10 years, 184 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1966. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eleven year old girl adjusts to life in Vermont after the death of her father. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "I hope you enjoy Libby's Vermont adventures." and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with drawings by Lilian Obligado. 212 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Jackson's final novel - "A strange, terrible, and beautiful tale. From the first page, a mystery hangs over the three people living in the big old house on the hill. Shunned by the villagers, they live their private life behind closed doors. As their story quietly and deftly unfolds, the reader is led into a situation both startling and macabre." 214 pp. Red topstain. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. Dust jacket praise from Raymond Carver, Tom Wolfe and James Purdy. A concise novel at only 128 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525396.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. A collection of poems, many rooted in his life in rural Vermont. 57 pp. ISBN: 0-395-393868.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First edition - A collection of poems, many rooted in his life in rural Vermont. 57 pp. ISBN: 0-395-393868.

New York: Plume. 1990. The author's highly praised first book - his account of working as an apprentice sawyer at a Vermont sawmill -. ISBN: 0-452-264200.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Joe Gunther mystery, set in Vermont and Quebec. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7234.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. First edition - Fourth in the series featuring Joe Gunther, Brattleboro Vermont's chief of detectives. Well-written, suspenseful and an interesting background. Recommended.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2000). First edition - A Joe Gunther mystery, set in Vermont and Quebec.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third in the Joe Gunther series, set in Brattleboro, Vermont. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-4715.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Joe Gunther mystery, set in Vermont and Quebec. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7234.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED first edition - Fourth in the series featuring Joe Gunther, Brattleboro Vermont's chief of detectives. Well-written, suspenseful and an interesting background. SIGNED on the title page. Recommended. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-892964707.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a new series set in Vermont, featuring former MP Mercy Carr - who has returned from Afghanistan, where she was shot and her fiance was killed, with Martinez's bomb-sniffing dog, Elvis - and Game Warden Troy Warner. 342 pp. ISBN: 978-1250153036.