Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Works by and about Stein, including interviews and criticism. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. Other contributors include Gertrude Stein Raffel, her niece, and Donald Sutherland. One of only 500 copies copies bound in cloth. 158 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-876851375.

New York: Avon (Discus Books), 1974. First edition - Stein as remembered by her friends - includes both brief summaries of her relationships with many (Picasso, etc.) and excerpts from works describing Stein with introductions to each selection by Simon. Insert with reproductionsof paintings of Stein. Simon's first book. Uncommon.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index, bibliography. ISBN: 0-374-374678.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's third novel, described as a suburban Gothic - an exploration of the 'other suburbia' - the trampled trash-filled strips of woods lying between subdivisions and highways. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6937.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's third novel, described as a suburban Gothic - an exploration of the 'other suburbia' - the trampled trash-filled strips of woods lying between subdivisions and highways. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6937.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's second novel, the story of "a young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey set in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders," 191 pp. Cover photo by Michael Hornburg. ISBN: 0-871134799.

New York: Penguin, 1987. A Virago Modern Classics. Novel originally published in 1924, with a new introduction by Julia Neuberger.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999). First edition - The smoking book examines pre colonial tobacco productions, to the sensation of smoking cigarettes - it is for everyone who has ever smoked or even known someone who smokes. It begins with the author's account of growing up on a tobacco farm in colonial Rhodesia. Notes, glossary, 237 pp.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999). A book which attempts to answer two questions: "how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? It begins with Stern's account of growing up on a tobacco farm in colonial Rhodesia, but goes on to "weave the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters." Notes, glossary. 237 pp.

New York: Norton, (1980.). SIGNED - SIGNED by Susan Griffin at her contribution. Essays by 16 American women writers - including Anne Tyler, Joan Didion, Margaret Walker, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Erica Jong and more - edited and with an introduction by Sternberg. Notes on contributors. xix, 265 pp. ISBN: 0-393-000710.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - The story of a brother and sister with so much to live for, who find their future haunted - he by events at a South African diamond mine where he had worked as an engineer, she by fears for her mental health. 245 pp. Dust jacket by Ben Stahl.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. dj. Hardcover - Author's second novel, the story of an American woman who marries Italian aristocrat and winds up managing his estate. Dust jacket art by Walker O. Cain. Map endpapers. 314 pp.

New York: Morrow, 1988. Hardcover first edition -

Las Vegas, NV: Byzantine Press, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon fifth collection of poems - and short prose vignettes - by this Northern California author, who is also known for her books about the history of the old mining town of Mokelumne Hill. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and dates in San Andreas, CA in 1983. Notes. 63 pp.

New York: Vantage Press, (1971) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set against the backdrop of the music business from San Francisco's Haight Street to London's SoHo district, this is a novel about a woman who is assigned to accompany a top entertainment star on tour as his public relations representative. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper.

New York: Pantheon, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of travelling through modern Greece, a "land of noisy anarchic cities and quiet idyllic towns and harbors" where the influence of the past - the Roman, the Byzantine, the Ottoman - is still felt. The author, an award-winning poet, "conjures a country where history and modernity coexist in often surprising ways, and with the past as an ineluctable backdrop, [she] paints in the everyday details that bring the country and its people vividly to life." xii, 398 pp. ISBN: 0-679421343.

New York: Persea Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised 2nd novel - Rosellen Brown calls it a "very funny (and dead on) commentary on the endless war between the sexes, the Yankees and the South.."

NY: Random House, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young woman returns to her family's former vast estate on Naragansett Bay in attempt to find out what happened to Ariabella, her childhood friend. The author's first novel: the 'A.' in her name is for 'Auchincloss' and so she is familiar with the world of this novel, a world where the sprawling mansions were referred to in the society pages as 'summer cottages.'. ISBN: 394-49346X.

New York: Hyperion, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd novel, the story of Darnell Tucker, a black firefighter and workingman, set in fictional Rio Seco, California. One reviewer called her "portrayal of a black woman's life nearly miraculous in its lyrical style, its tone, its astonishing richness of detail." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-7868-60030.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which reflects the diversity of Southern California - "At the center is Johnny Fras, a California patrol officer who covers at least 200 miles a day on his motorcycle. Straight lays out the strange rhythms of his job: mostly speeding tickets, fender benders and drunken-driving citations routine work randomly sparked with perilous chases and gruesome crashes.. . Between the poles of these two ambiguous crimes committed 20 years apart Straight strings the details of a terrifically engaging novel about a network of people related by blood, love and duty." (Washington Post) 367 pp. ISBN: 978-0374604516.

New York: Hyperion, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on title page, and dated Nov. 6, 1994. Author's 2nd novel, the story of Darnell Tucker, a black firefighter and workingman, set in fictional Rio Seco, California. One reviewer called her "portrayal of a black woman's life nearly miraculous in its lyrical style, its tone, its astonishing richness of detail..". ISBN: 0-7868-60030.

New York: Hyperion, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's 2nd novel, the story of Darnell Tucker, a black firefighter and workingman, set in fictional Rio Seco, California. One reviewer called her "portrayal of a black women's life nearly miraculous in its lyrical style, its tone, its astonishing richness of detail.." SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60030.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the borderlands between California and Mexico - a world where immigrants struggle to maintain their humanity and to protect their families despite the bitter toil, violence and sexual predators. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. Map. Glossary, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-618-056149.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1913. Hardcover first edition - Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood, Laddie is both a classic poor boy, rich girl romance as well as the story of "Little Sister," a child of nature who is allowed to freely roam the woods. Basis for the 1935 film of the same name. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer with a frontispiece and three internal plates in color. Pale green screened illustrations on the endpapers and all of the preliminary pages. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard. 602 pp.

New York: St Martin's, 1989. Hardcover first edition -

New York: St Martin's, 1989. Hardcover first edition - The story of two sisters in England in the 50's and 60's.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2001) dj. Hardcover - A woman travels to a Caribbean island after the woman who had been her nanny and her haven dies - only to find that she knew nothing of Louise's real life. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-316-890804.