New York: Viking, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of art, sex and love. Dustjacket designed by Michael Ian Kay and Melissa Hayden features a photograph of Michaelangelo's David, with a discreetly placed wraparound band. ISBN: 0-670-841463.

New York: Viking, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look, both satirical and funny, at a woman who, given the chance, is determined to rip apart the old order and start fresh. ISBN: 0-670-836451.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in 2004 - in what was the near future at the time Weldon wrote this - a lighthearted and very funny satire on contemporary life. A title in the Harper Short Novel series, illustrated with drawings by Amanda Faulkner. 80 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0157593.

New York: St Martin's, (1974.) dj. Hardcover - Second novel by Weldon (who also wrote several scripts for the popular BBC television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs.') 311 pp.

London: Flamingo / Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tales not just of wicked women, but of wicked men, and children, and even 'from the other side.' SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, 289 pp. ISBN: 0-00-2239213.

New York: Summit Books, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comedy of manners (revolving around a London couple who moves to the country, and ensuing pregancy of the wife) but with malevolent overtones. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-673-448099.

New York: Pantheon, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel of a downtrodden and dumped housewife who goes after revenge is perhaps Weldon's best known - certainly one of her wittiest and most wicked. Basis for the movie of the same name. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539206.

New York: Pantheon, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel of a downtrodden and dumped housewife who goes after revenge is perhaps Weldon's best known - certainly one of her wittiest and most wicked. Basis for the movie of the same name. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539206.

New York: HarperPerennial, 1996. The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. ISBN: 0-06-0976845.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardcover - The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of this influential anthology. Includes stories by Eudora Welty (first prize for 'Livvie is Back'), the second year in a row that Welty won the first prize; Dorothy Canfield (second prize for 'The Knot Hole'), Pearl Buck, Kay Boyle, Josephine Johnson and others. Introduction by Herschell Brickell. Appendix. 319 pp.

New York: Penguin, (1988.). A novel by this delightful writer - who was 71 when her first novel was published. A recently widowed woman who had decided to end it all finds her plans derailed when she encounters a young man also bent on suicide. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0108270.

New York: The Viking Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - A novel which begins in 1926 with ten year old Flora on vacation in Brittany and which spans nearly 40 years. As one reviewer said Wesley 'conveys delicate upper-class hypocrisies with ruthless amusement, as is her wont. Her picture of pre-war English snobberies is not only funny and chilling but conveys the depth of the rot."(The Independent). 298 pp. ISBN: 0-670-83338x.

London: Bantam, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another unusual novel by this remarkable writer: although she had had 2 children's books published, her first novel was not published until she was 70. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-593035771.

New York: Penguin, (1986.). Hebe listens in the darkness as her stern and hypocritical grandfather convinces her three sisters that her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated -and so she flees -another thoughtful novel by this wonderful writer. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0123958.

London: Black Swan, (1988.). The author's fifth novel - although she had had 2 children's books published, her first novel was not published until she was 70. This is the story of a newly widowed woman, looking back over her married life - in which she "kept faith" with her kind and wealthy husband - and with her lover. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-552-993042.

London: Black Swan, (1988.). A witty and comic novel, one which punctures the pompous and delights in the absurd - although she had had 2 children's books published, Wesley's first novel was not published until she was 70. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-552-992585.

New York: Viking, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Spanning several decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s and set in Wesley's beloved West Country, this is, in many ways a typical - but rewarding - "Wesley novel" with two strong women, an offbeat lover, and a bit of violence under the surface. She has been described as "witty, unillusioned and extraordinarily wise" - all characteristics exhibited in this story. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-670-846724.

New York: Penguin, (1989.). The author's fifth novel - although she had had 2 children's books published, her first novel was not published until she was 70. This is the story of a newly widowed woman, looking back over her married life - in which she "kept faith" with her kind and wealthy husband - and with her lover. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0108262.

New York: Viking, (1992.). First edition - Spanning several decades, from the 1950's to the 1990's and set in Wesley's beloved West Country, this is, in many ways a typical - but rewarding - "Wesley novel" with two strong women, an offbeat lover, and a bit of violence under the surface. She has been described as "witty, unillusioned and extraordinarily wise" - all characteristics exhibited in this story. 272 pp.

London: Bantam, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another unusual novel by this remarkable writer: although she had had 2 children's books published, her first novel was not published until she was 70. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-593035771.

New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library by the University of California, Berkeley, 1982. First edition - A collection of four short works by the author best known for the novel "Friendly Persuasion", including two which had not been published previously. Bound in at the beginning of "Babes in the Woods" is a "reasonable' reproduction of a manuscript page on yellow legal size paper. Portrait frontispiece. #30 in the series of keepsakes issued by The Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. 67pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. First edition -

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 16 short stories .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 16 short stories .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1956. dj. Hardcover - Her first and best known novel, the story of a family of Quakers living in rural Indiana during the Civil War - "they lived according to the ways of William Penn, but there times when their human nature could not be denied." Dustjacket with scenes from the movie starring Gary Cooper.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the rolling orchard country of California in 1921.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a trip made to England and France by West in 1929 when she was a sheltered young woman of 26 on her own for the first time. Interspersed with the letters and diary entries from 1929 are her comments 50 years later. ISBN: 0-15-1264023.