New York: MTV Books / Pocket Books, (2002). First edition - A humorous semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman who decides it is time for her to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Small format. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-743453913.

Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, (1973, c 1970). The third collection of poetry by this important African American writer - although she comments that "No one was much interested in a Black girl writing what was called 'militant' poetry" all three of her early books sold well - as evidenced by 4 printings of this title within 3 years. The poems in this collection are very personal, with many influenced by the Black Power movement of the 1960s and others written for and about Black women like Gwendolyn Brooks, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-910296448.

New York: Birch Lane Press, (1990). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of author's first novel, a psychological thriller. A psychiatrists obsession with a beautiful, wealthy woman, who "claims she can kill with psychic powers, and has confessed to a murder, leads him to question his most basic beliefs." 263 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's now rather hard to find first novel, one which begins and ends at the funeral of a university president. Orville Prescott called it a "first novel of uncommon excellence.. ruefully satirical, her people sadly human in their egotism, self-absorption and isolation" and Time Magazine called it "a clean-cut gem of a novel." 249 pp.

New York: Random House, (1973 dj. Hardcover - The fourth novel by this award-winning Oklahoma writer, the story of a rebellious, angry seventeen-year-old Navajo girl, locked up in a reformatory and on a path of self-destruction, who meets an idealistic young white doctor from the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is determined to save her from herself. The issues it raises are as relevant today as they were when it was published - it is about a deep racism in society that still persists. Basis of the 1978 television film "The Girl Called Hatter Fox" starring Joannelle Nadine Romero as Hatter Fox, the first time a Native American had a feature role in a US film. 241 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon first edition of this Canadian author's highly praised second novel, a lovely low-key romance. "Sophie Ware, a kindergarten teacher in Buffalo Jump, Alberta, is just lonely enough to accept an outrageous proposal of marriage from her farmhand, Alexander Bresnyachuk, a second-generation Ukrainian whose main desire is to continue working Sophies land. . . an impressive novel, amusing and touching by turns, with likable characters, believable dialogue, and clear, brisk prose. Best of all, it has insightful things to say about love, family, and friendship that transcend its rural Canadian setting. (Lonnie Beene) Basis for the 1990 film of the same name. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-525245286.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication of a collection of reminiscences never before published in English about some of the places Colette lived and visited - including a long piece on moving, chats about her friends, cats, travels, the maiden voyage of the Normandie and most of all, her beloved France. Foreword by Margaret Crosland. Translated from the French by David Le Vay. Photographic frontispiece and other internal black and white photographs. Notes, 157 pp.

Providence, RI: Lost Roads, 1985. First edition - The very uncommon first collection of seven short stories by this author - cover praise from John Hawkes and Robert Kelly. 107 pp. ISBN: 0-918786320.

New York: Beaufort Books, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award-winning feminist writer - A powerful novel, written with emotional intensity and clarity. After the rape of a fellow nun in the South American village where Sister Anna has been stationed by her North American order, Anna is removed to London - ostensibly to conduct research, but in reality to recover from a near breakdown. There she learns of atrocities committed in Latin America in the name of Christianity, works closely with a brain-damaged child, becomes friendly with a radical lesbian: all of which causes her to reassess her faith, her vocation, and her life." 210 pp. ISBN: 0-825303508.

New York: Canongate U.S., (2004). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, a "a portrait both of a city and a generation, offering a female perspective on the harsh truth of growing up in today's Britain. Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men, but feels increasingly trapped. She seeks escape in the hedonistic underbelly of Liverpool, getting off on rough sex and cheap highs. Shockingly candid and brutally poetic. . " 296 pp. ISBN: 1-841954845.

New York: The Viking Press, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thirty three stories selected by the author herself from her first five books of short fiction, covering the years from 1952 to 1976, and which illuminate African life in all segments of society, often dealing with racial tensions and depictions of the landscape. Includes a new introduction by Gordimer. Published after she had won many awards, including the Booker, but preceding her Nobel award. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-670631973.

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first major collection of this award-winning writer's work - in her introduction Alice Hoffman notes that Bocock is a writer who "has long been admired by other writers." Spanning over half a century, this collection of twelve short stories and one novella introduces readers to Bocock's powerfully assured and accomplished short fiction. These are stories of courageous women facing crises of identity, oppression, and betrayal. The first five are set in the South where Bocock was born and raised. Introduction by Alice Hoffman. SIGNED on the title page by both Bocock and Hoffman, and uncommon thus. 246 pp. ISBN: 1-581950004.

New York: Coward-McCann, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - A one volume condensation of 3 books originally published separately in England: "Traveller's Prelude," "Beyond Euphrates" and "The Coast of Incense." Autobiographical works by one of the great women travelers of the twentieth century, especially known for her exploration of the Arab world. Includes 16 pages of photographs, index. 374 pp.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018). SIGNED first edition - The first book of poems by this psychologist, writer and photographer. "Poems that reflect on her patients, her family, her life as a woman and traveler during her years in this world" (Kwame Dawes) INSCRIBED on the title page to a fellow poet. 74 pp plus 1 p notes. ISBN: 978-1599486482.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this innovative and unconventional author, described as "a feminist Animal Farm," in which women turn into animals and animals into women. When a wife and mother begins to metamorphose into a rather unpleasant snapping turtle, the family dog, Pooch, a devoted Golden Retriever, takes over more of the household responsibilities as she gradually changes into an attractive young woman. ix, 161pp. ISBN: 0-916515702.

New York: Virago / Pantheon, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A feminist biography of this 19th century author who wrote under the name of George Eliot. A.S. Byatt called this "Generous, exacting and illuminating." Illustrated with photographs. Chronology, notes, bibliography, index. A title in the Virago Pantheon Pioneers series. xv, 276 pp. ISBN: 0-394537041.

New York: Columbia University Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of one womans life set against the social history of modern Spain, a work described as part autobiography, part fiction. This is considered her finest novel: it was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. Translated by Helen R. Lane. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-231054580.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - "Augusta is an elegant young flutist preparing for her debut at Town Hall. In this splendid comedy, she is joined by a cast of wonderfully absurd characters--her husband, his father, her ex-lover, a nightclub stripper, a peeping Tom, and a canary." George Garrett called this "a joy and a delight. It is brilliantly funny... and a classic love story." 304 pp. ISBN: 0-395275733.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award-winning Canadian poet, one which "tells the interlocking stories of three men of different generations whose lives are transformed by the events and shifting effects of the same war. At its center is poet Jakob Beer: traumatically orphaned as a young boy during the Second World war, rescued from the mud of a buried Polish city and secreted to a Greek island by Athos Roussos, scientist, scholar, and, above all, humanist." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of many awards - Orange Prize for Fiction, Guardian Fiction Prize and more. Basis for the 2007 film of the same name. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-67945439X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of eight stories that "mine the complexities of modern relationships and the unexpected ways love manifests itself." SIGNED on the title page. 164 pp. ISBN: 978-1416590293.

Gainsville, FL: Center for Applications of Psychological Type, (1998). A murder mystery set in a dismal old mansion on the Baltimore Pike which won a national Detective Murder Mystery Contest in 1929 (beating out a young Ellory Queen) and originally published in 1930. The author was later the co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-935652221.

New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row, (1980). First edition - Includes selections from the works of four early 20th century American women writers - Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather - edited and with an introduction, chronologies and bibliographies by Cynthia Griffin Wolff. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-060805021.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 18th century during a period of revolution and turmoil, and the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside as a poor relative alongside her cousins, but "at just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she knows, leading to a new life fending for herself on the streets of 18th century London as a courtesan, gambler, and spirited intellect of the city." 453 pp.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems depicting events in the lives of those who live on both sides of the tracks in a fictional community near the Pacific Coast. INSCRIBED - to another poet - on the front endpaper. Map by Krista Collins. Wraparound dust jacket art by John Anthony Sheets. 96 pp.