New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A wild journey into the far reaches of space - an asteroid miner retrieves a message pod drifting in space, a pod that might contain a clue to the entire map of wormholes which allow faster than light travel. Includes two author afterwards - "by" Max Merriwell and by Murphy about Max. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-312-866445.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - Sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winner novel, 'The Famished Road.' Although the cover indicates Doubleday as the US publisher, this advance issue is printed from the sheets of the first edition in the UK with Jonathan Cape shown on the title page.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - Sequel to Okri's Booker Prize winner novel, 'The Famished Road.' Although the cover indicates Doubleday as the US publisher, this advance issue is printed from the sheets of the first edition in the UK with Jonathan Cape shown on the title page.

Boston: Little Brown, 2001. First edition - Unusual pre-publication issue in that this very large trade paperback binds, back-to-back, two Pelecanos' novels. 'Hell to Pay' is being issued in Feb 2002 in hardcover, and "Right as Rain' is being issued at the same time in paperback. Both novels feature the black PI Derek Strange and the white ex-cop, Terry Quinn (who also works part-time in a used book store.) Vivid picture of the underside of Washington D.C. where drugs and drug dealing are rampant. 332 and 342 pages.

Boston: Little Brown, 2001. SIGNED first edition - Unusual pre-publication issue in that this very large trade paperback binds, back-to-back, two Pelecanos' novels. 'Hell to Pay' was issued in Feb 2002 in hardcover, and "Right as Rain' was issued at the same time in paperback. Both novels feature the black PI Derek Strange and the white ex-cop, Terry Quinn (who also works part-time in a used book store.) Vivid picture of the underside of Washington D.C. where drugs and drug dealing are rampant. 332 and 342 pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). First edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. With a planned first printing of 75,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. 388 pp.

New York: Bloomsbury, (1999). dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this young Australian writer - the story of a very unconventional family of Indian emigrants in Australia as told by 6 year old Mina - a story of madness and despair gradually overtaking the family, but also of love and humor. ISBN: 1-58234-0609.

New York: Bloomsbury, (1999). dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this young Australian writer - the story of a very unconventional family of Indian emigrants in Australia as told by 6 year old Mina - a story of madness and despair gradually overtaking the family, but also of love and humor. Ribbon marker bound in. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-58234-0609.

New York: Bloomsbury, 1999. First edition - First book by this young Australian writer - the story of a very unconventional family of Indian emigrants in Australia as told by 6 year old Mina - a story of madness and despair gradually overtaking the family, but also of love and humor.

New York: Random House, 1995. SIGNED first edition - First book in the Jane Whitefield series - Whilefield is a native American - a Seneca - who for the past 10 years has been helping people disappear. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Random House, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Edgar-winning novelist's 5th book - the Butcher's Boy is forced out of his retirement in Bath. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the first page. Novel transcending time and placeby this award-winning and highly praised Afro-Caribbean writer: the stories of a young Jewish woman in 20th century Germany becomes intertwined with that of an African general hired by the Doge in 16th century Venice,

New York: Kensington, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - First mystery featuring Martha Chainey, a 'beautiful six-foot former showgirl' who is working as a courier transporting large sums of under the table money for Las Vegas casino owners. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - First mystery featuring Florida true-crime reporter Marie Lightfoot.

New York: Scholastic Press - Arthur A. Levine Books, (1998.). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of this gothic tale, written for older children, and drawing upon sources as varied as Faust, Frankenstein and Pinocchio. Shortlisted for several awards including the Whitbread Children's Book Award. Frontispiece and cover illustration and 3 pages of drawings at back of book by Leonid Gore (other illustrations not included in this issue. ) 112 pp.

New York: Crown, (1998.). First edition - The author's first book, a sophisticated and literate thriller involving the search for a dangerous 16th century document. Includes the actual text of the document "On Supremacy" at the end of the book. 401 pp. ISBN: 0-609602535.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2002). First edition - A study of the five Central Asian republics - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan - which were part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991. Although rich in both cultural heritage and natural resources - including massive oil reservoirs - Central Asia remains desperately poor and frighteningly volatile. Religious repression, political corruption, and the regions extreme poverty (unemployment rates exceed 80 percent in some areas) have created a fertile climate for militant Islamic fundamentalism. Maps, notes, glossary, index. xiv, 271 pp.

New York: Persea Books, (1993). First edition - Originally written in the 1920s, and addressed to the eight-year old daughter of Robert Graves, these letters were first published in a limited edition in 1930. This posthumous edition includes a postscript by Laura (Riding) Jackson and an afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann and Alan J. Clark. 78 pp.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1991. First edition - The first in a series - introduces Stuart Mallory as a detective who returns to his Western Michigan hometown.

New York: Bantam, 1998. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by the author on the title page. A novel set in the near future in the last pure wilderness on earth. Includes a letter to the reader from Robinson printed inside the front cover.

New York: Bantam, 1998. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by the author on the title page. A novel set in the near future in the last pure wilderness on earth. Includes a letter to the reader from Robinson printed inside the front cover.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First edition - His 7th novel, the first to be set in large part in the US, and one of his most significant books. On one level this can be called a 'rock'n roll love story', on another it is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and on still another level it is about the flawed encounters between East and West. Publisher's letter laid in and audio tape of Rushdie reading selections from this book included.

New York: Henry Holt, 1999. First edition - His 7th novel, the first to be set in large part in the US, and one of his most significant books. On one level this can be called a 'rock'n roll love story', on another it is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and on still another level it is about the flawed encounters between East and West.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. First edition - Novel set in a small town in Maine. Winner of the Pulitzer prize, a New York Times Notable book, and the basis of the mini-series of the same name starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Ed Harris. Cover art is bound in, 483 pp.

Marietta, GA: Cherokee Publishing, 1995. First edition - The author's first novel, a story about twin boys growing up on a hunting plantation in Georgia in the 1940s, told with a "balance of lyrical nostalgia and gleefully coarse humor. It is narrated by Matty MacDonald in one of those distinctive Southern voices that creates color on the page. He and his brother Patty are twins whose mother died giving birth to them and whose father committed suicide shortly afterward. The boys are raised on a 15,000-acre South Georgia hunting property named Ecowah Plantation by their delightfully eccentric Uncle Charlie, who gives up his carefree bachelor life to accept the responsibility." (Publisher's Weekly) 238 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. An "enigmatic and ironic, witty and tender' novel by this Nobel prize winning author.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1998. dj. SIGNED first edition - A science fiction thriller set in the near future - in 2007 a signal from an intelligent alien race is received on earth. SIGNED on title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Hugo award finalist.

New York: Pocket Books, 1998. First edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans reporter/sleuth Samantha Adams mystery, but set in Santa Fe, New Mexico.