New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. SIGNED first edition - A fictionalized history of Australia's Kelly Gang as told by the gang's leader, Ned Kelly, orphan, horse thief, farmer, bank robber, police-killer, and a beloved Robin Hood to his poor countrymen. Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize (the second novel for which Carey won this award.) SIGNED on the title page. Map, illustrated title page. 353 pp. ISBN: .

New York: Villard, (2005). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of life in a failing big-top circus (by an author who worked in one himself) and of a college drop-out who somehow manages to survive all the bad choices he made. Upon publication the title was changed to simply "Serpent Girl." 197 pp.

New York: TOR, 2001. SIGNED first edition - A combination of realism and the uncanny, as the police chief of a small upstate New York town begins to encounter strange and unsettling omens. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp

New York: TOR, 2001. First edition - A combination of realism and the uncanny, as the police chief of a small upstate New York town begins to encounter strange and unsettling omens. 302 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A very uncommon promotional excerpt for the fourth in Carter's marvelously inventive "color series." SIGNED by Carter on the base of the popup and dated in the year of publication. This excerpt contains only one pop-up - that of Uncle Theo's Trapeze. Square format,. Back cover notes an expected first printing of 100,000 copies

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008.). First edition - A very uncommon promotional excerpt for the fourth in Carter's marvelously inventive "color series." This excerpt contains only one pop-up - that of Uncle Theo's Trapeze. Square format,. Back cover notes an expected first printing of 100,000 copies

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Novel by the author of the National Book Award winner "Spartina." Set in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1978, this is the story of the "meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful Congressional campaign." SIGNED on the title page. 513 pp.

New York: Random House, (2009). SIGNED first edition - The author's highly praised first adult novel, one which explores a family's struggle with love and loss, as a summer vacation in New Hampshire becomes a time for saying good-bye and an occasion for awakening. SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material laid in with praise from Alice Sebold, Ann Hood and others. 275 pp.

New York: Norton, 1991. First edition - Author's first book, the story of an orphaned girl being raised by her matriachal grandmother and her extended family in Singapore in the 60s and 70s.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A novel of 2 generations of the Kwan family in Hollywood, written with Chin's usual wicked humor and biting honesty. Tom Robbins described his writing as "red-hot chop suey laced with laughing powder and amphetamines." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 418 pp

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A novel of 2 generations of the Kwan family in Hollywood, written with Chin's usual wicked humor and biting honesty. Tom Robbins described his writing as "red-hot chop suey laced with laughing powder and amphetamines." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592, introducing Robert Carey, formerly in the court of Queen Elizabeth and now the new Deputy Warden of the West March on the lawless borderlands of England and Scotland. The first novel published under this pseudonym. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-340609125.

New York: Henry Holt, (2019). First edition - Her fifth novel, winner of the National Book Award, among other honors. The Washington Post commented "Choi's voice blends an adolescent's awe with an adult's irony. It's a letter-perfect satire of the special strain of egotism and obsession that can fester in academic settings. . . . [she is] a master of emotional pacing: the sudden revelation, the unexpected attack. . . . How cunningly this novel considers the way teenage sexuality is experienced, manipulated, and remembered. . . . The result is a dramatic exploration of the distorting forces of memory, envy, and art." 222 pp.

New York: Warner, (1992.). First edition - Author's first book; introduces sleuth Regan Reilly. 230 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (2003.). First edition - Fourth mystery featuring 'Baltimore's sexiest undertaker,' Hitchcock Sewell. 324 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007). First edition - The fifth and final book in this epic saga. 431 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (2001.). First edition - A new noir thriller, the author's second book, featuring a PR executive who agrees to take on some work for a Cuban expatriate and land-developer with connections to the CIA and the international underworld, who is at the heart of the anti-Castro movement and the cocaine trade. 293 pp.

Boston: Atheneum, 1991. First edition - Colbert's third mystery, set in New Orleans and featuring a Tulane drop-out, now on his fifth suspension for the NOPD. The first book in the Ruth and Skinny series. 162 pp..

New York: Hyperion, (2005). First edition - The author's third thriller, the story of a young woman far too involved in drugs and violence, and "the flawed father forced to come to the rescue. It's been three years since 17 year old Lydia Carson ran away from her privileged home in West Los Angeles. . . One afternoon Lydia finds herself guarding the back door of a house in Topanga Canyon during a shakedown. As murderous violence erupts, Lydia herself becomes a target. She escapes down a creek and through the hillsides to the shore - alone, destitute, and frightened. Her last option is John Link, her blood father, who has just come off a long prison sentence for violent crimes of his own." 308 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The 4th Martha's Vineyard mystery with J. W. Jackson, former Boston cop, part-time investigator and full-time fishing enthusiast. Great island setting - and also set in the Colorado mountains. SIGNED on the title page. Surprisingly uncommon in any edition, and especially so as a signed proof. 227 pp. .

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000). First edition - Publishers Weekly called this prehistoric epic "a dizzying amalgam of legend, myth, archaeology, warfare and romance. Set somewhere on the Eurasian continent around 30,000 B.C., the novel pits lovers Agon and Eena against tradition and taboo in a time of immense brutality and a place of vast, pristine beauty." Bibliography, 480 pp.

New York: St Martin's, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing Oakland, CA private eye Jeri Howard. Winner of the 4th St Martin's Best First Private Eye novel contest (previous winners included Karen Kijewski and Gar Anthony Hayward.) SIGNED on title page. Not a common proof.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel of psychological suspense set in Virginia. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-871262.

New York: Bantam, (2001). First edition - The eighth and final mystery in the Mama series, featuring Grace Covington aka Mama ("the African American Miss Marple") and set in a small town in South Carolina. Published as a paperback original. 186 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's descent into the murkier levels of the sex-trade industry in San Francisco, only to find an unlikely refuge in a commune of ecoterrorists in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Issued as a trade paperback original. 245 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984). First edition - The author's first horror novel, the story of a "morally repulsive Twin Cities executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns sets about arranging his divine retribution. With help from her dead mother and the ghost of poet John Berryman-thoroughly bored of suburban sances and all too eager to lend a hand-Giselle undertakes the elaborate, righteous, and wickedly amusing haunting of her husband." An uncommon advance issue. 297 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition - North Dakota-born author's second novel, one with stories within stories, with settings ranging from Vietnam to Paris, from 1930's New York to Algeria in its fight for independence, one which "sifts through the legacy of a legendary blues singer - her music, her passions, her gifts for self-creation and self-destruction, as it charts the efforts of her son, a photojournalist specializing in war, to find his unknown father." 2548 pp