New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in the award-winning series featuring Irene Adler, the beautiful opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes. SIGNED on the title page. 488 pp.

New York: Morrow, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Mystery involving forensic anthropology and featuring Gideon Oliver by the Edgar wlnning author - set in a small French village which is home to a large concentration of prehistoric fossils. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - A novella - "Dick Contino's Blues" - and five short stories. SIGNEd on the title page. 228 pp.

New York: Otto Penzler Books, (1994). SIGNED first edition - A novella - "Dick Contino's Blues" - and five short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 228 pp.

New York: Walker, 1997. First edition - The second Barbara Simons mystery, set in Montreal, Canada. When a police ride-along that she won at a charity auction takes her to the home of her former boss at the airline, she finds herself more and more involved in investigating - unofficially - his murder. 266 pp.

New York: SOHO Press, (1991.). First edition - "An Indian Bureau stenographer from Washington, a photographer, and the Indian agent James McLaughlin are on an expedition to photograph the last redmen. . . a fictionalized story of the Wanamaker Expedition of 1913, about Indians, the power of images, and about truth." Illustrated with 32 photographs. 302 pp.

New York: FORGE / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998). First edition - An historical novel set in pre-Revolutionary America - it centers on two women, one black and one white, who were captured by Seneca Indians as girls, adopted into the tribe, but when they were returned to a white world at the age of seventeen, they realize that the black woman is the slave of the white woman's slave. Even though she frees her, their lives remained entwined. One of a series of narratives based on the archives of the Stapleton family. 379 pp plus afterword.

New York: Putnam, (1996.). First edition - Author's third novel, the story of a young girl who moves from an abandoned citrus grove in Florida to a transient motel in the city where she meets Miss Zora, a healer. 272 pp.

New York: Bantam, 1986. First edition - Fowler's rather uncommon and highly praised first book, a collection of short stories, in the earliest pre-publication format. Measures 8 1/2 by 11 inches, pad bound, cardboard backing as rear cover.

New York: Putnam, 1997. First edition - Mystery set in the world of horse racing, but also, in this case a coming of age story of a young man whose main ambition is to be an amateur steeplechase jockey, while his father's ambition is to become prime minister. 273 pp.

New York: Bantam, 1991. First edition - A Jemima Shore mystery.

San Francisco: McSweeney's Books, (2001). First edition - The author's first book, one which juxtaposes her own story with excerpts from her father's World War II journal, written while he was the Pharmacist's Mate on the Liberty Ship "George E. Pickett." Scarce advance galley consisting consisting of tapebound 8.5 by 11 inch sheets printed on rectos only. Laid in are seven loose sheets which were the basis for a promotional flyer for the book - "a very sad and very moving and very great book." 92 pp.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, 2008. First edition - The author's first novel, a "sharp, humorous debut about a teenage commando wannabe who runs amok in a boot camp for juvenile delinquents." 360 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel - two 'barrio brothers from San Francisco' go to Japan for the summer. SIGNED on the title page. Glossaries of Spanish and Japanese words and phrases. 126 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: Putnam, 1993. SIGNED first edition - African American critic, journalist and screenwriter's first novel. SIGNED by the author.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.). SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page "To S--- Sell them books, baby!" and dated in the year of publication. A thriller featuring an ex-Ranger, ex-sniper for a CIA front who is brought back from the life of peace he was living in Kenya to help track down an assassin who has vowed to kill the President of the US. 306 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2000). SIGNED first edition - Award winning author's second novel, one which brings to life Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, the often ignored mental disorder which causes afflicted mothers to make their own children ill. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. First edition - A young adult novel about a family in turmoil.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.). First edition - A rather unexpected account of the author's year long journey in search of himself in Africa, the land of his ancestors. 230 pp.

New York: Crown, 1990. First edition - Author's first novel - a psychological thriller about a young assistant DA. This is the earlier of two different advance issues: the front cover describes it as an 'advance manuscript' and the appearance is that of type-written pages. It also is a much thicker book at 489 pgs.

New York: Scribner's, 1994. First edition - Author's third mystery - featuring Detective Inspector Bill Slider.

New York: Bantam, (1991)
. SIGNED first edition - A murder set at a convention for fans of Agatha Christie's mysteries - a bibliomystery featuring bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling. The author's special SIGNED bookplate pasted onto the first page (underneath the printed name is the notation 'Agatha, Anthony and Macavity winner.')

New York: Henry Holt, (2017). First edition - Written for young adults, and based on over 600 letters that Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, this is story of a deep and enduring friendship between these brothers - and also of Jo, Theo's widow, who perserved Vincent's paintings, believing in their importance, and eventually organized a successful exhibition. A Printz Honor Book, YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner and more. Include a list of the people, a timeline, bibliography and notes. 451 pp.

London: Michael Joseph, (1996). First edition - International thriller set in the Himalayas in 1961 featuring Paul Chavasse, the dramatic tale of the rescue of a scientist from Chinese soil who held information vital to the West. 248 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002. First edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about a serial killer known as the Snowman, who, in the 1970s, was stalking the streets of suburban Detroit. 324 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - Her 4th novel, the story of a friendship among three wormen. SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition - Southern author's first novel (preceded by two highly acclaimed and award-winning collections of short stories), set in a small coastal Florida town. 449 pp.