New York: Random House, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An outwardly simple, but penetrating exploration of what happens when an older woman's quiet resignation to fate is shattered by a younger visitor. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-679457852.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first memoir, which won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest. "After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoes mother decided to end her lifeand asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision drags on as her mother changes her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stir up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty." A controversial but warm and sometimes even funny book which deals with the issues at the center of the debate on assisted suicide. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1439148242.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first memoir, which won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest. "After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoes mother decided to end her lifeand asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision drags on as her mother changes her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stir up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty." A controversial but warm and sometimes even funny book which deals with the issues at the center of the debate on assisted suicide. INSCRIBED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1439148242.

New York: Macmillan, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - The flowering plum tree outside the Home for Aged Women stands as a symbol of the hope and love brought to this institution by the matron and a nurse. 98 pp.

Portland, OR: The Poetry Box, (2020). First edition - A collection of poems which tell the story of a long marriage, of aging, of grief and of learning to live alone after his death - and of the memories and joys in life that remain. 42 pp. ISBN: 978-1948461504.

New York: Pantheon, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a woman coming to terms with her own aging - told as she passes thru the four seasons of a single year. Highly praised both for its spareness and the poetry of its language. 150 pp. ISBN: 0-394-571592.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

Rochester, New York: BOA Editions Ltd., 2011. First edition - The author's second collection of poems (her first won several awards), one which "focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The Hands of Strangers because she 'cannot forget the 'girls' I worked with or the 'residents' under my care. I haven't forgotten what I saw, heard, felt, or learned.'" American Poets Continuum Series #130. 75 pp. ISBN: 978-1934414545.

New York: Atheneum, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The somewhat uncommon second novel by the author of 'Staggerford." SIGNED on the front endpaper (a clear and legible early signature.) 312 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a old trucker determined to make one last long haul from Alabama to Nevada. Dust jacket praise from Johnny Cash, Harry Crews and Olive Ann Burns who described this as "the triumphant story of a stubborn, unreconstructed old truck driver with redneck attitudes who bulls his way across America in defiance of age and retirement." 296 pp. ISBN: 0-395-498600.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another "wildly inventive novel" by the author of 'RIiddley Walker' and 'Pilgermann' - this one set very much in the present. The Independent' s review described it as "an intelligent book about contemporary life, its technologies, sexual politics and urban culture, together with searing honesty about the sexual imaginings of an old man." 271 pp. ISBN: 0-786708786.

New York: Vintage Books, (1992). SIGNED - An account of a 3-day rafting voyage down an uncharted section of the Boh River in Borneo, where journalist Tracy Johnston knew little in advance of the adventure she had signed up for - including treacherous rapids, foot rot, leeches, swarms of sweat-eating of bees, swimming cobras and more. In addition, she learned what it was like to be a woman adventurer on the wrong side of forty. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - Here's to many more adventures in mid-life. PS. Thanks for your leech stories." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-679740104.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1982). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems and photographs which celebrate aging. "Drawing on both his own family history and the immigrant history of New York's Jewish community, Kaminsky gives voice to the protest and despair, endurance and dignity, courage and creativity of those who struggled toward survival and reconciliation near the borders of death." Foreword by Robert N. Butler. Black and white photographs by Leon Supraner. INSCRIBED by Kaminsky on the front endpaper and dated in 1985. Glossary. Large square format. 149 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-252010000.

New York: Sarah Crichton / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which focuses on the "chapter in life as characterized by people between fifty and seventy-five - who are considered 'neither young nor old.' . . a time when many women and men seem to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater meaning in life. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation." Notes, bibliography. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-0374275495.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very intimate book in which Reeve Lindbergh shares her thoughts while caring for her elderly mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in the final years of her life. "Challenged by the perils of old age and a series of strokes, Mrs. Lindbergh made her final home on a farm in Vermont, in a house adjacent to her daughter's. Famous for her writing and her proficiency as a navigator for her aviator husband, Charles, her retreat into silence and varying stages of dementia distressed Reeve, who longed to communicate with her once eloquent mother. Reeve writes fluidly about her mother's fading, expressing herself poignantly and posing powerful questions about life, death, and the depth of silence." (ALA) 174 pp. ISBN: 0-743203135.

Watsonville, CA: Papier-Mache Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover - Classic anthology of stories and poems on women aging, illustrated with many black and white photographs of older women. This edition includes a new foreword by Jenny Joseph, the author of 'Warning' which begins with the line which is the title of this book, and an afterword by the publishers. 181 pp plus afterword, notes on the contributors and publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-918949-15-7.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual anthology which contains the first book publication of the long and moving title poem by W. S. Merwin and 23 poems, reflecting in some way upon death, starting with Dylan Thomas's 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London.' Each of those 23 poets were important to Merwin as a poet, and all of them died during his lifetime - among them W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, William Stafford and others. Includes a photograph and brief biographical sketch of each poet. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 2004. 89 pp. ISBN: 1-887178511.

Pasadena CA: Ward Ritchie Press, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Humorous advice written for women on how to survive your husband's retirement - includes helpful suggestions on diverse topics such as hobbies, housing, hypochrondria, grooming, late-blooming romances, double beds, and budget management. While a lot of this seems dated now, it does contain some good practical advice - like taking a separate vacation and an argument that there should not be a mandotory retirement age. SIGNED on the front endpaper "with best wishes" and dated in 1977. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-378021559.

New York: Herald Publishing Company (National Library Press), (1934.). Hardcover - Although modern women do not need to be reassured that their life is not over at age 40, this book still contains some useful advice as well as unintentional humor, along with a vivid reminder of just how far we have come in the past 75 years. 250 pp. Uncommon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006). A book which is both funny and sad. The author, burnt out at twenty-eight, decides to retire early. He travels to southern Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. This is "an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf." Includes a brief epilogue not found in the hardcover edition. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-743270584.

Orinda, CA: Andrew Benzie Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Marian, widowed for 5 years, and now living in California's wine country - Sonoma - and working part time at the library - has decided to host a party for her 70th birthday - and wants to invite everyone from her past.. and so she looks back on her sometime tumultous life with Jeb, and her children and more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0989758475.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The private notebook of a remarkable woman of eighty-two encountering the challenge of old age." As an author, activist and Jungian psychoanalyst, Scott-Maxwell had a full life but as she looks at old age, she comments that she was astonished to find how intensely one lives in their eighties. 150 pp.

Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, (2001). First edition - A collection of poems by this award-winning writer which "probe the depths of extended illness, of love, of perseverance in the face of disaster, of the healing power of music and of art." 85 pp. ISBN: 1-586540009.

New York: Pantheon, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - An engrossing novel by this highly praised Scottish writer, a "meditation on aging, art, love and affection" set against the backdrop of the ugliness and hate of the Brexit movement. The first in her "Seasonal Quartet" series of four independent, but interconnected novels. Finalist for the Man Booker Prize. 264 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. First edition - A novel by this author whom John Updike called "wickedly good" - the story of a schoolteacher, forced to retire at 61, coming to terms with the rest of his life. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue is much less common than the trade edition. 276 pp.