New York: Flatiron Books, (2019). First edition - The author's highly praised first thriller, a combination of noir and feminist revenge fantasy, introducing bookseller and private investigator Nikki Griffin. "In her office above her bookstores shelves and stacks, she tracks certain men. Dangerous men. Men who have hurt the women they claim to love. And Nikki likes to teach those men a lesson, to teach them what it feels like to be hurt and helpless, so she can be sure that their victims are safe from them forever." 324 pp.

London: Gollancz, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this author who himself an antiquarian bookseller which opens with London book dealer Nicholas Howard delivering an expensive piece of erotica to a new client. Sims was a member of the famous detection club. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-575020490.

New York: Hyperion, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by this award-winning author set at Cambridge University in 1786 - a former bookseller and the author of a book entitled 'The Anatomy of Ghosts," John Holdsworth, is sent there to discover why a young man who has descended into madness believes that he is being haunted. 410 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 9781401302870.

New York: Viking, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his novels featuring Los Angeles rare bookseller Jeffrey Dean, who has accepted a ghostwriting assignment for the prime minister of Singapore - but finds himself embroiled in an investigation into the illegal importation of jade to the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "Now that you've been my friend for the bad times, stick around please for the good times," Robert Crais wrote a moving obiturary for his friend Wayne in which he commented that he wrote this book, his last one, while he was almost completely disabled and in constant pain. The good times never did come - but he never gave up. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-670833692.