Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1952) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Second book by this San Francisco writer and restaurateur - a novel based on the death of Manuel Laureano Rodr’guez S‡nchez, the legendary Spanish bullfighter known as Manolete, a fictionalized version of his final appearance in the ring in 1947, when he came out of retirement and was fatally gored. The year after this book was published, Conrad opened his famed restaurant "El Matador" in San Francisco, with the proceeds from the novel. Illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is an invitation to the opening of the restaurant. 213 pp.

Palo Alto, CA: By the author, (1972.). SIGNED first edition - Collection of poetry, boldly SIGNED diagonally on the first page. 170 pp.

New York: Dutton, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a modern young woman from Los Angeles, nursing a broken engagement, who wakes up to find herself in the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England, living the life of a Jane Austen character. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780525950400.