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.

Desert Hot Springs, CA: By the author, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A substantial collection of this poet's work from her earliest poems to her most current anti-war collection and ending with her "Farewell to Sacramento." These poems reflect her varied life-time experiences, as writer, teacher, peace activist, artist and photographer. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Peace." Edition limited to 200 copies. Cover painting by Stan Rice, to whom she dedicated this book. 175 pp. ISBN: 978-0967015224.

Tampa, FL: University of Tampa, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of poems, winner of the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. It "attempts to grapple with questions of beauty, loss, damage, and redemption in the context of multiple landscapes, including the environments of abused and neglected children placed in foster care, the wilderness of the Northern California cast line, and the geography of the poet's own memory." Ruth Schwartz described it as "a stunning book, intimate with tragedy, rich with hard-earned affirmation. Worlds are laid bare, people do terrible things to one another, and the poet's gaze takes in every kind of shattering. Yet there is also a vast tenderness here." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in winter 2004. Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 1-879852942.

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

Penn Valley, CA: R.L. Crow Publications, (2004). First edition - A collection of poems by this Northern California writer, poems which Neeli Cherkovski described as "underscoring the unpretentious splendor of her poetic achievement."" R.L. Crow Publications aimed to resurrect the best poetry of Marvin Malone's Wormwood Review. Introduction by W. S. Gainer. [xiv] 62 pp. ISBN: 0-972295828.

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.