New York: Scholastic, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, for middle grade children. "Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and he dreams of climbing a mountain one day. But in one important way, Mark is not like other kids at all. Mark is sick. The kind of sick that means hospitals. And treatments. The kind of sick some people never get better from. So Mark runs away. He leaves home with his camera, his notebook, his dog, and a plan to reach the top of Mount Rainier - even if it's the last thing he ever does." 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0545665735.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - A young adult novel which "explores the two most powerful forces known to man - death and love. . . Danny's mother lost her battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation - the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone. . When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months."

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The title almost says it all - although among the things which Janzen faces in this book is a diagnosis of cancer. "Breezy despite the weighty subject matter... Janzen's wit and love of fashion keep things light, but her conversion to Pentecostalism after a miraculous return to health sends the book into serious seekers' territory." (People). SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp.

New York: World Publishing Co., (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the discovery by an Irish doctor working in Uganda of a previously undiagnosed form of cancer which was killing children in Africa - and his search for an effective treatment for it. At the time this book was written the cure rate for Burkitt's lymphoma was greater than 60%; it is now 85-90%. Map, photographs. xii, 236 pp.

New York: Hyperion / Voice , (2008.). Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up - debut memoirist Kelly Corrigan brilliantly captures her larger-than-life, Irish-American father and describes how they each - - successfully for now - battled with cancer. 262 pp. plus a final photograph. ISBN: 978-1401303365.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, (1989). The first publication of these two essays in one paperback volume - the first "Illness as Metaphor" was written in 1978 when Sontag was recovering from cancer; the second was written in 1989 to counter the labeling of AIDS as a plague. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-385267053.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993). Hardcover first edition - A book in which Hall, an award winning poet and former US poet laureate, author of children's books and works of nonfiction, describes how work has filled his life with excitement - and he reflects on the different nature of work -his grandfather as a farmer in New Hampshire, his father in an office, and his work of putting a pen to paper. Halfway through writing this book, he found he had cancer, and it gave this book a new urgency, although he ultimately went on to live many more years. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 124 pp. Text design by Barry Moser. ISBN: 0-807070548.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - A moving memoir by this award-winning poet about his 23 year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, most of it spent in New Hampshire at Eagle Pond Farm, his family's old house. Hall records her "growing power as a poet and the couple's careful accommodations toward each other as writers. This portrait of the inner moods of 'the best marriage I know about,; as Hall has written, is laid against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Hall shares with readers as if we were one of the grieving neighbors, friends, and relatives the daily ordeal of Jane's dying, through heartbreaking and generous storytelling." Photographic frontispiece. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-618478019.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (2006). First edition - Set in Sacramento and Merced, California, this is the story of two cancer patients who come together and manage to create a new life in the face of illness and family turmoil. 289 pp.

Charlottetown,P.E.I.: Ragweed Press, 1983. First edition - A series of poems inspired by the death of his daughter of cancer. While Cogswell has published many books himself, he is best known as founder and editor of Fiddlehead, which gave many Canadian writers, including Michael Ondaatje, their start. ISBN: 0-920304214.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Southern California, this is a story told in a series of portraits of each member of the Jacobs family, who have been shut out from memories of their dead mother by the grief and bitterness of their father. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-916515982.

Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - North Carolina writer's second memoir, one which finds him "smack-dab in middle age: he's a 45-year-old cancer survivor who has piled his brother, his two kids, and his mother into a Winnebago and set off west to see the Rocky Mountains. But this is no mere road trip re-creation; it's a series of funny, sad, always fascinating glimpses of a life that was often lived too close to the edge." (Booklist). Among the twists and turns of this book is the discovery that the cancer he thought he had beaten years before is back. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-878086855.

New York: Atheneum, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 1970s, the story of three sisters - "the neighbors call us brats" - who travel with their mother across the border from San Diego to Mexico for alternative treatments for her leukemia, but whose world is about to be shattered by a betrayal worse than cancer. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1-481461153.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Hall, an award winning poet, author of children's books and works of nonfiction, describes how work has filled his life with excitement - and he reflects on the different nature of work -his grandfather as a farmer in New Hampshire, his father in an office, and his work of putting a pen to paper. Halfway through writing this book, he found he had cancer, and it gave this book a new urgency, although he ultimately went on to live many more years. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 124 pp. Text design by Barry Moser.

New York: Fromm International, 1995. First edition - At age 72 and facing death from lung cancer, Pawel looks back at his life beginning in 1934 Belgrade, where he and his family moved to from Berlin shortly after the Nazis took power. Pawel is best known for the landmark biography of Franz Kafka "The Nightmare of Reason." 247 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an account of a season when - at a bleak moment in his life - he dropped out and left home for a season at the racetrack - Golden Gate in Northern California. . Part meditation on life and nature, and part a classic on horse racing and on life at the track and on the people who are drawn to racing, this is a fascinating book. Afterword. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-670419974.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her eighth collection of poems, reflecting, without sentimentality or bitterness, on many of the losses in her life - the long ago death of her father, the recent illness and death of her mother, the too early death of her husband, and facing her own mortality. 140 pp. ISBN: 1555974430.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young black girl in the Deep South who comes to confront the realities of sex, race, disease, and the brutal finality of death, as she watches her tough, strong-minded aunt waste away. 263 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - "While vacationing in the country, eleven year old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow." Author for young readers. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-374-308470.

New York: Atheneum, (1994) dj. Hardcover - An account of a 'mid-life collision with cancer and paralysis' by this noted writer, originally published in 1994. Includes a selection of 'revelant poems.' 213 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121970.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for young adults. "Smart-mouthed and funny, sometimes raunchy, Richard Casey is in most ways a typical seventeen-year-old boy. Except Ritchie has cancer, and he s spending his final days in a hospice unit." 238 pp. ISBN: 1616202602.

New York: Hyperion / Voice , (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A coming of age story about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up - debut memoirist Kelly Corrigan brilliantly captures her larger-than-life, Irish-American father and describes how they each - - successfully for now - battled with cancer. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by two volumes of poetry and many short stories). Cover praise from John Rechy and Joan Didion (who called it 'jumpy, kinetic, and finally very powerful, a deeply felt piece of work by a very gifted young writer.') INSCRIBED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-060104414.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Highly praised second novel by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Basis for the Meryl Streep movie of the same name, a story of a mother dying of cancer and a daughter who, in caring for her as the disease and pain inexorably worsen, comes to learn that she never really knew her mother at all. SIGNED on title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-679-40712x.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised second novel by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Basis for the Meryl Streep movie of the same name, a story of a mother dying of cancer and a daughter who, in caring for her as the disease and pain inexorably worsen, comes to learn that she never really knew her mother at all. SIGNED on title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-679-40712x.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - California author's second book - a story of learning the meaning of death, of accepting its sorrow and its inevitability - " 'If I grow up, II'm gonna be a first baseman', says Danny Dawson, who is five years old and loves baseball" but he is a little boy with cancer, and the chemotherapy did not help. 212 pp,. ISBN: 0-53115064X.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. California author's second book - a story of learning the meaning of death, of accepting its sorrow and its inevitability - " 'If I grow up, II'm gonna be a first baseman', says Danny Dawson, who is five years old and loves baseball" but he is a little boy with cancer, and the chemotherapy did not help. 212 pp,. ISBN: 0-53115064X.

Anchorage: University of Alaska, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A substantial and highly praised literary journal - SIGNED by poet Jane Hirshfield at the special section on the nature of language and art, and uncommon thus. Also includes a photo essay 'Cancer Journal' by Richard J. Murphy, 14 short stories, 2 memoirs and 67 poems selected by the guest poetry editor Michael Ryan. 270 pp We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Norton, 1977 dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the death of both of his parents, of cancer, within a few months of each other. ISBN: 0-393-087719.