New York: Delacorte, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Reprint of the first mystery featuring Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski, originally published in 1982. Includes a new introduction by Paretsky in which she talks about getting this book first published. Stuart Kaminsky wrote that Paretsky has 'created a female private eye who can be independent, sharp and tough without losing her identity as a woman.' SIGNED on the title page. ix, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385302606.

New York: Delacorte, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by the author of the V. I. Warshawski mysteries, the story of four troubled people who meet beneath the streets of Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385-29938.

New York: Delacorte, (1998.). SIGNED first edition - A stand-alone novel by the author of the V. I. Warshawski mysteries, the story of four troubled people who meet beneath the streets of Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Reprint of the first mystery featuring Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski, originally published in 1982. Includes a new introduction by Paretsky in which she talks about getting this book first published. Stuart Kaminsky wrote that Paretsky has 'created a female private eye who can be independent, sharp and tough without losing her identity as a woman.' SIGNED on the title page. ix, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385302606.

New York: Pegasus Books, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A neo-noir crime thriller feauturing Tommy McLain, one which pits an Iraq war vet against the Chicago mob. SIGNED on the half title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 1-605980034.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - More autobiography than novel, this is a recreation of the early years of this poet, painter, bohemian and social critic - years of "speakeasies, great jazz, dazzling wealth and dire poverty" - but years in which he was strongly influenced by generations of his family, including abolitionists, suffragists, and other believers in equality and rights, and also years in which he found friendship with people like Ben Hecht, Sherwood Anderson, Edna St. Vincent Millay and more. 367 pp.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Emerson Ward novel - when Jessica Pearson is shot by a bullet through his front window, he embarks on a search for the truth behind her death, a search which takes to the Bahamas, Florida, New York and back to Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-396-092217.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first Emerson Ward novel - when Jessica Pearson is shot by a bullet through his front window, he embarks on a search for the truth behind her death, a search which takes to the Bahamas, Florida, New York and back to Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-396-092217.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. 239 pp.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. Cover praise from Dorothy Allison and others. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-7960.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. Cover praise from Dorothy Allison and others. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-796-0.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. Author's first novel - a story of growing up black and female in Chicago in the 1960's. The title is one of the sayings that bookish Stevie, who is determined to break away from the South Side, grew up with - along with the dictums that nice young women don't fight, talk trash, or sleep with boys. Cover praise from Dorothy Allison and others. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-796-0.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1933). Hardcover - Suspenseful story set against the backdrop of the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair of 1933. Among the relatively few books written specifically for girls by this prolific author. 252 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004). First edition - The author's fourth novel (seventh book), set during a hot Chicago summer where Jack, newly wed and very much in love with life itself, finds his perceptions shattered by an inconsiderate neighbor's perpetual partying. 306 pp.