New York: Random House, (2010). Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third book, a collection of nine short stories about life in the new China. Li was named one of the 20 best writers under 40 by the New Yorker, and Granta selected her as one of the best novelists under 35. 221pp. ISBN: 978-1400068135.

New York: Random House, (2009,) dj. Hardcover - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in China in the late 1970s when Beijing was rocked by the Democratic Wall Movement. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2009. Li is the recipient of the Hemingway Foundation PEN award and was selected by Granta as one of the best young American novelists under thirty-five and in 2010, she was chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 20 best writers in the US under the age of 40.. 337 pp. ISBN: 1400063132.

San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Beijing journalist. Based on his own childhood, it tells of the daily lives of 10 poor families who live around a central courtyard in a back-alley Beijing slum who find themselves caught up in the Cultural Revolution that shook the People's Republic of China. Editor's note. Drawing of the courtyard. Glossary. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-835121461.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this author who was born in Shanghai, raised in New York City from the age of eight, and who returned to China from 1985 to 1989 as the wife of American Ambassador Winston Lord. .Her Chinese relatives present a cross-section of the population, from high to low, communists to dissidents, heads of state to ordinary citizens, and in addition to telling her own story, she gives us glimpses that help to explain the enigma of China. Chronology of the 150 years of Chinese history from 1839. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-394583256.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this author who was born in Shanghai, raised in New York City from the age of eight, and who returned to China from 1985 to 1989 as the wife of American Ambassador Winston Lord. .Her Chinese relatives present a cross-section of the population, from high to low, communists to dissidents, heads of state to ordinary citizens, and in addition to telling her own story, she gives us glimpses that help to explain the enigma of China. Chronology of the 150 years of Chinese history from 1839. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-394583256.

New York: Ballantine, (1991.). Memoir by this author who was born in Shanghai, raised in New York City from the age of eight, and who returned to China from 1985 to 1989 as the wife of American Ambassador Winston Lord. .Her Chinese relatives present a cross-section of the population, from high to low, communists to dissidents, heads of state to ordinary citizens, and in addition to telling her own story, she gives us glimpses that help to explain the enigma of China. Chronology of the 150 years of Chinese history from 1839. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-449-906205.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this author who was born in Shanghai, raised in New York City from the age of eight, and who returned to China from 1985 to 1989 as the wife of American Ambassador Winston Lord. .Her Chinese relatives present a cross-section of the population, from high to low, communists to dissidents, heads of state to ordinary citizens, and in addition to telling her own story, she gives us glimpses that help to explain the enigma of China. Chronology of the 150 years of Chinese history from 1839. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-394583256.

London: Chapman's, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this author who was born in Shanghai, raised in New York City from the age of eight, and who returned to China from 1985 to 1989 as the wife of American Ambassador Winston Lord. .Her Chinese relatives present a cross-section of the population, from high to low, communists to dissidents, heads of state to ordinary citizens, and in addition to telling her own story, she gives us glimpses that help to explain the enigma of China. Chronology of the 150 years of Chinese history from 1839. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-394583256.

New York: Holiday House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An orphan in China in 1944 when he was three years old, Chi Fa found a way to make his dreams of freedom come true. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Lu Chi Fa with the words "Double luck to you." Chronology and family tree. Map and small photographs. vii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8234-15600.

New York: Holiday House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An orphan in China in 1944 when he was three years old, Chi Fa found a way to make his dreams of freedom come true. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Lu Chi Fa with the words "Double luck will find you." Chronology and family tree. Map and small photographs. vii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8234-15600.

New York: Holiday House, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An orphan in China in 1944 when he was three years old, Chi Fa found a way to make his dreams of freedom come true. SIGNED on the front endpaper by BOTH authors. Chronology and family tree. Map and small photographs. vii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8234-15600.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual first novel, a bibliomystery set in the years of the Great Depression with two authors of pulp fiction - Walter Gibson, the creator of "The Shadow" and Lester Dent, creator of "Doc Savage" - put aside their rivalry to track down the killer of H. P. Lovecraft, joined in this quest by another young pulp writer L. Ron Hubbard. Introduction and epilogue. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287852.

New York & London: Penguin, (1982.). Mystery set in Hong Kong, featuring Chief Harry Feiffer. A very different police procedural. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0061371.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in Hong Kong, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Feiffer. A very different police procedural. The murderer strikes silently and apparently randomly - from a shoe shine man to a British officer - with only one thing is common: each is found with a torn cholera vaccination certificate. SIGNED on the title page. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-030705274.

Camino, CA: Henderson House, (c 1998.). SIGNED - An account of a relatively unknown aspect of World War II, the story of the house arrest and eventual imprisonment of a British family in the Japanese prison camp of Weihsien in occupied China, as told through the eyes of one of the teenaged daughters of the family. Includes a new preface from 2001 by Halmar Moser-Flynn and an author's note in which she explains very definitely that Amelia Earhart had not been imprisoned there. INSCRIBED by the author on the first page. Maps, illustrated title page, bibliography, 311 pp. ISBN: 0-9664489-28.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in May's series of China thrillers which have been praised for their "meticulous research, compelling characters and ingenious plots. . [They] combine cutting edge science, drama, wit, and engaging characters who grow and develop across the books. The key to the popularity of this series is the tempestuous relationship between the enigmatic Chinese detective Li Yan, and Dr Margaret Campbell, the acerbic pathologist from Chicago." In addition, each book highlights an area of larger concern - this novel shows how the cultural revolution continues to affect those who survived it even many years later. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-340738367.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in an unusual new series of thrillers which also explore the cultural differences between China and the United States. Set in contemporary China, this introduces Beijing detective Li Yan, and Margaret Campbell, an American forensic pathologist from Chicago on a six-week lecture trip to the University of Public Security in Beijing, as they track the killer of a government scientist - who had been involved in genetic food engineering - and whose horribly burned corpse is found smouldering in a Beijing park. On the night that the scientist is burned to death, there are two other murders in the city, both linked to his murder. INSCRIBED on the title page. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-312342942.

Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar Publishing, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page with the words "here's to your hall" and dated in the year of publication, The author's first book, a novel of a young woman struggling to be her own women in the complex world of an emerging modern China - but also a world where tradition remains very important. Based on her experiences living in Asia for 15 years. The first chapter of this novel won the 2005 Short Fiction Competition sponsored by ByLine Magazine. Cover photograph of the village in China which was the setting for this novel by the author. 533 pp. ISBN: 0-977208117.

New London, New Hampshire: Tiffin Press, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - Biography (by his eldest daughter) of this doctor, a college and Olympic athlete, and a deeply religious man, who spent most of his life serving in China - from 1907 to 1912 and in Shanghai from 1914 to 1942, including under the Japanese occupation, and following repatriation to the U.S. during World War II, he returned to China after the war, " helping in the monumental task of revitalizing the St. John's University medical department, coping with wartime devastation, shortages of money, fuel, food, supplies, and the vagaries of an emerging communist government." Photographs. List of graduates of St John's Medical College, Notes. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-9646018-18.

New York: SOHO Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a young couple in China who are torn apart when the Ah Lung is kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Pacific Ocean to work in the deadly guano "mines" off the coast of Peru. The author's note states that between 1840-1875 multinational corporate interests operated traffic in Asian labor to Latin America and the Caribbean, with an estimated million men stolen or decoyed from southern China. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. "For --- a pleasure meeting you, luck always" 239 pp. ISBN: 978-1569474662.

Boston Beacon Press (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in nineteenth century China and based on real-life stories, this tells of three girls who choose to neither marry or become nuns (the only options traditionally available to them), choosing instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-8070-83488.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A slim and powerful novel of coming of age, and becoming aware of one's sexuality, during China's Cultural Revolution. The third novel (4th book) by this highly praised writer, who grew up in Mao's China, but now lives in the United States. ISBN: 0-618-068864.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised third book, second novel, Russell Banks called this 'brilliant and poetic' while Ha Jin described it as 'audacious but balanced.' SIGNED on the title page. 337 pp plus references. ISBN: 0-618-004076.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about Pearl Buck and a friendship she formed as a child, the daughter of missionaries, with the young daughter of a destitute Chinese family, a friendship which survived even when Pearl and her family were forced to flee China, and the years of the Mao regime, when Willows "imperialist ties" threatened her and her husband's career. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-1596916975.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second volume in a trilogy about the life of Tzu Hsi, who entered the Forbidden Palace as a minor concubine at the age of 17, and rose to become Empress and the mother of the next Emperor. SIGNED by Anchee Min on a special bookplate for 'The Beverly Hills Literary Society' affixed to the front endpaper. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-618-531467.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2008). SIGNED - The second volume in a trilogy about the life of Tzu Hsi, who entered the Forbidden Palace as a minor concubine at the age of 17, and rose to become Empress and the mother of the next Emperor. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 0-618-531467.