New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Show how the portrayal of woman as seductress, as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order and how the distorted ideas of gender, sex and race as reflected in paintings, in the cinema from Louise Brooks to Garbo and Dietrich and other femme fatales, and in fiction, ranging from Bram Stoker through Conrad, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner, continues to affect us today. SIGNED on the title page. 37 illustrations, bibliography, index. 480 pp. ISBN: 0394569458.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in postwar Rome - in 1948 - and in the world of resurgent cinema. The story of a poet, translator and lover. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 9781582433752.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first book, a highly praised and very moving memoir of growing up during China's Cultural Revolution - first on a communal farm, and as a star of the Chinese film industry. SIGNED on the title page. A NY Times Notable book of the year. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-679-42332x.

South Brunswick & New York / London: A. S. Barnes / The Trinity Press, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon first edition of this important study of "the most potent symbol of Japanese film to the Western filmgoer," that of the samurai, especially as exemplified in the films of Akira Kurosawa. Includes chapters on the major themes - the blind - blind swordfighters, rebellion, slayers - and more - Illustrated throughout with photographic stills. Glossary of Japanese terms, bibliography, filmographies and index; 242 pp. ISBN: 0-498-01349-9.