Boston: Beacon Press, (2016). First edition - A coming-of-age memoir by this award-winning pop music critic and culture journalist, which describes his life as a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father, a disturbed Vietnam veteran, through soul music. An elegiac look at a childhood marked by violence, dysfunction, poverty, sorrowand plenty of good music. (Kirkus Reviews) 230 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - " When land developers uncover human bones at the site of an old drive-in, Callie Anne Benton realizes that she alone knows the identity of the victim who mysteriously disappeared thirty-six years ago.. . . [she] recalls the tumultuous summer of 1956. Nearly thirteen, she is stuck at home with her parents during a long hot summer in rural Indiana. Her father, an angry, bitter man, runs the drive-in . . . Her mother is an agoraphobic who hasn't left the house in five years. When a drifter named Charlie Memphis comes to work at the drive-in, everyone's life changes." 282 pp. ISBN: 0-688153895.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School. where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. Lyrical and heartfelt, it is the memoir of his first 18 months on Penikese." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02384.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel, the story of Therese and Leonie, two young cousins, one French, one half English, growing up in Normandy after World War II, who concoct fantasies about the secrecy and lies that linger around their home, unknowingly revealing the dark village secret that dates back to the Nazi occupation. Finalist for the Booker award. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-688-04610X.

New York: Scribner, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel, and first collaboration - at once "a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millenial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all" (Phil Klay)

New York: Hyperion, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this highly praised Bronx-born Puerto Rican author, the story of young kids in the Bronx caught up in the reckless but high-flying drug world as "runners." 323 pp. ISBN: 1-562828452.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume in the Mercy of a Rude Stream, set in 1920s literary New York. This follows adolescent Ira Stigman from 921 to 1925 as he begins to encounter the harsh realities of life, and also awakens to the beauties of modern literature. It depicts him as a tormented teenager doomed to near madness by the violent urges he carries within. Glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew words and phrases. 418 pp. Photo illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-312143419.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His very highly praised first novel - John Hawkes called it "a soaring first novel - comic, compassionate, as rare in vision as the obsession with flying that lies at its heart." SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 0-394532651.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the world of exclusive prep schools, Malibu beach houses, Fifth Avenue apartments and deserted Cape Cod resorts. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-625039.

New York: Hyperion, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel - A young boy and a Masai join forces in Kenya as Jake tries to find his father who is researching the elephants there, and the Masai is trying to end the drought - and together they succeed in stopping the poachers who are killing elephants for their tusks. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page. 250 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (1986) dj. Hardcover - Young adult novel by this Newbery Honor award winning author - Fifteen-year-old Summer, daughter of a northern California hippy, is torn by confused feelings about her mother and friends, and especially a desire to protect her 8 year old sister. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-689309678.

Philadelphia Running Press Books (2006). SIGNED first edition - "Cathy's life seems upside down, her boyfriend Victor broke up with her. Her father died unexpectedly, she ’s failing school, and her best friend is mad at her. But when Cathy decides to investigate Victor’s reasons for ending their relationship, her days go from bad to worse." SIGNED: on title page by author Sean Stewart. Interior design and sketches by Cathy Brigg. Photographs. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0-7624-33469.

New York: Pantheon, (1992). First edition - The author's first novel, originally published in England by a New York writer. The story of an angry young girl struggling to grow up in `60s Michigan suburbia. Although her affluent family tells her that she is the "luckiest girl in North Bay," she's experienced so much trauma that she claims six different personalities, and most of them are very angry. 152 pp.

New York: Beaufort Books, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (her first won the Pacific Northwest Award for a junior novel) With an instinct she doesn't quite understand, fourteen year old Tally fills the roll of mother to her older sister's baby - a coming of age novel for older children which "makes a simple and universal statement about life and living, and highlights the truth that age is never a measurement for responsibility." 156 pp. ISBN: 0-825300495.

New York: Franklin Watts, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (her second book - preceded by a collection of short stories), the story of a young woman in the 1960s who is eager to leave her stultifying family and all-too-predictable college and get on with life. As she heads west, she not only has to deal with normal coming of age issues, but a volatile era, influenced by the counter-culture, the war in Vietnam and increasing polarization. SIGNED on the title page. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-531098702.

New York: Delacorte, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a First YA Novel. The Horn Book review states that this book "captures both the disheartening helplessness of the situation and the boys' reckless resistance: 'We cross a landfill on our way to school. We swim in creek water that smells like nail polish remover . . . We are not fools. We are brave and brilliant.' There is power and hope in that kind of statement, and Jason's coming-of-age tale, though dark, is full of both. SIGNED on the first page. 185 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a First YA Novel. The Horn Book review states that this book "captures both the disheartening helplessness of the situation and the boys' reckless resistance: 'We cross a landfill on our way to school. We swim in creek water that smells like nail polish remover . . . We are not fools. We are brave and brilliant.' There is power and hope in that kind of statement, and Jason's coming-of-age tale, though dark, is full of both. INSCRIBED on the first page. 185 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age novel of a young girl and her brother set in a small midwestern town in the 1950s - "To escape problems with both of her parents throughout her childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Pearl Harbor Keenan reaches out to Walking Mary, a strange old woman who meets every single passenger train that pulls into the Framburg Depot." 130 pp. ISBN: 9780060284725.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a nine-year-old boy struggling to find his place in the world - his mother has fled the old ways for life in California, his grandfather is a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother a Spanish curandera with a passion for the music of Duke Ellington. Set in 1958 in the desert outside Phoenix on Buckeye Road, an area of adobes, tar paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and an indomintable spirit symbolized by la maravilla - the blanket of marigolds laid upon graves in Mexican cemeteries. INSCRIBED (in Spanish) on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935886.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). First edition - A contemporary Western novel about finding your way, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and an ALA Notable Book. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who has spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains of Nevada. The Reeses treat him like a son, but he can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents, and so he decides to leave and prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Vlautin's books have been praised by such diverse writers as Craig Johnson, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Patchett and many others. 269 pp

New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.

New York: Scribner, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.

New York: Scribner, (2001). First edition - First novel by this award winning writer of short fiction - ""I had a cousin, Randall, killed on Iwo Jima. Have I told you?" . . . a novel about a young woman, Ellen, coming of age in the long shadow of World War II. Forty years later she relates the events of this period, beginning with the death of her favorite cousin, Randall, with whom she had shared Easter Sundays, secrets, and perhaps, love. In an isolated, aging Maryland farmhouse that once was a stop on the Underground Railroad." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-684869489.

New York: Random House, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Dust jacket praise from Amy Bloom, Yiyun Li, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780812992977.

New York: Random House, (2012). First edition - Her first novel, a wonderful and uncommon coming-of-age story set in the near future where the rotation of the earth has begun to slow, and changes to everyone's lives inexorably follow. Cover praise from Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Karen Russell and more. Letter from publisher bound in. 272 pp.