New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Putnam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story, set in the civil-rights-era South, one which includes a candid discussion of racial issues. The narrator, young Lucy Conyers, lives in Tallahassee, Florida, at the end of the street where the 'colored section' of town begins. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-39913719X.

New York: Anchor Books, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Kern's third book, a midwestern coming-of-age story, funny, poignant and disturbing, issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story which blends the everyday with the mystical, and which focuses on Alexander, the lonely son of a rabbi in Canada, who fills his life with stories - including those of his great grandfather, a legendary rare book dealer from Frankfurt, and of the Cantor's twin sister, who perished at Auschwitz and more. Dust jacket praise from Judith Rossner and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. 206 pp. ISBN: 1573220752.

Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - a coming of age story. "It's 1957 and things are falling from the sky over the decaying mill town of Thorndam, Massachusetts." 376 pp. ISBN: 0-933031-149.