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. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 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: 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: 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.

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.