New York: Seven Stories Press, (2000). Hardcover first edition - The second book by this former Black Panther, activist and radio journalist written while he was still on death row for the murder of a police officer (an action he has steadfastly denied and a sentence which was commuted to life imprisonment in 2001). This includes 79 essays by Abu-Jamal, edited and with an introduction by Noelle Hanrahan and a foreword by Alice Walker. Abu-Jamal was engaged by National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered' program to deliver a series of monthly three-minute commentaries on crime and punishment, but this was canceled following condemnations from the Fraternal Order of Police and others. Tipped onto the front endpaper is a sleeve holding a cd with 19 of his recorded essays and comments by literary figures and activists- including Howard Zinn, Cornel West, Dorothy Allison, Adrienne Rich, John Edgar Wideman annd others - who support Mumia. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph and drawings. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-583220224.

London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (his later books were written using just R. J. Ellory), Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller in 2003. A man on death row, found guilty of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan12 years before. As he faces the long walk to the electric chair, he begins to tell his story to the prison chaplain, Father John Rousseau - beginning with his first meeting with Nathan, aged 6, on the shores of a lake outside Greenleaf, North Carolina in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and finally their flight from the draft which ended in Nathan's brutal murder. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-752856669.

New York: Dutton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's sixth novel, a "vivid rendering of the psyche of an unregenerate murderess . . Narrator Bernadette OBrien, incarcerated in the Georgia prison where she'll be executed, describes in an 'elaborate confessional' her troubled upbringing (in Irish-Catholic working-class Fall River, Mass.), precocious brilliance (which led her to Harvard at age 12 and early eminence there as a professor of physics), and - in hair-raisingly explicit and vainglorious detail - her seduction and then murder of two of her prize students.. . a superb portrait of an unwanted daughter born to a 40-year-old mother and alcoholic father, and of a grieving sister (whose brother Fergus went to Vietnam and found 'an untimely, violent demise in an absurd cause') - a sister who would steel herself to become a powerful woman impervious to indignity and loss.. the final pages where Bernadettes rages are subsumed in her intimations of solidarity with other women prisoners and of reunion with her brother, are the most affecting Maso has written. Shes grounded her protagonists fulminations in a recognizable reality and in a manner that makes this at once her most convincingly textured and technically accomplished novel." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is a promotional postcard with a SIGNED hand-written note from Maso. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-525943072.