Berkeley, [CA]: Neon Sun, 1972. First edition - Poems on being a junkie and breaking the addiction, illustrated by David Kelso. 35 pp

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "shattering and unflinchingly honest autobiography" by this Washington Post reporter. McCall did not fit the stereotypes: he was a smart kid from a caring family in a suburban black working-class neighborhood, but still wound up involved with drugs and gangs, and eventually in prison for armed robbery. This is not just an account of his troubled youth and how he turned his life around, but a look at how young black men feel in a society that does not value them. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-679412689.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical fiction in the form of journals, essays, memoir and short story, The final long story - Sylvia - recounts his marriage in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-374263493.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First edition - Novel set a women's prison, told in four alternating voices: "Helen is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. . Dr. Louise Forrest, recently divorced, mother of an eight-year-old boy, chief of mental health services . . Ike Bradshaw, a corrections officer . . and Angie, an ambitious starlet, intent on nothing but fame." 229 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (2016). First edition - An "epic, ambitious, and deeply poignant novel, [this] follows a diverse group of people whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattans East Village, the Christodora. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and the activism of the 1980s to a future New York City of the 2020s where subzero winters are a thing of the past, it recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, portrays the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life a bohemian Lower Manhattan of artists and idealists." 430 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). First edition - The author's second novel, a follow up to his award-winning debut 'Bull Mountain'. "Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountains most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, hes doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally has to make a choice." Publisher's material laid in. 307 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the bonds between brothers; a young man returns to Southern California from serving in Afghanistan only to discover that a wildfire has destroyed his family's avocado ranch and that his brother has been drawn into a circle of violent misfits. A literary novel by this Edgar award winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 9781250052001.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2007). First edition - Felicia Pearson, star of the acclaimed TV series The Wire, reveals her incredible life story, one that dramatically parallels her tv character -born a crack baby and raised in a foster home, she thrived as a baby gangsta until she wound in prison for killing a woman in self-defense, and decided to turn her life around when her mentor was murdered. 233 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster (2000). First edition - A book that "chronicles the vitality and influence of alternative culture in America and discovers that Bohemia is more than alive and well -i t is a powerful force in our shifting national identity." Chapters include discussions of art, politics, sexual mores, good drugs and bad drugs, to selling out and more. 287 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2015). First edition - Published on the band's 50th anniversary, this book attempts to answer the question of why the Grateful Dead became one of the world's most legendary bands. Notes, sources. 353 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1988). First edition - The author's first collection of poems, winner of the 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize - Each poem tells a story, of family relationships and the details of daily life from working class Fall River, Massachusetts, where he was born, to the California which he escaped to, but still with a sense of despair and an awareness of life's hardships. "Who would want to die defending Firestone Tire/ and its brick storage yards?" A title in Pitt Poetry Series. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-822954109.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning journalist - a thriller set on our southern border with Mexico, one which takes us into the world of border politics and drugs. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Luis Alberto Urrea, Jim Shepard and Michael Connelly (who called this one of the most accomplished first novels he has read). 397 pp. ISBN: 9780316105309.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2011). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this award winning journalist - a thriller set on our southern border with Mexico, one which takes us into the world of border politics and drugs. INSCRIBED on the title page "To-- - Thanks for the interest and enjoy the border." 369 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of murder, passion and betrayal. "Reno is her name. Thieving is her game. Or at least it was." She's trying to go straight now. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-525-0953207.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's second novel, the story of "a young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey set in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders," 191 pp. Cover photo by Michael Hornburg. ISBN: 0-871134799.

Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A large (16 siblings) and very dysfunctional Irish-American family comes together after the death of their father. 228 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 1564780376.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - A memoir of a childhood growing up in New York, with a drug addicted mother, and the author's divided life -as a successful college graduate who kept her past hidden - and one who was struggling with addiction herself. 255 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second thriller (the first was nominated for the Edgar and winner of the John Creasey Award for Best First Mystery Novel) "When a gang of criminals finds themselves in need of a fall guy, they target Los Angeles County Sheriff John Victor Scully, plant a myriad of evidence, and send their most vicious member and her thirteen-year-old daughter to kill him - but he survives to seek revenge a decade later." 366 pp. ISBN: 0-312271158.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second thriller (the first was nominated for the Edgar and winner of the John Creasey Award for Best First Mystery Novel) "When a gang of criminals finds themselves in need of a fall guy, they target Los Angeles County Sheriff John Victor Scully, plant a myriad of evidence, and send their most vicious member and her thirteen-year-old daughter to kill him - but he survives to seek revenge a decade later." 366 pp. ISBN: 0-312271158.

Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a title in the Brown Bag Mystery Series." Hired to track down a fourteen-year-old runaway named Jessica Finney, Oregon private eye Zachariah Smith leaves the small town of Mackie, heading to Portland to follow his clues. Not far down the road, he picks up a young woman named Allison, who is also clearly on the run - . . In Portland, Zachariah checks into a motel with one runaway and sets out to track down the other." SIGNED on the title page. Small hardcover format. 440 pp. ISBN: 0-933031416.

New York: Norton, (2008.). First edition - After a child-murder case, Edinburgh Detective Inspector suffers a mental breakdown and is given time off to recuperate. He heads to Miami with his fiance only to find himself in the middle of an even nastier case, and the only protector of a 10 year old girl. 344 pp.