New York: Atheneum, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully written novel that is comedic and tragic. This novel, about an American engineer sent to build a bridge inthe tropics, is one of action and character, of gentle hope and brutal reality.

New York: Penguin, (1997.). A novel of the deep racial divisions that divide our American cities. I Bell has won many awards for his books, including the Pulitzer Prize and being selected by Granta magazine as one of the 20 best young novelists in the US. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0268464.

New York: Penguin, (1986). Southern author's second novel - a story of terrorism in New York City. Bell was probably the most established of the authors who were selected by Granta magazine in the late 1990's as the best young writers in the United States. A title in the "Contemporary American Fiction" series. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0093303.

New York: Harper & Row, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in two modern cities - Bucharest and Chicago - by this Nobel prize winning author. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148497.

New York: Harper & Row, (1982.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in two modern cities - Bucharest and Chicago - by this Nobel prize winning author. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0148497.

New York: George H. Doran, (1915). Hardcover first edition - The last novel in the somewhat autobiographical trilogy by Beresford concerning the life of Jacob Stahl, an aspiring author. In contrast to his science fiction works, he is known for his books of psychological realism - although this book is in one way a tribute to a freer way of life, with Jacob, who is still married, living with his girl friend Betty in Cornwall, it is more a picture of the psychological stresses caused by defying convention. 405 pp.

Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp, 1983. Second novel by this writer who was one of the 'Hollywood Ten. Originally published in 1941 , this is the story of a man who, just as he is on the verge of a new life, a life where he can became something, is accused of a brutal murder. ISBN: 0-88316-5538.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. dj. Hardcover - Unusual novel written by this young New Zealander after spending 18 months with the Antartic Division.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second collection of short stories, mostly set in Minnesota. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165049.

New York: Creative Age Press (1945). Hardcover first edition - A later satirical novel by this British Army officer, author and journalist who spent 7 years living in the Sahara Desert among the Arabs in the 1920s and who was considered one of the best British writers on the Sahara. This novel was reportedly inspired by his flight from the German army after they occupied France in World War II. 296 pp.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). Author's highly praised novel of a midwife in rural Vermont, who takes desperate steps to save a baby's life, and finds herself on trial for murder. Winner of the NEBA Discover Award. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-375-706771.

New York: Vintage Books, (1998.). SIGNED - Author's highly praised novel of a midwife in rural Vermont, who takes desperate steps to save a baby's life, and finds herself on trial for murder. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the NEBA Discover Award. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-375-706771.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's third novel. SIGNED on the title page and very warmly and personally INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page. ISBN: 0-679-412921.

New York: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1991.

New York: Morrow, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His 4th novel - and called his best one to date - the story of a man born in turn of the century Edinburgh, and his experiences in the first World War trenches, in Berlin in 1920's and postwar Los Angeles. ISBN: 0-688-077617.

New York: Penguin, (1996.). SIGNED - An interesting novel which contrasts the lives of two couples, and tells their stories from both viewpoints - one recently arrived illegal immigrants from Mexico, camping in the ravines of Topanga Canyon, struggling to find work and survive and expecting their first child; the other Los Angeles liberals living a prosperous and orderly life in a community in the Canyon which is being walled off to keep "Mexicans" out - SIGNED on the title page. NY Times Notable book of the year. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-14-023828x.

New York: Viking, 1990. dj. Hardcover - His 4th novel, the story of a young Japanese seaman who jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and winds up on one the barrier islands. ISBN: 0-670-832200.

New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set in 1907, in Battle Creek, Michigan, where Kellogg (the inventor of the cornflake) has built his 'Temple of Health.' Basis of the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-670-843342.

New York: Norton, 1964. Orig publ in 1947. Introduction to this edition by C. Hugh Holman.

New York: The Viking Press, (2008.). Imaginative novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, which alternates between the present - 1996 where "a rare book expert is offered the job of analysis and conservation of a mysterious, beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain and recently saved from destruction during the shelling of Sarajevo's libraries" - and through the past as the lives of all those who handled the book are revealed. Afterword. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-670-01821X.

New York: Triangle Books, (1940,c 1930) dj. Hardcover - First thus. Novel of a prostitute, Lily Love, who rose from the sordidness of dollar days to the owner of the most luxorious sporting house south of the Mason-Dixon line. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Jeanette Seelhoff. 288 pp. Dust jacket art by Jeanette Seelhoff.

New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this California author - an exploration of "the American dream gone awry." 236 pp. ISBN: 0-877956308.

Lulu Publishing Services, (2015). Art Lake is a simple everyday kind of man, living on the edge of the great American dream of a suburban life in California - but with no money, no health insurance, and a lot of stress he turns to meditation and finds that he can take the form of a common house cat. "He is content to use his new found power to supplement his diet by eating mice (poverty can do strange things to a man) and to reduce boredom by chasing moths. He has no plans to be a hero and as he leaves middle age he has gained enough wisdom to not dream of being one. The Universe has other plans." 205 pp. ISBN: 978-1483426020.

Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986.). Set in the American heartland in 1959, this 'visionary comedy chronicles the cosmic, social, and sexual adventures of Martin Kilbanky.' Cover praise from Michael McClure, Ed Sanders, Seymour Krim. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-940650746.

New York: Atheneum, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, based on the worst aviation disaster in New Zealand's history.

New York: Vintage Books, 1991. A love story, for and about adults. Praise from Paula Fox, Richard Bausch, Janet Burroway (who mentions that Busch 'turns things on their head... here we get the other truth, about a man's neediness and a woman's self-sufficiency') and others.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991.

New York: Henry Holt, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - Novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.' 333 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-19855.

New York: Henry Holt, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - Novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.' 333 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-19855.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.