New York: The Book League of America, 1942. dj. Hardcover - A story of war behind the German lines during World War II, based on events which Caldwell witnessed while in Russia. 283 pp.

New York: Arbor House, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romance, adventure and intigue set in Africa. ISBN: 0-87795-2140.

New York: Random House, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover - His 4th book, a novel, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-679-419632.

New York: HarperPerennial, (1991.). Author's third novel - the story of a photojournalist working in Vietnam and Beirut. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0986069.

London: Macmillan, (1993). SIGNED hardcover - The author's sixth book - "A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay [about an early anthropologist.] Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world." (Esquire) SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-333592816.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (c 1988.). Collection of short stories by one of the US masters of the form. 391 pp.

New York: Time-Life Books, (1981.). Reprint of Cary's greatest novel with a new introduction by V. S. Pritchett and an editor's preface. xv, 300 pp,

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover - Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. 375 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-500989.

New York: Avon, 1990. Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. Map. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-380-711044.

New York: St Martin's, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in Malaya in the late 1960's just as it was casting off British rule. ISBN: 0-312-804482.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover - A short novel - ;part fable, part yarn' - which was published just 3 months before Cheever's death from cancer. 100 pp. ISBN: 0-394-513347.

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First edition - A rather uncommon novel by this California poet, his first - set against the background of the psychedelic 60s, this is the story of an American professor/poet's brief but disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-912652-535.

New York: Penguin, 1987. A variation on the story of Crusoe, Friday - and another castaway, Susan Barton - and Foe, the man who will tell their story. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-14-009623x.

New York: Viking Penguin, (2008.) dj. Hardcover - Novel by this Nobel laureate which both takes on the world of politics and explores the role of the writer in our times. Notes. 229 pp. ISBN: 9780670018758.

Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The story of a Vietnam veteran who operates a controversial simulated minefield in Northern California where patrons pay their money to get their thrills - until a crusader against the global infestation of land mines walks into the field and is found dead. SIGNED on the title page. 158 pp. ISBN: 1-587900297.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1952) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Second book by this San Francisco writer and restaurateur - a novel based on the death of Manuel Laureano Rodr’guez S‡nchez, the legendary Spanish bullfighter known as Manolete, a fictionalized version of his final appearance in the ring in 1947, when he came out of retirement and was fatally gored. The year after this book was published, Conrad opened his famed restaurant "El Matador" in San Francisco, with the proceeds from the novel. Illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Laid in is an invitation to the opening of the restaurant. 213 pp.

New York: Second Chance Press, 1980. dj. Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all Negro crew.

New York: Scribner's, 1997.

New York: St Martin's, (1991.). Canadian author's first novel, a story of the twentysomething generation, overeducated and underemployed, working McJobs (low pay, low prestige, low benefit, no future) in the service industry. Illustrated. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-312-05436x.

Santa Barbara: Shoreline Press, 2001. SIGNED first edition - "Six Stories Of California, Calamity, And Love." 157 pp. ISBN: 1-885375085.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997. First edition - An original trade paperback containing stories from 3 of Davenport's early collections. Chosen by Davenport, these stories were currently not available in print elsewhere.

New York: Penguin, (1990). ISBN: 0-14-0085491.

New York: The Press of the Readers Club, (1941) dj. Hardcover - A novel originally published in 1921, issued here with a new introduction by Carl Van Doren. The NY Times review described this as a "great book. Here are pity and truth and laughter, gentlest compassion, fiercest irony." ix, 379 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1997.). A massive novel, one of Delillo's most important works. 827 pp. ISBN: 0-9656641-20.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. dj. Hardcover - Novel of love and jealousy set in a Connecticut suburb. ISBN: 0-7432-046971.

Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fable which uses an ant colony - in which a few restless worker ants agitate against the status quo - to illuminate our own society. Illustrated with drawings by Martha Huehnerarth. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-878500340.

New York: Random House, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - Author's fourth novel, set in the grim underworld of the mobs in Philadelphia. SIGNED on the title page. A NY Times Book Review notable book of 1991. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-394-585739.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

New York: Random House, 1971. dj. Hardcover - A novel about a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia - a fictionalized version of the Rosenberg case. A very nice early printing of this early novel by Doctorow. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-394-432718.