Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the 1995 Walt Whitman Award selected by Cynthia Macdonald. Dark monologues in which Frida Kahlo, Helen Keller, Diane Arbus, Alice Liddell (Alice in Wonderland), Patty Hearst, Snow White, Thumbelina and others - real and imaginary women transfigured by suffering - speak eloquently. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-807120588.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of naval aviators at war over Vietnam, and only the second novel published by the Naval Institute Press (the first being, of course, Clancy's Hunt for Red October.) Coonts flew Invaders between 1971-73, and later served as a flight instructor. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-87021-200-1.

New York: Hyperion / Voice , (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A coming of age story about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up - debut memoirist Kelly Corrigan brilliantly captures her larger-than-life, Irish-American father and describes how they each - - successfully for now - battled with cancer. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp.

New York: Hyperion / Voice , (2008.). Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story about a woman who loved being a girl and the things that made her finally grow up - debut memoirist Kelly Corrigan brilliantly captures her larger-than-life, Irish-American father and describes how they each - - successfully for now - battled with cancer. 262 pp. plus a final photograph. ISBN: 978-1401303365.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a nonfiction account of a team of homicide detectives - veteran Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn, a street smart young black woman who grew up in the 'hood herself - and their day to day work in South Central Los Angeles. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Photographs, notes. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-68480235X.

New York: Doubleday, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Cosby's first book - both funny and wise. Introduction and afterword by Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1990). First edition - Her first book, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. "Broad knowledge and passionate artistry combine in these poems to force a surface into such clarity that we can see in the psyche's depths the images of our histories and hopes flawless in form and color." (A, R. Ammons) 51 pp. ISBN: 0-822954400.

New York: Persea Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first collection of short fiction - nineteen stories on current American culture, including two - 'Monologue of the Movie Mogul' and 'Matinee at the Bijou' - which were award-winners. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-89255-0996.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994). Hardcover first edition - The author's rather uncommon first book, a collection of ten spellbinding stories set in within the framework of two boys' adventure. Two boys, Chas and Raul, riding the rails, jump off a train somewhere in the South and join a mysterious group of hoboes sitting around a campfire as they narrate a series of chilling tales of magic, mystery, and murder. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-684197049.

New York: Putnam, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles, "about the seductive world of jazz and what happens when the passion for music gets tangled up in small-time crime." 221 pp. ISBN: 0-399-134182.

Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, (2000.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of twenty short stories. Cover praise from Timothy Findley ('Put this book on your literary map and circle it in gold, for here lies buried treasure. Dig into its pages and discover a new voice, one that can be tender, tough and - in the best and most adventurous sense - dangerous. ') and others. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-889626901.

New York: Crown, (1989.). SIGNED first edition - The first Marcus Didius Falco mystery, set in first century Rome.SIGNED on the title page. Double page map frontispiece. Dramatis personae. Cover praise from Ellis Peters, Rosemary Sutcliff, and others. 258 pp.

New York: Crown, (1989.). First edition - The first Marcus Didius Falco mystery, set in first century Rome. Double page map frontispiece. Dramatis personae. Cover praise from Ellis Peters, Rosemary Sutcliff, and others. 258 pp.

New York: St Martin's, 1990. SIGNED first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing Oakland, CA private eye Jeri Howard. Winner of the 4th St Martin's Best First Private Eye novel contest (previous winners included Karen Kijewski and Gar Anthony Hayward.) SIGNED on title page. Not a common proof.

New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing Oakland, CA private eye Jeri Howard. Winner of the 4th St Martin's Best First Private Eye novel contest (previous winners included Karen Kijewski and Gar Anthony Hayward.) SIGNED by author. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-04464x.

New York: St Martin's, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing Oakland, CA private eye Jeri Howard. Winner of the 4th St Martin's Best First Private Eye novel contest (previous winners included Karen Kijewski and Gar Anthony Hayward.) SIGNED by author. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-04464x.

New York: Avon, (1993). First edition - The author's first novel - "Satan has risen. and just in time for tea". Set in London, psychic Audrey Arbuthnot is hired to bid for the mysterious Book of Shadows at a Sotheby auction. 182 pp. Cover art by James Warren. ISBN: 9780380769933.

New York: Warner, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - described as capturing the pathos, violence and dark humor of being a homicide cop in New York City - by a 20 year veteran of the force. Cover praise from James Patterson who calls this book "an extremely authentic and suspenseful thriller that can also be heart-wrenching." 293 pp. ISBN: 0-446-517704.

New York: Warner, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book - described as capturing the pathos, violence and dark humor of being a homicide cop in New York City - by a 20 year veteran of the force. Cover praise from James Patterson who calls this book "an extremely authentic and suspenseful thriller that can also be heart-wrenching." SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-446-517704.

New York: Warner, 1994. dj. Hardcover - Author's first book - described as capturing the pathos, violence and dark humor of being a homicide cop in New York City - by a 20 year veteran of the force. Cover praise from James Patterson who calls this book "an extremely authentic and suspenseful thriller that can also be heart-wrenching." A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-446-517704.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1994). SIGNED first edition - Chicano poet's first collection, poems which "explore the Mexican landscape and express the longings of those who have left it." SIGNED on the title page. A title in The Contemporary Poetry Series. 49 pp. Cover illustration by Simon Silva. ISBN: -820316776.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry - poems and prose-poems - by this West Virginia writer 64 pp. ISBN: 0-821401211.

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1996. First edition - The author's first published work - the title refers to a citrus workers' camp built in the early 1900's by the growers' association in Orange County to house migrant workers.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an historical epic spanning three generations in the lives of two families who are caught up in the tumultuous events of martyred Ireland, from the bitter days of starvation in the 1850s to the climactic Easter Rebellion of 1916. Glossary. 571 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Schaumann. ISBN: 0-671-215914.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.). Doig's first book, an account of growing up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his restless father and his grandmother. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6899825.

Toronto: TSAR Publications, (2005). First edition - His first collection of poetry - one which "examines image versus reality of tolerance and multiculturalism in Canada from the perspective of a young, gay, black man." 71 pp. ISBN: 1894770226.

London: Robert Hale, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hard-to-find first novel by this actor and screenwriter (for among other things, the 'Bonanza' television show and the musicals 'Go for Your Gun' and 'Belle Starr') - a classic Western set in the Panamint Mountains near Death Valley.Presentation copy, warmly INSCRIBED by the author to a couple who were his friends and neighbors in the Sierra foothills and dated in the year of publication: 'to my dear friends... who believed when all others doubted. I will always be grateful for your encouragement and friendship. Love and God Bless. Merry Christmas 1979 and the best New Year ever. Always your friend, Warren Douglas.' 170 pp. Newspaper clipping with an obituary laid in. ISBN: 0-7091-77097.

New York: Random House, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a "collection of interlocking stories, set primarily in Bronzeville's now-demolished Stateway Gardens housing project for which the book is named. A young boy named Tracy is our primary guide and narrator, but by the end even the high-rises themselves become fully fleshed-out characters. Though sometimes dreamy with longing for the comforts of a childhood, which, from the outside, appears filled with privation, Drain - who grew up in Englewood and now lives in Kenwood - has fashioned an indelible portrait of this city. . . Through slyly poetic language and an absolute grasp on place and description, Drain has added to the canon of Chicago literature."(Chicago Reader). ISBN: 978-1984818171.

London: Pandora, (1987.). First edition - The author's prize-winning first novel, originally published in South Africa in 1983, and set there during the turbulent winter of 1980 - a young white teacher at a 'coloured' high school shelters two of her students from arrest. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-86358-1684.