New York: Crown, (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, a thriller about an international crime family. Translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith. 446 pp.

Glendora, CA: Sodef Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Maggy and Fred Renard, set on an island off the coast of France. 202 pp. Publisher's material laid in with the handwritten notation "for the Edgar submissions.". ISBN: 0-965438201.

New York: Scribner, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a crime novel featuring Meg Gillis, who, with another former cop, owns a security business on the fringes of Beverly Hills. SIGNED on the title page and dated 4/20/99. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850427.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written using this pseudonym - The "troubles" of Ireland have crossed the sea to New York on St. Patrick's Day as Irish terrorists explode bombs during the parade. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-698110293.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel written using this pseudonym - The "troubles" of Ireland have crossed the sea to New York on St. Patrick's Day as Irish terrorists explode bombs during the parade. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-698110293.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, second book, by this highly praised writer from North Carolina.. Her first book, a collection of short stories called 'Missing Women' was the winner of the Willa Cather award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for first fiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of they year. Kaye Gibbons called Spence "a reader's dream. Her stories charm the soul and engage the mind... both gentle and firm, quiet and packed with glorious candor." 227 pp. ISBN: 1-57332-2860.

Pleasantville, New York: Impress Mystery, (2006.). Hardcover - Attractive new edition of this author's classic first mystery, originally published in 1947. Includes a new section "about the author" at the rear of the book. A title in the Best Mysteries of All Time series. 214 pp. ISBN: 1544-4007.

New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller - Mavis A., an immense oil platform fueling all of Britain, is the target of IRA guerillas who have seized the American Enterprise supertanker. As a storm rages, tje tanker is steered powerfully toward the legs of the platform. Map frontispiece. 2 pp of sketches of the oil platform and the tanker. 258 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394501969.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a mystery starting at MacKenzie Park in the center of a dying Massachusetts mill town, where a minor league baseball team is struggling for survival. SIGNED on the title page. A classic of baseball fiction. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-0750.

New York: Hyperion, (2006). First edition - The first novel written under this pseudonym. Told in a light and breezy way by Carly, who thinks her admission to Princeton is a sure thing, until she tanks on the SATs, this is underneath a serious story of the pressures put on high school kids to cheat when it comes to tests and college admissions. 350 pp.

New York: Walker, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery. "Reporter Kay Engels returns to her hometown for her twentieth high-school class reunion and encounters childhood friends, long-buried secrets, and a cold-blooded murderer." SIGNED on the title page. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-802732321.

New York: Freundlich Books, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an unusual thriller based on the experimental world of medical research, the story of a dangerous bond between a young quadraplegic and a capuchin monkey whose intelligence has been enhanced to enable her to be his arms and legs. Basis for the 1988 movie of the same name directed by George Romero. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-88191-0015.

Novato, CA: Lyford Books / Presidio Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller involving a sexually obsessed serial killer in Washington DC. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1997. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-891415904.

New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Denver private investigator - a noir mystery introducing Streeter - ex-bouncer, ex-linebacker, ex-husband and current bounty hunter and PI. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Owen Smith. ISBN: 0-670-861545.

New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Denver private investigator - a noir mystery introducing Streeter - ex-bouncer, ex-linebacker, ex-husband and current bounty hunter and PI. SIGNED on the title page and dated 1/22/96 - it includes the comment "Thanks for coming to my very first signing " . 223 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Owen Smith. ISBN: 0-670-861545.

New York: Hyperion, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first young adult novel, the story of two people who were never supposed to meet - she lives in 1995 Chicago and he in 2012 San Francisco, but Bennett has the ability to travel through time and space. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 9781423159568.

Chicago: Agate, (2004). First edition - "A sweeping love story about how long-buried family secrets devastate the marriage between a brilliant saxophonist and a singer." The first novel (second book) by this young African American writer and musician. 382 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.). First edition - Authors first book. "When James Walker arrives at Tudor College, Cambridge, he by accident or fate encounters a member of the Night Climbers, a group of wealthy, secretive and eccentric circle of students who scale the college towers and gargoyles at night in pursuit of thrill seeking danger." 328 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family.SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family.SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel set in New Jersey and introducing ex-cop Harry Rane. "the Jersey Shore ain't what it used to be, but ex-state trooper Harry Rane still calls it home. After his wife's death, Harry got careless, got shot, and he left the force. He's a changed man, leads a quiet life, except when it comes to helping his friends... Now an old buddy of Harry's wants a big favor. He owes $50,000 to a Jersey crime boss and needs Harry to get him more time to repay the loan." 340 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel about corruption in the justice system, by an author who is a judge himself. Introduces Tim Quinn, a Washington, D.C., lawyer recently appointed to a judgeship only to learn that corrupt politics sets the rules and he is expected to repay the favor. 398 pp. . ISBN: 0-765311410.

New York: Kensington, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a thriller involving an investment banker in California who blinds himself to what he is really doing - laundering money for a powerful drug cartel - until it is too late. SIGNED on the title page. In addition to writing highly praised suspense novels, Sullivan has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer for investigative journalism. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-8217-4710X.

New York: Pocket Books, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, based on historical records and set in seventeenth century India, this is the story of Mehrunnisa, who ruled the Mughal Empire after the death of her husband, Emperor Jahangir. Afterword, glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-743427149.

New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised debut novel: Vishnu, the resident odd job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing he inhabits, while his neighbors squabble over who will pay for the ambulance. Praise from such writers as Michael Cunningham, Amy Tan, Andrea Barrett (who called this "Sympathic, penetrating, comic, and moving, this fine and unusual first novel unexpectedly braids Hindu mythology and traditions into the daily life of a broad cast of wonderfully drawn characters. The result draws on the best storytelling traditions of both east and west.").Illustrated endpapers. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-393050424.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Journalist's first novel, based on the premise "Can a person witness a murder over the phone?" Evelyn Wade is a shy, but determined, grandmotherly figure who is a thousand miles from the crime she overhears in her job as a telephone surveyer, but she sets out to find the murderer,following a trail through the dark world of cocaine, stolen cars and random sex, just as the murderer sets out to track her down. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-555841406.

New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's first novel: the murder of a man's brother forces his return to the small Irish town where he grew up. One review called this "Fast-moving and harshly observed. This is a new Ireland, somewhere between Roddy Doyle and Quentin Tarantino, post-Catholic." 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312182066.