New York: Razorbill - Penguin, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this Northern California educator, musician and songwriter. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Choose kindness." From the dust jacket: Everything was leading up to this moment - the point at which the teasing, the cruelty, the pressure all became too much. And someone finally snapped. Now - six kids, from six different cliques - are trapped in the student store while a shooter terrorizes their school. ... This gripping thriller by C. G. Watson examines in heartrending detail how even the most casual cruelties can build, multiply and eventually tear people apart." 296 pp. ISBN: 1595141383.

New York: Viking, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.

New York: Viking, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A long-lost manuscript is found in a hidden wall safe of a railroad baron in St Paul, Minnesota, which tells the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota in 1894 to find and stop an arsonist known as The Red Demon. "A richly imagined first novel, utterly faithful to the tradition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and guaranteed to revive the sensibility, the spirit, and the suspense of the great Sherlockian tales." INSCRIBED on the title page by Larry Millett. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-670870390.

New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's first novel. "It starts - as so many mysteries do - with a corpse. But in this case the dead man is different. Well, actually he's the same. He looks just like John Reynman. But Reynman has no twin. He has never seen the dead man before. How did the corpse wind up on Reynman's living room floor?" James Sallis (who is in 'Asylum') comments: 'There has to be something in the water in Austin, Texas. Guy sits down to write a nice little mystery and comes up with this?'. SIGNED on the title page with the comment "Signed in the home of John Reynman, Austin, TX." 242 pp. ISBN: 0-312191448.

New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's first mystery novel. "It starts - as so many mysteries do - with a corpse. But in this case the dead man is different. Well, actually he's the same. He looks just like John Reynman. But Reynman has no twin. He has never seen the dead man before. How did the corpse wind up on Reynman's living room floor?" James Sallis (who is in 'Asylum') comments: 'There has to be something in the water in Austin, Texas. Guy sits down to write a nice little mystery and comes up with this?'. SIGNED on the title page with the comment "Halloween, Austin, TX, 1998. See pg 231."

Danbury, CT: Rutledge Books, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a medical thriller. "Doctor Izzy Slesinger, America's preeminent protein biochemist, discovers that HIV is not the cause of AIDS, but rather the consequence of a genetically shifted cell designed to wipe out the African races. As Izzy races around the globe, searching for Mengele's missing research, he is chased by modern Nazis who share Hitler's dream of a pure Aryan planet." SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 1-582441855.

Altadena, CA: Prospect Park Books, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which brings an old Jewish detective in LA, who doesn't believe in God, out of retirement to investigate the possible murder of a charismatic rabbi, who dropped dead over lunch at Canter's Deli. He hires ex-wrestler Omar Villasenor to provide some much-needed muscle, and they provide an entertaining tour of L.A. while they track down a killer with a surprising motive. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp plus a 1 pg glossary. ISBN: 978-1945551642.

New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award winning first novel, set in the early years of the twentieth century and one which "opens a window on the little-known history of African American homesteaders and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America." Longlisted for the Orange Prize, a finalist for the Orange Award for New Writers, and won the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters' Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022014.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel, a crime thriller. Sue Grafton called it one of the most exciting mystery debuts in years. Introduces Harding, former private investigator in Chicago, until a case turned on him, and now an ex-con working off the books, 333 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814633.

New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.

DLSIJ Press, (2007). SIGNED first edition - A lesbian legal suspense novel featuring business attorney Meg Stryker. INSCRIBED on a blank preliminary page and dated in the year of publication, 175 pp. Promotional book mark laid in. ISBN: 9781932014280.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, a story "driven by strong characters who aren't afraid to speak their minds." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-684-844915.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Macavity awards, set in rural Maine near a former World War II German Prisoner-of-War logging camp. 40 years later, after the fall of the Berlin Wall makes it possible for East Germans to travel, a man arrives in the U.S. to try to learn the details of his brother's death - supposedly by drowning after an escape attempt - and a woman who worked in the camp occasionally while a young girl becomes caught up in the search for the long hidden truth after her brother is killed. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-060186674.

New York: The Viking Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Where does privilege between patient and therapist end? Does it end with the threat of murder?" Introduces Alan Gregory. The author's first novel, set in the Colorado Rocky Mountain towns of Aspen and Boulder - White was a practising clinical pyschologist when he wrote this. 363 pp. ISBN: 0-670-837652.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Canadian author's fast-paced and humorous first novel for older children - "Is there such a thing as too much adventure? Anne is about to find out. She has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin's Institute for Perpetually Wicked and Hideously Unattractive Children. When the big day arrives, a series of very curious happenings lead to Anne being charged with an epic quest." SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. Illustrations by Mariono Epelbaum. 366 pp plus a secret epilogue bound in upside down. ISBN: 978-0316305280.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fist novel set in the near future, on earth devastated by nuclear war as seen through the eyes of a survivor, Singe Ragnhilds, half-Norwegian and half American, whose family accepts the offer from Tanzania to live on the now powerful continent of Africa. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-67149984X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback in the UK - the story of a model employee - a highly skilled but somewhat humble professional killer. But when the enterprise he works for is re-organized, people don't just get fired, they are fired upon - and so for the first time he finds himself prey rather than predator. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-743212673.

Atlanta, Georgia: Longstreet Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Former Atlanta news photographer's first novel - described as 'hard-boiled, hilarious and harrowing.' SIGNED on the title page. 279 pp. ISBN: 1563524317.

New York & London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A rather scarce copy of the first crime novel by this author (she wrote 12 novels between 1929-1947), a story of a gang of drug smugglers and jewel thieves and of two young people who find themselves in danger when their paths cross that of the gang. Features Scotland Yard dectective Ambrose Nixon. 314 pp.

New York: Summit Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first novel, the story of a young man's coming of age in the political upheavals on the college campuses of the late 60's and early 70's. Cover praise from Trey Ellis and Ishmael Reed. ISBN: 0-671-726404.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2013). SIGNED - Author's suspenseful first novel. When a classmate's body is found in the woods, Evie's lies about her friendship with an older boy get her involved in trying to track down the killer. SIGNED on the title page. 268 pp plus a discussion guide and a brief excerpt from her second book "Absent.". ISBN: 978-1452119595.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). First edition - African American author's first novel - written for young adults, this is a coming-of-age story set in a poor Houston neighborhood, a book which gives a voice to children who suffer abuse in silence. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-689824688.

Mill Valley, CA: Cove International Publishers, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this "American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker whose work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation." The first book in The Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy, this is a romantic suspense novel spanning three continents and nearly 40 years. INSCRIBED on the title page. This was written in part to honor the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury which went into force as international law in 2017. Praise on the back cover from Angela Y. Davis and others. 312 pp plus epilogue. ISBN: 978-0692059661.

New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, introducing Benjamin Justice, a gay journalist in West Hollywood, who had won the Pulitzer Prize several years before only to have it pulled when it turned out the story was fabricated. He is persuaded by his former editor to research the circumstances surrounding a shooting outside a gay nightclub. Winner of the Edgar Award For Best First Mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385482345.