New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2024). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel by this ‚uban-born award-winning author, best known for his book "The German Girl." Set in the current day, in the author's upper Manhattan neighborhood, this is psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition - akinetopsia or motion blindness - who becomes afraid her neighbor is going to be murdered. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2023, that is, before publication. Translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams, additional translation by Cecilia Molinari. 255 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (2001). SIGNED first edition - His eighth book, one which is part memoir, part art history and part meditation. This a 17th century Dutch still life painting as a starting point for his exploration of our attachment to things. SIGNED on the title page. 70 pp plus list of works cited.

Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth and last novel by this Kentucky-born author (who lived most of his life in New York City) to be published in his lifetime. Edmund White called this the "most penetrating novel we have ever had about black and whites in the United States. He has chosen to approach this subject through an examination of sexual obsession, thereby exposing racist hypocrisy.. . " 251 pp. ISBN: 0-881500003.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel, third book, an "intimate story of a family and its struggle to come to terms with the death of its independent, defiant and sharp-tongued and matriach." 268 pp. ISBN: 1-55584202x.

Boston: Little Brown, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Gay poet's first novel. Written as a Hollywood screwball comedy involving wealthy estate owner who dies without signing a will. ISBN: 0-316-578215.

New York: Avon, (1981). First edition - Accidental sleuth, R. Greg Cannon, an out-of-work screenwriter and memorabilia supplier, finds himself in a murder mystery set on Hollywood where two men were found dead in an apparent double suicide on the eve of the Oscars. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-380768283.

Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, (2009) d. Hardcover - The fourth collection from Powell, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a book which "is simultaneously an accessible heartbreaker, a rare gem for connoisseurs, a genre-altering breakthrough. The San Franciscobased poet has lived with, and written about, HIV for a decade, and his own illness remains a subject here; so does his celebration of gay eroticism, of love in the spirit and in the flesh.. . This book will be remembered for years, for its serious feelings, their swerves, their tears, its jokes." (Reed) Slightly oversized. 77 pp plus acknowledgments and colophon. ISBN: 978-1555975166.