New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED first edition - A powerful memoir, inspired by the tragic death of Allende's daughter. SIGNED on the first page.

New York: John Day, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of how an assignment in Japan helped Buck find her way back to life after the death of her husband. 256 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1997). First edition - The author's first novel (set in England, though Crowell is American), and written when she was just 18 - the story of 30-year-old Gloria Burgess coming to grips with the premature death from cancer of a beloved husband, a grief she has to deal with for the sake of her young son. Kirkus Reviews praised it for its fully developed characters and maturity of content. Publisher's material, including a glossy photograph of the author, laid in. 194 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky".Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. .289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Apple Soup Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A girl remembers her brother, just ten months younger than her, and full of life and mischief - until he was killed in a bicycle accident. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-679-877355.

New York: Atheneum, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book for young readers, one which uses the friendship between a boy, grieving over the death of his mother, and an elephant to explore the boundaries between joy and sorrow. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate on the half title page. Frontispiece and dust jacket art by Maurice Sendak. 168 pp. ISBN: 0-689830297.

Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.

New York: Newmarket Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Published in the UK under the title 'Wrongful Death' this is the first nonfiction book by this award-winning novelist and artist. Wharton's daughter, her husband and two infant daughters were killed in a highway accident caused by poor visibility due to smoke from field burning - this is an account of how he dealt with his grief and of his fight to get the practice of burning outlawed. INSCRIBED on the dedication page. 246 pp. ISBN: 1557042233.