New York: HarperCollins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The final novel in his 'City of Fire' trilogy begun with 'Dreamland.' This is set in 1943 Harlem and features a young Malcolm Little, the street hustler who would become the Civil Rights leader, Malcolm X. Glossary of names, words and expressions and notes on sources. 547 pp. ISBN: 9780060195830.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a remarkable woman, as well as the story of three generations of an African-American family. "The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was born in 1923 in rural South Carolina. When her father left the family, her mother had to raise the children alone, and Freddie Mae went to work - first picking cotton, then cooking for the white families in town. At seventeen, she decided to go up North in search of new horizons and a better life." In Harlem she played saxophone in an all-girls' band - and through good times and bad, she remained optimistic. Frontispiece. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-375406204.

Boston: Little Brown, 1941 dj. Hardcover - Fifth book in the Sue Barton Series - Sue and Dr Bill Barry are married and they are trying to run the little hospital in the hills of New Hampshire. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by Forrest W. Orr. 244 pp.

New York: Macmillan, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Although this autobiography of growing up poor and Black in Harlem is now a classic at the time it was written, when Brown was still a young writer, just barely out of Harlem, it was a revolutionary and enlightening book. His goal was to "talk about the first Northern urban generation of Negroes... to talk about the experience of a misplaced generation, of a misplaced people in an extremely complex, confused society." . 415 pp.

New York: Signet, (c. 1965.). Classic autobiography of growing up poor and Black in Harlem. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-451-126459.

New York: Stein & Day, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a group of teenagers who have been squatting for two years in an abandoned tenement in Harlem. A moving picture of some of the forgotten members of our society, including their battles with the drug addicts who infest the neighborhood, by the author of the acclaimed 'Manchild in the Promised Land.' His second book. 224 pp. In a first issue dust jacket. ISBN: 0-8012-18377.

New York: Ballantine, (1993.). Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-384695.

New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of several generations of a family from Guadeloupe - ranging from Panama to Harlem, from upper class Paris to the slums of Haiti. Translated by Victoria Reiter. Glossary. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345-360745.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a woman who searches for her brother in the bars and seamy side of Harlem.

Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1966. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a woman who searches for her brother in the bars and seamy side of Harlem.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Mali Anderson, and the second book written by Edwards under this name (her first was as Edwards-Yearwood.) An interesting portrayal of contemporary Harlem - and especially of the 3 B's - beauty shops, barbershops and bars - so important to the community. ISBN: 0-385-485247.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. First edition - Second mystery featuring Mali Anderson, and the second book written by Edwards under this name (her first was as Edwards-Yearwood.) An interesting portrayal of contemporary Harlem - and especially of the 3 B's - beauty shops, barbershops and bars - so important to the community.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.). Hardcover first edition - Historical mystery set in Harlem in the 1970s - a story of the intersecting lives of two shattered men, one a Vietnam veteran and the other a man determined to avenge the death of his brother. 260 pp.

New York: Crowell, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual short novel - the story of Frank Cleary, an Irish policeman shot down in Harlem, who, as he is falling to the ground, relives not only his experiences in Harlem, but his roots in Ireland and the civil strife of the 20s. 99 pp,. ISBN: 0-690-000898.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - New novel by this Trinidad-born, African American writer - set in Harlem and Haiti in the 70's - Louise Meriweather called this "a bold book, sexually explosive.." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-247807.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Review copy with publisher's material laid in. New novel by this Trinidad-born, African American writer - set in Harlem and Haiti in the 70's - Louise Meriweather called this "a bold book, sexually explosive..". ISBN: 0-525-247807.

London: Allison & Busby, 1985. First novel by this Trinidad-born writer, a story of depression-era Harlem originally published in 1965.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. A very attractive copy of the uncommon first book by this writer who was born in Trinidad; set in Harlem, where she grew up, after her family moved there when she was seven years old. Dust jacket design by Robert Korn. 282 pp.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - An attractive copy of the uncommon first book by this writer who was born in Trinidad; set in Harlem, where she grew up, after her family moved there when she was seven years old. Dust jacket design by Robert Korn. 282 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - New novel by this Trinidad-born, African American writer - set in Harlem and Haiti in the 70's - Louise Meriweather called this "a bold book, sexually explosive.." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-247807.

New York: Vantage Press Inc. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a woman who was the daughter of a black numbers banker in Harlem in the 1920's, who became the highest ranking woman at NASA. Includes a tribute to the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and a first hand account of the Freeman Field Incident where 101 black flying officers were arrested and charged with mutiny. She also tells of her son's struggle with AIDS and of her personal accomplishments and disappointments. Photographs. 346 pp with notes. ISBN: 0-533-088828.

New York: Macmillan, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to discussion of the issues of "many Harlems', Negro leadership, etc. this book contains an interesting chapter on African Americans in the military, based on his own experiences.

New York: Harper Collins, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Set in Harlem this novel for older children by an award winning author, blends "inner-city adventure with family and peer relationships. Diminutive Frederick, 14 and known as the Mouse, punctuates his tale of the search for hidden 1930s gangland treasure with rap verses and phrases." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1991. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-060243430.

New York: Dutton, (1979.). First edition - True story of the manhunt following a brutal double murder of 2 off-duty policemen at a Harlem housing project - the shooting was by members of the Black Liberation Army and the search led from the underground in San Francisco to small towns in the South. Tanenbaum, now a sucessful mystery novelist, was then the young district attorney prosecuting the cases, and this is his first book.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for younger readers - one which chronicles a white brother and sister's growing tensions as they realize the racial and sociological differences between their life and that of the black housekeeper Nilma who reared them and her son Reggie who taught them what life is like in ghetto Harlem. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-374362440.