New York: Viking, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a semi-autographical story of drugs and crime, told from the viewpoint of a 14 year old junkie. Basis for the movie of the same name starring James Woods and Melanie Griffith. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the half title page. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-670872172.

New York: Morrow, (1999.). First edition - African American author's third novel, the story of a young woman fighting her addiction to heroine and her attraction to the man who introduced her to the drug when they were both college students. 307pp.

New York: Bantam, (2003.). First edition - The title refers to a school in Texas for kids who need the toughest of 'tough-love' survival-type programs. Chadwick, whose own 16 year old daughter died of a heroin overdose 10 years ago, escorts these troubled teens to the school. A stand-alone novel by this award winning mystery writer best known for his Tres Navarre series. 340 pp.

New York: Penguin, 2012. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel, a "rich hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its squalor." Covering over three decades from the 1970s on, this is a "book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love and god." Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Prize. Published in the UK as a trade paperback, so this US edition is the first hardcover. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781594203305.

New York: Pantheon, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-679-445722.

New York: Pantheon, (1996.). First edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 271 pp.