New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2015). SIGNED - A novel about teenage life today by this Edgar award winning writer. Gillian Flynn called this "dark, disturbing, strangely beautiful and utterly unshakeable." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. plus a 20 pp reading group guide. ISBN: 978-0316231046.

Sacramento, CA: Lookout Press, (1993). First edition - "In love, In trouble. In terror." A frank and powerful novel on dealing with AIDS written for high school students. 198 pp. ISBN: 1-882405013.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon young adult title by this prolific and popular children's author, best known for the Mishmash series. The story of a new boy in high school, determined to catch a girl's attention - "Just how Dudley finally captures her attention and the invaluable message each sends, the other makes for an amusing, sympathetics, and perceptive tale." 114 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Marlies Najaka. ISBN: 0-395362628.

New York: Henry Holt, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Young adult novel about a young boy, who, in his lonliness after his father, a police officer, was killed began to draw cartoons of a super hero he called the Blue Avenger. On his 16th birthday, he decided to change his name to the Blue Avenger, and thus became an unlikely hero of San Pablo High School. SIGNED on the half title page. 230 pp, . ISBN: 0-8050-60626.

New York: Dutton, (1959) dj. Hardcover - The second book in the Patty and Ginger series. 185 pp.

New York: Penguin / Granta, 1996. SIGNED first edition - A paperback magazine of new writing. This issue includes stories, essays and phographs from Alan Gurganus, Joy Williams, Abraham Brumberg, David Mamet, Blake Morrison, Susan Swan,Judith Joy Ross and more. SIGNED by TWO authors: Jayne Anne Phillips at her story "Mother Care" and Karen E. Bender at "Eternal Love." 254 pp plus notes on contributors. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Delacorte, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The sequel to "King Dork" - "Tom Henderson is the same old King Dork. Tom's still trying to work out who to finger for the new scar on his forehead, the memory loss, and his fathers mysterious death. . . . What doesnt make you stronger can kill you, though, and tenth grade, part two, promises to be a killer." SIGNED on the half title page. 330 pp plus an excerpt from the first book in the series.

New York: David McKay, (1953). Hardcover - A rather hard-to-find book about high school football - and some unconventional training techniques. 186 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nine interwoven stories which bring "a small-town high school to life through the sharp, spare voice - and the heart-pounding defeats and triumphs - of an athlete." 127 pp. ISBN: 0-375813519.

New York: Walker, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a mystery which pairs a high-school attendance monitor, a young widow, with a 14 year old boy with an active imagination and of "dubious veracity" in a search to Mexico for a killer. SIGNED on the title page with the inscription "Happy Birthday, You have a delightful charming daughter" (not personalized). 179 pp. ISBN: 0-802756972.