New York: Viking, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award winning first novel, set in the early years of the twentieth century and one which "opens a window on the little-known history of African American homesteaders and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America." Longlisted for the Orange Prize, a finalist for the Orange Award for New Writers, and won the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters' Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022014.

New York: Putnam, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to the author's first novel, 'Engagement,' this is set in the countryside outside Philadelphia during and after the first world war. 350 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Rob Sauber.

New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of adventure and suspense which ranges between California and Tuscany in Italy, as Reb Barnett seeks da Vinci's Circles of Truth, a coded 15th century map that reveals the hiding place of the Medici Dagger, "a legendary weapon made of an alloy so light and indestructible it is worth a fortune to today's arms dealers." SIGNED on the half title page. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-20357.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on an actual event in 1824 when 5 white men massacred a peaceful group of Indians - including women and children. Author's note. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-151578206.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (2002). Although written after the author's River of Red Gold, this is set in an earlier era, around 1825. Double page map. Glossary. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-41.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (1996.). SIGNED first edition - An historical novel of California from 1844 through the early gold rush years, set on what used to be known as Rancho Sacayak on the edge of the Cosumnes River - this was land where the Miwoks had had a village for centuries; the first non-indigenous woman to live on this land was Elitha Donner, a 14 year old survivor of the Donner Party. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Winner of the Best Fiction and Gold Award: Best Book - 1997, Sacramento Publishers Association. Maps. Endnotes about the historical characters who appear in the book. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-25.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (2002). SIGNED - Although written after the author's River of Red Gold, this is set in an earlier era, around 1825. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2005. Double page map. Glossary. 630 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-41.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED by author on the title page. A historical novel of California from 1844 through the early gold rush years, set on what used to be known as Rancho Sacayak on the edge of the Cosumnes River - this was land where the Miwoks had had a village for centuries; the first non-indigenous woman to live on this land was Elitha Donner, a 14 year old survivor of the Donner Party. Winner of the Best Fiction and Gold Award: Best Book - 1997, Sacramento Publishers Association. Maps. Endnotes about the historical characters who appear in the book. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-25.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED and dated by author on the title page. A historical novel of California from 1844 through the early gold rush years, set on what used to be known as Rancho Sacayak on the edge of the Cosumnes River - this was land where the Miwoks had had a village for centuries; the first non-indigenous woman to live on this land was Elitha Donner, a 14 year old survivor of the Donner Party. Winner of the Best Fiction and Gold Award: Best Book - 1997, Sacramento Publishers Association. Maps. Endnotes about the historical characters who appear in the book. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-25.

Rancho Murieta, CA: Bridge House Books (1996.). SIGNED - SIGNED by author on the title page. A historical novel of California from 1844 through the early gold rush years, set on what used to be known as Rancho Sacayak on the edge of the Cosumnes River - this was land where the Miwoks had had a village for centuries; the first non-indigenous woman to live on this land was Elitha Donner, a 14 year old survivor of the Donner Party. Winner of the Best Fiction and Gold Award: Best Book - 1997, Sacramento Publishers Association. Maps. Endnotes about the historical characters who appear in the book. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-9653487-25.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the 36 hours leading up to the 20 July 1944 attempt of Hitler's life - a book which is a combination of historical fiction, biography, and intellectual history. It is also an exploration of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenber's complicated life as a charismatic officer, and soldier, badly injured in Tunisia, and as an aristocrat, an amateur cellist, a friend of poet Stefan George and as a man who tried and failed to change history. Includes an introduction in which West explains how he came to write this book, and two appendices with names and places in the book, and maps. xii, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-06014593.

New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

London: Macmillan, 1966. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

New York: Viking, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set at in the early years of the twentieth century, based on actual events which helped pave the way for Lenin to rise to power in Russia. Told from the point of a view of a young girl, half-English, and the granddaughter of an exiled Russian aristocrat living in Paris. A book which combines the elements of a spy thriller with a thoughtful probing into human motives. 435 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Yalta during the World War II, when the Germans were occupying the area, and inspired by the real life dedication and determination of Maria Pavlova Chekhov. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-316-931624.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - When cynical Private Tom Wilkins experiences the harsh reality of D-Day he understands the reasons for the long summer spent training for it. The author was himself a World War II commando. 188 pp. Dust jacket Art By Loretta Trezzo. ISBN: 0-151530793.

New York: Ecco Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life of the writer Mrs Frances Trollope and her friendship with the radical feminist Fanny Wright. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Jeffrey Eugenides, John Edgar Wideman, Patrick McGrath and Ann Beattie. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0004843.

New York: St Martin's, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which tells the story behind author George Eliot's (Marian Evans) mysterious last year, after she married Johnnie Cross. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-31244463X.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Basis for the innovative and powerful Amazon series of the same name. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Random House Large Print, (2016). Hardcover first edition - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." Large print edition. 417 pp. ISBN: 978-1524736309.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." SIGNED by the author directly on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Doubleday, (2021.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius" award, and the 2016 National Book Award for "Underground Railroad." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0385545136.

New York: Putnam, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel set in the late eleventh century during the First Crusade to Jerusalem. 548 pp. ISBN: 0-399-153969.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in plague-ridden, late 18th century Philadelphia, where a young black itinerant preacher is searching for an endangered African woman. Both a love story and a novel about racism, this was the winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Award for Historical Fiction. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-395785901.

New York: Harper & Row, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel of Wilder's - one which begins with a murder, trial and escape of the accused in a small town in Illinois in 1902, but which goes back and forth in time and place -from 1885 to 1905 - from New Jersey to St Kitts to Chile to Chicago, as it explores the causes and the consequences to the families. 435 pp.

New York: Scholastic, (2010) dj. Hardcover - Set in 1962, this is the first book in The Sixties Trilogy, a "documentary novel" which combines fiction- the story of a young girl during that time - with photographs of historical events and people. Includes a beginning bibliography for further reading. ISBN: 978-0545106054.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (his first won the PEN/Faulkner award) - Set during the Alaskan gold rush in the 1890's this brings together a diverse group of people - Eskimos, Irish, Japanese and North American. 291 pp. ISBN: -394568566.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the 10th Cavalry, one of the six African-American regiments authorized by Congress in July 1866, who fought alongside white troops (although at lower pay and under worse conditions) on teh western frontier. The name 'buffalo soldiers' was given to them by the Cheyenne. Author's foreword and an afterword with a partial list of Buffalo Soldiers who received a Medal of Honor during the period covered in this novel. Dust jacket praise from General Colin Powell and others. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-312860412.