New York: Viking, (2015). First edition - A novel which recreates the last year's of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life in Hollywood in the 1930s. Cover praise from such writers as George Saunders, Dennis Lehane and T.C. Boyle (who calls this an "achingly nuanced love story.") 289 pp.

New York: Delacorte, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by the author of 'Cinderella Liberty.' Although written as fiction, this is based on fact, the story of a larger than life cowboy in the early 1900s, who brought his incredible stunts to silent films. Illustrated with 14 pages of photographs. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-440059690.

Boston: Little Brown, (1951). Hardcover - This is Ellery Queen's "25th and most unusual mystery novel." It opens with Queen standing by the window, sipping rum from a frosted glass, a still squirming corpse at his feet. The deceased? the Hollywood movie business. The cause of death: television? 219 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fast-paced Hollywood mystery. When Norma, a one-time movie star, falls- or is pushed - down a flight of stairs in her Hollywood home, nobody mourned her because she had long since drunk herself out of favor with her audience. Waiting to take her place is Anny - not only Norma's husband but also a fabulous role in a new film. The story is told through the eyes of Nickie, Anny's 19 year old son, but naive and observant. An Inner Sanctum Mystery. 248 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. First edition - A novel set in 1950s Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. 324 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1950's Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp . ISBN: 0-06-6212928.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American writer and film director's second novel, a noir farce featuring a wannabe scriptwriter on the skids in Hollywood. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401423.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. SIGNED first edition - African American writer and film director's second novel, a noir farce featuring a wannabe scriptwriter on the skids in Hollywood. INSCRIBED on the title page. 296 pp.

New York: Atria / Enliven Books, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir, "told with uncensored Southern wit and guidance, which tells the story of a Hollywood film executive who, against all odds, discovers psychic superpowers that radically transform her life. . . after the devastating loss of her mother, the world of make-believe became reality when Julie captured her first ghost in a photograph and blew open a door to the Other Side." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Photographs. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-1501158896.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - 'A breathtakingly funny and tender debut novel about two sisters - one struggling to make a movie, the other struggling to survive.' The very well-received first book by this screenwriter (whose credits include the award-winning 'Braveheart.') This advance issue includes a letter from the publisher tipped in. SIGNED on the title page, and dated before publicaion in October 2003.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.). First edition - 'A breathtakingly funny and tender debut novel about two sisters - one struggling to make a movie, the other struggling to survive.' The very well-received first book by this screenwriter (whose credits include the award-winning 'Braveheart.') This advance issue includes a letter from the publisher tipped in.

New York: Random House, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir, in which "one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years. [This book] captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women." Index. x, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-375500154.

New York: Da Capo Press, (2016). First edition - This biography, by the author of the classic book on the Manson cult, "The Family" "takes a close look at Tate's lifeÑfrom her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's 'Sharon Tate' offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household." IIlustrated with drawings by Rick Veitch and photographs. 271 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1987). Hardcover first edition - The second hardboiled thriller set in the seamy California and Las Vegas underworld featuring British expat - and former Scotland Yard investigator - James Reed. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-02278.

New York: New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes almost forty interviews with those involved in films - from producers and directors to script girls, stunt woman, screenwriters and film editors and even agents - from Hollywood's golden age. They describe the machinations of such moguls like Louis B. Mayer and Darryl Zanuck, the role of nepotism, the informal working environment in those days, and the wide range of people, from craftsmen to con men, employed. Illustrated with photographs. Includes filmographies at the end of each interview. Foreword by Robert Altman. Bibliography, glossary. xxviii, 372 pp. ISBN: 1-565841751.

New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.

New York: Crown, 1992. First edition - A story of the growing friendship between two women, set against the backdrop of the New York publishing world, and of the Los Angeles television industry.

New York: TOR, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery in the award winning series featuring Lucas Hallam, ex-gunslinger and Texas Ranger, now working as a Hollywood as a private eye during the days of the silent films. ISBN: 0-312-931603.

New York: Dell, (1965.). A very funny satire on "certain aspects of Hollywood life" - and death. Movie tie-in edition. Vintage paperback with cover price of 50c. 191 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California SIGNED on the title page . 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.

New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.

New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in the Hollywood of "wannabes, has-beens and never-weres." The first in the series was awarded the Edgar. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-385482353.

New York: Doubleday, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the award-winning series featuring gay journalist Benjamin Justice, set in Southern California SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-385491174.

London: Orion, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of the author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 282 pp. ISBN: 0-752852892.

New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the late 1940s, in postwar Los Angeles, and introducing former B Western movie idol and now ex-convict John Ray Horn, who is making ends meet by collecting debts for a gambler when an old friend calls asking for help with his father's estate, where Horn finds an obscene photograph of his young stepdaughter. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Debut Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain (the first American author to win this award). 308 pp. ISBN: 0-399150471.