New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young woman who returns with her 6 year old son to the small town in Utah where she grew up, and to the web of family friction and strict Mormon customs. Long blurb on cover from Tony Kushner, who called this a "wonderful exciting novel... the writing is fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times very sexy." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671798731.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a young woman who returns with her 6 year old son to the small town in Utah where she grew up, and to the web of family friction and strict Mormon customs. Long blurb on cover from Tony Kushner, who called this a "wonderful exciting novel... the writing is fierce, funny, smart, observant, and at times very sexy." 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671798731.

San Francisco Grey Fox (1981). First edition - A collection of twelve short stories focusing on gay life. preface x, 129 pp. ISBN: 0-912516-542.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - When Theo Gittings, a distinguished British author, is been found dead in a squalid boardinghouse, his affairs are to be settled by his cousin who discovers a journal which reveals Gittings to have a double life of sexual subterfuge and political treason. When a student at Cambridge, he became one of a group that included Kim Philby and Guy Burgess. As his cousin begins to piece together Theo's hidden life, he discover layer after layer of deceit. The fourth novel by this English film director (among them 'The L-Shaped Room,' 'Of Human Bondage,' and 'The Stepford Wives' ), award-winning screenwriter, actor and even a bookshop owner. 474 p. ISBN: 0-385155271.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story set in the 1960s in New York City - "A well-written, finely tuned first novel about coming of age in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s. . . . Gabriel is a subtle writer - especially in his understanding of Matthew's prepubescent sexuality - and his characters catch at your heart and take hold." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the half title page and dated in San Francisco in the year of publication. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-916515-540.

New York: Grove Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Genet's second novel, and like the first, written while he was in prison in 1943 and set in the state prison of Fontevrault during the height of the German occupation. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Called the most important work of this great modern writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, this volume covers the years from his 59th to his 70th, the years leading up to World War II. Translated and with an introduction by Justin O'Brien. Includes a glossary of persons mentioned in the journal, a bibliography of works by Gide, index, frontispiece. 450, xx pages.

Paris: Boar's Head Books, 1951. First edition - The "secret drama" involved his marriage to Madeleine and the tensions in that relationship created by his homosexuality but their continuing love for each other despite everything. Because she was an intensely private person, he suppressed this account until after her death. Translated by Keene Wallis. Frontispiece drawing. 121 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997.). SIGNED - Powerful collection by this writer, born in England, but closely associated with San Francisco for most of his life (Edmund White described him as "the last of the commune dwellers [...] serious and intellectual by day and druggy and sexual by night".) In 2003, he was the first poet to be awarded the prestigious David Cohen British Literature Award for lifetime achievement. SIGNED on the title page. Postcript, notes, index of titles. 495 pp. ISBN: 0-374-524335.

San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the first was published under the name of "Eric Gabriel." From PW "Lehman's raw, unsparing novel portrays an upstate New York family torn apart by political, emotional and sexual conflict in the early 1970s. . . With the same gritty realism that informed his first novel, Waterboys (published under the pen name Eric Gabriel), Lehman depicts troubled people oscillating between explosive anger and attempts to heal."

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.). SIGNED - An exploration of friendship, homophobia and homosexuality in a Texas high school - serious topics, but "dramatized with humor and truth." SIGNED on the title page. 210 pp plus a glossary of Spanish words, and an excerpt from "The God Box.". ISBN: 1416908986.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel for young adults by this Lambda-award winning author which explores what it means for a high school boy to be both openly gay in a small town and a committed Christian. SIGNED on the title page. 248 pp plus a note from the author. ISBN: 1416908994.

New York: The Viking Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "critical but sympathetic analysis by an outsider" - this exiled South African writer and journalist - of US society during the 1960s: an era of dissent and insurrection, divisions over the war in Vietnam, contradiction between great wealth and great poverty, the disintegration of Ameircan cities, racial conflict., and more. Includes notes, index. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-670-590584.

New York: Marshall Cavendish, (2002.). First edition - Young adult novel about the struggles of a 15 year old boy to come to terms with his homosexuality, told from the viewpoint of his younger brother.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover - A definitive biography of one of the most controversial - but always interesting and ultimately tragic - writers of the late 19th century. Photographs, notes, index. 680 pp. ISBN: 0-39457768X.

San Francisco: Cleis Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Woolf's first novel, completed in 1912 when she was 30 years old, but only published three years later, in a much tamer version, as "The Voyage Out." This novel was reconstructed from the original manuscripts held by the New York Public Library by Louise deSalvo, who also wrote the introduction to this edition. xxvii, 350 pp. ISBN: 1573441481.