New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, centering on the Konkans, a small but proud group of Indian Catholics. Francisco's mother had gone to India as a Peace Corp Worker, and there she met and married Lawrence D'Sai, an industrious young man. Later on, in 1973 Chicago, Lawrence, is doing his best to assimilate into American culture, drinking too much and talking little - but when his brothers show up things change. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0151015191.

New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "The House on Prague Street," a "classic novel of the Eastern European experience in the early days of the Nazi aggression." Set ten years later, this brings the story to America as Helene and Paul flee wartime Czechoslovakia. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-312038526.

New York: Dial Press, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book for children by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was 'islandborn' himself - in the Dominican Republic. SIGNED on the title page and dated in April 2018. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0735229860.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Free Press, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - Seventh novel by this highly praised Asian American writer, the story of a young woman who leaves India for America in a search that will change her life. SIGNED on the title page and dated March 9, 2013. 289 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Free Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Seventh novel by this highly praised Asian American writer, the story of a young woman who leaves India for America in a search that will change her life. INSCRIBED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1451695656.

New York: Doubleday, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Asian American writer. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-385-489501.

New York: Anchor Books, 1997. SIGNED first edition - A collection of inter-linked poems that explore images about India and about the Indian experience in the US. INSCRIBED on the title page "For... whereever you go, there you are".and dated in the year of publication. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-385-488548.

New York: Anchor Books, (2002.). SIGNED - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India.

New York: Doubleday, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India. SIGNED on the title page by this American Book Award winning author.

New York: Anchor Books, 1997. SIGNED first edition - A collection of inter-linked poems that explore images about India and about the Indian experience in the US. INSCRIBED on the title page "For... best wishes". ISBN: 0-385-488548.

New York: Doubleday, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Asian American writer. SIGNED on title page by the author. ISBN: 0-385-489501.

New York: Doubleday, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories set in India and the United States, which explore the tension between the old ways and the new; each story features a woman, young or old, often uprooted - whether by choice or deception or necessity - from her traditional life in India. SIGNED on the title page by this American Book Award winning author. ISBN: 0-385-49727x.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a German immigrant who settled in North Dakota after the first World War -which spans the years from World War I to 1954. A book which celebrates both sides of Erdrich's heritage - German and Ojibwe. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6209773.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a multigenerational saga spanning two hundreds years in the life of a Jewish family. Illustrated. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy!" 314 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410767.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a multigenerational saga spanning two hundreds years in the life of a Jewish family. Illustrated. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410767.

New York: Bordighera Press, (2007). First edition - A collection of poems which give voice to the Italian women who were her ancestors and all they have taught us about survival and love. A work "rooted in memory; those immigrant stories passed on from one generation to the next become a source of courage and hope." VIA Folio 45. 127 pp. ISBN: 1-884419852.

Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover - First person narratives of fourteen Vietnamese as they attempt to adjust to living in America - ranging in age from 16 to 80, the narrators include a Buddhist nun, fisherman, civil servant, auto mechanic, Catholic priest, army officer, poet and others. Bibliography. xv, 446 pp. ISBN: 0-804715858.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly acclaimed young Guatemalean writer. The 'ordinary seaman' is Esteban, a 19 year old veteran of the war in Nicaragua, who has come to New York to be on the crew of a boat which turns out to be a wreck. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6716.

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir about her search to discover the truth about her father, who died when she was just seven. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- with thanks for your intelligence and care." xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-679428852.

New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.

New York: Pantheon, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. SIGNED on the title page. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of growing up during the 1930s in a Jewish ghetto inside the larger African American ghetto of Harlem. Born with a severe cleft palate, much of Horowitz's boyhood was spent in the hospital undergoing one re-constructive surgery after another. The streets taught survival - numbers-running and ticket-scalping were a source of cash for Horowitz; turf wars and muggings were commonplace - while regular visits with his sister to the Apollo theater nutured a love of music, and Central Park at night was a magical place. Photographs. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-4286.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an award winning collection of stories about the immigrant experience, originally published in 2016 and here reissued with new stories added. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 291 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2020). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an award winning collection of stories about the immigrant experience, originally published in 2016 and here reissued with new stories added. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp,

New York: Harper & Row, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in East Harlem in the 1920s, the story of a blind jazz pianist, the grandson of an Italian immigrant who came to NY to find his fortune on the 'streets of gold.' Hunter is also, of course, well known for the mysteries which he writes under the name of Ed McBain. 471 pp plus author's brief note. ISBN: 0-06-0120126.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in southern Arizona on the Tohono O'odham nation where this flower blooms just once a year. Features Dr Lani Walker and Dan Pardee, a member of a border patrol group called the Shadow Wolves. SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781453628584.