New York: Simon & Schuster, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in southern Arizona featuring Ali Reynolds. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 9781453628584.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of the Chang family - "who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselves. But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention, they move .. . from people who disparage all that is Òtypical AmericanÓ to people who might be seen as typically American themselves." 295 pp. ISBN: 0-395546893.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1982). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems and photographs which celebrate aging. "Drawing on both his own family history and the immigrant history of New York's Jewish community, Kaminsky gives voice to the protest and despair, endurance and dignity, courage and creativity of those who struggled toward survival and reconciliation near the borders of death." Foreword by Robert N. Butler. Black and white photographs by Leon Supraner. INSCRIBED by Kaminsky on the front endpaper and dated in 1985. Glossary. Large square format. 149 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-252010000.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2013.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Iranian born author's second novel (her first novel won the Whiting Writers 'Award), the story of two brothers who are forced to flee Iran when the 1979 revolution leads to a killing in their small mountain village. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 9781596916999.

New York: Spiegel & Grau (Random House), (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very highly praised first book - a collection of eight short stories - by this author who (like many of her characters) was born in the Ukraine, grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, and emigrated to the US. Cover praise from Yiyun Li and Khaled Hosseini, among others. 229 pp. ISBN: 9780385524391.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story about "an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings." Kwok herself immigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, and worked with her family in a sweatshop. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487569.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First edition - The first novel (second book) by this wonderful young writer who won the Pulitzer prize for her first book, a collection of short stories. Basis of the movie of the same name, directed by Mira Nair.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin (Mariner Books), (2004.). The first novel (second book) by this wonderful young writer who won the Pulitzer prize, and several other literary awards, for her first book, a collection of short stories. Basis of the movie of the same name, directed by Mira Nair. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-618-485228.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1999.). Lahiri's wonderful first book, a collection of stories issued as a Mariner Original (trade paperback original). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hermingway Award and several other awards. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-395-92720x.

New York: Putnam, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first suspense novel, set in the Mission district of San Francisco, and introducing San Francisco homicide detective David Cruz, a flawed but very human character. "Cruz is caught between two waring factions from El Salvador, when the body of Gloria Soto is found shot, execution style. Sifting through Gloria's fmaily, friends, and enemies, he soon realizes that the illegal refugees have brought their hatreds and feuds with them, and if he is not careful a full-scale confrontation will erupt." INSCRIBED to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens on the half title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-399133003.

New York: Putnam, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first suspense novel, set in the Mission district of San Francisco, and introducing San Francisco homicide detective David Cruz, a flawed but very human character. "Cruz is caught between two waring factions from El Salvador, when the body of Gloria Soto is found shot, execution style. Sifting through Gloria's fmaily, friends, and enemies, he soon realizes that the illegal refugees have brought their hatreds and feuds with them, and if he is not careful a full-scale confrontation will erupt." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-399133003.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Burmese author, the story of a young woman and her brother, children of a wealthy family, forced to leave Burma after a savage political coup, who arrive in America and must cope both with destitution and being in an alien country. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-394-52957x.

Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover - A reissue of Laxalt's first novel, originally published in 1964 - a sometimes shocking story told simply and concisely. "Father Savio Lazzaroni is obsessed with a vision of evil. Mayor Manuel Cafferata is only concerned with his own standing in a tiny village peopled with Italian immigrants. Into their isolated town comes Smale Calder, the first outsider to set up business in the tightly knit society. The events that befall these three men and the villagers reveal the chilling ways in which people deal with fear and prejudice. When Calder's secret passion for rattlesnakes is discovered, the lives of all involved are changed in a dramatic sequence of emotions and events." 178 pp. ISBN: 0-87417130X.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - A handsome new edition of this book originally published in 1957, which has become a classic in the field of immigrant literature. This is an account of the author;s father, a Basque sheepherder raised on the Pyrenees in France, who came to the Sierras in Nevada as a young man, and who fifty years later returned to his home in the Basque country, only to discover that Nevada had become his real home. A title in the Basque series with a new foreword by William O. Douglas, the general editor of the series. Frontispiece by George Carlson. xx, 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1148.

New York: Harper & Row, (1974.). A book originally published in 1957, which has become a classic in the field of immigrant literature. This is an account of the author's father, a Basque sheepherder raised in the Pyrenees in France, who came to the Sierras in Nevada as a young man, and who fifty years later returned to his home in the Basque country, only to discover that Nevada had become his real home. 186 pp.

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - A handsome new edition of this book originally published in 1957, which has become a classic in the field of immigrant literature. This is an account of the author;s father, a Basque sheepherder raised on the Pyrenees in France, who came to the Sierras in Nevada as a young man, and who fifty years later returned to his home in the Basque country, only to discover that Nevada had become his real home. A title in the Basque series with a new foreword by William O. Douglas, the general editor of the series. Frontispiece by George Carlson. xx, 176 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1148.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's moving first novel, one permeated by a sense of love and wonder at the world. Back in Vietnam, her mother, a Catholic from South Vietnam, defied her family to marry a young "gangster" from North Vietnam. Later as refugees - boat people - living in the San Diego area, the young daughter escapes her father's increasing rages - and the sadness and guilt they all felt about the drowning death of their young son before they left Vietnam - by repeatedly running away- eventually attending college in the Northeast. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-375400184.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's second novel, set on a plantation in Louisiana, which has become an historical site - a reminder both of antebellum days and of the evils of slavery. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-0061802058.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012.). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, set on a plantation in Louisiana, which has become an historical site - a reminder both of antebellum days and of the evils of slavery. SIGNED on the title page. 384 pp.

San Francisco & New York: Moon Books / Random House, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Part an account of the author's life - she was born in Yugoslavia in 1934, and with her family fled to Dalmatia during World War II, where they were interned on an Italian-controlled island - and part an oral history of her maternal grandmother (Hofbauer), a Jewish woman of Serbo-Croation heritage, who was 84 when this book was written. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "Happy Birthday dear Sally and to us all" and signed as Ani, dated in San Francisco in 1978. Only of one 5000 copies. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-394407660.

New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. Illustrated with photographs. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.). First edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

New York: Scribner, 1999. First edition - Sequel to his Pulitzer Prize- winning 'Angela's Ashes' which described his childhood, This covers his journey from impoverished immigrant, through the Army, college and on to his life as a schoolteacher and raconteur. 367 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his Pulitzer Prize- winning 'Angela's Ashes' which described his childhood, This covers his journey from impoverished immigrant, through the Army, college and on to his life as a schoolteacher and raconteur. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-684818783.

New York: Hyperion, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this actor and author - he and his older brother Frank, the Pulitzer prize winning author of "Angela's Ashes," were born in Brooklyn, moved with their parents to Ireland as children, then escaped the poverty of Limerick and returned to the US. This book primarily focuses on the decade 1952 to 1963, when Malachy "roistered across the U.S., Europe, and Asia." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-786863986.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by the award-winning author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" - a story of two generations in an Ethiopian immigrant family. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 9781594487705.