New York: Berkley, (2004 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set at Lake Maggiore in Italy, featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-425194116.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-151725403.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Sixth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151098.

London: Headline, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-08409.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-151236828.

London: Headline, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Fifth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-74721560X.

London: Headline, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Fourth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-10284.

New York: Baen Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this series, set on Corfu in the sixteenth century. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, list of characters, glossary. 822 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-71490.

New York: Baen Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1537 in an 'other-worldly, new-age' Venice, a city where magic thrives, a bastion of independence and toleration, and riddled with corruption and intrigue. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, family tree, list of characters, glossary. 825 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-35230.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set during Carnival time in Venice, where six friends have devised a perfect game. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-684187833.

London: Oxford University Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The final play in his seasonal quartet - A serio-comedy set in Siena, Italy in July 1946 on the night before the Palio, a medieval horse race run around the middle of the city; the war is over and Bruno's three sons have returned home. Includes a note on the Palio by Stewart Perowne. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-19-2113569.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (20190. First edition - The second in this series to be published in the US, featuring the Bavarian widow Auntie Poldi, who has retired to Sicily, but finds her days interrupted by murder. Translated by John Brownjohn. 337 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A novel of "romance, intrigue and treachery" set in Pompeii in Italy where classics professor Sophie Chase finds herself caught up in the mystery of a slave girl buried under the volcanic ashes of the Villa della Norte. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-034547600.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Alan Craig, an ex-Scotland Yard detective, now a private investigator, who is the "expert crime solver" on a mystery junket from Venice aboard the Orient Express - but what starts out as fun turns out to all too real a case of murder. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-38524309X.

London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa- for the first time in decades Rome has been paralyzed by a blizzard and a gruesome is made in the Pantheon - the mutilated body of a young woman is found under the snow. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 1-40500049x.

New York: Delacorte, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa, and police pathologist Teresa Lupo, set in modern Rome. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385337728.

New York: Bantam, (2005). First edition - Third thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa- for the first time in decades Rome has been paralyzed by a blizzard and a gruesome find is made in the Pantheon - the mutilated body of a young woman is found under the snow. Illustrated title page. 341 pp.

London: Macmillan, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa, who with his colleague Gianni Peroni, is investigating a fire at a glass foundry on Murano island near Venice, a fire that left two people dead. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-405050179.

New York: Delacorte, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing police detective Nic Costa, "the son of an infamous Italian Communist, and a cop who barely looks his 27 years of age . . In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from the killer. . . Set amidst a bizarre killing spree in modern Rome, it is a bewitching blend of history and drama, sensuality and suspense. SIGNED on the half title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385337221.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988.). Reprint of this compelling and suspenseful novel, originally published in 1967, the story of a father determined to get revenge on the son-in-law whom he blames for his daughter's death. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-2591.

New York: The Library of America, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of Henry James travel writings in the Library of America series (number 65 in series), edited and with notes by Richard Howard. His travel writings display the distinctive charm of his style, serve as guidebooks and including penetrating reflections on the national characteristics and charm. This volume begins with the classic 'A Little Tour in France', illustrated with Joseph Pennell's drawings from the original 1900 edition. The final piece is on the American volunteer motor-ambulance corps in France, during the first World War. Includes chronology, glossary, notes, index. 845 pp. Lists to this title at rear of book. ISBN: 0-940450771.

New York: North Point Press (Farrar Strauss), (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country" - In 1999, Jones emigrated to Italy and the country he discovered there turned out to be far from the pastoral bliss described by centuries of travel writers, and instead he found one beseiged by almost unfathomable terrorism and paranoia. Notes, index. 314 pp. ISBN: 9780865477001.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the life of Caterina Sforza - the "bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles and took lovers whenever she pleased" until she comes up against Cesare Borgia, the son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI. 454 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 978-0312369538.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

New York: Scribner, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Kushner's highly praised second novel (both her first novel and this one were nominated for the National Book Award). Christina Garcia calls this a "frequently dazzling novel [which] thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. It's an irresistible, high-octane mix . . Kushner's insights into place, society and the complicated rules of belonging, and unbelonging, can be mordantly brilliant." SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel to be published in the US. Winner of Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1961 and considered a classic of modern Italian literature. Translated from the Italian by Marguerite Waldman. When it first appeared the NY Times review called it a "difficult, at times hilarious. but always rewarding novel. . What the author wants to do is to encompass within the narrow bounds of his 191 pages the elusive and multifaceted spirit of Naples. . . [and of] the lyrical, subaqueous world in which his young protagonists spend so much of their time." 191 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first non-fiction work by this Pulitzer prize winning novelist, a reflection on the her experiences in immersing herself in another language and in living abroad, published in a bilingual edition with the Italian and English on facing pages. Written in Italian by Lahiri and translated by Ann Goldstein. xiv, 233 pp. ISBN: 978-1101875551.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-9030.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Another title in her highly praised, and prize-winning, series of mysteries featuring Guido Brunetti, commissario of the Venice police. "On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a fight in Campo Santo Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death. The dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans selling goods outside normal shop hours without a work permit. Arriving on the scene, Commissario Brunetti's response matches that of everybody involved: why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant?" 276 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-87113-8875.