New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Three "lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as 'the lost tribe.' His dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations." SIGNED on the title page with the word "thanks." Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-684195321.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel. "Set in waterlogged Memphis during the great flood of 1939, [it]] spins an unusual variation on the Huck Finn theme. For 15-year-old Harry Kaplan, recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Memphis's teeming Jewish ghetto, working in his father's pawnshop is a bore. So bookish, comically awkward Harry hooks up with two orphaned black twins, wise-guy Lucifer and his tagalong mute brother Michael. Renegade Harry and the twins navigate flooded Beale Street, exploring brothels, cabarets, a wrecked steamboat and the stereotypes each culture harbors toward the other." (Publishers Weekly) Cover praise from Gordon Lish, Barry Hannah, Lee Smith and more. SIGNED (with a quirky backwards 'Steve') on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-899197248.