New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery, set in Boston - Robert B. Parker called it "intelligent, exciting and a great read." 303 pp. ISBN: 0-671-896970.

New York: Random House, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The biography of an American original, a great journalist, and for a while in the 20's the most famous writer in the country - until illness and alcohol began to erode his powers. Photographs, index. 415 pages. ISBN: 0-394-498119.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Discusses the ways in which the major news media - especially Time Magazine, Newsweek and US News and World Reports - presented Martin Luther King to their readers during his lifetime. Bibliography. Index. xi, 376 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-15231.

San Rafael and Petaluma, California: Mt. Tam Press and Anchor & Acorn Press, 2004. First edition - Keepsake 'specially printed for the Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club in Los Angeles.' A collection of 4 poems glorifying the printer's craft and a poetic puzzle (with translation) by Franklin P. Adams. Limited edition, one of only 250 copies. Illustrated with small engravings. 11 pp plus the colophon. Slip noting that this copy was presented to the Sacramento Book Collectors Club.

New York: Richardson & Steirman, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of Mannes writings published just a few years before her death, and edited by a close friend using guidelines that he had discussed over the years. She was known for her scapel-like prose when she saw injustice and her ridicule when she detected hypocrisy and these attitudes remain in this anthology. Divided into two sections - her writing as a reporter and as a commentator - this begins with her report from Florence, Italy in the summer of 1938 when Hitler met with Mussolini. Index of names. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-931933137.

NY & London: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of writings of Red Hog, a man 'put away' for bank robbery - sent to Lompoc Federal penitentiary for 31 years - and then 'put in the hole' for writing the truth about what happens in the prison system. Interwoven with Martin's essays and columns is San Francisco journalist Peter Sussman's account of their unusual and award-winning collaboration. The author's first book. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-393-035743.

New York: Basic Books, 2017. First edition - A veteran war correspondent, Matloff journeyed to eight "remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. . . . Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all." Bibliographic essay, 238 pp.

Dalls, TX: Taylor, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays by the writer who has been called the "best writer on sports today." Themes range from personal favorites to pro and college football, baseball, fishing, olympics, boxing and more . Introduction by Michener. Index. xxi, 266 pp. ISBN: 0-87833-6095.

New York: The Free Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-scale analysis of the sources of King's major sermons and public works, a study which concludes that King's ability to reshape old works, whether from the African American folk church or from more formal Protestant sermons, was his greatest rhetorical strength. Notes, works cited, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-02-9215218.

New York: Viking, (1997). Hardcover first edition - Her second book, a collection of columns from ten years of Sunday mornings. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-670876623.

New York: HarperPerennial, (2011). First edition - When reporter Fariba Nawa returned home to Afghanistan, after 20 years in the US, she discovers a country transformed by a multibillion-dollar drug trade. After decades of unbroken war, this is a country of poppy farmers, corrupt officials, expats, drug lords, and addicts. Among the stories she tells is that of a twelve-year-old child bride who was bartered to pay off her fathers opium debts. Notes, bibliography. Issued as a trade paperback original. 343 pp.

Chicago: Noble Press, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood, and at her life and her attempts to "walk the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing." 243 pp. ISBN: 1-879360241.

Chicago: Noble Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood, and at her life and her attempts to "walk the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp. ISBN: 1-879360241.

New York: Paragon House, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Born in San Franciso in 1889, Alma Reed became an outstanding journalist, a pioneer archeologist and the heroine of Mexico. Includes black-and-white photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-55778-3713.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Aptly named memoir by the award winning African American journalist - who went on to become an ambassador and later to sit on the President's security council. Photographs, index. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-316-759775.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. dj. Foreword by Studs Terkel. Commentaries by Louise Wille. Selected from over 7500 columns spanning 4 decades, including the last column he wrote on the curse on the Chicago Cubs. Photographs. 273 pages.

Norman, OK: Basic Books, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul. For 101 days, from January to April 2003, Nowegian journalist Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad - this book focuses on the stories of the people of the city, trying to live while under constant attack. Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-465076009.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, set in Southern California, a thriller about a disgraced journalist who stumbles upon an unimaginable conspiracy - but will anyone believe him? SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0446531863.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Detailed account of the life - and beliefs - of one of America's first investigative journalists, the Sacramento born reporter who led the group that Teddy Roosevelt called 'muckrackers.' Illustrated with photographs. 380 pages including index and notes.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery set in a "slick Floridacity with a wicked past" and featuring journalists A. J. Egan, a newcomer, and Palmer Kingston, a shrewd and legendary reporter. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-396-091709.

Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young journalist's trip across the Sahara Desert by camel caravan, in an attempt to find out what was happening at the notorious salt mines at Taoudenni - where they being worked by Malian slaves, as was reported? Map, photographs, index. 197 pp,. ISBN: 0-897330285.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. INSCRIBED on the title page ("to..."). Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first non-fiction book, an account not only of events in Afghanistan in 1982, but also of his coming to terms with himself and his limitations. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated with drawings and maps by the author. While Vollmann, one of the most fascinating and interesting of modern writers, had long been a cult favorite, in 2005 he received the prestigious National Book Award for fiction. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-374-101051.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An acount of what this grueling two year training program involves, based on interviews with hundreds of trainees and the author's own experiences when he was given permission to participate in the program. Photographs, source notes, index. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-684814307.