New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a gritty, realistic novel set in the 'lost world' of New York City's toughest streets, one which focuses on the evolving relationship between journalist Alex Shaw and Leonardo Ruis, a young thug struggling for survival in a world of drugs, danger and decadence. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312023014.

Pasadena, CA: Ward Richie Press, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A book about Los Angeles and its environs, a love letter to the city despite its flaws - from Hollywood Boulevard to the Wax Museum, from Chinatown to Watts to the Huntington Library, from Venice to Santa Monica to Disneyland and more - by this long time columnist for the L.A. Times. for over 20 years. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-378049569.

Henderson, NV: 21st-Century Publishing, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Maggie Fiori, journalist turned sleuth. "If Maggie Fiori doesn't have it all, she's got plenty: A handsome attorney husband, two beautiful sons, and a comfortable life in Oakland. But Maggie's smart mouth and everyday life as a loving wife and mother camouflage a secret. The camouflage comes off after murder strikes the magazine, and Maggie is in the investigation up to her eyeballs." 226 pp. ISBN: 0-972262431.

Sonoma, CA: Vine Book Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Bartholomew grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, and his careeer in journalism included covering the 1925 earthquake in Santa Barbara, but was most significant as a World War II correspondent in the Pacific. New Guinea, and Okinawa. Includes an account of the Battle of Okinawa, as well as personal reminiscences of his meetings with Winston S. Churchill and accounts of the 'fail safe' patrols of the post War era. Bartholomew was also the founder of the Buena Vista Vinyards winery. Illustrated with photographs. 231 pp.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A profile of modern Brazil - and especially an account of how the capital, Brasilia, was carved out of the center of the country between 1955 and 1960. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-69811048x.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she travels with her adopted son from Switzerland to Poland to write a piece on the feast of St Martin, but when she stumbles across over a thousand Polish Jews who have been deported from Germany, she finds herself returning to an increasingly dangerous Berlin to find the young daughter of one of refugees, who died in childbirth. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary, author's note. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327345.

New York: Harper Collins, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "reveals the invisible fronts that make up 21st century warfare, from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weapons." Notes, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0062853646.

Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - "On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. Bikeman is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged from the dust and the death." (Meredith Viera) Foreword by Dan Rather. xv, 76 pp. ISBN: 978-0740775598.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Appleton on title page) 1909. Hardcover - A worn copy of the last novel published during his lifetime by this successful muckraking journalists (his writings on the corruption of the US Senate were influential in the passage of the 17th amendment) - this book was responsible for his murder by a Harvard-educated musician from a prominent Maryland family who believed that the novel cast aspersions on his sister. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 internal glossy plates. 344 pp plus 6 pp of about the author and his other books.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1991). Hardcover first edition - A book which reflects on the recent past and offers a wide-ranging perspective on the startling changes now reshaping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and an analysis of Japan's rise to its present position in the world's economy. I don't think he could have imagined how prophetic he was being when he said the American century is over! 126 pp. ISBN: 0-68810391X.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2015). First edition - The first collection of poetry by this award-winning journalist, one in which he"re-imagines and re-tells his experiences through poems that explore stories hes covered, places hes gone, people hes met, the thrills and doubts of his profession, as well as the profound intimacy of family. In these pages we hear the narratives of artists, inmates, cadets, and survivors of the worlds tragedies." Introduction by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Afterword by the author. xiv, 93 pp. ISBN: 978-1556594809.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005). Hardcover first edition - A " concise history of globalization, discussing a wide range of topics, from the 9/11 attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India" by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Index. viii, 488 pp. ISBN: 978-0374292881.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in 1930s Berlin in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she is covering the 1936 Olympics while posing as a travel reporter and as a lover of an SS officer - and also smuggling secrets out of Germany to Switzerland. Glossary, author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327338.

New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second hard-boiled crime novel by this author who was born in Guyana, but grew up in London. Features journalist Sam Dean - when his fiend Aston Edwards is murdered and dumped on the side of the roadside, Dean agrees to write an article about Aston's life and career as a controversial black councillor in London, but he also plans on digging until he finds out who killed Edwards. Winner of the Silver Dagger Award. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312048661.

New York: Cannongate, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel: "The world around journalist and would-be novelist Adam Kellas is cracking. As a war correspondent in the Afghan mountains during post-9/11 operations, Kellas reports on prescheduled surgical strikes with a nagging sense of complicity. At dinner parties in chic North London, he uneasily joins the debate of the wars from the comfort of their immaculate dinner tables. " 295 pp. ISBN: 978-1847671769.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2009). First edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in 1931 Berlin in the years of the rise of the Nazis. Glossary, author's note. Received the Bruce Alexander and Sue Feder awards for historical fiction. 300 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A series of episodes and anecdotes by this Pulitzer prize winning columnist twhich attempt to capture the spirit of Los Angeles as it is today. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-312-139446.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in San Francisco, this is a realistic tale of sordid corporate wealth, murder and revenge, and the debut of a memorable investigator, former sportswriter Sinclair Lewis Maxwell, who gets involved when his girlfriend is savagely murdered while investigating organized prostitution. The first and only book written under this pseudonym. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-698-108914.

New York: St Martin's, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of some of his journeys around the world with his wife, and then children and grandchildren and even an always barking dog named Barney, by this Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times columnist. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For.... with all good wishes for a good road" and dated in the year of publication. Photographs. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-29087X.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "shattering and unflinchingly honest autobiography" by this Washington Post reporter. McCall did not fit the stereotypes: he was a smart kid from a caring family in a suburban black working-class neighborhood, but still wound up involved with drugs and gangs, and eventually in prison for armed robbery. This is not just an account of his troubled youth and how he turned his life around, but a look at how young black men feel in a society that does not value them. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-679412689.

New York: St Martin's, [1992.]. SIGNED first edition - Collection of essays - often humorous, sometimes poignant - about life in Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on the first page "For --- for a soul mate." 262 pp.