New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this veteran LAPD cop. "Calico" Jack Walker is getting ready to retire, but first he has accepted a challenge: the Citadel Run - a race to Las Vegas and back against anothe patrol car, all in an 8 hour tour - and so he sets off with his partner, a rookie (and a woman and Japanese American, but just as stubborn as Calico.) SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-31293047X.

New York: Random House, (2008). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, winner of the Sue Kaufman award and named a New York Times notable book. . . One night in Las Vegas, a twelve year old boy goes out with a friend and never returns, just one child to go missing in our modern world. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a list of resources. 417 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066506.

New York: St Martin's, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Nathan Heller, ex-cop turned private investigator set in 1946 as rival factions are fighting for control on gambling nationwide and Bugsy Siegel begins the transformation of Las Vegas. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312014848.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling - the serial killer who calls himself the Poet has returned. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-314-155306.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Las Vegas, where Lucky O'Toole is head of customer relations at the plushest megacasino, when a young woman plunges from a sightseeing helicopter. ISBN: 978-0765325433.

New York: Norton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but provocative collection of essays, triggered by a move to Las Vegas one summer: D'Agata "begins to follow a story about the federal governmentÕs plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas" and winds up with a re-examination of the future of human life. Notes. 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0393068184.

New York: Pantheon, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel, which begins at a writer's conference in Las Vegas - the story of "a woman struggling to make peace with herself as a mother, a lover, an artist, and a friend." SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-679-432906.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A semi-authobiographical novel of the detective as a young man, set in 1953. "Pierce Duncan, just out of Notre Dame, sets off for the roads and rails of postwar America. It leads to strange & fateful meetings with individuals along the way; the most influential encounter is with a hard-nosed private eye who changes Pierce's life forever, leading him to San Francisco, where he must decide his ultimate path." SIGNED on the title page, and dated in January 1999, in the month of publication. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-892965932.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Book 3 of the Millenium Quartet - each novel in the series describes the effect of one of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In this book, plague - a mutated version of smallpox - has come to the world, striking everywhere except Las Vegas. ISBN: 0-312-862784.

New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a story of boxing and sexual obsession. From the dust jacket: "They were mother and son. Kate and Bobby Fallon. He was to become the best white heavyweight of his generation, a rough, handsome contender from the streets and bars of Brooklyn." Basis for the 1979 television film of the same name. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-394494377.

New York: Five Star / Gale, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Unusual thriller set in Las Vegas and the desert around it, featuring a black limousine driver, the son of a cop, brain-damaged in an accidental shooting, and a young woman who came to Vegas to make it big as a dancer. "Limousine driver Micah Donovan prides himself on his discretion. Regardless of what transpires in the back of his car every night, he keeps his eyes on the road and his heart so far away that he can no longer reach it. But something's different tonight in Las Vegas. The driver's wealthy client, Austin Savlodar, is the malicious son of an imprisoned gangster." 338 pp. ISBN: 978-1432828660.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of growing up (up to age 13) as the daughter of a wandering hippie mother and an absent father, in Northern California in the 1970's, and in New Mexico. Praise from Peter Coyote (who makes a brief appearance in this as a teacher at a free school) who calls this 'an insightful and riveting book about a hippie child gone bad.' SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780811859455.

New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe, set on the glitzy strip of Las Vegas and in the desert surrounding the city - and at the site of the above ground atom bomb tests in the 1950's. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-688-14369-5.

New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe, set on the glitzy strip of Las Vegas and in the desert surrounding the city - and at the site of the above ground atom bomb tests in the 1950's. 424 pp. ISBN: 0-688-14369-5.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1985.). A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl, who raises peacocks by day - in the new introduction for this novel, McMurtry talks about how this book came to be and how he was able to write it so quickly. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-637215.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl, who raises peacocks by day. Dust jacket praise from Hunter Thompson among others. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-461435.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl, who raises peacocks by day. Dust jacket praise from Hunter Thompson among others. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-461435.

New York: Kensington, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An escort operation in Vegas, a murder and a faked death and reinvention of a new life in Atlanta - Carl Weber called this "the hottest book I've read all year." SIGNED on the title page by the author. 263 pp. ISBN: 9780758215116.

New York: Walker, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone suspense novel by this award-winning author, set in Death Valley, California and Las Vegas. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-082717139.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Rat Pack Mystery with Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Sam Giancana and other mobsters on the scene in 1960's Las Vegas, where the film "Oceans 11" is about to have its premiere. Fast moving and fun. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 262 pp. ISBN: 9780312360436.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Rat Pack Mystery with Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and more. In this one, Eddie G.Õs services have been enlisted again, this time to help Marilyn Monroe, who thinks sheÕs being followed. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. bibliography. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0312376437.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in 1950's Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp . ISBN: 0-06-6212928.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. First edition - A novel set in 1950s Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. 324 pp.

London: Pavillion, (1994). Hardcover first edition - The first book by this Welsh journalist and documentary filmmaker. "This is a travel book with a difference. A terrifying , funny, breathtaking journey where Ronson lies and cheats his way around the world, sampling the jet set life that we all deserve but few get to experience" -from South Africa to Las Vegas to the Queen Elizabeth 2. In 2017 on Twitter, Ronson referred to this book as "the child I keep in the attic because I'm so ashamed." 142 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1987). Hardcover first edition - The second hardboiled thriller set in the seamy California and Las Vegas underworld featuring British expat - and former Scotland Yard investigator - James Reed. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-02278.

New York: St Martin's, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Red Diamond series, featuring a 1980's New York cabbie who thinks he is a 1940's private eye. Set in Las Vegas, where he has been hired by a billionaire Texas casino owner to clean up the gangsters who have been infiltrating the clubs and hotels. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312002602.