New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. INSCRIBED by author on title page. While not a first, this is a very nice affordable alternative. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. INSCRIBED by author on title page. While not a first, this is a very nice affordable alternative. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new series of original gay and lesbian writing, a "groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable and daring writers - gay and straight - creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment." Among the contributors are Keith Hartman, Ellen Klages, Jim Grimsley, Rebecca Ore, Stephen Baxter and more. SIGNED by Nancy Kress at her story "State of Nature." Notes on authors. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-879517328.

New York: Viking, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography which draws on interviews with Djuna Barnes's brother and unpublished letters, tracing the life and career of the early twentieth-century bisexual writer and friend to James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. "Herring traces her creative influences to gain a greater understanding of her writing, elucidating the ways in which her unusual life shaped her literary genius." Includes a chronology,extensive notes, a list of the works by Barnes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-670849693.

Austin, TX: Redbone Press, 1998. First edition - A non-traditional narrative poem set in the rural South in the 1920's by this African American and lesbian poet. 108 pp. ISBN: 0-9626659-17.

Berkeley, CA: Emily Dickinson Press, 1982. A collection of prose poems, 109 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel with a deceptively simple title by this National Book Award winning writer - it "starts with the return of Dennie Hensley to America for her mother's funeral. (The wife of a diplomat, she now lives in Rome.) When Marilyn Groves, a woman Dennie has known casually for years, invites her to an outing on a Vermont lake, she accepts, despite misgivings. . . the women are interrupted by an intruder whom they fear, although he leaves them unharmed. The next day the man who had invaded the camp returns, this time bent on rape and murder. The women survive the horror, but later revelations, up to the ironic close, leave the reader shaken." (Publisher's Weekly)223 pp.

New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives."

New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives."

London: Pandora, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives." 231 pp. Cover art by Sue Sluggett. ISBN: 0-86358-0963.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.). First edition - Epic historical novel by this Irish-born writer based on the lives of three eighteenth-century Londoners in a portrait of a world on the brink of revolution - a young widowed sculptress, an actress and Lord Derby, inventor of the horse race that bears his name - and on the rumors of a scandalous love triangle. Author's note and list of dramatis personae. 650 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel by this Irish-born writer based on the lives of three eighteenth-century Londoners in a portrait of a world on the brink of revolution - a young widowed sculptress, an actress and Lord Derby, inventor of the horse race that bears his name - and on the rumors of a scandalous love triangle. Author's note and list of dramatis personae. 650 pp. ISBN: 0-151009430.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1993). Novel introducing Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth. When she finds the body of a man in the park while walking her dog - and it turns out to be a seemingly respectable doctor, but a person she knew as abusive and sadistic to her family, suspicion falls on her. With the police apparently stymied, she gets involved in the investigation. Set in San Francisco. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-9332160920.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The third mystery novel featuring Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth, who attends a reunion of five other friends on a remote island in Puget Sound - only to find a body. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page 258195 pp. ISBN: 1-88352329X.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1996). The second novel featuring Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth. When her dying mother her to go to Minnesota to "rattle the family skeletons" she leaves San Fransisco for the shores of Lake Superior, where she discovers unknown relatives, a family history of rape, illegitimacy, and imprisonment - and someone who will kill to keep the closet doors closed. Nominated for the Edgar, winner of the Benjamin Franklin award. 258 pp. ISBN: 1-883523133.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which is considered to have some of her best writing. The story of a novelist who retreats to live on a houseboat on the Thames, this is a vivid description of coping with the physical hardships of living on a boat in the middle of winter and of the group of people who chose to do so. 222 pp.

London: Hutchinson, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, one which begins with two lovers in bed - and thoughout this book, their love-making serves as a counterpoint to the 'wounds' experienced in twentieth century working life. 192 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which is considered to have some of her best writing. The story of a novelist who retreats to live on a houseboat on the Thames, this is a vivid description of coping with the physical hardships of living on a boat in the middle of winter and of the group of people who chose to do so. 222 pp.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2002.). First edition - A collection of inter-related poems - "Optimistic, searching, and unforgiving, 'Unraveling' is arranged around a central narrative of shifting identities, as the book's speaker leaves a heterosexual marriage and sets off on an exploration of her own sexuality and difficulties and joys of single working motherhood. " Hayden Carruth Award Winner 2001 (selected by Marilyn Hacker, as the judge.) 81 pp. ISBN: 1-55659-1764.

London: Onlywomen Press, 1985. First edition - Collection of nine short stories "combining lesbian feminist insight with the fantastic possibilites of science fiction." 267 pp. ISBN: 0-906500192.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Kate Delafield mystery, and the first to be published in hardcover. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-479.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield mystery. Lambda Award sticker on front cover. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-894.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Los Angeles homicide detective Kate Delafield mystery. Lambda Award sticker on front cover. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-894.

New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by TWO authors: Ann Bannon at "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian" and Andre Dubus III at his interview. Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Walter Mosley, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson, Andre Dubus and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-4013-00103.

New York: Hyperion, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty-nine interviews by by the award-winning host of NPR's interview program 'Fresh Air.' Each selection is preceded by an explanation from Gross of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. SIGNED by THREE of the guests: Ann Bannon at "You Will Not Find the Word 'Lesbian"; Walter Mosley at "We All Die" and Andre Dubus III at his interview. Also included are interviews with John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OÕBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage, Sonny Rollins, Mario Puzo, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, Eric Clapton, Joyce Johnson, Andre Dubus and others. Introduction by Gross. 353 pp. ISBN: 1-4013-00103.

New York: Dutton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the story of the "ladies of Llangollen"- two well-born eighteenth century Irish women who defied convention and eloped as a married couple. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-525-242635.

Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, (2004.). First edition - Award-winning writer's powerful first collection of poetry - Cover praise from Donald Revell, Alice Bloch and Ellen Bass, among others. ISBN: 0-934971-862.

Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's powerful first collection of poetry - Cover praise from Donald Revell, Alice Bloch and Ellen Bass, among others. SIGNED on the title page. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-934971-862.