New York: Norton, (1994). First edition - Includes selections from five books, including her first book, Presentation Piece (1974), a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which an important part of the feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River (1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award. Index. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-393313492.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First edition - Fourth collection of poetry by this award-winning author. SIGNED on the title page. 92 pp. ISBN: 0-394-728262.

New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poetry, erotic, witty, reflective of its time. SIGNED on the title page. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-394-9582713.

New York: Random House, (1990.). SIGNED - A collection of poetry, erotic, witty, reflective of its time. INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-679-728651.

New York: Norton, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes selections from five books, including her first book, Presentation Piece (1974), a National Book Award Winner; Separations (1976); Taking Notice (1980), which an important part of the feminist and lesbian canon; Assumptions (1985), which explored the conundrums of gender, race, and identity in contemporary life; and Going Back to the River (1990), which received a Lambda Literary Award. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-393036758.

New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery, winner of the Edgar for best first crime novel of the year. Introduces homicide detective Casey Martinelli. INSCRIBED by King on the dedication page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-312-088043.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual debut, this dystopian feminist novel moves back and forth between the childhood of Elise in the 50's and the postmillenium commune in which she lives in the near future. ISBN: 0-671-724770.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual debut, this dystopian feminist novel moves back and forth between the childhood of Elise in the 1950's and the postmillenium commune in which she lives in the near future. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-671-724770.

Watertown, Massachusetts: Persephone Press, (1982). First edition - Called a biomythography, this is an exploration of the forces which shaped Lorde, for her days as a child in Harlem to her linkages with other women over the years. Uncommon true first edition. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-89594-1228.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of essays, several dealing with aspects of life in Los Angeles. From the dust jacket: "An utterly original mix of memoir, astute social observation, and bravura nature writing... Casting a keen and knowing eye on a variety of life's conditions, Lowe takes readers on her minutely observed journeys. Whether she's recounting the natural history of the pigeon or her stint as drummer for The Love Machine, an all-lesbian garage band, her gorgeous, unstintingly honest voice finds the universal in the particular, the sacred in the mundane." 179 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0190531.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this important American woman poet, a self-liberated woman who ignored the strictures of her Boston Brahmin family. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. x. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-396070221.

New York: Bantam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir by this former 60s activist, expelled from the Bronx High School of Science for leading protests against the Vietnam war, now a lesbian, mother, living in integrated neighborhood in Oakland, California, which focuses on her attempts to reconcile her activist ideals of the 60s and 70s with her life today - shows us clearly how her life has been and is still shaped by those ideal. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-553-096001.

London: Women's Press. (1993, c 1989). Second novel featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon, set at a peacecamp on Brownlow Common. 195 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-704342065.

London: Women's Press. (1989). SIGNED first edition - Second novel featuring journalist Lindsay Gordon, set at a peacecamp on Brownlow Common. SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-704342065.

London: Women's Press. (1991). SIGNED first edition - Third novel featuring journalist and amateur sleuth Lindsay Gordon, who has returned to Glasgow and finds herself investigating a murder in which a former colleague has been jailed for the crime. SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 0-70434274X.

London: Women's Press. (1993). SIGNED first edition - Fourth novel featuring journalist and amateur sleuth Lindsay Gordon, who returns from California to research women's roles in the trade union movement (in her note to the reader at the front of the book, McDermid describes her own activities in the National Union of Journalists.) SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-704343347.

San Francisco: Spinters/ Aunt Lute, 1988. First edition - The first mystery featuring Oakland PI, Eliza Pirex . ISBN: 0-933216-599.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "the gripping personal account of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as a manic-depressive. Shockingly honest and compulsively readable,..[Millett] has the courage to show us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. A damning indictment of our system of mental institutions from the patient's perspective." A moving book by the author of 'Sexual Politics.' 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671679309.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. Illustrated with photographs. Boldly INSCRIBED by Near on the front endpaper. "Jane, Peace to you" and dated in 1992. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "peace." Illustrated with photographs. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. Illustrated with photographs. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.

New York: St Martin's / Stonewall Inn, (1998.). SIGNED - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.

New York: Norton, (1993.). Powerful collection by this award-winning poet, originally published in 1986, and reissued in 1993 Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-393-310825.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1992). The first novel by this groundbreaking, and award-winning, Canadian-American author. The story of two women who fall in love with each other was originally published in 1964 5 years before homosexuality was de-criminalized in Canada. Basis for the 1985 film 'Desert Hearts.' Movie tie-in edition with cover and one photograph from the film. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-930044738.

New York: Norton,, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful story of a woman opening a bookstore -. ISBN: 0-393-026957.

New York Picador, (2003.). First edition - First novel by this acclaimed short story writer, set in the 1970's.

Elmwood Park, IL: Dalkey Archive Press (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this important and unconventional Spanish feminist writer, one who explores eroticism from the point of view of women. Translated and with an afterword by Susan E. Clark. 230 pp. Attractive cover art reproduces "A Mermaid" (1901) by J.W. Waterhouse. ISBN: 0-916583-83X.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, but not published in Spain until 1978, when she was 42, and after the ending of the censorship of the Franco regime - this was still controversial for its exploration of women's sexuality and especially for its portrayal of a lesbian relationship in a positive manner. Translated, and with an afterword, by Margaret E. W. Jones. Winner of the 1989 Kayden National Translation Award. ISBN: 0-8032-44223.