Kennebunk, ME: Star Press, 1975. SIGNED first edition - Memories of life in Bowdoinham, Maine, from the city streets to the county roads to the first telephones - where the author lived from his birth in 1902 until 1925, although he notes that even though he lived many other places, he always remained in touch with Bowdoinham. Illustrated with many photographs. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication on the verso of the title page. 167 pp.

North Quincy, MA: The Christopher Publishing House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous, somewhat fictitious account by this Maine author of life with a husband who "rode his hobbies hard" - in this case, the hobby was sailing. 112 pp. ISBN: 0-815802641.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The nineteenth thriller featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon, set in Maine's Acadia National Park, where Anna is temporarily serving as acting chief ranger. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-125006491.

New York: Pantheon, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's sixth novel, set in Maine, a "deeply felt portrait of a woman from a generation that quietly put individual dreams aside for the good of the partnership, and of the ongoing gift of loving and being loved in return." 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0307908032.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in Maine, set in a fictional small town there - cover praise from Annie Dillard who calls this a "warm, beautifully written story of young men and women in a New England mill town... ordinary people, rendered in depth and with tenderness. Their moving story is unforgettable." 286 pp. ISBN: 0-912697393.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel of life below the poverty line in Egypt, Maine - written with humor and honesty by an author who's been there herself. 244 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-89919-500-8.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel of life below the poverty line in Egypt, Maine - written with humor and honesty by an author who's been there herself. 244 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-89919-500-8.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel of life below the poverty line in Egypt, Maine - written with humor and honesty by an author who's been there herself. 244 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-89919-500-8.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel of life below the poverty line in Egypt, Maine - written with humor and honesty by an author who's been there herself. 244 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-89919-500-8.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on an island off the rugged coast of Maine. 413 pp. ISBN: 1555974236.

New York: Hyperion, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel, inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, about a lost shipwreck off the coast of Maine, "a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life." Boldly SIGNED on the title page and dated in September 2019, that is before publication. 391 pp.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., (1912). Hardcover - A rather uncommon juvenile novel, the second and final title in this series, by this prolific author. The three friends - who own a fast motorboat - are approached by a Pinkerton detective to aid in capturing a gang responsible for several post office robberies in Maine. Glossy frontispiece by Burton D. Hughes. 336 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's third book - her poems evoke" the universe of rock and fire, of great waters and winds and stars."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, second book following an award winning collection of short stories. Set on two remote islands off the coast of Maine, this is the story of a young girl determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men' who work the lobster boats. SIGNED on the title page. Gilbert is best known for her later memoir, 'Eat Pray Love.' 287 pp. ISBN: 0-395836228.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, second book following an award winning collection of short stories. Set on two remote islands off the coast of Maine, this is the story of a young girl determined to throw her education overboard and join the 'stern men' who work the lobster boats. SIGNED on the title page. Gilbert is best known for her later memoir, 'Eat Pray Love.' 287 pp.

New York: Scribner's, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel of the bonds between father and son, set in rural Maine. ISBN: 0-684-154781.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2013). First edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in 1973 on a Maine Island, the story of an ornithologist who worked for the US in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Jim Harrison called this "A fascinating novel with the peculiar combination of ornithology and World War II in the South Pacific, birds and death, and the survivors who not so much survive as endure" and Publishers' Weekly described it as "Evocative . . . image-rich . . . The distinctive environments of disparate islands, interwoven with alternately romantic and horrific flashbacks, create a beautiful, ultimately painful story as haunting as its settings." 300 pp.

By the author, (1968). Hardcover first edition - Correspondence between the sea captain, Joseph Griffin, his wife Abbie and others in his extensive family. Laid in is a 2 page typed summary on how these letters were saved after Joseph's death by drowning off Halifax at the age of 31. Also included is a brief note SIGNED by Ralph Griffin and dated in 1969, and 2 pages of photocopies of early reviews. Index. 284 pp

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2000) dj. Hardcover - Highly praised novel set in the small town of Dundee on the coast of Maine, the story of two love stories 100 years apart. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-688174035.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of what courage means and how a young boy learned to overcome his fears. Based on an actual incident in Maine during King Phillip's War in 1676 - because of the Indian raids the Potts family and their neighbors left their homes to travel offshore to Jewell Island. There they felt so safe they left nine year old Thomas Potts to guard the fort. When Thomas saw the Indians lower their war canoes off Cliff Island, he fired the shot that saved the island. Illustrated with drawings by J. C. Kocsis.

New York: Atheneum, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Written in diary form, this is the story of a ten-year-old girl who moves with her family in 1855 from a town on the Maine coast where her father is to be the lighthouse keeper. One night when he is ill it is up to her to keep the light shining and the ships safe. Illustrated in pen and ink and watercolor by Kimberly Bulcken Root. SIGNED by Hopkinson on the title page. Historical note at the end in which the author explains that while Birdie is a fictional character, her story is based on the experiences of real life lighthouse heroines. Tall thin format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-689810520.

Mineola, New York: Dover, (1999.). A new selection of ten short stories by Jewett, with a new introductory note for this edition. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-486-408841.

Boston: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, 1899. Hardcover - Young adult novel about an orphan boy, set on the Maine coast. A title in the American Boys Series. Frontispiece and two internal plates. 325 pp. Bound in illustrated pale green covers.

New York: Viking, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set off the coast of Maine, featuring English professor turned sleuth Roz Howard. 294 pp. Map endpapers of Penobscot Bay. ISBN: 0-670-835374.

New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's surprisingly uncommon first book, the story of a camp on a Maine lakefront inhabited by a 'loony crew of washed-up sixties dropouts' one of whom just happens to fall into a humungous stash of cash and dope. Long blurb on the back cover of the dustjacket by Stephen King, described as 'a report from the man who read the manuscript first.' 336 pp. ISBN: 0-399-130810.

New York: Park Row Books / Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A psychological thriller sent in a small town in Maine. The Faust family has just moved there from Chicago, hoping for a new start, when one of their neighbors is found murdered. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2019, that is, before publication. 359 pp plus author's note.

New York: Scholastic, (2022). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new series by this award-winning young adult novelist, published as a trade paperback original. "Beatrice is obsessed with unsolved murders in her small town of Cabot Cove, Maine, like her great-aunt Jessica, the famous mystery writer. But when her best friend Jackson goes missing this time the mystery is personal." SIGNED on the title page. 283 pp.