New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015). First edition - A beautifully written and very moving account of the sudden death of her husband by this noted African American poet - and also a picture of a rich and loving marriage. Ficre Ghebreyesus, born in Eritrea and a refuge from the war there, was known both as a gifted artist and a creative chef, when he died at just 50. 209 pp.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's second novel. Finalist for the Giller Prize for fiction. Illustrated with photographs. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-676971008.

Fort Wayne, Indiana: Sacred Books Inc., 1999. First edition - The Angirasa Guide to planning a Hindu wedding; English and Hindi Edition - Includes prayers in English and Hindi, with some transliteration into the Roman alphabet. Large format, spiral-bound. 110 pp. ISBN: 1-893152103.

New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a bicoastal (Manhattan and Hollywood) marriage. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-5352.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, set in a small New England college town. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400788.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, set in a small New England college town. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400788.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1988) dj. Hardcover - Sunny is 22, her first novel just published, when she meets noted poet David Harvey, who's divorced, Jewish, and 15 years her senior. Instant attraction is followed by a marriage typical of the early 1950s, with Sunny a supportive wife and mother following where David's work takes them - and thru it all, despite his philandering, Sunny remains a "true believer." But when interest in his work wanes, and hers begins to catch the public interest, the 2 decade long relationship is in trouble. "While Birstein pokes fun at everyone involved in producing literature - writers, editors, critics - this is primarily a rueful story about the loss of passion." 315 pp. ISBN: 0-39302587X.

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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. dj. Hardcover - Second novel by this highly praised writer - the story of a marriage tested by the results of a horrible, careless accident. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-394-427416.

London: John Murray, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first autobiography by this English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. who is best known for the landmark television program "Civilization." In this, he recounts his Edwardian childhood, set in a world of shooting parties, life on the Riviera, yachting and gambling - but from an early age he learned how to recognize and enjoy art, and that became the center of his life. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-719529794.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932. dj. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon early novel by this prolific author of romantic novels (like this one), historical fiction and juvenile series books. Set in New England against the background of the Depression, this is the story of Sally, the youngest of the "large and tempestous Moffat family" as she matures from a girl into a young woman. Attractive art deco dust jacket art. 273 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979). Essays examining the day to day lives, aspirations, accomplishments and social relationships of women from the 17th century to modern day, from plantation wives to mill-workers, from enslaved women, to mother's wages, birth control, cookbooks and more. Among the authors included Gerda Lerner, Eugene Genovese, Linda Gordon and others. Introduction by the editors. Based on source material including divorce records and diaries. Notes at the end of each essays, suggestions for further reading, index, 608 pp. ISBN: 0-671-250698.

New York: Dutton (2002). First edition - Set in Italy, this is a love story about the most difficult decision of all - choosing between romantic love and the love for her child. 289 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.

New York: Pocket Books, (2000). First edition - A novel of a marriage at the crossroads. "After sixteen years of marriage, Mattie Hart has discovered that her husband Jake, a high-profile defense attorney, is ensconced in yet another affair. But it is only when Jake finally confesses his infidelity and leaves to live with his girlfriend that a far greater tragedy descends upon the embattled Hart family. Mattie receives some devastating news that will alter all of their lives. Racked with guilt, Jake returns home to take care of Mattie. Here, in this most daunting and unexpected of circumstances, Joy Fielding deftly reveals the astonishing power of love to defy the greatest odds and to heal the deepest wounds." 394 pp.

New York: Crown, (2012) dj. Hardcover - Told in alternating voices, this is a darkly witty and rather nasty story of a marriage gone very very wrong. A compulsive read. 419 pp. ISBN: 9780307588364.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. SIGNED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of sometime provocative and always entertaining essays, primarily on traveling and writing, but also on aging (and writing), growing up in South Africa under apartheid, marriage, and much more. INSCRIBED on the title page. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1619029279.

London: Tavistock Publications. (1962) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of reports by ten doctors associated with Family Planning Association clinics, who participated with a psychoanalyst in a supervisory seminar in which new techniques were developed for dealing with problems of non-consummation. Includes the findings in 100 cases, with a detailed discussion of 16 of these. A title in the Minda and Medicine Monograph series, edited by Michael Balnit, and with a foreword by him. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Appendix, bibiolography, index, xiii, 161 pp.

Paris: Boar's Head Books, 1951. First edition - The "secret drama" involved his marriage to Madeleine and the tensions in that relationship created by his homosexuality but their continuing love for each other despite everything. Because she was an intensely private person, he suppressed this account until after her death. Translated by Keene Wallis. Frontispiece drawing. 121 pp.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - A moving memoir by this award-winning poet about his 23 year marriage to poet Jane Kenyon, most of it spent in New Hampshire at Eagle Pond Farm, his family's old house. Hall records her "growing power as a poet and the couple's careful accommodations toward each other as writers. This portrait of the inner moods of 'the best marriage I know about,; as Hall has written, is laid against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Hall shares with readers as if we were one of the grieving neighbors, friends, and relatives the daily ordeal of Jane's dying, through heartbreaking and generous storytelling." Photographic frontispiece. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-618478019.

London: Peter Owen, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this retired professor, best known for her literary criticism. INSCRIBED on the title page "To -- Another London lover" and dated in the year of publication. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-7206-0964X.

New York: Morrow, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at life, and at love, when her husband was suffering from a strange and terrifying illness.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southern author's 14th novel, which "opens at a reception for the loved ones of deceased heart donors where, for the first time, Nan and Douglas Mayhall come face to face with the aging preacher who is the recipient of their twenty-two year old daughter's heart. Their very different reactions to this disturbing encounter sets them off on separate paths." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-679446419.

New York: Atheneum, 1987. Hardcover first edition - A very different novel by this award-winning Southern author - "With remarkable skill, Hearon takes a contemporary story of a man who leaves his wife to 'find himself,' invests it with specificity and distinctiveness, and slowly segues into the heightened realm of metaphor and myth. Discontented with his wife Peg, whom he considers volatile and foolishly enthusiastic, Charlottesville lawyer Paul Sinclair suddenly decamps to join an anthropological expedition to the small Mexican town of Tepoztlan, near Cuernavaca. Enflamed by idealism and infatuated with one of the women on the project, Paul only gradually becomes aware that he has been duped as to the purpose of the study," (PW) 306 pp. ISBN: 0-689115849.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is described as "the first biography to reveal Julia Ward Howe - the author of 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' - as a feminist pioneer who fought her own battle for creative freedom and independence. She was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, an internationally-acclaimed pioneer in the education of the blind. Together the Howes knew many of the key figures of their era, from Charles Dickens to John Brown. But he also wasted her inheritance, isolated and discouraged her, and opposed her literary ambitions." Illustrated with photographs. Notes, index. xiv, 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1451645903.

Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A powerful and highly praised sequence of poems that describe the anguish of the break-up of a long term marriage and also the way back from this - Cover praise by Elie Wiesel, Maxine Kumin, Ellen Bass and more. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page. 86 pp. ISBN: 1-557288658.