New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.

New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1999, in the year of publication, (and before it won all the awards) . Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.

New York: Norton, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection by this award-winning poet-undertaker of Milford, Michigan, finalist for the National Book Award. One reviewer described it as "haunted by death. . . Lynch finds abundant material in the vacant eyes of corpses, in the pages of small-town obituaries, even in the autopsy notes from Dr. Kevorkian's patients. Yet throughout, Lynch maintains a sturdy, undertaker's stoicism in the face of the cruelest ironies death has to offer." Poems in which "the ordinary becomes a celebration" but underneath the orderly surfaces is chaos. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 139 pp. ISBN: 0-393046591.

New York: Pantheon, (1992). First edition - The author's first novel, originally published in England by a New York writer. The story of an angry young girl struggling to grow up in `60s Michigan suburbia. Although her affluent family tells her that she is the "luckiest girl in North Bay," she's experienced so much trauma that she claims six different personalities, and most of them are very angry. 152 pp.

Marquette, MI: Lake Superior Press, (1996). First edition - The author's account of her experiences as a teacher in one room school houses in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, for eight years beginning in 1939 when she was a 19 year old, recent graduate of normal school. Illustrated with photographs. Double page map. 60 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1996). First edition - Second novel in the interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, and sometimes doing some recovery diving for the Sheriff's department. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, diver and former marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant. In this book, she is trying to forge better relations with her 11 year old son, at the same time as she finds out about the grandfather she never knew and more about her mother. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312168071.

New York: St Martin's, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel in this interesting series by this Edgar award winning writer featuring Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and former marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who has returned to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, taking over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, and sometimes doing some recovery diving for the Sheriff's department. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-312139322.

New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, deep sea diver and marine oilfield construction worker and single mother, who returns to Northern Michigan upon the death of her father, leaving behind her diving work in the Gulf of Mexico. After she takes over running the combination dive shop and bar-restaurant, she begins to discover that maybe her father's death was not an accident after all. SIGNED on the title page. An interesting new series by this Edgar award winning author. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-312118295.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Ten short stories set in Detroit and featuring detective Amos Walker. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-395410711.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of three novellas, "stories of humans and beasts, of culture and wilderness, of men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream that they are becoming bears." 274 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0-871138212.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - Authorized edition. " "An original story featuring Tom Harmon, famous football star as the hero", illustrated by Henry E. Vallely. Heisman trophy winner Tom Harmon, when at the University of Michigan, had what was then the best scoring record in the Big Ten. He later went on to play for the Rams. 251 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. Illustrated endpapers.

Boston: W. A. Wilde, 1904. Hardcover first edition - "From 1836-1838 a young woman finds a home with her grandfather in the Michigan frontier settlement of Woodstock, located North of Detroit. Illustrated by William F. Stecher with a glossy frontispiece with a tissue guard and four inserted plates. 336 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads for other books by Blanchard.

New York: Delacorte, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, is the story of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. SIGNED by the author on the title page and dated in 1999, in the year of publication, (and before it won all the awards) . Uncommon in the first printing, especially in the first issue dustjacket with original price of $15.95. ISBN: 0-385-323069.

New York: Random House - Wendy Lamb Books, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Newbery and Coretta Scott King award winning writer - "Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan." 259 pp. ISBN: 0-385-323077.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Stuart Mallory mystery, set in the woodlands of Wisconsin and the Upper Michigan peninsula. 246 pp. ISBN: 1885266162.

New York: Delacorte, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - This story, set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father The first - and so far only - book to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-385-323069.

New York: Scholastic, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - This story , set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father won both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award, as well as several other honors. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-439-227534.

New York: Delacorte, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - This story , set in 1936 in Flint Michigan, of a 12 year old black boy's escape from an abusive foster home, and search for the jazz musician he believed to be his father. It won both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King award (the first - and so far only - book to win both) , as well as several other honors. Early book club edition with no mention of the awards. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-385-323069.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - An early title by this award-winning children's author - a colorful and humorous story of a very different birthday which includes a trip to one of the scariest places on earth - the home of the Clay Pit Bottoms Monster. Inspired by the author's summering as a child in Williamstown Michigan where sightings of the monster are still reported. ISBN: 0-671-727508.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this great debut novel, the author 'combines the seemingly disparate worlds of suburban eighties America with Shakespeare's Court of Denmark. ISBN: 1-56689-0721.

Irvine, CA: Wide Horizons Press, 1990. First edition - A portrayal of the author's boyhood days at Lake Howell in Michigan and of more than 60 years of traveling across the United States - mostly in the West. Illustrated with photographs. 163 pages plus index. ISBN: 0-938109-073.