Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of four improvisational novels dedicated to Pushkin, by this writer who is also a poet and translator. Set in present day Leningrad, Rome and London, in Stalin's Moscow and in St Petersburg of the Czars, this is a novel of the war between truth and lies, between love and betrayal. A title in the publisher's International Fiction List. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-886191467.

New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in his Russian quartet, a set of four improvisational novels - a book that is like a Russian doll with layer after layer. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-670130095.

New York: Scribners, 1992. A novel - an interweaving of fact and fiction - about Kennedy's assassination .

New York: Viking, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - This controversial writer's 5th novel, described in one British review as "part satire, part poetic fantasy, part dirty book, an improvisational novel employing a whole ragbag of talents."

New York: The Viking Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - First publication of this collaborative mystery novel originally written in 1938-1940 by Thomas and Davenport, and unpublishable at the time - one which parodies many of the major poets of the time, including T. S. Eliot, Auden and more. Introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon. Errata slip laid in. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-670-262307.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Trapped like a rat in Mr Bill's neighborhood" - Thompson's take on the behind the scenes mania of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Illustrated throughout. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-679-424474.

New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentine.' As Michael Cunningham states, 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.

New York: Doubleday, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his books about modern Argentina. This focuses on Delores Masson who for years joined the marches each Thursday in Bueno Aires to protest the loss of the disappeared, and what happens when her twin grandsons, lost as infants and now teenagers with no knowledge of their real parents, are finally discovered . SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385480105.

New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster), (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An absorbing new novel by the award-winning author of 'Imaging Argentina.' As Michael Cunningham states, it 'begins with a fascinating premise - the unacknowledged source of Joseph Conrad's greatest novels (that is, the tragic accidental encounter at sea between a British minesweeper and a German submarine) - and takes it to considerable heights. By the novel's end, Thornton has cast a light not only onto Conrad's genius but onto the mystery of inspiration itself. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7432-60074.

New York: Doubleday, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of his books about modern Argentina. This focuses on Delores Masson who for years joined the marches each Thursday in Bueno Aires to protest the loss of the disappeared, and what happens when her twin grandsons, lost as infants and now teenagers with no knowledge of their real parents, are finally discovered . 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385480105.

New York: Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The eighth novel by this author who is also known for his travel writing - "A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants - including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate." 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0062499745.

New York: Dial Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A novel which is both a coming of age story and an exploration of the bonds between a father and daughter. Named one of the best books of the year by NPR. SIGNED on the title page with an elaborate two-color drawing of the mouth of a whale extending over the title page and the facing page and the words "Tinti was here!!" This advance issue includes a conversation between Karen Russell and the author. 385 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book (2nd novel) by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist, son of Guatemalan immigrants, set in Los Angeles, in the world of gated communities and Mexican help. SIGNED on the title page. Selected as one of the best 100 books of 2011 by the NY Times, winner of the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. 422 pp. ISBN: 9780374108991.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Argentina, in the time of the generals, this is both a suspense novel and a love story. Richard Garay is enabled by Falklands War to discard the "Britishness "he inherited from his mother and to take chances, both sexual and professional. SIGNED by the author. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-52119.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Hollywood screenwriter, author of the highly praised "The Player." This is a sardonic look at the aftermath of an airline disaster with a whole industry set up to profit by it, and the unlikely attempt of a music store owner's attempt to rekindle his marriage. Publisher's Weekly called it a "drolly morbid novel, a gleefully vicious combination of satire and propulsive storytelling." 273 pp. ISBN: 0-688120830.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic anti-war novel by the writer best known for the classic "The Sea and the Jungle" - the dust jacket cover describes this as "a great English novel of war and peace." It begins with the Boer War in 1900 and continues through the Great War - World War I. 445 pp. plus colophon. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Ecco Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book, a powerful collection of five short stories and the title novella, by Boyd, whose years of experience as a 'cut-man' (the one who staunches the blood flow and allows fights to continue), gives these stories a sometimes heart-breaking authenticity. One of the stories - 'Million $$$ Baby' - was the basis for the 2004 Academy-award winning film, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Hilary Swank. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0198206.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based upon the life of Marilyn Monroe. ISBN: 0-06-0166118.

Toronto: S. B. Gundy, (1925.). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon edition of this novel by this British playwright known for his 'farces.' 315 pp.

New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Trevor's 10th novel, a story of family secrets and the haunting legacy of the past, a story which begins when Sarah Pollexfen comes to the island estate of Carriglas as governess for her wealthy Anglo-Irish cousins, on the eve of WWI and of the Irish Troubles.

New York: Viking, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories by this award winning author, who was born in Ireland. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-670-83257x.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in the 1970s where a young draft dodger, Jimmy Cotton listens to and retells the "tall tales" of his partner, Joe Ready, "a 98-year-old former cop and kidnaper-hunter, on his deathbed, including run-ins with the twentieth century's notorious bad guys and some unfinished business." Dust jacket praise from James Crumley and Kent Anderson. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-0939767564.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Atria Books, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel about what it means to be a "good person" in the twenty-first century. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-9279X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. First edition - A novel by this author whom John Updike called "wickedly good" - the story of a schoolteacher, forced to retire at 61, coming to terms with the rest of his life. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue is much less common than the trade edition. 276 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this, his third novel (and the one which he described as his favorite), Unger returns to the South Dakota town which was the setting for his first. Set during World War II, this is a tragically ironic story of German prisoners-of-war who initially work to improve production at the Nowell Safebuy turkey processing plant, only to find themselves subject to more drastically worsened and unsafe working conditions. ISBN: 0-06-0159510.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0156457.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - Author's second novel, a coming of age story of a young American who wins a competition to study abroad for a year (mostly by staying nice and stoned.) In Argentina, he is first welcomed into a life of privilege, but when he finds himself detained in a soccer stadium along with thousands of others, he begins to understand the true meaning of a police state. SIGNED by the author on the title page.