New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A gripping book about a family confronted with a very different type of tragedy - recommended. The basis for the recent movie with Meryl Streep & Liam Neeson. ISBN: 0-374-10999-0.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. First edition - A gripping book about a family confronted with a very different type of tragedy - recommended. The basis for the recent movie with Meryl Streep & Liam Neeson.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. First edition - A gripping book about a family confronted with a very different type of tragedy - recommended. The basis for the recent movie with Meryl Streep & Liam Neeson. This is the earlier, and much less common, advance issue of this novel, in plain printed yellow wrappers, with handwritten page numbers.

New York: Delacorte, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Jack Reacher novel: Reacher, an ex-military cop, the ultimate loner and afraid of nothing. Basis for the 2012 movie 'Jack Reacher.' SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year, in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement-a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, people with girlfriends or wives, emotional fuckwits, alcoholics, workaholics, chauvinists, or perverts. And learn to program the VCR." Basis for the movie of the same name starring Rene Zellweger. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-670880728.

New York: Penguin, (1999.) dj. "Bridget Jones's Diary charts a devastatingly self-aware, hilarious year, in the life of a thirty-something Singleton. Here is the compulsively readable, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of her permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement-a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, people with girlfriends or wives, emotional fuckwits, alcoholics, workaholics, chauvinists, or perverts. And learn to program the VCR." Basis for the movie of the same name starring Rene Zellweger. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-14-028009x.

New York: Lyons and Burford, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - HIs fourth book, a collection of sixteen stories by this Montana author, stories set in the American West about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The title story was the basis for a short film starring James LeGros and Nathan Gamble215 pp. ISBN: 1558215549.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition - Rather uncommon advance issue of this debut novel - told as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, ranging from a poor fishing village in the 1920's to Kyoto in the 1940's and through World War II. Basis for the 2005 Academy award winning movie of the same title. 393 pp. Letter to booksellers bound in at beginning of book.

New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). Author's highly praised first novel - told as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, ranging from a poor fishing village in the 1920's to Kyoto in the 1940's and through World War II. Basis for the 2005 Academy award winning movie of the same title. 434 pp. ISBN: 0-679-781587.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1943) dj. Hardcover first edition - Whitman #2385. "Authorized edition" illustrated by Henry E. Vallely. 248 pp plus 3 pp publisher's ads. Probable first edition with the date shown in Arabic numerals, and the ads at the back are all for books published in 1943 or earlier.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this Danish author to appear in English: a very complex thriller with a unique heroine - part Inuit, living in Copenhagen, and refusing to fit in - and also an unusual love story. Basis of the movie of the same name, but far more engrossing, ambiguous and satisfying. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Winner of the Silver Dagger Award.

New York: Delta, (1995.). First book by this Danish author to appear in English: a very complex thriller with a unique heroine - part Inuit, living in Copenhagen, and refusing to fit in - and also an unusual love story. Basis of the movie of the same name, but far more engrossing, ambiguous and satisfying. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. 469 pp. ISBN: 0-385-315147.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this Danish author to appear in English: a very complex thriller with a unique heroine - part Inuit, living in Copenhagen, and refusing to fit in - and also an unusual love story. Basis of the movie of the same name, but far more engrossing, ambiguous and satisfying. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Winner of the Silver Dagger Award.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993. dj. First book by this Danish author to appear in English: a very complex thriller with a unique heroine - part Inuit, living in Copenhagen, and refusing to fit in - and also an unusual love story. Basis of the movie of the same name, but far more engrossing, ambiguous and satisfying. Translated by Tiina Nunnally.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2000). First edition - The debut novel of this now well-known literary fraud, one which has been the subject of several movies. Purportedly autobiographical, this is narrated by an androgynous twelve year old boy whose mother Sarah is a lot lizard, a prostitute who works the truck stops in West Virginia. He tries to follow in her world, working for a pimp who specializes in "boy-girls." Along with the collection of stories published in 2001 this became the film "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things" with Asia Argento. 154 pp.

New York: Triangle Press, (1943, c 1923) dj. Hardcover - Setting off on the long trip back to Montana after the death of his son, old Hop is tired - and then he encounters young Mesquite Jenkins, wanted for bank robber, but Hop thinks he has the right stuff. 310 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2000). Her second collection of short stories.. Powerful stories of lonlinesss, violence, and the wrong kind of love in an attractively produced book. Include 'Brokeback Mountain" which was the basis of the award-winning film of the same name. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-684-852225.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie, "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558480.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558480.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED first edition - A novella and five stories - her first collection of shorter works. The title novella, "The Age of Grief", was made into the movie "The Secret Lives of Dentists." SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material stapled inside front cover. 213 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1980.). Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 626 pp. ISBN: 0-394-461096.

New York: Random House, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 515 pp. ISBN: 0-394-461096.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2014 and the basis for the film of the same name. Full number line beginning with a '1", no award sticker on dust jacket. 771 pp. ISBN: 978-0316055437.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1956. dj. Hardcover - Her first and best known novel, the story of a family of Quakers living in rural Indiana during the Civil War - "they lived according to the ways of William Penn, but there times when their human nature could not be denied." Dustjacket with scenes from the movie starring Gary Cooper.