New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young boy follows a trail on "Summertime Island" to the edge of the sea, through hollows filled with buttercups, blueberries and rabbits, to tide pools, sand dunes and crashing waves, a derelict boat half-buried in the sand and finally to fish cooking over a campfire - Although this is a universal story, the dedication refers to "the lures of Nantucket" and the award-winning artist Brian Pinkney who illustrates this with his striking scratchboard paintings depicts the young boy as African American. The simple text will appeal to children and to all who remember summertime explorations. Large format, bound in glossy illustrated boards, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-671734091.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.). A young boy follows a trail on "Summertime Island" to the edge of the sea, through hollows filled with buttercups, blueberries and rabbits, to tide pools, sand dunes and crashing waves, a derelict boat half-buried in the sand and finally to fish cooking over a campfire - Although this is a universal story, the dedication refers to "the lures of Nantucket" and the award-winning artist Brian Pinkney who illustrates this with his striking scratchboard paintings depicts the young boy as African American. The simple text will appeal to children and to all who remember summertime explorations. Large format, unpaginated. Selected as a 1991 Golden Kite Honor Book. ISBN: 0-671-796178.

New York: Dutton, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set against the background of Nantucket at the height of the whaling days - four years after it was published in hardcover, it became the first title to be published in paperback by Harlequin. 251 pp. Striking dust jacket art by William Sharp.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Definitive history of the maritime disaster caused by the collision of the ocean liner Andrea Doria with the Swedish liner Stockholm in the fog 1956 off the island of Nantucket on the Massachusetts coast. In the eleven hours before the ship sunk, 1700 people were rescued. The ill-fated voyage is recreated using interviews, court documents, memoirs and this book presents technical findings that shed new light on the causes of the disaster. Photographs, sources, index.viii, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-471-38934X.

New York: Atheneum, (1969.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by Nantucket photographer, Beverly Hall - a compilation by Caldecott medal winning author and illustrator of short excerpts about the mystery and wonders of the night - taken from the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marcel Proust, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, James Joyce and other - illustrated with her evocative and strking black and white photographs. Warmly INSCRIBED "to - - and a Nantucket friendship, good any day or night, love to -- " and dated in 1971. Bound in black cloth and printed in white on black paper. Oblong format, unpaginated.

Novato, CA; Lyford Books, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, introduces private dectective Jack Eaton and his partner, a big black mixed-breed dog named Watson. ISBN: 0-89141-5661.

New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-688-134734.

New York: Bantam, (1997.). SIGNED first edition - The third in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-688-134432.

New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. a The third in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-553104632.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second in this series of mysteries featuring Merry Folger, police detective and daughter of the Chief of Police, set on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-688-134734.