New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

New York: Hyperion, (2006.). First edition - Although her family thinks that she is being sent to India to work, a young girl from Nepal finds herself 'sold' - forced into prostitution. Finalist for the National Book Award for Young Adult literature. A spare and powerful story of survival against almost unimaginable odds. The author's note at the end comments that every year 12,000 Nepali girls are sold unwittingly by their families into prostitution in India. 263 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1990.). SIGNED - Two American expatriates, mountain climbers making a living from the tourists in Kathmandu, encounter the Great Mysteries of Nepal. SIGNED on the title page. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-812-500598.

Seattle: Mountaineers Books, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this ground-breaking mountaineer - "He has lost toes to frostbite, suffered pulmonary edema, survived avalanches and icy bivouacs. [He] recounts his experiences on the high peaks and his transition from teenage exploits to middle-age prudence. He offers stirring tales of adventure: a dramatic rescue on Denali, an impulse climb on the North Face of the Eiger, tackling a frozen waterfall in Canada's Banff National park. Roskelley claims three 8000-meter peaks; he was the first American to reach the summit of 27,000-foot Mahalu in Nepal." and more (Publishers Weekly). Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. Glossary, chronology of major climbs. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-89886349X.

Vancouver, BC: Granville Island Publishing, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, set in Nepal in 1978, a country barely touched by the modern age, where the privileged wife of an American diplomat is forced into a trek through the mountains in the midst of a monsoon - a journey she might not survive. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 191 pp plus 1 p appendix. ISBN: 1-89469421X.

San Rafael, CA: Mandala, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully written and gorgeously illustrated book which brings to life the beauty and traditions of the Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalaya Mountains as it creates Thunder Dragons that play hide-and-seek in the clouds during big winter storms. Unpaginated. Oversized oblong format. ISBN: 9781601091000.

London: Hollis and Carter, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an expedition in the foothills of Nepal and on the lower slopes of Everest in search of evidence of the existence of the 'yeti.' Illustrated with photographs, foreword by Brigadier Sir John Hunt. Index. 209 pages.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. INSCRIBED on the title page "For... Thanks for showing me San Francisco." 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition - A collection of stories set against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies which have claimed thousands of lives - they show Nepal's citizens strugglng with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage. 207 p. ISBN: 0-618-517499.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the 2001 Whiting Award. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618-247270.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of love and loss, set in Kathmundu in contemporary Nepal. His first book, a collection of short stories, won the Whiting Award. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-618247270.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a political thriller introducing American biologist, David Trowbridge. Braving harsh elements of nature, he explores the remotest regions of Nepal to investigate the feasibility of setting up a wildlife refuge, only to be confronted by the wrath of greedy political forces - including Nepal's neighbors, China and India - which see the area as a prize worth killing for. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-060165065.