New York: Pantheon, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a small rural community in Vermont by this National Book Award winning writer (who also happens to be the wife of Robert Penn Warren.) 214 pp. ISBN: 0-394-505360.

New York: Putnam, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel with a deceptively simple title by this National Book Award winning writer - it "starts with the return of Dennie Hensley to America for her mother's funeral. (The wife of a diplomat, she now lives in Rome.) When Marilyn Groves, a woman Dennie has known casually for years, invites her to an outing on a Vermont lake, she accepts, despite misgivings. . . the women are interrupted by an intruder whom they fear, although he leaves them unharmed. The next day the man who had invaded the camp returns, this time bent on rape and murder. The women survive the horror, but later revelations, up to the ironic close, leave the reader shaken." (Publisher's Weekly)223 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Clark's first story for children is a wonderful tale of mystery and adventure. After a storm, Thomas, who is visiting his grandmother on Cape Cod, finds an old belt buckle and is transported back into the past of sailing ships. SIGNED on the title page by Clark Illustrated by Wendell Minor. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 1416935142.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which combines mystery, violence, and the supernatural in a "raw and gripping thriller. . . Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree." SIGNED on the title page. 406 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-340826177.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which combines mystery, violence, and the supernatural in a "raw and gripping thriller. . . Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree." SIGNED on the title page. 406 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-340826177.

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on an island off the rugged coast of Maine. 413 pp. ISBN: 1555974236.

New York: Picador, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A man, a family and a vintage wooden boat" - in 1992, Coomer bought a 60 year old motor sailer and spent the next 4 years learning to master it. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-312-156464.

Scotland, Massachusetts: Community Press, 1953. First edition - First separate publication of this article originally published in Volume 4, Series Two of the Collections of the Mass. Historical Society. A small thin booklet measuring approximately 7 by 5 inches. 20 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel by this author, introducing Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, Winner of Edgar Award for best first novel. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a brief introduction in which he describes how he came to write this. 302 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Inspired by a true story. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: Harper Collins, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about an unusual couple - a poet and an artist - living out their lives, mostly, in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780061239533.

New York: Henry Holt, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller set at a private school in New Hampshire. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-60200.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch - this begins with Mike and Stacey witnessing what appears to be a hit-and-run speedboat crash but instead turns out to be a coldly calculated murder. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Seventh novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1250063700.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2019). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250102416.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. A call for help from a former colleague of Stacey leads them on a sea kayaking trip to an island off the coast of Maine, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, where they discover two of the researchers bludgeoned to death and the third missing. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250235138.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2021) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch, one which finds him battling for survival -and for the survival of his wolf-dog. Author's note. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1250235107.

New York: Hyperion, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a young adult novel, inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, about a lost shipwreck off the coast of Maine, "a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life." Boldly SIGNED on the title page and dated in September 2019, that is before publication. 391 pp.

New York: Otto Penzler Books - Macmillan, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, featuring Lewis Cole, a newcomer to seemingly placid Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, a journalist and part-time sleuth with some dark secrets of his own. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. Dust jacket by Marc Burckhardt. ISBN: 188340245x.

New York: Otto Penzler Books - Macmillan, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, featuring Lewis Cole, a newcomer to seemingly placid Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, a journalist and part-time sleuth with some dark secrets of his own. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. Dust jacket by Marc Burckhardt. ISBN: 188340245x.

New York: Otto Penzler Books - Macmillan, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introduces Lewis Cole, a newcomer to seemingly placid Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, a journalist and part-time sleuth with some dark secrets of his own. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. Dust jacket by Marc Burckhardt. ISBN: 188340245x.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1975) dj. His second book, featuring the classic novella "We Don't Live Here Any More" and seven short stories. Winner of the first annual Lawrence L. Winship award for an outstanding book of New England origin. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-1238.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of six longer works, many dealing with anger, residual racism and other undertones of modern life. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-6426.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of six longer works, many dealing with anger, residual racism and other undertones of modern life. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-6426.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of six longer works, many dealing with anger, residual racism and other undertones of modern life. SIGNED on the title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-6426.

New York: Norton, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir which tells of his coming of age in a drug-ridden and depressed mill town in Massachusetts where his mother struggled to support them, while his father was a professor at a nearby liberal arts college. This is book is a meditation on violence, and a description of the creative process, and a story of coming together with his father. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780393064667.