New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1941.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the Fleet family who lived in Pudding Lane in old Boston, above their father's print shop - besides young John and Prue, there was Grandmother Goose, always read with a nonsensical rhyme - based on Hunt's research of how Dame Goose of Boston inherited her rhymes from Mother Goose of old England, and how her book 'Mother Goose's Melodies' was published by Fleet in 1719. Illustrated with a two-page full-color title page and with many black and white drawings, some full page, by Clotilde Embree Funk. An uncommon title by this Newbery Honor award author, and especially so in this condition. Illustrated endpapers, top edge tinted orange. 161 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1966. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An eleven year old girl adjusts to life in Vermont after the death of her father. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "I hope you enjoy Libby's Vermont adventures." and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with drawings by Lilian Obligado. 212 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1962.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Jackson's final novel - "A strange, terrible, and beautiful tale. From the first page, a mystery hangs over the three people living in the big old house on the hill. Shunned by the villagers, they live their private life behind closed doors. As their story quietly and deftly unfolds, the reader is led into a situation both startling and macabre." 214 pp. Red topstain. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

Westfield, MA: Westfield State College, 1995. First edition - Includes articles on the Hoosac Tunnel, William Lloyd Garrison, Boston's Back Bay and the Puritan missions to the Indians of Thomas Mayhew, Jr and John Eliot plus book reviews and book notes. 103 pp .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - An old man in a Vermont tavern recounts stories of his youth, and of the loves that have been lost to him. Dust jacket praise from Raymond Carver, Tom Wolfe and James Purdy. A concise novel at only 128 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525396.

New York: Viking, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set off the coast of Maine, featuring English professor turned sleuth Roz Howard. 294 pp. Map endpapers of Penobscot Bay. ISBN: 0-670-835374.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952. dj. Hardcover - From the preface - "this is a book about a few men and many walks in the woods and fields of New York and New England . . . an account of the birds, trees, flowers and other forms of life that we encountered outdoors in that territory." Illustrated with wood engravings by Nora S. Unwin. Includes an appendix which lists the birds, trees and flowers found. 279 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's surprisingly uncommon first book, the story of a camp on a Maine lakefront inhabited by a 'loony crew of washed-up sixties dropouts' one of whom just happens to fall into a humungous stash of cash and dope. Long blurb on the back cover of the dustjacket by Stephen King, described as 'a report from the man who read the manuscript first.' 336 pp. ISBN: 0-399-130810.

New York: Delacorte, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, set in Boston, a story of the gritty underworld of cops and criminals. Stephen White called it "a harrowing memorable debut." 369 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Langton's third mystery set at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and featuring scholarly detective Homer Kelly, who happens to be on hand when someone bombs Memorial Hall during rehearsals for a Christmas performance of Handel's Messiah.. Illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED by Langton below the drawing facing the title page with "Kaboom!" printed above the illustration. First state with the 4 lines of garbled text on p. 11. 265 pp. plus a final drawing. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060125071.

New York: Viking, (1995). Hardcover first edition - The eleventh suspense novel featuring Homer Kelly, Thoreau scholar, professor of American literature and ex-lieutenant detective for Middlesex County. It is Christmas in Cambridge, time for the annual revels. Illustrated by the author with line drawings.Author's afterword. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-670847100.

New York: Viking, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Homer Kelly mystery set in the land of the transcendalists. A shopping mall is planned for the shores of Walden Pond. Illustrated with drawings by Langton. Author's note. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-670842605.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring Senior Vice President John Putnam Thatcher of the Sloan Guaranty Trust - the 22nd collaboration between these two authors, one an economist and the other a lawyer. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-671-441302.

New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. This one involves the kidnapping of a 4 year old girl from her 'drug-addled' mother. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-688-153321.

New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery introducing private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. INSCRIBED on the title page "--- warmest regards" 336 pp. ISBN: 0-688-143806.

New York: Morrow, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th of his tough gritty mysteries featuring private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angelo Gennaro, set in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of Boston's Dorchester section. This one involves the kidnapping of a 4 year old girl from her 'drug-addled' mother. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication.. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-688-153321.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002.) dj. First edition - Second novel by the highly praised writer of "In the Fall." Historical novel set in northern New Hampshire in the early 19th century. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8433.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the highly praised writer of "In the Fall." Historical novel set in northern New Hampshire in the early 19th century. SIGNED on the title page. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-8433.

[Bar Harbor] Maine: Acadia Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of fiction, essays and poetry by women who - although they were not born in Maine - found a home there. Each selection is preceded by a photograph and brief biography of the author. Includes contributions from Dianne Benedict, Alice Bloom, Roberta Chester, Alison Deming, Deborah DeNicola, Elaine Ford, Constance Hunting, Susan Kenney, Kala Ladenbeim, Heather McHugh, Patricia O'Donnell, Lee Sharkey, Betsy Sholl and the editors. 170 p. ISBN: 0-934745129.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1938. Hardcover first edition - Stories of the fifties (the 1850s, that is), sixties and seventies by this beloved Cape Cod author, illustrated in black and white by Howard Brett. Lincoln's "yarns" of old Cape Cod populated by old Yankee stock, were "an antidote to an America that was undergoing rapid modernization, urbanization, immigration, and industrialization." Color illustrated endpapers. 158 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Comic novel set at a small women's college in New England (the fact that the author lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts is just a co-incidence). 242 pp. ISBN: 0-618-644652.

Garden City, NY: Crime Club by Doubleday, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth mystery featuring Sarah Kelling (Bittersohn) and her husband art investigator Max Bittersohn, set among Boston's upper crust. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-385230036.

New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank and honest memoir, in which Mairs explores her life and her sense of herself by focusing on the places she has lived -from a quonset hut in the South Pacific to Maine, Massachusetts and Arizona - and especially on living within her own body - the "bone house" - and dealing with her sometimes debilitating physical conditions. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160411.

Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book in the Faith Abbey series, set on Cape Cod and featuring Brother Bartholomew and Chief of Police Dan Burke, two native Cape Codders, friends since their boyhood days, even though their paths had diverged. 314 pp. ISBN: 1557252580.

Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in the Faith Abbey series, set on Cape Cod and introducing Brother Bartholomew and Chief of Police Dan Burke, two native Cape Codders, friends since their boyhood days, even though their paths had diverged. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1557252580.

Olathe, KS: Cookbook Publishers, (1992). First edition - Recipes and cooking tips from residents of the town of Mashpee - many reflect traditional New England cooking, others reflect ethnic traditions found on the Cape - Portuguese, Italian, Lithuania, Each is credited to the contributor. Includes one page on the history of Mashpee and the Wampanoag tribe by Joan Avant Tavares (the Mashpee Wampanoags are still fighting for recogition). Illustrated with drawings by Walter M. Yarosh and Shirley Peters. One blank "notes" page has a handwritten recipe. Index, calorie counter, 148, vii pp. plus advertising and a still intact coupon section.

New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover 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. 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.

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.