New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1899. Includes his impressions of New York City ("much maligned") including the new rapid transit system there, and of Washington, Boston and Chicago, as well as comments on the differences between the North and the South, the American language, the postal system, universities and more. A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054416.

New York: Henry Holt, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His eleventh novel. Covering a period of just 9 days, in Brooklyn in 1982, this is a meditation on the nature of time - but also a book which can be described as 'reading like an old-fashioned ghost story.' SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-73205.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by the former New York City chief medical examiner and forensic expert (Baden), and the civil rights attorney and legal commentator (Kenney). 228 pp. ISBN: 1400044197.

New York: HarperCollins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of the American immigrant experience and Coney Island in New York in the early years of the 20th century (the title refers to an amusement park on Coney Island.) Illustrated endpapers. 519 pp.

New York: Dell - Island Books, 2000. Author's very highly praised first novel, a combination of murder mystery, love story and great historical fiction, set in Buffalo in 1901, when the power of Niagara Falls has electrified the city and made it a model for other urban areas. ISBN: 0-440-23512x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - An overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society by the former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New Yorkm based on case histories and his personal experiences. Index. xvi, 345 pp. ISBN: 978-0525521129.

New York: Hyperion, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this playwright - "Charles Busch brings the plot twists and flamboyant appealing characters that made his Vampire Lesbians of Sodom the longest running play in off-Broadway history" into this semi-autobiographical novel of his own life as a playwright and actor. 290 pp . ISBN: 1-562827804.

New York: DAW Books, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of six stories set in major cities of the world - Paris, Rome, Peking, London, New York and Moscow - in the far future. SIGNED on the title page. 153 pp. Striking dust jacket art by Gary Viskupic.

New York: Warner, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fourth Regan O'Reilly mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-446-517631.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes,set on the fringes of the world of theater. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-684180863.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th novel featuring New York newspaper columnist and part time sleuth Julie Hayes, a complex story in which Julie matures a great deal. After her husband told her that he wanted a divorce, she left their apartment in anger and confusion. When walking by a construction site she is lured to a trailer and brutally raped by two men. This crime becomes intertwined with a trip to Ireland in search of the father she never knew. Dorothy Salisbury Davis was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-68418887.

New York Bloomsbury, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of the adventures of an intrepid young woman and her 19 year old cat who take a road trip accross the US. Color photographs. Map endpapers. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-58234-0544.

New York & London: Norton, (2003.). First edition - Story of a woman in her 20's living in New Yorks East Village who finds herself caught up in a new affair with a theatre underwriter who happens to be the father of her best friend.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. A look at Italian-American life which introduces readers to an extraordinary trio of mothers and sons in New York's Little Italy.

New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Both a personal account of Gillibrand's life and those who influenced her as she progressed from attorney to Congress to the US Senate and a call for women to become more involved. Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Gillibrand "Your voice matters! Thank you for being a role model." Illustrated with color photographs. List of resources. 194 pp. ISBN: 978-0804179072.

New York: Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited by Juanita Liebermann-Plimpton and Bill Morgan, these journals "cover the most important and formative years of [his] life. During this time. . . he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures in their own right. Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be published only after his death--also document his complex relationships with other figures of Beat lore as Carl Solomon, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke... He reveals a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality and his identity as a poet." Illustrated with black and whte photographs from Ginsberg's private archive. An appendix of over 100 of Ginsberg's earliest poems, includes over 50 previously unpublished. Index. xviii, 523 pp. ISBN: 0-306-814625.

New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one that 'brilliantly invents two figures: a great New York poet of the 40's and 50's and his obsessed biographer.'. ISBN: 0-394-58712X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the author of "Color Blind" written in the form of daily diary entries by a woman living in Westchester County, New York, named Helen Fitzgibbons. While written with humor, warmth and empathy, this also challenges readers to think about some of the hypocrisies of white, middle-class suburbia in the late 1950s when it comes to religion, racial issues and communism during the era of the McCarthy hearings. 216 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Delacorte, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - An offbeat humorous novel with a protagonist who decided that he would never get rich selling encyclopedias and so he quit his job and left his wife and went off to make a killing on the horses - a "zany novel" by the author of 'The Blackboard Jungle' and the 87th Precinct novels under the pseudonym of Ed McBain. 223 pp.

New York: Times Books, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - Author's first book, a very funny look at life on Long Island for housewives - with a murder of a periodontist and local stud thrown in for good measure. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-8129-07361.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in upstate New York in the turbulent, mid 19th century years - a period that included the Underground Railroad, battles between nativist Americans and immigrant Irish, the Civil War and draft riots. A title in his award-winning Albany series, told in the voice of Billy Quinn, orphan and seeker of true love. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-670-804371.

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: North Point Press, (2002). First edition - The author's personal account of being on Ground Zero and access to the cleanup and reconstructing of the World Trade Center. Accompanying the engineers, laborers,and rescue workers city officials throughout the rebuilding and reconstructing of a nation and a skyscraper. 203 pp.

New York Morrow, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult book about a young woman who befriends an olympic skater and is immediately plunged into a dangerous mystery. ISBN: 0-688-065791.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in McPhee's series of books about the geology of the United States; in this, he travels with a geologist from Brooklyn, New York thru the Appalachian Mountains to Indiana observing the land and theories of plate tectonics & glaciation. Chart endpapers. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-374176507.