New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The fifteenth book in this humorous series featuring Cora Felton, the "puzzle lady" and her niece Sherry Carter, set in New York CIty, Includes crossword puzzles by Will Shortz to help you solve the mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifteenth book in this humorous series featuring Cora Felton, the "puzzle lady" and her niece Sherry Carter, set in New York CIty, Includes crossword puzzles by Will Shortz to help you solve the mystery. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 978-1250027177.

New York: Bantam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring Cora Felton, the puzzle lady, and her niece Sherry. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-553-802410.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1980) dj. Hardcover - Entertaining account of her attempts to crash Broadway as a playwright in the 1940s - one of the 999 out of a 1000 who do not make it big. Originally published in 1962, this was the first book by the author best known for '84 Charing Cross Road.' This edition has been revised for publication. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-316343196.

New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth thriller, feauturing NYPD detective Ben Tolliver. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151004.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2012 dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which opens in 1946, in postwar New York. "Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as they each fall for the other in an instant." 705 pp. ISBN: 978-0547819235.

Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Divided into four sections, roughly chronological, these poems were written between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when Henderson was dividing his time between California and New York. Cover praise from Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Calvin Hernton and others. 144 pp. ISBN: 1556432755.

New York: Basic Books, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, who has published other psychoanalytic studies of suicide, debunks the myth that suicide in the US is "white" problem - in fact, the reverse is true for young urban adults, where the rate for young blacks is significantly higher. He also shows that suicide has a radically different significance for black Americans, often related to the frustrations of living in a racially unjust society. Charts and tables, index. 171 pp. Errata slip laid in.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a historical thriller set in 1799 New York City, a time of both opportunity and oppression and of corruption, A story of the aftermath of America's first financial crisis, the panic of 1792, which eventually led to the creation of the Stock Exchange (the title refers to a name for Wall Street.) Author's note, glossary. 300 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0765399137.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of growing up during the 1930s in a Jewish ghetto inside the larger African American ghetto of Harlem. Born with a severe cleft palate, much of Horowitz's boyhood was spent in the hospital undergoing one re-constructive surgery after another. The streets taught survival - numbers-running and ticket-scalping were a source of cash for Horowitz; turf wars and muggings were commonplace - while regular visits with his sister to the Apollo theater nutured a love of music, and Central Park at night was a magical place. Photographs. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-87805-4286.

New York: Harper & Row, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's twelfth book, a novel set in 1920s New York, a story of "young love, financial struggle and how an innocent and idealistic girl becomes a mature and confident woman" - an achievement which is worth "untold millions." 272 pp. ISBN: 0-0601249248.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). SIGNED hardcover - A book which tells the story of over 2 million Jewish immigrants who came to in America in four decades beginning with the 1880s, many settling in New York City, and how they strived to keep their Yiddish culture while making their way in the new society. SIGNED by Irving Howe on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, reference notes, glossary of Yiddish terms, bibliographical notes, index, xx, 714 pp. ISBN: 0151463530.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A man awakes alone, in Central Park in New York, with no memory of who he is. A story of discovery by an author best known for the books he wrote under the pseudonym of Ed McBain. Basis for the Delbert Mann film "Mister Buddwing" featuring James Garner. 349 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a coming of age story inspired by the "modern Mohawk warriors who battle time and space to give New York City her skyscrapers and bridges." Winner of the Edith Busby Award (a Dodd, Mead librarian and teacher prize competition). Wraparound dustjacket painting by Richard Lebenson. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-396-065120.

New York: Random House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Michigan-raised author, one in which the protagonist - a 32 year old woman named Lewis Jones - bounces back and forth between New York City and Detroit in a world full of champagne and cocaine, weird sex, despair and hysteria, recounted in Jones' savagely witty voice. Championed by Gayl Jones, one of Toni Morrison's earlier authors at Random House, this was one of the last books edited by Morrison before she left to become a full-time writer. 175 pp. ISBN: 0-394532945.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1982). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poems and photographs which celebrate aging. "Drawing on both his own family history and the immigrant history of New York's Jewish community, Kaminsky gives voice to the protest and despair, endurance and dignity, courage and creativity of those who struggled toward survival and reconciliation near the borders of death." Foreword by Robert N. Butler. Black and white photographs by Leon Supraner. INSCRIBED by Kaminsky on the front endpaper and dated in 1985. Glossary. Large square format. 149 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-252010000.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nancy and her friends George and Bess go to New York City and to Hong Kong to solve the mystery of a missing young Chinese girl. Farah's 1961-A1. (lists to itself at the front of book and to the Dana Girls #22) Bound in blue tweed cloth with the blue multi-picture endpapers (format 16). This is the last Nancy Drew title issued in a dustjacket, and only the first 3 printings in 1961 used this format. Illustrated with a plain frontispiece and 5 internals, Dust jacket art with the wraparound spine by Rudy Nappi. 182 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second thriller by this award-winning playright - and the son of suspense writers Jonathan and Faye Kellerman. Set in New York City where a young medical student who rushes in to help a woman being murdered accidentally kills her attacker. 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0399154034.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005). First edition - The author's third novel, set in New York City in the 1930s, against the backdrop of the building of the Empire State Building. 369 pp.

New York: Quadrangle - New York Times Book Co., (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at nature as found in urban areas - especially in New York City's Cenral Park: 4 of the chapters focus on the birds and animals to be found in the park. Other chapters cover such diverse topics as living through the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in an 8 hour period, miscroscopic soil and water life, champion trees, virgin forests, and the source of light called bioluminescence (found in fireflies and fishes). Illustrated with 26 black and white drawings by Hope S. Buyukmihci. Double page map of Central Park on the endpapers. Index. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-812904710.

New York & Princeton: Karz-Cohl 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An English journalist describes his observations - month by month through a full year - of the activities of animals, birds, and people in New York City's Central Park. Includes a checklist of birds that he saw. 180 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-943828627.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (the first was nominated for an Edgar) - "a tough, sexy, brilliant new crime thriller .. that takes the reader on a highly entertaining tour of New York City's sleazier side. Kate Piro was born in Odessa, Russia, but now lives in Brighton Beach, a neighborhood so heavily Russian its residents call it 'Little Odessa.' " 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670819549.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first novel by this award-winning journalist, a story of "crime, vengeance, and redemption, set on New York City's meanest streets. Frank Battaglia is a swaggering soldier of the Mafia, greedy for the power generations of thugs have taken as their right and compelled by an inner demon to rip away the shame that surrounds him like a shroud. As a young fighter, Frank fell apart in the ring at Madison Square Garden, a humiliation witnessed by the most powerful gangster in the city. In Frank's eyes, only one person can salvage his reputation: his son Nicky." 321 pp.

New York: Paragon House, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous collection of writings which become, in effect, an unofficial history of the rise of the counterculture in New York city. Included is an essay on the Kerouac legacy, another on the influence of the New Yorker magazine, an unpublished excerpt from his prose poem 'Chaos' and more. Foreword by James Walcott. Index, 194 pages. ISBN: 1557784701.

New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1935 in post-prohibition New York. SIGNED on the title-page. Marcia Muller called this "A highly literate and amusing series debut, further enlivened by an authentic depiction of Depression-era New York City." 238 pp. . Dust jacket art by Cathie Bleck. ISBN: 9780312152284.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of murder, and of one day in the life of Nathan Stein, the son of a corrupt and powerful attorney. Dust jacket praise from Reynolds Price (who called it "as compelling, as it is, finally, astonishing"), Stewart O'Nan, Andrea Barrett, James McConkey (who said: "In its vivid and marvelously rendered account of a flawed and disoriented human being moving inexprably toward his destruction, Blood Acre, is reminiscent of Malcolm Lowry's brilliant, Under the Volcano. Driven, fevered and splendid.") and more. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670781819.