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. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670781819.

New York: Berkley, (2006). Hardcover - In 1885, a young Irish girl boards a ship to New York City where she finds a job as a maid in a wealthy family but never forgets her goal to save enough money to bring over her friend Siobhan and her son Colin. When tragedy strikes she has to transform herself into a lady - and so she engages a confidence man to teach her what she needs to know. 310 pp plus 2 pp ads. ISBN: 0-739463365.

New York: Doubleday, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires and lies." Chosen as one of the top five fiction books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review. SIGNED on the title page. 467 pp. ISBN: 978-0385518635.

New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations. (1962.) dj. Hardcover - A look at "the ways in which Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are relating to one another (or failing to relate) in ten American cities" - including Boston (conflict on the Charles), Nashville (Athens with an Achilles heel), Cleveland (city without Jews), Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St Paul, Plainview on Long Island, Los Angeles, New York City and Muncie. 344 pp.

New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations. (1962.). Hardcover - A look at "the ways in which Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are relating to one another (or failing to relate) in ten American cities" - including Boston (conflict on the Charles), Nashville (Athens with an Achilles heel), Cleveland (city without Jews), Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St Paul, Plainview on Long Island, Los Angeles, New York City and Muncie. 344 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.

New York: Putnam, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A gritty thriller set on Staten Island in New York City: college history instruction Kevin Curran attempts to help his brother stay away from heroin, but is instead dragged into an underworld plot of murder, mafia hit men and criminal espionage. Bloodroot is a fictional counterpart of the real horrors of Willowbrook. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780399155925.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, the story of Jack Newland, a handsome and wealthy young man on his 28th birthday, the day in which he came into his trust, and his coming to grips with his life and his past in the days following it. SIGNED on the title page. 422 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, "inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician who was once called 'the Wickedest Woman in New York,' {this] is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America.. . Axies story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become one of the wealthiest and most controversial women of her day." Author's note. 435 pp. ISBN: 978-1451698060.

New York: Random House, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An offbeat crime thriller introducing Mike Wilson, a handsome young Episcopalian priest who leaves his rural parish in Nebraska to cover his brother's business in New York City when he goes missing. "Mike leaves his librarian fiancee Kay behind, finds himself hiring and firing topless dancers at the Smoking Car (Mano handles all this flesh marvelously, does a knockout documentary on topless dancers as professionals), and ends up knee-deep in money, hoods, drug sales, dancers, and then blood as in succession four of his dancers are murdered, three of them on the stage itself (one is beheaded)." (Kirkus Review) 240 pp. ISBN: 0-679402756.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's 8th book of poetry, a long narrative poem which "juxtaposes two cities on the brink of irrevocable change. It begins when the poet steps into an uptown Manhattan bar a few days before September 11, 2001. He is confronted by Joseph Stone, a barstool regular and a fellow expatriate.. . It has been almost exactly sixty-one years since London's 'Black Saturday,' the start of the worst of the Blitz during World War II." 140 pp. ISBN: 0-618562435.

New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - Mystery featuring Joe Gunther's sidekick, former Vietnam veteran and police detective Willie Kunkle, set mostly in the slums of New York City where Kunkle's former wife has been found dead of an apparent overdose. 312 pp.

New York: Warner, (2001). dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the highly praised series featuring Joe Gunther, now head of the newly minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Set at a ski resort struggling with financial and other problems. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7676.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel set in the 5th Precinct in downtown Manhattan. ISBN: 0-688-087361.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An 87th Precinct Mystery. It is Christmas in New York, but no one is interested in giving - 269 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02694.

New York: Morrow, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An 87th Precinct novel. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-688-102212.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel set in the 5th Precinct in downtown Manhattan. SIGNED on the half title page. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087361.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth "published" novel in the 87th Precinct series. 255 pp.

London: T. V. Boardman and Co., (1961). Hardcover first edition - The seventh book in the 87th Precinct series, originally published in paperback in the US. "Detective Cotton Hawes tracks down a compulsive murderer." An American Bloodhound Mystery. 191 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An 87th Precinct Mystery. It is Christmas in New York, but no one is interested in giving. SIGNED on the title page. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-02694.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-54529.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-54529.

New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, (1998.). His second novel, set in underground Manhattan, past and present, a blending of imagination and history. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-965-591700.

Boston: Little Brown, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a roman a clef set in the world of New York modeling. INSCRIBED on the title page "for --- with my very best wishes, Joanie McD" and dated in the year of publication. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-316-555606.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's unique and highly praised first book, a series of interconnected stories which cover almost five centuries of "peculiar" New York doctors from the 17th century when Dr. Olaf van Schuler emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1664 to today. Each generation applies what was then the current medical wisdom to things like explaining a death by spontaneous combustion, resuscitating a boy's corpse and using phrenology to predict human behavior. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 290 pp. ISBN: 9781565125612.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - The author's unique and highly praised first book, a series of interconnected stories which cover almost five centuries of "peculiar" New York doctors from the 17th century when Dr. Olaf van Schuler emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1664 to today. Each generation applies what was then the current medical wisdom to things like explaining a death by spontaneous combustion, resuscitating a boy's corpse and using phrenology to predict human behavior. Small format. 290 pp.

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928. Hardcover - While this might have been a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the excesses of the "roaring twenties" it is amazing how it still describes the United States -whether it is taken to the road in the chapters "The once open road" and "Caravan" or the fascination with "Bigger and better murders", golf, boxing, movies, junk food ("soda fountains" where "the food is bogus" even though wrapped in strictly sanitary packages) and more. Illustrated with drawings by Howard W. Willard. 263 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition - A novel by the author of 'The Emperor's Children.' The story of a 40 year old woman, a good girl and dutiful daughter, a teacher, who longs for something more than the ordinary in life, but finds herself betrayed by her passion. SIGNED on the title page. 253 pp.