Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1927). Hardcover - The author's third book for young adults, originally published in 1904. An adventure story of settlers and the Indians set along the Ohio River. Illustrated by Fred A. Elliott. Plain frontispiece. 249 pp.

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Co., (1961.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of an early 20th century medical doctor, born in Ohio, and who, after serving overseas during World War I, went to medical school and practiced medicine both in Columbus, Ohio and then in Modesto, California. He was also very active in the community - especially with the Boy Scouts. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "To some very wonderful people, wholesome and patient and thoughtful" (not personalized.) Fronstispiece. 327 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In a dazzling literary debut, [filmmaker] Peter Davis has mapped the passions of one American town and the conflicts and harmonies that unite and divide the townspeople." An account of 6 years in the life of Hamilton, Ohio. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-671-245562.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In a dazzling literary debut, [filmmaker] Peter Davis has mapped the passions of one American town and the conflicts and harmonies that unite and divide the townspeople." An account of 6 years in the life of Hamilton, Ohio. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-671-245562.

New York: Norton, (2003). First edition - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts his 1950s and '60s childhood in the Midwestern steel town of Lorian, Ohio. The only boy of four children, he grew up in a blue-collar family with a father who "hated his lot in life with every particle of his moody, dissatisfied soul." To escape from home life, he buried himself in books - and describes many of them here. Photographs. Includes Dirda's book list. 330 pp.

New York: Plume, (2001.). Mystery featuring Professor Michael Brandon, set among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio. 200 pp.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Professor Michael Brandon receives a visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, was murdered, and he gets involved in the investigation of several seemingly unrelated incidents. SIGNED on the title page. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-8214-18154.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Professor Michael Brandon receives a visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, was murdered, and he gets involved in the investigation of several seemingly unrelated incidents. SIGNED on the title page. 201 pp.

Toledo, OH: The Toledo Blade, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of one of the first newspapers established west of the Alleghanies and one of the few newspapers established prior to 1850 still in existence. Photographs. 4374 pages including notes and index.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. dj. Hardcover - A beautifully evocative description of the year, month by month, as observed on the author's Ohio farm, contrasted with expressions of anger at the current war (Vietnam) and all of man's inhumanity to man. Illustrated with drawings by Mel Klapholz. 159 pp,. ISBN: 0-671-201778.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. dj. Hardcover - A beautifully evocative description of the year, month by month, as observed on the author's Ohio farm, contrasted with expressions of anger at the current war (Vietnam) and all of man's inhumanity to man. Illustrated with drawings by Mel Klapholz. 159 pp,. ISBN: 0-671-201778.

Chicago: J. L. Regan & Co., Printers, 1885. Hardcover first edition - The title poem retells in verse a story first told by the 'heroine' sixty years ago - that is, it was a story of travel over 400 miles of rough mountains by two young women, courting and love, set on the Virginia - Ohio border in the 1820s. The other poems had been published in such magazines as Scribner's, The Century, etc. Engraved frontispiece, one other illustration of Prospect Hill (by Baker), a few decorative tailpieces. 79 pp.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (Lakeside Press) 1972. Hardcover first edition - The 70th Lakeside Classic: the first publication of two manuscripts describing 19th century pioneer life in Illinois and the Midwest and in Texas. Includes historical introduction, illustrated with maps and drawings. Index. List of previous titles in series. 290 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books in association with Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an immigrant Jewish family's life in America's heartland. "With his wife and small daughter, Max Weisberg left Russia in 1904, went first to Cincinnati and eventually to a 60-acre farm in southern Ohio. The rural community, previously unfamiliar with European Jewish immigrants, accepted the family without prejudice. Weisberg's daughter 'Goldie' recalls her bucolic childhood with affection: the one-room schoolhouse, chores, adapting to local customs. . . an appealing piece of rural Americana. (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with drawings by Marcia Erickson. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-912697954.

Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young Douglass Perkins traveled overland to Sacramento from Marietta, Ohio, with 5 companions, and used mules to pack his supplies, rather than wagons. He found only disappointment and death in California, but left behind an unusually full and well-written narrative, one which has also been well-edited and extensively annotated. Illustrated with drawings and maps; appendices; bibliography; index. Large format. xxv, 206 pp.

Norwalk, Ohio: The Lanning Printing Company, State Printers, 1893. Hardcover first edition - Consists almost entirely of charts and tables. Index. 430 pp.

London: W. H. Allen, 1955. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Powell's first - and only - collection of short stories, selected by Powell as the best of the many she had published in the New Yorker and elsewhere. Although the quality of these eighteen stories is a bit uneven, some - including the wonderful first story 'You Should Have Brought Your Mink' - capture in a few pages the themes of her novels. Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To dearest Pamela & George, this lesson in sheer ugliness - (I mean the jacket!), Love, Dawn" with an addendum about her signature "I never made a D like that before." 202 pp.

Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co, (2015). First edition - The author's first novel (although not her first book, preceded by poetry and essays) -the story of a working family from the rich Ohio farmlands of the 1850s to the rustbelt ruins of 2005 - "Rose Healy of Blanchardville, Ohio, child bootlegger, WWII veteran, devoted reader of Tolstoy, and heroic mother of ten, had the nerve to die before her youngest daughter could get home. Which, as Rose would say, was her own damn fault. Yet, when Stephanie returns after the funeral, restless and plagued by the same unease that drove her away thirty years earlier, she discovers that death is no object when two women need to talk" 250 pp. . ISBN: 9781620540152.

Palo Alto, CA: Privately Printed, 1948. Hardcover first edition - Family history (the Richardson family of North Carolina and Ohio as well as the Sears family) and an account of growing up in Ohio, and then living in California, by the wife of a long time Stanford University professor. Photographs. 105 pgs.

Cincinnati, Ohio: J. Church & Co, 1866. First edition - A striking picture, originally the cover to a sheet music booklet containing the "Fire Fiend Galop." This is a dramatic and brightly colored lithograph of Cincinnati's burning opera house overwhelmed by the bright red and orange flames filling the sky. A crowd of onlookers watch as firefighters spray their hoses at the building, and visible through the flames is the title of the current production "A Midsummer's Night Dream." Lithograph by the noted firm of Civil War lithographers, Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co. of Cincinnati. Copyright information below illustration showing John Church, Jr., Ohio, 1866. Large format, measuring 10 1/2" x 13 3/4"