New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.

New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.

New York: Putnam, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - *At My Age, Sex Gets Second Billing. The comedian shares his secrets for a long life and a good martini with readers everywhere. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs. 187 pp plus a final double spread photograph. ISBN: 0-399-129391.

New York: Harper Collins, (2014). First edition - For two years, Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, to discuss what he calls The December Project - that is, "creating strategies to deal with pain and memory loss, and finding tools to cultivate simplicity, fearlessness, and joy at any age. Davidson includes twelve exercises so that readers may experience what she did a sea change in facing what we all must face: mortality." Glossary. 193 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgerton's 8th novel,a "breezy comedy tinged with sadness," set at a convalescence home in North Carolina, where nonagenarian Lil is recuperating from a bad fall. But Lil is restless and wants some adventure and before long Lil and "the girls" steal a car and hit the road. 252 pp. ISBN: 1-565121953.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013). SIGNED first edition - A young woman returns to her old Bronx neighborhood only to find that her mother's house has become a hoarder's nest. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp.

New York: George Braziller, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelfth book by this New Zealand author, but her first novel to be set in America- in New York, where Frame lived off and on for many years - the story of a young doctor who choses to study death. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-0657x.

New York: George Braziller, (1990). The twelfth book by this New Zealand author, but her first novel to be set in America- in New York, where Frame lived off and on for many years - the story of a young doctor who choses to study death. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-12847.

New York: Ballantine, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a 'freeway flyer' who stumbles upon the possibility of some unrecorded history in the story of a 93-year old woman, Lucy Boomer, who had worked for (and maybe been more to) five US Presidents. She promises Jack her journals, and in return he slips her out of her nursing home and begins the long drive to Iowa with her and a free-spirited hitchhiker. SIGNED on the title page. Long after this novel was first optioned, an adaption is scheduled to begin filming in the summer of 2019 with Director Howard Deutch. 186 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of a 'freeway flyer' who stumbles upon the possibility of some unrecorded history in the story of a 93-year old woman, Lucy Boomer, who had worked for (and maybe been more to) five US Presidents. She promises Jack her journals, and in return he slips her out of her nursing home and begins the long drive to Iowa with her and a free-spirited hitchhiker. SIGNED on the title page. Long after this novel was first optioned, an adaption is scheduled to begin filming in the summer of 2019 with Director Howard Deutch. 202 pp. ISBN: 0-345-372252.

New York: Macmillan, (1976) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In her last hours of life, after being beaten and robbed on Beacon Hill, Jessica Fayer relives her 76 years. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and his wife and dated at Stanford in 1994. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-025716506.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2017) dj. Hardcover - But take the time to dip into this wonderful book - both funny (on the absurdity of denying your age: 'If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.') and serious. Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-1328661593.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in The Palms, a Florida retirement center, and follows the lives of several residents there over the course of a year. Illustrated with drawings by Franca Nucci Haynes. 484 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679-43612x.

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., (2000). First edition - The first novel by these three friends, written to dispel some stereotypes about old age, and especially older women, including that they are humorless people, and also to explore issues surrounding medical marijuana. "Several 'little old ladies' in Pacific Grove encourage one another to grasp life anew and act a bit outrageous. They begin by finding and supplying marijuana (for medicinal purposes) to a rich friend suffering from cancer. When the friend dies and leaves them cars and money, the ladies branch out: they still provide 'medicinal' brownies but catch the attention of the law and 'suspicious others' when they discover a dismembered corpse in a disused freezer. (Library Journal) 188 pp. ISBN: 0-887392849.

New York: Norton, (1973.) dj. Hardcover - Described as a "short swift blow of a novel" - the story of an old woman trying to stay alive in a nursing home. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-393-083721.

XLIBRIS, (2014). The two authors met at a local writer's group meeting in 2004, and developed a close friendship. However, despite their age and health problems, both women were adventurous and, using the excuse of visiting family in St Paul, they set off from California to the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore and across the country on a 5000 mile road trip. The question was could they do this and still be friends at the end. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1499079357.

New York: Atheneum, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wonderful collection of poems by this much-honored writer, many of which were written about her parents (this book is dedicated to their memory). Van Duyn has been the recipient of the National Book award and the Bollingen Prize for poetry and the Pulitzer prize, in addition to other awards. Rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition. ISBN: 0-689-112866.