New York: Poseidon Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), centering around the lives of some of the few remaining residents of the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania where an underground mine fire has been burning since 1962. A combination of the "everyday ordinary and the outrageously surreal." (Susan Kenney.) Dust jacket praise also from John Barth and Edward Albee. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-671-72715X.

New York: Ballantine, (1985.). First edition - Author's first novel, a mystery involving murder and the drugging of racehorses at a small racetrack in a seedy Pennsylvania town. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-34531963x.

New York: Putnam, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in a small town in Pennslyvania, in the years leading up to World War I, this is the story of a man who rose from Irish-Catholic poverty to the zenith of Yankee prestige and power, and the price he had to pay for that. 455 pp. ISBN: 0-399125663.

New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Police Chief Mario Balzic, set in the fictional town of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania - a small coal mining town where most of the coal has run out - and one of the hardest to find titles in this series. Rocksburg is enduring a record breaking heat wave on Memorial Day weekend, and the body of a young woman, a student at the local junior college is found in her room, strangled with her own bra and with a blank sheet of paper on her. The NY Times called his books "The most poignant studies of post-Industrial Age depression in modern crime literature." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-841503354.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring Police Chief Mario Balzic, set in the fictional town of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania - a small coal mining town where most of the coal has run out. The NY Times called his books "The most poignant studies of post-Industrial Age depression in modern crime literature." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-906293057.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex and ambitious novel about a philosophy professor who finds himself slipping towards violence and madness, and flees to a rundown Pennsylvania farm, one reputed to be haunted. Illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. Illustrated endpapers. 590 pp. ISBN: 0-394-504682.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover first edition - A complex and ambitious novel about a philosophy professor who finds himself slipping towards violence and madness, and flees to a rundown Pennsylvania farm, one reputed to be haunted. Illustrated with photographs by Joel Gardner. Illustrated endpapers. 590 pp. ISBN: 0-394-504682.

New York: St Martin's, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel - when Meg Kleister inherits her great-aunt's house in rural Pennsylvania, she is glad to leave Chicago behind and to settle down in her new life - and then mysterious things begin happening - 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312185960.

New York: Picador, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1968 in the dying Irish-American community of Oakland Park, Pittsburgh. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-312-195400.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989.). Reprint of this unusual suspense novel, originally published in 1962. Set in a small town in Pennsylvania. it begins with an act of naive voyereurism and continues with a growing sense of danger to a chilling conclusion. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-2907.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of several generations of a German-American family who settled in Pennsylvania. 479 pp.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - The fourth in the Blackbird Sisters mysteries, set in Philadelphia. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-451-213955.

Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing Co., (1994) dj. Hardcover - The author's highly praised first novel, set in 1950s Pittsburgh. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 198 pp. ISBN: 1-882593073.

New York: Viking, 2000. First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in rural Pennsylvania. A study of the legacy of abuse on families and children. Uncommon advance issue preceding the first hardcover printing of this best-selling novel.

New York: Viking, 2000. dj. Hardcover - The author's highly praised first novel, set in rural Pennsylvania. A study of the legacy of abuse on families and children. ISBN: 0-670-894186.

New York: Doubleday, (1994.). First edition - His first novel, second book (his first book, a collection of short stories was winner of the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize ),winner of the Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for this novel. Set in Western Pennsylvania in 1974, this 'weaves together two haunting stories.' O'Nan was named one of America's young novelists by Granta Magazine. 305 pp.

Phoenix, AZ: Ambrosia Books, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fictionalized history of an interracial couple in Bucks County, PA, during the years from 1835-1865, a time of turmoil, abolitionist activity and the Civil War, written by a great grandniece. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Excerpts from contempary newspaper articles are included throughout. References, index. xviii, 462 pp. ISBN: 0-972751904.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1957, c. 1942). Hardcover - Bound in rust tweed boards with rust and white haunted house illustrated endpapers. lists to #29 in front of book. Frontispiece by Pelagie Doane. 249 pp

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c.1935.) dj. Hardcover - A Judy Bolton mystery, #8 in the series. "A weird cry leads Judy into danger." Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece by Pelagie Doane (not credited on title page.) Dust jacket flap lists through #15, list at back of book through #12. 215 pp.