Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A detailed study of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, one which examines the decades leading up to the catastrophic event and the city's recovery from it. In their zeal to rebuild, leaders of the city downplayed the risks and took actions which increased the danger going forward. A book which combines urban environmental history and disaster studies and shows how the crisis and subsequent rebuilding reflect the interplay of natural and human influences that have shaped San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. A title in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, index. xvii, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0295742465.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's captivating 6th novel, a tale of "art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space." 255 pp. ISBN: 978-0593321447.

New York: Ace Books, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A cutting edge techno-thriller set in what was the near future when this was written: 'In the year 2015, an artificial virus is accidentally unleashed upon the public. Death is rapid and appalling. Survival is unlikely.' The author only missed the pandemic by 5 years! 315 pp. ISBN: 0-441-002463.

New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth medieval mystery in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer. It is 1369, and Queen Phillippa lies dying at Windsor, and in the city of York the harvest has failed and plague has returned. Author's note, bibliography. 304 pp. ISBN: 0312-169833.

New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth medieval mystery in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer. It is 1369, and Queen Phillippa lies dying at Windsor, and in the city of York the harvest has failed and plague has returned. Author's note, bibliography. 304 pp. ISBN: 0312-169833.

London: William Heinemann, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth medieval mystery in this series featuring the one-eyed spy, Owen Archer. It is 1369, and Queen Phillippa lies dying at Windsor, and in the city of York the harvest has failed and plague has returned. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note, brief bibliography. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-434002933.