Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth and last novel by this Kentucky-born author (who lived most of his life in New York City) to be published in his lifetime. Edmund White called this the "most penetrating novel we have ever had about black and whites in the United States. He has chosen to approach this subject through an examination of sexual obsession, thereby exposing racist hypocrisy.. . " Review copy with publisher's promotional sheet laid in. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-881500003.

New York: Otto Penzler Books - Macmillan, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, featuring Lewis Cole, a newcomer to seemingly placid Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, a journalist and part-time sleuth with some dark secrets of his own. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. Dust jacket by Marc Burckhardt. ISBN: 188340245x.

New York: Viking, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page by author. Second novel by this award winning poet; the story of a mother's fight to protect her child's way of being different. Set in Southern California. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-670-840475.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Estleman's third book, but his first novel in the Sherlock Holmes series. "The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passanger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard, but what can account for the captain's expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship's strange cargo -- fifty boxes of earth?" Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-385140517.

New York Morrow, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by the internationally acclaimed actor Rupert Everett, who has been in such films as Another Country, and The Comfort of Strangers. One English review described this as 'gallop[ing] through a life of dissipation with black humour and unabashed hedonism. Venturing from the Borders to Tangier, a confection of sexual confusion, cross-dressing and copious drug abuse litters every episode of the mal-de-siecle masquerade.' Illustrations by Frances Crichton Stuart. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-688-117864.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a prize winning collection of eight short stories "featuring young people, mostly girls, black or biracial, poor or from broken families, almost adults navigating a treacherous world." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Received the Art Seidenbaum Award of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the John C. Zachiris Award given by Ploughshares. Review copy with promotional material laid in. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-395713277.

New York: Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a noir novel set in the Los Angeles area, featuring Quinn, a disillusioned former investigative reporter. 285 pp. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. ISBN: 0-688-103146.

New York: Walker, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The crime novel featuring Ed Fitzgerald, a reporter for the New York "Daily Press," who becomes involved in investigating the murder of an out-of-work actor aboard a Hudson River cruise boat. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-802756093.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine interrelated stories which move back in forth in time to give us a picture of two generations of a Tennessee family. Cover praise from Robert Olen Butler, Peter Cameron and Annie Proulx who comments "These nine stories, spare and pellucid in style, sometimes wrenchingly painful in content, introduce a brilliant new American voice. These stories take up the contradictions of life where brutal situations are balanced by the blind and persistent human endurance that lets us continue to live." SIGNED on the title page. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-37540063X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of nine interrelated stories which move back in forth in time to give us a picture of two generations of a Tennessee family. Cover praise from Robert Olen Butler, Peter Cameron and Annie Proulx who comments "These nine stories, spare and pellucid in style, sometimes wrenchingly painful in content, introduce a brilliant new American voice. These stories take up the contradictions of life where brutal situations are balanced by the blind and persistent human endurance that lets us continue to live." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-37540063X.

Boston: Little Brown, (1974). Hardcover first edition - A book which collects five pieces: the title story - a novella - and four long stories. The title piece was the basis for a television film featuring Laurence Olivier. Review copy with a promotional photograph with pre-publication info laid in. The US edition preceded the UK edition. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316290939.

Boston: Little Brown, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set on the mean streets of Trenton, New Jersey and featuring Nick Magaracz, the "poor man's Sam Spade" who continues to work for the State of New Jersey because he needs the insurance benefits for his daughter's braces. Then a simple case of inheritance tax fraud takes a deadly turn. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-316302996.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Chicano author's second novel, set in modern Mexico City and among the Aztec ruins - it is the story of a Chicano-Irish archeologist who travels to Mexico to investigate the human ritual sacrifice of the 16th century Aztecs. ISBN: 0-671-864793.

New York: Marlowe and Company/ Avalon, (2007). SIGNED first edition - Illustrated by the author. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Notes, list of drawings, further reading, 240 pp plus final drawing. ISBN: 978-1569242926.

New York: Hyperion, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in New Orleans at the turn of the 21st century. 156 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-7868-60138.

New York: Pantheon, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's critically acclaimed debut novel, which was the surprise winner of the 2002 National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Richard Russo, John Casey and Michael Cunningham ('almost threatens to burst with all the life it contains... it's extraordinary.') Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-375421440.

New York: Pantheon, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning author (her first won the National Book Award) - told in alternating voices, this is the story of two sisters over 25 years. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0375422751.

New York: Pantheon, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Third novel by this award-winning author (her first won the National Book Award) - told in alternating voices, this is the story of two sisters over 25 years. SIGNED on the title page and dated May 2008 - that is, before publication. 289 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense, which builds in intensity as one friend investigates the brutal murder of his close friend, a barrister, and discovers the secrets hidden behind his life. Cover praise from A.N. Wilson, Evan Hunter, Wilfred Sheed and more. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0060125.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." Cover praise from Junot Diaz (who calls this a 'stupendous novel') and others. 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Hardcover first edition - His second novel - "a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center. Cinematic and intimate, heart rending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American Capitalism, a world at War, and the emerging mecca of the Hollywood Interest to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity." 559 pp. ISBN: 9780307270689.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fantasy novel by this award winning writer. In it, "Goldstein transports us into another world of gods and kings and poetmages, in which the god of summer has fallen in love with the human world and so chosen not to reascend into the heavens and permit the changing of the seasons. The long winter is upon the world." 287 pp. ISBN: 0-312856326.

New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.

New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on a bookplate on the front endpaper. Review copy with material laid in. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.

New York: Pageant Press, (1952). Hardcover first edition - A novel loosely based on the author's experiences in Germany after the first World War and his immigration to America in 1925. Partially written to show the circumstances in Germany which helped to lead to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. Review copy stamped on front endpaper with "publication date Feb 4, 1953" Uncommon. 207 pp.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (1997.). First edition - The first collection of poetry by this young African American writer from San Francisco. Cover praise from Diane di Prima. 67 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 1-880684225.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1996.). First edition - Second collection of poems by this highly praised young writer - the settings range from his native Columbia to western Pennsylvania and the streets of New York City. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-8229-55911.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by the author of The James Bond Trivia Quiz Book. A television scriptwriter becomes accidentally involved with Nazi-hunters and war criminals, the FBI, and a series of beautiful, mysterious, and dangerous women." Review copy with publisher's flyer laid in. 303 pp. ISBN: 1-556111231.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Review copy with publisher's material laid in. New novel by this Trinidad-born, African American writer - set in Harlem and Haiti in the 70's - Louise Meriweather called this "a bold book, sexually explosive..". ISBN: 0-525-247807.