New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth mystery featuring maverick lawyer Steve Winslow. SIGNED on the title page as both J. P. Hailey and Parnell Hall. Review copy with publisher's material and photograph laid in. 282 pp. ISBN: 1556113331.

New York: Viking, (1983, c 1982). dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-670-411140.

New York: Viking, (1983, c 1982). dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's first book to be published in the United States, this is a massive novel set in a tiny community of old people in outback Australia (Whitey's Fall, pop. 49.) 502 pp. ISBN: 0-670-411140.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the effects of lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people on the literary work of black men and women writers since 1853, from Charles Chesnutt to Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison and others. Notes, Bibliography and Index. 222 pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-253-319951.

New York: Doubleday, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller set amid the cultural and environmental wars rocking the Pacific Northwest - based on real events: the Celilo Falls on the Columbia River was at one time the largest falls west of the Mississippi and the site of one of the oldest human settlements in North America - until the dams were built on the river. Features Francine Smoholla a U.S. government marine biologist, fighting to save salmon threatened by the dams that supply Washington's hydroelectric power, but as a Chinook Indian, she finds herself torn between the colliding forces of technology and environmentalism. Author's note. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 362 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-385494254.

New York: Delacorte, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Michigan author's first book, a highly praised literary thriller, featuring a young doctor, a former addict who had beaten his habit and gotten a 2nd chance, and an old-time police detective whose gut instincts tell him that the doctor is responsible for the murders that have shattered this small Midwest city. SIGNED by Holden on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, including a letter of praise from James Ellroy. ISBN: 0-385-312075.

Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 29th and final volume in this powerful annual anthology series, which included poems from both young, new poets, and those well-established. This volume contains 77 poems by 69 poets including Ted Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Maxine Kumin, Derek Walcott, Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell, David Wagoner, Miller Williams, Linda Gregorson, Daryl Hine and many others. The awards for first through third place went to Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell and Dan Masterson. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-87015-2270.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second book, a collection of 10 short stories and one novella, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Short Fiction (Nadine Gordimer was the judge who selected this book.) 147 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-35678.

Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, (1965.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Nolan on the title page. Biography of the controversial and award-winning director, covering the entire span of his career. Illustrated with photographs. Two appendixes: The Projects of John Huston: Films and Plays 1931-1965, and A Huston Bibliography. 247 pp, Review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This is the first collection of Jackson's work in 30 years - includes both new stories, discovered in a Vermont barn years after her death, and uncollected stories, edited by her children, Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman Stewart. From the dj: "The fifty-four stories in this edition represent the great diversity of her work, from humor to shocking explorations of the human psyche. The tales range from the writings of her college days and residence in Greenwich Village in the early 1940s to the unforgettably powerful and chilling stories from the period just before her death in 1965." 388 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-553103032.

New York: Morrow, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A J. P. Beaumont mystery. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-688-12674X.

New York: Crown, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's satirical, chaotic and very funny 5th novel. From the dj flap: "staggering across the polluted swamp of what was once Longfellow's forest primeval comes the happy, singing all-American Slivenowica family ...Evangeline Slivenowica and her five children--from five different fathers--live together in a tiny trailer by the slightly impure waters of Lake Gitchee Gumee. At nineteen, Maud, the novel's heroine, is obsessed with sex, power, money, and how to get every single thing she wants.' Review copy with slip laid in. ISBN: 0-517-702983.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in the poverty stricken New England village of Granite. Review copy with author's photograph laid in. ISBN: 0-15-1983674.

New York: New American Library 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of love in the 1980's by the author of 'Fear of Flying' - Isadora Wing is back, and she is trying to have it all: career, baby and liberated love life. 405 pp. ISBN: 0-453-004660.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, a mystery introducing Inspector Nick Trevellyan and Alison Hope, owner of a computer software business, set in an English West country village. Review copy with author photograph and publisher's material 206 pp. ISBN: 0-684193876.

New York: Macmillan, 1994. First edition - Author's first book - a study of a year in the lives of the Skyline High basketball team in Oakland, CA - where basketball is not just a sport, but something that can provide focus in a world of violence - and sometimes a way out of that rough world. Highly praised.

New York: Scribner, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes detailed step by step instructions on "how to build a simple, sturdy, attractive home without going broke." Illustrated througout with diagrams, maps, drawings and photographs. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Appendices on selecting plywood, sample plans. Glossary, index. xii, 179 pp. ISBN: 0-684167670.

New York: Bantam, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, and his young wife, Mary Russell. A wonderful series, thoroughly enjoyable. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, 354 pp. ISBN: 9780553805543.

New York: Bantam, (2002.). SIGNED first edition - Sixth suspense novel featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. The Washington Post managed to sum up the appeal of this series in their review: 'The great marvel of King's series is that she's managed to preserve the integrity of Holmes's character and yet somehow conjure up a woman astute, edgy and compelling enough to be the partner of his mind as well as his heart.' Publisher's letter laid in. 331 pp. plus epilogue and afterword.

New York: Dutton, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's first novel, one which depicts a quiet Alabama suburban neighborhood disrupted by tragedy and murder. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-52594379X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Novel set in a Jewish immigrant community in Baltimore in the 1940s. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-679-408681.

New York: The Viking Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of murder, and of one day in the life of Nathan Stein, the son of a corrupt and powerful attorney. Dust jacket praise from Reynolds Price (who called it "as compelling, as it is, finally, astonishing"), Stewart O'Nan, Andrea Barrett, James McConkey (who said: "In its vivid and marvelously rendered account of a flawed and disoriented human being moving inexprably toward his destruction, Blood Acre, is reminiscent of Malcolm Lowry's brilliant, Under the Volcano. Driven, fevered and splendid.") and more. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670781819.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obsessed society." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-375406409.

New York: Random House, (1991.). First edition - The first novel - a very funny satire on Hollywood - by this Emmy award winning writer and producer. 296 pp. Publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-679-401520.

New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter - set in the world of computer match-making. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material and a photo laid in. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-553-077961.

New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Miami trial lawyer Jake Lassiter - set in the world of computer match-making. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-553-077961.

New York: Pocket Books, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised fourth novel, the story of the bond between a mother and her youngest daughter, who was born with Down's syndrome, and of the mother's unceasing fight for dignity for her daughter. Inspired in part by the story of his grandmother, Myrtle Jewel Jurvis Lott, and his aunt Brenda Kay and including some incidents drawn from their lives. ISBN: 0-671-740385.

New York: Harcourt, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight stories, including two stories -
"Fur" and "Her Slow and Steady" - which were selected for the Best American Short Stories in 1994 and 1997. In addition, she won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in 1990 for her first published short story. Born in Macao, she emigrated with her family from Hong Kong at the age of six and now lives in the US. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with a letter to another author dated in 2000 laid in. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-151005222.

New York: Random House, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A detailed examination of Resorts International's financial dealings and of the company's connections with Watergate and such figures as Bebe Rebozo and Robert Vesco draws on FBI Justice Department records." Review copy with author's photo laid in.Index. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394509781.