New York: Random House, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a collection of short stories), the story of a family who return to the their crumbling family estate on the eastern shore of Maryland on the eve of World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-67945200.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Michael S. Duke - the first book by this author to be published in English. The title novella was the basis for the award winning movies of the same name. The additional novellas are Nineteen Thirty-four Escapes and Opium Family. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-688-122175.

New York: Crown, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's second novel, set in the small Midwestern town of Halley's Landing, where the residents have celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation since the 1800's.. An excerpt from this book won an award from the Illinois Literary Council. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-517-705893.

Chappaqua, NY: Turtle Point Press, (2000.). First edition - A collection of poems that focus on the mass popular culture - from Chatty Cathy to Garbo to Monster Mash and AIDS - with praise from Bernard Cooper, Alice Notley, and others. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Notes. 101 pp. ISBN: 1885983468.

Chappaqua, NY: Turtle Point Press, (2000.). First edition - A collection of poems that focus on the mass popular culture - from Chatty Cathy to Garbo to Monster Mash and AIDS - with praise from Bernard Cooper, Alice Notley, and others. Notes. 101 pp. ISBN: 1-885983468.

New York: Linden Press / Simon & Schuster, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the small town of Fallsview, NY, a town seemingly like others within a few hours of the city - until an arsonist set about burning down the whole town - the houses and businesses - and the town's terrified citizens, under the strain of increasing suspense and horror, begin to view even their oldest friends and neighbors as enemies. 250 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter and slip laid in. ISBN: 0-671254596.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Indiana in the 60's, this is the story of a family's disintegration as the father descends into madness, the mother tries to escape, and the child focuses on survival in her increasingly bleak and harsh world. Vice's own life - a runaway at 16, an unwed mother on welfare at 18, a summa cum laude graduate of Hunter College at 33 - is an example of overcoming adversity. Review copy with publisher's material laid in, including a sheet in which Vice talks about her life and writing this book. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-552-93863-x.

Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1988. First edition - His second book of poetry, with comments on the back cover from John Ashbery and Gerald Stern. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-8203-09966.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, an environental and political thriller, set in a deceptively stable nation of Terre Diamantee, a former Belgian colony in West Africa, and using the author's experience as US Foreign Service officer in the Ivory Coast to make the background realistic. . Dvaid Trowbridge, an American field biologist is trying to track the elusive leopard in the rain forest - but then three murders occur at the forest station--and he is ambushed also. Review copy with publisher's material, author's photo laid in. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-679447024.

New York: Random House, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning writer set in 1950s Wisconsin. "Ned Weaver, an internationally acclaimed painter, is famous in Door County, Wisconsin, for his luminous work - and for his affairs with his models. His wife, Harriet, has learned to accept these dalliances in the belief that his immense talent will ultimately make up for his shortcomings as a husband. Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she married Henry House, only to find herself defined, like so many other mid-twentieth-century women, by her roles as wife and mother." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with promotional material laid in, 241 pp. ISBN: 0-37580523x.

New York: Random House, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this award-winning writer - a novel which tells the story of Elaine Collier, an antiques restorer, who is hired by a wealthy man to eradicate from the family possessions all traces of his son's existence - a son who was killed in the Vietnam War - and in doing so, she has to confront her own and her mother's past. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens "a truly rare book" and with a brief handwritten note laid in and signed simply "Walter." Review copy with publisher's material. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-394516621.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects eleven stories written throughout her career from the 1904 "The Ladies' Maid" to "All Souls" in 1937. Includes a preface by Wharton in which she comments that the teller of supernatural tales should be "well-frightened in the telling." Also includes two previously unpublished pages from her autobiography in which she talks about her childhood fears. Each story is illustrated by a full page drawing by Laszlo Kubinyi. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-684148293.

Norwich VT: New Victoria Publishers, (1991). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman who leaves her home in Wyoming who is literally down and out in San Franciso, when she is taken in by an older woman. A story of coming to grips with her sexuality, of learning independence and of love. 216 pp. Review copy stamped on first page. ISBN: 0-934678286.

New York: Pantheon, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - National Book Award finalist - a meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time and language.' Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Reid Bennett mystery, set in Toronto, Canada. 212 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-684183307.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning Mississippi writer's first book, a collection of eleven short stories. Dustjacket praise from James Lee Burke, Lewis Nordan, Larry Brown and others. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-1619X.