1908. First edition - Includes a foreword by John Winslow, a brief history of King Philip's War and of Michael Pierce of Scituate by Edwin C. Pierce, a poem by Hezekiah Butterworth and a list of the slain members of the Plymouth Colony Company. Glossy frontispiece. 41 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in her award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy - now Molly Sullivan. She and her husband, Daniel, a captain in the New York police force, have been invited to spend their honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0312628109.

New York: St Martin's, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in her award winning series set in early 20th century New York and featuring the spunky recent Irish immigrant Molly Murphy - now Molly Sullivan. She and her husband, Daniel, a captain in the New York police force, have been invited to spend their honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0312628109.

Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the Urban Collaborative in Providence, Rhode Island - an independent, public middle school founded in 1989. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-435-081403.

New York: Avon, 1990. Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. Map. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-380-711044.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover - Winner of the National Book Award - Novel set in coastal Rhode Island, where Dick Pierce, a struggling fisherman is determined to finish building his boat, his 'Spartina,' despite the costs to his family and himself. 375 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-500989.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First suspense novel by this author, introducing Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, Winner of Edgar Award for best first novel. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a brief introduction in which he describes how he came to write this. 302 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Inspired by a true story. SIGNED on the title page. 351 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second suspense novel featuring Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island (the first in the series won the Edgar) 317 pp. ISBN: 9780765374295.

Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A historical narrative of the slave trade as it was conducted between the early 1500s and 1859, a trade which continued even after it was prohibited by law. Among the topics covered are The Guinea Coast; Sir John Hawkins, Slave Trader; the Voyage of the Ship Hannibal of London, 1693; The Slaving Voyage of the Albio-Frigate of London; The Liverpool and Bristol Slavers; Mutinies aboard Slave Ships in the early days; Captain Crow, the Last Slaver out of Liverpool; Slaving Voyages by Rhode Island Vessels and more. Publication Number 15 of the Marine Research Society. 50 black and white illustrations and maps, index. xxxv, 349 pp plus a 1 pp. list of their publications.

Providence, RI: 2005. Collection of poetry. Unpaginated.

Providence, RI: 2005. Includes a prose memoir-trilogy and a section of poetry called "Midwest Elegies" by this Minneapolis born poet. Unpaginated.

Providence, RI: 2005. Collection of poetry. Unpaginated.

Providence, RI: 2005. Collection of poetry. Unpaginated.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her sixth novel, set in a decaying mill town, and exploring the complex relationships between sisters. INSCRIBED on the title page "For ... with warmest wishes." 275 pp. ISBN: 0-385-47279x.

New York: Brentano's, (1930). Hardcover - Although Anne Hutchinson, who immigrated to Boston in 1634 with her husband and eleven children became known for her weekly religious meetings, her relationship with the local ministers soon became acrimonious - and in 1637, she was tried, convicted and banished from the colony, as a heretic, an instrument of the devil, and a danger to all. The group was initially welcomed by Roger Williams into what became Rhode Island. Despite the condemnation of the ministers at the time, she is now considered an important figure in the history of religious freedom in the colonies - and of women speaking truth to power. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four internal plates. Bibliography, index. 320 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.

New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second book, the story of a young man growing up in a family who worked fishing boats of the coast of New England for generations and who has the lure of the sea in his blood, despite the brutality and treacherousness of this life. INSCRIBED on the half title page to noted collector Larry Owens. Winner of the Encore Prize in England. Watkins spent several seasons working on trawlers himself. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-509599.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in an epic new crime trilogy, set in New England in the 1980s and focusing on Danny Ryan, and themes of family, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal amongst the Irish and Italian mobsters who have until now co-existed peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island. A contemporary retelling of the Iliad. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0062851192.

New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. ISBN: 0-670804614.