New York: Scribner, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The story of the program set up by Schwartz in the San Francisco prison system - RSVP - Resolve to Stop the Violence - which brings together violent offenders and their victims and gets the offenders to accept responsibility for their actions, in an attempt to break the cycle of recividism. SIGNED on the title page. 201 pp plus a list of resources.

New York: Scribner, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - The story of the program set up by Schwartz in the San Francisco prison system - RSVP - Resolve to Stop the Violence - which brings together violent offenders and their victims and gets the offenders to accept responsibility for their actions, in an attempt to break the cycle of recividism. INSCRIBED on the title page. 201 pp plus a list of resources.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young sculptor in San Francisco, who descends into a tailspin of mourning, and violent dangerous sex, after her older sister is murdered in a motel in a Sierra ghost town. Winner of the James Jone Literary Society Award for best first novel. Promotional postcard laid in. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855895.

New York: Random House, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Told in alternating voices, this is the story of three young women from very different backgrounds who meet, by chance, at the Forbidden City nightclub in San Franciso in 1938, in a city preparing for the World's Fair, and a world on the brink of war. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-0812992892.

New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the stories of four Japanese women, each from a different generation, who live together in a large house in San Francisco. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-476787.

New York: Putnam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-399-149171.

New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Fast-moving, entertaining, great characters and setting. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-553-801449.

New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Fast-moving, entertaining, great characters and setting. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-553-801449.

New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Fast-moving, entertaining, great characters and setting. SIGNED on the title page. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-553-801449.

New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Fast-moving, entertaining, great characters and setting. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication on the title page."For --- I'm glad you liked this story" with an arrow pointing to a window in the title page illustration and the notation "my office." 383 pp. ISBN: 0-553-801449.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Legal thriller featuring ex-priest, ex-public defender Mike Daley and his former wife, Rosie Gonsalez, who together run a criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Fast-moving, entertaining, great characters and setting. SIGNED on title page. 413 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149171.

New York: Delacorte, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery feauturing the septuagenarian nun and amateur sleuth, Sister Mary Helen. Set in San Francisco. INSCRIBED and dated on the front endpaper "To -- Happy reading! I hope you enjoy this mystery" . 277 pp. ISBN: 0-385-295065.

New York: Delacorte, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Sister Mary Helen mystery, San Francisco setting. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302266.

New York: Delacorte, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Sister Mary Helen mystery - she and two friends have returned to San Francisco from an OWL (Older Women's League) convention in New York City, when her friend Emma goes missing. A presentation copy, warmly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated Christmas, 1988, in the month of publication. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302266.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2012) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, set in a bookstore in San Francisco. George Saunders commented on his "bravado use of the real to sell us on a shadow world of the unreal and the speculative." The book ends with "I hope you will remember this.. . A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then the right book exactly, at exactly the right time." 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0374214913.

New York: Walker, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her uncommon second book, the second Rebecca Schwartz mystery, set in San Francisco. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-55895.

Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco - one which flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. Although this begins with the murder of Nick's brother, Joe, and his determination to get revenge, it is more about the secrets of the past than it is about the sins of the present. Finalist for the Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Blue endpapers. 168 pp. ISBN: 1-579620043.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso who has been hired to find the missing daughter of an old North Beach Italian family. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312324707.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a hard-boiled novel set in San Francisco and introducing Dante Mancuso who is leading a double life. He " works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind-rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312324677.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-0312364540.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this San Francisco writer, a story of the side of San Francisco that tourists aren't shown. When union official Quinn Dunaway's adopted eleven-year old daughter is beaten and raped by the ex-con boyfriend of his drug addict sister, and the police do nothing, he goes after the rapist himself. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0483360.

New York: Dutton, (1979.). First edition - True story of the manhunt following a brutal double murder of 2 off-duty policemen at a Harlem housing project - the shooting was by members of the Black Liberation Army and the search led from the underground in San Francisco to small towns in the South. Tanenbaum, now a sucessful mystery novelist, was then the young district attorney prosecuting the cases, and this is his first book.

New York: Popular Library, (1967.). First edition - Popular Library # 60-2244. Novel based on the television series of the same name starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside, a wheelchair-bound special consultant to the San Francisco Police Department. 144 pp. Photograph of Burr and other cast members on the front cover.

San Francisco: Russian Hill Press, (1998.). First edition - A rather uncommon and decidedly offbeat novel by the author of "The Holy Man" and others. Jenny only wants the simple things in life, but when her former lover takes a dive off the Golden Gate bridge and leaves her an ill-gotten million dollars, things get very complicated. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-9653524-12.

New York: Dutton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel set in San Francisco's Mission District, a study of the mix of race and culture in the US and also a gripping murder mystery. 343 pp,. ISBN: 0-525-940774.