New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this very accomplished writer, set in a small town in the hills south of San Francisco, and focusing on a group of friends who suddenly discover that they are getting older. Although Adams was born in Virginia, as a writer she lived in San Francisco and knows the area well. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394568249.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this very accomplished writer, set in a small town in the hills south of San Francisco, and focusing on a group of friends who suddenly discover that they are getting older. Although Adams was born in Virginia, as a writer she lived in San Francisco and knows the area well. SIGNED on the title page. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394568249.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this award winning poet, a follow up to her National Book Award finalist 'Little Beauties.' The story of a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the streets of late 1990s San Francisco. Cover praise from Andre Dubois III who calls this 'one of the finest American novels I've read in some time. A night blooming flower you will not be able to put down.' SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-97725.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of three generations of women in an old San Francisco family which has been declining in wealth over the years - and how they, untrained in financial affairs as they were, managed to come to grips with the new world they found themselves in. One of her Calilifornia novels, set "in the present." 302 pp. Dust jacket art by E. H. Suydam.

New York: Birch Lane, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring San Francisco private eye Jeremiah St. John and his cohorts, Mickey, an ex-policewoman, and Chief Moses, a 'larger than life Seminole Indian.' 208 pp.

New York: Lyle Stuart / Carol Communications, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring San Francisco private eye Jeremiah St. John and his cohorts, Mickey, an ex-policewoman, and Chief Moses, a 'larger than life Seminole Indian.' 208 pp. ISBN: 0-818404914.

New York: Henry Holt, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story for older children - "For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles)." SIGNED on the title page and dated in April 2015, before publication. Illustrations by Sarah Watts. Author's notes.

New York: Walker, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third book in this series of Western adventure novels. "Pursuing his old nemesis, Forrest Twead, Dolf Morgette leaves Alaska for the unsavory Barbary Coast of California, where he is hired by the powerful, wealthy Will Alexander as security chief." 178 pp. ISBN: 0-802740332.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in San Francisco - Kirkus Reviews called this a "asubtly shaded (and sometimes opaque) tale that flickers between illusion and reality, psychological and occult terror: Did Stratton Fields sell his soul for power--or are the deaths of his enemies and the triumph of his career due not to infernal intervention but to his own homicidal madness?" SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-881849308.

Madison, WI: Bleak House Books / Big Earth Publishing, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Noir mystery set in San Francisco featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp. Map of Chinatown on back cover of dust jacket. ISBN: 978-1932557534.

Lutz, FL: Down & Out Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED - The seventh mystery in this noir series featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan, who has returned to San Francisco to avenge the death of a friend and former partner, but finds himself caught up in a string of murders involving a previously unknown manuscript purportedly by the beat writer Jack Kerouac. INSCRIBED on the title page. 265 pp. plus ads. ISBN: 978-1932557534.

Madison, WI: Bleak House Books / Big Earth Publishing, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Noir mystery set in San Francisco featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-1932557169.

Madison, WI: Bleak House Books / Big Earth Publishing, (2007). SIGNED - Noir mystery set in San Francisco featuring jazz bass-playing private investigator August Riordan. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. Illustrated with photographs at the beginning of each chapter. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1932557541.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Screenwriter's first novel, a mystery set in San Francisco, and introducing Private Investigator Frank Fagen, a long haired former cop best known for his unconventional methods. SIGNED on the title page, and dated in the month of publication. . ISBN: 0-312-097565.

New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Screenwriter's first novel, a mystery set in San Francisco, and introducing Private Investigator Frank Fagen, a long haired former cop best known for his unconventional methods. SIGNED on the title page. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-312-097565.

New York: Doubleday, (1995). First edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-385-475497.

New York: Doubleday, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in a wonderful series of historical mysteries, set in 1905 turn-of-century San Francisco. Introduces us to Fremont Jones, who has come West to embark on a career as an independent "type-writer" but who winds up involved in sleuthing, something a properly brought up young Bostonian should never do. Winner of the Macavity award for best first novel. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-385-475497.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2002). First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young girl's descent into the murkier levels of the sex-trade industry in San Francisco, only to find an unlikely refuge in a commune of ecoterrorists in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Issued as a trade paperback original. 245 pp.

Los Angeles: Vireo Book/ Rare Bird Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A book which "takes on the absurdity of publishing, narrated through the lens of a young woman working as a junior editor at a San Francisco publishing house." SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-1947856318.

Los Angeles: Vireo Book/ Rare Bird Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - A book which "takes on the absurdity of publishing, narrated through the lens of a young woman working as a junior editor at a San Francisco publishing house." INSCRIBED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 978-1947856318.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A novel of "love and loss, confronting our fears, and moving on . . . with the help of a poodle, a mutt, and a Basset retriever named Seymour." Issued as a trade paperback original. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is before publication. 260 pp.

Duluth: Spinsters Ink, (1993). Novel introducing Tyler Jones, feminist, lesbian, writer and amateur sleuth. When she finds the body of a man in the park while walking her dog - and it turns out to be a seemingly respectable doctor, but a person she knew as abusive and sadistic to her family, suspicion falls on her. With the police apparently stymied, she gets involved in the investigation. Set in San Francisco. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-9332160920.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. dj. Hardcover first edition - Early novel by Gann, a thriller of sorts - or a morality tale - which recounts the events of one day at the police headquarters in San Francisco. 288 pp.

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the very first scene, with Hutch (for whom life was supposed to be a festival) meeting his brother, a cab driver with a degree in literature, at Enrico's on Broadway in the North Beach, it is obvious that this is a novel which perfectly captures not only San Francisco, but Americans in general. ISBN: 1-55611-0715.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' Set in San Francisco. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5924.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' Set in San Francisco. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-5924.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by one of the masters of the private eye genre (and a former PI himself): "Neil Fargo was a hard-nosed private investigator with a business on the side - heroin." 216 pp. ISBN: 0-87131-1462.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' Set in San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page and with a long inscription on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens in which Gores says "Don't even try to read this" as he explains why it is so full of typos - he ends with the comment "On readers such as you are writing careers built." Dated in 1998. 309 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - The 4th DKA File novel - like Ed McBain, Gores uses an entire team of sleuths - the investigators of the Daniel Kearny Associates - in his gritty realistic novels. One review described the 'private-eye procedural as Gores' specialty, maybe his invention.' SIGNED on the title page and with a long inscription on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens in which Gores describes the progress on getting this produced as a movie. Dated in 1998. Nominated for the Edgar Award. 337 pp.