New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Russian author's first novel to appear in English - one which takes the term "kangaroo trial" to extremes - set in 1949, this is a savage satire confronting the hypocrisy and cruelty of the Stalinist regime. Translated by Tamara Glenny. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-374180687.

New York: Harmony, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - Critically aclaimed and savagely satiric tale of a failed novelist, who wants to hurt his best friend because he is successful in all the things Richard is failing at. Ironically, considering the theme of the book, Amis caused a storm of controversy when he demanded a large advance for this novel. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960) dj. Hardcover - "The Warfare of Celebrity with Aristocracy in America - From the "First Families" to the "Four Hundred" to "Publi-ciety." One of several satirical books written by this popular columnist poking fun at the pretensions of society, starting with 'The Proper Bostonians' in 1947 (the city where he had grown up). Illustrated with photographs. Preceded by a list of the "Four Hundred." Index. 599 pp plus a 6 pp list of Coats-of-Arms.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's second book, a satire of adultery, real estate, religion and intrigue in suburban Boston. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, a satire of adultery, real estate, religion and intrigue in suburban Boston. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-374152144.

New York: Dial Press, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novella "grounded in a very slim conceit. Of two brothers born into a trendy Cambridge, Massachusetts, household, one twin is set for success, the other for chronic failure. Although ill-fated William actually beat Clive into the world by seven minutes, it's straight downhill from there." Author Thomas Mallon comments that "His witty, sorrowful hero speaks in a voice that snares the listener as fully as Salinger's Seymour Glass once did. An Underachiever's Diary - the cleverest literary monologue in a long while - is in fact an extremely precocious debut." SIGNED on the title page. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-385319983.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987). First edition - The author's fourth book - "a mock-epic fantasy and satire of entrepreneurial capitalism and popular culture" pitting Howard Johnson against Walt Disney, fighting over the same piece of land in Orlando, Florida, as the site for their versions of the American dream -land owned by Marjorie Post Merriweather, the cereal heiress. 308 pp.

New York: Viking, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An allegorical satire, this is the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute Arenas's Pentagonia Quintet. It paints a Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer, it follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers, sexual deviants, and dissidents of every sort - until memory has been banished and spoken language has been nearly forgotten. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Published posthumously. 145 pp. ISBN: 0-670840661.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First edition - Kate Telman is a 3rd level senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation, predating the Christian Church, with a base in the Antarctica, fortified headquarters in Switzerland, and plans to buy its own country. 393 pp

New York: Scribners, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A standalone novel by this British master of crime fiction. A member of Parliament has supposedly committed suicide by throwing himself into the Thames. Or has he? The police are not sure, so Superintendent Sutcliffe, on the verge of retirement, uses his accumulated leave to check into it. A satirical look at British politics and the furor engendered when there is a by-election to fill an unexpectedly vacant seat. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-68418625X.

London: Collins, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by this British master of crime fiction. A member of Parliament has supposedly committed suicide by throwing himself into the Thames. Or has he? The police are not sure, so Superintendent Sutcliffe, on the verge of retirement, uses his accumulated leave to check into it. A satirical look at British politics and the furor engendered when there is a by-election to fill an unexpectedly vacant seat. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-00231441x.

New York: Picador, (1997). First novel by this African American poet - a funny and moving satire on issues of race, life in Los Angeles, and the coming of age story of Gunnar Kaufman, who is not typical in any way. Praise from such writers as Walter Mosley, Clarence Major and Jessica Hagedorn. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-28019X.

Chicago: Conkey and Co., nd. (ca 1910). Hardcover - Benson's first novel, a satirical look at society. 192 pp.

New York: The Literary Guild, (1933) dj. Hardcover - A humorous novel about a meek American who goes to France and becomes part of an international incident. It begins "For three days I have been a political prisoner in the Sante Prison. All Paris is in uproar. The newspapers denounce me . . . But in spite of everything I cling tenaciously to two facts: I am Henry Jones from Windfall, Georgia, and that I came to France to write a cook book. A two-color frontispiece drawing by the cartoonist Otto Soglow, and three-color cartoon illustrations on the endpapers. 257 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's 2nd novel (fifth book), a satire on academia, the liberal arts and those who teach writing, published as Bradbury himself was finishing a year teaching in the United States. In this fictional version, a provincial British writer, barely eking out a livelihood, is offered the appointment of Creative Literary Fellow at Benedict Arnold University in the American heartland. 390 pp.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, described as a "withering Silicon Valley satire." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 401 pp. ISBN: 978-0385524018.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, described as a "withering Silicon Valley satire." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 401 pp. ISBN: 9780385524018.

New York: Twelve/ Warner, (2007). Hardcover first edition - A satirical suggestion for solving the problems of social security and more by this author who has been described as "the quintessential political novelist of his time" (according to Fortune magazine) winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and as "one of the funniest writers in the English language." (Tom Wolfe). A popular blogger proposes that the government provide incentives for the Baby Boomers - everyone over 75 - to commit suicide. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0446579810.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover - A fable about the modern condition told in just a few words, and simple drawings. Small square format.100 pp. ISBN: 1563521288.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, the story of a chemist working in the secretive food industry where flavors are developed, who notices disturbing side effects in the animals used to test one sweetener, but fails to blow the whistle - only to see the same side effects in his family years later. "The energetic mixture of laughter and revulsion, outrage and dismay, fact and fiction, skewer a food industry that provides neither food nor sustenance and damages us in ways we are just beginning to fathom." (Library Journal) 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0316278751.

New York: Dutton, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd humorous novel written under this pseudonym ("of a respectable professor of pharmacology and a cat-fancier") - the chronicles of a bumbling professor to a post-war England. 320 pp.

New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Tells the extraordinary story of the Thirteen who vanished when the luxury motor-yacht Hiyathere disappeared off Long Island on the eve of Pearl Harbor; of the long, lonely battle of the 'Fourteenth', Horatio Josiah De Alfonce Adams IV, to save the game now known as De Alfonce Tennis for posterity." Glossary, 219 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-525-243240.

New York: Viking, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - His seventh and last published novel, a "farcical look at the events leading up to the Revolutionary War as experienced by an oddball group of journalists working for the New Boston Times newspaper. The book pokes fun at both British and American icons and institutions, past and present, and was intended by Eastlake to have been released in time for the Bicentennial, though Viking did not publish it until the following year." (thefreelibrary) 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670438529.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - The author's second novel - a love story filled with humor featuring a violinist embittered by a truly horrific gig. . Kirkus Review called it a novel of "bite and raging intellect . . from a mean and lean fabulist." 198 pp.