New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - A combination of satire, black comedy and science fiction. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1909199.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Was God truly dead as the nihilists and The New York Times believes?" Abaddon is another name for Hell, and god-hunting is not a sport for amateurs. Sequel to Morrow's award winning "Towing Jehovah." NIcely INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens, Laid in is a promotional postcard with a handwritten note from Morrow SIGNED "Jim." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1886563.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1996) dj. Hardcover - "Was God truly dead as the nihilists and The New York Times believes?" Abaddon is another name for Hell, and god-hunting is not a sport for amateurs. Sequel to Morrow's award winning "Towing Jehovah." 404 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1886563.

New York: Ecco Press (Harper Collins), (2008.). First edition - A dark, satirical story inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery - the murder of a 6 year old girl, as told by the 19 year-old "survivor" of a family torn apart by intense media scrutiny. 562 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumously published novel by this young playwright who was murdered in 1967 at the age of 34. "Head to Toe is like a modernized 'Alice in Wonderland' - but for adults.Proceeding with the fantastic but implacable logic of a dream, peopled by comic and dangerous grotesques, and primed with the twin charges of satire and eroticism, [this] is a tour-de-force from a brilliant writer." Originally published in England in 1971. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-312-007183.

New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumously published novel by this young playwright who was murdered in 1967 at the age of 34. "Head to Toe is like a modernized 'Alice in Wonderland' - but for adults.Proceeding with the fantastic but implacable logic of a dream, peopled by comic and dangerous grotesques, and primed with the twin charges of satire and eroticism, [this] is a tour-de-force from a brilliant writer." Originally published in England in 1971. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-312-007183.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A wickedly funny vision of modern family life whose humor gets blacker with each succeeding page, Krippendorf's Tribe is the first novel of a writer with a rare gift for comedy." Basis for the movie starring Richard Dreyfuss. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-689116519.

New York: Avon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's third novel - a "provocative satire about art, race, murder, and the culture of subsidized culture." Set in Minneapolis. ISBN: 0-380-976781.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First edition - The first novel (preceded by books of short stories) by this award-winning Russian fabulist, the story of a young man who has dreamed of space flight since he was a boy, who enrolls as a cosmonaut, a devasting satire of the Soviet space program. George Saunders comments that "Pelevin is a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human, our petty squabbles, haff-assed inventions and, above all, our corruptible dreams." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 139 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning "dark-comic Russian fabulist." One review commented that his work "may be grounded in the grubby realities of contemporary Russia, but the food shortages, decaying apartment blocks, and political chaos serve him as a kind of naturalistic springboard from which he launches into one antic leap after another." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-811213943.

New York: Viking, (2002). Hardcover first edition - After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it is now primed and ready for exploitation. Tartarsky, a lowly shop assistant hired as a copywriter demonstrates a knack for concocting home-grown alternatives to Western ads, and winds up plunged into a realm of gangsters, spin doctors, and drug dealers where reality slowly begins to dissolve. Translated fro the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. In 1988 Pelevin was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best European writers under thirty-five. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-67003066X.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). First edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. With a planned first printing of 75,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. 388 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. The limited edition issued by the trade publisher - #13 out of 250 numbered copies signed by Percy on the limitation page. 372 pp.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this journalist and explorer, who was involved in several Amazon expeditions - the story of a young attorney who decides to take some time off to explore the world, but when he wanders into the Amazon jungle and gets lost, he finds himself "shanghaied by evil botanist and the unwitting guest of a series of Indian tribes." 194 pp. ISBN: 0-916515214.

Boston: Little Brown, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first American publication of this early comic novel by Powell (originally published in 1939, and preceding his "The Music of Time" series.) Upon publication in England this novel received enthusiastic reviews - from Punch: "His dry, detached irony, his inspired reporting of detail and dialogue, his wit and his ability to suggest character and his complete avoidance of padding all show to great advantage in this story of a travel book writer whom nobody knew and everybody wondered about.".236 pp.

London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The demise of the provost of Lancaster sets off a chain of disgraceful doings. A novel set in the world of Academe which is one of scurrilous intrigue, plagued by incompetence, senility, fanaticism, atrophy and casual lust - though nevertheless 'a decent kind of place'." 197 pp. ISBN: 0-091738393.

London: Muller, Blond and White, Ltd, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel in this saga by this English novelist, essayist, and dramatist, who was also controversial amusing and offensive - a series whose theme is "the purposes, beliefs and ways of life of the growing young as observed, encouraged or deplored by their elders." Written primarily for money (Raven was for many year's on Blood's payroll), in these he also had "fun killing off many of the survivors from the earlier sequence, usually in absurd and/or humiliating circumstances." 250 pp. Wraparound dust jacket painting by Lawrence Toynbee. ISBN: 0-856341762.

London: Muller, Blond and White, Ltd, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in this saga by this English novelist, essayist, and dramatist, who was also controversial amusing and offensive - a series whose theme is "the purposes, beliefs and ways of life of the growing young as observed, encouraged or deplored by their elders." Written primarily for money (Raven was for many year's on Blood's payroll), in these he also had "fun killing off many of the survivors from the earlier sequence, usually in absurd and/or humiliating circumstances." 250 pp. Wraparound dust jacket painting by Lawrence Toynbee. ISBN: 0-58431177x.

Emmaus, Pa., and London: Miniature Books / Rodale Books, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long satirical- and mischievous - poem originally published in the seventeenth century which lists the shortcomings of men and warns women against them. Translated from the French by Roland Gant with a translator's note. Delightful color illustrations by Clauss. A title in the the publisher's Miniature Books series. 30 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." SIGNED on the title page with the words "To Freedom!" 258 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2008.). First edition - The author's first novel - "a wicked satire about politics, office life, the fashion world, NPR, celebrity, Hollywood, superheroes, villains, and much more." 258 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his powerful novel 'Blindness.' A satire on government by this Nobel Prize winning author. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jill Costa. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1012385.

New York: Grove Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - "After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, cure him of his illusion that he's human?" SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 404 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A "perfect comic novel about art, life and sex in a literary hamlet in the Hamptons" in which two rivals race to be the first to write the perfect comic novel about art, life and sex in a literary hamlet in the Hamptons, as they also struggle to ready the writers' softball team for a match against a movie crew. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-39455874x.

New York: Warner, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a satire set in the near future: It's dawn in the Blue Mountains on Jan 20, 2001 and a new president is about to be sworn into office. . 404 pp. ISBN: 0-446-518085.