New York: Harper Collins, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A highly personal and charmingly idiosvncratic look at the intertwined sensual arts of food and love. Blending personal reminiscence with folklore from around the world, historical legends, and memorable moments from literature - erotic and otherwise - Allende spices her narrative with equal portions of humor and insight." Includes a section of wonderful recipes at the end of the book by Panchita Llona. Illustrated throughout in full color with photographs of paintings and drawings by Robert Shekter (the illustrations vary from full page to small vignettes.) Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 315 pp plus 2 pp of art credits. ISBN: 0-06-0175907.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The explosive book, about the passions and compassions of women, that resulted in the controversial trial, and became an international sensation." When this book was published in Portugal 1972, its three authors were arrested and the books were seized as "outrage to public decency." After the charges were dropped in 1974, this has become an important part of the fight for women's rights. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. Includes a translator's preface, authors' afterword and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-385-018533.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The explosive book, about the passions and compassions of women, that resulted in the controversial trial, and became an international sensation." When this book was published in Portugal 1972, its three authors were arrested and the books were seized as "outrage to public decency." After the charges were dropped in 1974, this has become an important part of the fight for women's rights. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. Includes a translator's preface, authors' afterword and notes. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-385-018533.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A fascinating, fictional rendering of what life might have been like doing research for infamous sex professor Alfred Kinsey." 418 pp. ISBN: 0-14-303586x.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical study based on original documents about the investigation in 1619 to 1623 and the subsequent trial of "Sister Benedetta Carlini of Vellano, abbess of the Theatine nuns of Pescia [near Florence, Italy], who pretended to be a mystic but was discovered to be a woman on ill repute." A title in the Studies in the History of Sexuality series. Includes an appendix with translations of the original documents, notes, index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-195036751.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A largely rewritten work, originally published in 1894 and now brought up to date, by this English physician, writer, and social reformer who was a pioneer in the study of human sexuality. Index. vii, 495 pp.

San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - A boy, fleeing a bullying classmate, inadvertently makes first contact with a race of aliens who live beneath the surface of his planet. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 1892391384.

New York: Putnam, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of interviews and insights of women from different backgrounds - discusses feminism, professional, self-fulfillment and sexual liberation and the definition of each to these women. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-399-12859.

New York: Norton, (1969._ dj. Hardcover - The psychotherapist's landmark study on modern love and sex. An important and influential book. Notes, index, 351 pp. ISBN: 0-393-010805.

Santa Cruz, CA: HerBooks, (1986). First edition - Writing as a child of two Holocaust survivors, this is an essay which poses several questions, and suggests that for lesbians to reproduce the power dynamic, humiliation and abuse that characterized the camps triviliazes the experiences that Jews and lesbians suffered in the Holocaust. Illustrated with two photographs. Brief bibliography. Laid in a photocopy from Matrix which includes most of the text of this work. 25 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001.). First edition - His first novel - and the first book in his highly praised trilogy on what it means to be gay and young in America. 245 pp including 10 pp of information re resources for gay teenagers.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Argentina, in the time of the generals, this is both a suspense novel and a love story. Richard Garay is enabled by Falklands War to discard the "Britishness "he inherited from his mother and to take chances, both sexual and professional. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-52119.