Kennebunk, ME: Star Press, 1975. SIGNED first edition - Memories of life in Bowdoinham, Maine, from the city streets to the county roads to the first telephones - where the author lived from his birth in 1902 until 1925, although he notes that even though he lived many other places, he always remained in touch with Bowdoinham. Illustrated with many photographs. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication on the verso of the title page. 167 pp.

New York: Arbor House, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fitfh novel, sixth book, by this award-winning writer. A "coming-of-age story about Jack, a shiftless young man in a very odd family," set in the small town of Far Cry in the 1950s. SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp . ISBN: 0-877958157.

Topeka, Kansas: By the author, 1963. First edition - A collection of folksy poems which give an interesting glimpse into the life and times of the author - as he comments in the title poem "I've caused some people to complain/ by putting stories into rhyme...." The titles of a few of the poems will give an idea of the wide-ranging topics: Farmer Johnson Goes on Strike; Her Aviator Dad; Dr Wirt R. Bernard; Grandfather's Whiskers; On the Golf Course; Meridian vs Nortonville, and many more. Frontispiece portrait. SIGNED by the author on the verso of the title page. Uncommon, 110 pp plus 2 pp index.