New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

New York: Doubleday / Anchor, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In 1974, the author was a Peace Corps worker in Nepal and he was befriended by an elderly widow, Vishnu Maya, called Aama (Mother) by everyone in her tiny village, befriended the author when he was a Peace Corps worker in 1974. In 1988, she came to visit him in the United States, and together they traveled coast-to-coast, a voyage of rediscovery and an exploration of the beliefs and values that lie beneath the surface of America. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. xii, 299 pp plus a final photograph and a note on the author's previous book. ISBN: 0-385-474180.

New York: Riverhead Books (Penguin), (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A very personal memoir that explores the significance of the very old term acedia, or soul-weariness, or just unable to care - and explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Bibliography. 334 pp. ISBN: 9781594489969.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by the author of the enormously popular 'The Road Less Traveled.' "In this book, ... Peck offers us the hope of overcoming evil, not by destroying it--for evil is a form of life at the same time as it is anti-life-- but by summoning the courage to confront it in all its ugliness and heal it through the combined powers of scientific understanding and those of love and faith." 269 pp. ISBN: 0-671-454927.