New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, 2015. First edition - A "love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma BelascoÕs parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the familyÕs Japanese gardener." Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson. 322 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, (1993). First edition - The fourth novel by this Chilean writer. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 380 pp. Much less common than the trade edition which had a planned first printing of 100,000 copies.

New York: Putnam, (2004). First edition - A modern spy thriller, involving the CIA and an Al Queda prisoner. "In a remote safe house in the American Northeast, a terrorist is questioned, a psychiatrist is tested, and an assassin is dispatched..." 262 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.). First edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. 368 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.). First edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. Unlike most ARCs, this advance issue has a very different cover than the design used on the dust jackets of the trade edition. Author's letter to the reader. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2017. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of a Palestinian family forced first from their home in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and then from Kuwait in 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded it. A book which tells the story of those caught up in Mideast conflicts. 321 pp.

New York: Picador, (2008). A psychological thriller, originally published in 1995, this is the ARC for the Picador reissue in 2008. "In the middle of an important meeting, businessman Rick Hamilton has a terrible premonition: His wife is about to die. Racing to save her, he finds her lifeless body in the road, her car crushed by a truck. The light dwindles from his eyes . . . and then she is alive again, begging for help, and Rick Hamilton no longer is himself, but another man with another life, and a different history. Based on the 'many worlds' theory of quantum physics, which posits the existence of parallel universes, this is a suspenseful, mind-bending mystery that addresses our deepest questions about reality, death, identity, and the mind." 292 pp

New York: Doubleday, 2000. First edition - In a planned community in Maryland in 1973, two men and their families struggle with failing ideals, racism and the exodus from urban space to "shiny new suburbs."

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: MIRA, (2007). First edition - The first book in the Exmoor Saga series, set in 15th century England. "When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish. . . minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle." Author's note. 586 pp.

New York: North Point Press, (2002). First edition - First time author Robert Anasi writes a personal memoir of amateur boxing today - at the age of thirty-two, the last year of his eligibilty, he sets out to train for the Golden Gloves tournament. 238 pp.

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: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a story of the bonds formed by three women, and set on a "dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk." SIGNED on the title page.

New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. A rather uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. 677 pp.

New York: Random House, 1999. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a satiric and knowledgeable look at the world of the year 2000, which focuses on a "power couple" in Manhattan, with three kids in a private school, he is a TV producer and she owns a software start-up. . A New York Times Notable Book of the year, SIGNED on the title page. The earlier of two advance issues, quite uncommon advance issue, and especially so signed. Publisher's letter laid in. 677 pp.

New York: Grove Press, (2002). First edition - "Two weeks after September 11, Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to get into Afghanistan" Photographs. 201 pp.

New York: Viking, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the title page. 371 pp.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. SIGNED first edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer, about a young girl trying to deal with her own anger and fears and to combat the demons that are haunting her father. SIGNED on the half title page. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-0670012091.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). First edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993.). First edition - The author's first novel which "reinvents the spy thriller." 431 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The second thriller written under this pseudonym - one which "hearkens back to the classic Hitchcockian formula: an ordinary man finds himself faced with an inexplicable moral danger whose source he alone must root out." SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 406 pp.

New York: Mysterious Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The fourth thriller written under this pseudonym, set in the Hampton's - the summer playground for New York's big shots - where a local cop becomes involved in investigating the first suicide bomber in the US and a string of unexplained events. SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 371 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first thriller written by these two authors under this pseudonym - the story of an innocent man on the run, "embroiled in a conspiracy greater than he can imagine." SIGNED on the title page as Russell Andrews aka Peter Gethers. 435 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (1995). First edition - The second mystery featuring geologist Em Hansen (by an author who is herself a geologist.) Wonderful background setting in the oilfields of the West.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012). First edition - The 12th book in this series featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen - in this, Em and her new husband are rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, with a killer not far behind. 291 pp.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2007). First edition - A study of the works and influence of the young Romantic poets of the early 1800s - Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe, Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats - rebels who believed that poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language and whose words changed English literature forever. Illustrated. Notes, list of further reading. 262 pp.

New York: Schwartz & Wade Books (2008) dj. First edition - A poem first read by Maya Angelou at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony in 2005 - "it is Christmas time, a halting of hate time" - illustrated with beautiful full color illustrations, each spreading over a page and a half, by Johnson and Fancher. Oblong format. Unpaginated.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2012). First edition - Fourth novel by this award-winning author, one in which the lives, accomplishments and failures disconnect and reconnect among those who met at a wedding reception, one which was followed by the death of a young girl in an alchohol-fueled automobile accident. Scott Spencer comments that "this deceptively simple novel is both intimate and mysterious, frank and elusive - full of the stuff of life - love, lust, drugs, dogs, marriage, children.. . " Includes an interview with author, 269 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. First edition - An anthology from magazines in the US and Canada published in 1987. Introduction by Moore. Includes stories by T. C. Boyle, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Sherman Alexie, Jill McCorkle, Thomas McGuane, Edward P. Jones, Annie Proulx, Alice Munro, John Updike, John Edgar Wideman and more. Notes on the contributors, a listing of other distinguished stories, and information on the magazines. Series editor Katrina Kenison. xxii, 462 pp

New York: HarperPerennial, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 25 short stories, cartoons and illustrations centered around sex and politics. Contributors include Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Charlie Anders, Jami Attenberg, Nick Flynn, James Frey, Avital Gad-Cykman, Daphne Gottlieb, Liz Henry, Keith Knight, Tsaurah Litzky, Lydia Millet, Mistress Morgana, Rick Moody, Vanessa Norton, Susan O'Doherty, Eric Orner, Peter Orner, Michelle Richmond, Jerry Stahl, Anthony Swofford, Michelle Tea, and Alison Tyle. SIGNED by THREE authors: by the editor Stephen Elliott on the title page, and signed by Lydia Millet at her story "Desert Shield" and by Charlie Jane Anders at "Transfixed, Helpless and Out of Control." Illustrated. Notes on contributors. xiii, 270 pp