Toronto: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories, SIGNED on the title page. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-394221001.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.

New York: The Viking Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth collection of poems by this California poet - cover praise from Kenneth Rexroth who comments on the 'illuminating clarity' of her work. 60 pp.

New York: Persea Books, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a story of the single life as lived by a woman originally from Boston but now a librarian in Texas. Comments by Frederick Barthelme, Beverly Lowry and Rosellen Brown on back cover: (who mentioned "her dazzled, vulnerable, and knowing voice.") SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1993. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-89255-178x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this often overlooked writer. Although referred to as a regionalist, she said she wrote about "people, situations, and their meaning." Her fiction was often set in Iowa, but she had traveled widely herself and she was not parochial in outlook. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1933. 277 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. In 1983, Tremain was one of 20 writers chosen as the "Best of Young British Novelists." 382 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-374126054.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. dj. First edition - A novel by this author whom John Updike called "wickedly good" - the story of a schoolteacher, forced to retire at 61, coming to terms with the rest of his life. With an announced first printing of 300,000 copies, this advance issue is much less common than the trade edition. 276 pp.

New York: Crown, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a woman rock musician, and popular disk jockey, who finds her life in a shambles after a night of partying ends in a horrible accident. The author worked for years in the music industry, which gives this novel an authentic feel. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-609-608924.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems, "poignant, provocative and personal," by this award winning California writer. SIGNED on the front endpaper with a tiny doodle. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-38513407X.

San Francisco: China Books, (1988.). First edition - A collection of one novella and six short stories by the "most popular woman writer of Shanghai," stories which depict the humanism underneath the Cultural Revolution and in the movement away from it. Introduction by Jeffrey Kinkley. Translated by Howard Goldblat, Gladys Yang and others. A title in the New Chinese Fiction series, with cover praise from Tillie Olsen and Maxine Hong Kingston. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-8351-20325.

New York: Dutton, n.d. (ca 1946) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems found among the papers of Webb's husband after his death, and arranged by him for publication. Illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassell. 65 pp.

New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A seemingly slight story of a young woman who returns from Chicago to her childhood home in Mississippi after the death of her father, and in doing so, she confronts parts of her past and comes to a better understanding of herself - but a story imbued with Welty's artistry. A Pulitzer prize winning novel. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-394-480171.

Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.

Ann Arbor, MI: Generation, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poems. Introduction by Willford Squires. A title in the Generation New Poets series.