San Francisco: Cleis Press, (1989). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories "of allies and foes, strangers and strugglers, stories of the margin, of relationships just a bit off center." SIGNED by Julia Alvarez at her story "Daughter of Invention" and uncommon thus. Also includes contributions from Barbara Selfridge, Dorothy Bryant and many others. Notes on contributors. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-939416158.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1991). An anthology of more than 300 poems and a few prose pieces by women writers both contemporary and from earlier times. Contributors range from Julien of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen to Margaret Fuller, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Audre Lorde, Marge Piercy, May Sarton, Joy Harjo, Erica Jong, Joyce Carol Oates ("Growing Together"), Rita Mae Brown, Alice Walker, Anne Sexton, Eudora Welty, Tess Gallagher, Maya Angelou, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Margaret Atwood, Annie Dillard, Lucille Clifton, Tess Gallagher, Linda Hogan, Robin Morgan, Alice Ostricher, Julia Alvarez and many more. Introduction by Marilyn Sewell. Index, xx, 311 pp. Slightly oversized. ISBN: 0-8070-68136.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of erotic fiction by women including Susan Griffin, Kim Chernin, Caroline Banks, Deena Metzger and many others. SIGNED by Griffin at her story Cradles of Light." Includes brief biographies of the authors. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-385-233191.

New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Introduction by Clare Coss. SIGNED by Marilyn Hacker at her poem "Runaways Cafe II." Includes contributions from more than 80 contemporary lesbian poets - Chrystos, Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyser, Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Cliff, Kate Rushin, and many more. Brief biographies and photographs of the contributors. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-684814463.

New York: Ecco Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of fiction, poetry and essays by women writers on the subject of hunting. Edited with an introduction by Houston (who had worked as a hunting guide in Alaska.) SIGNED by Houston on the title page. Includes contributions from Antonya Nelson, Jane Hirshfield, Susan Griffin, Ann Beattie , Francine Prose. Annie Dillard, Louise Erdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew, Tess Gallagher, Alice Hoffman and others. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-332X.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of essays by women writers with an uncommon premise. As Sussman states: "I behave badly to set myself apart. To test myself. To push myself. To prove something. To shock someone....I behave badly because I can." and she invited 25 other "bad girls" to share their stories. SIGNED by THREE authors - INSCRIBED on the title page by Sussman and SIGNED by Ann Hood at her essay "Lying" and by Pam Houston at "Executrix." Also includes essays by Elizabeth Benedict, Mary Roach, Kim Addonizio, Susan Straight, M. J. Rose and more. Notes on contributors. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0393064636.

Freedom, California: Crossing Press, (1991.). SIGNED first edition - Collects 15 stories by women writers. SIGNED by S, J. Rozan at her story 'Prosperity Restaurant.' Also includes stories by Caroline Stafford, Barbara Wilson, Judith Post and others. Notes on contributors. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-89594-5215.

New York: Grove Press / Black Cat, (2005). First edition - Canadian author's semi-autobiographical first novel, a look at the world's oldest profession by a writer who worked within it. "Cynthia," as the nameless narrator calls herself professionally, is a French-Canadian Catholic who escapes her strict upbringing and schooling by the nuns, and moves to Montreal where she finds work in a bar. One day she answers the ad of an escort agency, and so she is found by new calling. Translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. Finalist for both the Prix MŽdicis and the Prix FŽmina. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-802170021.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third book, but her first novel in a comic mode, interwoven with tragedy and combined with her lyrical descriptions of the far Northern wilderness. Set against the backdrop of the Gulf of Alaska, this is the story of the inhabitants of an island work camp for juvenile delinquents. ISBN: 0-394-55442-6.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Arthur's fourth, and most powerful, novel - the story of an expedition to Antarctica led by a young American woman inspired by Scott's tragic journey 80 years before. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 798 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679418954.

New York: Bantam, (1990.). An aspiring witch, an Hungarian herbalist, the town's sheriff, and two visiting professors from Russia are only some of the characters that come together in this novel set in America's heartland. ISBN: 0-553-348051.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987). The author's first collection of essays - mostly succinct and to the point - on love, motherhood, middle age, on writers (including a visit with Eudora Welty) and more. Although written many years ago, her essay on "Unborn Baby Roe" reminds us of what it was like to be a young girls in the years before Roe vs Wade. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-060971126.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this English noblewoman, best known for her very controversial autobiography. A glimpse of life among the upper classes in the 1920's.

New York: Putnam, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Pictures from a family album," this is the story of one Australian family, spanning over a century starting in 1861 when Cornelius Laffey slipped ashore.

New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.

New York: Putnam, 1994. dj. Hardcover - A brief novel by this award-winning Australian novelist in which old age is looked at with both irony and grief.

New York: Viking, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tenth novel by one of Australia's most noted writer (ther-time winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award.) Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York: Putnam, 1987. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled "Pictures from a family album," this is the story of one Australian family, spanning over a century starting in 1861 when Cornelius Laffey slipped ashore.

New York: Putnam, 1988. Hardcover first edition - First publication in the United States of two of Astley's early (1974 and 1972) award-winning novels.

New York: Internation Association of Newspapers, 1901. Hardcover - A rather appealing early reprint of this novel of a San Francisco girl who marries a British aristocrat, a friend of her childhood in San Francisco, before his father inherited the title. Small format. 339 pp.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. Hardcover - Although not a first printing, this was obviously used as a review copy - there are several stamps on the front endpapers stating 'advance copy/ not for resale.'

New York: Appleton- Century, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the later titles in the group of novels which she wrote, each focusing on a different decade, known as the 'San Francisco Series.' This is set in the 1920's.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. dj. Hardcover - A novel set in New York in the world of the "Sophisticates" in the very uncommon, and attractive dustjacket with an art deco illustration on the front cover and the words "second large printing" on the spine.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. dj. Hardcover - Novel of the 'jazz age' by this San Francisco area writer -Frontispiece drawing of Atherton. 315 pp. Unusual green marbled edges, striking art nouveau dustjacket art by Ty Mahon.

New York: Macmillan, 1912. Hardcover first edition - Novel which begins on St Kitts with the introduction of 18 year old Julia Edis to society - Julia was the youngest daughter of the redoubtable Mrs Edis who had for years been suspected of dabbling in the black arts with the assistance of an old Creole from Martinique. 533 pp plus 2 pp of advertisements.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1940. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of three generations of women in an old San Francisco family which has been declining in wealth over the years - and how they, untrained in financial affairs as they were, managed to come to grips with the new world they found themselves in. One of her Calilifornia novels, set "in the present." 302 pp. Dust jacket art by E. H. Suydam.

New York: John W.Lovell Company, (1890). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Scarce early novel by Gertrude Atherton, a story of the Californios, using their dialect, and featuring Carmelita, the daughter of the notorious bandit Joaquin Murietta. INSCRIBED on a blank preliminary page and dated in 1936. 304 pp.

New York: Picador, 1997. SIGNED first edition - Her second novel - her first won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. SIGNED on the title page. 350 pp plus final illustration.