New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The authpr's second crime novel - her first won the 1997 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award - once again featuring Elise Andrioli who was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic after a terrorist bomb explosion in Northern Ireland that killed her fiance. and told in the first person. Now, after several surgeries, which have only restored some movement in her left arm, she is leaving for Switzerland to stay at her uncle's chalet in a small ski town. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Bien Cordialement." Translated from the French by David L. Koral. 248 pp.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which focus on the work of 9 major American women writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy - in their dual roles as conservationists of American culture and as literary pioneers. Index. 202 pp.

New York: Norton, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which "evokes the Vietnam War protests and drug culture of the '60s, while recounting a touching story." Close friends from childhood, Rachel Rothstein and Jake Marsh have maintained their relationship . . Jake leaves Yale and goes to Canada to evade the draft, but they remain in touch, and whenshe reaches a crisis in her marriage, Rachel runs to Jake, the "friend" who has always been there for her. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-393025454.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book) set in a California convent perched high above the Pacific Ocean, with "six nuns and one prurient priest, falling away day by day - a book as recessive as the life there which is in turn a reduction of the world outside to pain, loneliness and violence." The author herself spent 5 years in a convent before leaving the religious life. 190 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-030075661.

New York: Century, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - Classic work on New Mexico by this Illinois-born author, who migrated to California where she lived first in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and later in the Carmel area (where the writers Jack London and George Sterling also lived and wrote,) and who finally moved to Santa Fe as a result of her work on this book A lovely book illustrated with full page and smaller en texte drawings and chapter headpieces by John Edwin Jackson. Quotations, glossary. ix, 459 pp.

New York: Arbor House, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - the story of a bicoastal (Manhattan and Hollywood) marriage. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-87795-5352.

Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.

Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001). First edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 dj. Hardcover - A book which focuses on a society beauty, both loved and envied, and her privileged circle of friends, now mostly men over 60, women in their 50s or more who are now moving into an unknown country - that of old age. Although Bagnold is probably best known as the author of National Velvet, which became a film starring Elizabeth Taylor, this is a much more complex novel. 267 pp. Dust jacket art by Cecil Beeton. ISBN: 0-14-0162119.

Naperville,IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2007). First edition - From the back cover:"The sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Mary Shelley's unabridged Frankenstein included. Hilary Bailey has created a classic horror story in the vein of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-and a monster even more terrifying than the original." Bailey's book was originally published in the UK in 1995; thjs edition includes a new introduction to Shelley's book by Bailey. xxi, 236, 253 pp.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Another one of Bainbridge's fascinating novels exploring historical events - in this case, the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic. ISBN: 0-7867-03490.

New York: George Braziller, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - When four British artists are sent on a tour of Russia, their experiences gradually change from the farcical to the sinister - a book both funny and frightening. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-10119.

New York: George Braziller, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - When four British artists are sent on a tour of Russia, their experiences gradually change from the farcical to the sinister - a book both funny and frightening. 157 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-10119.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. Hardcover first edition - Winner of England's Whitbread Prize.

New York: George Braziller, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An imaginative reconstruction, based on a short diary entry - Adolf Hitler arrived in Liverpool in 1912 for a 5 month visit.

New York: George Braziller, 1979. Hardcover first edition - An imaginative reconstruction, based on a short diary entry - Adolf Hitler arrived in Liverpool in 1912 for a 5 month visit.

New York: George Braziller, 1982. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1967 (Bainbridge's first published novel), this edition has been radically revised and rewritten.

New York: George Braziller, 1980. Hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense, originally published in 1968 and revised and rewritten for this edition.

New York: George Braziller, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In its review, the "New Statesman" called this a "near-perfect" book; it is a wry novel of claustrophobic domesticity, and of the violence done in a family with small, ordinary gestures. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8076-08467.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Nominated for the Booker Prize (her 5th to be so honored) - British reviews called this historical novel set in 19th century Liverpool and on the horror-filled battlefields of the Crimean War as "entertaining..harrowing... haunting..devasting.". ISBN: 0-7867-05639.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996. dj. Hardcover - Another one of Bainbridge's fascinating novels exploring historical events - in this case, the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic. ISBN: 0-7867-03490.

New York: St Martin's, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Australian author, short listed for the Vogel Award. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-312071272.

Cleveland: Tower Books, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - Early reprint of this classic jazz novel originally published in 1938.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). First edition - Her third novel, set in a tiny paper mill town in New Hampshire where nineteen-year-old Mercy, ekes out a living in the harshest of circumstances while caring for a young sister and battling the town as they blame her brother for a tragic bus accident. 324 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects a quarter-century of essays and reviews by this writer who served as the reviewer and editor for the NY Times, and was a founder of the National Book Critics Circle. Among the authors whose works are discussed is T. S. Eliot, Joyce Carol Oates, Carson McCuller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Eudora Welty and more. In addition, she discusses trends in modern literature from the claimed decline in mass markets to the vibrant alternate printing culture, and gives some insight into her own career. Includes a long introduction written for this book. 250 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in Canada but grew up in India. Opening in 1937 in India, it is set "against the backdrop of changing Anglo-Indian relations; sometimes the political bleeds into the personal, as the novel juxtaposes India's struggle for independence with the smaller outrages and betrayals Satya and Roop suffer at their husband's hands--and each other's." (Sheila Bright) Winner of the Commonwealth Writers regional prize (Caribbean and Canada) for Best Book and long listed for the Orange Prize. Map frontispiece. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-385496044.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her first collection of short stories (third book, preceded by two novels). Contains ten stories including the O Henry prize winning 'Perpetual Care.' 174 pp. ISBN: 0-671-60547X.