New York: Random House, (1972) dj. A collection of fifteen short stories from New York City to small town North Carolina, stories of young girls growing up black, proud and in love. 177 pp. Uncommon in any original printings. ISBN: 0-394482018.

New York: Scribner, (2003.). First edition - A moving first novel by this African American poet and mother: Miriam finds her world shattered when her daughter is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity, a situation that forces her to confront her past, her identity - a novel 'that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.'. 264 pp.

New York: Ballantine, 1990. First edition - Fourth novel by the recent Booker Prize winner. Barker was also named one of the 20 best young British writers by Granta. ISBN: 0-345-369548.

New York: Dutton, 1994. First edition - The second book in her highly acclaimed World War I trilogy, and winner of the Guardian Prize for fiction. The third book in the series, "The Ghost Road" won the Booker Prize. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-525-938087.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in London in the autumn of 1940 during the Blitz. "As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul Tarrant works as an air-raid warden." The final book in the Life Class trilogy, this can also be read as a stand-alone novel. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0385537728.

New York: Ballantine, 1990. First edition - Fourth novel by the recent Booker Prize winner. Barker was also named one of the 20 best young British writers by Granta. ISBN: 0-345-369548.

New York: Ballantine, 1990. First edition - Fourth novel by the recent Booker Prize winner. Barker was also named one of the 20 best young British writers by Granta. ISBN: 0-345-369548.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about the effects of World War I on those who fought in it; surprise winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.

New York: Random House, (2002). First edition - The author's second novel, a romantic comedy set in rural England where a young single mother tries to cope with her chaotic family and a fractured love life. 326 pp.

New York: Crown, (1950.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A SIGNED and numbered Presentation Edition, number 7 of 1000 copies. 311 pp

New York: Viking, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography which draws on interviews with Djuna Barnes's brother and unpublished letters, tracing the life and career of the early twentieth-century bisexual writer and friend to James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. "Herring traces her creative influences to gain a greater understanding of her writing, elucidating the ways in which her unusual life shaped her literary genius." Includes a chronology,extensive notes, a list of the works by Barnes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 386 pp. ISBN: 0-670849693.

New York: Putnam, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of "hope and idealism, faith and madness" which begins in 1960, when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, leave their life in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness, only to discover the buildings in ruin, the fields overgrown. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 978-0307268952.

New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's highly acclaimed first book, winner of the 1995 PEN/ Jerard Fund Award for a work-in-progress by an emerging female writer - a candid account of a girl and young woman coming to terms with her family, her homeland in the logging wilderness and small towns of Idaho, with her parent's Pentecostal religion, and most of all with herself, Dustjacket praise from Ivan Doig, David James Duncan and Stewart O'Nan, among others. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478216.

New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-399149678.

New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's highly acclaimed first book, winner of the 1995 PEN/ Jerard Fund Award for a work-in-progress by an emerging female writer - a candid account of a girl and young woman coming to terms with her family, her homeland in the logging wilderness and small towns of Idaho, with her parent's Pentecostal religion, and most of all with herself, SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Ivan Doig, David James Duncan and Stewart O'Nan, among others. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478216.

New York: Putnam, (2003.). First edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. 303 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, (1993.). First edition - Discusses the works of such writers as Anne McCaffrey, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Jessica Amanda Salmanson, Kate Wilhelm, Tiptree and Octavia Butler, among others. Notes, references, index. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-807844217.

Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1991. First edition - 1989 Minnesota Voices Project winner. Issued in an edition of only 1200 copies.

New York: Delacorte, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this National Book Award winner, and the first published in hardcover. Set in rural Western Massachusetts. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-385-297718.

New York: Norton, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories by this National Book Award winning writer, ranging across two centuries and from the Western Himalayas to a village in the Adirondacks, and each in different ways dealing with discovery and exploration. Finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Notable Selection. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-393-043487.

New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction, much of it (including the title novella) set in the nineteenth century. Winner of the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. Interestingly, this has a seal on the front cover noting that it was a finalist, but it went on to actually win the award! 254 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03853X.

New York: Norton, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

New York: Norton, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories by this National Book Award winning writer, ranging across two centuries and from the Western Himalayas to a village in the Adirondacks, and each in different ways dealing with discovery and exploration. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-393-043487.

New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early novel by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Set in New England, this is well-written, thoughtful and funny, and one that makes you care about her characters. SIGNED by author on title page. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-17179521x.

New York: Pocket Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Recent National Book Award winner's highly praised third novel, set in Beijing in the days of Tiananmen. A woman accompanies her husband to China to a scientific convention, and winds up "forever out of love with her husband and very much in love the country and its culture." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-671-729608.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

New York: Pocket Books, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An early novel by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Well-written, thoughtful and funny, and one that makes you care about her characters. SIGNED by author on title page. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-17179521x.

New York: Pocket Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Recent National Book Award winner's highly praised third novel, set in Beijing in the days of Tiananmen. ISBN: 0-671-729608.