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. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 297 pp plus a family tree. ISBN: 978-0393061086.

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.

New York: Norton, 1998. First edition - Historical novel set against the background of an expedition to the Arctic in 1855-56 by the 1996 winner of the National Book Award. Illustrated on the title page and at the beginning of each chapter. 386 pp.

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. Finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Notable Selection. 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. 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: 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: 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). 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.

New York: Delacorte, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this National Book Award winner, and the first published in hardcover. Set in rural Western Massachusetts. 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. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-393-043487.

New York: Norton, (2007). SIGNED 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 and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.

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: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1996). First edition - For those of us who wish Austen had written more books, here is a continuation of 'Sense and Sensibility,' featuring the youngest of the sister, Margaret Dashwood, once so underestimated by Austen ""Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life." but who is shown to be an interesting and intelligent character in this novel. Better than many Austen sequels. 247 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of "The Lace Reader." Set in Salem, Massachusetts, where Barry lives. 403 pp. ISBN: 978-0061624780.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of "The Lace Reader." Set in Salem, Massachusetts, where Barry lives. 403 pp. ISBN: 978-0061624780.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Barry is best known as a cartoonist with a dark sense of humor, but this novel - which intertwines the stories of Roberta Robbeson as an 11 year old in 1967 and a 16 year old in 1971 - is very dark indeed - it begins with a drug induced rant against the world "Once upon a cruddy time on a cruddy street on the side of a cruddy hill in the cruddiest part of town..." and ends with a nightmarish denouement in the Nevada desert. Illustrated by Barry. 305 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684829746.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in 18th century Brooklyn, this is the story of "a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge: a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span." SIGNED on the illustrated title page and dated 4/30/06, in the year of publication. 478 pp. ISBN: 0-374116903.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which explores the two-edged sword of modern technology. Dust jacket praise from Thomas Pynchon who called it "Blessedly post-ironic, engaging and heartfelt-a story that moves with ease and certainty, deeply respecting the given world even as it shines with the integrity of dream." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-374221790.

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A long married couple takes a trip to Morocco - the story of a conventional woman coming to grips with middle age and herself.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When a family moves to rural Norfolk to live with relatives (and to save money), the children find the country much more interesting than London, but the best -and the worst - thing of all, was when mother bought a little peppermint pig, the runt of the litter. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, and very uncommon thus. Guardian Award Winner. Frontispiece and wraparound dust jacket art by Charles Lilly. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-397-316186.

New York: St Martin's, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of artistic and emotional deceit, narrated by an artist who is a "copyist." Short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel for older children, set in a country in revolution - and with an arresting beginning: 'when I was 12 years old, I stopped a war.'. ISBN: 0-397-317727.

New York: Random House, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-394-524942.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on title page.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, set in a small New England college town. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400788.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 36 stories, 8 appearing in book form for the first time. SIGNED on the title page. 478 pp. ISBN: 0-679-45506x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel, set in a small New England college town. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400788.

New York: Random House, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel set "in the state of unflappability otherwise known as Vermont." 347 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539656.

New York: Random House, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel set "in the state of unflappability otherwise known as Vermont." 347 pp. ISBN: 0-394-539656.