New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in seventeenth century China, and based on actual historical events. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781400064663.

New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in seventeenth century China, and based on actual historical events. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781400064663.

New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in seventeenth century China, and based on actual historical events. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781400064663.

New York: Random House, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in seventeenth century China, and based on actual historical events. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Ann - Thank you for your kind words." 284 pp. ISBN: 9781400064663.

Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, (1993.). First edition - The author's second novel - 'about books and the people who read them: it's about a rare book dealer and his mistress' set in the mid 1950's to the beginning of the counterculture in the 1960's - ranging from Detroit to New York to San Francisco. ISBN: 0-916583-929.

New York: Putnam, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A moving and highly praised novel which "presents two very different American stories, tied together by the fate of a child. When Soli Castro-Valdez leaves her small Mexican village for the United States, she endures the difficult journey but arrives pregnant and undocumented. Meanwhile, Kavya Reddy, whose parents immigrated to the US from India, is living a more peaceful life with her husband in Berkeley. Unable to have a child, Kavya becomes a foster parent and when Soli winds up in immigrant detention, her son Ignacio winds up with Kavya." SIGNED on the title page. 472 pp.

Van Nuys, CA: By the author, (1976). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a collection of poetry inspired by her presence at the Ambassador Hotel the night Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot in June 1968. The poems in this book reflect youthful hope and idealism turned to horror and disillusionment in the years between the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 1963 and the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy 1968. SIGNED inside the front cover with the words "For all our dreams." 65 pp. ISBN: 1-424327733.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised third novel. Set in Seattle, this is the story of one day in the life of Eleanor Flood. Includes an insert of several pages of an illustrated (in color) story of the Flood Girls. 259 pp. ISBN: 978-0297871453.

New York: Norton, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Celia Dupont, a woman intent on making the last third of her life the best third.

New York: Norton, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - This novel deals with the moral quandaries into which women may find they have been thrown these last few years in regard to marriage and children, and, above all, in regard to their no-longer-latent sense of sexual coercion. The author's fifth book - and second novel. ISBN: 0-393-086895.

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.

New York: Persea Books, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first work of fiction (second book), a collection of short stories. Cover praise from Amy Clampitt, Guy Davenport and Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (who said 'In these remarkable stories, Lynda Sexson takes as her own that strange and enchanted place where the natural world intersects with the supernatural, where the civilized becomes aware of its bloody, rampant origins.') Striking dustjacket art is 'Magpies in a Snowstorm' by Jessie Wilbur. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-892551313.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2019). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning author's second novel. Named a "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times who commented that this is "told in alternating chapters from the points of view of two African-American women connected by blood but divided by time: a biracial single mom in 2017 and a former sharecropper turned farm-owning widow in 1924. Both tell their progeny stories that ground the novel in the harsh facts of history even as they take on the weight of myth." SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2019, that is before publication. Letter from the publisher and marketing information bound in. 276 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Vertamae Grosvenor. A combination of recipes and food-related reflections on her life and comments on historical events related to the African Diaspora. Notes. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-807072400.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel (fifth book) - set in a small town in Massachusetts this is the story of a woman losing control and discovering that 'you can do everything right and still find the world you've made slipping away.' SIGNED on the title page. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-375-415475.

New York: Doubleday, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book. Dustjacket praise from Rosellen Brown and Tim O'Brien who calls it a "powerful, beautifully written story about guilt and the search for redemption. Dani Shapiro reminds us of the reasons that novels are still being read and written - they can find a home in our hearts." SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-385-472633.

New York: Doubleday, 1993. SIGNED first edition - The author's second book, a novel about a daughter's love for her brilliant and difficult mother. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For --- thank you so much for including me in your wonderful reading series" and dated in the month of publication. 247 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel, a dark and funny look at our preoccupation with romantic love and about the "entanglements of marriage - about the longings and terrors, the erotic lives, the lonelinesses and collusion of couples" - and about murder. Cover praise from Lorrie Moore and Joyce Carol Oates (who called it "a wicked, devastatingly funny comedy of manners") among others. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-316782475.

New York: Hyperion, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel with a blend of the personal and the political, a lyrical, sometimes moving portrait of American family life and of the peculiar politics of abortion rights. Surprisingly, it works. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-62661.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a collection of interrelated stories. Winner of the 1992 BANTA award. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165634.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's (who is also a criminal defense attorney and a resident of Jersey City herself) third book, second novel. The story of Mrs Ida Terhune who runs away from her native Baton Rouge with nothing but her car and two children and takes refuge in Jersey City - only to be horrified by the corruption there - heroic and funny at the same time. ISBN: 0-06-0165642.

New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a collection of interrelated stories. Winner of the 1992 BANTA award. ISBN: 0-06-0165634.

New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book, the story of two families shattered by domestic violence. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0159898.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1949. Hardcover first edition - The author's first (and apparently only) novel, set in midwinter in a small town in the Midwest, a story of quiet intensity as it follows three very different families. 313 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Laune.

New York: Pocket Books, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, one of gentle and quirky humor, set in a small Massachusetts town. Dustjacket praise from Wally Lamb, among others. ISBN: 0-671-027107.

New York: Kensington, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by the daughter of Sidney Shelton. This looks at 'what if' - what would a young girl's life be like if, after her parents' divorce, her architect father living in New York City gets custody or if her mother, who lives in Los Angeles, raises her. SIGNED by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0-7582-0308x.

Oakland, CA: Womens Press Collective, (1974). First edition - The first book by this lesbian/gay rights and civil rights activist, a collection of poems, many with lesbian themes, most set in New York City, plus three short prose pieces - Gay is Good, Making Connections, and a satirical piece "In Memorian J Edgar Hoover." From the library of poet Elizabeth Harrod, with her name on the first page. 53 pp. .

Boston: Little Brown, 1920. Hardcover first edition - Interesting novel in the form of a diary beginning in 1916 in the midst of the Great War or World War I - the diarist is a 50 year old man, injured in one leg, who starts a new life as a cobbler in a small New England seashore town - and it consists of musings both on his life - where for the first time he is earning money from his work - and of the terrible war ravaging the world.

Random House Canada, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by this Pulitzer Prize winning author. "Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner - silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word 'Goodness'" SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679311793.