Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1988. SIGNED first edition - True first edition of the first novel by this Kansas-born writer (the wife of Michael Ondaatje, who is credited with the cover photo) who now lives in Canada, but spent a number of years in Hawaii, where this novel is set. SIGNED on the title page. #40 in the International Fiction List. Cover praise from Timothy Findley and others. 218 pp,. ISBN: 0-88619-1718.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Spark's first book of poetry to appear in the US. 97 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Short novel set in New York City, where Spark was living at the time, an incisive portrait of a couple whose past returns to haunt them. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-670379603.

New York: The Viking Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Short novel set in New York City, where Spark was living at the time, an incisive portrait of a couple whose past returns to haunt them. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-670379603.

New York: Viking, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourteenth novel by this award-winning and prolific autho, probably still best known for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." Set in Italy where she was living at the time, this is the story of a wealthy woman and those who try to exploit her fortune. Described as combining the pace of a thriller with magical undertones. 266 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Goodfellow. ISBN: 0-670691070.

Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (2007). First edition - When Roberta Spear died of leukemia in 2003, she left behind an almost completed fourth book of poetry - those new poems, along with selected poems from her first three books are included here. Edited and with an introduction by Philip Levine. xix, 151 pp. ISBN: 978-1597140638.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, finalist for the National Book Award. 110 pages. 5 x 8" tall. A wealthy American woman is traveling throughout Europe with her beautiful daughter, Clara who falls in love a young Italian in Florence, but things are not as simple as they seem. Basis for the film of the same name. 110 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by this Southern born writer who later resided in Canada. ISBN: 0-385-156987.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award winning writer one spanning nearly 70 years, from Caracas to Germany in havoc under the Nazis and back to Venezuela. TThe title refers to the influence that his grandmother had on Lucien long after her death - she was like a tiger on his back. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-531097064.

New York: Harper & Row, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second semi-autobiographical novel by this writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award.) Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 254 pp. Dust jacket art by Fred Marcellino. ISBN: 0-06-0152397.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novelist's account of her purchase of the magnificent Villa Orsolo deep in the Umbrian hills, only to discover that it was a vast ruin, and the year of camping out with her family in the midst of the work of restoration. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168862.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award winning writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award and her third won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize) Set on the Italian Riviera where a young couple return to the place they spent their honeymoon, driven by dread that the secret of their dead baby will might be revealed. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-53115016x.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award winning writer one spanning nearly 70 years, from Caracas to Germany in havoc under the Nazis and back to Venezuela. TThe title refers to the influence that his grandmother had on Lucien long after her death - she was like a tiger on his back. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-531097064.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this award winning writer (her first book won the Somerset Maugham award and her third won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize) Set on the Italian Riviera where a young couple return to the place they spent their honeymoon, driven by dread that the secret of their dead baby will might be revealed. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-53115016x.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award winning writer which centers on a trio of women - from the 1880s through World War II - bound together by compulsion and secrecy as little Joan, now Joanna, finally begins to understand the terrible inheritance that has shadowed her family for generations. 260 pp. Cover art by Robbie Duff-Scott, the author's husband. ISBN: 0-881846902.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A collection of ten short stories, most which originally appeared in the New Yorker, with an introductory note by Stafford. vii, 276 pp. Dust jacket by Ellen Raskin.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical biography which captures both the genius and the neuroses of this brilliant and influential mid-century writer - one who who drew from her own past in Colorado to forge a unique writing style until alcohol and depression destroyed her lifelong quest for inner strength. Notes, index. xv, 430 pp. ISBN: 0-394557042.

New York: Villard, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set at an estate in the Berkshires. Combines echoes of the Brontes with modern 1980's New York. SIGNED on the half title page. ISBN: 0-679-412980.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (1998). SIGNED first edition - The first book by this award winning Filipina American writer, a collection of twelve short stories with settings ranging from Manila to the US Midwest. They "unerringly map that place in the human heart where exaltation and humiliation, hope and fear, merge." SIGNED by the author on the first page. 195 pp. ISBN: 1-879960540.

Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.

Dallas: Baskerville, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young woman's struggle for life and love against the undertow of a loveless childhood and sexual abuse and imposed silence. Set on California's central coast, where Anne McBain is an aspiring marine biologist. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. . ISBN: 1880909022.

New York: New Directions, (c. 1933.) dj. Hardcover - Gertrude Stein's first - and perhaps best - book originally published in a small edition in 1909. Includes two short stories ('The Good Anna' and 'The Gentle Lena') and a novella ('Melanctha') which focus on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the century America. 'Melanctha,' the story of a young black woman, is a true masterpiece and unusual for its time in its uncondescending depiction of her as a woman and a human being. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Number Three in the New Classic Series. xi, 279 pp. Small format. Cover design by Alan Lustig, original price of $1.50 on dj flap.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1953. dj. Hardcover first edition - Preface and Notes by Virgil Thomson. Volume Three of the Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein (series editor Carl van Vechten). xii. 294 pp.

New York: Random House, (1941). Hardcover first edition - Published in 1941, in a world at war, this follows a young woman from her childhood into adulthood. Stein described this as a novel about "publicity saints" - that is, people who are famous simply for being famous (she was ahead of her time - this is a phenomenon far more common now - with the rise of social media "influencers" than in Stein's day) 154 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1933). Hardcover first edition - Although written in the conversational voice of Gertrude Toklas (1877-1967), this was actually by her friend and lover Gertrude Stein. It recounts 25 years of their friendship from Toklas's arrival in Paris in 1907 to 1932, a period when they established Paris's most influential literary salon. Frontispiece photograph by Man Ray and fifteen other black and white photographs. Listed by the Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. 310 pp.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Works by and about Stein, including interviews and criticism. Edited and with a preface by Robert Bartlett Haas. Other contributors include Gertrude Stein Raffel, her niece, and Donald Sutherland. One of only 500 copies copies bound in cloth. 158 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-876851375.

New York: Avon (Discus Books), 1974. First edition - Stein as remembered by her friends - includes both brief summaries of her relationships with many (Picasso, etc.) and excerpts from works describing Stein with introductions to each selection by Simon. Insert with reproductionsof paintings of Stein. Simon's first book. Uncommon.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index, bibliography. ISBN: 0-374-374678.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's third novel, described as a suburban Gothic - an exploration of the 'other suburbia' - the trampled trash-filled strips of woods lying between subdivisions and highways. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6937.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia-born author's third novel, described as a suburban Gothic - an exploration of the 'other suburbia' - the trampled trash-filled strips of woods lying between subdivisions and highways. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-6937.