Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2011). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Flyover Fiction series. "Young HarrietÕs father sells her as a slave to settle his gambling debt with an eccentric IndianÑand her story is just beginning. Part Huck Finn, part True Grit, HarrietÕs story of her encounter with the dark and brutal history of the American West is a true original." SIGNED and dated on the title page. ISBN: 978-0803226821.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2013). Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this award-winning writer - one which follows "a household of Scottish orphans trying to make their way in Toronto in 1879. The youngest, Clare, has rheumatic fever; the oldest brother has run away. The fate of them all rests on the responsible Ben, the irrepressible Charlie and the two middle sisters.. . Swan leaves us with the contemporary Clare, widowed and moodily packing up her house. She isn't sure what she'll do next, and she knows nothing of her family's past. But we do: we recognize the ghosts and echoes that have shaped her as much as her own choices and heartbreaks." 281 pp. ISBN: 978-0345807830.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. SIGNED on the title page. 353 pp.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2016) dj. Hardcover - The author's very highly praised first book, a warm, funny and perceptive novel about four adult siblings from a spectacularly dysfunctional family, who have spent years relying on an inheritance they expected to receive - "the nest" - only to find that it is no longer there. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0062414212.

Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, (1999). First edition - A collection of poems inspired by medieval and early Renaissance paintings, looked at with a modern eye, one which explores the intersection between writing and the visual arts. One of three books awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1998. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-877456593.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, after two collections of short stories. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination, this coming-of-age story is told through the voice of Suzanne, a young girl when the novel opens. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-06017434x.

Boston: Little Brown, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which explores the strains a terrible accident puts on a family - when one child shoots another. Robert Olen Butler called this 'a novel of rare power and profound importance.' SIGNED on the title page. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-316-825336.

Boston: Little Brown, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel, one which explores the strains a terrible accident puts on a family - when one child shoots another. Robert Olen Butler called this 'a novel of rare power and profound importance.' 356 pp. ISBN: 0-316-825336.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel - set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN: 0-394-539281.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, "framed by the outposts of the new American West - Berkeley, Santa Fe, Boulder." 59 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.

New York: Collier Books/ Macmillan, 1988. SIGNED - A highly praised collection of short stories, INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page.

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories, 207 pp. ISBN: 0-394-583043.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of short stories, third book. Four interlinked stories are set in London, another set takes place in New Mexico. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-394-557832.

New York: Ecco Press, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir on her "life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory." Photographs. 357 pp. ISBN: 978-0062319296.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's offbeat and quirky second novel: 'a chimp story, a love story, a celebration of free and fluent living.' 243 pp. ISBN: 0-394-580249.

New York: Macmillan, 1922. Hardcover - A collection of four stories, originally published in 1907 and 1909, which present a picture of Lincoln as told, in informal midwestern dialect, by Billy Brown, a young Illinois neighbor. Includes an introduction by Tarbell in which she talks about the connection between the "Billy Browns" found in many small towns and Lincoln. In addition to her muckracking journalism regarding Standard Oil, Tarbell was also known for her biography "The Life of Abraham Lincoln." Illustrated with 6 full-page glossy plates, all in the first story. xix, 179 pp.

New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A prehistoric epic by this award-winning writer, set in Eastern Europe around 4500 B.C. Among the nomadic White Horse tribe, Sarama is the servant of the White Mare, the incarnation of the Horse Goddess. Driven by a mystical vision, she sets out on a perilous journey westward. Author's note. 494 pp. ISBN: 0-312861125.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel: "a small California town is rocked by a series of scandals" involving the town's teenagers. 317 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon.

Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, (1990). First edition - A story of a group of women on a two week trek in the Ozark Mountains, a trip where they each learn something about themselves and their traveling companions. 178 pp. ISBN: 0-941483-606.

New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second sequel by Tennant to Jane Austen's books - hers have been praised as being the most convincing and authentic.. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-312-115534.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel - Angela Carter called it "an incadescent fictional memoir, a fiery angel of a novel.". ISBN: 0-15-1967253.

Boston: Little Brown, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in England under the title "Woman Beware Woman." Described as part whodunit, part dream fantasy, this novel is set on an ancient estate in the West of Ireland. ISBN: 0-316-837288.

New York: Bantam, 1993. First edition -

New York: Avon / Eos / Harper Voyager, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A science fiction novel which explores gender roles, set on the strange planet Newholme. Because a virus kills 50 percent of baby girls at birth, this is a society where men manage the money but women hold the keys to power through church, reproductive control, and their own short supply. But now strange things are happening - the ground is shaking with volcanic eruptions, and all of Newholme is in peril. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-380974797.