New York: Putnam. 1975. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First novel by this writer who received both the Edgar and Anthony awards for his later book 'Junkyard Dog' (written under the name of Robert Campbel.) This has been described as a "superbly drawn portrait of a decent ordinary man obliged to spend most of his life living out a deception." Set in the Orkney Islands during World War II. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and SIGNED simply as Bob. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-399-114246.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, fifth book, set against the backdrop of World War II, the story of a young man who flees Nazi Germany and makes a life for himself in the United States. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-456791.

New York: Random House, (2001.). First edition - His third novel, fifth book, set against the backdrop of World War II, the story of a young man who flees Nazi Germany and makes a life for himself in the United States. 212 pp.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, fifth book, set against the backdrop of World War II, the story of a young man who flees Nazi Germany and makes a life for himself in the United States. SIGNED on the title page. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-679-456791.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she travels with her adopted son from Switzerland to Poland to write a piece on the feast of St Martin, but when she stumbles across over a thousand Polish Jews who have been deported from Germany, she finds herself returning to an increasingly dangerous Berlin to find the young daughter of one of refugees, who died in childbirth. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary, author's note. 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327345.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 5 short stories - many having to do with the sea, and reflecting the author's own experiences during World War II and as a merchant seaman. ISBN: 0-945575-629.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - World War II historical novel by this writer best known for his science fiction, based on the story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the ship that carried the atom bomb from San Francisco to the Pacific island from which it was launched - and which was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on its return journey, with only 400 of its over 1200 crew members surviving. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-385152841.

New York: Arbor House, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of growing up in the "Polish-Jewish enclave of Crotona Park, New York in the 1940s'" INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted collector Larry Owens from "catfish Jerome." 313 pp. ISBN: 0-877952493.

New York: Harper Collins, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Two American journalists, both women, a reporter and a photographer, and an Englishman, race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives, despite strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents are allowed to do. Based on real-life female reporters on the front lines of history like Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and Martha Gellhorn. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Two American journalists, both women, a reporter and a photographer, and an Englishman, race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives, despite strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents are allowed to do. Based on real-life female reporters on the front lines of history like Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and Martha Gellhorn. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page. "For - - Such a nice afternoon and a delicious gallette! Hope you enjoy this as much." Double page map, author's note. xiv, 311 pp. ISBN: 978-0062354631.

New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Interesting novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman, a "biographer of modest accomplishments" who is asked to write the authorized biography of a World War I flying ace who became an influential British politician until his rather mysterious death in an automobile accident during World War II. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-670-824003.

New York: Berkley, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, set in 1942, it is Agatha Christie. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-425198057.

New York: Berkley, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan books and his son. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1943.). Hardcover - The fifth book in this series which follows the adventures of "Lucky" Bob Terrell from Texas, who volunteers with the R.A.F. in World War II (the author had flown with the Royal Flying Corps during the first World War) "Lucky Terrell arrives to take command of a former Jap-held base in East China just as the enemy is about to launch a counterattack to retake it." Illustrated by Frank Dobias. Plain frontispiece, blue and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in lime green cloth with black lettering. Notation that it is produced under wartime condition. 210 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (the first was nominated for the Edgar award) and the first to be published in hardcover. The story of a doctor who performed medical experiments at a concentration camp during World War II, but who manage to escape from Germany and is now residing deep in the jungles of Latin America - an anonymity and refuge purchased by an annual donation to the dictator there. A study of how a man with no politics walked step by step into the center of evil, 252 pp. ISBN: 0-39532503X.

New York: Delacorte, (1990). Hardcover first edition - A coming-of-age story set during World War II in a French-Canadian neighborhood in Massachusetts where Darcy and her mother come to live, because her father is in the Army at a base nearby. Illustrated with drawings by Deborah Kogan Ray. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-385302452.

New York: Atheneum, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Burma in 1945. ISBN: 0-689-11033-2.

New York: Dutton, 1946. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Sheriff Jess Roden. When a soldier is reported dead during World War II, his wife remarries but when he returns to his Kentucky home, expecting to pick up his business and his ilfe as he left them, then one husband must go. 223 pp.

Tartarus Press, 2001. SIGNED first edition - The final chapter of "Corelli's Mandolin," 98 out of 100 copies SIGNED by de Bernieres on the limitation page (out of a total edition of 300 copies ) riginal Wraps. Condition: As New. First Edition. no. 130 of 300 copies printed. Hand-set in Perpetua type by Alan Anderson of the Tragara Press and printed on Zerkall paper. Color frontispiece by David Johnson. 18 pp plus colophon.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006.). First edition - The author's first novel, one that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad. 231 pp.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse,
(2007). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel focusing on ordinary Americans, from many different backgrounds, set in the US during World War II in the years after Pearl Harbor. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page. 450 pp. ISBN: 978-1434316202.

New York: Norton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1943 in Los Angeles - dustjacket praise from Rick Bass (who calls it a "perfect story") and James Lee Burke (who says "its depiction of the United States during World War II is the best I've read and certainly the most accurate... the story line is poignant, sad, joyful, humorous, heart-rending, innocently erotic - everything a child could have experienced in the year 1943.") 174 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027589.

New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "The House on Prague Street," a "classic novel of the Eastern European experience in the early days of the Nazi aggression." Set ten years later, this brings the story to America as Helene and Paul flee wartime Czechoslovakia. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-312038526.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The poet's third and final novel set in Japan in the last days of the second World War. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-475651.

New York: The Hampton Publishing Company / William Morrow, 1944. Hardcover first edition - A scarce classic locked room mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction, featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and his long-time associate, Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters and set against the backdrop of blackouts and bombings in the early days of the London Blitz. "Patience" is tree-snake from Borneo, and when it appears that Benton, the director of the Royal Albert Zoological Gardens has committed suicide, his daughter is sure that he did not do it, because "he wouldn't kill Patience."

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2007.). Historical novel of Winston Churchill as he becomes Prime Minister and takes on the challenge of halting Hitler's murderous invasion of France. 320 pp. ISBN: 1402210442.

New York: Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover - An epic novel by this Rumanian author (who escaped from that country in 1960) A book which "begins with a prewar summer's idyll on the Danube, and then moves into all the cruelty and horror of World War II and the vicious statism of postwar Communist Rumania." Translated from the author's French version by Norman Denny. 471 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Scribner's, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in and around radio station in New Jersey in 1942. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 479 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-01957.