New York: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A charming picture book about the poet Marianne Moore who loved to visit the zoo during the years when she lived in New York City - on a trip to the zoo on a Saturday in the 1940s, young Jonathan returns a lost hat to Marianne, a woman who wears all black and scribbles notes in a little book. When Marianne invites him to tour the zoo with her, Jonathan makes a new friend and learns that he too can write poetry. The softly colored illustrations by David A. Johnson are spread across two pages. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0802852427.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. SIGNED first edition - Novel by a consistently interesting and provocative novelist who is not yet as widely read as she deserves to be. This is the story of Ellen, a vetinarian at the New Orleans Zoo, dealing with both the collapse of her marriage and and an outbreak of an infectious disease among the animals. Martin, who was raised in New Orleans, knows that city well. SIGNED on the page opposite the title page. 340 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by a consistently interesting and provocative novelist who is not yet as widely read as she deserves to be. This is the story of Ellen, a vetinarian at the New Orleans Zoo, dealing with both the collapse of her marriage and and an outbreak of an infectious disease among the animals. Martin, who was raised in New Orleans, knows that city well. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421257.