Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1916 (1917). Hardcover first edition - A discussion of the circumstances which both led to the popularity of play-parties, and its subsequent almost disappearance except in very rural areas. Includes dances, songs, games, for children and adults. A title in the Indiana Historical Collections series (since by law a copy was provided to every library in Indiana and others reserved for Indiana University, it is unusual that this copy is not ex-library) Bibliography. 120 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c.1935.) dj. Hardcover - A Judy Bolton mystery, #8 in the series. "A weird cry leads Judy into danger." Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece by Pelagie Doane (not credited on title page.) Dust jacket flap lists through #15, list at back of book through #12. 215 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1956.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The original text version of this title, the last of the 25 chapter Nancy Drews. Set in Charlottesville, Virginia and includes stereotyped African American characters. Blue tweed cloth covers with dark blue silhouette of Nancy on front cover, blue illustrated 'digger' endpapers (Farah's format 15 used between 1953 and 1958) Farrah 1957A (lists 34 Nancy Drews, 18 Dana Girls in both book and dj). Frontispiece. 214 pp.

New York & London: Addison-Wesley, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of eight Cold War conflicts in which air power played a decisive role, from the Suez Crisis of 1956 to Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, the Falklands war of 1982, and the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88. Ilustrated with over 240 photographs and maps, in both full color and black and white. Foreword by Itamar Neuner, a Mirage pilot. Glossary, bibliography, index. Oversized wide format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 368 pp. ISBN: 978-1472853578.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final volume of the Pacific War trilogy,a comprehensive account of the bitter island battles that led to Japan. Illustrated with maps and photographs. SIGNED on a preliminary page. Notes, bibliography, index. A thick, heavy book - xv, 926 pp. ISBN: 978-0393080650.

New York: Ives Washburn, (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set among the Quaker whalers living on Nantucket Island when the Revolutionary war began. As Stackpole notes in his introduction, due to its location 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, when "war came, with a suddenness for which the islanders were unprepared, it brought a time of strain and sorrow in which a peaceful community was split by conflicting loyalties." INSCRIBED on the frontispiece and underneath Stackpole's signature is the notation "Curator of the Nantucket Folger Museum." Double page map. 306 pp. Jacket and map by Charles Greer.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED("keep the dream alive")on the title page and dated in 1982,the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1967 c.1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Judge Dee mystery set in China during the Tang Dynasty (Judge Dee was a real magistrate who lived from 630 to 700 A.D. and whose accomplishments became the basis for legendary feats of detection, as told by storytellers in the following centuries.) Illustrated with twelve drawings by van Gulik in Chinese style. Includes a historical postscript by the author, a Dutch diplomat, linguist and authority on Chinese history and culture. 208 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-106205.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1955.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 1955C-1 per Farah - with blue digger illustrated endpapers, plain frontispiece and five internal illustrations, bound in blue tweed boards (format 15), with a wraparound dust jacket cover with art by Rudy Nappi. 25 chapters. 213 pp.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her amazing and complex first novel, not published until she was 37 years old. A writer's writer, Ozick is far less appreciated than she deserves. 658 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second collection of short stories from this Pulitzer prize winning author. The titles of the stories reflect the popular culture as seen in the tabloids - Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed; Woman Loses Cookie Bake-off, Sets Self on Fire - but the stories themselves are sometimes surreal, sometimes hilarious and sometimes sad - a compassionate look at people on the outside. A copy warmly INSCRIBED to film director and producer Sidney Pollack on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-31316.

New York: The Viking Press, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - Steinbeck's classic short novel set in "any conquered country in any time" but probably based on the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. 188 pp. First issue with all the points, in the uncommon first issue dust jacket with the original price of $2, corners of flaps square and unclipped and box on the bottom of the back cover with "The Men in the Service Need Books." 188 pp.

Florence: G. Orioli, 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Lawrence's last book, which he was working on at the time of his death, published posthumously - a book which grew out of his fascination with the Biblical 'Book of Revelations.' It begins: "Apocalypse simply means Revelation, although there is nothing simple about this one" and ends with an appeal to renounce materialism and false connections "Start with the sun and the rest will slowly, slowly happen." Frontispiece is a photograph of Lawrence signed and dated, taken in Chapala, Mexico, in 1922, with the same photograph reproduced on the front cover of the dust jacket. Limited edition, printed on Binda paper, #394 out of 750 printed, of which 700 were for sale. No. 6 in Orioli's Lungarno series. 308 pp.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First US appearance of this work originally published in Europe in 1954; an attractive limited edition with a drawing on the title page by Marc Hinkley. Designed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press and printed at American-Stratford Press. Number 7 of the Targ Editions. One of 350 copies SIGNED by Himes on the colophon. 105 pp plus colophon.

London: Michael Joseph, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories based on events on the eve of, or just after, the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II - stories of men of ordinary human fraility changing under stress into a formidable fighting force. 190 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Graham Humphries. ISBN: 0-718109563.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first novel, introducing former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker. Winner of the Shamus Award for best first PI novel. SIGNED on title page. 485 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-684-857146.

New York: Doubleday, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A legal thriller set in Mississippi in the 1970s and 80s where a man sentenced to prison for a brutal rape and murder manages to get paroled - and begins his retribution against the jurors. SIGNED on the half title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-385510438.

New York: Doubleday, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An international thriller, set mostly in Bologna Italy - "a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life." SIGNED on the half title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-385510454.

London: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a pyschological thriller involving a serial killer who doesn't really want his victims dead. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316856975.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of suspense by this author best known for her science fiction - A young woman with an eidetic memory is housesitting for her grandfather in a remote Oregon location when she finds herself tormented by strange and menacing noises at night - this leads her to an exploration of her family's past, which takes her from Oregon to New Orleans and uncovers far-reaching and dangerous secrets. INSCRIBED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-312300751.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery in the award winning series featuring policeman William Murdoch, set in Toronto at the turn of the twentieth century and basis of the TV series The Murdoch Mysteries. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312268920.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian, set in 6th century Constantinople. Winner of the Glyph Award. SIGNED by both authors on the title page. Map. Glossary. 345 pp. ISBN: 1-890208191.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a noir novel set in San Francisco featuring private investigator Dante Mancuso. SIGNED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 978-0312364540.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Jamaican-born major writer of the Harlem Renaissance - a semi-autobiographical story of an African American musician along the Marseille coast, and a group of young drifters who spend their days panhandling and nights prowling the rough waterfront bistros. Basis for the 1937 film "Big Fella" starring Paul Robeson. Bound in the original cloth-backed red and navy patterned boards. Top edge tinted red. 326 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, armed with the latest gifts of advanced technology (that is, 1980s technology) as well as a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks in search of the diamonds of the lost city of Zinj. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-394513924.

Watertown, Massachusetts: Persephone Press, (1982). First edition - Called a biomythography, this is an exploration of the forces which shaped Lorde, for her days as a child in Harlem to her linkages with other women over the years. Uncommon true first edition. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-89594-1228.

New York: St Martin's, (1995). SIGNED - A reissue of the first Rebus mystery, set in Glasgow and issued as a paperback original. A title in the Dead Letter Mystery series. SIGNED by Rankin on the title page with his signatue knots and crosses doodle and uncommon thus. 228 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-75280-9423.

Savannah GA: The Beehive Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which contains complete interviews with eighteen former slaves, plus selections from the reminiscences of fifty further slaves. "During the 1930s the last former slaves were disappearing from the American scene. These men and women were the last living witnesses to slavery in the United States, and this was the final opportunity to learn from them what slavery was really, intimately like. Field workers of the Federal Writers' Project were dispatched to ask them about plantation life, work, punishment, religion, runaways and more." Illustrated with vintage black and white photographs. References, index. Square format. xviii, 167 pp.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A short novel of obsession by this Morrocan author, taped and translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles. Number 175 of 250 hardcover copies individually numbered and SIGNED by both Bowles and Mrabet on the colophon page. 125 pp. Cover illustration by Mrabet. ISBN: 0-876852568.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new 16 pp. introduction by Herbert Aptheker. Attended by 1000 people from 50 countries, the purpose of this Congress was "to discuss, in the light of science and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between the so-called white and so-called coloured peoples." Also discussed was the position of women in society, the nature of imperialism, and the prospects for world peace. Reprint of the 1911 edition, including papers by Felix Adler, Israel Zangwill, Alfred Caldecott, W. E. B. DuBois ('The Negro Race in the United States of America'), Edwin D. Mead, and many others. Appendix, bibliography, index. [16 pp], xlvi, 485 pp. ISBN: 0-806502177.

London: Frederick Muller, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The dust jacket proclaims this as "The Great Russian Satirical Novel" originally published in 1928, but then suppressed during the Stalin regime. The authors who met in Moscow in 1925, were born in Odessa, "the humor capital of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Thieves and resourceful conmen are the object of secret admiration and pride in Odessa, and the stuff of legends. One such conman, by the name of Ostap Bender, is the hero of the two writers' main work." (Russia Beyond) Basis for several movies - both in Russia and in the US in Mel Brooks 1970 film. Translated from the Russian by John Richardson. Introduction by Maurice Freidberg. 322 pp.

New York: McBride, Nast and Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - Although George du Maurier is perhaps best remembered today as the author of "Trilby", the novel which introduced Svengali to the world, this book focuses more on his work as an artist and cartoonist - for Punch and Cornhill and other periodicals. Includes 41 illustrations, including a frontispiece self-portrait, with titled tissue guards for the full page plates. A handsomely produced volume, somewhat oversized. 198 pp.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of stories of the supernatural, edited and with an introduction by Richard Dalby. Includes the recently discover "The Fenstanton Witch" by M. R. James; "Gramma," a novelette by Stephen King; "Catnip" by Robert Bloch; "The Witch's Cat" by Manly Wade Wellman; "The Toad Witch" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson; "One Remained Behind" by Marjorie Bowen; "The Hollow of the Three Hills" by Nathaniel Hawthorne and more. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Dalby. Uncommon signed. vii, 245 pp. ISBN: 1-854790390.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2023) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Martin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant who roams California in a comfortable touring bus - a story of "cryptocurrency, global financial shenigans and the secret wars that underlie the modern world. " SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1608091492.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. dj. "A wilderness tale of a deer, his mate, their offspring and two human friends." From their backwoods cabin in the Gunflint range of Northeastern Minnesota, the author and her husband first encountered the starving deer they named Peter, and over the next four years they were able to closely observd him and his mate and descendants, as well as other wild animals of the bush country near the Canadian border. Illustrated with drawings by Adrian Hoover. 210 pp.

Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University, (1987). First edition - Includes contributions by residents of all the diverse communities of Humboldt County from Eureka to Ferndale, Rio Dell, Samoa, Shelter Cove and more - and from the various ethnic groups from Native Americans to the newest arrivals from Southeast Asia. Includes both history and recipes. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, selected bibliography, index. Slightly oversized trade paperback. 389 pp.

New York & London: Peebles Press International, Inc., (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in The Midnight Library. Demouzon is considered by many to be the successor of Simenon, and this is the first of his novels to appear in English. Set in the core of Paris, in the "tarnished business of high priced sex and underground cinema" this features private investigator Robert Fleheux who finds himself the prime suspect when his client is found murdered. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-856900761.

New York: Workers Library Publishers 1935 (1945). Offset reprint by American Opinion, Belmont, Massachusetts from a similar reprint in 1945 by The National Economic Council. Co-author James S. Allen's exposure of the case of the Scottsboro Boys in The Southern Worker has been credited with saving them from execution. Includes the complete 47 pp 1935 edition, plus a 2 pp addendum from The National Economic Council (final page and inside back cover) on "What's Back of Anti-Discrimination Bills" (which concludes that they are "one more attempt of the Communists to stir up trouble" and that discrimination is "merely the expression of 117 million non-Negroes and non-Jews of their choice of employees or fellow-employees or of companions or associates." An interesting example of warring propaganda.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this African American and feminist poet. Her style is described as "accomplished...at once, lean, subtle and strong." INSCRIBED on title page. Uncommon in hardcover. Nominated for the National Book Award. 75 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-04639.

New York: Walker, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring Alix Thorssen, Wyoming art dealer and on-call expert witness for the FBI and other agencies, one which draws on her Nordic background and her knowledge of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. October is usually a quiet month, but Alix is asked to look into a questionable shooting of a wolf on ranch land and a death that occurred 25 years earlier.SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33522.

Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Hardcover first edition - The hardcover issue, one of 100 individually numbered copies, of a new magazine intended to be a forum for serious discussion on the nature of science fiction by and for science fiction writers. Includes contributions from William F. Wu; Brian Aldiss; Thomas Perry (on Heinlein's first story), Gary Westfahl (2 essays), John Barnes and John Sladek. 100 pp. plus colophon. ISBN: 1-56146-4333.

Melbourne, Australia: Australasian Book Society 1956. First edition - The second novel by this Trinidadian-born Australian social realist novelist, described as "an outspoken opponent of racism, injustice, greed and corruption, a passionate humanist with a vision of a just society" Set during the Second World War when thousands of American soldiers came to Trinidad to build and man military bases and the dollars from the American military presence changed Trinidad from a neglected and quasi-feudal British colony into a competitive market economy. It remains relevant because it gives a portrait of a period in Trinidad's recent past which is still very much alive in shaping its present. 214 pp. Uncommon in the true first edition.

New York: Modern Library, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American writer's second book, originally published in 1971 - a combination of memoir and literary criticism - in part, a book about one black intellectual's perspectives on a number of white Southern writers (Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy among others) and in part recollections of Murray's boyhood and youth. SIGNED on the title page. ML binding style 17 with Modern Llibrary running torchbearer end papers and a photographic dust jacket. 266 pp. ISBN: 0-679601473.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth book in the Chronicles of Prydain, an award winning fantasy series inspired by Welsh mythology. 256 pp. Wraparound dust jacket by Evaline Ness.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1952) dj. Hardcover - Rather hard-to-find adventure novel by this prolific author best known for "Indian Paint" and many other young adult books set in the American west. The story of a city-raised boy, teased by his classmates as "fatty" or "sissy" who is separated from the group on a hunting trip in the Owyhee Mountains of Idaho. There he meets an Indian boy who calls him derisively 'squaw boy' but after they manage to survive together thru the harsh winter, he develops a sense of self-reliance. Illustrated by Paul Vantino. 188 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first full-length biography of this mid-century American author (Hemingway called her his favorite living author) whose work was almost unknown until a fairly spectacular revival in the 1990's. Gore Vidal called this biography 'not only a distinguished work in itself but [it] illuminates one of our most brilliant - certainly most witty - novelists, whose literary reputation continues to grow long after her death; we are catching up to her.' Frontispiece and glossy photographic inserts. Notes, bibliography, index. INSCRIBED by Page on the title page and dated March 2002 in Charlottesville. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-5068x.

New York: Springer-Verlag, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual collaboration between art and science which results in a beautiful book designed to inform and inspire others to take action. Prints (silkscreen over collage) by Andy Warhol created especially for this book of some of the most endangered animals in the world, including some less well-known ones, are joined with informative text by Dr Kurt Benirschke on the lives and habits of these animals and what the outlook is for their survival. Illustrated with many black and white photographs in addition to the 16 full-page full-color prints by Warhol. Large square format. 99 pp. ISBN: 0-38796410X.

Boston: Little Brown, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of "ribald realism" by this award-winning writer. "In Luino, in the years just before Fascism when the 'nineteenth century drew to a long-overdue close,' Emerenziano Paronzini, a dour but distinguished looking man of 45, takes up residence, eyes the rather unattractive sisterhood - all unwed - Tarsilla, Fortunata and Camilla, and eventually proposes to Fortunata .. By the close is trigamously servicing all three sister. A wholly funny, bawdy, small story told with scapegrace irreverence and a knowing leer." (Kirkus) Translated from the Italian by Julia Martines. 180 pp.

Printed at Thai Watana Panich, Bangkok: By the author, nd (ca 1962). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this 'millionaire socialist,' pacifist and author of numerous psychology books and periodicals, founder of several schools for boys using Montessori principles and more. He was jailed and fined for his strident anti-war views, pro-union activities, and investigated for his associations with such social reformers as Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman, although he comments in this book that with the rise of Hitler and Mussolini's dictatorships he reluctantly renounced his previous pacifist views (p 141). Includes a 9 page list of the 'personalities in this history.' INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "with the compliments of" and dated May 19, 1962. 205 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring Maine game warden Mike Bowditch. A call for help from a former colleague of Stacey leads them on a sea kayaking trip to an island off the coast of Maine, a sanctuary for endangered seabirds, where they discover two of the researchers bludgeoned to death and the third missing. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 310 pp. ISBN: 978-1250235138.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Hardcover first edition - One of the greatest works to come out of colonial Africa, this is also one of the first novels to depict Africans as they really were, and to reveal the smoldering hatred of the African and the white colonialists for each other. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1922 (Maran was the first Black writer to win this award). Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-87953-006.

London: Michael Joseph, (1947). Hardcover - An uncommon early UK printing (just one month after the first) of this novel, was has been described as a "living portrait of Harlem in the forties." In pale blue cloth with red illustration on the front cover, red lettering on spine. The novel upon which Petry's reputation rests - and the first novel by a black woman writer to sell more than 1 million copies. 312 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised second novel set in boomtown North Carolina - "An intricately nuanced novel of psychological investigation and suspense, riveting in the depth and intensity of the questions it raises about ourselves - and about our status-obsessed society." SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-375406409.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth mystery novel in the award-winning series featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway, who becomes involved not only in bones found in the tunnels under Norwich, but in a series of disappearances. The Sunday Times commented that she "weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skillfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection." SIGNED on the title page. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0544750319.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First edition - A picture of Harlem life in words (by Hughes) and photographs (by DeCarava), uncommon in all editions. A moving and beautiful book. 98 pp.

New York: Random House, (1948) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about murder and racial prejudice, set in Mississippi and the basis for the powerful 1949 Clarence Brown film. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Faulkner's last novel before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949. 247 pp. Dust jacket art by E. McKnight Kauffer. Original price of 3.00 on dj flap.

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 York: The Century Company, 1923. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical novel for young adults by this husband and wife team, a story of adventure in Revolutionary America and based on real events. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe with a frontispiece and three internal plates, as well as illustrated boards. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For our little messenger Bernice" and signed by Emilie Knipe. Date of 1923 on title page, as required for a first edition. 372 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of ten short stories shortlisted for the National Book award, which noted hat "the characters in [these] stories are forced to reckon with conflicts between religion and independence. . . Bilal compassionately unfurls the inner lives of her protagonists, examining the complex contradictions of the Black Muslim experience in America." 238 pp.

Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, (1998). SIGNED first edition - A collection of powerful stories about "the lives of women on the edge and beyond the margins" by this award-winning poet and novelist. SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-874173213.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon title of Asimov - Seventeen speculative essays on the possibilities of science - divided into sections on the earth, the solar system, the universe and the human mind. 263 pp.

Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Attractive hardcover edition of a work published in paperback in 1986, a grisly vampire novel set in New York City, which was one of the most important early titles in the Splatterpunk genre (maybe even the one that started it all). 370 pp. Jacket design by Steve Montiglio. ISBN: 1-58881002X.

New York: The London Lancet, 1859. Hardcover first edition - The first New York volume for American doctors, although The Lancet had been published in England since 1823. Six issues bound in a single volume - each issue includes significant original papers - for example, Walter Hayle Walshe on Human Progress, James Martin on Heat Apoplexy, Coup-de-Soliel or Sunfever; brief case studies, book reviews and more. Printed in double columns, illustrated. Index. 520 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A moody, psychological near-future science fiction thriller by this Hugo and Nebula award winning writer. After being injured in Vietnam, Peter Roos develops a rare physical condition which gives him the power to hear the thoughts of those around him. "Now he has 'heard' about the government's secret plan to give up control of America to the military - to build an underground city for themselves in the event of a nuclear attack. Unfortunately for Roos, the government knows he knows. And the project's sponsors - including his senator brother - have no choice.
They must get him out of the way - permanently!" SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-316940763.

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.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, (c 1957). SIGNED - First separate appearance of an article originally published in "Dissent." "Superficial reflections on the hipster" with comments by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. SIGNED on the title page. Later printing or issue with cover price (on back cover) of $1.00 cents (first printing had a cover price of 35 cents). Unpaginated (32 pp including title page and 1 pp publisher's list of titles) Cover with photograph by Harry Redl of a face in negative.

New York: Delacorte, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and set in contemporary Russia, where behind a curtain of ice in far northern Siberia is the world's richest diamond mine. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-385335161.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Hardcover first edition - Classic crime novel - a mystery featuring Lt. Michael Lord and Dr. L. Rees Pons. "4 psychologists, each with different methods, attempt to solve the crime." 323 pp.

Adelaide: Rigby, Limited, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a thoroughly researched account of the "brutal annihilation" of the traditional way of life of the thousands of the Barkindji people who once lived in the Darling River region of New South Wales. They have dwindled to a mere handful, mostly part-Abroriginals. This volume is "an appalling case history of the relationship between white man and black man in Australia" between 1829 to 1940. While explorers like Charles Stuart and Edward John Eyre treated the Barkindji with kindness and received loyal friendship in return, this did nothing to stop the slide into humiliating dependence. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. 246 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-72700008X.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen poems, including the title poem, illustrated with 5 steel engravings, each with tissue guards. In the rather uncommon embossed brown leather binding, with gilt title on spine, gilt decoraations to the edges and the turn down, marble endpapers, all edges gilt. 72 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Whitehead's sixth novel and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence - a book which "seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share." SIGNED by the author directly on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0385542364.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1941) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The third - and probably best known - book by this novelist, editor and civil rights activist. The first extensive history of the Underground Railroad and still an important book about it. Richard Wright called this "a magnificent picture of the struggle of the Negro for freedom .. . in an hour of national peril she resurrects and holds aloft an era in which the hunger for freedom transcended the laws of the land and the rights of property, in which the desire for human dignity and human right became an active and creative force. "Illustrated with photographs and maps. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Bibliography, index. 398 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller introducing FBI agent Atlee Pine, who has been tormented about the fate of her twin sister Mercy who was abducted at the age of six. Set in Arizona at the Grand Canyon. SIGNED on the title page. 401 pp. ISBN: 978-1538761571.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller featuring FBI agent Atlee Pine, who has been tormented about the fate of her twin sister Mercy who was abducted at the age of six. SIGNED on the title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 978-1538719725.