New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final book in his award winning Albany cycle, featuring journalist Daniel Quinn, who meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. "A tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. His epic journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. . . an unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and redemption, set against the landscape of the civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany political machine." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022977.

New York: Delacorte, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel in the Myron Bolitar series, originally published as a pocket paperback in 1995. SIGNED on the title page, and rather uncommon thus. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0385340601.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author-illustrator's fun-filled first book. "This zany, rhyming, cumulative tale is carefully designed, humorously detailed, and appropriately silly. It starts and ends with a tree and features a colorful array of first woodland, and then escaped circus creatures that take up residence in its branches. A new font, including hand-lettering, announces each new arrival. Paintings created in oils and mixed media portray a jumble of animals cavorting across the pages, testing viewers' memory and visual skills."(School Library Journal) SIGNED on the front endpaper with a small drawing of a very plump bee! Large format. 39 pp. ISBN: 978-0152053635.

Marin County Historical Society, (1971). First edition - A history of Marin County focusing on the 19th century beginning with the wresting of the land away from the Californios by the Yankees who poured into the state after the discovery of gold, and in defiance of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Illustrated with photographs. Includes footnotes, bibliography and index. Map of original ranchos inside covers. xii, 212 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third collection of short stories - nine stories which show that she is one of the finest observers of women on the edge. Set in and around contemporary London, these stories explore both the blisses and irritations of domestic life. Ruth Rendell called her work "sparingly tragic and unsparingly funny." Named one of Granta's Best of Young British novelists and the recipient in 1991 of the first Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. SIGNED on the title page. 196 pp. Dust jacket features a painting by Alex Katz. ISBN: 0-375411097.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, featuring Dr. Robert Fredrickson, the dwarf detective and professor of criminology known as Mongo, in which he becomes involved in a tangled game of international politics, centering on SAVAK, the pre-revolution Iranian secret police. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens and on the page opposite the title page Chesbro has added an additional note that this was the first Mongo novel he wrote, but the second to be published after the "modest success" of Shadow... 236 pp. ISBN: 0-67124003X.

New York: Blue Hen Press / Penguin Putnam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, "a beautifully wrought and wrenching account of sibling rivalry, family betrayal, and repressed grief." SIGNED on the half title page. Finalist for the 2003 Paterson Fiction Prize. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-399148574.

Shelton, CT: Greenwich Workshop Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book, "illustrated with Bev Doolittle's detailed watercolor paintings, which gives us clues, from both Indian lore and modern science, to understanding the animal life around us. With a little knowledge and a willingness to pay attention, a walk through the woods, or even a single tree, can become a scavenger hunt for the signs and the wonders of animal life." SIGNED by the artist, Bev Doolittle, on the half title page. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-86713061X.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982. Hardcover first edition - From the publisher - the first comprehensive bibliography since 1908 and "the only Thoreau bibliography to be based on the principles of modern textual scholarship. It contain complete descriptions of the primary editions and lists all subsequent editions. Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. . . [plus] information on the books, magazines, and pamphlets that contain first printing material by Thoreau. For the first time, illustrations of all of Thereau's first edition title pages are gathered in one volume. Also illustrated are bindings and dust jackets." A title in the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Frontispiece portrait. Appendix, index. xvi, 232 pp. including an , text and illustratedfrom photographs of many of Therou's first edition titles. ISBN: 0-822934450.

New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - As he was dying, the father of two very different sisters extracted a promise from his wife - that she will finish the Russian tale she told her daughters when they were children. This promise 'begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are." 391 pp. ISBN: 978-0312364120.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller by this Irish author. Detective Charlie Parker is finding some measure of peace in his Maine farmhouse, when an old friend in South Carolina who is defending a young black man accused of raping and murdering his white girl friend calls for his help. SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-340821183.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel, featuring former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker who has returned to his hometown in Maine after the vicious killing of his wife. The first novel was the winner of the Shamus Award for best first PI novel. SIGNED on title page. 425 pp. ISBN: 0-34072899X.

London: Macmillan, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Edgar-award winning author's ninth novel, a psychological thriller about a man who becomes the victim of a campaign accusing him of murdering his wife - and worse. SIGNED on the title page. 415 pp. ISBN: 1-405001097.

London: Little Brown, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the series of dark thrillers featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne. Someone is taking justice into their own hands and targeting sexual offenders. SIGNED on the title page. For the creation of the Tom Thorne character, Billingham received the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British writer. Publishers Weekly commented that this is "a mature, intelligent novel by a writer who's as thoughtful as his main character, and the series grows better with each new addition. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-316724947.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fith book in the Hawkenlye Mystery series set in and around the Weald of Kent. Double page map of Outremer and Europe. "Hurrying to Hawkenlye Abbey to enlist the help of Abbess Helewise, Josse finds she has a problem of her own - a decomposing body has been discovered, naked and killed by an expert hand. When JosseÕs brother, Yves, arrives, the three are hurled into a mystery with roots that reach back further than the Second Crusade." 241 pp. plus a family tree. ISBN: 0-340793295.

New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in the near future, in a high-tech tour of Tokyo and elsewhere, this is the story of a world where for millions, Warcross isn't just a game - it is a way of life. SIGNED on the title page with a small doodle. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-0399547966.

New York HarperCollins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Maguire's first novel for adults, a fantasy based on the Oz stories - but told from the viewpoint of the vanquished Wicked Witch of the West. The basis for the award-winning Broadway musical. Humorous and thought-provoking. Illustrated by by Douglas Smith with full page black and white drawings at the beginning of each section, illustrated title page and decorations throughout. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-060391448.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second (and most popular) novel by this Southern author, and her only foray into horror fiction. Set in "a wealthy suburb in Atlanta where an ambitious young architect is building a dramatically contemporary house. However, as each of three families move into the house in succession, their lives are torn apart and destroyed. Meanwhile the warnings of the neighbors next door are ignored, and their fears are dismissed. A story of unimaginable evil invading the comfortable world of the complacent rich. 346 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-671240188.

New York: Pantheon, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted linguist and political activist, published a year after the Yom Kippur War; now, almost 50 years later peace seems farther away than ever. Includes a substantial foreword by Irene L. Gendzier. Notes at the end of each essay. xlviii, 198 pp.

Boston & New York: Phillips, Sampson and Company / J. C. Derby, 1855 (c. 1854). Hardcover - Author's first book, a sentimental anti-slavery novel, set mostly in South Carolina, of a young white girl who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. In her brief preface the author states that she hopes this book will "arouse a more intense love of freedom" and inspire a "more firm protest against the extension of that system which alike for master and servant, poisons the springs of life." Upon publication, this book drew comparisons to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', was championed by Frederick Douglass and sold 60,000 copies in its first two years.

New York: Harper Collins, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young woman struggling to write her first novel sees the photograph of "Woman with a Gun" at a show, and is inspired to use the unsolved mystery behind that photograph and a 10 year old unsolved murder as the basis for her novel. Set mostly on the Oregon coast. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0062266521.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Butcher's Boy novel. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0547569338.

New York: Free Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of the struggle to bring justice after an environmental crime at an acid fertilizer plant in Soda Springs, Idaho, that left a young man permanently brain damaged. This precipitated a three-year investigation and trial. Written by Joseph Hilldorfer, the Environmental Protection Agency special agent sent to look into the crime, and by Robert Dugoni, this reads like fiction, but it also explores important issues involved in white collar crime and the reluctance of the government - and the public - to see this as 'real crime.' SIGNED by Dugoni on the title page. Photographs. Endnotes, index. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-743246527.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1951. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely edition of this classic tale illustrated with six watercolor plates by Edmund Dulac. Bound in full white vellum with gold stamping. #27 out of 1500 copies, numbered and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. 64 pp plus colophon.

New York: George H. Doran, nd (ca 1920.). Hardcover first edition - A collection of fairy tales from the nations allied with Britain in The Great War - that is, World War I. illustrated with sixteen tipped in water color illustrations and a decorative line drawing on the title page of each story. Includes Snegorotchka from Russia, The Buried Moon from England, The Serpent Prince from Italy; The Hind of the Wood from France, White Caroline and Black Caroline from Flanders, The Fire Bird from Russia; Urashima Taro from Japan; The Story of the Bird Feng from China, and others. Large format. 173 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A presentation copy of this Pulitzer Prize winning play with a signed inscription by "Robert Sherwood, '14" to another Harvard classmate of '14. This play was produced with a distinguished cast including Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Sydney Greenstreet, Montgomery Clift, Maurice Colbourne, Robert Downing, and others. This edition includes a long preface by Sherwood about his previous anti-war attitude and the apparent change represented by this play, which was inspired by the German invasion of Finland. xxx,178 pp.

Highlands [North Carolina]: Jonathan Williams, 1957. First edition - Collection of fifty new poems, each illustrated with a drawing by Patchen. Issued as Jargon 21. 62 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1923.]. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel. No publisher's ads at the back of the book, but otherwise meets all the points in Kirkpatrick, A6b. 303 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1974.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete English language translation of this work originally published in 1958, a collection of lyric poems written by Neruda after he had returned to Chile and settled at Isla Negra. A bilingual edition, with the original Spanish on the verso and the English translation by Alastair Reid on the recto. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Includes translator's note. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-374-15126-1.

New York: Random House, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1870, both literary history - regarding Charles Dicken's final unfinished novel - and an absorbing mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066568.

New York & Boston: Mulholland / Little Brown, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this award-winning series - Isiah Quintabe has a flourishing career, a new dog, and a near iconic status as a private investigator in his hometown, but he is still haunted by the death of his brother 10 years ago, and determined to find out who was responsible. The first book in the series - IQ - was a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year; winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards and nominated for an Edgar. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 978-0316267779.

New York: Morrow, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Massive new epic adventure set in the world of Arbre - the title is a play on the words anthem and anathema. SIGNED on left side of the double title page. Includes an introduction by the author, which lays out the chronology of Arbre's history. Winner of the 2009 Locus Award, nominated for the Hugo award, and more. xvii, 937 pp. ISBN: 9780061474095.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 3 stories in which the senses - taste, hearing and smell - dominate the lives of the characters. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Note at end of book by Esther Calvino. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-151928207.

Newcastle, CA: The Blue Oak Press / Capra Press, 1977. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An epic narrative poem, set in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a book which he said it took him 13 years to write. An association copy INSCRIBED on the title page to fellow poet and author, Gary Elder and dated in 1978 (among other things, Elder wrote an afterward to the 1979 edition of Elder's 'Arnulfsaga'. Publisher's material laid in. Illustrated with the author's photographs. 314 pp plus a note by the author 3 additional photographs. Uncommon in hardcover, and especially so inscribed. ISBN: 0-912950331.

Hollywood: W. M. Hawley, (1956) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Parallel text translations Of T'ang Dynasty Poetry (618-906 A. D.) with the original Chinese on the left facing the English translation on the right. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and simply signed "Shirley." Black, a British born Sinologist, is perhaps best known for her 1960 translation of "Chapters from a Floating Life" by Fu Shen. 45 pp.

New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in the world of professional football. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-38548030X.

New York: Macmillan, 1939. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this writer closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although at the time this was written he was living in Chicago, where he was also influential in the Chicago Renaissance. Set in Saint Domingue in 1791 at the beginning of the Haitian rebellion, this focuses on the white, privileged people of French descent rather than on Toussaint L'Overture, the leader of the revolution. At the end, Toussaint is instrumental in helping his friend, the young French hero, Diron, escape with Celeste, the girl he loves. 226 pp. Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Inspector Perry Trethowan mystery, involving a previously unknown Bronte manuscript, a crazy collector, a smooth millionaire, a shifty evangelist and lots of violence. SIGNED by the author on the front free end paper. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-002314894.

Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967, dj. Hardcover first edition - "The greatest pitcher in the Major Leagues tells the inside story of his rise to the top." Autobiography from his birth in the Dominican Republic when Trujillo was dictator to his induction into his country's air force, as a baseball player to his discovery by major league baseball. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 215 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this noted historian, whose work "From Slavery to Freedom" remained the classic text for over 60 years. Born in 1915, he was "confined to segregated schools, threatened and consistently subjected to racismÕs denigration of his humanity." Yet he went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard & become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution; he has reshaped the understanding and teaching of African American history. INSCRIBED on the half title page.Photographs, index. xi, 401 pp. ISBN: 0-374-29944-7.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Alumni Association, (1989). SIGNED first edition - Published to celebrate Stanford's Centennial. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Includes selections from 100 contributors from Edward Abbey through Peter Beagle, Wendell Berry, Robert Haas, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen and more. SIGNED by 3 authors at their contributions: Marilyn Chin, Thomas McGuane and Al Young, and uncommon thus.xxii, 512 pp. ISBN: 0-916318338.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of a young German girl, "reaching maturity after the war, deeply moving, grimly dramatic. The picture of wartime Germany, of children standing in line for food, stealing butter and vinegar from the pitiful family larder, wearing clothes made out of any available bit of material - this has never been told, in quite so direct and evidently authentic a way. Then comes the post-war fever of revolution, civil war, communism quickly crushed, the youth movement," (Kirkus) and finally the realization that she can never support Hitler, even as her family and most of her friends see him as the hero that Germany needs, and so it ends as she is leaving Germany. xi, 431 pp

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Warhol's irreverent, funny, but also true comments and jibes on such topics as Love (puberty), Love (prime), Love (senility), Beauty, Fame, Success and Art and more. Dedicated to his frequent collaborator, Pat Hackett, and Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello, who helped him put this book together. SIGNED with his initials in the lower corner of the half title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-151890501.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for The Parents' Institute, Inc., (c 1922). Hardcover - Contains 11 stories which tell the further adventures of Lad. A title in The What Every Child Should Know, third series. Full-color frontispiece. Bound in blue cloth with an embossed border of children in different poses and a pasted-on illustration reproducing the frontispiece. 341 pp.

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, (1948) dj. Collects six stories, three by each author. Uncommon soft cover issue in off-white printed wrappers. 141 pp. Dust jacket by Roy Hunt.

New York: Phoenix Press, (1944). Hardcover - A novel by this prolific author of pulp fiction, set against the backdrop of World War II. Clara had been too ill most of her life to think about being loving a man, but now that she has been cured, her blossoming is the more flamboyent for being delayed - but she is in danger of being burnt. 253 pp.

Prime Books, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The first in a new annual fantasy anthology series praised for being "a breath of eclectic and delightfully innovative fresh air. While the VanderMeers have included such fantasy veterans as Kelly Link and Elizabeth Hand, most of the 29 stories are by nongenre authors as well as gifted newcomers." (Publishers Weekly) SIGNED by 3 authors: on the title page by Jeff Vandermeer, and by Chris Adrian ('A Better Angel') and Daniel Alarcon ('Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot') at their stories. Preface by Matthew Cheney, introduction by the editors. Notes on contributors. Recommended reading. 459 pp. ISBN: 978-0809562800.

New York: Viking, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Award-winning author's second novel, a "dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield." SIGNED on the title page. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0525426684.

New York: Ballantine, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (third book) one which follows the lives of four generations of African-American women from the end of the Civil War to the early 21st century as it explores the hidden effects of slavery. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-345378571.

New York: Harper & Row, (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kohn was an American historian and philosopher, who pioneered the academic study of nationalism. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he fought in World War I serving time in a prison camp, then lived in Paris and London until he and his wife immigrated to the US in 1934. He was also a prominent supporter of a binational solution in Palestine. This book traces the beginnings of nationalism to the French Revolution, but also covers the movement in Asia and Africa, focusing on both the hopes and dangers it can bring. Volume 28 in the World Perspectives series under the general editorship of Ruth Nanda Anshen. Index. xvi, 171 pp.

New York: Kodansha International, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book published after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, a very personal nonfiction account which presents an intimate portrait of his son, born with a brain deformity, and reflects on the challenges and pleasures of raising a handicapped person and the healing power of the family - and ultimately to see his son find his voice in music. SIGNED by Oe on the title page and uncommon thus. Illustrated with drawings of the family, including a section in full color, by Yukari Oe, his wife. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Laid in is a flyer for the book signing event in NYC. 146 pp. ISBN: 4-770020481.

New York: Boni & Liveright, (1925). Hardcover - Anderson's only best-selling novel during his lifetime, this explores the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. The title comes from the protagonist who spent several months in New Orleans, where he watched and listened to African Americans, and thought "listening to their dark laughter, that they lived as simply as children and were happy." 319 pp. Striking illustrated endpapers depict a panoramic collage of African American musicians and a townscape.

New York: Putnam, 1874. Hardcover first edition - Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music. 255 pp plus index to cabin songs.

New York: Targ Editions, 1980. 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.

New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's third novel featuring Easy Rawlins, set in Los Angeles in 1956. Edgar award nominee. SIGNED on title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-393-03366x.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp

New York: Random House, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author Warren returns to the South where he was brought up and recounts conversations he had regarding segregation and integration - although his conclusion that "despite the suspicion, evasion, hatred and fear engendered by the problem now, integration one day will appear as just one small episode in the long effort for human justice" was perhaps too optimistic. Noted journalist and author Tom Wicker's copy with his handwritten name on the front endpaper. 66 pp.

New York: Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 7 stories: six were published in reissued Washington Square Press editions of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, but this is the first appearance of the 7th story, 'Amber Gate.' SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-42520.

Boston: Little Brown, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1954 Los Angeles: when Paris Minton's finds himself beaten up, shot at and robbed, and his used bookstore burned to the ground, he has no choice but to turn to his friend and fellow World War II veteran, Fearless Jones. Mosley at his best.SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316-592382.

Boston: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Easy Rawlins mystery, set in Los Angeles in 1965 at the height of the Watts riots. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-316-073032.

New York: Random House, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by Mailer on a tipped in page. A giant retrospective of Mailer's work, selected and edited by him to create an ongoing narrative of events that have shaped America over the past 50 years. A massive book xix, 1286 pages. ISBN: 0-375500979.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American poet's first regularly published collection. #129 out of 200 copies numbered and signed by Coleman. 133 pp plus colophon and final photograph of author. ISBN: 0-876854129.

New York: Arbor House, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of The London Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writer's Award, the story of an extraordinary friendship between a young boy and a wise black Jamaican woman hired to care for him. Basis for the film of the same name featuring Whoopie Goldberg. Dustjacket praise by Ian McEwan, Gail Godwin and others. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-877957444.

New York: Random House, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of the award-winning 'White Teeth.' The story of an autograph dealer who becomes obsessed with finding one rare autograph, that of a 1940's movie star. SIGNED on the title page. 347 pp. ISBN: 0-375-50188x.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a Southern childhood (in the small farming village of Bolson, North Carolina) by this African American novelist, and of his struggle to free himself from his family's violent history. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author "Thanks for the inspiration for this book." and dated in 1994. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-2935.

Chicago: Noble Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood, and at her life and her attempts to "walk the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 243 pp. ISBN: 1-879360241.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - At the turn of the century, when European political powers were carving up Africa. King Leopold II of Belgium carried out brutal acts in the territory surrounding the Congo River, which reduced the population of that area by ten million,while he still managed to cultivate a reputation as a humanitarian. In this book, the author recounts the horrific details of the monster verses the man, and tells of those who defied Leopold - rebel leaders, and a handful of missionaries and travelers. SIGNED on the title page. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography and Index. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-395759242.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 11th thriller in the Agent Pendergast Series. "Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers--a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana--he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past." SIGNED by Preston on the title page and uncommon thus. 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1455500130.

Arlington Heights, Illinois: Dark Harvest Books, 1989. dj. SIGNED by illustrator, hardcover first edition - A beautiful illustrated edition of this 1987 Bram Stoker award-winning novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Illustrated with a full color front plate and 11 full page black and white illustrations by Charles Lang. Laid in is an original sketch of the art work for the dust jacket reproduced for the Overlook Connection and SIGNED by Charles Lang. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-913165468.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery connecting World War II with the Civil War: when June and her young brother Chuck are collecting keys to aid in the war effort, they are given many by elderly Miss Abbie, and when the box is accidentally dropped they find a strange folding key - a key which enables them to resolve a mystery with its roots in the Civil War era. Illustrated by Manning de V Lee. One of Seaman's most difficult to find titles, and very scarce in dust jacket. 208 pp.