Browsing Women Authors  :  626 Books

• Megan Abbott  :  A Hell of a Woman   Busted Flush, Houston, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An anthology of female noir. Signed by Abbott and several contributors including S.J. Rozan. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Carol J Adams  :  Neither Man Nor Beast   Continuum, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. The author of The Sexual Politics of Meat goes one step further here. This volume represents her collected reflections on animal rights, vegetarianism, and ecofeminism. F/F. $10.00.

• Jane Adams  :  Cast the First Stone   Macmillan, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. When Eric Pearson and his family move into a house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, they become the focus of local hatred. What have the Pearsons done to provoke such hatred? And why does Eric take photographs of everybody in the close? Author's second novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Lorraine Adams  :  Harbor   Knopf, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An intimate portrait of young Arab Muslims living in the United States. Extraordinry first novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie  :  Half of a Yellow Sun   Fourth Estate, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set in Nigeria in the 1960s. Winner of the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket and slip cased. F/F. $75.00.

• Dorothy Allison  :  Cavedweller   Dutton, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Delia Byrd leaves her life in the world of rock 'n' roll and heads back to Cayro, Georgia. For the first time in years she knows what she wants - the two daughters she left behind a lifetime ago. By the author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA. F/F. $5.00.

• Rajaa Alsanea  :  Girls of Riyadh   Penguin Press, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. The hidden world of four young women as they email each other. Originally published in Arabic in 2005, it was immediately banned in Saudi Arabia. Published simultaneously in the US and the UK. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Julia Alvarez  :  In the Name of Salome   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of a mother and daughter, set in the Dominican Republic in the late 19th Century and in Cuba during the 1960s. F/F. $5.00.

• Julia Alvarez  :  In the Time of the Butterflies   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's powerful second novel tells the story of three women living in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Trujillo. Lyrical. F/F. $5.00.

• Anita Amirrezvani  :  The Blood of Flowers   Little Brown, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Carol Anshaw  :  Seven Moves   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Christine Snow, a Chicago therapist, shares her life with Taylor Hayes, a travel photographer. The two women share a house, a dog, a life. And then one morning after a minor argument, Taylor disappears. F/F. $5.00.

• Patricia Anthony  :  Flanders   Ace Books, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texan sharpshooter serving in an English unit during World War I. A remarkable novel by this writer of speculative fiction. F/F. $5.00.

• Susan Antilla  :  Tales From the Boom-Boom Room   Bloomberg Press, Princeton, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. At the height of the bull market in the late 1990s, America's second-largest brokerage house, Salomon Smith Barney, was hit with a lawsuit. Three women employees from Garden City, New York, were alleging a pattern of extreme sexual harassment and sex discrimination. F/F. $10.00.

• Ann Arensberg  :  Incubus   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The town of Dry Falls is a thriving agricultural community. But things start to go awry. A heat wave is followed by a drought and animals give birth to monsters and women complain of sexual persecution. There seems to be an evil entity at large, but what does it want? By the author of Sister Wolf. F/F. $5.00.

• Kelly Armstrong  :  Bitten   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Elena Michaels has it all. She is happy, successful and enjoys the company of her friends and architect boyfriend. And once a week in the dead of night she streaks through a downtown ravine, naked and furred, tearing at the throats of animal prey. She is a werewolf. Author's first novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Kelly Armstrong  :  Stolen   Viking, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Elena Michaels, werewolf, is back for her second outing, but this time she has company. She is also battling an obsessed tycoon who is well on his way to amassing a private collection of supernaturals. F/F. $5.00.

• Margaret Atwood  :  Alias Grace   Doubleday, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Story of Grace Marks who was convicted of killing her employer in the 19th century. F/F. $5.00.

• Margaret Atwood  :  The Blind Assassin   Doubleday, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Booker Prize. Hammett Prize. Woman tells the story of her sister's death in 1945. Other stories are woven throughout. F/F. $5.00.

• Margaret Atwood  :  The Robber Bride   Doubleday, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. Zenia entered the lives of Roz, Charis, and Tonty when they were in college and, over the three decades since, she has damaged them very badly. Slant to spine. Shelfwear. VG+/VG+. $5.00.

• Margaret Atwood  :  Wilderness Tips   Doubleday, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories with shared themes of loss and discovery. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Rosemary Aubert  :  Free Reign   Bridge Works, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces Ellis Portal, once an esteemed judge who was convicted of a felony and disgraced. He lives as a vagrant in the river valley, a wilderness preserve running through the heart of Toronto. One day he finds a severed hand and recognizes the ring on it. Ellis sets out to identify the victim. Small print run sent this first novel into a second printing very quickly. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. F/F. $10.00.

• Rosemary Aubert  :  Free Reign   Bridge Works, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. First novel introducting Ellis Portal. ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Lucie Aubrac  :  Outwitting The Gestapo   University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993. Hardcover. First English Translation. Lucie Aubrac, newly married, was teaching history in Lyons when World War II broke out. She and her husband soon joined the Resistance movement. This is her account of the months when, pregnant with her second child, she planned and took part in raids to free captive comrades - including her husband. F/F. $10.00.

• Andrea Badenoch  :  Blink   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In a small pit village in County Durham in 1962 Gloria, the local hair stylist, a modern woman with her narrow skirts, low blockheels and Mini Cooper, is found dead, floating in the shallows of a nearby pond. F/F. $5.00.

• Toni Cade Bambara  :  Those Bones Are Not My Child   Pantheon, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Bambara's last novel before she died. Two decades ago forty black children were murdered in Atlanta - strangled, beaten, and sexually assaulted. Bambara dramatizes the story of one one black family whose teenage son has gone missing as the Atlanta abductions are beginning to be reported. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  A Bleeding of Innocents   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. A serial killer is on the loose in Castlemere and newly promoted Inspector Liz Graham joins Sergeant Donovan as the body count starts to rise. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  A Taste For Burning   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Castlemere mystery. Published in the UK as "Burning Desires". F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Broken Lines   Macmillan, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Riding his motorbike through the Fenlands, Detective Sergeant Donovan rides into an armed robbery taking place at a Castlemere petrol station. He gives chase and captures Mickey Dickens whose family has a very wily solicitor. Donovan is determined to see justice done but he soon finds himself fighting for his reputation, his career, and even his life. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Burning Desires   Macmillan, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. The relationship among the detective team of Frank Shapiro, Liz Graham, and Cal Donovan is quirky but rock solid. That is, until Shapiro is suspended because new evidence in an eight-year-old arson case suggests that he sabotaged the investigation. A Castlemere mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Changelings   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Castlemere is being held ransom for a million pounds. If the demand is not met, no one will be safe from the unscrupulous blackmailer. With the casualty rate rising, Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro and Detective Inspector Liz Graham have to deal with this, and more personal problems. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Echoes of Lies   Allison & Busby, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When researcher Brodie Farrell is asked to locate the whereabouts of a young man, she sees nothing suspicious in the request. But when she sees the young man a few days later in the hospital in a life-threatening coma, she is overcome by guilt. This new series is set on the South Coast of England. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Gilgamesh   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly dinner with a few neighbors when one of them is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Mosaic   Doubleday, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. This is Bannister's sinister tale of international intrigue, suspense and terror. The story stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa and the darker sides of world politics and the human psyche. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  No Birds Sing   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. A vicious gang of thieves has hit the city of Castlemere and the best way to snag them is to infiltrate their organization. Cal Donovan takes on the assignment while Liz Graham goes under cover in a different way when she decides to act as bait in a baffling serial rape case. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Shards   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. British reporter Gil Todd and photojournalist Mickey Flynn are inseparable until Flynn is shot and a shard of bone lodges in his spine. Refusing to accept that his career may be over, Flynn agrees to do what may be his final shoot - the photographing of a terrorist training camp run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  Shards   Doubleday Crime Club, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Hireling's Tale   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The naked battered body of a young prostitute is found on a narrowboat on the Castlemere Canal. Their inquiries take DS Frank Shapiro, DI Liz Graham, and Sergeant Donovan to the Barbican Hotel in the heart of town where a convention is in progress. They will have to deal with more than a hotel full of suspects. The dead girl was not the only person to hire herself out that night. A paid assassin is at large. . F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Lazarus Hotel   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. A seemingly random group of six Londoners shows up for a retreat weekend at an almost-completed new luxury hotel. Each believes he or she is there for an intense group therapy session, but as they begin to open up to one another it becomes clear that they are linked by one tragedy. This is Bannister's classic update of the locked-room mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Mason Codex   Doubleday, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First US Edition. Seven illegal immigrants are left to die at the US/Mexican border. When Welsh school teacher Annie Meredith discovers that one of them is her illegitimate half-brother, she embarks on an adventure in Mexico where drug-smuggling, border-jumping, and lust for priceless meso-American artifacts pull her into intrigue and murder. Biblio mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Primrose Convention   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Primrose Holland is the very successful advice columnist for the SKIPLEY CHRONICLE. But when she volunteers to help Fiona Morris look for her brother, Philip, who disappeared while birdwatching in the Hebrides, she also becomes a not-so-reluctant sleuth. First in a series. F/F. $5.00.

• Jo Bannister  :  The Primrose Switchback   Severn House, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Primrose Holland, advice columnist for the SKIPLEY CHRONICLE, speeds to the aid of a young woman supposedly being held at knifepoint and finds herself involved in yet another murder. Titles published by Severn House are released in the UK and the US from the same printing and carry both prices on the dustjacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Susan Shapiro Barash  :  Tripping the Prom Queen   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Women and rivalry. F/F. $10.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Another World   Viking, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Nick's grandfather lies dying. He has outlived his peers but not his memories and, as Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death. . F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who works in the North of England. He rescues a young man from drowning and realizes that it is Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he gave evidence. Danny has served his sentence and now he's asking for Tom's help. US edition preceded UK edition. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Border Crossing   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. US Edition preceded UK Edition. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Double Vision   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The story of two British journalists in the aftermath of September 11th 2001. F/F. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Life Class   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Barker's latest returns to WW I. Small bump top edge of board else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Pat Barker  :  The Century's Daughter   Putnam, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. The story of Liza Garrett, the first child in town born in the twentieth century, whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. Slight stain on edges. Remainder mark. VG+/VG+. $5.00.

• Pat Barker  :  The Man Who Wasn't There   Virago Press, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. A twelve-year-old imagines his father's life in World War II. Author's fourth novel. F/F. $60.00.

• Pat Barker  :  Union Street   Putnam, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. First hardcover edition of author's first novel. Fine copy in price clipped dustjacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  A Superior Death   Putnam, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Blood Lure   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $35.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Deep South   Putnam, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. BARRY AWARD. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $35.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Endangered Species   Putnam, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $45.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Firestorm   Putnam, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna Pigeon mystery. Inscribed to previous owner. F/F. $55.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  High Country   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. Anna Pigeon mystery. F/F. $5.00.

• Nevada Barr  :  Ill Wind   Putnam, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Anna Pigeon mystery. Set in Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Andrea Barrett  :  The Voyage of the Narwhal   W.W. Norton, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Combining fact and fiction, this story focuses on Erasmus Darwin Wells, a scholar/naturalist accompanying the 19th century expedition of the Narwhal. In the real expeditions, explorers' documents cast the writer as hero, but Barrett is asking what really happened up there in the long, winter darkness, trapped in ice? . F/F. $10.00.

• Alison Bechdel  :  Fun Home   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Cartoonist Bechdel's account of life with father. F/F. $50.00.

• Cheryl Benard  :  Moghul Buffet   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Iqbal investigates a series of murders at the base of the Khyber Pass. Signed and Dated. F/F. $35.00.

• Cheryl Benard  :  Turning on the Girls   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. It is 2000something and the world has been taken over by women, and everything is wonderful. At least it will be just as soon as the new rulers finish fixing things. Needless to say, not all men are pleased with this kinder, gentler world. By the author of MOGHUL BUFFET. F/F. $10.00.

• Ann Benson  :  The Burning Road   Delacorte, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A debilitating genetic disease in the present time has its roots in the fourteenth century. F/F. $5.00.

• Ann Benson  :  The Plague Tales   Delacorte, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The bubonic plague is let loose in modern times. Author's first novel tells the story juxtaposed with the fourteenth century outbreak. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Ann Benson  :  Thief of Souls   Delacorte, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Two crime waves. In each, the victims are children. In each, the perpetrator is a man of power and renown. And in each, the pursuit of justice is spearheaded by a woman who has seen the face of evil up close. The crimes are set in the city of Nantes in the year 1440 and in Los Angeles in the year 2002. F/F. $5.00.

• Suzanne Berne  :  The Ghost at the Table   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Sarah Blake  :  The Postmistress   Amy Einhorn Books, New York, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Alice Blanchard  :  Darkness Peering   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In Flowering Dogwood, Maine, Police Chief Nalen Storrow discovers the body of a young girl. His search for the truth leads to the possibility that the murderer may be his own son, Billy. Eighteen years later the murder has not been solved. But now a different cop is obsessed with the case. Rachel Storrow, Billy's sister. No sooner does Rachel reopen the investigation than another young woman disappears. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Alice Blanchard  :  Darkness Peering   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Kathleen M. Blee  :  Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement   University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A nuanced view of the organized racist underground in the United States focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement. F/F. $20.00.

• Amy Bloom  :  Away   Random House, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Fayle L. Booth  :  Cover the Mirrors   Macmillan, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. Set in Victorian times when spiritualism is at its height. F/F. $5.00.

• Lorraine Bracco  :  On the Couch   Putnam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Candid autobiography of "Dr. Melfi" from The Sopranos. F/F. $45.00.

• Kelly Braffet  :  Last Seen Leaving   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Lily Brett  :  Too Many Men   William Morrow, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ruth Rothwax is a successful independent New York woman who runs her own business writing letters for others. But as the devoted daughter of Edek Rothwax, an Auschwitz survivor, Ruth can find no words to help her understand the loss her family experienced during World War II. F/F. $5.00.

• Simon Brett  :  The Detection Collection   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Original stories by Lindsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, etc. SIGNED BY P.D. JAMES. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Geraldine Brooks  :  People of the Book   Viking Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Biblio by Pulitzer Prize winner Brooks. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Geraldine Brooks  :  Year of Wonders   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid, Anna Frith, emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Susan Brownmiller  :  In Our Time   Dial Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A memoir of the second wave of feminism by the author of Against Our Will. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Blood Child   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Short stories by the winner of Science Fiction's highest awards. F/F. $5.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Sower   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in California in 2025 where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman, sets off on foot. F/F. $20.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Talents   Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Continuing the travels of Lauren Olamina, told in the voice of her daughter, Asha, from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the US Presidency, this tells the story of a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder. F/F. $20.00.

• Chelsea Cain  :  Heartsick   St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Introduces serial killer Gretchen Lowell. First in proposed trilogy. Unputdownable! Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Chelsea Cain  :  Sweetheart   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series featuring serial killer Gretchen Lowell and hopelessly obsessed cop, Archie Sheridan. The UK edition precedes the US. F/F. $5.00.

• Angela Carter  :  Saints and Strangers   Viking, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. Bookstore sticker on front of dj. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Black Tide   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Journalist India Kane agrees to accompany a Greenpeace hip in pursuit of a whaling fleet. F/F. $35.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Blood Junction   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When journalist India Kane travels from Sidney to the outback town of Cooinda for a reunion with her friend, she has no idea of the town's appalling history. Forty years earlier an entire Aboriginal family had been massacred. The bodies of the cop who drove India into town as well as that of her friend Lauren are found the day after her arrival. Author's first novel. F/F. $50.00.

• Caroline Carver  :  Dead Heat   Orion, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Georgia Parish survives a plane crash in Northern Queensland and sets out to prove that the plane was sabotaged. F/F. $35.00.

• Sarah Caudwell  :  The Sirens Sang of Murder   Crime Club, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third mystery featuring Professor Hilary Tamar. Winner of Anthony Award. Personal inscription to previous owner. ANTHONY AWARD. F/F. $175.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Conqueror's Child   Tor Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Book Four of The Holdfast Chronicles, the extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Furies   Tor Books, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Sequel to MOTHERLINES and WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD, Charnas's extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Tracy Chevalier  :  Burning Bright   HarperCollins, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring the poet William Blake. Fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $40.00.

• Tracy Chevalier  :  Falling Angels   Dutton, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. In January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria's death, two families separated by social class and taste, visit neighboring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. The families are linked when their two daughters meet behind the tombstones and become friends - and worse, become involved with the gravedigger's son. F/F. $10.00.

• Tracy Chevalier  :  Remarkable Creatures   HarperCollins, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Kate Christensen  :  The Epicure's Lament   Doubleday, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Witty novel about love and death and family. F/F. $25.00.

• Clare Clark  :  The Great Stink   Harcourt, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. Historical novel set in the sewers of London in 1855. Author's First Novel. Short listed for the Orange Prize. F/F. $25.00.

• Clare Clark  :  The Nature of Monsters   Viking, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Susanna Clarke  :  Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell   Bloomsbury, London, 2004. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. This is the first UK edition and is signed by both the author and the illustrator, Portia Rosenberg. White dustjacket with black end papers. F/F. $100.00.

• Pearl Cleage  :  What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day   Avon Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Ava Johnson was a successful black businesswoman in Atlanta, but when she discovered she was HIV positive she decided to head to LA. On her way, she stops in her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan and discovers there's too much happening there to move on. An Oprah selection. F/F. $5.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  An Old Magic   Suffolk Press, Suffolk, UK, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Number 74 of 400 cloth bound copies. Ripples of tragedy reach into the present day when architect Anna Claydon, surveying a house built over the remains of a Roman villa, inadvertently opens a window to the past. That past will reveal itself to Anna and involve her in romance, buried treasure, ancient curses, and a dash of the supernatural. F/F. $60.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Ragtime in Simla   Constable, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Ragtime in Simla   Constable, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series set in India in 1922 when the British are making themselves at home. Joe Sandilands is once again plunged into a murder investigation when the Russian opera star sharing his car on their way to see the Governor of Bengal is shot dead. A signed postcard is also laid in. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Bee's Kiss   Constable, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Sandilands mystery set in 1926 London. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Last Kashmiri Rose   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  The Last Kashmiri Rose   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's First Novel. Introduces Joe Sandilands. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Cleverly  :  Tug of War   Constable, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Sandilands is embroiled in a mystery in Northern France in 1926. F/F. $45.00.

• Rachel Cline  :  My Liar   Random House, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Bucket Nut   Chatto & Windus, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduces Eva Wylie, heavyweight wrestler. Eva crosses paths with Anna Lee (Cody's private eye) and is soon working amongs London's lowlife without a bank account, telephone, driving licence, or scruples. SILVER DAGGER AWARD WINNER. F/F. $35.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Lucky Dip and Other Stories   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Number 106 of 250 clothbound copies. Short stories by the author of the Anna Lee and Eva Wylie series. Included is a story written especially for this volume and a separate pamphlet "White Knights & Giggling Bimbos.". F/F. $45.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Monkey Wrench   Chatto & Windus, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Eva Wylie, heavyweight wrestler and security guard is back. Eva's friend Crystal is looking to revenge the murder of her prostitute sister who has been beaten to death. But she needs Eva's brawn. Anna Lee tries to help, but she's helpless against Eva's lunatic logic. F/F. $35.00.

• Liza Cody  :  Musclebound   Bloomsbury, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Eva Wylie, wrestler and low-life, has been barred from the ring and is reduced to guarding rich folks' cars. But she has her dogs and she has her booze. Watch out! PHILIP MARLOWE AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Vena Cork  :  Green Eye   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's third novel. Signed and dated. F/F. $10.00.

• Vena Cork  :  The Art of Dying   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel. Very slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Elizabeth Corley  :  Innocent Blood   Alison & Busby. London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  All That Remains   Scribners, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Third Kay Scarpetta mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  All The Remains   Scribner, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Kay Scarpetta mystery. . F/F. $60.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Portrait of a Killer   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Cornwell's Jack the Ripper theory. F/F. $25.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Predator   Putnam, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Kay Scarpetta. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Cornwell  :  Trace   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Kay Scarpetta. F/F. $50.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  All Shall Be Well   Scribners, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Coming home to his Hampstead flat after working all night, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds his terminally ill neighbor has passed away in her sleep. The death, however, isn't as straightforward as it seems. Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James investigate. Edgar Award nominee. F/F. $30.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  Kissed a Sad Goodbye   Bantam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Deborah Crombie  :  Leave the Grave Green   Scribner, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Duncan Kincaid, Gemma James mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  Collected Stories   Ballantine, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $30.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  Death in a Tenured Position   Dutton, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. Kate Fansler takes a year's sabbatical at Harvard. Murder follows her even to those hallowed halls. Sixth in the series by Cross, pseudonym for the late Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. NERO WOLFE AWARD. F/F. $45.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  The Players Come Again   Random House, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Kate Fansler is persuaded by her publisher to take on the biography of Gabrielle Fox, wife of a modernist author. Review copy but papers are pasted down on the inside front board - by the publisher we think. F/F. $10.00.

• Amanda Cross  :  The Question of Max   Knopf, New York, 1976. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring academic sleuth Kate Fansler. F/F. $55.00.

• Tracy D'Erasmo  :  Tea   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Isabel Gold is haunted by the suicide of her mother. She tests out identity after identity, role after role, trying to inhabit the space left by her mother and to crack the mystery of her death. F/F. $5.00.

• Cecilia Dart-Thornton  :  The Ill-Made Mute   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Book One of the Bitterbynde Trilogy. Well received in the UK. Author's first novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Emma Darwin  :  The Mathematics of Love   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. From the Suffolk countryside to the battlefields of Waterloo, this tells of war, loss, and love. Author's First Novel. F/F. $35.00.

• Claire Davis  :  Labors of the Heart   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Claire Davis  :  Season of the Snake   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Claire Davis  :  Winter Range   Picador, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ike Parsons, sheriff of a small Montana town attempts to help Chas Stubblefield whose herd is dying in the cold. Ike is caught between one rancher's rights and the larger law of the community. A searing story. F/F. $35.00.

• Michelle de Kretser  :  The Hamilton Case   Little Brown, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Murder in Sri Lanka. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Joolz Denby  :  Stone Baby   HarperCollins, London, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Edition. The story of Jamie Gee, a stand up comic, her friends, and the psychopath she loves. In wraps as issued. Author's First Novel. Fine. $10.00.

• Kiran Desai  :  The Inheritance of Loss   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2006. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Winner of the MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Signed and Dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $300.00.

• Sarah Diamond  :  Cold Town   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When troubled Terry Fielding meets nightclub hostess Rosina, he thinks he's found his soulmate. When he finds out how far apart they really are, it's too late to do anything but the worst thing in the world. F/F. $40.00.

• Sarah Diamond  :  Remember Me   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Rachel has everything she could want, but she has a secret which involves her childhood best friend, Sophie. When Sophie comes back into her life, the events from Rachel's past threaten to destroy her future. F/F. $30.00.

• Sarah Diamond  :  The Beach Road   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jane and Beverley are schoolmates. Jane is amazed that Beverley would pay her any attention and Beverley, at first, welcomes the adoration. But she gradually realizes that there is something different about Jane - something dark. Author's First Novel. Scarce. F/F. $100.00.

• Sarah Diamond  :  The Spider's House   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Anna discovers that her family's new cottage was once inhabited by a notorious child murderer. F/F. $30.00.

• Renate Dorrestein  :  A Heart of Stone   Viking, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Growing up in Holland, clever precocious Ellen has an idyllic childhood until disaster strikes on her twelfth birthday. Twenty-five years later, Ellen returns home and is surprised at what she finds while leafing through a faded photo album. F/F. $5.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Gates of Ivory   Viking, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Woman receives a parcel containing a finger bone. . F/F. $55.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Middle Ground   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Successful journalist in her forties is at a profound place in her life. Her career is realized, and her children are grown. F/F. $65.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Middle Ground   Knopf, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. Portrait of a woman in her forties, a successful journalist, who is at a profound place in her life. Very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Radiant Way   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stories of three women, all brought up in the North of England, all educated at the same Cambridge college, and all living in London. F/F. $65.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Realms of Gold   Knopf, New York, 1975. Hardcover. First US Edition. A sophisticated, realistically suspenseful love story about two highly intelligent, successful, complicated people who love, separate, then return to each other. By one of the UK's finest novelists. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Red Queen   Harcourt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Red Queen   Harcourt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. A woman on a trip to Seoul reads a memoir written by a Korean crown princess more than two hundred years ago. F/F. $30.00.

• Margaret Drabble  :  The Witch of Exmoor   Harcourt, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. The Palmer family play a dinner party game on summer evening. F/F. $10.00.

• Daphne Du Maurier  :  Rule Britannia   Victor Gollancz, London, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Du Maurier's story of how the occupation of England might affect, not only the country, but also human relationships. Slight shelfwear. In fine bright dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Birth Marks   Doubleday, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First US Edition. Introduces private eye Hannah Wolfe who is asked to find a missing ballet dancer. When the dancer's pregnant body is fished out of the River Thames, the police think suicide. But Hannah thinks murder. F/F. $25.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Fatlands   Otto Penzler Books, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. Private investigator Hannah Wolfe is chaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. What Mattie's father, a prominent research scientist, did not mention was that he is receiving death threats from the Animal Liberation Front. When violence erupts, Hannah is plunged into the dangerous world of the animal rights movement and international corporate politics. Winner of the SILVER DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $25.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Mapping the Edge   Random House, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Anna, a single mother, disappears. F/F. $10.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Snowstorms in a Hot Climate   Random House, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First US Edition. When Marla, a young English academic, answers her best friend Elly's transatlantic cry for help, she expects it to be the usual romantic drama that Elly is known for. Nothing prepares her for what awaits her in New York. Author's first novel. F/F. $25.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Transgressions   Virago, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Elizabeth Skvorecky is trying to piece her life together after a bitter split from her boyfriend. But some deeply disturbing things start to occur with unnerving regularity. She suspects that someone else has access to her house and she changes the locks. But the incidents keep occurring. F/F. $20.00.

• Sarah Dunant  :  Under My Skin   Scribners, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. Private Eye Hannah Wolfe checks into an exclusive health spa to investigate sabotage. But sabotage is just the beginning in this world where people will do almost anything in the name of beauty. Even murder. F/F. $25.00.

• Patricia Duncker  :  The Doctor   Ecco Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. At the turn of the 19th Century in England, a young, beautiful Mary Ann Bulkeley gives birth to a redheaded baby girl of uncertain paternity. Before the sensitive tomboy turns ten, the family determines she should be raised and schooled as a boy. . F/F. $10.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  A Spell of Winter   Atlantic Monthly, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. This novel won the first ORANGE PRIZE when it was published in the UK in 1995. F/F. $25.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  Mourning Ruby   Viking, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  Talking to the Dead   Viking, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Two sisters, Isabel and Nina, have been bound together since childhood by the death of their baby brother. F/F. $35.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  The Siege   Grove Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Two love stories unfold during the 1941 Siege of Leningrad. F/F. $20.00.

• Helen Dunmore  :  The Siege   Viking, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two love stories unfold during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Alice Echols  :  Scars of Sweet Paradise   Metropolitan Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Definitive biography of Janis Joplin. F/F. $20.00.

• Ruth Dudley Edwards  :  Matricide at St. Martha's   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. Robert Amiss is awarded a one-year fellowship at St. Martha's College, Cambridge. He finds himself immediately in the middle of academic politics - and murder when Dame Maud Buckbarrow is killed. F/F. $10.00.

• Ruth Dudley Edwards  :  Ten Lords A-Leaping   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ida "Jack" Troutbeck, Mistress of St. Martha's College, Cambridge, is elevated to peer in the House of Lords. She enlists the aid of her friend, Robert Amiss, in defeating an anti-hunting bill. Amiss is determined to defeat the puritans and fanatics who abound among the animal activists, but things turn nasty when an explosion in the House of Lords kills several peers. F/F. $10.00.

• Ruth Dudley Edwards  :  Ten Lords A-Leaping   HarperCollins, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Ida "Jack" Troutbech, Mistress of St. Martha's College, Cambridge, is elevated to peer in the House of Lords. She enlists the aid of her friend, Robert Amiss, in defeating an anti-hunting bill. He is determined to defeat the puritans and fanatics who abound among the animal rights activists, but things turn really nasty when an explosion in the House of Lords kills several peers. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Ehrenreich  :  Nickel and Dimed   Metropolitan Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. In 1998 Ehrenreich left her home and accepted whatever jobs she was offered to see how American men and women survive on six and seven dollars and hour. A rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. F/F. $25.00.

• Rhian Ellis  :  After Life   Viking, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Naomi Ash lives with her mother in the town of Train Line where the inhabitants are mediums, spiritualists, table levitators, and professional clairvoyants. A beautifully written story of a place where the secrets of the dead cannot stay buried. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• G.H. Ephron  :  Amnesia   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Sylvia Jackson has been shot in the head, and when she recovers, remembers nothing. As she slowly gets her memory back, she accuses her ex-husband of shooting her. Introduces Dr. Peter Zak, a forensic psychologist, who solves cases by studying psychological clues and phenomena. Authors are Hallie Ephron and A.A. Greeley. Authors' First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Louise Erdrich  :  The Plague of Doves   HarperCollins, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Tipped in page with note from publisher and signature. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Janet Evanovich  :  Three to Get Deadly   Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Stephanie Plum novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Susan Faludi  :  Stiffed   William Morrow, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. How American working men have been betrayed. A journey through the contemporary masculine landscape. F/F. $15.00.

• Anne Fausto-Sterling  :  Sexing the Body   Basic Books, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Sex difference seems to be fundamental to our conception of human identity. But the author shows it is much more complicated than we realize. F/F. $20.00.

• Ellen Feldman  :  Scottsboro   W.W. Norton, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Anne Fine  :  The Killjoy   Mysterious Press, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ian Laidlaw leads an uneventful life until Alicia Anne Davie laughs in his face. F/F. $10.00.

• Karen Fisher  :  A Sudden Country   Random House, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Based on actual events during the 1847 Oregon migration. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Sylvia Foley  :  Life in the Air Ocean   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Nine stories about the lives of two generation of one family in Tennessee. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Leslie Forbes  :  Fish, Blood and Bone   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood, a young American, inherits a house in London's East End from an aunt she never knew she had. When her best friend is murdered, Claire is drawn into a dangerous scientific expedition which takes her from Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel to the India of her ancestors and the valleys of Tibet. F/F. $10.00.

• Leslie Forbes  :  Fish, Blood and Bone   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Leslie Forbes  :  Waking Raphael   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Count Malaspino returns to the small city of Urbina after years away, his support for the restoration of Raphael's La Muta drives a living mute to an act of violence. F/F. $10.00.

• Clare Francis  :  A Death Divided   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe, struggling to survive his job in a high-powered law firm, is faced with the challenge of finding his childhood friend, Jenna, who has been missing for four years. Psychological suspense. F/F. $10.00.

• Judith Freeman  :  The Long Embrace   Pantheon, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Raymond Chandler and the role his wife played in his life and work. $30.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  Appointment With Yesterday   J.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1972. Hardcover. First US Edition. Milly Barnes is considered a treasure by her employers. That's because they know nothing about her. If they did they might not let her in to clean their houses. Great psychological mystery from this underappreciated author. Dustjacket has only the slightest rub. There is a stain on ffe. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  Dangerous Thoughts   Victor Gollancz, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Clare Wakefield is both dismayed and fearful when she learns that her husband, Edwin, who was kidnapped in the Middle East, may have made up the whole story for the sake of publicity. F/F. $30.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  King of the World   Severn House, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Woman takes an apartment with two other women. She says she's a battered wife ad has run away from home Gradually the lies she has told are revealed. F/F. $35.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  Listening In The Dusk   Doubleday, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. After her marriage breaks up Alice Saunders rents a room in a London boarding house. There she meets Mary who is clearly terrified of something, or someone. A beautiful copy. F/F. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  Possession   J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1969. Hardcover. First US Edition. Clare Erskine's daughter has become engaged. But her fiance seems too good to be true. He is. Clare exposes herself to danger in order to find out the truth about Mervyn. Very slilght rub on spine of dustjacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  The Hours Before Dawn   J.P. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1958. Hardcover. Maybe it's because her baby cries all night, but Louise Henderson seems to be at the end of her tether. The neighbours complain about her child, she thinks she's being watched, and her husband seems to know their tenant from somewhere else. This first mystery by Fremlin won the EDGAR AWARD. This looks to be a Book Club Edition although the dustjacket is cut as though price-clipped. Bright dj with only the slightest wear at the bottom of spine. A scarce title in any condition. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  The Jealous One   J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1965. Hardcover. First US Edition. Rosamund and Geoffrey have a happy marriage. Until Lindy moves in next door! She seems to have Geoffrey in the palm of her hand. Rosamund contracts a fever and dreams that she kills Lindy and when she gets better Lindy has inexplicably disappeared. We follow Rosamund's mounting terror in this psychological mystery from this very underappreciated author. Bright dustjacket has slight wear at the bottom of spine and a closed tear on the rear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  The Long Shadow   Doubleday, New York, 1976. Hardcover. First US Edition. When a celebrated, cruel and egocentric Classics Professor dies, his third wife receives a telephone call accusing her of murder. Psychological suspense from this underappreciated author. White dustjacket has some marks. Small tape mark on ffe. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Celia Fremlin  :  The Parasite Person   Doubleday, New York, 1982. Hardcover. First US Edition. Social scientist Martin Lockwood leaves his wife and moves in with his mistress. Soon he's bored. Until Ruth Ledbetter comes along. The more things change, the deadlier they can become. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $10.00.

• Nicci French  :  Beneath the Skin   Michael Joseph, London, 2000. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Zoe, a schoolteacher, Jenny, model mother and wife, and Nadia, irrepressible free spirit, have nothing in common. Except they are all being stalked by a sadistic killer. Signed by both authors. US edition precedes the UK. F/F. $30.00.

• Nicci French  :  Beneath the Skin   Mysterious Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. US edition precedes UK. F/F. $30.00.

• Nicci French  :  Killing Me Softly   Michael Joseph, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Alice Loudon has everything she could want in life. Then she meets a stranger and impulsively gives up her safe, ordered existence for a passionate affair. Gradually she learns about Adam and enters his world of risk and adventure until everything, including her life, is threatened. This title scarce. F/F. $50.00.

• Nicci French  :  Land of the Living   Michael Joseph, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Abbie Devereaux wakes up to find herself hooded and bound and she has no idea where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and tells her that he will keep her alive for now, but eventually he will kill her - just like all the others. Signed by both authors. F/F. $30.00.

• Nicci French  :  The Memory Game   William Heinemann, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Authors' First Book. Signed by both authors. F/F. $60.00.

• Nicci French  :  The Red Room   Michael Joseph, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Kit Quinn, horribly wounded in a brutal attack, is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a London canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. F/F. $35.00.

• Nicci French  :  The Red Room   Michael Joseph, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Nicci French  :  The Safe House   Michael Joseph, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Authors' second book. Signed by both authors. F/F. $50.00.

• Tana French  :  The Likeness   Viking, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Follow-up to author's Edgar-award-winning firs novel, In The Woods. The U.S. edition precedes the U.K. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  A Clear Conscience   Pantheon, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Winning cases is not longer as satisfying as it once was for Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Then she becomes involved in the private and legal life of a battered woman. GRAND PRIX DE LITTERATURE. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  A Question of Guilt   Pocket Books, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. Introduces Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Blind Date   Bantam, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Everyone loved Emma Davey, until someone put a garbage bag over her head and kicked her to death. Elisabeth Kennedy, Emmas' older sister and a disgraced ex-police officer, is hauntd by Emma's death and her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she is attacked. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Deep Sleep   Pocket Books, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First US Edition. Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey are back in London and being careful to respect one another's privacy. When Margaret Carlton passes away in her sleep however, they lock horns. Helen thinks the police report is incomplete and Bailey warns her to stay out of the investigation. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. Some slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Not That Kind of Place   Pocket Books, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Helen West, Crown Prosecutor, and Detective Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey are sharing a house just outside London. It is an experiment in living together. The naked, hastily buried body of a woman is found in the woods near their home. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Perfectly Pure and Good   Pantheon, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First US Edition. Lawyer Sarah Fortune is sent to the seaside town of Merton to deal with the complicated Pardoe Estate. Sarah must deal with guilt, insecurity, unrequited love, and a touch of insanity, to do her work, but as she gets closer to the heart of the Pardoe family secrets, she is also moving towards a confrontation with her own past. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Question of Guilt   Heinemann, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Eileen Cartwright is not just another rich, middle-aged, widow, she also has a passion for revenge. When she falls in love with her solicitor, she cold-bloodedly arranges for the murder of his wife. Introduces Crown Prosecutor Helen West who is assigned this disturbing, twisted case. Author's First Novel. F/F. $65.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Seeking Sanctuary   Little Brown, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Theodore Calvert walked out on his wife and children when they needed him most. Now, from beyond the grave, his carefully crafted will is set to unravel his daughters' lives all over again. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Shadow Play   Pantheon, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. Mr. Logo is frequently brought before the magistrate for indecent assault but he is inevitably acquitted because, although he scares the little girls he follows, nobody can prove he ever touches them. Crown Prosecutor Helen West strikes up a friendship with a young clerk in her office and, unwittingly, sets in motion dangerous complications for the woman and Mr. Logo. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Staring at the Light   Viking, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. Maverick lawyer Sarah Fortune finds herself protecting Cannon Smith, a man whose worst enemy is his own twin brother. But Johnny Smith fears nothing - except the dentist's chair. Not since MARATHON MAN has that chair been such a horrific centerpiece. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  The Nature of the Beast   Little Brown, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When a passenger train traveling from Kent to London crashes, one passenger uses the opportunity for murder while another sees a chance to leave her life behind. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Undercurrents   Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Twenty years ago Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm while backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, she went home and Henry went on with her travels. It is a decision that haunts his adult life and now he has come to England to find her. What he discovers is that Francesca is in prison for murdering her five-year-old son. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Undercurrents   Little Brown, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Another copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Frances Fyfield  :  Without Consent   Bantam, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. DS Ryan, friend of Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, is accused of rape. He swears he didn't do it but all the evidence points his way. Slowly, the rapist begins to emerge - he is a man who knows the law and who believes there is no such thing as rape. F/F. $10.00.

• Jane Gardam  :  The Flight of the Maidens   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Meg Gardiner  :  The Dirty Secrets Club   Dutton, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. US edition precedes UK edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Meg Gardiner  :  The Dirty Secrets Club   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2008. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. U.S. Edition precedes the UK Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Margaret Gaskin  :  Blitz   Harcourt, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Elizabeth George  :  A Moment on the Edge   HarperCollins, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. 100 years of crime stories by women. Authors include: Nadine Gordimer, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Minette Walters. F/F. $10.00.

• Tess Gerritsen  :  The Sinner   Ballantine, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Jane Rizzoli must uncover an ancient horror that connects three murders. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $10.00.

• Emer Gillespie  :  Five Dead Men   Headline, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Karen McDade is making a film about the demolition of the Angel Point tower block when a man tumbles to his death on the building site. Then the body of an 84-year-old man is found on the eleventh floor. Karen investigatess these two suspicious deaths. F/F. $5.00.

• Wendy Gimbel  :  Havana Dreams   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's account of her family - four generations of Cuban women. F/F. $10.00.

• Julia Glass  :  Three Junes   Pantheon, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. National Book Award winner. With later state dust jacket stating "Good Morning America. Read This!" Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Janet Gleeson  :  The Grenadillo Box   Bantam Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Murder and mystery in 18th Century London. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Myla Goldberg  :  Bee Season   Doubleday, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Eliza Naumann, nine years old, sweeps her school and district spelling bees. Author's First Novel. Filmed starring Richard Gere. F/F. $55.00.

• Allegra Goodman  :  Family Markowitz   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of three generations of an American family. Price clipped, otherwise a fine copy in fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Allegra Goodman  :  Intuition   Dial Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in a prestigious research lab in Cambridge, Mass. F/F. $10.00.

• Allegra Goodman  :  Kaaterskill Falls   Dial Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in a small town in upstate New York where Orthodox summer people and Yankee year rounders live side by side from June through August, this is the story of the summer of 1976. F/F. $10.00.

• Allegra Goodman  :  Paradise Park   Dial Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. When Sharon Spiegelman is abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gay, in a Honolulu hotel room, she begins her own spiritual quest. F/F. $10.00.

• Jan Goodwin  :  Price of Honor   Little Brown, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Muslim women lift the veil of silence on the Islamic world. F/F. $10.00.

• Mary Gordon  :  The Stories of Mary Gordon   Pantheon, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. New and uncollected stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Sue Grafton  :  R is For Ricochet   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Kinsey Milhone mystery. F/F. $35.00.

• Germaine Greer  :  The Whole Woman   Doubleday, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Kate Grenville  :  The Secret River   Canongate, London, 2006. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Family moves from London to Australia in 1805. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $50.00.

• Lauren Groff  :  The Monsters of Templeton   Hyperion, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Radclyffe Hall  :  The Sixth Beatitude   Hammond, London, 1959. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Reset from the first edition published in 1936. Price clipped with previous owner's bookplate fep and bookstore sticker. Dustjacket is fine and pages are tight. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Sarah Hall  :  The Carhullan Army   Faber & Faber, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dystopian novel by one of the UK's young new writers. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Sylvian Hamilton  :  The Bone-Pedlar   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Mystery set in 1209 when the buying and selling of relics was big business. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Sylvian Hamilton  :  The Pendragon Banner   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Sir Richard Straccan searches for a priceless relic sewn by Guinevere for King Arthur. Signed bookplate laid in. F/F. $5.00.

• Elizabeth Hand  :  Generation Loss   Small River Press, Northampton, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Sophie Hannah  :  The Point of Rescue   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Kerry Hardie  :  A Winter Marriage   Little Brown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Ann Harries  :  Manly Pursuits   Bloomsbury, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. On the eve of the Anglo-Boer war, Cecil Rhodes, believing he is dying, sends for British birds so that he can hear their song one more time. F/F. $10.00.

• Joanne Harris  :  Gentlemen & Players   Doubleday, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Set at an exlusive English school where seemingly harmless pranks escalate to murder. . F/F. $35.00.

• Joanne Harris  :  Holy Fools   Doubleday, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Juliette, one time actress and rope dancer, is forced by circumstance to seek refuge among the sisters of the remote abbey of Ste. Marie-de-la-Mer. Set in 17th Century France. F/F. $35.00.

• Joanne Harris  :  The Lollipop Shoes   Doubleday, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The sequel to Chocolat. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Kathryn Harrison  :  The Binding Chair   Random House, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. A story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. F/F. $5.00.

• Alis Hawkins  :  Testament   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Sheridan Hay  :  The Secret of Lost Things   Fourth Estate, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Biblio. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Mo Hayder  :  Pig Island   Bantam Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Mo Hayder  :  Ritual   Scorpion Press, Gladestry, 2008. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited to 55 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Margaret Murphy. Author's name misspelled on spine and half-title page as in all copies. Fine in marbled boards as issued. Fine. $160.00.

• Mo Hayder  :  Ritual   Bantam Press, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Mo Hayder  :  Skin   Bantam Press, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Mo Hayder  :  The Treatment   Bantam Press, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's second novel. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. In like dust jacket. NF/NF. $40.00.

• Shirley Hazzard  :  The Great Fire   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Julie Hearn  :  Follow Me Down   Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fantasy novel involving time travel. Publisher's postcard laid in containing quote from Philip Pullman. Small print run. F/F. $20.00.

• Lian Hearn  :  Across The Nightingale Floor   Macmillan, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First volume in the TALES OF THE OTORI Trilogy. Includes publisher's promotional pamphlet. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Zoe Heller  :  What Was She Thinking?   Henry Holt, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Teacher has affair with one of her students. Made into the movie, Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. F/F. $20.00.

• Lauren Henderson  :  Too Many Blondes   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second mystery featuring Sam Jones. F/F. $5.00.

• Vicki Hendricks  :  Miami Purity   Pantheon, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. This story of Sherise Parlay and her descent into the depths was considered shocking by some when it was first published. James Ellroy called it "..James M. Cain meets white trash with a vengeance.". F/F. $5.00.

• Joanna Hershon  :  Swimming   Ballantine, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. F/F. $5.00.

• Patricia Highsmith  :  A Dog's Ransom   Wm. Heinemann, London, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Beautiful copy in dust jacket marred by the publisher's price clip. F/F. $50.00.

• Patricia Highsmith  :  Nothing That Meets the Eye   W.W. Norton, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Twenty-eight stories written by Highsmith between 1938 and 1982, some appearing in print for the first time, are collected here. F/F. $25.00.

• Patricia Highsmith  :  Ripley's Game   Knopf, New York, 1974. Hardcover. First US Edition. Shelfwear top and bottom of spine. Tight copy in near fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $125.00.

• Patricia Highsmith  :  The Ripley Trilogy   Everyman Library, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Contains: The Talented Mr. Ripley; Ripley Under Ground; and Ripley's Game. F/F. $25.00.

• Sally Hinchcliffe  :  Out of a Clear Sky   Macmillan, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Dolores Hitchens  :  Cabin of Fear   Michael Joseph, London, 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight rubbing on dustjacket at the extremities. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $25.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Angel Landing   Severn House, London, 1980. Hardcover. First UK Edition. First UK Edition of author's third book. F/F. $25.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  At Risk   Putnam, New York, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Blackbird House   Doubleday, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Blue Diary   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work, the town soon finds out the shattering truth about his past. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Blue Diary   Putnam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Fortune's Daughter   Putnam, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Here on Earth   Putnam, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. A stunning reimagining of the story of Wuthering Heights, set in a small Massachusetts town. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Here on Earth   Putnam, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Illumination Night   Putnam, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Local Girls   Putnam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A series of vignettes chart the progress of Gretel Samuelson from young girlhood until she finally leaves home. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Local Girls   Putnam, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Property Of   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $100.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Second Nature   Putnam, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Previous owner's signature ffep. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Second Nature   Putnam, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Seventh Heaven   The Franklin Library, Pa, 1990. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Produced by The Franklin LIbrary for their Signed First Edition Society. . Fine. $100.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  Skylight Confessions   Little Brown, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Drowning Season   Dutton, New York, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket with tiny chip bottom of spine. F/F. $50.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Ice Queen   Little Brown, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Probable Future   Doubleday, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Together they confront a haunting past and a current murder in a small New England town. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The River King   Putnam, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided into those born and bred in the village and those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night, after an inexplicable death, the two worlds are thrust together and the town's divided history is revealed in all its complexity. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The River King   Putnam, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Story Sisters   Shaye Areheart, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  The Third Angel   Shaye Areheart, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Hoffman  :  White Horses   Putnam, New York, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• A.M. Homes  :  This Book Will Save Your Life   Viking, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• bell hooks  :  Killing Rage   Henry Holt, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Ending racism. NF/NF. $10.00.

• bell hooks  :  Remembered Rapture   Henry Holt, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Essays about reading and writing. F/F. $10.00.

• bell hooks  :  Wounds of Passion   Henry Holt, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. The writing life. F/F. $10.00.

• Chloe Hooper  :  A Child's Book of True Crime   Scribner, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil. Her lover's wife has just published a true crime story about a young adultress in a nearby town. Kate, fixated on the crime of passion that occurred years earlier, is becoming less and less aware of her own reputation. A remarkable debut. New York Times notable book. F/F. $10.00.

• Lesley Horton  :  Snares of Guilt   Orion, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Detective Inspector John Handford investigates a murder which looks to be a hate crime. F/F. $10.00.

• Katherine Howe  :  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane   Hyperion, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Helen Humphreys  :  Afterimage   Metropolitan Books, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. In the turbulent world of Victorian England, a maid, mistress, and master ared drawn into a fateful love triangle. F/F. $10.00.

• Helen Humphreys  :  Leaving Earth   Metropolitan Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Two women try to break flying record. F/F. $10.00.

• Helen Humphreys  :  The Lost Garden   W.W. Norton, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Gwen Davis works with the Women's Land Army in England during 1941. A stunning novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Helen Humphreys  :  Wild Dogs   W.W. Norton, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First US Edition. F/F. $10.00.

• Elisabeth Hyde  :  In the Heart of the Canyon   Knopf, New York, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Elisabeth Hyde  :  The Abortionist's Daughter   Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• M.J. Hyland  :  How the Light Gets In   Canongate, London, 2004. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Young girl is offered a place as an exchange student in the US. Author's First Novel. Fine. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• P.D. James  :  A Certain Justice   Faber & Faber, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  A Taste For Death   Knopf, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. . F/F. $50.00.

• P.D. James  :  Children of Men   Faber & Faber, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy with slight yellowing to the extremities as is usual. Dust jacket shows crease at the top with some slight shelfwear, but is intact. . VG+/VG+. $30.00.

• P.D. James  :  Death in Holy Orders   Faber & Faber, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  Death in Holy Orders   Knopf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Signed on tipped in page. F/F. $40.00.

• P.D. James  :  Devices and Desires   Faber & Faber, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates. Price clipped. NF/NF. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  Devices and Desires   Faber & Faber, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in price clipped dj. NF/NF. $65.00.

• P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Scribner, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $50.00.

• P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Mystery of deceit and revenge. Slight crease to flap of dj. NF/NF. $40.00.

• P.D. James  :  Innocent Blood   Scribners, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Fine in price clipped dj. NF/NF. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in price clipped dustjacket. $40.00.

• P.D. James  :  Original Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• P.D. James  :  Oriignal Sin   Faber & Faber, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine and tanning to the edges as is usual, else fine in fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $100.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Black Tower   Scibners, New York, 1975. Hardcover. First US Edition. Inspector Adam Dalgliesh investigates. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. Small closed tear top of dj. NF/NF. $95.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Lighthouse   Faber & Faber, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Murder Room   Faber & Faber, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath. One of the family trustees has been murdered. F/F. $45.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Private Patient   Faber & Faber, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Skull Beneath the Skin   Scribner, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Cordelia Gray mystery. F/F. $125.00.

• P.D. James  :  The Skull Beneath the Skin   Scribners, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Cordelia Gray mystery. F/F. $60.00.

• Elfriede Jelinek  :  Greed   Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First US Edition. A thriller set in the mountains of Austria by Nobel Prize winner, Jelinek. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Sadie Jones  :  Small Wars   Chatto & Windus, London, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Sadie Jones  :  The Outcast   Chatto & Windus, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Susanna Jones  :  The Earthquake Bird   Picador, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Eerie mystery set in Tokyo. Author's First Novel. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. F/F. $10.00.

• Morag Joss  :  Fearful Symmetry   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Sara Selkirk novel. Mystery series set in Bath. F/F. $30.00.

• Morag Joss  :  Fruitful Bodies   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Sara Selkirk novel. Mystery series set in Bath. F/F. $30.00.

• Morag Joss  :  Funeral Music   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mystery set in Bath. Small print run. Author's First Novel. F/F. $50.00.

• Morag Joss  :  Puccini's Ghosts   Sceptre, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Lila Du Cann returns to Burnhead to bury her father and remembers when, aged fifteen, she was drawn into Uncle George's production of Puccini's Turandot. F/F. $20.00.

• Heidi Julavits  :  The Uses of Enchantment   Doubleday, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Yasmina Khadra  :  The Attack   Doubleday, New York, 2006. Third Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Lily King  :  The English Teacher   Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $5.00.

• Rosemary Kingsland  :  The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl   Crown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First US Edition. Biography. Author had an affair, as a schoolgirl, with Richard Burton. F/F. $10.00.

• Barbara Kingsolver  :  Prodigal Summer   HarperCollins, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Three stories set in the struggling small frms of southern Appalachia. F/F. $10.00.

• Gina Kolata  :  Flu   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. The great influenza Pandemic of 1918. F/F. $20.00.

• Elizabeth Kostova  :  The Historian   Little Brown, London, 2005. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. The search for a missing professor leads to Europe and Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula. Simultaneous publication in the UK and the US but the US edition is generally regarded as the true first edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Elizabeth Kostova  :  The Historian   Little Brown, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The search for a missing professor leads to Europe and Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula. Author's First Novel. Simultaneous publication in the US and the UK. F/F. $30.00.

• Elizabeth Kostova  :  The Swan Thieves   Little Brown, New York, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Nikita Lalwani  :  Gifted   Viking, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Long listed for Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $70.00.

• Katherine Langrish  :  Troll Fell   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Peer, his friend Hilde and faithful dog Loki discover that Peer's uncles are plotting with the trolls of Troll Fell. For young adults. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Katherine Langrish  :  Troll Mill   HarperCollins, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the series for young adults. F/F. $10.00.

• Lori Lansens  :  The Girls   Knopf, Toronto, 2005. Hardcover. F/F. $40.00.

• K.D. Lather  :  The Changeling   Tarragon Publ., Birmingham, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A young adult novel about a twelve-year-old plagued by nighmares who discovers something deeply disturbing about himself. First in series. Number 441 of 500 copies. Handsome volume with gilt edges. Promotional bookmark included. F/F. $75.00.

• Mary Lawson  :  Crow Lake   Dial Press, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. In northern Ontario, life is a Greek tragedy for the Pye family, where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons and terrible events occur - offstage. Lovely debut. F/F. $5.00.

• Mary Lawson  :  The Other Side of the Bridge   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. VeryGood. $45.00.

• Doris Lessing  :  The Sweetest Dream   HarperCollins, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Story of a family, spanning most of the 20th Century. F/F. $5.00.

• Marina Lewycka  :  Two Caravans   Fig Tree, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the English countryside, a group of strawberry pickers are preparing to celebrate a birthday. From the author of A Short istory of Tractors in Ukrainian. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Diane Wei Liang  :  The Eye of Jade   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Mei is an independent Chinese woman working as a PI in Beijing. Her investigation into a missing piece of jade reveals the brutality in the dark part of China's recent history. Author's First Novel. F/F. $35.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  A Whiff of Sulphur   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. Ex-cop Birdie Linnet is keeping on eye on a rich kid on a Caribbean Adventure Holiday. Small stain on edges. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Absent Friends   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. The Great War is over, the vote is won, and suffragist Nell Bray is standing for election. But her troubles are far from over. ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD. HEREDOTUS AWARD. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  An Easy Day for a Lady   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Nell Bray, suffragist, is outraged when Britain's House of Commons smothers a bill that would, at last, have given women the vote. She heads to Chamonix for a climbing holiday - and finds murder. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Crown Witness   Little Brown, London, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nell Bray and her fellow suffragettes hold a march which is supposed to end with a rally at the Royal Albert Hall. But somebody is trying to sabotage the march. Slight browning at edges. . NF/NF. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Dance on Blood   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Nell Bray, suffragist, would do almost anything for the Vote, but planting a bomb in the house belonging to David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is where she draws the line. She investigates. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Dead Man's Sweetheart   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Nell Bray's brother, Stuart, manages to convince the suffragist to take a vacation at his country home. Instead of relaxing, however, Nell becomes absorbed by the story of Osbert Newbiggin, a murdered mill owner who lived next door to Stuart. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Hanging on the Wire   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. When someone takes a potshot at a patient at a military hospital, Nell Bray investigates. Set in World War I. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Murder Makes Tracks   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First US Edition. British ex-cop Birdie Linnet tracks a murderer on the ski slopes of the Italian Alps. Author's second book. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Sister Beneath the Sheet   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First US Edition. Introduces Nell Bray, suffragist. Slight shelfwear, some chips. Sticker fep. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Stage Fright   Little Brown, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Nell Bray, the murder-solving suffragist is asked to protect actress Bella Flanagan who believes her husband's friends are preparing to disrupt the opening night of a George Bernard Shaw play. Linscott captures Edwardian London in this witty excursion. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  The Perfect Daughter   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. When Verona North is found hanging in the family boathouse, her father blames her cousin, suffragist Nell Bray. F/F. $5.00.

• Gillian Linscott  :  Unknown Hand   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Bibliomystery set in Oxford, England. Slight chips and shelfwear. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Margot Livesey  :  Banishing Verona   Henry Holt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Verona is thirty-seven, a modestly successful radio-show host, unmarried and pregnant, when she disappears. F/F. $40.00.

• Margot Livesey  :  The Missing World   Knopf, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. After an accident robs Hazel of three years' worth of memory, Jonathan begins to rewrite their history. F/F. $10.00.

• Joan London  :  Gilgamesh   Atlantic Books, London, 2003. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Young Australian woman travels to the Middle East in 1939 to the homeland of the father of her child. Winner of the AGE Book of the Year for Fiction. Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. F/F. $45.00.

• Audre Lorde  :  Collected Poems of Audre Lorde   W.W. Norton, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Gila Lustiger  :  The Inventory   Arcade, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First English Translation. A novel about the effects of Nazi oppression on every segment of German society. F/F. $10.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Blood Lies   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $10.00.

• Marianne MacDonald  :  Road Kill   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring Dido Hoare. Biblio mystery. F/F. $10.00.

• Nancy Maclean  :  Behind the Mask of Chivalry   Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. The making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Norris Church Mailer  :  Windchill Summer   Random House, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Spouse of Norman Mailer tells story of a small Arkansas town during the 1960s. F/F. $10.00.

• Karen Maitland  :  Company of Liars   Michael Joseph, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A band of travelers trying to outrun the black plague in England tell their stories. Signed and dated. Fine in boards as issued. Fine. $45.00.

• Margaret Maron  :  Io Saturnalia!   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2007. Paperback. First Edition. Publisher's gift limited to 353 copies. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine. $10.00.

• Bev Marshall  :  Walking Through Shadows   MacAdam Cage, Denver, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. The murder of seventeen-year-old Sheila Barnes on Lloyd Cotton's dairy farm scandalizes the quiet town of Zebulon, Mississippi in 1941. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• J. Wallis Martin  :  Dancing with the Uninvited Guest   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Parapsychologist is called in when two people disappear from Lyndle Hall in Northumbia's National Park. F/F. $10.00.

• J. Wallis Martin  :  The Long Close Call   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Robbie McLaughlan of the Metropolitan Police kills a robber during a bank raid. The family of the dead man abduct Robbie's young son. F/F. $10.00.

• J. Wallis Martin  :  The Long Close Call   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $10.00.

• Francine Mathews  :  The Alibi Club   Bantam, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. A murder that could alter the outcome of WWII. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Mary McCarthy  :  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Autobiography of McCarthy told in eight connected episodes. The original pieces were first published in The New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar. Slight shelfwear top and bottom of spine. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Val McDermid  :  A Darker Domain   HarperCollins, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Val McDermid  :  A Place of Execution   HarperCollins, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the winter of 1963 a thirteen-year-old girl disappears from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, an insular community distrustful of outsiders. For newly promoted Inspector George Bennett it is a difficult and harrowing case with a murder and no body. One of the best of the year. ANTHONY AWARD, MACAVITY AWARD, BARRY AWARD, DILYS AWARD. F/F. $40.00.

• Val McDermid  :  Cleanskin   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. A paperback original, one of the "Quick Reads" written to celebrate World Book Day. 111pp. Fine. $10.00.

• Val McDermid  :  Cleanskin   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition. SIGNED. A "Quick Read" Not published in the US. Paperback original in wraps as issued. Fine. Fine. $10.00.

• Val McDermid  :  Report For Murder   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Book. Introduces journalist Lindsay Gordon. F/F. $45.00.

• Val McDermid  :  Star Struck   HarperCollins, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. PI Kate Brannigan is bodyguard to a paranoid soap opera star. But when the star is murdered, Kate has more questions than answers. F/F. $30.00.

• Val McDermid  :  Stranded   Flambard Press, Hexham, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Short stories collected here for the first time. Limited to 325 numbered copies, this is number 126. F/F. $35.00.

• Val McDermid  :  The Grave Tattoo   HarperCollins, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Val McDermid  :  The Mermaids Singing   HarperCollins, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. Slight tanning to edges. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Val McDermid  :  The Torment of Others   HarperCollins, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan investigate the murder of a prostitute. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice McDermott  :  Charming Billy   Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Everybody loved Billy Lynch before drink killed him, and now they are gathered at a small bar and grill in the Bronx to remember him. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. F/F. $55.00.

• Sophia McDougall  :  Romanitas   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A slave waits to be crucified, a gang of fugitives hides out in the Pyrenees, while on giant screens in every city, the world watches the funeral of the imperial family's most glamorous couple. This is the Roman Empire. Now. F/F. $60.00.

• Heather McGowan  :  Schooling   Doubleday, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Thirteen-year-old American girl is sent to an English boarding school. F/F. $20.00.

• Kathleen McGowan  :  The Expected One   Touchstone, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Maureen Pascal's research uncovers an extraordinary news gospel, written by Mary Magdelene. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Pat McIntosh  :  The Harper's Quine   Constable, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Gilbert Cunningham, notary-in-training, is enjoying the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross when he sees a woman who is going to be murdered. He also sees the murderer. Set in 1492. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Blanaid McKinney  :  The Ledge   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. A novel about a kidnapping - and so much more. McKinney is considered one of the UK's hot new writers. F/F. $10.00.

• Diana McLellan  :  The Girls   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Sappho goes to Hollywood. The private lives of Hollywood's most powerful women. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Diane McWhorter  :  Carry Me Home   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. A major work of investigative journalism which gives a dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. PULITZER PRIZE. F/F. $40.00.

• Maile Meloy  :  Half in Love   Scribner, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Book. Short stories. F/F. $20.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  Banshee   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Unread copy, but shelfwear to the extremities. NF/NF. $45.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  Do Evil in Return   Random House, New York, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Tape marks on boards. Chips and rubbing to dustjacket. VG+/VG+. $30.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  Experiments in Springtime   Random House, New York, 1947. Hardcover. First Edition. Tight copy in dustjacket with nicks and chips to the extremities. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  Mermaid   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. Unread copy with very slight shelfwear in near fine dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  The Couple Next Door   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Short mysteries collected for the first time in The Lost Classics Series from Crippen & Landru. Edited by Tom Nolan. Shrinkwrapped. F/F. $30.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  The Fiend   Random House, New York, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition. A beautiful copy marred only by half inch tear on dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Margaret Millar  :  Wives and Lovers   Random House, New York, 1954. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in price-clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Judith Miller  :  Germs   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Biological weapons. F/F. $20.00.

• Judith Miller  :  God Has Ninety Nine Names   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Miller takes the reader deep within the militant Islamic movement in ten Middle-Eastern countries. A classic. . F/F. $20.00.

• Anchee Min  :  Becoming Madame Mao   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. The story, in fiction form, of one of the most fascinating women in history. F/F. $10.00.

• Denise Mina  :  Sanctum   Bantam, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Lachlan Harriot's wife, a forensic psychiatrist, is convicted of the murder of a serial killer. F/F. $30.00.

• Eliza Minot  :  The Tiny One   Knopf, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Child tries to cope with the loss of her mother. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $10.00.

• Gladys Mitchell  :  Say It With Flowers   Michael Joseph, London, 1960. Hardcover. First Edition. Featuring sleuth Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, portrayed by Diana Rigg in the television series. Price clipped. NF/NF. $100.00.

• Gladys Mitchell  :  Sleuth's Alchemy   Crippen & Landru, Virginia, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. The Lost Classics Series brings together cases of Mrs. Bradley and others. F/F. $30.00.

• Miyuki Miyabe  :  All She Was Worth   Kodansha, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First English Translation. Best Mystery and Best Novel of 1996 in Japan. Scarce. F/F. $45.00.

• Aly Monroe  :  The Maze of Cadiz   John Murray, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Espionage set in Spain in 1944. First in a series featuring Peter Cotton. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Christine Montross  :  Body of Work   Penguin Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. A first year medical student and her relationship to the cadaver she works on. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Susanna Moore  :  In The Cut   Knopf, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. A New York City teacher living alone finds herself in the grip of mounting terror after a particularly gruesome murder in her neighborhood. She begins to test the limits of her own safety. Filmed starring Meg Ryan. F/F. $20.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  A Mercy   Knopf, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. From Pulitzer Prize winner Morrison. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Beloved   Knopf, New York, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Pulitzer Prize. Slight slant to spine else near fine in fine dust jacket. VG+/VG+. $200.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Jazz   Knopf, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Joe Trace shoots to death his lover of three months. At the funeral his wife, Violet, tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. The title comes from the mysterious voice, whose identity is left up to the reader's imagination, which moves in and out of past, present, and future in a jazz-like improvisation. F/F. $225.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Love   Knopf, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of Bill Cosey and his dominance over the women in his life - even after his death. Morrison explores the nature of love - appetite, possession, and dread. . F/F. $60.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Paradise   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. In Oklahoma in 1976, nine men from Ruby assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. F/F. $50.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Tar Baby   Knopf, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

• Toni Morrison  :  Who's Got Game? The Ant and the Grasshopper   Scribner, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison collaborate for the third time on a children's book. Signed by both authors. F/F. $60.00.

• Kate Mosse  :  Sepulchre   Orion Books, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. By the author of Labyrinth. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Alice Munro  :  Friend of My Youth   McClelland Stewart, Toronto, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Short Stories. F/F. $45.00.

• Alice Munro  :  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage   Knopf, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Munro  :  Open Secrets   McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. . F/F. $65.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Beggar's Maid   Knopf, New York, 1979. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. F/F. $65.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Love of a Good Woman   McLelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Short stories. Winner of the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. F/F. $40.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Love of a Good Woman   Knopf, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short Stories. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS' AWARD. F/F. $30.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Moons of Jupiter   Macmillan, Toronto, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Small closed tear on back cover. NF/NF. $100.00.

• Alice Munro  :  The Progess of Love   Knopf, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First US Edition. Short stories. Slightest shelfwear. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Margaret Murphy  :  Dying Embers   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Boy disappears from school. His teacher investigates. F/F. $10.00.

• Sabina Murray  :  A Carnivore's Inquiry   Grove Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A young woman journeys from Europe to New York to Maine. She is trailed by a string of murders. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $25.00.

• Julie Myerson  :  Something Might Happen   Jonathan Cape, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  After the Mourning   Headline, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second in the Francis Hancock series. Set in London during the Blitz. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  Harem   Headline, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The body of a teenage girl is found in a cistern below the city of Istanbul. Inspector Cetin Ikmen investigates. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  Harem   Headline, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. This copy has the proof dustjacket - a black and white photograph, not the four-color dustjacket on the plublished book. "The Donna Leon of Istanbul" is printed on the dj. F/F. $50.00.

• Barbara Nadel  :  Last Rights   Headline, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Francis Hancock, a veteran of World War I, is forced to relive his trauma in the dark days of 1940 London. When a man raves about being stabbed, Francis dismisses it as the ravings of a lost soul, until the man turns up at this funeral parlor. . F/F. $35.00.

• Sena Jeter Naslund  :  Ahab's Wife   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby Dick, the author tells the story of Ahab, before the whale took his leg, in a happy marriage with Una, and the story of Una as a widow in the company of Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. F/F. $25.00.

• Sena Jeter Naslund  :  Four Spirits   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Novel about the civil rights movement of the 1960s told through the eyes of one idealistic young white college student. F/F. $30.00.

• Barbara Neely  :  Blanche Among the Talented Tenth   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Second mystery featuring Blanche White. F/F. $30.00.

• Irene Nemirovsky  :  David Golder   Chatto & Windus, London, 2007. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. By the author of Suite Francaise. Originally published in France in 1928. Signed by Sandra Smith, translator. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Irene Nemirovsky  :  Suite Francaise   Chatto & Windus, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Very slight wear. . NF/NF. $100.00.

• Katherine Neville  :  The Magic Circle   Ballantine Books, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Signed to previous owner. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $25.00.

• Edna O'Brien  :  The Light of Evening   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Martha O'Connor  :  The Bitch Posse   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. . F/F. $25.00.

• Tawni O'Dell  :  Back Roads   Viking, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. An Oprah selection. F/F. $25.00.

• Tawni O'Dell  :  Coal Run   Viking, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. After a mining explosion took the lives of so many men and transformed their families, the town of Coal Run is a community of ghosts and memories. F/F. $10.00.

• Nuala O'Faolain  :  Are You Somebody?   Henry Holt, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Best American Essays of the Century   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The best of the best, from Mark Twain to Saul Bellow. Signed by Oates, who edited the collection. F/F. $40.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Black Girl White Girl   Ecco Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Black Water   Dutton, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The senator. The girl. The Fourth of July party. The accident. The drowning. This is Oates's fictional account. F/F. $35.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Blonde   Ecco Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In her most ambitious work to date, Oates reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeanne Baker and tell the story in her voice. Startling, rich, and shattering. F/F. $50.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Foxfire   Dutton, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In upstate New York in the 1950s, five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them. F/F. $40.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  High Lonesome   Ecco Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Selected stories 1966-2006. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  I Am No One You Know   Ecco Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. F/F. $25.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Missing Mom   Ecco Press, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  My Sister, My Love   Ecco, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Rape: A Love Story   Carroll & Graf, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A teenager watch as her mother is raped, then lives in fear as the men she has identified are released on bail. VeryGood. $25.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  The Falls   Ecco Press, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. F/F. $25.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  The Gravedigger's Daughter   Ecco Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  The Museum of Dr. Moses   Harcourt, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Original tales of mystery and suspense. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Joyce Carol Oates  :  Wild Nights!   Ecco Press, New York, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Helen Oyeyemi  :  The Opposite House   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Grace Paley  :  Later the Same Day   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Slight shelfwear. F/F. $75.00.

• Grace Paley  :  The Collected Stories   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1994. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 100 of 150 copies. Slipcased. Fine. $75.00.

• Grace Paley  :  The Collected Stories   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1994. Hardcover. Collection of Paley's stories from 1959 to 1994. Second Impression. F/F. $20.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Deadlock   Dial Press, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second V.I. Warshawski case involving the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Slight shelfwear to boards. Dustjacket has shelfwear top and bottom of spine and creasing bottom front. SIGNED on previous owner's bookplate. NF/NF. $200.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Guardian Angel   Scorpion Press, Bristol, 1992. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. A V.I. Warshawski mystery. Signature appears on tipped in page. Number 30 of 99 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Frances Fyfield. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $60.00.

• Sara Paretsky  :  Killing Orders   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A V.I. Warshawski mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $180.00.

• Carolyn Parkhurst  :  The Dogs of Babel   Little Brown, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Paul Iverson tries to get his dog, the only witness to his wife's death, to talk. First state Dust jacket - without the Today Show blurb. F/F. $25.00.

• Heather Parkinson  :  Across Open Ground   Bloomsbury, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns the dangers and beauties of the land. F/F. $25.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  Eager to Please   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  Mary, Mary   Macmillan, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Julie Parsons  :  The Courtship Gift   Macmillan, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. F/F. $30.00.

• Sharon Kay Penman  :  Time and Chance   Putnam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of Henry II's reign. F/F. $20.00.

• Sharon Kay Penman  :  When Christ and His Saints Slept   Henry Holt, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Story of Maude, mother of Henry II founder of the Plantagenet dynasty. F/F. $20.00.

• Stef Penney  :  The Tenderness of Wolves   Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. Costa Book of the Year. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Marisha Pessl  :  Special Topics in Calamity Physics   Viking, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. John Sargent First Novel Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Elizabeth Peters  :  The Murders of Richard III   Dodd Mead, New York, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. Terrific mystery set in a country house where the murders seem to recreate those surrounding the infamous king. Very slight shelfwear with slight discoloration on top edges. . NF/NF. $100.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Black is the Color of My True-Love's Heart   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1967. Hardcover. First US Edition. Dominic Felse mystery. F/F. $65.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Monk's Hood   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Beautiful copy. SILVER DAGGER AWARD WINNER. . F/F. $100.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  Monk's Hood   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1980. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Tiny chip top of spine otherwise a spectacular copy. SILVER DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $75.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  The Rose Rent   Macmillan, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Brother Cadfael mystery. F/F. $60.00.

• Ellis Peters  :  The Virgin in the Ice   Wm. Morrow, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. A Brother Cadfael mystery. Beautiful copy. F/F. $75.00.

• Elizabeth Pewsey  :  Losing Larry   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Larry goes to Budapest and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation. F/F. $25.00.

• Marge Piercy  :  City of Darkness, City of Light   Fawcett, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. Novel of the French Revolution. Very slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $15.00.

• Francine Prose  :  Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles   HarperCollins, New York, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Eminent Lives series. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• E. Annie Proulx  :  Heart Songs   Fourth Estate, London, 1995. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Contains stories not included in the US Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $250.00.

• Lucy Daniel Raby  :  Nickolai of the North   Hodder Children's Books, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of the boy who grew up to be Santa Claus. Author's First Novel. for Young Adults. F/F. $40.00.

• Caro Ramsay  :  Absolution   Penguin, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First Novel. Dark police procedural set in Scotland. F/F. $50.00.

• Danuta Reah  :  Night Angels   HarperCollins, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. The car of Gemma Wishart, a young researcher, is found abandoned at Snake Pass in the Peak District. In Hull a woman is found battered to death in a hotel bathroom. For Detective Inspector Lynne Jordan, the missing academic and the murder victim have a tenuous connection, but when two more bodies turn up Lynne is forced to conclude there may be a serial killer on the loose. F/F. $25.00.

• Lisa Reardon  :  The Mercy Killer   Counterpoint, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Celia Rees  :  Pirates!   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kingston, female pirates. For young adults of all ages. F/F. $40.00.

• Celia Rees  :  Sorceress   Bloomsbury, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Sequel to the UK bestseller, Witch Child. A young adult novel. F/F. $25.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  An Unkindness of Ravens   Hutchinson, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A Chief Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection bottom of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. . F/F. $80.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Live Flesh   Hutchinson, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. An attempted murder brings Victor Jenner face to face with himself and involves him in a doomed triangular relationship. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $70.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Master of the Moor   Hutchinson, London, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Stephen Whalby finds the body of a strangled girl on the bleak expanse of Vangmoor. Signed to previous owner. Discolored spot on top edges, else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $85.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Not in the Flesh   Hutchinson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Portobello   Hutchinson, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $40.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Road Rage   Scorpion Press, Blakeney, 1997. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 73 or 99 numbered copies. With an appreciation by Val McDermid. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $100.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Shake Hands For Ever   Hutchinson, London, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in price clipped dust jacket. Scarce title. NF/NF. $200.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Some Lie and Some Die   Hutchinson, London, 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Book is unread but has a piece torn from the end paper. Dust jacket shows a crease near the spine, but no cracks or chips. NF/NF. $350.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  Talking to Strange Men   Hutchinson, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $70.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Bridesmaid   Hutchinson, London, 1989. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Several spots of discoloration on end paper else fine in like dust jacket. Comes with promotional extract. Fine. NF/NF. $75.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Crocodile Bird   Hutchinson, London, 1993. Hardcover. Limited Edition. SIGNED. Limited Edition. Number 122 of 150 copies. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $60.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Face of Trespass   Hutchinson, London, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight shelfwear. . NF/NF. $175.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Fever Tree   Hutchinson, London, 1982. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Short stories. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $115.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Keys to the Street   Hutchinson, London, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mary Jago has donated her own bone marrow to save the life of a man who will change her life in a way she could never imagine. F/F. $30.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Killing Doll   Hutchinson, London, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusion, and murderous fantasy. F/F. $80.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Lake of Darkness   Hutchinson, London, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. When Martin Urban wins 100,000 pounds on the Football Pools, his life becomes entwined with that of another young man who has also come into a sum of money. F/F. $115.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The New Girl Friend   Hutchinson, London, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. A collection of short stories from the mistress of psychological suspense. F/F. $70.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Veiled One   Hutchinson, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Inspector Wexford mystery. Slight mfg imperfection top of back board, else fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Ruth Rendell  :  The Water's Lovely   Hutchinson, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in dust jacket with small tear at toe of spine. F/F. $45.00.

• Adrienne Rich  :  Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998   Norton, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Stella Rimington  :  At Risk   Hutchinson, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An MI5 thriller by the former head of MI5. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $40.00.

• Marilynne Robinson  :  Gilead   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. Pulitzer Prize. National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $115.00.

• Meg Rosoff  :  Just In Case   Wendy Lamb Books, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. By the author of How I Live Now. In boards, as issued. Fine. $15.00.

• Leone Ross  :  Orange Laughter   Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Love, loss and betrayal in a small southern town. F/F. $12.00.

• Sheila Rowbotham  :  A Century of Women   Viking, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. A history of women in Britain and the United States. Published simultaneously in the UK and the US. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets   Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Hardcover. 8th Impression. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Harry Potter adventure. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire   Bloomsbury, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in near fine "juvenile" dust jacket. Near Fine. $60.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince   Bloomsbury, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince   Bloomsbury, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "adult" dust jacket. F/F. $95.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix   Bloomsbury, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban   Bloomsbury, London, 1999. Hardcover. Second printing of Deluxe Edition. Shelfwear top and bottom of spine and on corners. Gold leaf. Near fine. Near Fine. $45.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Final Harry Potter adventure. Fine in fine "juvenile" dust jacket. F/F. $80.00.

• S.J. Rozan  :  Reflecting the Sky   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mystery. Edgar Award nominee. SHAMUS AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• S.J. Rozan  :  Winter and Night   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Featuring Lydia Chin and Bil Smith. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. F/F. $45.00.

• Ann Rule  :  The Stranger Beside Me   W.W. Norton, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Twentieth Anniversay Edition. Rule's classic story of serial killer Ted Bundy. F/F. $30.00.

• Anna Salter  :  Shiny Water   Pocket Books, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Forensic psychologist Michael Stone is called to testify in a high-profile custody battle. When the case is called off and the children are murdered, Michael finds herself pulled into the search for a killer. F/F. $10.00.

• Anna Salter  :  Truth Catcher   Pegasus Books, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Deborah Schupack  :  The Boy on the Bus   Free Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Eight-year-old boy who steps off the school bus seems different somehow to his mother. Author's First Novel. VeryGood. $5.00.

• Christina Schwarz  :  All is Vanity   Doubleday, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Christina Schwarz  :  Drowning Ruth   Doubleday, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Manda Scott  :  No Good Deed   Bantam, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Detective Inspector Orla McLeod tries to protect a young boy caught in the crossfire of a bungled operation. Edgar Award nominee. F/F. $5.00.

• Alice Sebold  :  The Almost Moon   Little Brown, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Carolyn See  :  Making History   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in price clipped dust jacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Carolyn See  :  The Handyman   Random House, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Rachel Seiffert  :  The Dark Room   Pantheon, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First US Edition. Germany in the 20th century through the eyes of three ordinary Germans. Fine in fine dust jacket. Author's first novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Mala Sen  :  Death By Fire   Rutgers Univ. Press, New Jersey, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. Sati, dowry death, and female infanticide in modern India. By the Author of India's Bandit Queen. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $20.00.

• Gitta Sereny  :  Cries Unheard   Metropolitan Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. In 1968 Mary Bell, eleven-years-old, killed two small boys. She spoke with the author about her childhood. CWA Non Fiction Dagger. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $15.00.

• Carol Shields  :  Collected Stories   4th Estate, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First US Edition. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Jody Shields  :  The Fig Eater   Little Brown, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author imagines the murder of Dora, the tormented daughter of a respectable family and a patient of Sigmund Freud. The wife of the inspector in charge of the case becomes fascinated with the murder and does some sleuthing of her own. Author's first novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Anita Shreve  :  Fortune's Rocks   Little Brown, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Leslie Marmon Silko  :  Almanac of the Dead   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Leslie Marmon Silko  :  Gardens in the Dunes   Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Pamela Neville Sington  :  Fanny Trollope   Viking, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First US Edition. Biography. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Karin Slaughter  :  Like a Charm   Scorpion Press, Bristol, 2004. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Number 109 of 120 Limited Editions. Signed by the 15 contributors: Kelley Armstrong; Mark Billingham; Lee Child; John Connolly; Emma Donoghue; Jerrilyn Farmer; Jane Haddam; John Harvey; Laura Lippman; Lynda La Plante; Denise Mina; Fidelis Morgan; Peter Robinson; Peter Moore Smith; Karin Slaughter. In marbled boards as issued. Fine. $200.00.

• Gillian Slovo  :  Catnap   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. Hardcover. First US Edition. Kate Baeier used to run her own detective agency. Now she's a journalist based in London. When she is threatened and then attacked, Kate investigates the escalating violence towards her. F/F. $10.00.

• Gillian Slovo  :  The Betrayal   Michael Joseph, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. Political thriller set in South Africa. Published simultaneously in the UK and Canada. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Jane Smiley  :  Moo   Knopf, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. A comic send-up of society using, as a microcosm of the western world, a midwestern university. Slight shelfwear. NF/NF. $10.00.

• Ali Smith  :  Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s   Penguin, London, 2005. Paperback. First Edition Thus. SIGNED. Four stories and two extracts from longer pieces, including The Accidental, by Booker Man Prize Winner Smith. Stories date from 1995 through 2005. In wraps as issued. Fine. $30.00.

• Dinitia Smith  :  The Illusionist   Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Julie Smith  :  New Orleans Mourning   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. EDGAR. Police officer Skip Langdon is assigned to investigate the murder of Chauncey St. Amant who has been shot to death during the Mardi Gras parade. F/F. $100.00.

• Zadie Smith  :  On Beauty   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Winner of the Orange Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $125.00.

• Dalia Sofer  :  Septembers of Shiraz   Ecco Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Alexandra Sokoloff  :  The Harrowing   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $25.00.

• Susan Sontag  :  The Volcano Lover   Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in price clipped dustjacket. NF/NF. $30.00.

• Jane Stevenson  :  London Bridges   Jonathan Cape, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in the 1990s, the story involves treasure lost in the Blitz. Superb mystery. Author's First Novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Rebecca Stott  :  Ghostwalk   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Very well received. Signed and dated. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Rebecca Stott  :  Ghostwalk   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Limited to 60 signed and numbered copies with inscription: "Newton stole apples? Cambridge, 22 June 2007" Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $85.00.

• Elizabeth Strout  :  Amy and Isabelle   Random House, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's first novel. Nominated for the Orange Prize. F/F. $30.00.

• Steph Swainston  :  The Year of Our War   Victor Gollancz, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Literary fantasy which tells the story of Jant, a member The Circle, a cadre of fifty immortals who serve the Emperor. The Emperor is seeking to protect mankind from gian insects which have plagued the land for centuries. Author's First Novel. F/F. $30.00.

• Leonie Swann  :  Three Bags Full   Transworld Publishers, London, 2006. Hardcover. First English Translation. SIGNED. Author's first novel. Originally published in Germany. A sheep detective story! Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $30.00.

• Donna Tartt  :  The Little Friend   Knopf, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's second novel, after The Secret History. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $75.00.

• Josephine Tey  :  The Daughter of Time   Peter Davies, London, 1951. Hardcover. First Edition. One of the best-loved mysteries of all time. Price clipped. Previous owner's name ffep. Very small chips to top of spine. Book is tight and the dustjacket is bright. NF/NF. $400.00.

• Josephine Tey  :  To Love and Be Wise   Peter Davies, London, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Inspector Grant investigates the apparent murder of a well-connected young man. Beautiful copy with minimum shelf wear. NF/NF. $300.00.

• James Tiptree, Jr.  :  Brightness Falls from the Air   Tor, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. Tiptree's classic stylistic sci fi tale. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• P.J. Tracy  :  Live Bait   Putnam, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The Monkeewrench gang returns. F/F. $25.00.

• P.J. Tracy  :  Monkeewrench   Putnam, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Monkeewrench is a company which has put out a serial killer computer game. Now somebody is killing in the same way as in the game. First Mystery by mother and daughter. ANTHONY AWARD. BARRY AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Patricia Traxler  :  Blood   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Norrie Blume, a painter, accepts a fellowship at Radcliffe College where she develops friendships with a journalist and a poet. Her relationship with three people hurtle towards a shocking end. F/F. $10.00.

• Monique Truong  :  The Book of Salt   Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. The Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas tells his story. A work of imagination. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Jennifer Vanderbes  :  Easter Island   Dial Press, New York, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Two linked stories both taking place on Easter Island but set sixty years apart. F/F. $10.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  A Dark Adapted Eye   Viking, London, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in the middle-class countryside of Essex soon after the Second World War, Vine puts the Hillyard family under scrutiny. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. F/F. $65.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  A Fatal Inversion   Viking, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. When bodies are discovered at Wyvis Hall, Adam Verne-Smith and his friends, who stayed there ten years before, have reasons to fear the outcome. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $65.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  Gallowglass   Viking, London, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. The power of the educated over the simple is explored in this tale of psychological suspense. Some imperfections (not tears) on the edges of several pages. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. NF/NF. $35.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  Grasshopper   Viking, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Dark mystery from Vine who is Ruth Rendell. F/F. $45.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  King Solomon's Carpet   Viking, London, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Jarvis loves the London Underground and all its secrets. He l ives in an old house overlooking the Jubilee Line and he lets out rooms to people, all of whom have some connection to the Tube. Vine manages to make London transportation seem shocking and oppressive. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. F/F. $125.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  No Night is Too Long   Viking, London, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. In a ghostly house overlooking the North Sea a young man sits down each evening to write his confession: a confession he will never be able to complete. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. F/F. $35.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  The Birthday Present   Penguin, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ruth Rendell writing as.. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $60.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  The House of Stairs   Viking, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. After the death of her wealthy husband, Cosette buys a dilapidated house in London. Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell. F/F. $65.00.

• Barbara Vine  :  The Minotaur   Viking, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A middle-aged Swedish woman remembers her stay with an English family forty years before. . F/F. $45.00.

• Mary Willis Walker  :  The Red Scream   Doubleday, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Introduces Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates. Edgar Award Winner. F/F. $40.00.

• Mary Willis Walker  :  Under the Beetle's Cellar   Doubleday, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his charges have been held beneath the ground of the group's compound for forty-six days. Crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's leader. ANTHONY AWARD. HAMMETT PRIZE. MACAVITY AWARD. MARTIN BECK AWARD. F/F. $35.00.

• Jill Paton Walsh  :  A Desert in Bohemia   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000. Hardcover. First US Edition. The lives of nine characters who live in Europe between the end of WW II and the fall of the Berlin wall. . F/F. $10.00.

• Minette Walters  :  Chickenfeed   Pan, London, 2006. Paperback. First Edition. Paperback Original. One of the "Quick Reads" published to celebrate World Book Day. 116 pp. Fine. $10.00.

• Minette Walters  :  Disordered Minds   Macmillan, London, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Minette Walters  :  Fox Evil   Macmillan, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. GOLD DAGGER AWARD. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $45.00.

• Minette Walters  :  The Ice House   Macmillan, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's scarce first novel. CREASEY AWARD WINNER. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Usual very slight tanning to edges. . F/F. $1700.00.

• Minette Walters  :  The Sculptress   Macmillan, London, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Walters' very disturbing second novel. EDGAR AWARD. MACAVITY AWARD. MARLOWE AWARD. Tight copy with usual slight tanning to edges. F/F. $125.00.

• Liza Ward  :  Outside Valentine   Henry Holt, New York, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Three people, three voices, three different times, all mysteriously linked by a shocking crime. Author is granddaughter of one of Charlie Starkweather's victims. Author's First Novel. F/F. $10.00.

• Sarah Waters  :  Fingersmith   Riverhead Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Set in Victorian London, this is the story of Sue Trinder, an orphan left in the care of Mrs. Sucksby who takes in babies. She also hosts a transient family of petty thieves, fingersmiths, for whom this house is home. Short listed for the Booker Man Prize. First hardcover edition. CWA ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD. F/F. $65.00.

• Sarah Waters  :  The Night Watch   Virago Press, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Story follows four Londoners backwards through the 1940s. Short listed for the Man Booker Prize. F/F. $60.00.

• Louise Welsh  :  Tamburlaine Must Die   Canongate Books, Edinburgh, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. It is 1593 and plawright, poet, and spy Christopher Marlowe has three days to live. Three days to find the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer who has escaped from the pages of his most violent play. F/F. $35.00.

• Louise Welsh  :  The Bullet Trick   Canongate, Edinburgh, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Jenny White  :  The Sultan's Seal   Norton, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. First novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $10.00.

• Connie Willis  :  Passage   Bantam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. Joanna Lander, researcher, volunteers to test a new drug which manufactures the near-death experience. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $30.00.

• Connie Willis  :  To Say Nothing of the Dog   Bantam, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Willis again visits the unpredictable world of time travel. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Hugo Award Winner. F/F. $100.00.

• Laura Wilson  :  Dying Voices   Orion, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Dodie Blackstock, only child of multi-millionaire Wolf Blackstock, was eight, her mother was kidnapped. The family's attempt to get her back ended in disaster and her body was never found. Now Dodie is twenty-nine and her mother's body has just been discovered. She has been dead for forty-eight hours. F/F. $30.00.

• Laura Wilson  :  My Best Friend   Orion, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. When Gerald Haxton was fourteen he found the body of his elder sister buried in a shallow grave. Her boyfriend, a young G.I. was hanged for the crime. Fifty years later Gerald has taken to following a twelve-year-old girl who bears a striking resemblance to his sister. F/F. $30.00.

• Laura Wilson  :  Stratton's War   Orion, London, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Ellis Peters Historical Award. Set in London during WWII. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $55.00.

• Laura Wilson  :  The Lover   Orion, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A serial killer is at large in London in 1940 during the Blitz. Based on a true story. F/F. $35.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Art and Lies   Knopf, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First US Edition. Three apparently disparate people on a single day in a single place. From one of the UK's most original writers. F/F. $20.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Fingersmith   Virago Press, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD. Victorian thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket with bookmark. F/F. $50.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Fingersmith   Riverhead Books, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. ELLIS PETERS HISTORICAL AWARD. Victorian thriller. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $50.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Gut Symmetries   Knopf, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First US Edition. Aboard the QE2, three lives converge: Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman commence an affair. Alice falls in love with Jove's wife, Stella. F/F. $10.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Gut Symmetries   Granta, London, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Three lives converge aboard the QE2. F/F. $30.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Lighthousekeeping   Fourth Estate, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Silver is taken in by Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, who tells ancient tales of longing and rootlessness. F/F. $45.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Sexing the Cherry   Atlantic Monthly, New York, 1990. Hardcover. First US Edition. Fantastical story set during the reign of Charles II featuring Jordan, the son of Dog Woman. F/F. $20.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Tanglewreck   Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Young Adult novel. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  The Passion   Bloomsbury, London, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Slight bump to top corners. NF/NF. $65.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  The Stone Gods   Hamish Hamilton, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. An interplanetary love story. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $65.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  The World and Other Places   Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's first collection of short stories. F/F. $45.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Written on the Body   Jonathan Cape, London, 1992. Hardcover. First Edition. Told by a vulnerable and subversive Lothario, gender undeclared. Lambda Literary Award. F/F. $55.00.

• Jeanette Winterson  :  Written on the Body   Knopf, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First US Edition. Lambda Literary Award. F/F. $10.00.

• Sara Woods  :  A Thief or Two   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977. Hardcover. First US Edition. Featuring Barrister Antony Maitland. F/F. $10.00.

• Sara Woods  :  Murder's Out of Tune   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984. Hardcover. First US Edition. Featuring Barrister Antony Maitland. Sticker removal apparent ffe. NF/NF. $5.00.

• Sara Woods  :  The Lie Direct   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1983. Hardcover. First US Edition. Featuring Barrister Antony Maitland. Sticker removal apparent ffe. NF/NF. $5.00.

• L.R. Wright  :  Sleep While I Sing   Viking, New York, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. A hitchhiker is murdered on a country road and Carl Alberg investigates. Published simultaneously in the US and Canada. . F/F. $45.00.

• L.R. Wright  :  The Suspect   Viking, New York, 1985. Hardcover. First Edition. Murder in a small Canadian town. Introduces Carl Albert. Precedes Canadian Edition. EDGAR AWARD WINNER. F/F. $65.00.

• Fan Wu  :  February Flowers   Picador, London, 2007. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. A coming of age novel set in modern China. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Robyn Young  :  Brethren   Dutton, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First US Edition. First in the Will Templar trilogy documenting the adventures of the Knights Templar. F/F. $25.00.