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Minneapolis:: Coffee House Press,, 1995.. SIGNED -. Very near fine in stiff wrappers in an outer dustjacket.. 2nd printing. Trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A title in the 'Coffee-to-go Short-short Stories series.' SIGNED on the title page.

New York:: Addison-Wesley, , 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. INSCRIBED by Rogers. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Both a biography and an autobiography, this collaboration tells the story of Rogers, who during the Holocaust was sent by the Nazis to a transport camp in the Ukraine, but managed to save her family from the death camps by posing as a foundry worker. Illustrated with photographs, index., notes. 238 pages. A title in the Radcliffe Biography series.

Mountain View, CA & and Omaha, NE:: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1966.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine i n illustrated boards, in a near fine dustjacket. . First printing. SIGNED on front endpaper with 'best wishes' Autobiography of an African orphan, who was educated in a mission school and then adopted by an American couple. Her life was featured in a "This is Your Life" segment, and she herself returned to Africa in a missionary capacity.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1990.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. SIGNED on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. Fascinating novel, set in Siberia 20,000 years ago.

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, 1999.. SIGNED -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. A rather charming modern fairy tale of positivism. SIGNED on the title page by the author.

New York:: Atheneum,, 1961.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (slight discoloration to the endpapers from the clippings, a little wear to the dj at the top of the spine.). First printing. A wonderful collection of short stories, most set on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's, published when the author was 86. INSCRIBED on the blank prelim 'To Calvin J. Nichols, with the warmest regards of Alvin Johnson.' Johnson is best known for his founding of the New School for Social Research in 1919, but in 1933, he created a 'university in exile' as a haven for scholars who fled from Nazi persecution. Laid in are newpaper obituaries for Johnson (1971.)

New York:: Viking,, 1974.. SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). A novel about the Maid of Orleans - Joan of Arc. SIGNED on the title page, and dated 1995.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 2001.. SIGNED -. Fine (as new.). Second printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. Her highly praised first book, a collection of short stories. Winner of the 2002 PEN/Bingham award. SIGNED on the title page.

New York:: Crown,, 1987.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. Her third novel, a satirical autobiography - complete with photographs - of a cannibal from the South Seas who is dragged back to NY by a heiress who has decided to marry him - and what happens to this one time cannibal in the most cannibalistic of cities. Illustrated by Tony Wright. Boldy INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page.

New York:: George Braziller,, (1981.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First American edition. SIGNED by author. An early work of this Australian novelist, who has also lived in Italy. The first novella, witten in the first person, is the story of a modern Italian terrorist. The second is set in the trenches of the first World War.

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with relatively few markings (none on the title page), and overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dustjacket.. First printing. Her second book, set on board an illegal slaving ship, disguised as a whaler, and told by the 14 year old boy sailing on it as the captain's apprentice. SIGNED on the title page.

Iowa City:: University of Iowa Press,, 1980.. First edition -. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1986. Very good condition.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of short stories, and the winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction.

New York:: Vantage Press,, 1981.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some slight chipping and wear to the upper edge of the back cover of the dj.). First printing. The story of a group of disparate boarders living on the 4th floor of a rather rundown house - one that used to be a bordello. Set in San Francisco in the 1930's. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by the author.

New York:: Viking,, 1976.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj sunned.). First printing. Hints on how to do this by a successful career woman, who was, among other things, assistant to Clare Booth Luce at the American embassy in Rome and social secretary to President John F. Kennedy. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words 'with best wishes.'

Evanston, IL:: Northwestern University Press,, 2003.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A novel based on Isaac Babel's last visit to his hometown of Odessa in 1936; the only record of this trip are the letters and postcards which Babel sent to his mother and sister, but Rosenstone has imagined the lost manuscript he might have written. SIGNED and dated on the title page by the author.

Quebec:: Cidihca,, 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Very good in near fine dust jacket (front hinge cracked.). First printing. Her first novel, a story of a summer in Haiti in the 1950's, weaves together Haitian folktales, proverbs, song and history. Striking dustjacket painting by Wilson Bigaud.

Quebec:: Cidihca,, 1988.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 1989. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Her first novel, a story of a summer in Haiti in the 1950's, weaves together Haitian folktales, proverbs, song and history. Striking dustjacket painting by Wilson Bigaud.

New York:: Grove, , 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's first novel. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page 'For . . . Thank you for being here on a fine autumn evening. I hope Olivia can give you good gifts' and SIGNED and dated November 11, 1994 on title page.

Berkeley, CA:: Creative Arts Book Co.,, 1987.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a good only dust jacket (1 1/2 in long closed tear on back cover, short tear on front cover, crease on front flap.). First printing. A collection of 12 very personal short stories and sketches where Houston writes about his Tennessee ancestors, his Texas uncles, a California barber, his college football coach and other men. SIGNED on the title page, and dated Sacramento, 1997.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1987.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder line, light edgewear to dj.). First printing. A novel of romance and intrigue, set in pre-revolutionary Iran - but most of all the story of a woman 'the most unliberated she knows' left alone in Iran when her husband, a visiting doctor, is called back to the US for an emergency, and discovering her ability to cope with it all and then discovering that things are not as they seem. Nominated for the Pulitzer. SIGNED on the title page.