9780735821248 | North South Books, March 1, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Chasing his ball through the streets of New York, Mike dives into a garbage can and finds himself in the city sewers, where hundreds of alligators need his help to get back to their homes in the Florida swamps.

9780880641265 | Fromm Intl, April 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An Italian woman, whose posterior is transformed into art by a tattoo artist, is coveted by a wealthy old man and the artist himself, but she is most truly loved by a blind man

9780525242116 | E P Dutton, January 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Dramatizes the life of Typhoid Mary, an immigrant girl who survived a shipboard epidemic of typhoid, only to spread the disease among those for whom she cooked

9780345319678 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Recounts the story of Maria Caduff, the immigrant cook known as Typhoid Mary, a woman infected with the deadly, contagious disease but herself immune to it, who carried the bacillus throughout elite New York homes and hotels