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

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - On March 2nd and 3rd in 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history - an auction known as 'the weeping time' - was held in Savannah, Georgia. Over 400 slaves were sold by Pierce Butler, the husband of abolitionist Fanny Kemble, for over $300,000. Written in dialogue, this tells the story of this event from different perspectives - the white master, his children, house slaves, field hands and even the auctioneer. Winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Award. Author's note, references. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-0490-4.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories (preceded by poetry and a play) by this Southern author, set primarily in the cities and countryside of Georgia, stories "laced with violence and comedy, with eccentricity and surprise." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 223 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-01745.

Marietta, GA: Cherokee Publishing, 1995. First edition - The author's first novel, a story about twin boys growing up on a hunting plantation in Georgia in the 1940s, told with a "balance of lyrical nostalgia and gleefully coarse humor. It is narrated by Matty MacDonald in one of those distinctive Southern voices that creates color on the page. He and his brother Patty are twins whose mother died giving birth to them and whose father committed suicide shortly afterward. The boys are raised on a 15,000-acre South Georgia hunting property named Ecowah Plantation by their delightfully eccentric Uncle Charlie, who gives up his carefree bachelor life to accept the responsibility." (Publisher's Weekly) 238 pp.

New York: Walker, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Atlanta professor turned private investigator Bennett Cole, who is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a noir novelist in a small town in the Florida panhandle. Review copy with publicity material laid in. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31821.

New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Callahan Garrity mystery (she runs a cleaning service in Atlanta, Georgia, and keeps finding herself involved in a murder investigation). 295 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth Callahan Garrity mystery (she runs a cleaning service in Atlanta, Georgia, and occasionally gets involved in an investigation). 306 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0176377.

New York: HarperCollins, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring cleaning lady and sometime sleuth Callahan Garrity
Set in Atlanta, GA. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0179244.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1988). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 120 full color photographs rooted in Valentine's love affair with Guale and its sacred landscape. "The Guale Indians lived, hunted and fished amidst the barrier islands of the Georgia coast. That jewel like chain of islands still possess a unique diversity of sub-tropical coastal life and landscape" and these striking photographs reveal the beauty of the area. Foreword by Eugenia Price. SIGNED by Jim Valentine on the title page. Large format. Map, photographer's note. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-934601577.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1998. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.

New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.