New York: Dial Press, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Texas in the days following the Civil War. 347 pp.

New York: Dial Press, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'A four-generation novel of the South' by this African American writer, set in Louisiana between 1842 and 1920. 346 pp. The dust jacket flap notes that more than 12 million copies of Yerby's books have been sold and he was apparently feeling comfortable enough to have a full page photograph on the back cover of the dj.

New York: Dial Press, 1962. dj. Hardcover - Historical novel set on a plantation in Mississippi in the years right after the Civil War. Although Yerby was an African American writer, his historical novels focused on the ruling white class. 220 pp. Dust jacket design by Julian Paul.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel, fifth book, one set against a background of the privileged worlds of Fifth Avenue and the British upper classes in the 1920s, this is the story of a young woman who becomes involved in the Universal Society of Brotherhood. Although her journey takes her from youthful naivete to a recognition of charlantism, she never loses her belief in love and goodnes.. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-395354196.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book featuring the often hapless Button family, set in small town Iowa in 1929. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 177 pp. ISBN: 9780763653965.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book featuring the often hapless Button family, set in small town Iowa in 1929. INSCRIBED on the title page. 177 pp. ISBN: 9780763653965.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. Editor's letter bound in at the front of the book. 375 pp. .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which combines intrigue and history. Set in Paris in 1892, a city embroiled in a political scandal involving the French Panama Canal Company; the protagonist is the American historian and author Henry Adams, grandson and great-grandson of President Adams. SIGNED on the title page. 375 pp. . ISBN: 0-374229430.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of war objectors who were drafted during World War I - The Great War. The story focuses on a Kansas farm boy who objects to serving because "killing is wrong." As a result, he's a prisoner in the disclipinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, where he's subjected to a violent and degrading regime, but still manages to form a community with Mennonites from the Dakotas, wobblies and anarchists from Chicago and New York, and nerve cases from the front. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-871132540.

New York: Tom Doherty Assoc, 1994. First edition - Epic novel of the Mexican Revolution of 1914; blurbs by Tony Hillerman among others. Author has won the Golden Spur award twice.