New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, second book, by this highly praised writer from North Carolina.. Her first book, a collection of short stories called 'Missing Women' was the winner of the Willa Cather award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for first fiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of they year. Kaye Gibbons called Spence "a reader's dream. Her stories charm the soul and engage the mind... both gentle and firm, quiet and packed with glorious candor." 227 pp. ISBN: 1-57332-2860.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First edition - Prize-winning first collection of short stories by this author; winner of the Willa Cather award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for first fiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of they year. The title story was selected by E. Annie Proulx for 'Best American Short Stories, 1997.' Kaye Gibbons called Spence "a reader's dream. Her stories charm the soul and engage the mind... both gentle and firm, quiet and packed with glorious candor." 196 pp.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935. Hardcover first edition - Satirical novel of corruption in political campaigns by this prolific and very popular writer during his time. Stribling is one of only 2 Alabama authors to receive the Pulitzer Prize (the other, of course, was Harper Lee.)

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - First collection of short stories by this Southern poet and editor. ISBN: 0-8071-17072.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - A southern Gothic novel about the disappearance of a young girl by the poet and writer, the daughter of the Kentucky author, Jesse Stuart. 141 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Bill Ronalds. ISBN: 0-07-0622027.

New York: Century, 1903. Hardcover - Novel written in black dialect, the story of Rose Ann, washerwoman, and her husband, 'Napoleon Jackson, the Gentleman of the Plush Rocker.'. Illustrated by Edward Pottbast with a frontispiece and 7 inserted plates in sepia tint. Small format. 132 pp. Attractive art noveau cover design in green and gilt by Lee & Henry Thayer (signed with the intertwined "D" s used by the Decorative Designers.)

New York: Random House, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first appearance in book form of these three stories - although the subjects are different (a young Marine about to invade Japan in World War II, a former slave coming home to die, and a boy remembering the death of his mother), the voice is the same. Small format. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-679427422.

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Books, (1994.). A classic on the subject, originally published in 1946. 247 pp plus a brief bibliography. ISBN: 0-88289-336x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The last novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was born in Tennessee, a story of obsession and of the crossroads in life. "In 1916, a young boy..... is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life." 226 pp. ISBN: 0-394-56264x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book, second novel based on the history of the author's own family, set in Oklahoma City in the 1920s, during the oil boom years. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-912697245.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the history of the author's own family from the 1700s to the present - included in the family was an Indian fighter, his son who was Andrew Johnson's chief negotiator with the warring tribes, two governors of Tennessee and many others. Includes family photographs. ix, 20 pages of photographs, 270 pp. Genealogical family tree illustrated end papers. ISBN: 0-912697245.

New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, [1880.]. Hardcover - Novel of the Reconstruction by this writer from Ohio who, as a carpetbagger, was also a judge in North Carolina. Frontispiece, 521 pgs, plus 4 pgs of advertisements at end. Bound in gold cloth with black lettering and design on front cover, gilt title stamped on spine.

New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, [1880.]. Hardcover - Novel of the Reconstruction by this writer from Ohio who, as a carpetbagger, was also a judge in North Carolina. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 521 pp, plus 4 pp of advertisements.

New York: Random House, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Set in Big Stone Gap, Virginia in the year 1973. A family scandal sends the heroine, 35 year-old Ave Maria Mulligan into new levels of activity, shattering her quiet spinster life. First novel by this playwright. With a projected first printing of 150,000 copies, this ARC is much less common than the hardcover copy. SIGNED on the title page, and dated April 2000. 328 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised young Southern writer. Lee Abbott said her "characters are so real you can still hear their lies and dreams long after you've turned her last perfect page." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-385-414250.

Memphis, TN: St. Luke's Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first novel - a book written out of her heritage as a Southerner and as a part American Indian. Marge Piercy called this 'a fascinating historical novel about interracial relations in the South, covering 300 years of collisions, misprisions, love, hate, war , family life. '

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel. When her sister, June, is murdered in the months before Lindy is to be married, she abandons her hometown of Charlotte - her job, her fiance, her shattered family, and her shifty brother-in-law - for Galveston on the Texas coast, where her ailing grandmother has a huge Victorian home, and the chance to leave her grief behind. All that she takes with her to tie her to her old life is June's son, not yet a year old. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395926904.

New York: Random House, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author Warren returns to the South where he was brought up and recounts conversations he had regarding segregation and integration - although his conclusion that "despite the suspicion, evasion, hatred and fear engendered by the problem now, integration one day will appear as just one small episode in the long effort for human justice" was perhaps too optimistic. Noted journalist and author Tom Wicker's copy with his handwritten name on the front endpaper. 66 pp.

New York: Norton, 2003. SIGNED - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second, following a prize-winning collection of short stories). Set in the small town of Mercury, Mississippi and spanning over 80 years from 1906 on - finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 0-393-324656.

New York: Norton, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of spare but compassionate short stories by this award-winning writer. 268 pp. ISBN: 9780393057119.

New York: Norton, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a prize-winning collection of short stories). Set in the small town of Mercury, Mississippi and spanning over 80 years from 1906 on - finalist for the National Book Award. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-393-047571.

New York: Norton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (his second book, following a prize-winning collection of short stories). Set in the small town of Mercury, Mississippi and spanning over 80 years from 1906 on - finalist for the National Book Award. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-393-047571.

New York: Pantheon, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of Southern culture and lifestyles in the 1960s and their possible influence on the rest of the United States by a former journalist and information director for the Southern Regional Council, whose major concern has been with race relations and the civil rights movement. Bibliography, index. xviii, 390 pp.

Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books / F+W Media, Inc, (2013). First edition - The author's first book, "A powerfully observed, evocative, and downright dazzlingÓ (NY Times) portrait of the American working class in a collection of related stories. "After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn - a town without anything to hold onto but the past." 195 pp.

New York: HarperPerennial, 1996. The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. ISBN: 0-06-0976845.

Seattle: Broken Moon Press, (1992). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. 224 pp. ISBN: 0913089257.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel about the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - this 'reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.' 258 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-060195347.

New York: Random House, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Mississippi in the 1930's.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A revised version of three lectures (entitled Listening, Learning to See and Finding a Voice) delivered at Harvard in 1983; includes an account of growing up in the South in the early 20th century, and how it affected her as a writer. Photographs. 103 pages. While it has gone through many printings, this had a rather small first printing in the trade edition. ISBN: 0-674-639251.