Columbia, South Carolina, The R. L. Bryan Company, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Dr. Julian K. Quattlebaum on the Gullah dialect, which was found along the southern coast on the remote Sea Islands and coastal lands, from South Carolina to the northern part of Florida. The author, J. Gary Black collected stories on the South Carolina islands of Hilton Head, Daufuskie, and St. Helena between the 1920's and 1970 as a tax collector for Beaufort County, South Carolina. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Illustrated by Nancy Ricker Webb. xii, 50 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bittersweet memoir by this Georgia humorist. SIGNED on the title page.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, set in Central Texas during World War I. Winner of the 1997 PEN Texas Award for the Novel.

New York: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1991. Poet's highly praised second novel - James Dickey described it as a 'brilliant novel of a small town kidnapping gone to hell.'. ISBN: 0-671-733028.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's highly praised second novel - James Dickey described it as a "brilliant novel of a small town kidnapping gone to hell." SIGNED on the title page. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-395-515289.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's highly praised second novel - James Dickey described it as a "brilliant novel of a small town kidnapping gone to hell." 198 pp. ISBN: 0-395-515289.

London: Constable, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's highly praised second novel - James Dickey described it as a "brilliant novel of a small town kidnapping gone to hell."

New York: Context Books, (2001). First edition - Southern author's second book, following his highly praised memoir, and first work of fiction. Contains 13 stories, mostly set in Virginia, which chronicle the lives of narrators living on the margins of urban life. The title story reimagines the life of another Virginia writer, Breece D'J Pancake, and weaves in actual events in his life, as it attempts to explain his apparent suicide at 26. 216 pp.

New York: Macmillan, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Boyd's second novel, and the first to be published in hardcover. Set in South Carolina in the sixties. Tillie Olsen in praising this book said it has "boldness, reach depth. She is the best of her generation. I wish I had words, ways, to lead every true reader to it.". ISBN: 0-02-5142704.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel about the South and the sixties, set in part in Charleston, South Carolina where the author herself grew up - a story of fighting for the freedom to make choices - even when the choices might not be the best ones ("booze and mescaline give way to booze and cocaine"). 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400907.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Southern writer's third book and first collection of short stories.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth novel about the South and the sixties, set in part in Charleston, South Carolina where the author herself grew up - a story of fighting for the freedom to make choices - even when the choices might not be the best ones ("booze and mescaline give way to booze and cocaine"). 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-400907.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. dj. Hardcover first edition - Tales of the legendary hero, John Henry, told in black dialect; scattered through the stories are lyrics from some of the many folk and blues songs honoring his exploits. Illustrated with woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. 225 pp plus colophon and 4 pp publisher's ads

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's second novel - the story of an aging - and dying - football coach's struggle to survive. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

New York: Doubleday, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's sixth novel. A young journalist and a painting restorer Rhys Goudeau search for a scandalous WPA mural supposedly painted over just befor teh artist took his own life. As the hunt becomes more frantic, they begin to realize that the Asmore mural is "not just about reclaiming a valuable work of art. Rather, the painting represents the murky and troubled history of the South itself, where a legacy of racial intolerance has destroyed its greatest artist as well as his most important creation." 305 pp. ISBN: 0-345502613.

New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Louisiana born author- one which combines the romantic with the ironic, pathos with comedy. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp/. ISBN: 0-8050-16805.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Granta Regional Finalist, set in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Depression. His first novel Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, was the winner of the Lyndhurst Prize in 1993 and the 1994 Lillian Smith Award. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-395729882.

New York: Free Press / Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition - The last novel published during his lifetime by this highly praised Southern writer- much lighter in tone than most of his books, this is an often hilarious story which weaves together the stories of the botched choices and missed chances of a diverse group of people. Publisher's material laid in. 342 pp.

New York: Bantam, (1999.). Novel of "passion and rivalry in Runnymede, Maryland" - a small town right on the Mason-Dixon line. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-553-380370.

New York: Seaview Books, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this North Carolina author, one which follows the lives of a several transplanted Southerners on the make, socially and politically, in New York City. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-872237028.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A rollicking, explosively inventive novel about God, sex, death, and politics in Bill Clinton country. It's a love story, a murder mystery, and a soap opera of the new American South. Its a metafictional tour de force, narrated by none other than the Holy Ghost, that Shade-About-Town." It's a great novel by a writer who doesn't fit into any pigeonholes - cover praise from Clyde Edgerton, Larry Brown and others. 655 pp. ISBN: 0-394586638.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A rollicking, explosively inventive novel about God, sex, death, and politics in Bill Clinton country. It's a love story, a murder mystery, and a soap opera of the new American South. Its a metafictional tour de force, narrated by none other than the Holy Ghost, that Shade-About-Town." It's a great novel by a writer who doesn't fit into any pigeonholes - cover praise from Clyde Edgerton, Larry Brown and others. 655 pp. ISBN: 0-394586638.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction and notes at the beginning of each section by John Macy. xxvii, 291 pp.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of short stories chosen specifically for its portrayals of white and black southerners. Selected (and with a preface) by Ray McIver.

New York: Picador, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A lyrical novel by this award-winning Southern poet and writer - it "begins in a room made cool by the approach of death, where and old woman and her grieving daughter are saying good-bye in silent, urgent conversation. In the next room, Jess Kirkman waits with his father, remembering the tales his grandmother and mother have passed down." 228 pp. ISBN: 0-312146000.

New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 13 stories by this North Carolina poet and novelist. "Altered history of future legend, disquieting, comic, or tall in the telling, these stories follow seekers of truth as they pursue the shifty, shape-changing object of their particular desires". Among those who appear in these stories are Lovecraft and the poet Hart Crane. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-312-064187.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Meet Nina, Virginia bell, now out shoveling Wisconsin snow. Divorced and childless she has shoveled herself to the brink of middle age" and she needs help now! A book which deals with serious subjects - aging, families. alcohplism but with a light touch. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-9455753109.