London: Virago, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition -

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth book by this prize winning Southern writer, set in Mississippi in the 1960's and 70's. Dustjacket praise from Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. ISBN: 0-15-1783225.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An illustrated edition of Douglas's only work of short fiction, four stories set in small town Mississippi, in which Black lives and white lives are intertwined, and originally published in 1963. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Wolfe A title in the Author and Artist series. Afterword by Douglas. 234 pp plus colophon. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1783225.

Dallas, TX: Baskerville Publishers, Inc. (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A black comedy set in "The Big Thicket of East Texas, a place that time forgot but which master writer Gerald Duff remembers well." Cover praise from Madison Smartt Bell (who called this a "crackpot Southern comedy with a darker edge of satire beneath its wit."), Lee Smith, and Roy Blount. The author was born and raised in Beaumont ,Texas. 185 pp. Striking red, white and black dustjacket by Helen Williams. ISBN: 1-880909154.

New York: Norton, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - A family saga, a star-crossed love story, set deep in the bayou country of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 362 pp.

New York: Norton, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel - a family saga, a star-crossed love story - set deep in the bayou country of Louisiana. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-393020207.

New York: Norton, (2001.). First edition - A family saga, a star-crossed love story, set deep in the bayou country of Louisiana. 362 pp.

New York: Norton, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. Dust jacket praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?) SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-393-040135.

New York: Plume (Penguin), (1998.). SIGNED - Third novel by one of the Granta 20. Praise from Jill McCorkle and Lewis Nordan (who called this 'a work of genius' and asked 'how can a writer be so funny and so touching in the same sentence?) 315 pp. ISBN: 0-393-040135.

Boston: Little Brown, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover - First novel and second book by this Granta award winning author. Set in a small town in depression-era North Carolina, Alice McDermott called this 'a delight. A sweet graceful novel that charms the reader with marvelous language, honest emotion, and authentic characters.' INSCRIBED on the title page "for..." 227 pp. ISBN: 0-316-199648.

Boston: Little Brown, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book by this Granta award winning author, a collection of short stories - several of which were already selected as 'best' - Lee Smith described these stories as 'each is like a little novel: fully imagined, fully realized.' SIGNED on the title page. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-316-199621.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first work of non-fiction (his third book), a collection of very personal essays by this author who was named one of the best young fiction writers in the US by Granta magazine. They explore "the difficulties of finding one's place in the world without letting go of where we came from. From his television-obsessed childhood in the North Carolina mountains to his new family, he presents his life with straightforward humanity." 172 pp. ISBN: 1565123026.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014). Hardcover first edition - A collection of seven short pieces by this award-winning author, sometimes melancholy, sometimes comic and occasionally strange. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0316246125.

Boston: Little Brown, (2007, c 2008.). SIGNED first edition - Jim, the boy in Earley's first novel, is now a teenager and in love for the first time; it is 1941, in a world on the eve of World War II, and even a small town in North Carolina is not the safe haven it once was. A wonderful coming of age story. SIGNED on the title page and dated October 2007, before publication. Selected by the NY Times as 2008 Notable Book 288 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2007, c 2008.). SIGNED first edition - Jim, the boy in Earley's first novel, is now a teenager and in love for the first time; it is 1941, in a world on the eve of World War II, and even a small town in North Carolina is not the safe haven it once was. A wonderful coming of age story. SIGNED on the title page. Selected by the NY Times as 2008 Notable Book. 288 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first work of non-fiction (his third book), a collection of very personal essays - one which explore "the difficulties of finding one's place in the world without letting go of where we came from" - by this author who was named one of the best young fiction writers in the US by Granta magazine. SIGNED on the title page. 172 pp. ISBN: 1565123026.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (1998.). First edition - Preface by Padgett Powell. Features nineteen of the best short stories published during the year either by Southern writers or about the US South. Also includes stories by Mark Richards, Sara Powers, Scot Ely, Frederick Barthelme and more. Biographical notes and index to previous volumes. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-270.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the author on the title page. His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsucessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history - and in 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in turn of the century Colorado, populated by a motley crew of innocents and scoundrels, visionaries and vultures. 244 pp. Map endpapers of Mesa Largo and the Merriweather Ranch. ISBN: 1565120604.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His seventh novel, set in Listre, North Carolina in 1950, population 511. INSCRIBED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 15651206212.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsuccessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history. In 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. First edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. SIGNED on title page. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsucessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history - and in 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel, set in North Carolina. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsucessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history - and in 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. ISBN: 0-945575-009.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1985. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, set in North Carolina and INSCRIBED on the title page - "For - - All best" and dated in 1988. "The story of the first two years, two months, and two days of a modern Southern marriage." 227 pp. ISBN: 0-912697-172.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Wesley's back in trouble... Edgerton's 4th novel. ISBN: 0-945575-53x.