New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker, has left the force for Florida. a fishing boat and his family, but when his niece is desperately ill and needing a kidney transplant to survive, he is confronted with the moral dilemma of his life when he given the choice to murder a man in exchange for a compatible kidney. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-671003291.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The last Travis McGee novel. ISBN: 0-394-538994.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. dj. Hardcover - The last Travis McGee novel. ISBN: 0-394-538994.

Philadelphia & New York: Lippincott, 1973. dj. Hardcover - A decent copy of a book hard to find in hardcover. The first Travis McGee mystery to be published in hardcover. 287 pp. Cover art by John McDermott. ISBN: 0-397-009879.

Beverly Hills, CA: Bronzeville Books, (2021). SIGNED first edition - Award winning Florida author's first collection of short fiction. Alafair Burke commented that her "insight and empathy resonate throughout this beautifully written collection. She has just the right words to make us feel the pain and hardships affecting her characters, but always with hope." SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page. 128 pp. ISBN: 978-1952427190.

New York: Random House, 1999. dj. Hardcover - The third book in his fascinating 'Watson trilogy' about the Everglades settler who was gunned down by his neighbors. This volume tells the story from the viewpoint of Watson himself. 410 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-375-501029.

New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - Fascinating story of a murder in the Florida Everglades in 1910 - based on a true story. A complex novel by one of the best and most important American writers of our time. 372 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-554000.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1979.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Florida author's first novel, an unsentimental story about a mongoloid thirty-four year old woman confronting the world, one which draws on the author's knowledge as a professor of psychiatry. Dustjacket praise from Issac B. Singer who said 'an unusual novel on an unusual topic written by a writer with an unusual talent - I recommend Sanjo to everyone.' 274 pp. ISBN: 0-397013485.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A poetry collection "conceived in the years before Hurricane Katrina and deeply influenced by its aftermath," INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 121 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 9781566892131.

New York: DK Ink, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Even the best loved pet dreams of a vacation sometimes - and for Iguana it is a dream of warm weather and some good old-fashioned seaweed. SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author,. Illustrated in full-color by Ponder Goembel. Large format, unpaginated. Promotional post card of Iguana on a surfboard laid in. ISBN: 0-7894-25815.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery set in South Florida and introducing Chicago, a young widow (daughter of a Norwegian sea captain and a Trinidadian woman) who, with her Haitian helper, made her living collecting exotic fishes from the reefs. ISBN: 0-88184-635x.

Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, (1999.). A passionate, eloquent and well-researched look at the death penalty (and what is wrong with it) by an insider - an attorney who has been involved in many death penalty appeals. Foreword by David Von Drehle. Notes, index, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780299153441.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - This first novel by a former FBI agent catapults the readers into the heart of a tense FBI kidnapping investigation in Florida, providing a gripping portrayal of how federal law enforcement really works. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935134.

Unbridled Books, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a classic ""road-picture"" story, winner of the Dana Award. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 9781609530617.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1982.). First edition - Novel based on the travels of the Moroccan slave Estevan who accompanied the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez, also known as Cabeza de Vaca, across the southern part of the New World - from what is now Florida to the Gulf Coast of Mexico - from 1527 to 1536. Maps. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and dated in 1990. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-8214-06809.

New York: Dutton, (2005.). First edition - Mystery featuring Florida attorneys Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana. Author's note. 372 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover first edition - Her almost always entertaining account of life in an old farmhouse in an orange grove in a small hamlet in Florida, and especially of the people who lived there, black and white, and in some cases worked for her. Illustrated with drawings by Edward Shenton. While Rawlings was a very beloved writer in Florida, this book inspired a lawsuit by one of the neighbors described in it - on the basis of invasion of privacy. One can also see the other side of Rawlings as mistress to black house servants in the two autobiographies written by Idella Parker, who was her cook at Cross Creek for many years. 368 pp.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, dj. Hardcover first edition - This comprehensive and definite bibliography of the works of this popular author demonstrates the diversity of Rawlings's writings - it includes separate publications, first appearance contributions to books and pamphlets, and to journals, magazines, and newspapers, blurbs, translations, movie work, etc. Well illustrated. Index. xix, 283 pages. ISBN: 0-8229-39207.

New York: Modern Library, (1946) dj. Hardcover - Rawlings' classic story about a boy and a young deer in the piney woods of Florida, originally published in 1938. Pulitzer prize winner. Dust jacket has 322 titles on verso (versus 316 for 1st issue) 400 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, one which "illuminates how disparate far-flung people can be connected." 323 pp. ISBN: 9780316077569.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South, one which spans much of the 20th century - this book "weaves together the story of a black familyeight children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher, their father a minister - and the emerging self-portrait of a woman determined, like her parents, to look ahead." Illustrated with photographs. Chronology. Edited and with a preface by Louise Westling. xvi, 181 pp. ISBN: 0-820311413.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006). A book which is both funny and sad. The author, burnt out at twenty-eight, decides to retire early. He travels to southern Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. This is "an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf." Includes a brief epilogue not found in the hardcover edition. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-743270584.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mile Zero marks the location of Key West - the cultural junction where the Anglo-Saxon, Latin and African worlds collide. An island with a legacy of the slave trade and revolution and a 'turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, proud homosexuals and hard-luck treasure hunters.' Map endpapers. SIGNED on the title page by the author and dated 'Los Angeles, 24 April 2005.'. ISBN: 0-394-578597.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mile Zero marks the location of Key West - the cultural junction where the Anglo-Saxon, Latin and African worlds collide. An island with a legacy of the slave trade and revolution and a 'turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, proud homosexuals and hard-luck treasure hunters.' Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-578597.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mile Zero marks the location of Key West - the cultural junction where the Anglo-Saxon, Latin and African worlds collide. An island with a legacy of the slave trade and revolution and a 'turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, proud homosexuals and hard-luck treasure hunters.' Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-578597.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. 473 pp. ISBN: 0-060166533.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Miami, Florida in 1981, but spanning six decades of a family's history in Cuba and the US. The title is a derogatory term used by Castro to refer to those who fled Cuba after he came to power. SIGNED on the page facing the title page. 475 pp