New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. SIGNED on the title page. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.

New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set on Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. INSCRIBED on the title page. 306 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-142460.

New York: Avon, (1998.). Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set on Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. ISBN: 0-380-725835.

New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set on Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-142460.

New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - A combination of mystery and travel book, this is an account of a 1981 murder in Savannah, Georgia and its aftermath. Basis for the Clint Eastwood movie of the same name. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-679-429220.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery, introducing Trudy Roundtree, who has returned from Atlanta to her hometown of Ogeechee, where she works as the only detective on the small police force headed up by her cousin, the chief of police. SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 1-88517344X.

Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery,featuring Trudy Roundtree, who has returned from Atlanta to her hometown of Ogeechee, where she works as the only detective on the small police force headed up by her cousin, the chief of police. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Some grits for Christmas" and dated in the year of publication. 224 pp. ISBN: 1-88517375X.

New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of survival and friendship as three women embark on a hellish journey through a treacherous wilderness. Features the "youngest prosecutor in Georgia" Mary Crow and two of her closest friends. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-553801287.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - 1992 Lamont Poetry selection (judges were Lucille Clifton, Jorie Graham and Robert Morgan.) Although the author says she was born in the flatlands of southwest Georgia, she was drawn to the mountains where her grandmother was born and this collection contains narrative poems written in the fictional voice of a woman around the early 1900s, inspired by the ballads and the lives of the Blue Ridge mountain women in North Carolina. Praise from Mary Oliver, Fred Chappel, Lee Smith and others. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-807117706.

Savannah, Georgia: Whittaker St Books, 2003. SIGNED first edition - Stories of ghosts and unexplained mysterious happenings in Savannah, Georgia, each researched by the author. Illustrated with color photographs. SIGNED on the first page. 99 pp. ISBN: 0-970553730.

New York: Anchor Books, 1998. Author's third novel, historical fiction set in Texas at the end of the Civil War and in Georgia during Reconstruction. ISBN: 0-385-487053.

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. First edition - Second collection of poetry, and fourth book, by this Georgia-born author. Erotic, sometimes violent, sometimes revealing and sad. 72 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-06923.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel, third book, set in the backwoods of South Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-060171774.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Unusual mystery by this Edgar award winning author, featuring folklorist Fever Devilin and set in the Georgia Appalachians. 310 pp. ISBN: 9780-312-699468.

New York: Five Star / Gale, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book in this series featuring Lake and Dru. "Richard Lake of the Atlanta Police Department gets a cold case when a witness suddenly gets his memory back. Lake recruits Moriah Dru to look into the murder of Juliet Trapp sixteen when she died and a student at Winters Farm Academy. Juliet Trapp had told her mother she was going to Bike Week with Wild Blood an outlaw motorcycle gang over the Christmas break." 318 pp. ISBN: 978-1432829667.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (c 1894). Hardcover - A collection of stories by this journalist and folklorist, who was best known for the Uncle Remus stories. Brief introduction in which Harris explains that the stories fall in three categories - some were part of Black folklore, but were not included in the Uncle Remus stories, others were from South Georgia with roots in England, and some were inventions. A lovely production illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and 31 internal full page plates on glossy stock by Oliver Herford. All edges tinted green. 230 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel. Set in Savannah, Georgia, this is a story of history, intrigue, war, and love, which follows four generations of families contemplating the pain of the past and the promise of the future. After many years, four friends will meet on the island where legend has it that a Confederate soldier and his manservant buried the Driscoll family's treasure, before they died on that island. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Georgia author's second collection of short stories (the first won the Flannery O'Connor Award), stories of love when love turns tough - or 'when the road turns to dirt.' Dustjacket praise from Howard Nemerov, Shirley Abbot and Pat Conroy (who called her a "great writer") among others. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-4311.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Georgia author's second collection of short stories (the first won the Flannery O'Connor Award), stories of love when love turns tough - or 'when the road turns to dirt.' Dustjacket praise from Howard Nemerov, Shirley Abbot and Pat Conroy (who called her a "great writer") among others. ISBN: 0-89919-4311.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the "culture of uprooted rural Southerners, transplanted Yankees, and young and middle-aged singles examing new values and lifestyles" in Atlanta, Georgia. INSCRIBED on the title page. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-931948-142.

New York: Harper & Row, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in Atlanta, Georgia and the Blue Ridge Mountains in 1921, a time of turmoil both for the mother and two daughters, and for women as they are fighting for the right to vote, and for society as a whole, with the Ku Klux Klan holding a Grand Konclave at Stone Mountain. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-060230630.

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - On March 2nd and 3rd in 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history - an auction known as 'the weeping time' - was held in Savannah, Georgia. Over 400 slaves were sold by Pierce Butler, the husband of abolitionist Fanny Kemble, for over $300,000. Written in dialogue, this tells the story of this event from different perspectives - the white master, his children, house slaves, field hands and even the auctioneer. Winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Award. Author's note, references. 177 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-0490-4.