Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the Ragtime Mystery trilogy, set in 1916 where time is running out for Scott Joplin- INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Includes an afterword by the author, a list of ragtime resources and a selected bibliography. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-1590585269.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel in the Ragtime Mystery trilogy, set in 1950 Sedalia, Missouri, where ragtime is making a comeback and plans are underway for a celebration to honor Scott Joplin- INSCRIBED on the title page. Includes a long afterword by the author, a list of ragtime resources and a selected bibliography. 303 pp. ISBN: 9781-590586990.

New York: Kensington, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp. ISBN: 1-575664550.

New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this man, born in Alabama, who became what Coretta Scott King called "one of the most dedicated and effective civil rights lawyers in US history." Includes accounts of his battles with the Klan, death threats and more.INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To.... Many thanks for your generous support of our work." Photographs. Index. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-671-778757.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "chillingly realistic novel about the role being played by the Ku Klux Klan in the present-day South." Set in a small county in Alabama, just after the Selma march and the murder of Viola Liuzzi, and the Klan has risen again in "self-defense against outside agitators." Basis for the film of the same name, starring Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, and O.J. Simpson. 303 pp

New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fifth novel, involving the final attempt to save the life of a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan member who had, many years later, been sentenced to death for a fatal bombing. 486 pp. ISBN: 0-385-424728.

New York: Scholastic, (2001.). First edition - Novel written in poetic form (like her Newbery Medal winning "Out of the Dust"), and telling an historically accurate story in 11 voices. In 1924 Vermont, a small town falls under the influence of the Ku Klux Klan; two girls, Leanora Sutter and Esther Hirsh, one black and the other Jewish, are among those who are no longer welcome in their community. An intricately woven story of prejudice, poverty and hope, and ultimately of the beginning of understanding; a story not only of the vicious acts that the Klan was known for, but also for the quiet, but devasting, acts of hatred perpetuated every day against those who are different. 161 pp.

New York: Scholastic, (2001.). First edition - Novel written in poetic form (like her Newbery Medal winning "Out of the Dust"), and telling an historically accurate story in 11 voices. In 1924 Vermont, a small town falls under the influence of the Ku Klux Klan; two girls, Leanora Sutter and Esther Hirsh, one black and the other Jewish, are among those who are no longer welcome in their community. An intricately woven story of prejudice, poverty and hope, and ultimately of the beginning of understanding; a story not only of the vicious acts that the Klan was known for, but also for the quiet, but devasting, acts of hatred perpetuated every day against those who are different. 161 pp.

Low Country Publishing, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Debut mystery introducing Paloma, a transplanted Southerner living in California as the novel opens, half Brazilian and half Polish, who works as an expert on security systems for computers. When her best friend, African American police officer Dixie Hightower, is imprisoned in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Paloma returns home to help her friend. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-9675528-0x.

New York Simon & Schuster, (2001.). Winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A definitive study of a cataclysmic year in the Civil Rights struggle - a year that saw fire hoses and police dogs turned on non-violent protestors, the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which killed 4 young black girls and more. Based on police and FBI documents, interviews with black activists and Ku Klux Klan members. 719 pp with index. ISBN: 0-7432-17721.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-01745.