Sacramento, CA: ReGeJe Press, (1998.). First edition - A thriller (the author's first book) combining "wind, tornadoes, contract killers, romance and Louisiana-African mysticism... a true original" (Patricia Canterbury.) Set mostly in Sacramento and Northern California. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-96391474X.

New York: Arbor House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "concerning a man of God (a devout, middle-aged rabbi, married and respectable) and his worldly obsession (a teen-aged girl named Jelly who knows what she wants)" Set in Dallas and New Orleans. 221 pp.

New York: Arbor House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which reveals the life of a Louisiana town, one near the Arkansas and Mississippi border - a town where people live in fine houses and in shacks, where some belong to the country club and others drink at Snake's Bar. - and also the story of a remarkable Jewish family who lived in that town. 346 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A first hand account of the early days of America's civil rights struggle. Inspired by the actions of the four black college students who refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, D'Army Bailey, the freshman class president at Southern University - the largest predominantly black college in the nation - joined with his classmates in their battle against segregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Now a circuit court judge in Tennessee, this is a look at the years that changed America and shaped his life. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bailey on the half title page. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Illustrated with photographs, index. xiv, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0807134764.

New York: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of complicated family relationships. When a young African American California woman unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in southern Louisiana, she sees this as a chance to start over. She moves there with her 11 year old daughter determined to succeed, despite a mountain of debt and no idea what she is really getting into. Book was very loosely adapted as the basis for the highly praised Ava DuVernay produced television series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. 372 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

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: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." SIGNED on the front endpaper. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9807.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery set in the bayou country of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04840.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.). SIGNED first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. SIGNED on the half title page. 346 pp.

New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in New Orleans and the Cajun bayous of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61754.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. INSCRIBED on the title page - "To - - with best wishes." 305 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9807.

Boston: Avon, (1991.). The fourth Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in the bayous of Louisiana and in the New Orleans drug underworld. ISBN: 0-380-713608.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9807.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. SIGNED first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery set in the bayou country of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery set in the bayou country of Louisiana. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04840.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. SIGNED on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9807.

London: Orion, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eleventh novel in this award winning series featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux novel, set in New Orleans and in the bayous of Louisiana. In this he "embarks on a painful journey to a murky past when he is told that his mother Mae was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob." SIGNED on the title page. The UK edition preceded the US edition. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-752825577.

London: Orion, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery set in the bayou country of Louisiana. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-752851226.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery set in the bayou country of Louisiana. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04840.

New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in New Orleans and the Cajun bayous of Louisiana. Special ABA (American Booksellers' Association) Collector's Edition. Although not calle for, this has been SIGNED on the title page. In a very different dust jacket - white with an embossed jukebox on the front cover. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61754.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2019). First edition - The 22nd thriller featuring detective Dave Robicheaux, set in the bayou country of Louisiana. 447 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery in the highly praised Dave Robicheaux series - this one moves the setting from New Orleans to the bayous of Louisiana. Basis for the Alex Baldwin film. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-06656.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 5th Dave Robicheaux mystery. The combination of Burke's good writing and the great Louisiana bayou setting have made his novels increasingly popular and the earlier titles are beginning to be harder to find in first edition. SIGNED on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9807.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. A Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in New Orleans and the Cajun bayous of Louisiana.

New York: Henry Holt, (1987.). Although it is hard to believe now, this novel was rejected by many publishers before Louisana State University took it on. A beautifully written account of a man who finally finds some direction in his life. A country and western singer who served two years in Angola for manslaughter, Iry heads west to the Bitteroot ranch of fellow prisoner Buddy Riordan, but he and the Riordan family are caught up in the conflict around a local pulp mill. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780807113349.

New York: Grove Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Pulitzer prize winning author's ninth novel, a humorous fable about the state of humanity at the beginning of a new millenium, in which a tour bus bound for a Louisiana casino is beamed inside a spaceship hovering over earth. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16604.

New York: Grove Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Pulitzer prize winning author's ninth novel, a humorous fable about the state of humanity at the beginning of a new millenium, in which a tour bus bound for a Louisiana casino is beamed inside a spaceship hovering over earth. SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16604.

New York: Dutton, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel featuring Chicago private investigator Nathan Heller. Set in 1935, after Heller delivers a bulletproof vest to Huey Long, the former Louisiana governor, he is hired to investigate death threats from political rivals. "When the charismatic politician is shot down by a seemingly crazed doctor, Heller gets a new employer - the insurance agency fighting a double-indemnity claim from Longs widow. Was the Kingfish truly the victim of assassination, or accidentally killed by his own bodyguards? A classic P.I. thriller built on historical fact, [this novel] deep into the heart of the deadliest swamps of Louisianas mob-infested politics." SIGNED on the title page. Author's historical note - "I Owe Them One." 320 pp. ISBN: 0-525937595.