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DEEP IN THE SHADE OF PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79785More details Price: $20.00 -
DEEP IN THE SHADE OF PARADISE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2001.). First edition - A family saga, a star-crossed love story, set deep in the bayou country of Louisiana. 362 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67201More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WAY THAT WATER ENTERS STONE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first book - a poignant, offbeat and powerful collection of thirteen short stories by this Granta 20 author, half set in the North (he was born in Massachusetts), half in the South (where he was living at the time this was published). Small first printing. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-393-029247.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. A lovely copy.
Book ID: 38481More details Price: $100.00 -
DEEP IN THE SHADE OF PARADISE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47448More details Price: $40.00 -
TRICK QUESTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Faithful Reader." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141847.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74484More details Price: $30.00 -
CROOKED MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (preceded by four nonfiction books) and first mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For ---Thanks for reading about Tubby's New Orleans." 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 73938More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- from down by the river.' 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74325More details Price: $30.00 -
SHELTER FROM THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet, set during a chaotic Carnival deluge. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Stay on the high ground.' 226 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143017.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74326More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996.). Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-425155781.
Condition: Very near fine (crease to corner of 1 page, no creasing to covers or spine)
Book ID: 79131More details Price: $10.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55979More details Price: $16.00 -
THE BAYOU ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romantic and suspense set in New Orleans during the Civil War. Marcey Chastain, part Creole, part American has to assume responsibility for her family while murder, betrayal and even a yellow fever epidemic menace them. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-394504305.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (slit to dj along front fold)
Book ID: 79057More details Price: $15.00 -
LOST RIVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition - A Valentin St Cyr mystery, set in Storyville in New Orleans in 1913. 317 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 69026More details Price: $15.00 -
CONVERSATIONS WITH ERNEST GAINES
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, (1995.). First edition - Includes interviews and conversations ranging from 1969 to 1994, and covering much of his work and ideas. Although Gaines has won many awards - including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the MacArthur "genius" award, and his books have been the basis of excellent films, he remains a very under-appreciated writer by the public as a whole. However, a book like this helps to put his work in perspective and to reveal the complexity and depth of his characters and ideas. A title in the Literary Conversations Series. Frontispiece, chronology. Index. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-878057838.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 32041More details Price: $12.50 -
BELUGA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second "Delta noir" novel, a sequel to his 'Ranchero', a story of drugs and trouble, 298 pp. ISBN: 978-1250015228.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66390More details Price: $15.00 -
DEADLY NIGHT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (pocket paperback format. )
New York: MIRA, 2008. SIGNED first edition - A paranormal thriller, the first book in the Flynn Brothers trilogy, issued as paperback originals. When the Flynn brothers inherit a Louisiana plantation, they also inherit a ghostly presence and a long-kept secret. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Includes a brief excerpt from the second book in the series. 395 pp.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 85953More details Price: $16.50 -
GUMP & CO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1995, dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to "Forrest Gump." 242 pp. ISBN: 0-671-521705.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17338More details Price: $12.50 -
HOLDING BACK THE SEA: The Struggle for America's Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which "exposes the vulnerability of this stark land that spreads along the Gulf Coast, as it literally vanishes -- at rate of twenty-five square miles per year, an area the size of Manhattan -- so starved for lack of nutrients, so eroded away by ever more severe storms, and so dredged for canals that it is on the verge of being swallowed by the rising Gulf of Mexico." Written before the devastation wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, this book is even more pertinent now. INSCRIBED on the title page. Photographs, selected sources, index. xvii, 265 pp. ISBN: 0-060194464.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 71337More details Price: $28.50 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57489More details Price: $30.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in plain printed wrappers with illustrated cover bound in.
Book ID: 47582More details Price: $30.00 -
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001). The fourth historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834. Plantation map and partial glossary of Creole and Afro-Creole words. Author's notes on work songs and spirituals, and masters and slaves. vii, 409 pp. ISBN: 0-553-575295.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 79338More details Price: $10.00 -
GRAVEYARD DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Author's third historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834, this revolves around voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 315 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers (small chip to lower corner of back cover.).
Book ID: 39225More details Price: $30.00 -
WET GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835. Author's note on the island of Grande Terre, haunt of Jean Lafitte. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-553-109359.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67330More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD AND GONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. Basis of the HBO television series "True Blood." 312 pp. ISBN: 9780441018642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62080More details Price: $30.00 -
DEADLOCKED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. Basis of the HBO television series "True Blood." 327 pp. ISBN: 9780937007447.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 62083More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD TO THE WORLD.
Edition: First printing. Signed limited edition.
New York: Ace Books, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel. One of only 500 copies numbered and SIGNED by Harris on a special page preceding the half title page. 291 pp plus a "dear reader" note. ISBN: 0-441-011675.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 59731More details Price: $125.00 -
LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The second Sookie Stackhouse novel. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-44109239.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77242More details Price: $65.00 -
DEAD IN THE FAMILY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 9780441018642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 60062More details Price: $30.00 -
DEFINITELY DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. Basis (very loosely) of the HBO television series "True Blood." SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. plus a one page "letter to readers" about the first two books in the Harper Connelly series. ISBN: 978-0937007447.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 63851More details Price: $35.00 -
DEAD RECKONING.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Gollancz, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. Basis of the HBO television series "True Blood." 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0575096523.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some light toning to the pages)
Book ID: 80766More details Price: $30.00 -
CLUB DEAD.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The third Sookie Stackhouse novel - a Southern vampire novel, basis for the television series TrueBlood. SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-441010512.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 79286More details Price: $45.00
