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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 -
FROM DEAD TO WORSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: ACE / Berkley, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015894.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 86872More details Price: $28.50 -
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 -
PEARL'S SECRET: A Black Man's Search for His White Family.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography and family history which "combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative . . . Neil Henry - a black professor of journalism and former award winning correspondent for the Washington Post - sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's racial past" Ranges from the story of overseer and Confederate veteran who fathered both sides of the family in Louisiana in the post Civil War era to the present day. Photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-520-222571.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 56298More details Price: $15.00 -
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.
Edition: 4th printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72485More details Price: $35.00 -
THE LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 33118More details Price: $25.00 -
PRECIOUS IN HIS SIGHT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the 1960s in the cane fields and among the old families of Belmont Parish, Louisiana. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-670824011.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69350More details Price: $15.00 -
NO ORDINARY HEROES: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 7,000 Prisoners and a Category 5 Hurricane.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 40294More details Price: $20.00 -
NIGHT LIFE: Nature from Dusk to Dawn.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book - each section discusses the creatures of the night in a different area of the US - Arizona in August, North Dakota in December, Hawaii in January, Connecticut in April, and Louisiana in June. She explores these areas with wildlife experts and discovers an astonishing array of nocturnal animals: coyotes, octopi, bats, and even human poachers. Illustrated with drawings by the author. viii, 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316483001.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front endpaper).
Book ID: 76877More details Price: $17.50 -
AFTER THE AFTERNOON.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (gift inscription dated 1944, chip to upper end of spine of dj, some discoloration to the edges of the dj.)
Book ID: 50299More details Price: $21.00 -
TORRID ZONE: Seven Stories from the Gulf Coast.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first work of fiction by this naturalist and travel writer- a collection of seven short stories with characters ranging from a cigar factory lector (reader) in Tampa, Florida to a Vietnam vet running a tour boat to Estavanico, the African slave who accompanied the conquistadores in the 16th century. SIGNED on the title page. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-679-408762.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60539More details Price: $30.00 -
TORRID ZONE: Seven Stories from the Gulf Coast.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first work of fiction by this naturalist and travel writer- a collection of seven short stories with characters ranging from a cigar factory lector (reader) in Tampa, Florida to a Vietnam vet running a tour boat to Estavanico, the African slave who accompanied the conquistadores in the 16th century. From the collection of noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and INSCRIBED on the title page "for Larry." 277 pp. ISBN: 0-679-408762.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60540More details Price: $35.00 -
SALTWATER EMPIRE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59102More details Price: $20.00 -
I KNOW A PLACE: Three Stories
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge, LA: Press of the Nightowl, 1976. Hardcover first edition - Each story is illustrated by a linocut illustration by Margaret Agner printed directly from the block. One of 275 copies in the regular edition designed and printed by Dwight Agner with Joanna Roman and Palatino types on Ragston paper (plus 30 copies in the special edition) 48 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-912960-086.
Condition: Very near fine in red cloth with cream pasted-on labels.
Book ID: 58046More details Price: $20.00 -
LIVING COUNTRY BLUES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Minerva Press, (1975.). The definitive book on contemporary country blues, one which focuses on the songs rather than the musicians, although it includes a 16 page insert of wonderful photographs. While this includes chapters on the Setting of the Blues, their history, and a defintiion of the blues, as well as one on the blues as poetry, the majority of the book contains complete annotated lyrics to over 200 songs, some with scores. The author, a folklorist, recorded thousands of songs in Louisiana, especially at Anglola Prison and the Cajun country in the southwestern part of the state.Index xv, 464 pp. ISBN: 0-308-102363.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, creasing to the cover, but a good reading copy.
Book ID: 44668More details Price: $15.00 -
THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). First edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. With a planned first printing of 75,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. 388 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed red wrappers with additional publisher's material laid in.
Book ID: 55863More details Price: $100.00 -
THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. The limited edition issued by the trade publisher - #13 out of 250 numbered copies signed by Percy on the limitation page. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in burgundy cloth in a very near fine blue-grey slipcase (hint of sunning to case.)
Book ID: 55864More details Price: $175.00 -
THE THANATOS SYNDROME.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-374273545.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42758More details Price: $20.00 -
LITTLE GODS AND ANGRY MEN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Slidell, Louisiana: D&P Publishing Company. (1986). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of small town Louisiana politics, crime and passion gone amok, 187 pp. ISBN: 0-938319000.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated covers (crease to upper corner of rear cover)
Book ID: 85193More details Price: $15.00 -
THE EIGHTH GENERATION: CULTURES AND PERSONALITIES OF NEW ORLEANS NEGROES.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Harper & Row, (1960.). Hardcover - A follow-up, 20 years later, which tells what happened to some of the New Orleans black teenagers interviewed for "Children of Bondage." Appendices, index. 340 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 44661More details Price: $14.00 -
THE MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS: Just Talking Jazz.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, contains three novellas set in New Orleans - in addition to the title story, this includes "Climbing Monkey Hill" and "Before Echo." In 2021, Shaik received the Louisiana Writer Award. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-88739050.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (short tears to dj, other edgewear)
Book ID: 80859More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LAST MAN TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring private investigator Micah Dunn, ex Marine and Vietnam veteran, set in New Orleans. ISBN: 0-312-078587.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear, other light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 18190More details Price: $16.50 -
DEEP KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring private investigator Micah Dunn, ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, set in New Orleans. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-058543.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 88539More details Price: $16.50 -
PALE SHADOW.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1940 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 226 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208663.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63545More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD TO DRINK.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1939 New Orleans, this is the fourth novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 251 pp. Dust jacket art by Alan Fore. ISBN: 1890208337.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63544More details Price: $30.00 -
DADDY'S GONE A-HUNTING.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1938 New Orleans, this is the third novel featuring Wesley Farrell, nightclub owner, a mixed blood Creole "living as a white man in a Jim Crow environment." SIGNED on the title page. . 306 pp. Dust jacket art by David Bowers. ISBN: 1890208175.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63543More details Price: $30.00 -
JAZZ FUNERAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the series featuring New Orleans homicide detective Skip Langdon ( the first won the Edgar in 1991 - the first Edgar for best novel won by a woman writer since 1956.). ISBN: 0-449-907422.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 2644More details Price: $18.50 -
JAZZ FUNERAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. The third novel in the series featuring New Orleans homicide detective Skip Langdon. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-449-907422.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 59720More details Price: $35.00