New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of an undisclosed number of copies SIGNED by the author on a special tipped in page, with an 'autographed first edition' notation on the cover of the dustjacket. A Skip Langdon mystery set in New Orleans. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-449-910008.

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.

New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- for keeping those candles lit" 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.

New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.

New York: Pantheon, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in early-nineteenth-century Louisiana, this is the story of a slave girls journey, both emotional and physical, from captivity to freedom. The daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, as a child she tended the master's daughter and listened in on her lessons. When she was sold at age 14, she begins to prepare herself for escape. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 333 pp.

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Books, (1994.). A classic on the subject, originally published in 1946. 247 pp plus a brief bibliography. ISBN: 0-88289-336x.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.

New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the three and a half thousand miles of coastland that borders the Gulf of Mexico in the southern US and Mexico and a picture of the peope who inhabit these borderlands -from the Florida Keys in the spring to cities like New Orleans and Brownsville to Merida in Mexico. Bibliography. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-20721.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

New York: Viking, (2000). First edition - Poet's first novel - "a story about identity and meaning, and the difficult journey two damaged people make toward each other." The Lake is the name of an ad hoc orphanage in the middle of the Louisiana wildernes.. 326 pp.

New York: Viking Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poet's first novel - "a story about identity and meaning, and the difficult journey two damaged people make toward each other." The Lake is the name of an ad hoc orphanage in the middle of the Louisiana wildernes.. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-670-891614.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood is rocked by a violent crime when a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014, that is, before publication. 303 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, both a mystery and a coming-of-age story. In the summer of 1989, in a quiet Baton Rouge neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old girl, a free spirit and track star, is attacked late one evening near her home. "As the dark side of this idyllic stretch of Southern suburbia is revealed, the close-knit neighborhood is irreversibly transformed.. . [a book which] brilliantly juxtaposes the enchantment of a charmed childhood with the gripping story of a violent crime." SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one which combines dark calamity with comedy, set in 1952 in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), where the main occupations "seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles." 390 pp plus index to recipes and author's note. ISBN: 0-060183489.

New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second mystery, featuring Jack Lynch and set in New Orleans. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-312-064675.

New York: St Martin's, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with full color photographs by Maren Caruso and drawings. Each recipe includes a "lagniappe" or cooking tip or fact. Bibliography, index. Slightly oversized square format. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-312343051.