New York: Holiday House, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story for older children set in the Lousiana bayou country -"Ted thinks the swamp witch is just a tall tale, until he sees her for himself, and when she is blamed for a series of recent break-ins, Ted learns something about prejudice." 185 pp. ISBN: 0-823411206.

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, (ca 1900, c 1864). Hardcover - The third book in the Woodville series. The young fugitives of the title are three young slaves who have fled a plantation in Louisiana. In his preface, the author states that this was not written in the anti-slavery cause, but he would be thankful if it kindled "any new emotions of sympathy for the oppressed and enslaved." When Dan, the body-servant to the son of the master, is whipped unjustly, he determines that he will no longer live under slavery -and his motto becomes "watch and wait" for a chance to flee - along with his two closest friends. Illustrated with a frontispiece and two glossy internal plates. 276 pp plus 10 pp publisher's ads.

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.

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.

New York: ACE / Berkley, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sookie Stackhouse novel - a vampire detective story set in Louisiana. 359 pp. ISBN: 978-0441015894.

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: 978-0441018642.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

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

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.

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.

New York: Harper Collins, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of stories rooted in her eight years as a uniformed police office, and told in the voices of five female police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as they learn to deal with the violence that surrounds them. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-060561629.

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.

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: 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.