New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, which focuses on the lives of black women who work as servants in a small Mississippi town in 1962 at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. A surprise bestseller, which went quickly into many later printings, this was also the basis of the movie of the same name. 451 pp. ISBN: 978-0399155345.

New York: Dutton, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A novel set in the Deep South about a woman's passionate dangerous affair with a prison convict" - the fifth novel by the author of 'The Morning and the Evening..'. ISBN: 0-525-24543x.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon novel by this underappreciated writer - the story of a woman in rural Mississippi in 1962, fifty, white and a housewife all her life, who is inspired by the civil rights movement to find meaning in her own life. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-316-942375.

New York: Dutton, 1988. Hardcover first edition - "A novel set in the Deep South about a woman's passionate dangerous affair with a prison convict" - the fifth novel by the author of 'The Morning and the Evening..' 312 pp.

New York: Dial Press, 1962. dj. Hardcover - Historical novel set on a plantation in Mississippi in the years right after the Civil War. Although Yerby was an African American writer, his historical novels focused on the ruling white class. 220 pp. Dust jacket design by Julian Paul.