New York: Pocket Books, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday set in Hell's Kitchen. SIGNED on title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-671519867.

New York: Pocket Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Edgar award series featuring NYC police detective Neil Hockaday who has traveled to New Orleans, the hometown of his new wife, black actress Ruby Flagg. SIGNED on title page 340 pp. ISBN: 0-671519859.

New York: Broadway Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of this giant among jazz musicians - based on previously unexplored archives of Armstrong's writings. Photographs, discography, bibliography, endnotes, index. 564 pp. ISBN: 0-553-067680.

Boston: Little Brown, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the musician who towered over the world of jazz for 50 years. Illustrated with many photographs. Chronology, film list, index. Slightly oversized. 256 pages.

Boston: Little Brown, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the musician who towered over the world of jazz for 50 years. Illustrated with many photographs. Chronology, film list, index. Slightly oversized. 256 pages.

Boston: Little Brown, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the musician who towered over the world of jazz for 50 years. Illustrated with many photographs. Chronology, film list, index. Slightly oversized. 256 pages.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel featuring Nick Travers a former professional football player turned professor of blues history at Tulane. But when he asked for a favor by a friend he can't turn him down. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0004622.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2004). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel featuring Nick Travers a former professional football player turned professor of blues history at Tulane. But when he asked for a favor by a friend he can't turn him down. SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book and the first in the series featuring Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saint turned blues historian at Tulane University. A novel which intertwines two mysteries - the murder of celebrated bluesman Robert Greenwod in 1938 and the disappearance of a Tulane professor who is following rumors of unknown Johnson recordings. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192541.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Nick Travers novel. "The plan is simple. A favor really. All Nick Travers, a former professional football player turned professor, has to do is drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly. His friend's brother is Clyde James, who, in 1968, was one of the finest soul singers Memphis had to offer. But when James's wife and close friend were murdered, his life was shattered. He turned to the streets, where, decades ago, he disappeared." SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0004606.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful and moving book, about the legal challenges and about the courage of those involved: 6 year old Ruby Bridges and the 3 other black first graders in 1960, their parents, and the parents of the white students who persisted in sending their children to a desegrated school, of federal district judge J. Skelly White, and black Creole attorney A. P. Tureaud and more. Photographs, notes, bibliography and sources, index. 564 pgs.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon, set in New Orleans French Quarter, where Anna is spending time visiting a friend and recovering from the trauma of the past couple of months. A darker than usual book in this series. 378 pp. ISBN: 978-0312614560.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Collis Phillips, who became a successful boxer in New Orleans during the height of Jim Crow, and of his family, of the triumphs and the tragedies. Before writing this moving book, Bates spent 10 years with the Phillips family from Collis down thru his great-great grandson, as a friend and biographer. 421 pp plus a section of glossy photographs.

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel / Universal Press Syndicate Company (1996). First edition - Includes nearly seventy interviews, profiles, articles and sidebars on both the world of Anne Rice and her books over the past two decades. Foreword by Colleen Doran xiii- black and white photographs by Scott Stewart and George Beahm. ,xvii, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-836210360.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - A short story set in the New Orleans country "simply and poetically told, of a young river boy who followed his music through a series of adventures until he came to the last and strangest of them all." Illustrated with drawings by Feliks Topolski. 28 pp.

New York: Triangle Books, (1940,c 1930) dj. Hardcover - First thus. Novel of a prostitute, Lily Love, who rose from the sordidness of dollar days to the owner of the most luxorious sporting house south of the Mason-Dixon line. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Jeanette Seelhoff. 288 pp. Dust jacket art by Jeanette Seelhoff.

New York: Warner, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set against the backdrop of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 454 pp. ISBN: 0-446-516325.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Charleston, South Carolina five years after a disastrous fire at a police station, this is a tale in which corruption and betrayals turn friends against one another, and heroes are not as they appear. SIGNED on the title page. 397 pp. ISBN: 978-1416563068.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Charleston, South Carolina five years after a disastrous fire at a police station, this is a tale in which corruption and betrayals turn friends against one another, and heroes are not as they appear. SIGNED on the title page. 397 pp. ISBN: 978-1416563068.

New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in New Orleans and the Cajun bayous of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61754.

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.

Boston: Avon, (1991.). The fourth Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in the bayous of Louisiana and in the New Orleans drug underworld. ISBN: 0-380-713608.

New York: Hyperion, 1996. A Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in New Orleans and the Cajun bayous of Louisiana.

Boston: Atheneum, 1991. First edition - Colbert's third mystery, set in New Orleans and featuring a Tulane drop-out, now on his fifth suspension for the NOPD. The first book in the Ruth and Skinny series. 162 pp..

Boston: Atheneum, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Colbert's third mystery, set in New Orleans and featuring a Tulane drop-out, now on his fifth suspension for the NOPD. The first book in the Ruth and Skinny series. 212 pp.. ISBN: 0-689-120982.

New York: Scholastic, (1990.) dj. Hardcover - The moving story of a 6 year old black girl who became the first to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. 'Ruby Bridges was born in a small cabin near Tylerton, Mississippi. - We were very poor, very poor, - Ruby said. - My daddy worked picking crops. We just barely got by. There were times when we didn't have much to eat.' . Illustrated in full color by George Ford. Large format, unpaginated. Laid in is a photocopy of a newspaper article about Robert Cole, in which he recounts how Ruby Bridges changed his life. ISBN: 0-590-578214.

New York: Dutton, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel featuring Chicago private investigator Nathan Heller. Set in 1935, after Heller delivers a bulletproof vest to Huey Long, the former Louisiana governor, he is hired to investigate death threats from political rivals. "When the charismatic politician is shot down by a seemingly crazed doctor, Heller gets a new employer - the insurance agency fighting a double-indemnity claim from Longs widow. Was the Kingfish truly the victim of assassination, or accidentally killed by his own bodyguards? A classic P.I. thriller built on historical fact, [this novel] deep into the heart of the deadliest swamps of Louisianas mob-infested politics." SIGNED on the title page. Author's historical note - "I Owe Them One." 320 pp. ISBN: 0-525937595.

New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a Lousiana oil man, a comic masterpiece 'ending at the wildest Mardi Gras New Orleans has ever seen.' Jonathan Yardley called Corrington's wit as 'quirky and beguilling. . He is a marvelously gifted writer...he is also one of the South's best kept secrets.'. ISBN: 0-512-927657.

New York: Viking, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - First in a trilogy of mystery novels set in New Orleans, written by the distinguished Southern writer and scholar, John Corrington and his wife. Their first collaboration. 214 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery - a "novel of murder and mayhem in New Orleans" - introducing spunky Cajun hairdresser Claire Claiborne. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312092805.