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THE BAYOU ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of romantic and suspense set in New Orleans during the Civil War. Marcey Chastain, part Creole, part American has to assume responsibility for her family while murder, betrayal and even a yellow fever epidemic menace them. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-394504305.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (slit to dj along front fold)
Book ID: 79057More details Price: $15.00 -
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.
Edition: 5th printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 70013More details Price: $45.00 -
LOST RIVER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First edition - A Valentin St Cyr mystery, set in Storyville in New Orleans in 1913. 317 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers).
Book ID: 69026More details Price: $15.00 -
MADELEINE'S GHOST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79219More details Price: $18.50 -
THE CONDOR PASSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, and her first after the Pulitzer Prize winning 'The Keepers of the House. ' Like that novel, this is a multi-generational saga set in New Orleans. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-394472497.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 42621More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CONDOR PASSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, and her first after the Pulitzer Prize winning 'The Keepers of the House. ' Like that novel, this is a multi-generational saga set in New Orleans. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-394472497.
Condition: Fine in olive green cloth in a very near fine dust jacket (hint of toning to the dj).
Book ID: 78563More details Price: $21.50 -
THE CONDOR PASSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth novel, and her first after the Pulitzer Prize winning 'The Keepers of the House. ' Like that novel, this is a multi-generational saga set in New Orleans. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-394472497.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Reviews laid in.
Book ID: 53644More details Price: $18.00 -
THE CLIENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a legal thriller with a twist - the hero is a streetwise 11 year old boy, who witnesses the suicide of a New Orleans attorney. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-385-42471x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50053More details Price: $16.50 -
LIFE DRAWING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Grove Press, (1991). Grumley's first (and only) novel, published posthumously - a semi-autobiographical coming of age story of a young gay man, set mostly in New Orleans and in California. Introduction by Edmund White and afterword by George Stambolian. Both the introduction and the informative afterword put the novel in the context of Grumley's career as one of the founding members of the Violet Quill and his life as partner to the writer Robert Ferro, both AIDS victims. 156 pp.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83804More details Price: $13.50 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57489More details Price: $30.00 -
GRAVEYARD DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Author's third historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834, this revolves around voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 315 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers (small chip to lower corner of back cover.).
Book ID: 39225More details Price: $30.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in plain printed wrappers with illustrated cover bound in.
Book ID: 47582More details Price: $30.00 -
WET GRAVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835. Author's note on the island of Grande Terre, haunt of Jean Lafitte. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-553-109359.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67330More details Price: $30.00 -
SOLD DOWN THE RIVER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 79338More details Price: $10.00 -
A FREE MAN OF COLOR
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Bantam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first mystery - an historical novel set in New Orleans in 1833, introducing an unusual detective, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher. SIGNED on the title page. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-553-102583.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47766More details Price: $18.00 -
FROM DEAD TO WORSE.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2009.). A Sookie Stackhouse novel, set in New Orleans right after Katrina. Basis of the televsion series 'True Blood.' Includes a preview for 'Dead and Gone.' 321 pp. ISBN: 9780441017010.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 48983More details Price: $11.50 -
A SEPARATE COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in New Orleans in the years following the Civil War, based on the true love story of Confederate General John Bell Hood and his wife, Anna Marie. Author's note. 424 pp. ISBN: 9780446581646.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58161More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
FREE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's unusual first novel, the story of a homeless, confused man in New Orleans who starts finding bodies of murder victims. ISBN: 0-385-468490.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a tight unread copy, but with a little rubbing to dj.)
Book ID: 23691More details Price: $20.00 -
FREE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - Author's unusual first novel, the story of a homeless, confused man in New Orleans who discovers the bodies of two murdered Chinese immigrants.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 23692More details Price: $25.00 -
GOOD JUNK;
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Cliff St James, now reinstated as a detective in the New Orleans Police Department, set in a city still devastated by the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0312600891.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68613More details Price: $20.00 -
STORM DAMAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Cliff St James, a former cop and mixed martial arts coach, who becomes a private investigator in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the devasting damage it did to New Orleans. In a city overwhelmed with murder and mayhem, the last murder before a Category 5 hurricane wiped out New Orleans was quickly forgotten and remained unsolved - that is, until St. James was hired to look into it. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket. (upper corner slightly bumped)
Book ID: 68905More details Price: $28.50 -
STORM DAMAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Cliff St James, a former cop and mixed martial arts coach, who becomes a private investigator in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the devasting damage it did to New Orleans. In a city overwhelmed with murder and mayhem, the last murder before a Category 5 hurricane wiped out New Orleans was quickly forgotten and remained unsolved - that is, until St. James was hired to look into it. 307 pp.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (tear to upper edge of back cover).
Book ID: 68906More details Price: $16.50 -
BURNT BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring Cliff St James, now reinstated as a detective in the New Orleans Police Department, and working as a mixed martial arts coach. A year and a half after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, much of city is still damaged and in ruins. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0312581817.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68611More details Price: $17.50 -
STORM DAMAGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, introducing Cliff St James, a former cop and mixed martial arts coach, who becomes a private investigator in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the devasting damage it did to New Orleans. In a city overwhelmed with murder and mayhem, the last murder before a Category 5 hurricane wiped out New Orleans was quickly forgotten and remained unsolved. Until St. James was hired to look into it. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-0312581817.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68547More details Price: $18.50 -
UPSIDE DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2014). First edition - Novel for older children about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath from the viewpoint of a young girl - "Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. .. Turning ten is a big deal to Armani. It means she s older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved ones die, and mustering all her strength to help her family weather the storm. " 313 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 63474More details Price: $14.50 -
THE NEON SMILE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring New Orleans private investigator Terry Manion in a case that involves events reaching back to 1965, involving black militants then and civil unrest now, as well as the influence of voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-671-747126.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48655More details Price: $30.00 -
DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Third novel feauturing New Orleans rookie cop, Maureen Coughlin. SIGNED on the title page. 305 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75851More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
THE GREAT DIVORCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by a consistently interesting and provocative novelist who is not yet as widely read as she deserves to be. This is the story of Ellen, a vetinarian at the New Orleans Zoo, dealing with both the collapse of her marriage and and an outbreak of an infectious disease among the animals. Martin, who was raised in New Orleans, knows that city well. SIGNED on the title page. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-385-421257.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 52454More details Price: $25.00
