New York: Hyperion, (1995). SIGNED first edition thus- An advance copy of this trade paperback reissue of Burke's long out of print first novel, the story of three men in Louisiana struggling to escape their lives (the back cover notes that this title had been unavailable since 1969). SIGNED on the title page. An uncommon advance issue, and scarce signed. 279 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Hardcover - An historical novel set in New Orleans in the early 19th century - shortly after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. It focuses on the extended Grandissime family, many of whose members are mixed race, and contrasts a romanticized view of the Creole way of life against the inhumanity of slavery. 448 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Another wild novel by this award winning author and poet - "Shocked and confused by the violence and craziness of everyday life, Esquerita Reyna, also known as Baby Cat-Face, is ill-prepared for the modern world. Living in the shadow world of New Orleans, taking spooky side trips to Mississippi and North Carolina, she struggles with the specters of love, fundamentalist religion, and extra-terrestrial activity, to name just a few." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-151001839.

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: 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: 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.

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: 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.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2006). First edition - Novel by this award-winning writer, best known for his non-fiction, set in New Orleans in 1913. "Francis Muldoon is a special policeman in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans in 1913. His job is to see that the DistrictÕs volatile mixture of sex, alcohol, and gambling doesnÕt boil over but instead rolls along at a continuous simmer. Once a member of the cityÕs regular police force, he now works for the DistrictÕs vice lord, Tom Anderson, patrolling his patronÕs honky-tonks and saloons and whorehouses - both the high-priced bordellos and the coffinlike cribs where the girls work with only a cot and a washbasin." An uncommon advance issue. 348 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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.

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: 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.

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: Pantheon, (1996.). First edition - Winik's frank and unsentimental account of her love affair and marriage with an openly gay man, of their drug use, the brief happiness of the birth of their two children, and the gradual deterioration of his health as his AIDS progressed. 271 pp.

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.

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: 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.

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: St Martin's, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in New Orleans in the middle of the 19th century. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-312-098693.

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..