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CITIES OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Michael Spraggue mystery, set in New Orleans. SIGNED bookplate on front endpaper (dated 1986.) 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-139403.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket. (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 46216More details Price: $25.00 -
CITIES OF THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Michael Spraggue mystery, set in New Orleans. INSCRIBED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-312-139403.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the top of the dj spine)
Book ID: 74428More details Price: $30.00 -
BABYLON ROLLING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, the story of one year in the lives of five families -black, white and Indian - living along one block in uptown New Orleans. 307 pp. ISBN: 9780375425332.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a new copy, but with a remainder dot.)
Book ID: 51989More details Price: $15.00 -
DECORATIONS IN A RUINED CEMETERY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Granta Regional Finalist, who was the winner of the Lyndhurst Prize in 1993 and the 1994 Lillian Smith Award. It "takes on endu ring themes of great Southern fiction--in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. At its rich emotional center is the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "mixed blood" in a city where race defines destiny." Dust jacket praise from Lee Smith, Madison Smartt Bell, John Barth. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-39567025X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36335More details Price: $25.00 -
DECORATIONS IN A RUINED CEMETERY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Granta Regional Finalist, who was the winner of the Lyndhurst Prize in 1993 and the 1994 Lillian Smith Award. It "takes on endu ring themes of great Southern fiction--in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. At its rich emotional center is the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "mixed blood" in a city where race defines destiny." SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Lee Smith, Madison Smartt Bell, John Barth. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-39567025X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52157More details Price: $35.00 -
THE WRECKED BLESSED BODY OF SHELTON LAFLEUR.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this Granta Regional Finalist, set in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Depression. His first novel Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, was the winner of the Lyndhurst Prize in 1993 and the 1994 Lillian Smith Award. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-395729882.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64959More details Price: $15.00 -
CONJURES: Book Two of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2016). SIGNED - The second book in this young adult series, featuring three gifted teenage sisters - in this one, they are drawn to New Orleans and the bayou country in search of a heirloom book and the answer to a family mystery. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2016. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704625.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69047More details Price: $17.50 -
CONJURES: Book Two of the Tempest Trinity Trilogy
Edition: Trade paperback original.
By the author, (2016). SIGNED - The second book in this young adult series, featuring three gifted teenage sisters - in this one, they are drawn to New Orleans and the bayou country in search of a heirloom book and the answer to a family mystery. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2016. 180 pp. ISBN: 978-0996704625.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80308More details Price: $15.00 -
FRENCH QUARTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (1998). First edition - Novel of romantic suspense, murder and deceit, set in New Orleans. 371 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65065More details Price: $15.00 -
ONE CHRISTMAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical story of a visit to New Orleans when Capote was six, to spend Christmas with his rarely seen father. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-394-53266X.
Condition: Fine in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decorative band in a very near fine slipcase with a photograph of Capote and his father on the front.
Book ID: 52902More details Price: $35.00 -
ONE CHRISTMAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical story of a visit to New Orleans when Capote was six, to spend Christmas with his rarely seen father. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-394-53266X.
Condition: Fine in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decorative gilt band, lacking the slipcase.
Book ID: 54092More details Price: $15.00 -
ALL I HAVE IS BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1992. dj. First edition - Author's fourth mystery set in the New Orleans he knows so well - and the second feauturing the unconventional police detective who calls himself Skinny. ISBN: 0-689-121571.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 27057More details Price: $18.00 -
LOUISIANA FEVER: An Andy Broussard / Kit Franklyn Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans medical examiner Andy Broussard criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn. A deadly Ebola-like virus has killed several people in New Orleans, and Kit has been kidnapped. Donaldson is a professor of anatomy and neurobiology, so the forensic science is well-done and accurate. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312-143621.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52704More details Price: $18.00 -
FIRST THE DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book in the Bug Man series featuring forensic entomologist Nick Polchak. This is set in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina hit. 363 pp. ISBN: 978159554049.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48862More details Price: $18.00 -
SINNERS AND SAINTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring forensic nurse Chastity Burns, set in New Orleans, where her sister has gone missing. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0312330682.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 63455More details Price: $15.00 -
A BAD HAIR DAY: An Eclaire Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery set in New Orleans and featuring spunky Cajun hairdresser Claire Claiborne. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-312139268.
Condition: Good in a very good dust jacket. (binding flaw - cracking after first page, some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 37832More details Price: $15.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. SIGNED on the half title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 52805More details Price: $28.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55979More details Price: $16.00 -
CROOKED MAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (preceded by four nonfiction books) and first mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For ---Thanks for reading about Tubby's New Orleans." 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 73938More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- from down by the river.' 225 pp. ISBN: 0-399-140816.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74325More details Price: $30.00 -
SHELTER FROM THE STORM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet, set during a chaotic Carnival deluge. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Stay on the high ground.' 226 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143017.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74326More details Price: $30.00 -
TRICK QUESTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- Faithful Reader." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-399-141847.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 74484More details Price: $30.00 -
CITY OF BEADS.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, (1996.). Second mystery featuring New Orleans attorney Tubby Dubonnet. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-425155781.
Condition: Very near fine (crease to corner of 1 page, no creasing to covers or spine)
Book ID: 79131More details Price: $10.00 -
THE HIPPIE IN THE WALL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fourth mystery, set in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-312-104758.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 53869More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1990. First edition - Partially a coming-of-age story of a young woman who leaves her mother in a small town in upstate New York, and moves to New Orleans in 1941 when the US is on the brink of war, but also a novel about confronting difficult truths and looking at who you really are.
Condition: Very good in printed blue wrappers; spine slant.
Book ID: 1494More details Price: $22.00 -
THE GOD OF NIGHTMARES.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Partially a coming-of-age story of a young woman who leaves her mother in a small town in upstate New York, and moves to New Orleans in 1941 when the US is on the brink of war, but also a novel about confronting difficult truths and looking at who you really are. ISBN: 0-86547-432x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31273More details Price: $20.00 -
ELEANOR RUSHING.
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book, set in New Orleans - a story of a young woman's obsession with a married minister is both a novel of pyschological suspense, and a look at the wilfulness of obsessive love and the power of memory to damage the soul. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 1582430039.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64937More details Price: $25.00 -
JASS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second mystery (the first won the Shamus award) set in New Orleans. "In 1909 in the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call 'jass' have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, and the only one left alive has gone into hiding." SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-151010250.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69010More details Price: $35.00 -
ARISE AND WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Gifford on the title page, and also SIGNED on the dedication page by Vinnie Deserio, to whom this book was dedicated. Novel set in New Orleans at the turn of the 21st century. 156 pp. A unique copy. ISBN: 0-7868-60138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39121More details Price: $50.00 -
ARISE AND WALK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in New Orleans at the turn of the 21st century. 156 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-7868-60138.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42722More details Price: $20.00
