Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in the small Alabama town of Piper - a south of racial turmoil and supernatural events, of teenage girls experimenting with Satanism and of love sought and found. Praise from Lee Smith - who calls it 'visionary, comic and sometimes all too real' and from Pat Conroy.

New York: Viking, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of satanic intrigue - "Graduate student Jeremy Freirs and aspiring dancer Carol Conklin, summering in the New Jersey village of Gilead, are trapped in a nightmare of terror, with an evil force emanating from a place once called Maquineanok, the Place of Burning." 502 pp. ISBN: 0-670209821.

Boston: Little Brown, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Superintendent Roderick Alleyn by this New Zealand-born author who was considered (along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers) one of the four "Queens of Crime" during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Alleyn, Trey and their young son Ricky go to the coast of southern France in a trip that is meant to combine work - Alleyn is working undercover with the French Surete - and pleasure with a planned visit to a distant cousin of Trey's (one of the spinsters in jeopardy) only to find themselves caught up in Satanism, the occult and drug dealing. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-00231889.

London: Michael Joseph, (1943). Hardcover - Uncommon early printing of this vintage Mrs Bradley mystery (the 15th in the series), one dealing with - among other things - witchcraft and Satanism. As in many of her books, Mitchell's sense of humor offsets the grimness of the theme. Publisher's note re wartime publication constraints on paper. 192 pp.