New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934. Hardcover - South Carolina author's only novel, winner of the third Dodd, Mead Prize Novel competition (a $10,000 prize.) Written in dialect and positively reviewed at the time of its publication (the NY Times review described it as a story of "Negroes torn between their loyalty to their feudal lord, their love of the slow-going ways of life on the plantation, and the inducements held out to them by friends who have gone North to Harlem . . by a Southern woman whose personal affection for unlettered, plantation Negroes is as apparent as her intimate knowledge of them."), it is now mainly appreciated for its Rockwell Kent illustrations - which included endpapers, frontispiece and title page and five inserted plates. 310 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. INSCRIBED by author on title page. While not a first, this is a very nice affordable alternative. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and her break-through book. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-525-934251.

Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Southern Gothic thriller set against memories of the South Carolina low country and at Myrtle Beach in the 1950s. SIGNED on the half title page. 170 pp. ISBN: 1-57072315X.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second suspense novel for adults set in a small town in South Carolina, where a woman is determined to find out her cousin came to die in the waters below Crybaby Bridge. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-396-090605.

Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twelve short stories or character sketches describing African-American life in a rural and passing South. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-88258-0469.

Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twelve short stories or character sketches describing African-American life in a rural and passing South. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-88258-0469.

Columbia, South Carolina, The R. L. Bryan Company, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - Introduction by Dr. Julian K. Quattlebaum on the Gullah dialect, which was found along the southern coast on the remote Sea Islands and coastal lands, from South Carolina to the northern part of Florida. The author, J. Gary Black collected stories on the South Carolina islands of Hilton Head, Daufuskie, and St. Helena between the 1920's and 1970 as a tax collector for Beaufort County, South Carolina. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Illustrated by Nancy Ricker Webb. xii, 50 pp.

Taylors, SC: Chick Springs Publishing, (1999.). First edition - The first Susan Chase mystery - Lifeguard and runaway finder goes looking for a missing girl and finds herself over her head...in murder. A Generation X mystery. ISBN: 0-9670273-14.

Taylors, SC: Chick Springs Publishing, 2000. SIGNED first edition - The third mystery featuring Myrtle Springs lifeguard, and sometime child-finder, Susan Chase. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-9670273-49.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in South Carolina, where the Jackson family has gathered for the funeral of the matriarch - and to face the practical implications of her death. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-684165988.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1994). Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, notes, index 330 pp. ISBN: 0-393007332.

New York: Warner, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - AuthorÕs first novel, set in a small South Carolina town, and with cover praise from Clyde Edgerton, Lee Smith, Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., Kaye Gibbons and more. In addition to being already an award-winning writer, Gilbert was herself a cosmetologist. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-446515264.

New York: Morrow, (1993.). SIGNED first edition - The 9th mystery featuring San Francisco investigator John Marshall Tanner, but this is set in Charleston, South Carolina.. SIGNED on the title page. 281 pp.

New York: Morrow, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mystery featuring San Francisco investigator John Marshall Tanner, but set in Charleston, South Carolina. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-688-12772X.

New York: St Martin's, (2019). First edition - An account of the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina by this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and of the tragedy's aftermath. "The two adult survivors of the shooting begin to make sense of their lives again. Rifts form between some of the victims families and the church. A group of relatives fights to end gun violence, capturing the attention of President Obama. And a city in the Deep South must confront its racist past. This is the story of how, beyond the headlines, a community of people begins to heal." 297 pp.

New York: Literary Guild, (1929.) dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Charleston, South Carolina, and written primarily in dialect. The basis for both the Broadway drama and the Gershwin musical "Porgy and Bess." 311 pp.. Illustrated endpapers. These early Literary Guild books were attractive productions with stylized dust jacket art.

Hilton Head, SC. 1978. First edition - A look at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina from its history to nature studies, with information on fishing, weather,hotels, travel, planets and much more in between. Numerous ads throughout. Illustrated, maps. 116 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel set in Charleston, South Carolina, the story of a disintegrating family and of the power of love, winner of the 1985 Hemingway Foundation Award for a first work of fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-670284793.

New York: Grove Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first book, a novel set in a small town in North Carolina, where the Crosses are the oldest and proudest black family. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-802111181.

New York: Grove Press, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first book, a novel set in a small town in North Carolina, where the Crosses are the oldest and proudest black family. A novel which blends myth, magic, mysticism and realism; one which established him as a literary master. SIGNED on the title page and scarce thus. Among Kenan's awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the North Carolina Award, the American Academy of Arts and LettersÕ Rome Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-802111181.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in rural South Carolina in the early years of the 20th century, this is the moving story of an interracial love affair, but even more the story of how the complex ties of land, blood and honor both bind and destroy the families, when the family bonds between black and white are silently ignored, denied or only obliquely acknowledged. A beautifully written book by this writer who is known for his essays on the southern landscape. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-820320021.

Denver: Spinsters Ink Books, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - An attempt to explain why a woman like Susan Smith would drive into a lake with her two babies and leave them in the car to drown - this story is about incest, poverty, loyalty, expectations placed on women, and more. The author was born in the same town as Susan lived - Union, South Carolina. SIGNED on the title page by the author. ISBN: 1-883523-605.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, set again in the mythical town of Neely, South Carolina, a modern day Bonnie and Clyde story. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-671-614371.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel, and the final novel in the trilogy set in the mythical town of Neely, South Carolina. Narrated by the young Louis Benfield, this is the "convoluted and often tragic history of his own family, from the Civil War to the present day." Dust jacket praise from Reynolds Price, Anne Tyler and many others. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-671-614371.

New York: Henry Holt, (2004). First edition - The author's second novel, the story of a small South Carolina town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident. 237 pp.