New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Southern humorist, a "master of the comic short story. Set in town of Gruel, South Carolina, this is the tale of a young man named Novel, a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings while sitting in a motel room writing his autobiography." SIGNED on the title page. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0151011285.

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

Chapel Hill, NC: Shannon Ravenel / Algonquin Books, 2002. dj. Hardcover - A collection of 15 short stories, most told in the first person voice, and most set in or around a fictional South Carolina town called Forty Five and featuring Singleton's eccentric characters - flea-market hustlers, a fish aquarium salesman, a bogus "primitive" artist." 287 pp. ISBN: 1-565123549.

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.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. Hardcover first edition - Charleston octogenarian and noted gardener Emily Whaley shares her other favorite hobby - cooking delicious meals and serving them to the people she loved - a collection of family anecdotes and timeless Southern recipes, salted liberally with Mrs. W.'s strong opinions. Published posthumously. Index, xii, 266 pp. ISBN: 1-565122003.

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.

Westwood, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1953) dj. Hardcover - A brief book by this journalist, educator and the first poet-laureate of South Carolina, from 1934-1973, on the different forms beauty can take - the beauty born in storms, in friendship, in loyalty and more - preceded by a 16 page appreciation by Frank S. Mead. 63 pp.

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.

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.

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.

Chapel Hill, NC: Shannon Ravenel / Algonquin Books, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 15 short stories, most told in the first person voice, and most set in or around a fictional South Carolina town called Forty Five and featuring Singleton's eccentric characters--flea-market hustlers, a fish aquarium salesman, a bogus "primitive" artist." SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 1-565123549.

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: Random House, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Second novel by this young writer, who was born in Vietnam, a story of discovering yoursefl, set in a small town in South Carolina. Her first novel, The Book of Salt, was named a NY Times Notable Book and won many awards, including the Bard Fiction award and the Asian-American Literary Award. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 284 pp.

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: 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.

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: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Author's fourth novel, one which reveals her own brand of Southern humor as she follows her heroine from her girlhood in South Carolina and all the romantic detours in betwen.. 520 pp. Publisher's material laid in.

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.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family.SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.

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.

New York: Hyperion, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's first novel, and first book to be published in hardcover, the story of a woman from the Gullah-speaking low country of South Carolina who comes to Southern California to find a better life for her family. SIGNED on the title page. 355 pp. ISBN: 1-56282-9637.

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.

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

New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her second novel - set in South Carolina. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-385-24376-6.