New York: Putnam, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The ninth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED in silver on the black title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

New York: Putnam, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 331 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-0399158766.

New York: Putnam, (2017). SIGNED first edition - The seventh novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 358 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, which is recovering from a tornado that ripped through the town of Jericho, and also still dealing with events from more than 30 years ago when two young girls were assaulted and one was killed and a black man was lynched, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0399181797.

New York: Putnam, (2015). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, who has lost his position as Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, but who is asked to step back in when the new sheriff is killed. SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-22-15, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. Promotional material laid in. 370 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-0399576713.

New York: Putnam, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. Publisher's letter laid in. 365 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED in silver on the black title page and dated in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 446 pp. ISBN: 978-0525539469.

New York: Putnam, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, now Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 339 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, and Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-19-18, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-0399576744.

New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the highly praised series featuring Quinn Colson, former Army Ranger, who has lost his position as Sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, but who is asked to step back in when the new sheriff is killed. SIGNED on the title page and dated 7-22-15, in the year of publication. An upcoming HBO series will be based on these Colson novels. 370 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399173943.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bell's fourth book and first collection of short stories. SIGNED by author on title page. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-4893.

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "collection of nine thematically linked stories set in Austin, Texas, people live on the cusp of the past and present. . [His characters] face the results of the irrevocable choices they've made, accept their losses and attempt to forge something meaningful out of what remains." SIGNED on the half title page. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-87074464X.

New York: Exposition Press, (1959) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 124 poems by this Southern writer, born in Tennessee, educated in Virginia, and who lived in Florida for many years, although she also traveled extensively. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 91 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's second novel - the story of an aging - and dying - football coach's struggle to survive. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." SIGNED on the front endpaper. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - Louisiana born author's first novel - a small-town, coming-of-age story with some wicked and humorous twists. John Fowles called it "a vividly imagined and sad-voiced novel of the sour end of the American dream." 239 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-1757.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Although he went on to publish some 55 books, Caldwell remains best known for his classic first novel "Tobacco Road." In this book, he discusses his life and career, including his four marriages, his struggles to get his work accepted by a publisher, and the attempts to ban his work. Photographs. 332 pp plus a list of his works. ISBN: 0-934601119.

New York: Random House, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete collection of Capote's shorter fiction, including one previously unpublished story written in 1950 - "The Bargain." Biographical note, introduction by Reynolds Price. xv 300 pp. ISBN: 0-679643109.

New York: The Viking Press, (1974.) dj. Hardcover - Southern author's comic first novel, the story of a "hypereducated thirty year old med student who would like nothing better than to be taken seriously sexually." 280 pp. ISBN: 0-670-643823.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which introduces us to Evers Wheeling, "a preternaturally young North Carolina judge who's headed to the dogs with his eyes wide open. . But just before he makes it there, into his life comes a blonde in trouble with an outrageous (and ever-mutating) tale of a brother who needs help avoiding a jail sentence." James Crumley called this "a wonderfully unique read, charming and funny and touching and twisted, as fresh and tart as a perfect martini." 348 pp. ISBN: 0-375407251.

New York: St Martin's, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hard-to-find first novel by this highly acclaimed young Southern writer, a story which tells of the lives of an unlikely couple - a tobacco farmer and his headstrong wife - through the years from their courtship in the 1920s through fifty years of hope and frustration, of love, birth, death and just plain living. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late collector Larry Owens. 192 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Kay Scarpetta mystery. SIGNED on the title page by Cornwell. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-684-195976.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twelve short stories by this award-winning writer, several set in and around the Texas oil fields, ranging from "intimate family portraits to broader pictures of art and culture and politics. From the sometimes humorous predicaments of the American gender wars and domestic change, to class conflicts, to artistic innovation with its personal costs, to the horrors of the Stalinist period and the more recent Middle Eastern wars, the twentieth centurys violent history haunts these stories." Ann Beattie called it "the strongest Ive read this year. Its full of detail, believable conversation, and thought-provoking ideas. Really: read this. SIGNED on the title page. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-870744038.

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: Random House, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a remote convent school in Nova Scotia in the early 1920s, a book which is "true to the wonder, exuberance and gentle sexuality of a young girl's coming of age." 302 pp. ISBN: 0-394520092.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Unusual mystery by this Edgar award winning author, featuring folklorist Fever Devilin and set in the Georgia Appalachians. 310 pp. ISBN: 9780-312-699468.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of more than 30 poems. The title poem was written for President Carter's 1976 inauguration ceremony. Oblong format. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-385158092.