Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press / Silver Dagger Mysteries, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Ernestine Carpenter, recently retired after teaching high school English for 40 years, and, as she admits, more than a bit nosy. She is also good at solving problems. SIGNED on the title page. 202 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 1570721823.

[Johnson City, Tennessee:] Silver Dagger Mysteries, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set featuring grad student Maggie McClendon set in a small town in Mississippi. SIGNED on the title page. 202 pp. ISBN: 1570722668.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First edition - The third collection of poems by this Southern writer, winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. 68 pp. ISBN: 0-395510635.

New York: Putnam, (2015). First edition - Southern author's very highly praised first novel, a Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. "The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring, with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of high school and cut himself off from his peers, Jacob has been working for this father for years, all on the promise that his payday will come eventually." 260 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story, set in the civil-rights-era South, one which includes a candid discussion of racial issues. The narrator, young Lucy Conyers, lives in Tallahassee, Florida, at the end of the street where the 'colored section' of town begins. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-39913719X.

New York: Dutton, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's first novel, one which depicts a quiet Alabama suburban neighborhood disrupted by tragedy and murder. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-52594379X.

Boston: Little Brown, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Dr. Hannah Land, professor of political science at Duke University, and shrewd amateur sleuth. Set in tobacco growing country. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-316-559938.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In the small college town of Hillston, North Carolina, a town heralded as an emblem of the "new South, a young womans body has been found - murdered, mutilated, tagged and addressed to Lt. Justin Savile V and Police Chief Cuddy R. Mangum. Since this was the second body found clothed in a Guess T-shirt, the press dubs this as the work of a serial killer they call the "Guess Who Killer" and pressure mounts on the police to find the killer. SIGNED on the title page. In addition to being a gripping and literate mystery, this is a picture of the changing politics and culture in the South. 430 pp. ISBN: 1-570717435.

New York: Kensington, (2007.). First edition - Novel set in the world of NASCAR racing. Author's note. 309 pp.

Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - North Carolina writer's second memoir, one which finds him "smack-dab in middle age: he's a 45-year-old cancer survivor who has piled his brother, his two kids, and his mother into a Winnebago and set off west to see the Rocky Mountains. But this is no mere road trip re-creation; it's a series of funny, sad, always fascinating glimpses of a life that was often lived too close to the edge." (Booklist). Among the twists and turns of this book is the discovery that the cancer he thought he had beaten years before is back. 259 pp. ISBN: 1-878086855.

Berkeley, CA: Orloff Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, winner of the California Book Award for first fiction - a collection of eleven stories which offer glimpses into the hearts and minds of various soldiers, their friends, lovers, acquaintances, and kin, revealing the often unexpected impact that military service has on their lives. SIGNED on the title page.167 pp. ISBN: 0-964294931.

Berkeley, CA: Orloff Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, winner of the California Book Award for first fiction - a collection of eleven stories which offer glimpses into the hearts and minds of various soldiers, their friends, lovers, acquaintances, and kin, revealing the often unexpected impact that military service has on their lives. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-964294931.

New York: Random House, (1995.). First edition - Author's first book, set in a small southern town in the 1920's - highly praised by such writers as Paul Bowles and Larry McMurty. 327 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, set in a small southern town in the 1920s - highly praised by such writers as Paul Bowles and Larry McMurty. SIGNED on the title page. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-679-428968.

New York: Random House, (1995.). First edition - Author's first book, set in a small southern town in the 1920's - highly praised by such writers as Paul Bowles and Larry McMurty. 327 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, set in a small southern town in the 1920's - highly praised by such writers as Paul Bowles and Larry McMurty. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-679-428968.

New York: The Century Company, 1920. Hardcover - Southern author's first novel, the story of a priest in a small and poor South Carolina town, who takes in the notorious safe-cracker Slippy McGee after he barely survives the loss of his leg from a train accident. Basis for two films, in 1923 and again in 1948. 405 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - North Carolina-born author's long and ambitious first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Cover praise from Tom Robbins. 735 pp. ISBN: 0-395355621.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - North Carolina-born author's long and ambitious first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Cover praise from Tom Robbins. 735 pp. ISBN: 0-395355621.

Atlanta: Longstreet Press, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - First book this North Carolina author, a short novel of the late 60's and early 70's, of the summer of love, the war in Vietnam and a generation in search of itself. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Lee Smith, Clyde Edgerton, Louise Shivers. 182 pp. ISBN: 156352337X.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kentucky-born author's first novel, the story of a mythic place, a small town with a store and a church. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-912697-547.

Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - For more than fifty years, Price, winner of the William Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and many others, kept a journal of his writing life, and publication of this journal provides a revealing window into his creative process and craftsman's sensibilities. List of the names that appear, notes, 603 pp. ISBN: 0-822321122.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three interrelated plays which trace a family's life in a North Carolina town over a period of 37 years - from before World War II to the Vietnam era. 367 pp. ISBN: 1-55936-0151.

New York: The Viking Press, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in post Civil War southern Georgia, the land of the longleaf pines. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-670-033219.

Marietta, GA: Cherokee Publishing, 1995. First edition - The author's first novel, a story about twin boys growing up on a hunting plantation in Georgia in the 1940s, told with a "balance of lyrical nostalgia and gleefully coarse humor. It is narrated by Matty MacDonald in one of those distinctive Southern voices that creates color on the page. He and his brother Patty are twins whose mother died giving birth to them and whose father committed suicide shortly afterward. The boys are raised on a 15,000-acre South Georgia hunting property named Ecowah Plantation by their delightfully eccentric Uncle Charlie, who gives up his carefree bachelor life to accept the responsibility." (Publisher's Weekly) 238 pp.

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: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.

New York: Crown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of short stories (the first won the American Book Award, and this collection won the Prix de Rome.) Set in the Caribbean, Virginia, New Orleans and elsewhere, these stories are touching, totally original and captivating. Dustjacket praise from Robert Stone, Barry Hannah, Russell Banks, and others. 209 pp. Dust jacket art by Connie Nelson. ISBN: 0-517-57067x.