St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eleven interrelateds short stories which feature Miriam Batson, a native Southerner transplanted to the Midwest by marriage, as she confronts and comes to term with the shifting ground of her life. Alden was herself born in Greenville, South Carolina, and was writer in residence as the University of Minnesota at the time this was published. Dust jacket praise from Wallace Stegner and Scott Turow. 176 p. ISBN: 1-555971113.

Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Press, (1988.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Author's second book, a collection of short stories. Later printing. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-932379-516.

New York: Dutton, 1998. First edition - Novel about a woman who returns to Georgia, leaving behind the glitz of southern California, to reclaim the two daughters she left behind years ago. 588 pp.

Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Press, nd (c1988.). Author's second book, a collection of short stories. Later printing. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-932379-516.

New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.

New York: Putnam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Florida journalist and humorist's first novel. Stephen King said it was the funniest book he'd read in 40 years; Elmore Leonard said "in 50 years" while Carl Hiaasen called it 'outrageously warped, cheerfully depraved - and harrowingly close to real life in Florida.' SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-739405152.

New York: Viking Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A searching look at our contemporary culture, as junior college professor Del Tribute and his cyber-muckraker friend Jen head west from Mississippi to a Los Angeles in the midst of rioting. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-670-864692.

New York: Pantheon, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection covering 10 years work - at the heart of this book is a series of poem's written during his father's final years. 80 pp. Laid in is a flyer for an event featuring Wendell Berry "in celebration of " this collection. ISBN: 0-679426094.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this prize-winning Southern poet and writer. ISBN: 0-934601-127.

Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this prize-winning Southern poet and writer. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-934601-127.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2016). SIGNED - Texas Ranger Crawford Brown wants his daughter back - but a courtroom shooting threatens that. SIGNED on the title page. 430 pp. ISBN: 978-1455581184.

New York: Hyperion, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Dave Robicheaux mystery. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60197.

New York: Hyperion, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh Dave Robicheaux mystery. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 367 pp. Promotional bookmark laid in. ISBN: 0-7868-60197.

Boston: Little Brown, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring ex-New Orleans cop Dave Robichaux and one of the best in the series. Winner of the Edgar award for best novel. 290 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-316-116998.

New York: Random House, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical story of a visit to New Orleans when Capote was six, to spend Christmas with his rarely seen father. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-394-53266X.

New York: Random House, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Autobiographical story of a visit to New Orleans when Capote was six, to spend Christmas with his rarely seen father. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-394-53266X.

New York: Random House, (1951.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel (4th book), set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this the story of three odd and endearing characters - an orphaned boy and two old ladies - who run away to live in a tree house on the edge of town. Basis for the motion picture starring Sissy Spacek and Walter Matthau 181 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2000.). His second book of poetry, originally published in 1975. 51 pp.. ISBN: 0-807100943.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2000.). First edition - Collection of inter-related poems by this award winning Southern writer. 62 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-26268.

New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set after the Great Flood of 1927 in Mississippi, the story of how an 8 year old boy lost everything, but still survived to become a tough young man. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0062225009.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's very highly praised first novel, set in Alabama in the early 1900s. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket blurbs from Pat Conroy, James Dickey and Erskine Caldwell, among others. ISBN: 0-394-536347.

New York: Bantam, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful story of violence and its aftermath by this Edgar award winning writer - of "the price a whole town paid for a single moment of passionate betrayal. The town was Choctaw, Alabama. The place was Breakheart Hill. The girl was Kelli Troy. The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill on that summer afternoon did not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, the only man who knows what really happened that August afternoon in 1962." 264 pp. ISBN: 0-553-096516.

Little Rock, Arkansas: August Rock, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, a story of desegregation in the south, told from the viewpoint of those white southerners who rallied for integration only to be shunned by other whites, distrusted by blacks, and in the end to find themselves compromising their ideals. DJ praise from Fred Chappell, Jack Butler and Mark Childress. Winner of the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87483-0567.

Little Rock, Arkansas: August Rock, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, a story of desegregation in the south, told from the viewpoint of those white southerners who rallied for integration only to be shunned by other whites, distrusted by blacks, and in the end to find themselves compromising their ideals. DJ praise from Fred Chappell, Jack Butler and Mark Childress. Winner of the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87483-0567.

New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives."

New York: Viking, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives."

London: Pandora, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Grace Paley described this novel as "a sunny, windy, wide-open wild horse prairie on which four fierce, memorable women struggle alone and with each other to be truthful, to live outside the lives that have broken, darkened or closeted our women's lives." 231 pp. Cover art by Sue Sluggett. ISBN: 0-86358-0963.

New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans medical examiner Andy Broussard criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn. A deadly Ebola-like virus has killed several people in New Orleans, and Kit has been kidnapped. Donaldson is a professor of anatomy and neurobiology, so the forensic science is well-done and accurate. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312-143621.