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SAVAGE SEASON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (2009). SIGNED - A "spectacular shoot-em-up, pedal-to-the-metal" hunt for buried treasure. The first Hap and Leonard novel, set in Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 178 pp. ISBN: 978-0307455383.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 77281More details Price: $21.50 -
ACT OF LOVE.
Edition: First hardcover [and first UK] edition.
London: Kinnell, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, originally published in paperback in 1981. SIGNED on the title page. "Tells the story of the 'Houston Hacker' and how a peaceful city was terrorized by an insane and sadistic murderer". 301 pp. ISBN: 187053204X.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 64638More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir buddy novel,set in East Texas, featuring the world's most dangerous odd-couple, Hap and Leonard, one straight, one gay, one white, one black. SIGNED on the half title page. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86836More details Price: $35.00 -
THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir buddy novel,set in East Texas, featuring the world's most dangerous odd-couple, Hap and Leonard, one straight, one gay, one white, one black. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 12893More details Price: $28.50 -
THE TWO-BEAR MAMBO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A noir buddy novel,set in East Texas, featuring the world's most dangerous odd-couple, Hap and Leonard, one straight, one gay, one white, one black. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64633More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GONE AND THE GOING AWAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. First edition - A cycle of poems which bring to life the mythical "Fog Town Holler" in the author's native Kentucky. 95 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of front cover)
Book ID: 85186More details Price: $16.50 -
DEATH'S HALF ACRE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - Mystery novel set in rapidly changing rural North Carolina featuring sleuth and judge Deborah Knott. 262 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65072More details Price: $17.50 -
I KNOW A PLACE: Three Stories
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge, LA: Press of the Nightowl, 1976. Hardcover first edition - Each story is illustrated by a linocut illustration by Margaret Agner printed directly from the block. One of 275 copies in the regular edition designed and printed by Dwight Agner with Joanna Roman and Palatino types on Ragston paper (plus 30 copies in the special edition) 48 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-912960-086.
Condition: Very near fine in red cloth with cream pasted-on labels.
Book ID: 58046More details Price: $20.00 -
EARLY FIRES: Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Iris Press, (2007.). First edition - A series of poems originally published as three separate volumes, and appearing here for the first time as a trilogy in one book. A presentation copy INSCRIBED on the dedication page - "Thank you for bringing your strong inspiration to Esalen. A great pleasure to meet you. Here's some of my back pages from hard Knoxville." 163 pp. ISBN: 0-916078-930.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47954More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GHOSTS OF MEDGAR EVERS: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the making of the movie "Ghosts of Mississippi" and an examination of the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963 and the trial over 30 years later of his killer. Reading list, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-679-459561.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57948More details Price: $25.00 -
A WHOLE NEW LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1994) dj. Hardcover - An account of a 'mid-life collision with cancer and paralysis' by this noted writer, originally published in 1994. Includes a selection of 'revelant poems.' 213 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121970.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket .
Book ID: 59034More details Price: $16.50 -
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, dj. Hardcover first edition - This comprehensive and definite bibliography of the works of this popular author demonstrates the diversity of Rawlings's writings - it includes separate publications, first appearance contributions to books and pamphlets, and to journals, magazines, and newspapers, blurbs, translations, movie work, etc. Well illustrated. Index. xix, 283 pages. ISBN: 0-8229-39207.
Condition: Fine (as new) in dark gray cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, no dustjacket as issued.
Book ID: 27468More details Price: $45.00 -
CYPRESS GROVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in the Turner trilogy, featuring John Turner, ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist, who is hoping to find a hideaway in a small town near Memphis. SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66146More details Price: $35.00 -
CRIPPLE CREEK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel featuring John Turner, ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist, who is now the sheriff of this small town near Memphis. SIGNED on the title page. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33824.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65176More details Price: $35.00 -
SALT RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel featuring John Turner, ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist, who is now the sheriff of this small town near Memphis. A brief novel, spare and yet poetic, a dark but moving meditation on the human spirit and crime. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-16172.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50263More details Price: $16.50 -
DEEP KILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring private investigator Micah Dunn, ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, set in New Orleans. 199 pp. ISBN: 0-312-058543.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 88539More details Price: $16.50 -
THE LAST MAN TO DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring private investigator Micah Dunn, ex Marine and Vietnam veteran, set in New Orleans. ISBN: 0-312-078587.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear, other light edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 18190More details Price: $16.50 -
INDELIBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fourth Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-688-174582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63553More details Price: $15.00 -
FAITHLESS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Century, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. SIGNED on the title page. 390 pp. ISBN: 1-844133729.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 81291More details Price: $40.00 -
A COLD FAINT FEAR.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Morrow, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her third Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-688-174582.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48772More details Price: $15.00 -
FAITHLESS.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Delacorte, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - A Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-385-339453.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48801More details Price: $12.50 -
A COLD FAINT FEAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Her third Grant County, Georgia mystery featuring medical examiner Sara Linton. SIGNED on the title page. 346 pp.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some curlng to the front cover).
Book ID: 53746More details Price: $19.50 -
THE PALMS: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third collection of poetry by this award-winning Southern writer and novelist., poems which take us 'into the heart of the American experience.' 70 pp. ISBN: 0-393-034526.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 55406More details Price: $15.00 -
ON AGATE HILL.
Edition: First printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by this award winning Southern writer: "Molly Petree, orphaned by the Civil War, is by her own definition 'a spitfire and a burden. I do not care. My family is a dead family, and this is not my home, for I am a refugee girl.' Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina, she's a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. . . Spanning half a century, Lee Smith's portrait of a fiery Southern woman recalls the South from Reconstruction to the Roaring Twenties and, in the process, gives us Molly Petree, living and breathing, gripping the reader's arm as the story unfolds." 356 pp. ISBN: 1565124529.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front flap of dj.)
Book ID: 47920More details Price: $18.00 -
JACK OF DIAMONDS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 63899More details Price: $16.50 -
JACK OF DIAMONDS and Other Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A richly nuanced collection of five long short stories by one of the best contemporary Southern writers. SIGNED on the title page. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0122524.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 52541More details Price: $35.00 -
PLAIN AND NORMAL.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very funny novel about a middle-aged man's tentative steps out of the closet, a move endorsed by his wife, who can't wait to get him out of the house. Cover praise for Wilcox by Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren, Roy Blount, Jr. and more. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-316940267.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42002More details Price: $15.00 -
THE MAID'S VERSION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - The story of a deadly dance hall fire in 1929 and its impact on several generations - 164 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 76429More details Price: $17.50 -
THE ONES YOU DO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, and the third in his highly praised series set in the steamy bayou town of St. Bruno. 212 pp. Dust jacket art by John H. Howard. ISBN: 0-8050-09728.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.(remainder line .)
Book ID: 56449More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MAID'S VERSION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). First edition - The story of a deadly dance hall fire in 1929 and its impact on several generations - 164 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some toning to the pages and edges of textblock)
Book ID: 67724More details Price: $15.00