San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1992). SIGNED first edition - Includes selections by twenty-two writers, from the past and present, including Walker Percy, Anne Rice, Lafcadio Hearn, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Truman Capote, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and more. Introduction by Andrei Codrescu. SIGNED by Ishmael Reed at his contribution, an excerpt from Mumbo Jumbo. vii, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-811844943.

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first major collection of this award-winning writer's work - in her introduction Hoffman notes that Bocock is a writer who "has long been admired by other writers." Spanning over half a century, this collection of twelve short stories and one novalle introduces readers to Bocock's powerfully assured and accomplished short fiction. These are stories of courageous women facing crises of identity, oppression, and betrayal. The first five are set in the South where Bocock was born and raised. Introduction by Alice Hoffman. SIGNED on the bottom of the title page by Alice Hoffman, and uncommon thus. 246 pp. ISBN: 1-581950004.

San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes contributions by thirty Southern writers - mostly stories, but also some essays and a poem - edited and with an introduction by Sonny Brewer. SIGNED by NINE authors: by Brewer on the half title page and by Tom Cocoran, Suzanne Hudson, Sidney Thompson, Jennifer Paddock, Frank Turner Hollon,Tom Kelly, Brad Watson, and one other on the front endpaper. Other contributors inclued Marlin Barton, Rick Bragg, Jill Conner Browne, C. Terry Cline, Pat Conroy, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, William Gay, Winston Groom, Melinda Haynes, Steve Yarbrough and more. Notes on contributors. 351 pp. ISBN: 1-931561095.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - 1992 Lamont Poetry selection (judges were Lucille Clifton, Jorie Graham and Robert Morgan.) Although the author says she was born in the flatlands of southwest Georgia, she was drawn to the mountains where her grandmother was born and this collection contains narrative poems written in the fictional voice of a woman around the early 1900s, inspired by the ballads and the lives of the Blue Ridge mountain women in North Carolina. Praise from Mary Oliver, Fred Chappel, Lee Smith and others. 52 pp. ISBN: 0-807117706.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Texas author's first novel, following a highly praised collection of short stories. Two feisty aging brothers and their housekeeper take a road trip to Mexico, to their past and into the history of their family. 357 pp. ISBN: 9780316159692.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the complete text of 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Tender is the Night' and a selection of nine of his short stories. Compiled by his friend Dorothy Parker and with an introduction by John O'Hara. At the time this was published, Fitzgerald was once again just beginning to be recognized as a major American writer. Viking Portable Library #14. xix, 835 pp. Small format.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1966.) dj. Hardcover first edition - As Garrett explains in his introduction, this started as a classroom assignment when the real "girl in the black raincoat" had to drop out of his creative writing class, and one of the students wrote a story about her - but it soon grew into a sort of game, and eventually resulted in this very unusal collection of 41 pieces,short stories and poems - all except one written specifically for this challenge. Among the contributors are Shelby Foote, Annie Dillard, May Sarton, Babette Deutsch, Carolyn Kizer, Kelly Cherry, Mary Lee Settle, Fred Chappell, William Manchester, Donald Justice with Mark Strand, Barbara Harris, David Slavitt and many others. Brief notes on the contributors. 368 pp,

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's very highly praised first book, a small gem of a book which tells the story of "old Ellen" (as she calls herself), a very wise 11 year old. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1989. 146 pp. . ISBN: 0-912697-52.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen short stories - "darkly comic, fiercely tragic and always strikingly original." SIGNED on the title page. Hannah received the Pen/Faulkner award for short fiction, and this collection, the last to be published during his lifetime, was nominated for the Pulitzer. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-871136686.

New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the 1960s in the cane fields and among the old families of Belmont Parish, Louisiana. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-670824011.

New York: Random House, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning author which tells her own story, and the story of the Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs, which she grew up in. It takes us back to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, but it also tells the story of how a "misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. xi, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-679449256.

New York: Oxford University Press, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Biography of the author of "Gone With the Wind" - one which explores how her Southern upbringing, in which she was imbued from childhood with tales of the Civil War, affected the novel. Overall a sympathetic and perceptive look at a woman who in many ways defied the cultural expectations of her time. Photographs. Notes, index. xix, 533 pp. ISBN: 0-195052765.

New York: W W Norton & Co / Center for Documentary Studies, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters between these two Mississippi writers, friends since their teenage years, which began in the late 1940s and continued until Percy's death in 1990. "Jay Tolson has selected, edited, and annotated the letters of these two remarkable writers to shed light on their relationship and their literary careers." Illustrated with photographs, index. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-393317684.

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.

Atlanta: SFK Press/ Southern Fried Karma, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a coming-of-age story - "Ten-year-old Willie Mae doesn't just live near the town of Feral; she's a bit feral herself. Spending her days eavesdropping, exploring on her bike, and avoiding her brutish big brother, she's determined to uncover the secrets adults are clearly trying to keep from her. Raised in a Holy Roller family, Willie discovers bleak realities and heart-wrenching lessons that shake her to the core of her soul." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 119 pp. ISBN: 978-1970137811.

London: Chatto & Windus, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter pieces by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Includes a novella, 10 stories and three one-act plays. set mostly in early 20th-century Tennessee, St Louis and North Carolina. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-701160020.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover - A study on how African American voices, folklore and rhetorical traditions of his time influenced Twain's writing, and especially the character of Huck Finn. Extensive notes, works cited, index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-195082141.

New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study on how African American voices, folklore and rhetorical traditions of his time influenced Twain's writing, and especially the character of Huck Finn. Extensive notes, works cited, index. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-195082141.