New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black lawyer in Houston, Texas, in 1981, trying to put his past behind him and barely succeeding in staying above water. Nominated for the Edgar, short listed for the Orange award, this grips you from the first page. SIGNED on the title page. 427 pp. ISBN: 978006173868.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning Southern author's 14th novel, which "opens at a reception for the loved ones of deceased heart donors where, for the first time, Nan and Douglas Mayhall come face to face with the aging preacher who is the recipient of their twenty-two year old daughter's heart. Their very different reactions to this disturbing encounter sets them off on separate paths." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-679446419.

London: Macmillan, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring dedicated bird-watcher George Palmer-Jones, set in a small town on the upper Gulf coast of Texas where the Houston Audubon Society has two sanctuaries which attract bird lovers from around the world. SIGNED on the title page. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-333660110.

New York: Berkley, (2003). First edition - "A Treasury of Stories, Herbal Lore, Recipes and Crafts." Ten stories, including four written especially for this book, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs, featuring lawyer turned herbalist, China Bayles. SIGNED on the title page. Includes introductory notes, and boxed recipes, gardening tips and herbal lore scattered throughout. xiii, 254 pp. ISBN: 0-425190021.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes, 265 pp. ISBN: 978-0312348106.

New York: Harper Collins, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in Texas cattle country in the years right after World War II. The Library Journal review called it an "entrancing romance. . . Their attraction is mutual, their relationship deeply sensuous, often tempestuous, and notably illicit in this time and place. But class and age divide them, and a break seems inevitable, as does the final resolution. McCorquodale tells this story in cadenced, compelling prose that is stunningly sensuous without being either explicit or euphemistic." 371 pp. ISBN: 0-6060155183.

New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this award-winning author. "'Ordinary time,' notes Father Gilvary, is 'the longest, and hardest, season of the liturgical year.' Especially in dusty Durance, Texas: 'buried in the Dust Bowl, resurrected in the oil boom, now, fallen again on hard times.' Here, Father Gilvary is experiencing a crisis of faith, going blind figuratively as well as literally. Henrietta, who runs the Three Square Meals restaurant, is a fervent Pentecostal who can't quite commit. And Cleat, the town waif whose parentage is unknown, just drifts. Into their lives comes Val, a stranger on the run." (Library Journal) 223 pp. ISBN: 0-38526416X.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1961) dj. Hardcover - A novel set in the Texas panhandle, the story of a murder trial of a young vagrant accused of killing one of the richest and most generous men in the town, and of the attorney who realizes that in order to obtain even a semblance of justice for his client he will have to ruin the lives of innocent people and destroy a man's reputation. Winner of the McGraw Hill Fiction Award. 328 pp.

New York: Walker, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A letter discovered in the boot of a stranger hanging from a tree on the isolated Barclay Ranch on the Rio Grande, leads foreman Hobart Shedd, Tip Giles, and the other cowboys on a quest for stolen bank loot. 155 pp. ISBN: 0-802741177.

New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

New York: Scribner's, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first mystery novel, introducing former attorney and now herbalist, China Bayles. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-684195224.

New York: Berkley, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A China Bayles mystery, set in the small Texas town of Pecan Springs. Includes several recipes for chili. INSCRIBED on the title page. 306 pp. ISBN: 0-425-165396.

New York: St Martin's, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel set at a small college in a small town in Texas - a world Crider knows well as the chair of English literature at Texas college. Features the perpetual worrier, Professor Carl Burns, who has been assigned to head up a seminar organized to honor a former professor, turned Hollywood celebrity. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-312033281.

New York: Doubleday, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this Edgar award winning author and the third featuring Texas based crime reporter Molly Cates, who finds herself investigating the death of her father 25 years ago - a death ruled as suicide at the time. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478585.

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Thriller set in a small Texas town near the Louisiana border. "Defense attorney Micki Lane tackles the most challenging case of her career - the chilling murder of a young woman kidnaped before her husband's eyes on a crowded street. After a friend, a former forensic colleague, enlists her help with the investigation, she finds herself torn between her duty to a client and her need to know the truth." INSCRIBED on the title page. Promotional card laid in. 210 pp.

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Thriller set in a small Texas town near the Louisiana border. "Defense attorney Micki Lane tackles the most challenging case of her career - the chilling murder of a young woman kidnaped before her husband's eyes on a crowded street. After a friend, a former forensic colleague, enlists her help with the investigation, she finds herself torn between her duty to a client and her need to know the truth." SIGNED on the title page. Promotional card laid in. 210 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late collector Larry Owens and his wife "Okie friends." 256 pp. ISBN: 0-671881868.

New York: Dutton, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a thriller set in Texas, one which explores murderous deceit, big-money corruption and illicit sex from Ft Worth's million dollar homes to the gritty underside of the honky tonks. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935312.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel - a penetrating look at the silences and ghosts that haunt the women of an East Texas family since the 1890s. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-653.

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: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Texas, this is a story of an honest, but disgraced, Dallas police officer as he becomes entangled with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a kidnapping plot through which she hopes to beat the system. Gray has written several very highly praised novels as A. W. Gray. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-684810964.

New York: Dutton, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third crime novel, a legal thriller featuring defense attorney Bino Phillips, former basketball star and the toughest lawyer around. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-525248757.

New York: Dutton, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a mystery introducing tough Texas lawyer Bino - fast-paced and suspenseful. Recommended. SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-525245901.

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's first novel, set in the 1930s mostly in El Paso and across the border in Juarez, Mexico. A Western novel, in one sense, a story of revenge, but one which also weaves in the economic and social issues of the Great Depression, a book which transcends genre. INSCRIBED to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens, on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-875651623.

New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. 263 pp. ISBN: 0-312-208898.