Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0763629502.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's historical note. ISBN: 978-0763629502.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). First edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. Slightly oversized. 561 pp plus author's note.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - Sequel to his National Book Award winner. Although these two books which follow the adventures a young boy, an African slave who is at times the subject of a "scientific experiment", pampered and taught Latin and Greek at one point, brutalized at other times, have been classified as 'young adult,' they are incredibly well-written, emotionally complex, thoughtful and satisfying historical novels, ones which give a different picture of the American revolution, and ageless in their appeal. Very highly recommended. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Slightly oversized.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2018.). SIGNED - A title in the award-winning Meg Langslow series, set in Virginia. SIGNED on the title page. Includes a brief excerpt from next book in series. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1250152190.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 2006. Promotional postcard laid in. 360 pp. ISBN: 1-931561001.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. 360 pp. ISBN: 1931561001.

San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.). The first in a series of historical novels that bring a new perspective to the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. 360 pp. ISBN: 1-931561214.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013). First edition - The author's first novel, one which intertwines the lives of a young slave in Virginia in 1852 and a young lawyer in NYC in 2004. 368 pp.

New York: Scribner's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in the series of mysteries featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner. Getting harder to find in the first edition. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193957.

New York: Scribner's, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third in the series of mysteries featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner. Getting harder to find in the first edition. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-684-193957.

New York: Avon, (1993.). The third in the series of mysteries featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner. 406 pp. ISBN: 0-380-718332.

New York: Putnam, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Kay Scarpetta mystery. 449 pp. ISBN: 0-399-146253.

New York: Scribner's, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second Kay Scarpetta mystery, set in Virginia. SIGNED by Cornwell on title page. ISBN: 0-684-192403.

New York: Scribner's, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Kay Scarpetta mystery, set in Virginia. INSCRIBED by Cornwell on the half title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-192403.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, (c 1928) dj. Hardcover - A story for older children - Betty Lee and her father Peter travel from Virginia to Paris, where she meets Biblio, a boy artist, and 'Father Leopold', a bibliophile who calls his books - his treasures - 'little cabbages.' Illustrated by Nancy Barnhart with a glossy frontispiece, 10 full page and many smaller drawings. A title in the Young Modern Series. 313 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Scribner, (2011,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery, SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-1439163863.

New York: Scribner, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in this mystery series featuring Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery, When a tornado rips through her fields, it not only destroys the young plants, but it unearths a skeleton. SIGNED on the title page.Maps. 261 pp. ISBN: 978-1439165997.

New York: Scribner, (2011,) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Virginia winemaker Lucie Montgomery, set both in Virginia's wine country and in Northern California. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781439163887.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of 60 years of the black community in Fulton, Virginia, and especially of the people in that community - children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of slaves, hard-working, thrifty and proud. The author was sent to this town in the early 70's as a community service worker, and in this book he recounts the ways in which urban renewal destroyed this community. Bibliography. 222 pages. ISBN: 0-8131-16449.

Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, (2006). SIGNED first edition - Autobiographical account of life on a small farm in Virginia during the Depression Years. The author mentions his fascination with planes even then - he went on to work in the manned space program for NASA. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 1+41206290X.

New York: Norton, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusually detailed look at American slavery through extensive records maintained by Buffalo Forge in the Lexingon,Virginia area. Developed by two men from Pennsylvania (William Weaver during the war of 1812, and later Daniel Brady) the forge produced much of the iron used by the Confederacy during the Civil War. The Weaver-Brady records are unique in the details they provide about the day-to-day events of the slave community, including in addition to births and deaths, information about epidemics, crippling industrial accidents, the movement of slave patrols, the history of the Civil War and how the slaves reacted to freedom and more. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xviii, 429 pp. ISBN: 0-393-036162.

New York: Pantheon, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In these essays, Genovese compares the New World experience of slavery with that in Europe and Africa, focusing on the place of slavery in the socioeconomic development of the Atlantic community. The second essay is entitled "The Logical Outcome of the Slaveholders' Philosophy" and it focuses on the social thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal, Virginia. Notes, index. xii, 274 pp.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. Hardcover first edition - Gasgow's third novel, set in Virginia. 444 pp. Bound in an attractive design of oak leaves and acorns on the front, in green on a light tan background.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904. Hardcover first edition - This novel, one which focuses on the dispossession of the Southern aristocratic class, both from the defeat of the Confederacy and from the requirement to confront a changing world, was both well-received critically at the time and a best-seller. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and three inserted plates by Frank E. Schoonover. 543 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1895. Hardcover - First Little Brown edition, originally published in New York by Lovell, Coryell, in 1984. A social history of seventeenth century Virginians, with chapters on dress, news, trade and travel, amusements, man and maid-servants, church, education, laws and punishments, sickness and death, and other subjects. Illustrated with many drawings, some full page, by Harry Edwards. Notes, bibliography. 316 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel which explores the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his devoted daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph. Author's note. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0062320438.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Virginia author's very highly praised second collection of short stories - Madison Smartt Bell commented that they 'combine some old Southern virtues with new graces all her own... as disturbing as it is beautiful, Hardware River makes itself almost impossible to forget.'. ISBN: 0-671-681117.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this prolific - and, in her time, very popular - writer, the author of seven novels, two memoirs, a biography and more than 100 short stories, of which ten which received the O.Henry award. This novel, about a Vermont girl's married life in Virginia, is like almost all of her work, rooted in her own experiences. Most of her books are long out of print, but in 2019 a collection of her short stories was published by the Library of America and some of her work was reissued in the Pleiades Press Unsung Masters series. 413 pp.