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A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS
Edition: Paperback.
Boston: Avon, (1991.). The fourth Dave Robicheaux mystery, set in the bayous of Louisiana and in the New Orleans drug underworld. ISBN: 0-380-713608.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 51818More details Price: $8.50 -
THE WHITE WITCH OF ROSEHALL.
Edition: Later printing.
London: Ernest Benn Limited , (1978) dj. Hardcover - Reprinted many times, this is the author's best known novel, "founded on fact, of the West Indies of the early nineteenth century. . . Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances." 255 pp. Photo on back of dust jacket is of Rosehall, now in ruins. ISBN: 0-510-199046.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63524More details Price: $14.50 -
HALSEY IN THE WEST INDIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon book describing the fourteen year-old author's adventures during seven months spent in the Virgin Islands of the West Indies, He kept a diary of his experiences during "the most exciting winter of his life" and here he retells them in 'a straightforward boy-to-boy fashion for all boys to enjoy.' Includes accounts of shark fishing, tarantula hunting, an encounter with Voodoo worship, horse races, his comments on racial issues, West Indian food, and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the author, other photographs and sketches by a twelve-year old artist, Arthur Lindborg. Foreword by Kennett Harris. 180 pp plus 4 pp of selections from Putnam's catalogue featuring 'boys books by boys.' Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in magenta cloth with black lettering in a partial dust jacket (only the front cover and front flap remains.)
Book ID: 37984More details Price: $100.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57489More details Price: $30.00 -
DIE UPON A KISS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1835, during the Carnival time. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note on opera in New Orleans. 333 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in plain printed wrappers with illustrated cover bound in.
Book ID: 47582More details Price: $30.00 -
GRAVEYARD DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - Author's third historical mystery featuring Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher - set in New Orleans in 1834, this revolves around voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 315 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers (small chip to lower corner of back cover.).
Book ID: 39225More details Price: $30.00 -
BURNT BLACK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel featuring Cliff St James, now reinstated as a detective in the New Orleans Police Department, and working as a mixed martial arts coach. A year and a half after being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, much of city is still damaged and in ruins. 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0312581817.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68611More details Price: $17.50 -
GOOD JUNK;
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Cliff St James, now reinstated as a detective in the New Orleans Police Department, set in a city still devastated by the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. 325 pp. ISBN: 978-0312600891.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 68613More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NEON SMILE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring New Orleans private investigator Terry Manion in a case that involves events reaching back to 1965, involving black militants then and civil unrest now, as well as the influence of voodoo. SIGNED on the title page. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-671-747126.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48655More details Price: $30.00 -
VODOUN: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller involving the death and disappearance of a Haitian politician, and a murder that looks like a voodoo ritual. Set in Virginia and in Haiiti. 349 pp. ISBN: 0-688-105637.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (rem mark bottom edge.)
Book ID: 38252More details Price: $17.50 -
BLACK MAGIC.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in decorative paper covered boards with a black cloth spine, and gold paper label on spine. Some rubbing and wear to edges of boards, but overall a tight and clean copy, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 87946More details Price: $40.00 -
YELLOW MOON.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Atria Books, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered." Novel set in contemporary New Orleans featuring Marie Levant, great-great granddaughter of the voodoo queen Marie Laveau. Author's note. 293 pp. ISBN: 1-416537104.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder line, small peeled spot on dj.)
Book ID: 54350More details Price: $25.00 -
MERRICK.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel centered around the beautiful witch Merrick, a descendant of the gens de coleur libre, the New Orleans society of quadroons and octaroons steeped in the lore and traditions of voodoo. Frontispiece. Striking wraparound dust jacket art based on a detail of the painting 'The Snake Charmer' by Henri Rousseau. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454489.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27226More details Price: $16.50 -
BOILING ROCK.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Latham, NY: British American Publishing, 1991. First edition - "On Grand Bahama island , around the tiny village of Boiling Rock, strange doings are afoot. Dolphins swim ashore to die, a body disappears from a graveyard and several tourists drown inexplicably--all within a few terrifying days. Amateur sleuth and genteel Southern lady Evelyn Wade, seen before in Long Lines , is convinced that the incidents are related and sets out to discover how. In this literate, well-crafted mystery, Sutton incorporates such disparate dark elements as voodoo, head-hunting, biological warfare and drug-running without once straining credibility. "(Publishers Weekly) 261 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in printed pale yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 71812More details Price: $17.50 -
LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN BENIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Phaidon Press, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited and with a Preface by Alex Van Gelder. Introduction by Thomas Seelig. Essay on "Life and afterlife in Benin" by Okwui Enwezor. Black and white photographs by nine Benin photographers - Benoit Adjovi, Jean Agbetagbo, Joseph Moise Agbodjelou, Bouraima Akodji, LŽon Ayekoni, Christophe Mahoukpe, SŽbastien Mehinto and others - most from the 1960s and 1970s. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland. Large format. 132 pp plus final photograph and biographies. . ISBN: 0-7148-45132.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 61509More details Price: $35.00 -
NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60798More details Price: $25.00 -
NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark bottom edge)
Book ID: 62513More details Price: $20.00
