New York: Dial Press, (2015) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Dial Press, (1915) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a coming-of-age story set in the summer of 1938, in the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia. 486 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342940.

New York: Doubleday, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - West Virginia author's second powerful collection of short stories. Dustjacket praise from Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks and others. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-385-420218.

New York: Doubleday, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (third book, preceded by two collections of short stories) - a tale of malevolence and violence set in the author's native rural West Virginia. 354 pp. ISBN: 0-385-420226.

Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of poetry - poems and prose-poems - by this West Virginia writer 64 pp. ISBN: 0-821401211.

New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, set in a remote mountain county of West Virginia. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-11817.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating book by this Pulitzer prize winning writer - much of it was originally published in the New Yorker. This is a look at 4 cultural enclaves which took shape in the 60's and 70's - the Castro in San Francisco, Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church in Lynchburg, West Virginia, a retirement town in Florida - Sun City, and the Rajneeshee community in Oregon. 414 pages. ISBN: 0-671-55209-0.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ninth novel by this West Virginia author, best known for 'The Night of the Hunter.' Like most of his novels, this is set in the 1930s during the Depression in the mining country of West Virginia. Farjeon, driven from his farm, wanders into the town of Glory, only to have his young pregnant wife killed in a clash between the striking miners and the strikebreakers. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-671208217.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Co Publishers, (1905). Hardcover first edition - The first book by this author who was born in West Virginia and who set most of her stories in the southern mountains. This was described as "a loosely written story including character sketches, descriptions of nature, and philosophical ramblings." Several of her novels were made into silent films in the early 1920s, and in 1919 she won the first O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1919 for her World War I short story, 'England to America.' Illustrated by George W Hood. Full color frontispiece, with a printed tissue guard, and pale green decorative floral borders on every page. 190 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. Top edge gilt.

New York: Dutton, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - West Virginia author's fourth book, a highly praised collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. Phillips was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'Night Watch.' 148 pp. ISBN: 0-525-24515-4.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1988.). SIGNED - Her fourth book, a highly praised collection of short stories. SIGNED on the title page. Phillips was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'Night Watch.' 148 pp. ISBN: 0-671-640143.

New York: Dutton, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which reveals a rural America that even then fifty years ago had been lost to most of us - from the town of Stapleton in the middle of the Sand Hills country of Nebraska to the town of Welch in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, rich in coal but poor in people. Text by Roueche, and illustrated with strking black and white photographs David Plowden. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-52509010.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A multigenerational saga set in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley- the story of the author's growing up, of her grandmother Addie, and of all the complex influences on their lives: slave-holding, coal mines, racial tensions, wars with the Indians, the legacy of the Civil War, and love for the land. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page "for --- best wishes for Christmas, 1998." Photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 1-57003-284x.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A multigenerational saga set in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley- the story of the author's growing up, of her grandmother Addie, and of all the complex influences on their lives: slave-holding, coal mines, racial tensions, wars with the Indians, the legacy of the Civil War, and love for the land. Photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 1-57003-284x.

New York: Viking, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her epic third novel, and the first in the Beulah quintet, set in 1754 to 1774. 'It was the eve of revolution against the Engish king, and the English, Germans and Irish, the gentry and ex-bondsmen who had claimed land beyond the Alleghanies, were already calling themselves Americans. This fusion of people, this compound of loyalties and hatreds, is the theme of this sweeping story of the Virginia wilderness, land of the Endless Mountains. Map endpapers, 368 pp.

New York: Random House, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this National Book Award winning writer, one which traces the fall of a West Virginia town that was first made rich by coal, then corrupted and destroyed by it. Set in 1912, this takes place during one fateful day in a coal miners' strike in which relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, confront one another on opposing sides of the dispute, and violence ensues when Mother Jones, leader of the striking miners, calls for action in a community devastated by Southern resignation and by guilt associated with selling out to Eastern investors. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-394504771.