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New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (1990). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First printing. Louisiana born author's second novel - the story of an aging - and dying - football coach's struggle to survive. 336 pp.

New York:: Robert M. McBride & Company, , 1930.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in black cloth, no dust jacket (lettering rubbed on the spine, prev owner's name). First edition. Includes an introduction and notes at the beginning of each section by John Macy. xxvii, 291 pp.

New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to lower corner of final page). First printing. Set in post World War II North Carolina, this is the story of an idealistic young Bible salesman who is picked up while hitchhiking by a conman and car thief who claims to be a G-man and recruits naive Henry as a driver for the stolen cars. 238 pp. 

New York:: Random House,, 2000.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Set in Big Stone Gap, Virginia in the year 1973. A family scandal sends the heroine, 35 year-old Ave Maria Mulligan into new levels of activity, shattering her quiet spinster life. First novel by this playwright. With a projected first printing of 150,000 copies, this ARC is much less common than the hardcover copy. SIGNED on the title page, and dated April 2000. 328 pp.

Norman, OK:: University of Oklahoma Press., (1985). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped). First printing. Selections from the quarterly magazine 'Bittersweet 'published by the high school students in Lebanon, Missouri to discover and preserve the lore of the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. Among the articles are several on the rivers and ferries of the area, on the caves found in the river banks and elsewhere, on the people, and herbs and much more. SIGNED on the title page by the editor Ellen Massey. Illustrated with photographs and maps. xv, 405 pp.

Jackson: : University Press of Mississippi,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An illustrated edition of Douglas's only work of short fiction, four stories set in small town Mississippi, in which Black lives and white lives are intertwined, and originally published in 1963. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Wolfe A title in the Author and Artist series. Afterword by Douglas. 234 pp plus colophon. 303 pp.

Atlanta:: Peachtree Publishers,, 1984.. Hardcover first edition -. F/VG (short closed tears in dj.). First printing. Collection of short stories chosen specifically for its portrayals of white and black southerners. Selected (and with a preface) by Ray McIver.

New York:: Atheneum,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot). First printing. A man at the end of his life looks back to the 1950s and an event - his meeting and filling in love with a 16 year old girl, even though he was 36, married and a father - which changed his life and that of his family forever - an account written for his granddaughter. 373 pp..

New York:: Atheneum,, 1992.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped, light toning to the pages.). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A man at the end of his life looks back to the 1950s and an event - his meeting and filling in love with a 16 year old girl, even though he was 36, married and a father - which changed his life and that of his family forever - an account written for his granddaughter.SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp..

New York:: Atheneum,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A man at the end of his life looks back to the 1950s and an event - his meeting and filling in love with a 16 year old girl, even though he was 36, married and a father - which changed his life and that of his family forever - an account written for his granddaughter. 373 pp.

New York:: Grove Press,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A psychological thriller set deep in the heart of Kentucky's cave country; the 7th novel by this critically acclaimed and award-winning Georgia author. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor.

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (inked price on front endpaper.). First printing. Poet's first novel - set in a sleepy but troubled Appalachian town.

New York:: Viking,, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. This highly acclaimed Southern writer's seventh novel, and his first mystery novel. "Ray Tatum and his dog, Monroe, are on a journey to Hogarth, a small town in Virginia. Ray is taking the job of deputy sheriff in this small town, known for nothing except its proximity to the Appalachian Trail. . . However, Ray has no sooner settled into this bucolic existence when hikers on the A.P., as it is known, discover a skeleton of a man that has been just off the main trail for some time. Ray will have to solve this gruesome murder with help from a group of rusty law enforcement officers and a park ranger with the unlikely name of Kit Carson, a black woman. In a parallel story, Paul Tatum, Ray's cousin, an insurance actuary from Roanoke, is called by the police and asked to come to New York City to identify a body believed to be that of his son. . . Ray and Paul Tatum are very different… Read More

Boston:: Little Brown,, (2007, c 2008.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Jim, the boy in Earley's first novel, is now a teenager and in love for the first time; it is 1941, in a world on the eve of World War II, and even a small town in North Carolina is not the safe haven it once was. A wonderful coming of age story. SIGNED on the title page. Selected by the NY Times as 2008 Notable Book. 288 pp.

Boston:: Little Brown,, (2007, c 2008.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Jim, the boy in Earley's first novel, is now a teenager and in love for the first time; it is 1941, in a world on the eve of World War II, and even a small town in North Carolina is not the safe haven it once was. A wonderful coming of age story. SIGNED on the title page and dated October 2007, before publication. Selected by the NY Times as 2008 Notable Book 288 pp.

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second book, a memoir which is also a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mythology. Shirley Jean Abbott grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1940s and 50s, the beloved daughter of Alfred Bemont Abbott, affectionately known as "Hat whose business was taking bets on horse racing. But he also loved to read, and he passed that love on to his daughter. xxi, 290 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence., 1989.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to fold of the front flap of the dj) . First printing. Award winning author's eighth book, a mixture of autobiography and fiction. 150 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin,, 2000.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. .. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An autobiographical work - described as a funny, tragic, bittersweet memoir about an awkward boy who dreamed of a world beyond his home in the Mississippi Delta.

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin,, 2000.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. .. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) An autobiographical work - described as a funny, tragic, bittersweet memoir about an awkward boy who dreamed of a world beyond his home in the Mississippi Delta. SIGNED on the title page.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line.). First printing. Second novel by this highly praised young Southern writer. Lee Abbott said her "characters are so real you can still hear their lies and dreams long after you've turned her last perfect page." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp.