New York, NY: Penguin Putnam (2014) Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced … Continue reading The Forsaken →

New York, NY: Putnam (2001) Near fine in dust jacket.

Oxford, Mississippi: Yoknapatawpha (1983) Inscribed by the author and dated January 1987. Near fine in rubbed dust jacket with edge wear.

Garden City: Doubleday (1941) Signed by the author. Previous owner’s name and Dec. 25, 1942 on front end paper. A very good copy in dust jacket that shows wear.

New York: New American Library (2014) “We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back….” When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore … Continue reading A Long Time Gone →

New York, NY: Bloomsbury (2013) The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for a visionary African-American partner. … Continue reading Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion →

New York, NY: Harper. (2014) Isabel Allende–the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world–demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in … Continue reading Ripper →

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2005) Leif Anderson’s Dancing with My Father is both a loving tribute to her unusual and famous father, Mississippi artist Walter Anderson, and an honest look at the effects he has had upon her personal life and her artistry. Due to Walter Anderson’s erratic behavior and recurring absences, Leif … Continue reading Dancing With My Father →

London: Collins (1989) First English edition. In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend’s brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug … Continue reading The Ultimate Good Luck →

New York, NY: Viking (2014) As new in dust jacket. Visiting his magical college after being cast out of the secret land of Fillory, Quentin Coldwater, accompanied by brilliant undergraduate Plum, encounters desperate practitioners of gray magic before discovering a sorcery masterwork that could dissolve the boundaries between Fillory and Earth.

New York, NY: Knopf (2007) Fine in dust jacket. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first … Continue reading Like You’d Understand, Anyway →