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Columbia, South Carolina:: University of South Carolina Press,, (1998.). Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Later printing. 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

Columbia, South Carolina:: University of South Carolina Press,, (1998.). SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. 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

Boston:: Little Brown,, 1995.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line). First printing. A collection of 16 short stories, set in lush southern landscapes and imbued with sexuality, sadness and irony.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1979.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's second novel, set in New Orleans and deep in the Louisiana bayous. SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp.

New York:: Norton,, (2010.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Collection of spare but compassionate short stories by this award-winning writer. 268 pp.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (2017). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's eighth novel - "a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality." One night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman - and now, shes having a baby boy - an unexpected but not unhappy development in the 38 year-olds life. Before Leia can break the news (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachels marriage implodes and she learns her beloved ninety-year-old grandmother, Birchie, has been hiding her increasing dementia. Leia returns to Alabama to put her grandmothers affairs in order, but in cleaning out the big Victorian that has been in the Birch family for generations, she finds,… Read More

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1996.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Southern author's third novel, the story of three sharply contrasted sisters, separated by personality, geography and circumstances, but drawn together again by a freak accident. 324 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1996.). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (different cover art than the final version.). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Southern author's third novel, the story of three sharply contrasted sisters, separated by personality, geography and circumstances, but drawn together again by a freak accident. 377 pp.

New York:: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins),, (2019). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Southern author's second novel. "Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, a saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the worlds first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2018, that is, before publication. 384 pp.

Boston:: Little Brown,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Good in good dust jacket (slight spine slant, short closed tear to upper edge of front cover of dj.). First printing. Second novel by this award-winning writer: "Fearing intimations of mortality, Anna Hand - a rambunctious, passionate, and famous Southern writer - returns home to Charlotte, North Carolina to make peace with her family and winds up turning the lives of all her loved ones upside down." 277 pp.

Boston:: Little Brown,, 1983.. Very good condition.. Trade paperback. Her third book.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. His third novel, the story of twin brothers born in North Carolina in 1946.

Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press,, 1990.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Southern author's third collection of short stories - nine "elegant, superbly constructed stories" mostly set in Mississippi and Louisiana. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, and dated in the year of publication. Dust jacket praise from Elizabeth Spencer, Walker Percy and more. 144 pp.

New York:: Summit Books,, (1980.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.). First printing. Second novel by the author of 'Forrest Gump' - set in the early 1960's in his fictional Bienville, a coastal town in the bayou country, where oil has been discovered under land formerly considered so worthless it was inhabited only by poor black farmers and sharecroppers - and now the richest family in town is trying to force them off the land. 319 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row,, 1965.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in a like dustjacket (light edgewear, crease on front flap of dj.). First printing. A wonderful collection of seven short stories and a novella, set in North Carolina where Betts grew up. A rather difficult to find title by this author.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2001.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Award winning author's "evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, and made boats out of car hoods. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a true hero whom history would otherwise have overlooked. In the decade of the Great Depression, Charlie moved his family twenty-one times, keeping seven children one step ahead of the poverty and starvation that threatened them from every side." Frontispiece portrait. 259 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine dustjacket (small chip to upper edge of back cover of dj). First printing. 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.

Baton Rouge: : Louisiana State University Press,, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A thematic tour of the complete works - eleven books of fiction at the time this was written - by this important contemporary southern writer and literary maverick. SIGNED on the title page by Weston. A title in the Southern Literary Studies series. Bibliography, index. xii, 147 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Bittersweet memoir by this Georgia humorist. SIGNED on the title page.

New York:: Putnam,, (1996.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's third novel, the story of a young girl who moves from an abandoned citrus grove in Florida to a transient motel in the city where she meets Miss Zora, a healer. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp.