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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965., 1965. First edition. First edition. Author's first book. Brief gift presentation by the author on the half title page, "To Greg, with best wishes, James Lee Burke," and signed again by the author on the title page. Fine, bright, clean copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. Housed in a full leather clamshell case that has the book's dust jacket's front cover on the front panel and the titles stamped in white on the spine. Handsome and impressive presentation and well protected.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. signature laid in.

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.. 1965. First Edition. SIGNED & warmly INSCRIBED by James Lee Burke on the title page. Close to fine in a near fine dj. (Couple short edge tears & traces of light shelf wear to dj.) Author's FIRST book. (B) .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965., 1965. First printing. 8vo. 312 pp. Original light brown cloth binding. The author's first book. INSCRIBED by Burke on the title page. This is a near fine book in a very good price intact DJ with some edge wear/shallow very small edge tears.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. BOOKPLATE.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1965. First Edition of the author’s first book. Very good to fine in a similar dust jacket with a faded spine. Signed by the author.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and white on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; 312pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Subtle fading to topstain, with a small rubbed spot to same, else a tight, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), gently spine-sunned, with light shelfwear and a short tear at lower edge of rear panel; Very Good+. Clean copy of the author's first book, a novel following the struggles of three down-and-outer's in Louisiana.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title page. The first book by the Edgar Award-winning writer best known for his Dave Robicheaux series of mystery novels. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown and white stamping. A few tiny nicks along the bottom edge of the boards; else an especially crisp, very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket with some minor shelfwear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed by James Lee Burke on the title page. The first book by the Edgar Award-winning writer best known for his Dave Robicheaux series of mystery novels. Octavo. Original light brown cloth binding, with dark brown and white stamping. The ink stamp of Burke's first literary agent, Kurt Hellmer, appears on the first three pages. Faint spotting to the top edge, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket. Better than very good.

NY: Pocket Books; (1966). First Thus . Mass Market Paperback. The first paperback edition of the author's first book, near fine in wraps. Published the year after the Houghton Mifflin first edition. Two minor creases on the front cover, and the spine has small reading creases. Previous owner's stamp inside front cover. Signed by the author at the top of the front endpaper (which contains blurbs about the book).