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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.

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) .

Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.95 price intact). Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1965. Octavo. Brown cloth boards with dark brown spine label stamped in white. Signed by author on title page (flat signed, not inscribed). Book is like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Spine straight and corners sharp. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good plus with some very light shelf wear, a small tear at front bottom left corner and very small nicks at flap hinges bottoms. A scarce signed fine copy of Burke s first book. 312 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

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.

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. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a moderately rubbed, else very good plus dustwrapper with slightest of wear at the spine ends. A bit rubbed, but a fresher than usual and much nicer than usual copy of the author's first book.

Boston: The Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First edition. A near fine copy, small bookstore ink stamp to front paste down, in a very good dust jacket, slight rubbing to corners and folds, light shelf wear to spine ends, two small closed tears to upper rear panel. (9991). Octavo, cloth. The author's first book.

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. Near Fine. Octavo, 312 pages, publisher's tan cloth, top edges stained tan (with faint remainder mark); pictorial dust jacket, with $4.95 on front flap, faint stain at top of rear panel. Inscribed on title page to booksellers Charles and Sandy Parkhurst: "To Chuck and Sandy, / All the best, / James Lee Burke" with Charles Parkhurst armorial bookplate laid in. A handsome copy, with staple holes at top of FEP.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 312 pp. Original tan cloth, blocked and lettered in brown, spine lettered in white, burgundy topstain. A few slightly corner-creased pages, a few tiny droplet stains to top edge, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with barely any sunning to spine panel, small creased tear to top edge of front panel, light shelf wear. An attractive copy of the crime author's first novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown buckram with a brown ink panel on the spine with white ink lettering. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a brown top stain, clean internally. Burke's debut novel about the harsh lives of three Louisana men that "evokes the white-hot violence of convicts in a jailbreak, the passion and lyric sweetness of Avery's love affair in New Orleans, J.P.'s tawdry world of brothels and cheap politicians and one-night stands, the terror of Toussaint's last-ditch struggle against the bullets and bloodhounds of his pursuers.

Clean, tight book in bright, near fine dustjacket but for light bumping at crown of spine resulting in two very short, closed tears but no loss. Houghton Mifflin Boston 1965 1st Edition Hardback Cloth 8vo. 312pp. First printing of the author's first book.

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.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good-. SIGNED. 312pp. Octavo [22 cm] in tan cloth. Light dampstaining to the price-clipped jacket and spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel. Signed on half title page. Slight wear on bottom board corner and some fading on top page edges. Dust jacket, with price on flap, has a few 1/2" to 1" tears, rubs and edgewear. Mylar cover on jacket. Housed in a a very good brown and tan slipcase. SIGNED

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. A lovely copy of the author's first book..

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).

New York, NY: Pocket Cardinal, September, 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack . Good. Mass market paperback edition of James Lee Burke's first book. Moderate shelfwear. Leaning spine. Scuff mark back cover. Textblock tinted red. [293 pages plus three pages of ads.]

New York: Hyperion, 1995. Softcover. Fine. First edition thus. Advance Reading Copy. Wrappers. Fine with publisher's material laid in. Advance copy of the Hyperion reissue.