{"id":25810,"date":"2026-01-07T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25810"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:09:50","slug":"library-addition-james-lee-burkes-in-the-electric-mist-with-the-confederate-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25810","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed First of James Lee Burke&#8217;s In the Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Houston area Half Price Books find. <\/p>\n<p>Burke, James Lee. <b>In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead<\/b>. Hyperion, 1993. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar protected dust jacket, inscribed by Burke: &#8220;To Morey,\/All the best,\/James Burke.&#8221; I picked this up because I heard good things about it (and the author), and since there&#8217;s a ghost in it, it qualifies as slipstream. Bought for $9.99. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-684x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"674\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-684x1024.png 684w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-768x1150.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-1026x1536.png 1026w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate.png 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-sig-742x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"621\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-sig-742x1024.png 742w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-sig-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-sig-768x1060.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Burke-Electric-Mist-Confederate-sig.png 1092w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Houston area Half Price Books find. Burke, James Lee. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead. Hyperion, 1993. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine, Mylar protected dust jacket, inscribed by Burke: &#8220;To Morey,\/All the best,\/James Burke.&#8221; I picked this up because I heard good things about it (and the author), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1973,1949,409,1491,773],"class_list":["post-25810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-half-price-books","tag-mystery","tag-signatures","tag-slipstream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26126,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25810\/revisions\/26126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}