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Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in fine dust jacket (inconspicuous stamp on front endpaper).. First printing. The author's third book about the Southwest and the environment, focusing on the uses - and abuses from mining to lumbering, cattle ranching and vacation resort development - of the Catalina Mountains… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in fine dust jacket (name stamped and crossed out on half title page, upper corner of title page cropped).. First printing. The first "authoritative guide to Hillerman's art and the world it portrays.' Contents include a chronology; a book by book guide to Hillerman's detective fiction… Read more about this item

New York:: Villard Books, , 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Texas-born, prize-winning author's fifth novel. " Opal Duffy, the clan's matriarch, is 58 years old and suffers from various ailments, including brittle bones and a swollen heart. Her biggest problem, though, is that she can't take care of everybody as… Read more about this item

Tucson, Arizona:: SUN / Gemini Press, , 1986.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. . First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with limited edition hardcover. A long narrative poem on the vanished Southwestern people we call the Hohokam. Includes an afterword by Shelton on the little we know of the history of the Hohokam,… Read more about this item

New York:: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons,, (ca 1974, c 1971). Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the covers, prev owner's name, gift inscription. light vertical crease on a couple of leaves).. Large trade paperback. The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde… Read more about this item

New York:: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons,, (ca 1974, c 1971). Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the cover).. Large trade paperback. The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde with text by Edward Abbey - a book which captures the beauty of… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1977). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear to top edge of front cover, creasing to front flap of dj). 2nd printing. The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father… Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The fifth novel by this award-winning author. "'Ordinary time,' notes Father Gilvary, is 'the longest, and hardest, season of the liturgical year.' Especially in dusty Durance, Texas: 'buried in the Dust Bowl, resurrected in the oil boom, now, fallen again on hard… Read more about this item

New York:: Flatiron Books,, (2018). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A sprawling saga covering four generations of the author's family - from Appalachia to the open ranges of the West, from hardscrabble years, when they suffer through droughts, depression, and dust bowl years with tenacity, faith, and more… Read more about this item

Helena, MT / Mesa, AZ:: Western Horizons Books / Sun Dial Press,, (1990). SIGNED -. Near fine in red glossy illustrated wrappers (sunning to spine).. Trade paperback. Novel based on Pueblo life in the 16th century, and the effect of the forays and expeditions of the Conquistadores An "enhanced edition to provide larger type and clearer reading."… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Second collection of short stories by this award-winning and highly praised writer, born and raised in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the Bright Leaf Short Fiction series, edited by Shannon Ravenel.… Read more about this item

New York:: Delacorte,, (1985_. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The first complete collection of this writer's powerful short stories - includes twenty-two stories, many set in the Depression-era Texas of his youth. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 371 pp.

Fort Worth:: Texas Christian University Press,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Award winning author's first novel, set in the 1930s mostly in El Paso and across the border in Juarez, Mexico. A Western novel, in one sense, a story of revenge, but one which also weaves in the economic and… Read more about this item

New York:: Poseidon Press,, (1989.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine (toning to edges of textblock and pages) in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's… Read more about this item

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1977). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small nick at top of spine of dj, rubbed spot to fold of front flap. .. First printing. The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard… Read more about this item

New York:: Norton,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (tape remnants on dj flaps). First printing. A disaster novel by the author of The Tower" (filmed as "The Towering Inferno") centering on the Blackslope fire, a "catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes… Read more about this item

London:: Collins,, (1967). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some small holes to the front cover of the dj, minor edgewear - original price of 30s still present).. First UK printing. Author's award-winning first novel, an epic story which begins in the thirties with Jim McNeely heading on foot from his… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL:: Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, , (2015). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Finalist for the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, this novel is set in Dogtown, a dilapidated neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Fe, a community of working people struggling to make a… Read more about this item

Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico Press,, (2012). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Award-winning writer's 20th book, 12th novel. Both sad and funny, this is the story of an aging man, with a bad heart, asthma and more, determined to once again, on his 65th birthday, climb Spoon Mountain with his two… Read more about this item

New York:: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might… Read more about this item