El Paso, TX Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, (1993). First edition - Biography of Irish-born Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) who, after arriving in Boston in the 1860s, soon went West and became a prospector and boarding house proprietor in mining towns ranging from Californian to Nevada to Tombstone, Arizona, . She was the first Caucasian woman to trek British Columbia's rugged Cassiar Mountain region and half a century later was the first woman to fly there in an airplane. Southwestern Studies No. 98. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout,Notes, bibliography. xii, 83 pp. ISBN: 0-87404-1945.

Yum, AZ: By the author, (1988. c 1980). Detailed information about the old mining camps of Kofa, Polaris, Castle Dome, Picacho, Tumco, Fortuna with with maps and photographs of each, and a short list of some sidelights in the area. 32 pp.

New York: Avalon, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Maggie Brown mystery - the lead actor in a production of 'Phantom of the Opera' was found dead in the Scottsdale desert and Maggie and the members of the St Rose Quilting Bee determine to find out why. SIGNED on the title page. 217 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A frank and honest memoir, in which Mairs explores her life and her sense of herself by focusing on the places she has lived -from a quonset hut in the South Pacific to Maine, Massachusetts and Arizona - and especially on living within her own body - the "bone house" - and dealing with her sometimes debilitating physical conditions. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160411.

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second mystery feauturing geologist Frankie MacFarlane, set in the Southwest. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-89672-5200.

Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring geologist Frankie MacFarlane set in the traditional homeland of the Chiricahua Apaches, among the volcanic hoodoos. 282 pp. ISBN: 978-0896726239.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1993.). This account of the first 20 years of Nequatewa's life as a boy in the remote Second Mesa village of Shipaulovi in northern Arizona is invaluable both for his descriptions of the Hopi culture, but also as an account of the personal and social changes he and his people were facing, as they came into more and more contact with the Anglo world. Frontispiece, photographs. Bibliography, index. 193 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-13546.

New York: A. L. Burt, (1933). Hardcover - Dora and Mary leave Sunnybank-on-the-Hudson for an adventure in Arizona. A title in the Mystery and Adventure Series for Girls. Glossy frontispiece. 256 pp.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1933). Hardcover - Dora and Mary leave Sunnybank-on-the-Hudson for an adventure in Arizona. Plain frontispiece. 250 pp.

New York: Random House, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, named one of the best books of the year by Time, Washington Post and many others. Set in "the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary livesunfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her lifeher husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument." 324 pp plus additional material for this special Barnes and Noble edition, including an essay by the author on the origins of this book and a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-00593133606.

USA: Sports Publishing, LLC., 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'A collection of the greatest Arizona Diamondback stories ever told' - stories which help to explain how this new baseball expansion team, which lost 97 games in 1998, their first season, and won the World Series in 2001, just 3 years later. Illustrated with drawings. 181 pp. ISBN: 1-58261-4946.

New York: Dutton, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel - an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agent disappears while deep undercover in Mexico.SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952008.

New York: Dutton, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel, as he joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force on the 'iron river' - the illegal flow of guns from the US to drug dealers in Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780525951490.

New York: Dutton, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel, as he joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force on the 'iron river' - the illegal flow of guns from the US to drug dealers in Mexico. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780525951490.

New York: Dutton, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in Tucson, Arizona in the late 1940s, this is the third thriller featuring part-time Bureau of Indian Affairs lawyer and public defender Joshua Rabb, a one-armed World War II veteran, a widower with a 15 year old daughter, originally from Brooklyn NY. This involves murder, double-dealing, and heroin smuggling. beginning with the story of Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and their feud with the Mafia. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late noted collector Larry Owens. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-525938524.

Tucson: University of Arizona - Arizona Educational Materials Center, (1982.). First edition - Stories of the Spanish conquest of the southwest, including California, and of the people involved. Also includes some discussion of culture change, then and now. Illustrated with maps and photographs. viii, 150 pp.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Arizona, where deep in a mountain a super-collider will probe what happened at the very moment of creation - the Big Bang itself - "some call this the greatest scientific discover of all time - others call it blasphemy." SIGNED on the title page. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0765311054.

Tucson: The Palo Verde Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first separate publication of this excerpt of perhaps the most interesting section of a work originally published in 1870 - that is a description of Pumpelly's 8 months in Arizona, including his harrowing stagecoach ride to Tucson and his efforts along with Charles Poston to develop mines in Southern Arizona - at Santa Rita and elsewhere. Preface by Will Rogers Jr. Introduction and annotations by Andrew Wallace. Photographs, doublepage map, index. xii, 141 pp Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1982. SIGNED first edition - His first full-length collection of poems (after 2 earlier chapbooks), winner of the 1981 Walt Whitman Award. The judge was Donald Justice and he cited Rios's ability "to transform and illuminate" natural seeming objects and images - many from Rios' experiences growing up in the Arizona - Mexico border town of Nogales. This copy is both SIGNED on the title page, and warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page. ISBN: 0-935296-31x.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2006.). SIGNED - An interrelated series of poems by this award-winning Arizona poet - they tell of a lifelong love story that unfolds along the Mexican-American border. His poems trace the lives and loves of an elderly couple - Clemente and Ventura - through their childhood and courtship to marriage, maturity, old age, and death. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 115 pp. ISBN: 9781556592591.

Lewiston, Idaho: A Blue Moon and Confluence Press Book, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Arizona born author's first collection of short fiction, winner of the 1984 Western States Book Award in Short Fiction. The twelve stories in this book are set along the Southwest border; they explore growing up Hispanic, and weave together three distinct worlds: Mexico, the United States, and childhood.SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with etchings by Antonio Pazos. The limited clothbound issue. 119 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-933188-285.

New York: Macmillan, 1928. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Chapters on the missions, the 'Indian question,' irrigation, art, the animals and plants of the area, and much more. Illustrated with photographs by the author. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Index 558 pp.

New York: Four Winds Press, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for older children based on an actual historical incident: the massacre of 125 Apaches by whites and Papago Indian warriors, in Arizona.

New York: Henry Holt, (1936 c 1934). Hardcover - The adventures of a young boy on a ranch in Arizona and in England - Billy had grown up unclaimed and almost unnoticed on an Arizona ranch, but when he was thirteen he was told that he was heir to a lands and a title in England . Illustrated with frontispiece drawing and several small textual drawings scattered throughout. Dedicated by Scott to her son "beloved Jig, for him to remember." 359 pp.

Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1996. First edition - "Free-wheeling ladies on high-stepping horses, daring cowgirls, Wells Fargo women and adventurous schoolmarms capture the feminine side of the West brighten these pages...[this] tells of the colorful ladies who earned the respect of their male counterparts." Among them are silent movies star Nell Shipmann; Charlie Parkhurt, Jo Monaghan and Mountain Charley (3 women who lived their lives as men); road agent Pearl Hart of Arizona, and others both well-known, and almost forgotten. Lots of great photographs, bibliography. 176 pp. SIGNED on the half title page. ISBN: 0-9619088-58.

Tucson, Arizona: SUN / Gemini Press, 1986. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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, a prehistoric people who lived in South Central Arizona for at least 1500 years, before their civilization abruptly collapsed around 1450 A.D. A handsome production designed by Clint Colby and Charles Alexander, illustrated with photographs by Stevem Trubitt of Hohokam pottery sherds found at Snaketown, Arizona (dating from 700-1000 A.D.) and with a silhouette of Shelton by Rebecca Gaver. Sun Lizard Book Number 2. ISBN: 0-933313055.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1971.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1970 US award at the International Poetry forum. A collection of 47 poems, most set in the desert-mountains of Southern Arizona. INSCRIBED and dated on the page opposite the title page. "For -- an old book from an old writer." 73 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-32121.