St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eleven interrelateds short stories which feature Miriam Batson, a native Southerner transplanted to the Midwest by marriage, as she confronts and comes to term with the shifting ground of her life. Alden was herself born in Greenville, South Carolina, and was writer in residence as the University of Minnesota at the time this was published. Dust jacket praise from Wallace Stegner and Scott Turow. 176 p. ISBN: 1-555971113.

Bemidji, MN: c. 1953. Tales of Paul Bunyan and his friends and animals, including Sport the Reversible Dog, illustrated in color and black and white drawings. Apparently a promotion item, with "The Gift Mart, Lakewiew Hotel, Bemidji, Minnesota" printed on front cover. Unpaginged (32 pp. including covers) Postcard of the steel and concrete statues of Paul and Babe in Bemidji laid in.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000. A trade paperbacck original collection of 11 of her best stories, in which the people and the land of Minnesota are vividly portrayed. Introduction by Tobias Wolff.

Chanhassen, MN: NorthWord Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book by this award-winning photographer, one which "captures the magnificence of the Northern Minnesota Wilderness during summer. Beginning with the solstice, Brandenburg set out daily with his digital camera to document life in the North Woods. . Each page turn offers the opportunity to study the techniques of the masters - the soft focus of Arnold Genthe, the shapes and energy of Alfred Stieglitz, or the abstract form and flow of a Georgia O'Keeffe image." (Library Journal) Following the portfolio of photographs is an extended essay taken from the photographer's field notes which also comment on environmental issues affecting the Boundary Waters area. SIGNED on the half title page. Large oblong format. 150 pp. ISBN: 1-559710020.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (1989). First edition - A collection of poems and short prose pieces about surviving a violent childhood in the decaying mining towns of the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota. Illustrated with woodcut decorations by R. W. Scholes. Cover praise from Tom Clark and David St John, among others. 128 pp. plus index and final woodcut. ISBN: 0-915943409.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book , a collection of interrelated short stories. Publishers Weekly called this "An intense, edgy, boldly candid and irrepressibly sardonic voice drives the 21 inter-linked stories in this collection, mainly narrated by the eponymous Gloria Bronski. Exiled from Manhattan to a recovery community in Minnesota, Glory minces no words in confessing that she is a former drug addict and alcoholic. She's also HIV positive , chronically depressed, and aching for sex, love and connection." The title story was included in Best American Stories for 1998. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. Winner of a Whiting Writers' Award 2001. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-566891019.

New York: Atlantic Monthly (2001). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel - the story of a father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota. Comments on the back cover from Jim Harrison, Rick Bass and others. Received the Borders Original Voices Award, SIGNED on the title page. Publisher's material laid in. 311 pp.

New York: Twelve, 2017
(2017). First edition - The personal account of "an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. . . about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast" (that is while Franken was still the Senator from Minnesota) "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." (Louise Erdrich, NY Times) 395 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover - Illustrated with many photographic plates. Frontispiece of a fold-out map of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The 'heartland,' agriculture, fishing, creativity (including Frank Lloyd Wright) are just some of the topics covered. Index. 312, x pp.

New York: Morrow, 1981. dj. Hardcover - Third novel by this highly praised Minnesota writer. This story is one of suspense, as a man plans to murder his best friend who is terminally ill with cancer - but also, a story of love, of friendship, and of decent people caught by circumstances they cannot control. ISBN: 0-688-004830.

New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A somewhat satirical, sometimes hilariously funny, but also sympathetic novel of growing up in small town Minnesota in the fifties, and coming of age as a writier, by the humorist who is the host and writer of PBS's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' 291 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030031.

New York: The Viking Press, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A somewhat satirical, sometimes hilariously funny, but also a sympathetic portrait of life in a small town Minnesota, by the humorist who is the host and writer of PBS's 'A Prairie Home Companion.' Illustrated. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-670-805149.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 17th novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor - in this book, he and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, travel from Minnesota to a small town in the Southern Arizona desert in July in search of her son. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Lefty Award for best mystery novel. Went fairly quickly into later printings. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1501147340.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourteenth thriller in the award winning Cork OÕConnor series. "When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork OÕConnor, former sheriff turned private investigator, takes on the case and puts enough information together to find a possible trail. He learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans." 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749235.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota's Boundary Waters. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749266.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 15th novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota's Boundary Waters. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749266.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 15th novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota's Boundary Waters. SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-1476749266.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The 17th novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor - in this book, he and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, travel from Minnesota to a small town in the Southern Arizona desert in July in search of her son. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Lefty Award for best mystery novel. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1501147340.

New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The 17th novel in the series featuring Cork O'Connor - in this book, he and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, travel from Minnesota to a small town in the Southern Arizona desert in July in search of her son. Winner of the Lefty Award for best mystery novel. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-1501147340.

Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three novellas, all set in Manfred's "Siouxland" (the area where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet). In addition to the title story (described as 'a romance'), this contains "Lew and Luanne" (a comedy) and "Country Love" (a pastoral). As a "maverick" writer Manfred was always an outsider in terms of the literary establishment, although some of his books were best-sellers and his novel 'Lord Grizzly' was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1954. Reportedly only 500 copies of this book were printed. 220 pp.

New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2018). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a thriller set in northern Minnesota in the Boundary Waters area. "Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness asnd never returned, until now." SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-1501177361.

New York: Walker, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Peter and Kori Brichter mystery, set in Minnesota. "When Kori Brichter brings five of Tretower's finest to the Lafite County All Arabian Horse Show, someone kills trainer Keith Bulward and all evidence points to Kori's friend Brit Morgan as the murderer." 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32100.

New York: Putnam, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Lucas Davenport mystery, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-399-143823.

New York: Putnam, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixteenth Lucas Davenport mystery, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page with "aka John Camp. " 393 pp. ISBN: 0-399-15180x.

New York: Putnam, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighteenth Lucas Davenport mystery, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on a special preliminary page. Author's note. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-399-15180x.

n.p. By the author, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Privately published true first edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Also includes some previously unpublished pieces on a family doll and her grandmother and a biographical introduction by Emerett Sanford Miles. Photograph. xi, 134 pp.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - First trade edition of this collection of short stories by this Minnesota-born author, originally published in The American Mercury and The Woman's Home Companion between 1925 and 1931. Includes the author's memorable classic story of Texas oil fields "Windfall" as well as other stories of the gypsy life of the oil boom of the 1920s. Includes a biographical introduction by Sanford's daughter Emerett Sanford Miles and an afterword by Lou Halsell Rodenberger. Frontispiece and chronology of Sanford's publications. A title in the Southwest Life and Letters. xviii, 179 pp.
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Jackson, WY: Grandview Publishing Co., (2003, c 1989). SIGNED - Story for older children based on the story of the forced relocation of 2000 Winnebago Indians in 1862 after a Sioux uprising. Many died from the inhumane conditions on their journey from Minnesota to the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota, and more died there. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Jack Brouwer. A title in the Amazing Indian Children Series. 183 pp. ISBN: 1-880114-038.

New York: David McKay Company, (1962.) dj. Hardcover - The author's third book. "Set in the farm country of Minnesota in the early 1900s, this is a novel about a domineering father and the interplay of his will and the wills of his children, who turn out to have minds of their own." Illustrated with decorations by Vera Bock. 183 pp.