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THE BONE WARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical fiction for older children and young adults by this Newbery award winning writer. Set in the Judith River Badlands, Montana in 1874-1878, this is the story of the paleontologists who 'slander, steal from and spy on one another for the glory of science' and of two boys - one American, one British - who form a plan to excavate the bones of a huge dinosaur. Map frontispiece. Author's note and a brief reading list. 378 pp. ISBN: 0-688074332.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 42059More details Price: $15.00 -
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Community Histories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1998). First edition - Articles by Dino Cinel, David M. Emmons, Dean L. May and others on several different types of immigrant communities: Southestern Indians, Spanish Missions; Swedish Settlement of Dakota; English Mormon Migration to Alpine, Utah; Italians in San Francisco; Irish Miners in Montana; Women of Block, Kansas 1868-1940; Czech Farmers & Mexican Laborers in South Texas 1880-1930 and more. Introduction by Luebke. Notes, select bibliography, index. xix, 198 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-19920.
Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 58424More details Price: $15.00 -
YOUNG MEN & FIRE.
Edition: 3rd printing.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - The story of the August 5, 1949 fire in Mann Gulch, Montana, which left 12 smoke-jumpers dead within hours after they leaped from the plane. Maclean, the author of "A River Runs Through It," was obsessed by this fire and spent years researching. Published posthumously. Illustrated with photographs. Publisher's note, viii, 301 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-226-500616.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 74739More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BLUEJAY SHAMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel: Alix Thorssen, Wyoming art dealer and on-call expert witness for the FBI and other agencies, becomes involved in the mystery of a missing artifact when her brother-in-law is accused of a murder on a Montana Indian reservation. INSCRIBED on the title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31791.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77114More details Price: $30.00 -
KEEP THE CHANGE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Set in Montana, Key West, and the Yale Club of New York City, this is the story of one man's declaration of independence." SIGNED on the title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-395-488877.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 56384More details Price: $28.50 -
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TOO MANY PEOPLE, TOO LITTLE LOVE: Edna Rankin McKinnon: Pioneer for Birth Control.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Biography of a remarkable woman - originally from Montana (her sister Jeannette Rankin was the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress and Edna Rankin was the first woman to receive a law degree and be admitted to the bar in Montana) - but who travelled the world working to initiate family planning . SIGNED by McKinnon on the front endpaper with "with best wishes." 278 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0108012.
Condition: Good only in a very good dust jacket (some soiling to the endpapers, tear to front endpaper, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 47869More details Price: $25.00 -
UNDER THE LIGHT: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of 15 interlinked short stories, set in Montana and Nevada: "part Hemingway sparseness, part lush poetry" - and most featuring Harry Drake, a man in search of himself in a rootless America. Cover praise from James Dickey and Barry Hannah (who called this "utterly magnificent.") 176 pp. ISBN: 0-394587235.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84482More details Price: $18.50 -
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS: Of Good Running Water, Native Trout and the Remains of Wilderness.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "journey into the physical and emotional territory of the American West . . . from the headwaters of the Columbia River to eastern Oregon and to Big Goose Creek, where General Custer's reinforcements camped and went fishing instead of joining the battle at Little Bighorn. [and] through overlooked locations in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon -- all of the last best places." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens -"Enjoy the book and someday get to Yellowstone, a park-paradise for anglers." Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-792865.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 67436More details Price: $35.00 -
HOPALONG CASSIDY RETURNS.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Triangle Press, (1943, c 1923) dj. Hardcover - Setting off on the long trip back to Montana after the death of his son, old Hop is tired - and then he encounters young Mesquite Jenkins, wanted for bank robber, but Hop thinks he has the right stuff. 310 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in a like dust jacket (bleeding from the lower edges of the boards to the dj, other edgewear, pages rather severely toned)
Book ID: 71024More details Price: $14.50 -
THIS IS NOT THE STORY YOU THINK IT IS: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (an unread copy but with some toning to the edges of the textblock. )
Book ID: 76087More details Price: $30.00 -
THIS IS NOT THE STORY YOU THINK IT IS: A Season of Unlikely Happiness.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76086More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE SNOW FOREST: Three Novellas.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, and the first to be published in hardcover. Each of these novellas are set in the West - in the Trinity Mountains of California, Montana or Wyoming - in the late fall with the threat of snow - and each is, in the words of Antonya Nelson , 'its own sweet masterpiece.' A brief but powerful book. SIGNED on the title page. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049779.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26477More details Price: $31.50 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery SIGNED on the half title page. Set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 84211More details Price: $35.00 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery - set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. One of the best of the new mystery writers. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12449More details Price: $30.00 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. Hardcover - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery - set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. One of the best of the new mystery writers. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 24156More details Price: $13.50 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery SIGNED by the author and dated in the year of publication. Set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. One of the best of the new mystery writers. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12451More details Price: $40.00 -
WHEN WALLFLOWERS DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Phoebe Siegel mystery, set in Montana. SIGNED by the author on the title page 324 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32542.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 20150More details Price: $25.00 -
WHEN WALLFLOWERS DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Phoebe Siegel mystery, set in Montana. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32542.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 52286More details Price: $16.50 -
THE KILLING OF MONDAY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second Phoebe Siegel mystery. SIGNED by the author. Set in Montana's Big Sky country - takes us deep into the world of the Crow Indians. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (upper corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 52330More details Price: $30.00 -
WHEN WALLFLOWERS DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Phoebe Siegel mystery, set in Montana. SIGNED by the author on the title page 324 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-32542.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63832More details Price: $30.00 -
BY EVIL MEANS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, introducing private investigator and divorced ex-cop, Phoebe Siegel Set in Billings, Montana, SIGNED on the title page. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31848.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, appears unread.)
Book ID: 66103More details Price: $100.00 -
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BRIGHT STAR IN THE BIG SKY: Jeannette Rankin, 1880-1973.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68330More details Price: $17.50 -
VIRGINIA CITY AND ALDER GULCH.
Edition: First printing, an oversized trade paperback original.
Helena, MT: Montana Magazine and American & World Geographic Publishing . (1993). First edition - A look at this gold rush era town in Montana, including its history of vigilantes (Sheriff Henry Plummer was actually the leader of the stagecoach robbers), illustrated throughout with color photographs. Maps, timeline, suggestions for further reader, index. 64 pp. ISBN: 1560370416.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69005More details Price: $16.50 -
THE RANCHERS: A Book of Generations.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - The stories of the descendants of the pioneers - from the Jordan Valley in eastern Oregon to a man whose father rode with Butch Cassidy but went on to make a life in the Bull Mountains of Montana frontier to a mother and daughter in the general store of the New Mexico ghost town they own and more. Illustrated with full page drawings by Lloyd Bloom. 241 pp. plus final illustration. ISBN: 0-394-501934.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (chip to base of spine of dj)
Book ID: 61348More details Price: $15.00 -
LIZARDSKIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller featuring Montana State Patrolman Beau McAllister by this award-winning writer. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-553089358.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. An "extra-illustrated copy" with cartoons, caricatures and small drawings (reminiscent of Robert Crumb) on both endpapers and on the first several pages, including the title page.
Book ID: 88348More details Price: $18.00 -
SPOTTED CATS.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Delacorte, (1991). SIGNED (on a bookplate) first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. In this novel he goes to Montana in search of some golden leopards stolen during a brutal robbery from his invalid friend on Cape Cod. SIGNED by Tapply on a special bookplate affixed inside the front cover. 241 pp.
Condition: Near fine in printed orange wrappers (light crease to upper corner). A rather uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 81020More details Price: $25.00 -
SPOTTED CATS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1991). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth mystery featuring Boston lawyer Brady Coyne, divorced, fortyish, with a wry sense of humor and a passion for fishing. In this novel he goes to Montana in search of some golden leopards stolen during a brutal robbery from his invalid friend on Cape Cod. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-385-302339.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81782More details Price: $35.00 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (rem dot bottom edge.)
Book ID: 15564More details Price: $14.00 -
MAYBE IN MISSOULA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: SOHO Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised Montana writer. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-56947-0073.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 12870More details Price: $18.00 -
WHITE CROSSES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the 1950's in a small town in Montana, by this award-winning author, who was born in North Dakota . 371 pp. ISBN: 0-671-567713.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56574More details Price: $15.00
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