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THE BENCHMARK. From the Collection 'WORKING MEN'.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1993.). Hardcover first edition - An advance publication of one of the stories from the collection "Working Men, "bound in cream linen cloth - an unusually attractive pre-publication issue, designed by Lucy Albanese and printed and bound by The Book Press of Brattleboro, Vermont. 20 pp.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 35483More details Price: $12.50 -
A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Warner, (1988.). First novel by this Native American writer, the story of three generations of women on a reservation in Montana. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-446-387878.
Condition: Good overall (usual toning to pages, crease on spine, line on bottom edge.)
Book ID: 47193More details Price: $10.00 -
A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First edition - First novel by this Native American writer, the story of three generations of women on a reservation in Montana.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41506More details Price: $30.00 -
WORKING MEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Volume of 14 short stories by this Native American author - his first collection of short stories.Dust jacket praise from Amy Tan and William Kittredge. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-22961.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page "for Peter, all best regards" and dated in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 32951More details Price: $45.00 -
ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF STONE.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. First edition - A small nonfiction work based on Dorris's travels to Zimbabwe to visit and report on Mozambican refugee camps and agricultural areas devasted by years of drought. A thoughtful and challenging work. 66 pp plus final map and about the author. ISBN: 0-915943-700.
Condition: Near fine (a little light soiling, "406" written on the back cover.)
Book ID: 10300More details Price: $18.00 -
PAPER TRAIL
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. Small format. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169710.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 11349More details Price: $13.50 -
A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. SIGNED first edition - First novel by this Native American writer, the story of three generations of women on a reservation in Montana. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 11630More details Price: $85.00 -
CLOUD CHAMBER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - His last novel, a continuation of the story of Rose Mannion and her descendants, published just months before his untimely death. ISBN: 0-684-815672.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some bleeding from black cloth spine to interior of dj, but otherwise a tight, clean copy, appears unread.)
Book ID: 22033More details Price: $12.50 -
WORKING MEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume of 14 short stories by this Native American author - his first collection of short stories.Dust jacket praise from Amy Tan and William Kittredge. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-22961.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15795More details Price: $12.50 -
WORKING MEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume of 14 short stories by this Native American author - his first collection of short stories.Dust jacket praise from Amy Tan and William Kittredge. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-22961.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15828More details Price: $16.50 -
A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Native American writer, the story of three generations of women on a reservation in Montana. ISBN: 0-8050-0453.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's embossed initials - 2 numbers on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 41089More details Price: $20.00 -
PAPER TRAIL
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169710.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 82369More details Price: $28.50 -
SEES BEHIND TREES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - His last book for children, the story of a young boy in 16th century America. ISBN: 0-7868-02243.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 18766More details Price: $20.00 -
PAPER TRAIL
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays by this Native American author - topics range from libraries to children, fetal alcohol syndrome to Indians. SIGNED by author on title page. While this is a rather easy title to find in the trade edition, this advance issue is much less common, especially signed.
Condition: Slight fading to spine, and some creasing to pages, but overall condition is near fine in lilac printed wrappers. Sticker regarding serial rights on front cover.
Book ID: 20271More details Price: $45.00 -
THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although both Dorris and Erdrich talk about the help they receive from the other, this is their first official collaboration. SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160799.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dustjacket with a long closed tear on the back cover, other edgewear.
Book ID: 55256More details Price: $21.00 -
THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although both Dorris and Erdrich talk about the help they receive from the other, this is their first official collaboration. SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160799.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the corners of the dj at the folds and ends of the spine, but overall tight and clean)
Book ID: 55257More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although both Dorris and Erdrich talk about the help they receive from the other, this is the husband and wife's first official collaboration. SIGNED by Erdrich on the title page. ISBN: 0-06-0160799.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (remainder line, some edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 17479More details Price: $24.00 -
THE CROWN OF COLUMBUS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Erdrich on title page. Although both Dorris and Erdrich talk about the help they receive from the other, this is the husband and wife's first official collaboration. ISBN: 0-06-0160799.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket. (name on front pastedown, slight spine slant, edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 2251More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BROKEN CORD
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - The deeply moving story of Dorris's adopted son, an affectionate young Sioux Indian boy whom he named Adam, as he discovered that the boy suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. Foreword by Louise Erdrich. SIGNED on the title page by Erdrich. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, bibliography. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0160713.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47520More details Price: $30.00 -
THE AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1983.). A revised and enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1975 - a comprehensive one volume look at the culture and history of the various groups who settled in the Southwest - the Athabascans, the Utes and Paiutes, the Pueblo and Rancheria peoples and more. Illustrated with photographs. bibliography, index.. xxvii, 5 pp maps, 285 pp. ISBN: 0-826307043.
Condition: Very good in yellow glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 54292More details Price: $12.50 -
CRAZY HORSE: and The Real Reason for the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Edition: 2nd printing. Trade paperback.
Denver: Wiconi Waste (2001). SIGNED - INSCRIBED on title page and dated. Includes historical illustrations of trail and river maps. Dedication, preface, epilogue, appendices, bibliography. iv, 110 pp. ISBN: 0-962197785.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54443More details Price: $12.00 -
THE BLUE JAY'S DANCE: A Birth Year.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first major work of non-fiction, one in which she "brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions she experienced in the course of one twelve-month period - from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to a fall return to writing." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171324.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 30689More details Price: $35.00 -
LAROSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-062277022.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75219More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BINGO PALACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Erdrich's fourth novel, set in North Dakota. SIGNED by the author. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0170808.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (spine slant, pc.)
Book ID: 15829More details Price: $25.00 -
BAPTISM OF DESIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book of poetry - includes a sustained prose section on Potchikoo, the Chippewa trickster. SIGNED on the title page. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0162139.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55266More details Price: $35.00 -
BEET QUEEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - opens in the early 1930's in Argus, an off-reservation town in North Dakota. SIGNED by Erdrich on title page. ISBN: 0-8050-00585.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper, small bookstore stamp on rear pastedown).
Book ID: 8824More details Price: $40.00 -
BEET QUEEN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Holt, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Author's second novel - opens in the early 1930's in Argus, an off-reservation town in North Dakota. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-00585.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 41358More details Price: $25.00 -
TRACKS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (1988.). SIGNED first edition - The third in the cycle of novels begun with "Love Medicine," this one is set earlier in time, in North Dakota in the early 1900's. SIGNED by author.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some wear to covers, small ink comment on first page)
Book ID: 2253More details Price: $25.00 -
LAROSE.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Little Brown / Corsair, (2016) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens with a tragic accident - a man shoots the 5 year old son of his closest friend - and includes a demand for justice and a profound act of atonement with its roots in indigenous culture. Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Award for Fiction. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-1472151865.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (toning to the pages)
Book ID: 83067More details Price: $21.50 -
FOUR SOULS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2005). A novel which continues the Ojibwe saga Erdrich began in her novel "Tracks." Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name - Four Souls - for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to Minneapolis and Saint Paul, seeking restitution from who has stripped her tribes land. 210 pp. plus reader's guide. ISBN: 0-066209757.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 81708More details Price: $10.00
