New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised third book, a story about the strength it takes to both face up to and escape the past. "Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. . . On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought." SIGNED on the title page. 289 pp. ISBN: 978-1594488962.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. Hardcover first edition - Cather's 11th novel. In the story of Lucy, a beautiful and impressionable young girl who heads to Chicago to study music, Cather reveals the "impermanence of innocence, the opposition between prairie and city, provincial American values and world culture, and the grandeur, elation, and heartache that await a gifted young woman who leaves her small Nebraska town to pursue a life in art." 231 pp plus a designer's note.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic family history, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and stretching over the years from the close of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. 446 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-87113-7240.

New York: Atheneum, 1961. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A wonderful collection of short stories, most set on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's, published when the author was 86. INSCRIBED on the blank prelim 'To Calvin J. Nichols, with the warmest regards of Alvin Johnson.' Johnson is best known for his founding of the New School for Social Research in 1919, but in 1933, he created a 'university in exile' as a haven for scholars who fled from Nazi persecution. Laid in are newpaper obituaries for Johnson (1971.)

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - His eleventh book, a novel set in "Siouxland," the story of a young Sioux who wins his manhood and the right to lead his trible. 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. Glossary. 355 pp.

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: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of the story of Warner, the 'old man' in 'Fire Sermon' who has driven his ancient Maxwell coupe from California to his childhood home in Nebraska. A deceptively simple, and almost poetic, portrait of the last hours of an old man's life. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0130792.

New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.

New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.

New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly acclaimed first novel , a story surrounding the kidnapping of a Hondurian elder. William Burroughs compared it to works by Kafka and Conrad's Heart of Darkness - and such diverse writers as Peter Straub and Paul West contributed dust jacket blurbs. ISBN: 1555841783.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A highly acclaimed first novel , a story surrounding the kidnapping of a Hondurian elder. William Burroughs compared it to works by Kafka and Conrad's Heart of Darkness - and such diverse writers as Peter Straub and Paul West contributed dust jacket blurbs. ISBN: 1555841783.

New York: Delacorte, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1899 in a small town in Nebraska, and inspired by the 1900 trial for murder of an acknowledged hypnotist. SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-440-055423.

New York: Delacorte, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in 1899 in a small town in Nebraska, and inspired by the 1900 trial for murder of an acknowledged hypnotist. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 410 pp. ISBN: 0-440-055423.

New York: Dutton, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which reveals a rural America that even then fifty years ago had been lost to most of us - from the town of Stapleton in the middle of the Sand Hills country of Nebraska to the town of Welch in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, rich in coal but poor in people. Text by Roueche, and illustrated with strking black and white photographs David Plowden. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-52509010.

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1960. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel based on the lives of early Nebraska homesteader and gambler (the best faro player in the West), John Jackson Cozad, and his son, the painter, Robert Henri. 333 pp.

New York: Hastings House, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Issued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of 'Old Jules' - Sandoz's biography of her father - this contains a "generous selection" of her non-fiction work, including some previously unpublished pieces , Includes a bibliography of her works 319 pp.

New York: Grove Atlantic Press, Black Cat, (2007). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel set in the 1870s. "With a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasbord of sensory detail, this brings the Old West back to life. Turpentine casts the rebirth of a privileged young man finding self-truth against the birth of a nation struggling to come together, in a novel filled with wit, brilliant characterizations, and descriptions that will leave you feeling as if you can still feel the dust of a buffalo stampede settling around you." (Jodi Picoult) 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0802170361.