New York: Penguin, (1986.). Classic novel of 1950's small town Texas, basis for the movie of the same name. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-14-005183x.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a successful writer who has returned to his native Texas and finds his life dramatically changed when a daughter he has never met - herself the mother of two young children - calls him. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-671-642677.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Connected stories about about a group of young people from Native American, Hispanic, African American and Anglo cultures whose lives are linked by the school they attend and the diverse community in which they live.

New York: Doubleday, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel by this award-winning author. "'Ordinary time,' notes Father Gilvary, is 'the longest, and hardest, season of the liturgical year.' Especially in dusty Durance, Texas: 'buried in the Dust Bowl, resurrected in the oil boom, now, fallen again on hard times.' Here, Father Gilvary is experiencing a crisis of faith, going blind figuratively as well as literally. Henrietta, who runs the Three Square Meals restaurant, is a fervent Pentecostal who can't quite commit. And Cleat, the town waif whose parentage is unknown, just drifts. Into their lives comes Val, a stranger on the run." (Library Journal) 223 pp. ISBN: 0-38526416X.

Layton, UT Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1991. Set near Tucson, this is the story of Scott Talmadge a man seeking a new beginning in remote desert land who is called to demanding action by an old friend. His mission: to rescue Guatemalan refugees seeking asylum in the US.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's 20th book, 12th novel. Both sad and funny, this is the story of an aging man, with a bad heart, asthma and more, determined to once again, on his 65th birthday, climb Spoon Mountain with his two grown children. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To -- please always remember that on the top of every mountain there is always another mountain beckoning you to climb higher" with a doodle around his signature, dated in 2013. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0826352705.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997). A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 281 pp. ISBN: 0-816516499.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of woman writers and artists who found their voices and images in the desert of the Southwest - well known figures such as Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keefe Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Holt, photographer Laura Gilpin, but also less well known figures of varying ethnicity. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps. List of illustrations, notes, index. xii1, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-300-036884.

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: Hyperion, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A novel set in a dusty gated desert community outside Tucson, a neighborhood of crumbling swimming pools, overwatered lawns and disaffected teenagers. Dust jacket praise from Larry McMurtry. 294 pp. ISBN: 1401300421.

New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories featuring the "misfits of the new frontier." Set in Tucson, Arizona and the surrounding desert. . Cover praise from Larry McMurtry, Madison Smartt Bell (who called these stories "speedy, witty, degenerate, wicked and hugely entertaining") and others. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-609604473.

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: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Anovel about the discovery of new possibilities in life. ISBN: 0-06-0173432.

New York: Permanent Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. ISBN: 1-877946-07-9.

New York: Permanent Press, 1991. Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. ISBN: 1-877946-07-9.

New York: Permanent Press, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 1-877946-079.

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.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. INSCRIBED on the first page to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-671-624474.

Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's first novel, set in the 1930s mostly in El Paso and across the border in Juarez, Mexico. A Western novel, in one sense, a story of revenge, but one which also weaves in the economic and social issues of the Great Depression, a book which transcends genre. INSCRIBED to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens, on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-875651623.

New York: Poseidon Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp. ISBN: 0-671-624474.

New York: Norton, (1986). Hardcover first edition - A disaster novel by the author of The Tower" (filmed as "The Towering Inferno") centering on the Blackslope fire, a "catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes that fringe the forest, campers, and two escaped convicts are the ingredients for disaster." 342 pp. ISBN: 0-393022587.

Garden City, NY: Zenith Books / Doubleday, (1969). The aim of Zenith Books is to publish books on minority groups on the US, written by leading historians and established authors for young people. Illustrated by Earl Thollander. Index. 122 pp.

Albuquerque: Amador Publishers. (1987). First edition - Novel set in the modern Southwest, in New Mexico. "As the last vestiges of rural, western values collapse, Rodney Gardner's struggles to be a sane, sober, hardworking citizen only draw him deeper into trouble". Pictorial wrappers, 169 pp. Cover design by Minda Stillings. ISBN: 0-938513028.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, (2015). SIGNED first edition - Finalist for the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, this novel is set in Dogtown, a dilapidated neighborhood on the outskirts of Santa Fe, a community of working people struggling to make a living on meager means, one which is far apart from the tourists, artists, and upscale eateries just a stones throw away. This close-knit neighborhood thrives in its own way, until an entrepreneur arrives with a plan to cast out its occupants and construct a winery in its place, and the citizens of Dogtown revolt. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0810131644.