Duluth, Minnesota: Holy Cow! Press, (1996). First edition - A collection of 16 prose pieces by this poet, each illustrated with a full page drawing by the author, and all imbued with lyricism and rich detail, set in the desert landscape of the American Southwest and northern New Mexico. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-930100409.

Bisbee, AZ: Tortilla Press, (1990). SIGNED first edition - Essays - some humorous - on American deserts and on the plants that grow there. SIGNED on the first page with "best wishes." Illustrated with small drawings. 58 pp. ISBN: 0-9622635-16.

Prescott, AZ: Arizona Publishers, Inc. 1948. Hardcover first edition - The first book published by Arizona Publishers, a variation in verse of Aesop's fables using animals and themes found in the Arizona desert, illustrated with appealing line drawings Bertha McEwen Knipe. Introduction explaining how this book came to be. 58 pp.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book about the Southwest and the environment, focusing on the uses - and abuses from mining to lumbering, cattle ranching and vacation resort development - of the Catalina Mountains on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. The highest peak, now known as Mt Lemon, was called "Frog Mountain" by the native Tohono O'odham people. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs by Jack Dykinga. Double page map. Bibliography. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-816509298.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first "authoritative guide to Hillerman's art and the world it portrays.' Contents include a chronology; a book by book guide to Hillerman's detective fiction by Jon L. Breen; an extensive interview with Hillerman by Breen, a chapter on the Navajo Nation by George Hardeen; a guide to Native American clans in his fiction and a concordance of his characters by Elizabeth Gaines and Diane Hammer; and selections of nonfiction & fiction. 375pp plus 8 pages of photographs from his family's own collection. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060170344.

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: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons, (ca 1974, c 1971). The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde with text by Edward Abbey - a book which captures the beauty of this area and makes an argument for the preservation of its wilderness. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor, preface by Hyde, includes a map of proposed highways and existing roads. While only the original 1971 date is shown, this includes a one page update on "The Situation" by June Viavant, which dates it as late 1973 or early 1974. Full color photos throughout, printed on heavy glossy stock. Includes Abbey's notes and a bibliography. Large format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-871560518.

New York: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons, (ca 1974, c 1971). The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde with text by Edward Abbey - a book which captures the beauty of this area and makes an argument for the preservation of its wilderness. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor, preface by Hyde, includes a map of proposed highways and existing roads. While only the original 1971 date is shown, this includes a one page update on "The Situation" by June Viavant, which dates it as late 1973 or early 1974. Full color photos throughout, printed on heavy glossy stock. Includes Abbey's notes and a bibliography. Large format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-871560518.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.

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.

Helena, MT / Mesa, AZ: Western Horizons Books / Sun Dial Press, (1990). SIGNED - Novel based on Pueblo life in the 16th century, and the effect of the forays and expeditions of the Conquistadores An "enhanced edition to provide larger type and clearer reading." INSCRIBED by the author on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Includes Hopi and Spanish glossaries. References and Bibliography. Double page map. 327 pp. ISBN: 0-934959005.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of short stories by this award-winning and highly praised writer, born and raised in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. A title in the Bright Leaf Short Fiction series, edited by Shannon Ravenel. 182 pp. Cover art reproduces the painting 'New Mexico Landscape #5' by David Mason. ISBN: 0-912697-30x.

New York: Delacorte, (1985_ dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first complete collection of this writer's powerful short stories - includes twenty-two stories, many set in the Depression-era Texas of his youth. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-29400x.

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. 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.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.

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.

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.

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.

New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (2002). First edition - A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment." 293 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume 3 of the Border Trilogy - a 'masterwork... a miracle in prose' (Robert Haas.) 292 pp. ISBN: 0-679-423907.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (fourth book) set on the Mexican border, one which intertwines the stories of a woman looking for her grandfather and the clue to her grandmother's unsolved murder, a man looking for a rare plant, and a old Indian who reminisces about his past. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0111219.

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.