New York: Viking, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book by this singer-songrwriter, introducing Martin Fender. 'Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll... a wild ride through the streets of Austin on the trail of a brutal murderer and a missing kilo of coke.' 226 pp. ISBN: 0-670-823023.

New York: Macmillan, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of three outlaws, set in the Texas and Mexico border country in the 1880s. Basis for the 1974 film "The Spikes Gang" featuring Lee Marvin and Ron Howard. 252 pp.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring former outlaw and gunslinger Wilson Young, who has settled down to a respectable life as a saloon-keeping in the border town of Del Rio, Texas. It is 1916 now, and the world is changing too fast for Wilson - so he decides on one last robbery. He's not even going to keep the money -he'll just steal it and give it back, to teach the US government a lesson. 380 pp. ISBN: 0-312860471.

New York: Henry Holt, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploration of the three and a half thousand miles of coastland that borders the Gulf of Mexico in the southern US and Mexico and a picture of the peope who inhabit these borderlands -from the Florida Keys in the spring to cities like New Orleans and Brownsville to Merida in Mexico. Bibliography. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-20721.

Chicago, Illinois: Homer Harisun & Co., (1908.). Hardcover - A collection of 7 stories about the Western frontier from Texas to Calaveras County in gold rush California - titles include The Fiddlin' Kid, The Two Samurai, A Delayed Verdict, The King of Calaveras, Next Christmas,etc. 346 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Southern author's second novel. When her sister, June, is murdered in the months before Lindy is to be married, she abandons her hometown of Charlotte - her job, her fiance, her shattered family, and her shifty brother-in-law - for Galveston on the Texas coast, where her ailing grandmother has a huge Victorian home, and the chance to leave her grief behind. All that she takes with her to tie her to her old life is June's son, not yet a year old. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395926904.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.). First edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins."274 pp.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of eight short stories set in rural New England and rural Texas, which "explore the reality of life among the ill, the dying and the disadvantaged people who seem to exist at the margins." A presentation copy, SIGNED on the title page, and very warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another writer, and dated in 2004. ISBN: 0-15-1008523.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this noted gay American author, a self-proclaimed 'archaeologist of gossip', the story of twin sisters fleeing a dried up oil town in 50s Texas, one to a convent, the other to a glitzy life in Paris. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-1635572551.

Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.

New York: Dial Press, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Texas in the days following the Civil War. 347 pp.