New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at his childhood hometown on the Missouri River by the Pulitzer prize winning journalist. The title is from Mark Twain's recollection of Hannibal, Missouri, which he left at 17, the same age Powers was when he left there in 1959. "In 1984, as plans for the Mark Twain sesquicentennial were being formed, Powers returned to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, and here lovingly compares contemporary Hannibal with the Hannibal of his boyhood and of Mark Twain's early years." (Publishers Weekly) vii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87113103X.

Newark, Delaware: Spiral Press for Friends of the Curtis Paper Co. 1960. First edition - The 6th publication in a series of Americana commissioned each year by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware - this one issued to commemorate Alaska and Hawaii becoming states. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by the Spiral Press on Curtis paper. 26 pp plus colaphone and large fold-out colored map by David Soshensky.

Newark, Delaware: Spiral Press for Friends of the Curtis Paper Co. 1965. First edition - A brief history of the Mason-Dixon line and how it became so embedded in our national awareness as the dividing line between the free North and the slave holding South. The 12th publication in a series of Americana commissioned each year by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed by the Spiral Press on Curtis paper. 26 pp plus colophon and large fold-out colored map by David Soshensky.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - this except includes Part VII - the Lower Missouri River. Double page schematic of the 'Nikawa.' INSCRIBED on the title page. 31 pp.

Boston & New York: Lee & Shepard / Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1876. Hardcover first edition - The title story is about silver mining in Virginia City, Nevada - but this includes a lot more, as the subtitle indicates. Includes a frontispiece., and over 200 illustrations by W.L. Sheppard, Frank Merrill and others. 261 pp plus a final illustration. Slightly oversized.

New York: Henry Holt, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A combination of history, memoir, and a description of today's Northwest - of the landscapes of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. SIGNED on the title page. Double page map. Notes and references, index. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-805013539.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark SIGNED on the half title page. Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - this except includes Part VII - the Lower Missouri River. Double page schematic of the 'Nikawa.' SIGNED on the title page. 31 pp.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing. (1993) dj. Hardcover - An account of the author's journey across America on Highway 50 - from aOcean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California. Double page map. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 219 p. ISBN: 1555910734.

Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1857. Hardcover - Accounts of the captivity (and often the death) of several Jesuit and Franciscan priests in the eighteenth century. Howes S-363. Duodecimo, 206, 8 pp advertisements.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - An excellent biography of Washington, as a young man, general, and president, one which 'eloquently conveys the magnitude of Washington's accomplishments.' (NY Times). Photographs, notes, index. xiv, 320 pp. ISBN: 1-400040310.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-636264.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of his journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific using inland waterways of the United States - a trip which covered 5000 miles - more than any other cross-country river traveler has ever managed, and which often retraced the journey of some of our most famous explorers from Henry Hudson to Lewis and Clark Maps, photographs. xii, 506 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-636264.

New York: Bonanza Books, (c 1955.) dj. Hardcover - "His haunting apparitions are found from New England to New Orleans, from Manhattan's Central Park to San Francisco's Nob Hill, and he reports on several notorious ghosts of the far West." Illustrated with 18 full page half-tone illustrations plus 4 color plates by the author.ix, 229 pp. Large format, illustrated endpapers.

Chapel Hill, NC: University Of North Carolina Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of the five novels which make up the Leather-Stocking tales - The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and so on, published between 1823 and 1841, and generally considered America's first major works of fiction - in the order in which they were written. Preface, list of principal works of Cooper, works cited, notes, index. xxvii, 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-19751.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a long introduction with information about the Shakers and their food preparation, kitchens, etc, plus 100 recipes accompanied by numerous full-page color photographs. Bibliography, index. Oversized format. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-684-801108.

New York: Literary Guild of America, 1928. Hardcover - While this might have been a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the excesses of the "roaring twenties" it is amazing how it still describes the United States -whether it is taken to the road in the chapters "The once open road" and "Caravan" or the fascination with "Bigger and better murders", golf, boxing, movies, junk food ("soda fountains" where "the food is bogus" even though wrapped in strictly sanitary packages) and more. Illustrated with drawings by Howard W. Willard. 263 pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1981.) dj. Hardcover - Describes the activities of a number of law-enforcement agencies, from those hired by banks, railroads, cattlemen associations, hired private detectives to Indian Police, Pinkerton men, Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Mexican Rurales and the role they played in the West. Among the individual lawmen who are included in this book are Dallas Stoudenmire, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Frank Wattron of Arizona, and many others. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xii, 330 pp. ISBN: 0-806110104.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual alphabet book, with de Mejo's famous paintings of American myth and legend used to illustrate the letters of the alphabet. Includes 2 pages of notes on the stories behind the paintings. Large square format, unpaginated, bound in red boards with gilt lettering. ISBN: 0-060205164.

Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, (1967.) dj. Hardcover - Whimsical stories about the author's home town, set in the late 19th and very early 20th centuries, illustrated with drawings by the author. 185 pp. Original price of 4.50 present on front flap, but family bookshelf notation on rear flap.

n.p. [Auburn, CA] Catalpa Press, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of humorous folk tales centered on a general store in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, but also equally at home in the bayous of Louisiana, and the front porches of New England. Among the classic themes are the hen-pecked husband, the stubborn mule, the restless ghost and more. SIGNED on the title page by both the author and the illustrator. 135 pp. ISBN: 0-961994304.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - "In a dazzling literary debut, [filmmaker] Peter Davis has mapped the passions of one American town and the conflicts and harmonies that unite and divide the townspeople." An account of 6 years in the life of Hamilton, Ohio. 331 pp. ISBN: 0-671-245562.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Hardcover - Illustrated with many photographic plates. Frontispiece of a fold-out map of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The 'heartland,' agriculture, fishing, creativity (including Frank Lloyd Wright) are just some of the topics covered. Index. 312, x pp.

New York & London & South Brunswick: Thomas Yoseloff, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An interesting and well-researched book which points out that the traditional commonly-held idea that the Southern soldiers wore gray and the North blue was not always true, especially for the Confederates - and that many uniforms were much more colorful - and many units, on both sides, had their own distinctive uniforms. Includes an appendix which lists uniform suppliers to both armies. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and drawings byArthur Wise, bibliography, index. Large format, measuring 11 1/2 inches tall by 8 3/4 inches wide. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-498-067319.

New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated version of this song,issued 100 years after the trip Bates took to Colorado and the top of Pike's Peak, which inspired her to write this. Each impressionistic painting by Waldman is a double page full color picture of one of the wonders of the United States - natural and manmade. Identification of the scenes at the back of the book; the words and music (by Samuel A. Ward) to the song printed in deep purple on lilac endpapers. Unpaginated, large format. ISBN: 0-689-318618.

New York: Hyperion, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - A journey through America based on the idea of looking at the principles on which America was founded, and then searching for how those principles have survived. The authors found that they 'have been shaken, molded, adapted and assaulted, yet remarkably they endure.' A beautifully produced, oversized book filled with full-color photographs and thought-provoking text with an original issue price of $50.00. Includes a reading list, source notes, index. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67086.