New York: Norton, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set among the American Indians in the Southwest by this Edgar-nominated writer who is himself half Pueblo. Basis of the movie of the same name. Map endpapers of the Painted Desert of Arizona. 255 pp. Dustjacket illustration by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-393-087832.

Guilford, CT & Helena, MT: TwoDot , (2014). First edition - A "collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old WestÕs most egregiously bad family-based gangs caught in the act of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, includes famous names like the James brothers and lesser known families just as the Deautremonts, the Newtons, and many more." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. ix, 229 pp. ISBN: 978-1493006137.

Bisbee, AZ: Swan Enterprises, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Stories for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren by this Arizona homesteader. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in 1994. Illustrated with drawings by Connie Asch, Chris Fasy and J. M. Daniel Taylor. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-927176-08-4.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-1590588147.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-333854.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, part-time history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 206 pp. ISBN: 1-590583183.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304048.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small town in Arizona - in a thinly disguised Bisbee, Cochise County. The third novel featuring victim advocate Chloe Newcomb. Great atmosphere. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-280416.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small town in Arizona - in a thinly disguised Bisbee, Cochise County. Fourth novel featuring victim advocate Chloe Newcomb. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-333194.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching landdevelopment , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. Nicely INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For --- something here maybe to help keep you warm. .. " and dated in Santa Fe in the year of publication. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching land development , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (second book) a picaresque story set in Arizona's racially-mixed society in the mid 1950's. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin who calls it a 'very funny and tender novel....War, prize-fighting, drinking, macho hunkery, all end in a busted head and a life of grief. His luckless and endearing heroes, Mike and Bonifacio, won't ever get anywhere or do anything, but they have kind hearts and great souls. True romantics, cowless cowboys...always searching for snow in the desert, sometimes even finding it.' SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0170891.

Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2005). SIGNED - 'In May 2001, a group of 26 men. . . attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a deadly region known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 of them would survive.' An eloquent and moving book, SIGNED on the title page. Index. 239 pp. plus a conversation with Urrea and a reading group guide. ISBN: 0-316746711.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1970. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirty poems by this Arizona architect, each illustrated with his drawings on a tan background on the verso of each page. INSCRIBED on the half title page "with fondest regards. I hope you find one page that's meant only for you." 67 pp. plus colophon.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a nine-year-old boy struggling to find his place in the world - his mother has fled the old ways for life in California, his grandfather is a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother a Spanish curandera with a passion for the music of Duke Ellington. Set in 1958 in the desert outside Phoenix on Buckeye Road, an area of adobes, tar paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and an indomintable spirit symbolized by la maravilla - the blanket of marigolds laid upon graves in Mexican cemeteries. INSCRIBED (in Spanish) on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935886.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery set in Arizona, featuring private investigator Lena Jones. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1464203107.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring private investigator Lena Jones, who helps thirteen year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound in a desolate area straddling the Utah - Arizona border. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note 300 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Scottsdale private investigator Lena Jones, a survivor of dozens of foster homes, who becomes involved in investigating the murder of a gallery owner. SIGNED on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.