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: Atheneum. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to Farmer's award-winning "House of Scorpion." As a clone of El Patron, 14 year old Matt is expected to take over as the Lord of Opium, a drug kingdom running along what used to be the border between the US and Mexico, a land devastated by ecological disasters. Cast of characters, maps, chronology, appendix. xvii, 411 pp. ISBN: 978-1442482548.

Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - A provocative study of the development and changes in the borderlands between Mexico and the US. While not a history of this area, the discussion is chronological. Maps and tables. Notes, index. 174 pp. ISBN: 0-268019142.

Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.

Seattle: Broken Moon Press, (1993.). First edition - Essays on growing up and living in the Southwest, near El Paso, and near the borderlands - included is a moving account of visiting Taos as a tourist, an essay on the atomic test site of White Sands, on mescal, menudo and tamales, on the desert and the desert light and much more. Cover praise from Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya and others. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-913089494.

New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. Illustrated with photographs. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.). First edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

Lewiston, Idaho: A Blue Moon and Confluence Press Book, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning Arizona born author's first collection of short fiction, winner of the 1984 Western States Book Award in Short Fiction. The twelve stories in this book are set along the Southwest border; they explore growing up Hispanic, and weave together three distinct worlds: Mexico, the United States, and childhood.SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with etchings by Antonio Pazos. The limited clothbound issue. 119 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-933188-285.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1993.). The first major English language interpretation of Charreria: "a complex tradition of parades, competitions, costumes, music, and social events celebrating the Mexican horseman. A uniquely New World celebration that rivals rodeo in its extraordinary levels of sophistication and performance, it offers those of Mexican descent a source of pride in their heritage....describes the evolution of this equestrian tradition, highlighting the role of horsemen and women throughout Mexico's history." Photographs. Notes, glossary, references, index. xix, 344 pp. ISBN: 0-816513465.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first novel, set in the Southwest in the 1880s. "A gritty, bigger-than-life and occasionally raunchy novel of the Texas-Mexico borderland and the Texas high plains" (Elmer Kelton). 201 pp. ISBN: 0-945575602.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the borderlands between California and Mexico - a world where immigrants struggle to maintain their humanity and to protect their families despite the bitter toil, violence and sexual predators. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. Map. Glossary, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-618-056149.