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BEYOND THE WALL: Essays from the Outside.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1984.). First edition - Essays about the desert, the Coloroda River, the Sea of Cortes, Alaska and more - an introduction to some special pockets of wilderness still remaining. 203 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0693012.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy brown wrappers.
Book ID: 39578More details Price: $15.00 -
KNIGHTS OF THE CORNERSTONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ace Books, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A tiny town in California is home to many strange secrets - SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Sam Montesano. ISBN: 9780441016532.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder mark).
Book ID: 59953More details Price: $25.00 -
BLUES FROM CANNIBALS: The Notes from Underground.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74928More details Price: $18.50 -
EAST BY SOUTHWEST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, poems set within the stark desert terrain of Arizona and New Mexico.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (edgewear to top of dj.)
Book ID: 7575More details Price: $30.00 -
MEMORY FEVER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Very good overall in glossy green illustrated wrappers (some scattered marginal notations).
Book ID: 43172More details Price: $10.00 -
THE RIVER MOTOR BOAT BOYS ON THE COLORADO or the Clue in the Rocks
Edition: Early printing.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1913). Hardcover - From a publisher's ad: "The story deals with a little-known stretch of river, from the Gulf of California to the Grand Canyon. The plot is a strong one, and the clue sought is at last discovered by two venturesome lads who start out to have a Òlittle fun of their own on the side." As in all other volumes of this aeries, the authorÑperhaps the best-known writer of boysÕ books in the countryÑtells something of the history of the country the boys pass through." Glossy frontispiece of the Grand Canyon. 256 pp.
Condition: Good overall in olive green cloth with black and red lettering and illustration on front cover and spine.
Book ID: 66705More details Price: $18.00 -
CLEMENTINA'S CACTUS.
Edition: First thus.
Tokyo: Hopl Book Co. 1994. Hardcover first edition - New edition, published for the children of Japan (only text is the copyright page which is in both English and Japanese) - a wordless book with charming illustrations - called a "visual poem." Oblong format. Uncommon edition,
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 4852More details Price: $20.00 -
PENA ON PENA.
Edition: First printing.
Waco, TX: WRS Publications, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful introduction to the work of this artist, a mestizo of Spanish and Yaqui Indian ancestry, born in Laredo, Texas, and living in New Mexico. Full color, full-page reproductions of forty-four of Pena's evocative paintings of the people and landscape of the Southwest, with his comments about the inspiration and thoughts behind each painting. Printed signature on the title page. Oblong format. 96 pp. ISBN: 1-56796-0618.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (review copy stamped on title page. slight sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 40737More details Price: $28.00 -
FAMILY CLAIMS: A Pinnacle Peak Mystery,
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81786More details Price: $27.50 -
HEIR APPARENT: A Pinnacle Peak Mystery,
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Alpine, CA: Sands Publishing, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The first in this series of mysteries set by a former attorney and featuring a young new attorney Joe McGinness, who finds himself involved in a grisly murder. Each of these mysteries centers around a different sport - in this one it is team roping. SIGNED on the half title page. Map of town. 226 pp. ISBN: 1-590250176.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88090More details Price: $20.00 -
THE BIG SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's excellent first mystery: it begins 'In Nevada, anything is possible.' Dust jacket praise from Robert Campbell and Arthur Lyons, who described this as 'an intricate and moody debut novel, filled with powerful detail and stark desert atmosphere.'. ISBN: 0-89296-3530.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant, light foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 29124More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BIG SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's excellent first mystery: it begins 'In Nevada, anything is possible.' Dust jacket praise from Robert Campbell and Arthur Lyons, who described this as 'an intricate and moody debut novel, filled with powerful detail and stark desert atmosphere.'. ISBN: 0-89296-3530.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket (spine slant, light foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 72149More details Price: $16.50 -
RHYOLITE: The True Story of a Ghost Town.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin), (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rhymed account of the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the Amargosa desert of southwestern Nevada, just outside Death Valley - a town which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, just 6 years later, was almost deserted In a few more years it became only a ghost town with coyotes roaming the street. Illustrated with woodcuts by David Frampton. Author's historical note at the back. Large format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-618096736.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 36883More details Price: $20.00 -
WHICHAWAY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in a rather ppor dust jacket. (previous owner's name on front endpaper, rubbing, tears and chips to the dj)
Book ID: 90088More details Price: $25.00 -
WALKING THE TWILIGHT II: Women Writers of the Southwest.
Edition: First printing, a large square trade paperback.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, (1996.). First edition - Contributions from 25 women, edited and with an introduction by Wilder. Among the authors are Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pam Houston, Demetria Martinez, Mary Sojourner, Yoshiko Uchida, Terry Tempest Williams, Melissa Pritchard and seventeen others. A brief biographical note precedes each piece. x, 245 pp. ISBN: 0-87358-6484.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 56436More details Price: $20.00