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  • RED HIGHWAYS: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland. by Aguilar, Rose.
    Aguilar, Rose.
    RED HIGHWAYS: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Sausolito, CA: PoliPoint Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A book which "challenges stereotypes and goes far beyond the sound bites and statistics to reveal what red-state voters really care about - and what they expect from their political leaders. As Aguilar writes in the first chapter, 'We breathe the same air, we live under the same political system, weve probably seen the same television and news shows, and most of us grew up going to public schools; yet because we might vote differently once every four years, we find ourselves stereotyped in the national media and separated by red and blue borders.'. . . an examination of what matters most in the heartland, what makes it tick, and…

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    Sausolito, CA: PoliPoint Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A book which "challenges stereotypes and goes far beyond the sound bites and statistics to reveal what red-state voters really care about - and what they expect from their political leaders. As Aguilar writes in the first chapter, 'We breathe the same air, we live under the same political system, weve probably seen the same television and news shows, and most of us grew up going to public schools; yet because we might vote differently once every four years, we find ourselves stereotyped in the national media and separated by red and blue borders.'. . . an examination of what matters most in the heartland, what makes it tick, and what issues get its citizens to vote." INSCRIBED on the half title page "----let's keep the conversation going." Index. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0979482274.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67290
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  • Ballantine, Bill.
    HIGH WEST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Rand McNally & Co, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front flap: "Ballantine, his wife and three of their teen-aged children traveled throughout eight Rocky Mountain states: Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. [This book] is an offbeat and highly personal (and a bit impertinent) look at the vacation places and tourist centers within these states, both well known and obscure, and at Americans at large, both tourist and native." Starting at Frontier Days in Cheyenne to the Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, from mining towns like Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado to visiting artist Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico, this is a combination of interviews, and…

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    New York: Rand McNally & Co, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front flap: "Ballantine, his wife and three of their teen-aged children traveled throughout eight Rocky Mountain states: Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. [This book] is an offbeat and highly personal (and a bit impertinent) look at the vacation places and tourist centers within these states, both well known and obscure, and at Americans at large, both tourist and native." Starting at Frontier Days in Cheyenne to the Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, from mining towns like Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado to visiting artist Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico, this is a combination of interviews, and reporting on the West, illustrated with photographs (including one of O'Keefe) by the author. Note at the beginning of the book states that the trip was made in a 'Goldline pickup camper, Model 220, manufactured by Travel Industries, Inc, Oswego, Kansas and mounted on a Ford Motor Co. camper special.' 303 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping to upper edge of dj spine, slight sunning to spine.)

    Book ID: 38961
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  • Barnes, Kim.
    IN THE WILDERNESS: Coming of Age in Unknown Country.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's highly acclaimed first book, winner of the 1995 PEN/ Jerard Fund Award for a work-in-progress by an emerging female writer - a candid account of a girl and young woman coming to terms with her family, her homeland in the logging wilderness and small towns of Idaho, with her parent's Pentecostal religion, and most of all with herself, Dustjacket praise from Ivan Doig, David James Duncan and Stewart O'Nan, among others. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478216.

    Condition: SIGNED on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 34672
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  • Barnes, Kim
    HUNGRY FOR THE WORLD: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Villard, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation of her award-winning memoir, and a lucid and open account of how a young woman can slip into a man's domination - sexual and controlling of her very being - and of the reserves that enabled her finally to free herself. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-375502289.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37914
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  • FINDING CARUSO. by Barnes, Kim.
    Barnes, Kim.
    FINDING CARUSO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-399149678.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 42301
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  • FINDING CARUSO. by Barnes, Kim.
    Barnes, Kim.
    FINDING CARUSO.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. SIGNED on the title page. 303 pp.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 42302
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  • FINDING CARUSO. by Barnes, Kim.
    Barnes, Kim.
    FINDING CARUSO.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2003.). First edition - First novel by this Western author, preceded by two award-winning memoirs. Set in the late 1950's in a small town near the logging camps of Idaho. 303 pp.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 50019
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  • IN THE WILDERNESS: Coming of Age in Unknown Country. by Barnes, Kim.
    Barnes, Kim.
    IN THE WILDERNESS: Coming of Age in Unknown Country.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Poet's highly acclaimed first book, winner of the 1995 PEN/ Jerard Fund Award for a work-in-progress by an emerging female writer - a candid account of a girl and young woman coming to terms with her family, her homeland in the logging wilderness and small towns of Idaho, with her parent's Pentecostal religion, and most of all with herself, SIGNED on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Ivan Doig, David James Duncan and Stewart O'Nan, among others. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-385-478216.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 34548
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  • A COUNTRY CALLED HOME. by Barnes, Kim.
    Barnes, Kim.
    A COUNTRY CALLED HOME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of "hope and idealism, faith and madness" which begins in 1960, when Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, leave their life in upper-crust Connecticut and take off for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness, only to discover the buildings in ruin, the fields overgrown. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. ISBN: 978-0307268952.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a new copy but with a remainder dot)

    Book ID: 81701
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  • SLANT. by Bear, Greg.
    Bear, Greg.
    SLANT.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Novel set in the mid-21st century, in a world transformed by nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, and where Green Idaho has become a separatist state. housing a state of the art cyronics center. SIGNED on the title page. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-312855176.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 64489
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  • THE UNDERWORLD. by Canty, Kevin.
    Canty, Kevin.
    THE UNDERWORLD.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, (2016). SIGNED first edition - "A novel about loss, love, and redemption following a catastrophe in a small mining town.. . . a story inspired by the facts of a disastrous fire that took place in an isolated silver mining town in Idaho in the 1970s, in which almost everyone in town lost a friend, a lover, a brother, or a husband." SIGNED on the title page. 252 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70569
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  • STUMP RANCH PIONEER. by Davis, Nelle Portrey.
    Davis, Nelle Portrey.
    STUMP RANCH PIONEER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon account of one family's journey to the Northwest and the panhandle of Idaho. Driven from their Colorado sheep farm after a long struggle with the dust-bowl conditions of the late 1930s, Nelle Davis and her husband migrated, with their two children, to the second growth forests of northern Idaho to begin again as stump ranch farmers. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "sincerely." Synopsis from the dust jacket has been pasted onto the first blank page. 245 pp.

    Condition: From a school library with a donation bookplate on the front endpaper, several stamps, remnants of a pocket. Front hinge is cracking, and some fraying to the fore-edge of the front cover, but otherwise tight and clean, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76776
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  • TUMBLEWORDS: Writers Reading the West. by Fox, William L., editor.
    Fox, William L., editor.
    TUMBLEWORDS: Writers Reading the West.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1995). First edition - Collects works by 72 western writers - featuring poets, novelists, short-story writers and essayists from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming (the selections are arranged by state) Among the authors are Kim Barnes, William Johnson, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jonathan Penner, Dennis Hickman and many others, Foreword by Donald Meyer and an introduction by the editor, William L. Fox. Map, notes on contributors, index of authors and titles. A title in the Western Literature Series.xxv, 377 pp.. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-874172713.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67213
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  • THE ANIMALS: A Novel. by Kiefer, Christian.
    Kiefer, Christian.
    THE ANIMALS: A Novel.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Liveright / Norton, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A literary thriller by this California poet and writer. "Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals. . . unable to survive in the wild. . . Alternating between past and present, Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill's crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2014 - that is, before publication. 300 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72232
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  • THE ANIMALS: A Novel. by Kiefer, Christian.
    Kiefer, Christian.
    THE ANIMALS: A Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Liveright / Norton, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A literary thriller by this California poet and writer. "Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals. . . unable to survive in the wild. . . Alternating between past and present, Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill's crime-ridden years in Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future." . 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0871408839.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 77980
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  • CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: Historic Context Statements, 1995. by Louter, David.
    Louter, David.
    CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: Historic Context Statements, 1995.

    Edition: First edition, a large softcover volume.

    Seattle, Washington: National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region. 1995. SIGNED first edition - A history of this unique geological national monument, a landscape of black lava flows along the Great Rift of Idaho, which focuses on the impact of various peoples - from the Shoshone Indians to the trappers, overland settlers, miners, and tourists. INSCRIBED on the first page to the man he identified in the acknowledgements as 'doing more than anyone else to promote the monument's history.' Photographs, folding maps, bibliography. Large format. 241 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated yellow wrappers. Uncommon.

    Book ID: 54874
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  • CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: Historic Context Statements, 1995. by Louter, David.
    Louter, David.
    CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: Historic Context Statements, 1995.

    Edition: First edition, a large softcover volume.

    Seattle, Washington: National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region. 1995. First edition - A history of this unique geological national monument, a landscape of black lava flows along the Great Rift of Idaho, which focuses on the impact of various peoples - from the Shoshone Indians to the trappers, overland settlers, miners, and tourists. Photographs, folding maps, bibliography. Large format. 241 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated yellow wrappers. Uncommon.

    Book ID: 54873
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  • CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: An Administrative History, 1992. by Louter, David.
    Louter, David.
    CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT: An Administrative History, 1992.

    Edition: First edition, a large softcover volume.

    Seattle, Washington: National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region. 1992. First edition - A comprehensive history of this geologically unique National Monument, set on the Great Rift in Idaho, including chapters on its setting and significance, on developing it, and on managing the natural resources. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps (including some folding ones.) Notes, bibliography, chronology, index. Large format. (8 1/2 by 11 inches), 393 pp.

    Condition: Very good+ in printed yellow wrappers (short tear to upper edge, light soiling to covers.) Uncommon.

    Book ID: 54865
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  • McCunn, Ruthanne Lum (You-shang Tang, illustrator)
    PIE-BITER.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: Design Enterprises of San Francisco. (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the true story of a young boy, brought from China to work on building the trans-continental railroad, who grew from a skinny boy to a strong man by eating lots of pies, and thus earned the nickname Pie-Biter. When work on the railroads was finished, he learned how to run a pack-horse business, and after 15 years as a successful businessman in the Northwest, he finally returned to China INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by McCunn "For.... may you have the strength, ingenuity and humor of Pie-Biter - but not the appetite!" Illustrated by You-Shang Tang using a combination of Chinese and Western art techniques. American Book Award winner 1984. Oval format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-932538096.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (prev owner's name) in a very good- dustjacket with a gold award sticker on the front cover.

    Book ID: 37210
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  • MANY RIVERS TO CROSS: Of Good Running Water, Native Trout and the Remains of Wilderness. by Montgomery, M.R.
    Montgomery, M.R.
    MANY RIVERS TO CROSS: Of Good Running Water, Native Trout and the Remains of Wilderness.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "journey into the physical and emotional territory of the American West . . . from the headwaters of the Columbia River to eastern Oregon and to Big Goose Creek, where General Custer's reinforcements camped and went fishing instead of joining the battle at Little Bighorn. [and] through overlooked locations in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon -- all of the last best places." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens -"Enjoy the book and someday get to Yellowstone, a park-paradise for anglers." Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-792865.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket. Uncommon signed.

    Book ID: 67436
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  • ALL OVER CREATION. by Ozeki, Ruth.
    Ozeki, Ruth.
    ALL OVER CREATION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, which said 'Ruth OzekiÕs follow-up to her first novel, ÒMy Year of Meats,Ó is a triumph that earns its inclusive title. ÒAll Over CreationÓ naturally and joyfully folds concerns about genetically modified organisms into a powerful family drama set in rural Idaho, telling the story of a daughterÕs homecoming 25 years after she ran away from her now-ailing parentsÕ potato farm. As the daughter is forced to examine the circumstances of her adolescent flight and to make peace while itÕs still possible, Ozeki weaves in a story of corporate malfeasance,…

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    New York: The Viking Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her second novel, selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, which said 'Ruth OzekiÕs follow-up to her first novel, ÒMy Year of Meats,Ó is a triumph that earns its inclusive title. ÒAll Over CreationÓ naturally and joyfully folds concerns about genetically modified organisms into a powerful family drama set in rural Idaho, telling the story of a daughterÕs homecoming 25 years after she ran away from her now-ailing parentsÕ potato farm. As the daughter is forced to examine the circumstances of her adolescent flight and to make peace while itÕs still possible, Ozeki weaves in a story of corporate malfeasance, creating a novel at once educational and entertaining, with multidimensional characters and an engaging narrative voice.' SIGNED on the title page. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030910.

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    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 48740
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  • ALL OVER CREATION. by Ozeki, Ruth.
    Ozeki, Ruth.
    ALL OVER CREATION.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: The Viking Press, 2003. SIGNED first edition - Her second novel, selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, which said 'Ruth OzekiÕs follow-up to her first novel, ÒMy Year of Meats,Ó is a triumph that earns its inclusive title. ÒAll Over CreationÓ naturally and joyfully folds concerns about genetically modified organisms into a powerful family drama set in rural Idaho, telling the story of a daughterÕs homecoming 25 years after she ran away from her now-ailing parentsÕ potato farm. As the daughter is forced to examine the circumstances of her adolescent flight and to make peace while itÕs still possible, Ozeki weaves in a story of corporate malfeasance, creating a…

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    New York: The Viking Press, 2003. SIGNED first edition - Her second novel, selected as one of the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle, which said 'Ruth OzekiÕs follow-up to her first novel, ÒMy Year of Meats,Ó is a triumph that earns its inclusive title. ÒAll Over CreationÓ naturally and joyfully folds concerns about genetically modified organisms into a powerful family drama set in rural Idaho, telling the story of a daughterÕs homecoming 25 years after she ran away from her now-ailing parentsÕ potato farm. As the daughter is forced to examine the circumstances of her adolescent flight and to make peace while itÕs still possible, Ozeki weaves in a story of corporate malfeasance, creating a novel at once educational and entertaining, with multidimensional characters and an engaging narrative voice.' SIGNED on the title page. 417 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 38080
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  • IN HARM'S WAY. by Pearson, Ridley.
    Pearson, Ridley.
    IN HARM'S WAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 389 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399156540.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 60292
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  • KILLER WEEKEND. by Pearson, Ridley.
    Pearson, Ridley.
    KILLER WEEKEND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. 323 pp. . Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399154072.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 72012
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  • KILLER VIEW by Pearson, Ridley.
    Pearson, Ridley.
    KILLER VIEW

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. 340 pp. plus final note. Map endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399155055.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 72011
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  • KILLER SUMMER. by Pearson, Ridley.
    Pearson, Ridley.
    KILLER SUMMER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. SIGNED on the title page. 367 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399156540.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 61449
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  • IN HARM'S WAY. by Pearson, Ridley.
    Pearson, Ridley.
    IN HARM'S WAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399156540.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (bit of crinkling to a few pages)

    Book ID: 60291
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  • Pearson, Ridley.
    IN HARM'S WAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Sheriff Walt Fleming thriller, set in Sun Valley, Idaho - the billionaire's playground. 389 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399156540.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 59375
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  • SKY RANCH: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho. by Phelps, Bobbi .
    Phelps, Bobbi .
    SKY RANCH: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Skyhorse Publishing, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - When Bobbi Phelps married Mike Wolverton, an Idaho rancher, she discovered what it was like to live in rural America. The contrast between her suburban background and her farming life was both challenging, sometimes fearful but overall very rewarding. Glossary. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-1510751071.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88399
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  • MYSTERY OF THE ABSENT NEIGHBORS. by Wood, Ruth C.
    Wood, Ruth C.
    MYSTERY OF THE ABSENT NEIGHBORS.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    Katonah, NY: Young Reader's Press, (1968). First edition - Twelve year old Nancy and her eleven year old brother Kevin are spending the summer in the Idaho mountains at the sheep camp of their aunt and uncle, and they become interested in a nearby mystery house which appears to have been abandoned in a hurry, yet remains well cared for. Illustrated with drawings by Ursula Koering. 191 pp plus final drawing.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (name on title page)

    Book ID: 84360
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