Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of the author's first novel (preceded by short stories and a biography of Simone de Beauvoir), this is the story of "ten-year-old Eva Hoffman's family, Austrian refugees, who have found precarious safety in Topeka, Kansas. It is 1951, the year of the landmark desegregation case. As the rising river inundates the town, the Hoffmans open their home to refugees from the flood, and Eva learns the complexities of prejudice and courage both within and outside her family." Rosellen Brown described this as "sensitively observed, full of affection and life, and . . . passionately concerned with crucial moral questions." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-895942275.

New York: Random House, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of the killers responsible for the apparently senseless murder of the four members of the Clutter family in rural Kansas. This book essentially created a new form - the non-fiction novel - and is Capote's most important and enduring work. Harper Lee, his lifelong friend and the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' collaborated with Capote on his research for this book. Winner of the Edgar award, basis for several movies. 343 pp.

New York: Avon, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The 8th book in the Agatha and Macavity award winning Jane Jeffry mystery series, and the first to be published in hardcover.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this award winning poet and short story writer, eleven interconnected stories set in the 1950s in a fictional black community north of Kansas City. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-375-506306.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning poet and short story writer, set in the 1950s Midwest. A story of a young black woman's attempt to reclaim her dignity, her profession and her son, set against a backdrop of segregation, the flourishing of modern jazz. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-375-506306.

Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In a novel about family, set in California, and spanning the years from 1978-1991, as seen by three protagonists - Billy who has bored two wives into leaving him, his bitter sister, Ann; and their efficient cousin, Kay whom they both resent and rely on. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and dated in the year of publication. 228 pp. Dust jacket art by Russell Chatham. ISBN: 0-944439462.

New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Texas-born author's first novel, a 'comic, sometimes tragic novel about some wonderful misfits and dreamers who make a belated drive of longhorn cattle from Texas to the railhead in Kansas.' A classic of Southwestern fiction, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-374-223106.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second collection of thoughtful and humorous essays - this one consists of 5 longer pieces ranging from an affectionate profile of the woman who writes the "hints from Heloise" to an account of a small town in Kansas where 40 people were killed in a Cheyenne raid in 1878 and a profile of fisherman Jim Deren. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-374-223106.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover - An account of the almost unbelievable destruction along the Missouri-Kansas border from 1861-1865 and the greatest atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacres at Lawrence, Baxter Springs, & Centralia, based on contemporary documents - diaries, letters, and firsthand newspaper accounts. Illustrated, bibliography, index. 172 pp. ISBN: 9780253213037.

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - "On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. . . . The attack began at dawn. When it was over, more than 150 townsmen were dead and most of the settlement burned to the ground." Illustrated with 3 maps and 24 black and white photographs and illustrations. Notes, bibliography, index. 207 pp. ISBN: 0-87338-4423.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hansen's highly praised first novel - in it "one of the legends of [the West] comes alive again - the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down and snuffed out in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas." This book is told in the voice of the surviving brother - the youngest of the Daltons. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 273 pp. Map endpapers. Wraparound dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394-503503.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. SIGNED - Hansen's highly praised first novel - in it "one of the legends of [the West] comes alive again - the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down and snuffed out in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas." This book is told in the voice of the surviving brother - the youngest of the Daltons. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. Wraparound cover art by Wendell Minor.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - His second book, this one an in-depth exploration of the history and people of Chase County in the Flint Hills of central Kansas - the last remaining grand expanse of tallgrass prairie in the US. 624 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, (1995). Originally published in 1930, and a classic of African American literature, this is the story of a young boy's awakening to the reality of black life in a small Kansas town. Includes a new introduction by Maya Angelou and a foreword by Arna Bontemps. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-020209851.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, "the story of Gordon Nash, a part-time lawyer whose wife abruptly walks away from both marriage and motherhood, leaving Gordon sole responsibility for raising their child, Calvin. Father and son settle in a small Kansas town. .. where Calvin dreams of owning a horse someday, and where he displays the quirks and curious habits of a precocious four-year-old." Basis for the 1998 film "A Cool Dry Place." Dust jacket praise from Lorrie Moore, Rick Bass, Rosellen Brown, and Larry Watson. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-374134669.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - An affectionate account of 'a horse-and-buggy lawyer in a Kansas town and 'short-grass country' of the eighteen nineties' up to 1922, by his son, also a country lawyer in the same offices in Lyons, Kansas that his father used. Illustrated with humorous drawings by Dick Underwood. 218pp

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1891.). Hardcover - A title in the Harper's Young People series. Adventures of a 17 year old, who as a baby was one of only two survivors of a train wreck, and who left his adopted father to find the answer to the mystery of his identity across the West - from Kansas to New Mexico, from Kit Carson's gold mine to a Mexican wedding. Illustrated with 21 plates. 333 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements.

New York: Scribner, (2000.) dj. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Kansas - the story of a prodigal son's return and the tumultuous year of readjustment following that homecoming - SIGNED on the title page. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-684-839334.

New York: Scribner, 2000. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Kansas - the story of a prodigal son's return and the tumultuous year of readjustment following that homecoming -

New York: Harper & Row, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thorough and well-researched biography of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history, the first full-scale biography and the first based on original research to appear in 60 years. Brown was profoundly religious man dedicated to the overthrow of slavery and Negro rights, a failure at many things but one who. in his doomed attempt to seize the armory at Harper's Ferry, became a martyr to the abolitionist cause. a man who shaped the course of history. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xii, 434 pp.

Topeka, Kansas: By the author, 1963. First edition - A collection of folksy poems which give an interesting glimpse into the life and times of the author - as he comments in the title poem "I've caused some people to complain/ by putting stories into rhyme...." The titles of a few of the poems will give an idea of the wide-ranging topics: Farmer Johnson Goes on Strike; Her Aviator Dad; Dr Wirt R. Bernard; Grandfather's Whiskers; On the Golf Course; Meridian vs Nortonville, and many more. Frontispiece portrait. SIGNED by the author on the verso of the title page. Uncommon, 110 pp plus 2 pp index.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2004. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel set in the fictitious town of Cottonwood in Kansas - a Western noir novel which "traces the metamorphosis of a frontier town that becomes a lightning rod for sin, corruption, and murder. Phillips also brings to life actual crimes that befell Kansas in the 1870s and 1880s, carried out by a strange clan who popularly became known as The Bloody Benders." One of 300 copies bound in Brillianta cloth and individually numbered and signed by the author on a special limitation page. Author's note, 308 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which portrays Quantril as a career criminal with no personal convictions who used the Civil War as an opportunity to do what he loved most: slaughter and steal. Among those who joined him in his raids were Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger and Bill Anderson. This book ends with his bloodiest battle: the sacking of Lawrence ,Kansas where he had 185 killed. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Bibliography, index. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-312147104.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A novel set in the 1850's, the story of Lidie, tall, plain and outspoken, who marries an abolitionist from Massachusetts, dedicated to settling Kansas to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450742.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A history of the great migration of Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains of Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. SIGNED on the title page A title in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture series. Illustrated with many photographs, maps , extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-16522.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of war objectors who were drafted during World War I - The Great War. The story focuses on a Kansas farm boy who objects to serving because "killing is wrong." As a result, he's a prisoner in the disclipinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, where he's subjected to a violent and degrading regime, but still manages to form a community with Mennonites from the Dakotas, wobblies and anarchists from Chicago and New York, and nerve cases from the front. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-871132540.