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.

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.

New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which tells the story of a journey down the San Andreas fault, "searching for the places and the people who could perhaps answer the provocative question: What is it like living in a place that no matter how beautiful, might suddenly, while you opened the cereal, combed your hair, or bathed the baby, strike you dead?" Recounts the histories of Wiyot Indians and their earthquake legends, investigates the conflict between California's logging industry and environmentalists, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, visits Palm Springs and the Salton Sea and more. A mixture of sociology, history, personality, and seismology. Map, bibliography. 417 pp. ISBN: 0-345385667.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the human side of the struggle over the remnants of America's forests by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. INSCRIBED opposite the title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens "May we find a way to perserve the trees and sustain human dignity for generations to come." In addition, a brief holograph note SIGNED by Dietrich is laid in. Index. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-671729675.

New York: Amulet / Harry N. Abrams, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When Julian Carter-Li intercepts an angry e-mail message meant for his greedy, high-powered uncle , he finds himself caught up in a fight to save some of the oldest trees in the world. A funny and fast-paced young adult novel, but one with a serious environmental message. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Author's note. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-8109-8354-0.

Seattle: Mountaineers Books, (1996). First edition - A collection of essays on the environmental past and future of the Western United States. Like Abbey and Wallace Stegner and other both established and younger writers, Frome refused to quit pointing fingers and naming names until he felt that important environmental concerns were no longer being sloughed off as second-rate issues. This collection offers environmental criticism at its best. These essays, spanning 30 years, are as relevant today as when they were first published. Included are essays on clearcutting, on destruction in the Bitterroots, on loving our National Parks to death, and "Who's Managing the Managers While They Manage the Wolves?" and much more. Reading list, index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-898864755.

Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted poet on "a wide range of topics, from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation, like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg, and meditates on art, labor, and the making of families, houses, and homesteads." 167 pp. ISBN: 978-1593761370.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - While the author disclaims this novel - set in the Northwest in the early 1900s - as autobiographical, he does admit that "Ranch hand, mule skinner, hard-rock driller, logger, big town truck teamster, Wobbly, hobo poet - I worked as my hero works." 275 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone.

Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1934.) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Story set in a remote lumber camp. 250 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995). SIGNED first edition - When a lumber baron tries to clear-cut the part of the Algonquin Forest he considers his own, and in the remote Maine town of Abenaki Juntion, only Madeleine Cody, the owner of a small newspaper, The Forest Sentinel, tries to stand up to him. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Tobias Wolff (who calls Watkins "one of the most gifted writers of his generation") among others. 284 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - When a lumber baron tries to clear-cut the part of the Algonquin Forest he considers his own, and in the remote Maine town of Abenaki Juntion, only Madeleine Cody, the owner of a small newspaper, The Forest Sentinel, tries to stand up to him. Cover praise from Tobias Wolff (who calls Watkins "one of the most gifted writers of his generation") among others. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-679443196.