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.

New York: David McKay, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the annual migration of the whistling swans to the Arctic, of the dangers they face - especially by the young cygnets - and of the timeless beauty of this trip. Written for older children, and illustrated with drawings by Larry Toschik. 90 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004) dj. Hardcover - The author's first children's book, one based on her own experiences and that of her family, set in 1964 in Alabama, where Jessie's African American family prepares to leave the South for better jobs and schools. Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue whose paintings "beautifully capture the family scenes in the car and the endless, shifting landscape from the window in soft-edged, thickly brushed strokes that heighten the emotions in Jesse's words - the nostalgia, the worry, and the bittersweet hope about a promising new place." Oblong format. Unpaginated. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-374326819.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of non-fiction tales which focus on the migration of Mexicans to the United States - from Oaxaca to Chicago, Michoacan to southeast Los Angeles, Tijuana to Texas. In doing so, he has uncovered stories that help illuminate what it is that Mexicans seek when they come north, how they change their new country, and are changed by it. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page. Map frontispiece. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-82634254X.