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HIGH WEST.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping to upper edge of dj spine, slight sunning to spine.)
Book ID: 38961More details Price: $20.00 -
BLOOD LURE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2001.). First edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page/ 320 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 37987More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD LURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39542More details Price: $28.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)
Book ID: 14366More details Price: $31.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)
Book ID: 32163More details Price: $17.50 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped dj, a tight and straight copy.)
Book ID: 34387More details Price: $28.50 -
THE HERMIT'S STORY: Stories.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First edition - A collection of short stories, some almost magical in their evocation of man and nature, several set in the Yaak Valley of Montana, where Bass lives. 179 pp. Cover by Russell Chatham.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 44762More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LIVES OF ROCKS: Stories.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007.). Ten stories which explore our connection to nature, set in locations ranging from Texas to Montana. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-618-90966x.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 45791More details Price: $10.00 -
THE LIVES OF ROCKS: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ten stories which explore our connection to nature, set in locations ranging from Texas to Montana. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-618-596747.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52234More details Price: $20.00 -
WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60611More details Price: $35.00 -
WINTER: Notes from Montana.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. First edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "All best" and dated in 1994. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.
Condition: Fine in glossy white wrappers in a fine dust jacket..
Book ID: 62806More details Price: $20.00 -
WINTER: Notes from Montana.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant)
Book ID: 83770More details Price: $16.50 -
VIGILANTES: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Plummer Gang of Outlaws in and about Virginia City, Montana in the early '60's.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, (1929.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic account of one of the most notorious 'outlaw gangs' in the story of the Western frontier - and of the organization - the Montana vigilantes - which brought them down, written in a very readable style, with an emphasis on the personalities of those involved. It is interesting to compare this with the 2004 book by Frederick Allen "A Decent and Orderly Lynching." Illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 photographic plates, a map and drawings by Charles Hargens. 346 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket - a very attractive copy, straight and tight, with a little light toning to the pages and dustjacket, very minor edgewear to the dj - uncommon in dust jacket and especially so in this condition. Original price of $3.50 still present.
Book ID: 74943More details Price: $135.00 -
BREAKING CLEAN.
Edition: Early printing.
New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401318.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28200More details Price: $14.50 -
BREAKING CLEAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401318.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38903More details Price: $20.00 -
CRUZATTE AND MARIA: A Gabriel DuPre Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Metis rancher and investigator Gabriel du Pre - set along the upper Missouri in remote Montana where a film crew has come to make a film based on the Lewis and Clark expedition - an expedition which du Pre's ancestor, Cruzatte, a voyageur and fiddler, accompanied. SIGNED on the half title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312-262531.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77514More details Price: $35.00 -
COW-COUNTRY.
Edition: Early reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1921.). Hardcover - Classic Western fiction - the story of a young man trying to prove himself on the Idaho frontier - by this prolific writer (the author of 68 novels) who hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. Bower lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. Frontispiece by Frank Tierney Johnson, 249 pp.
Condition: Good overall in pale green illustrated boards (gift inscription dated Christmas 1925 on front endpaper.).
Book ID: 39590More details Price: $10.00 -
LONESOME LAND.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Triangle Books, (1944) dj. Hardcover - Novel of a young woman from Down East who arrives in Montana with romantic dreams, only to find herself married to an alcoholic and a weakling, and living in a forlorn shack way out in 'lonesome land.' Bower, a prolific writer, the author of 68 novels, hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. She lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. 322 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (severe toning to the paper as is common with reprints from this era, edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 63576More details Price: $15.00 -
TROUBLE RIDES THE WIND.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Triangle Books, (1943) dj. Hardcover - Novel originally published in 1935. featuring Chip Bennett of the Flying U. Bower, a prolific writer, the author of 68 novels, hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. She lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. 300 pp.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (some toning to the paper as is common with reprints from this era, edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 66751More details Price: $15.00 -
PARADISE VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Cassie Dewell, a deputy sheriff in Grimstad, formerly a small quiet town, then booming as the oil capital of North Dakota, and now facing unemployment and half-finished houses. When a sting goes bad, and several deputies are killed, she is forced to resign her position, but takes on the job of trying to find a missing boy, a friend of her son's. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1250051042.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 77909More details Price: $19.50 -
THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1987.). Although it is hard to believe now, this novel was rejected by many publishers before Louisana State University took it on. A beautifully written account of a man who finally finds some direction in his life. A country and western singer who served two years in Angola for manslaughter, Iry heads west to the Bitteroot ranch of fellow prisoner Buddy Riordan, but he and the Riordan family are caught up in the conflict around a local pulp mill. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780807113349.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57870More details Price: $12.50 -
BITTERROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. ISBN: 0-7432-04832.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60674More details Price: $17.50 -
BITTERROOT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04832.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77024More details Price: $35.00 -
BITTERROOT.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Orion, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-758241548.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80943More details Price: $40.00 -
BITTERROOT.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue, especially so signed.
Book ID: 81044More details Price: $35.00 -
NINE BELOW ZERO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Second novel (third book) by this highly praised young Western writer. Set in Montana. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp.
Condition: Near fine in wrappers (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 13660More details Price: $30.00 -
NINE BELOW ZERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel (third book) by this highly praised young Western writer. Set in Montana. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Harry Crews, Rick Bass and Jim Harrison. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-491603.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49051More details Price: $30.00 -
CLINICAL TRIAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller set on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana where a vaccine against the hanta virus is being tested. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-312868995.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, an unread copy.)
Book ID: 70276More details Price: $25.00 -
THE RIGHT MADNESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - A noir mystery featuring ex-Army officer turned Montana private investigator, C. W. Sughrue, 289 pp. ISBN: 0-670034061.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 78129More details Price: $17.50 -
BUSTER MIDNIGHT'S CAFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by several non-fiction books on the American West) - "a wise and sassy narrator, mavelous characters, and a plot that blends Hollywood scandal, lifelong friendship, mystery and romance" - the story of the most famous citizens of Butte, Montana: the Hollywood legend Marion Street and the boxing champion Buster Midnight. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-394-576519.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 34124More details Price: $18.00