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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 -
HEART EARTH: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 31195More details Price: $17.50 -
THIS HOUSE OF SKY: Landscapes of a Western Mind.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.). Doig's first book, an account of growing up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his restless father and his grandmother. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6899825.
Condition: Very good (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 42513More details Price: $12.50 -
SWEET THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. SIGNED (on a bookplate), hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. SIGNED on a publisher's bookplate affixed to the title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small peeled spot on back cover of dj)
Book ID: 89742More details Price: $29.50 -
HEART EARTH: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother, and left to him by his uncle only many years after her death. This is the story of rediscovery of his mother through her own words, many years after he wrote about his family in his 1978 book 'This House of Sky.' 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16056More details Price: $18.50 -
MOUNTAIN TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York Scribner's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska,this novel is the story of a generation, shaped by the sixties, which has reached its time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover secrets of his past. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-684-83295X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (date written inside front endpaper.).
Book ID: 35746More details Price: $18.50 -
SWEET THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487347.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (2 peeled spots on dj from sticker removal)
Book ID: 89741More details Price: $16.50 -
HEART EARTH: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of his family's move from defense housing in boomtown Arizona to the Montana high country during World War II - based mostly upon letters written by his mother. SIGNED by the author. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-689-121377.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 30528More details Price: $35.00 -
COWBOY ANGST.
Edition: First printing.
New York SOHO Press, (c.1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of law school drop out considering pursuing his lifelong dream of being in a country-western band. ISBN: 1-56947-0219.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 28145More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LOOP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by the author of "The Horse Whisperer," a story of man' conflict with nature. "A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Biologist Helen Ross has come to Hope from the East, fleeing a life in shambles, determined to save the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. But an ancient hatred awaits her in Hope, a hatred that will tear a family and ultimately the community apart." 433 pp. ISBN: 0-38531700X.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 85600More details Price: $18.00 -
THE HORSE WHISPERER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set on a ranch in Montana, and basis for the popular movie of the same name featuring Robert Redford. ISBN: 0-385-315236.
Condition: SIGNED by author on a pasted-in bookplate. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 23846More details Price: $40.00 -
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: 67213More details Price: $24.50 -
NIGHT SWIMMING: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Picador, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen stories by this Montana author. SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209363.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55857More details Price: $30.00 -
DRY RAIN: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Lyons and Burford, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - HIs fourth book, a collection of sixteen stories by this Montana author, stories set in the American West about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The title story was the basis for a short film starring James LeGros and Nathan Gamble215 pp. ISBN: 1558215549.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64895More details Price: $30.00 -
GOING TO THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in Montana's Mission Mountain Range by this Newbery award winning author. 132 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0219424.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 58404More details Price: $15.00 -
A LAST BRIDGE HOME: New and Selected Poems.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Livingston, MT: Clark City Press, (1992.). First edition - Includes selections from The Revenant, Depature, and Snow on the Backs of Animals as well as a significant section of new poems. 162 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57808More details Price: $18.50 -
UNDER THE BIG SKY: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2009). First edition - "Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. Bud Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. . .. [this biography] details the life and work of this true giant on the Western literary landscape." Notes and documentation, index. xii, 316 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67291More details Price: $20.00 -
ONCE UPON A POND.
Edition: First printing.
Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first children's book by this Pulitzer prize winning author best known for his epic Western historical fiction. Illustrated by the author's wife, Carol Guthrie, with sketches of the birds and animals that frequent the pond near their summer home in Montana. ISBN: 0-878420479.
Condition: Very near fine in orange boards in a good dustjacket (price-clipped, chip to bottom edge of front cover)
Book ID: 90450More details Price: $16.50 -
THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first book by the daughter of writer Jim Harrison (with dustjacket comments from such writers as Peter Matthiessen, Rick Bass, James Crumley and others) - a mystery set in rural Montana. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60855.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60618More details Price: $21.50 -
GOING LOCAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town in Montana. ISBN: 0-7868-61088.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18474More details Price: $18.00 -
GOING LOCAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town in Montana. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-61088.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60489More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first book by the daughter of writer Jim Harrison (with dustjacket comments from such writers as Peter Matthiessen, Rick Bass, James Crumley and others) - a mystery set in rural Montana. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60855.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 33031More details Price: $18.50 -
THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first book by the daughter of writer Jim Harrison (with dustjacket comments from such writers as Peter Matthiessen, Rick Bass, James Crumley and others) - a mystery set in rural Montana. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-60855.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52466More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2010.). First edition - A collection of three novellas by one of our best writers - includes the title story (told in the voice of a home-schooled 15 year old girl in rural Montana) and Brown Dog Redux and The Games of Night (a retired werewolf tries to lead a normal life.) 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. A very uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 52720More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Norton, (1973). SIGNED - His fourth collection of poems - although many of these are set in Montana, where Hugo lived and taught for years, they are far more than just "regional" poetry. The final poem "Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg" is one of his best known and most widely anthologized and in its bleakness it is more appropriate now than when it was written "The principal supporting business now is/ rage. Hatred of the various grays/ the mountain sends. Hatred of the mill." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to another poet "For -- who will never end in a reservoir. Fondly, Dick." 79 pp. ISBN: 0-39300936X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70156More details Price: $85.00 -
GO BY GO.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical novel, set in Butte Montana where a young Pinkerton detective was sent to assist in busting the union, when the miners spontaneously walked out after a deadly accident, activities which result in the murder of union activist Frank Little. One review comments that Jackson, "best known for his Fang Mulheisen detective series, has taken a little-known historical incident and woven it into a fascinating tapestry of time, place, atmosphere, and character." SIGNED on the half title page. 278 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-939767317.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82018More details Price: $28.50 -
GO BY GO.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical novel, set in Butte Montana where a young Pinkerton detective was sent to assist in busting the union, when the miners spontaneously walked out after a deadly accident, activities which result in the murder of union activist Frank Little. One review comments that Jackson, "best known for his Fang Mulheisen detective series, has taken a little-known historical incident and woven it into a fascinating tapestry of time, place, atmosphere, and character." SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the month of publication. 278 pp. Photographic endpapers. ISBN: 0-939767317.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82019More details Price: $31.50 -
THE WILLOW FIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first novel (preceded by short fiction, essays and a memoir) - one which "stretches over the 20th century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it. Rossie Benascos horseback existence begins when he's 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than two hundred head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary, through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, across virgin wilderness, failed homesteads, ghost towns, squatters' camps, and Indian settlements." SIGNED on the title page 339 pp. ISBN: 1400040973.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 67702More details Price: $60.00 -
THE WILLOW FIELD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel (preceded by short fiction, essays and a memoir) - one which "stretches over the 20th century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it. Rossie Benascos horseback existence begins when he's 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than two hundred head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary, through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, across virgin wilderness, failed homesteads, ghost towns, squatters' camps, and Indian settlements." 339 pp. ISBN: 1400040973.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 74264More details Price: $21.50 -
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF WILLIAM KITTREDGE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 13 stories by this Western writer. Barry Lopez calls "stories of laconic isolated men and prodding women. .. genuine, unflinching and tender." SIGNED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 1555973841.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68376More details Price: $50.00