Las Vegas: Huntington Press, (2010). First edition - A book which shows a side of Las Vegas rarely seen - Stories from a "seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont street.. . They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless and they're set under Caesar's Palace and in trailer parks (many of them closing with the tenants being forced out) and weekly motels. Illustrated with photographs by Bill Hughes. 227 pp. ISBN: 1-935396412.

New York: St Martin's, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second in the Red Diamond series, featuring a 1980's New York cabbie who thinks he is a 1940's private eye. Set in Las Vegas, where he has been hired by a billionaire Texas casino owner to clean up the gangsters who have been infiltrating the clubs and hotels. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312002602.

Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the third volume of this Basque family trilogy, Leon, the oldest son of immigrant parents, debates whether or not to enter politics. Set in the 1960s this reveals both sides of Nevada - traditional cowboy country and Las Vegas where anything goes. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-874172519.

Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - In the second volume of this Basque family trilogy, "Peter journeys to his parents' native land to learn more about his mother's secret past. The "child" in the title is the narrator's mother, Maitia, whose life has been tainted by her illegitimacy. Laxalt brings a mythopoeic solemnity to the reconstructed experiences of both Maitia, growing up in a tiny Basque village, and Petya, a youth whose family sends him to the American West after he witnesses a murder." (Publishers Weekly) 153 pp. ISBN: 0-874171962.

Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover - A reissue of Laxalt's first novel, originally published in 1964 - a sometimes shocking story told simply and concisely. "Father Savio Lazzaroni is obsessed with a vision of evil. Mayor Manuel Cafferata is only concerned with his own standing in a tiny village peopled with Italian immigrants. Into their isolated town comes Smale Calder, the first outsider to set up business in the tightly knit society. The events that befall these three men and the villagers reveal the chilling ways in which people deal with fear and prejudice. When Calder's secret passion for rattlesnakes is discovered, the lives of all involved are changed in a dramatic sequence of emotions and events." 178 pp. ISBN: 0-87417130X.

University of Nebraska Press, (2012). First edition - Using Virgina City, the boomtown Nevada town in the Comstock Lode and once one of the richest places in the country, as a microcosm of the American West, this book shows how archeology can help bring the past to life -From pieces of a Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle, to shards of a ceramic pot, from reports of local saloons to plans for the cemetery, each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. Atitle in the "Historical Archaeology of the American West" series. "Photographs, notes, bibliography. xxii, 143 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a collection of 15 interlinked short stories, set in Montana and Nevada: "part Hemingway sparseness, part lush poetry" - and most featuring Harry Drake, a man in search of himself in a rootless America. Cover praise from James Dickey and Barry Hannah (who called this "utterly magnificent.") 176 pp. ISBN: 0-394587235.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). First edition - A contemporary Western novel about finding your way, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and an ALA Notable Book. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who has spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains of Nevada. The Reeses treat him like a son, but he can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents, and so he decides to leave and prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Vlautin's books have been praised by such diverse writers as Craig Johnson, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Patchett and many others. 269 pp

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching land development , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.

New York: Exposition Press, (1955) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of poems and brief essays, some humorous, and mostly on "domestic" topics by this Nevada educator. Also includes 4 poems by Ruthetta Seegmiller and 1 by Grace Seegmiller. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 88 pp.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot - an arsonist is setting forest fires, and the first one narrowly misses McKenna's cabin. SIGNED on title page. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for best mystery, 319 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-12x.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2004.). SIGNED first edition - Fourth mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. SIGNED on the title page. Map 320 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.

Palo Alto, CA: The American West Publishing Co., (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - "For five months, Frank Leslie and his ''Excursion to the Pacific'' traveled by private railroad car. They stopped over in Chicago, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, and San Francisco. They peeked into gambling casinos, opium dens, and mining camps; banqueted with Comstock silver kings and reported every detail of their trip to readers of the newspaper." This is the first time the story has been assembled book form, complete with the original drawings from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. In addition this trip has been coupled with an account of the same journey by an American writer 90 years later. Footnotes (at end), index. Large format, a heavy book. 207 pp.

Lakeport, CA: Wesanne Publications, (1992.). SIGNED - Brief biographies of 15 19th century women, each of whom left their mark on California and Nevada - including Eliza Cook, Nevada's first woman doctor, Lily Langtree, Eilley Orrum, Charley Parkhurst, stage coach driver, and others. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED on the half title page. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-961908815.

New York: Harper Collins, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The ninth and final novel in Maupin's "Tales of the City" series, this follows Anna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she, now 92, embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past as a child in Depression era rural Nevada. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp.

Berkeley, CA: The Friends of Bancroft Library, 1972. First edition - Number 20 in the Keepsakes series produced for members of The Friends of the Bancroft Library. Three different scenarios of a mining incident in Nevada Territory are presented - the final version is Chapter 34 in Twain's Roughing It. Includes background historical material and editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch. No. 20 in series of Keepsakes of Friends of the Bancroft Library. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated. Fold-out page reprint from the Daily Call with a letter from Mark Twain attached inside back cover. 64 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. First edition - A novel set in 1950s Las Vegas and Hollywood - the title refers, in part, to the wind after the testing of an atomic bomb - a spectacle that was considered entertainment in that era. 324 pp.

New York: Five Star / Gale, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - Unusual thriller set in Las Vegas and the desert around it, featuring a black limousine driver, the son of a cop, brain-damaged in an accidental shooting, and a young woman who came to Vegas to make it big as a dancer. "Limousine driver Micah Donovan prides himself on his discretion. Regardless of what transpires in the back of his car every night, he keeps his eyes on the road and his heart so far away that he can no longer reach it. But something's different tonight in Las Vegas. The driver's wealthy client, Austin Savlodar, is the malicious son of an imprisoned gangster." 338 pp. ISBN: 978-1432828660.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot - an arsonist is setting forest fires, and the first one narrowly misses McKenna's cabin. INSCRIBED on title page. "--- A hot tale in the mountains of Tahoe! Enjoy." Winner of the Benjamin Franklin award for best mystery, 319 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-12x.

South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2001). SIGNED - First mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna (and his Great Dane Spot), and his girlfriend, forensic entomologist Street Casey. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Enjoy." 256 pp. ISBN: 1-931296-111.

By the author, (1980). Illustrated with many vintage photographs of this Nevada mining town - pictures of historic homes and buildings, street scenes, schools, group photos of workers, school children, the red light district, Chinese labor, and more. 44 pp.

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.

New York: Norton, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief but provocative collection of essays, triggered by a move to Las Vegas one summer: D'Agata "begins to follow a story about the federal governmentÕs plan to store high-level nuclear waste at a place called Yucca Mountain, a desert range near the city of Las Vegas" and winds up with a re-examination of the future of human life. Notes. 236 pp. ISBN: 978-0393068184.

New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, (1961) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of her years in the West - born in South Dakota, she moved to Nevada where she spent 5 years hunting and trapping and ranching. She became a prominent livestock rancher, but went bankrupt during the Depression of 1935, so she moved to California and then to Alaska where she spent 10 years on the frontier. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. First edition - An extensively researched and sensitive portrait of Sarah, daughter of Chief Winnemucca in north western Nevada, and the granddaughter of Chief Truckee. A pioneering educator, interpretor, author of what is believed to be the first book by a Native American woman, she worked tirelessly on behalf of her people. Illustrated with photographs.A title in the American Indian Lives series. Map,notes, bibliography. xi, 356 pp.

New York: Walker, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A stand-alone suspense novel by this award-winning author, set in Death Valley, California and Las Vegas. 206 pp. ISBN: 978-082717139.

Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, (2012). First edition - An account of Annie Johnston - "Wild Horse Annie" - twenty-seven year fight to save the mustangs from slaughter - and to establish refuges for them, not just in her state of Nevada but across the West. Although it seemed like she had succeeded when Congress passed the Wild Free Horse and Burro Act in 1971, and the Supreme Court upheld it, there have been many setbacks since - both legislative and bureaucratic. Still, without the efforts of this shy Nevada horsewife, there would probably not be any mustangs in the wild at all. Illustrated with photographs. Notes. xiv, 212 pp.