New York: Lyons Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An eloquent account of the difficult task of reintroducing the Mexican wolf to the US Southwest - New Mexico and Arizona - with the first release of 11 wolves onto the mesas, and also a discussion of the balance between nature and our need to control it. Map, small drawings by Elizabeth Hughes Bass at the head of each chapter. Despite the setbacks in the first year, now more than 20 years later the wolf population in the wild is growing although it is still small and endangered. xiii, 165 pp. ISBN: 1-558216979.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's third novel - "Teresina ("Tere") vila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working "in the hinterlands of life" in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her life is Lucio, a smooth-talking ne'er-do-well who will never leave his wife and ties Tere's heart in knots with a string of empty promises. Her diversions are few but intense, and center around her best fri, Irma, and her membership in the Pedro Infante Fan Club #256." 325 pp. ISBN: 0-374194114.

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1986. First edition - Her first collection of short stories, INSCRIBED in Spanish on the title page. The title story won the Puerto del Sol fiction award in 1985. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so with a personal inscription like this. ISBN: 0-934770-468.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, poems set within the stark desert terrain of Arizona and New Mexico.

Lakewood, CO: Unbridled Books, nd (c 1996). New Mexican author's first novel, one which collapses time, with the living and the dead occupying the same space over the generations. The first novel in his Guadalupe series, set in a remote town in Northern New Mexico. 214 pp. ISBN: 978-1932961966.

Lakewood, CO: Unbridled Books, (2009). First edition - New Mexican author's fourth novel in his Guadalupe series, set in a remote town in Northern New Mexico. After he death of Ruffino Trujillo, his son discovers an old canvas bag bearing the name of Madewell Brown. Inside along with an old blanket, a photo of a Negro League baseball team, is a "small, yellowing envelope that was never posted. Thinking it the least he can do, Cipriano mails the letter. When it arrives in Cairo, Illinois, it comes into the hands of a young woman named Rachael, who believes it is from her lost grandfather." 213 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999). First edition - The first novel by the director of such horror classics as 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' A techo-thriller, involving both the possibility of immortality (thus the title) and the developement of powerful new weapons, set in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Puerto Rico and Switzerland. 351 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel written by the Irvines under this pseudonym, introducing archeologist Nicolette Scott, who combines an interest in early planes with a more routine Anasazi dig with her father in the badlands of New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-312144377.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in a New Mexico mining town in 1880 where Jake Hollander, a mean hard man, former gunslinger and cardshark, finds himself the reluctant custodian of two Mexican orphans. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1269300.

New York: SOHO Press, (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Dine writer, set set in New MexicoÕs Navajo Nation, a book which is in "equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation." Winner of the 2022 Lefty Award for best first novel, longlisted for the National Book Award, finalist for the Pen, Anthony and Edgar awards and much more. Tommy Orange described it as "utterly unputdownable, a haunting thriller, written with exquisite suspense." SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 978-1641293334.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of Fort Union in New Mexico from its founding in 1851 until it was largely abandoned in 1891. It was the supply post and focal point for dealing with the Spanish and Indian population of New Mexico, and a major target of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, although it remained in Union hands. Foreword by W. S Wallace. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Appendix, bibliography and index.xvi, 436 pp.

Chicago: Swallow Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short novel, set in New Mexico in 1937, illustrated in black and white by Victor Seper. Among Rod Serling's papers is a screenplay based on this novel. 78 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.

Las Cruces, NM: Nightjar Press, 1989. SIGNED first edition - An annual anthology of prose and poetry. A presentation copy INSCRIBED opposite the table of contents by contributor Lois Lane "To ---- Good friend, fine artist, great supporter. It is my priviledge to know you" and dated in the year of publication. Lane's contributions include several short pieces and one long article "The Homesteader" is a history of settling the Gramma Valley in east-central New Mexico and of life during the early years of ranching there. This is also SIGNED by Lane on a map of Gramma Valley with "A Homesteader's Daughter" under her name. 147 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Ballantine, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two sisters in a small town in New Mexico. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-345439708.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of growing up (up to age 13) as the daughter of a wandering hippie mother and an absent father, in Northern California in the 1970's, and in New Mexico. Praise from Peter Coyote (who makes a brief appearance in this as a teacher at a free school) who calls this 'an insightful and riveting book about a hippie child gone bad.' SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780811859455.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Rydal Press, 1946. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study of the Canyon of El Rito de Los Frijoles in Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, exploring the many cave dwellings and ruins left by early indigenous inhabitants, and telling the story of the lost cliff dwellers in a popular and readable style. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, map endpapers, source material, glossary. 89 pgs + Index.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1993). A collection of essays about life in New Mexico by this author best known for his award winning mysteries set on the Navaho Reservation. Illustrated with photographs and small drawings. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-0530X.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - The first work to focus on the rich and varied historyof the women of New Mexico from colonial times to the modern era. This includes thirteen essays ranging from Native American women, the women who accompanied the conquistadores, the correspondance of an upper class Hispanic family, the lives of army followers and prostitutes, of farm wives, and in more modern times, of those women who are writers and artists. Illustrated with many photographs. Notes at the end of each chapters, sources and index. 409 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-08279.

Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at two young girls, 10 and 8, and how they live in the modern world with basketball, cheerleading and all the other things girls do, and also in the traditional world of the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Their mother, the great grand-daughter of the famous potter Maria Martinez, is a potter - but also works as a computer technician at Los Alamos. Illustrated with full-color photographs. ISBN: 1-57416-0206.

New York: Warner, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collaboration by this husband and wife, both masters of the thriller genre - introduces two new police detectives in two different cities, faced with two very different murders. Bound back to back. 147, 133 pp. ISBN: 0-446532967.

New York: The Viking Press, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel for young adults set at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1943 where 11 year old Dewey's father is one of the scientists working on "the gadget." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and Judy Lopez Award for Childrens Literature. Author's note. 321 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The border between the United States and Mexico covers 1,951 miles, and in this book Langewiesche attempts to understand and explain this no-man's land that exists between two countries and its effects on the people who live in the area. He "portrays not an imaginary line through the desert, but two distrustful, hopelessly unequal and increasingly zenophobic neighbor countries. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679411135.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diaries of Larkin, a young, properous businessman from St Louis, who travelled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health, edited and annotated by Barbour. with a foreword by Marc Simmons. Larkin travelled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856, and his diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians & New Mexican life. Includes appendices with newspaper accounts, some of his letters from 1866. Photographs, double page route map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-11830.

Trafford Publishing, (2007). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a series featuring FBI agent Dov Bar-Lev, In this he teams up with Santa Fe private investigator Thomas Kuzmic to solve the theft of an alien spacecraft, the kidnapping of two children, and the murder of the kidnapped children's father, a gifted linguist. INSCRIBED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 1-412085772.