Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, a novel about three brothers, steel workers and sons of a stell worker, who find their dreams smashed when the youngest brother is killed in an industrial accident. Dust jacket praise from Tillie Olsen, Richard Russo, Charles Johnson and more. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-912697768.

Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A colorful cookbook with over 150 recipes, both traditional and modern, based on the indigenous regional cuisine of the Southwest, which was influenced and shaped by Native American, Hispanic, Mexican, Tex-Mex, and neighboring Cajun and Creole cuisines. Colorfully illustrated - so a pleasure to leaf through as well as to try. Sources, index. 192 pp. Tall format. ISBN: 0-89815-2453.

Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Described as an "apocalyptic fable" and as "a combination of political thriller, a sci-fi romp and a poetic medititation on history [which] confronts America's nuclear legacy and present lunacy with furious satire and haunting grace." In this novel the three scientists most responsible for the atom bomb - Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard - are displaced to modern America at the moment the first mushroom cloud formed over New Mexico, and are taken in by a reference librarian and her doting gardener husband. SIGNED on the title page. 489 pp. ISBN: 1932360859.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive history of the Acoma of New Mexico, one which traces the social, economic, and political history of the tribe beginning with its initial exposure to the white man over 400 years ago and its assimilation and adaptation of Spanish, Mexican and US institutions. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. Several appendices, bibliographical notes, index. Quarto, 180 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-826304028.

New York: Lee & Low Books, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of poems for children by this award-winning author - poems which celebrate the landscape and people and animals of the Southwest, colorfully illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez. INSCRIBED by Mora on the title page "For --- Happy reading" and dated in 1997 with a drawing of a smiling sun. Glossary. Large format, unpaginated,. ISBN: 1880000253.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1891.). Hardcover - A title in the Harper's Young People series. Adventures of a 17 year old, who as a baby was one of only two survivors of a train wreck, and who left his adopted father to find the answer to the mystery of his identity across the West - from Kansas to New Mexico, from Kit Carson's gold mine to a Mexican wedding. Illustrated with 21 plates. 333 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements.

New York: Henry Holt, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A brief novel of a romance between a 19 year old girl and a 50 year old man, set in New Mexico. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-19944.

New York: Macmillan, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by poet and author, the story of a young minister, a pacificist and an idealist, who discovers that there is another man inside him, a violent man, when he shoots a thug during an attempted holdup. Driven by a desire to atone, he only brings more destruction. Set in the show business underground of Nevada and California, and in the desert of New Mexico, this is the story of a man struggling against the violence in him. 437 pp.

New York: Avon, (1997). Story set in the revived New Mexico ghost town of Dry Water. Tim Powers described this book as 'full-throttle fantasy...yet solidly rooted in world history and the soil of the American Southwest.' 311 pp. Cover art by Donato. ISBN: 0-380-785420.

New York: Avon, (1998). Story set in the revived New Mexico ghost town of Dry Water. Tim Powers described this book as 'full-throttle fantasy...yet solidly rooted in world history and the soil of the American Southwest.' Includes an excerpt from Nylund's next novel, 'Signal to Noise.' 362 pp. ISBN: 0-380-796147.

New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in contemporary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where seven previously unknown Georgia O'Keefe paintings have reportedly been discovered. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-387848.

New York: Ballantine, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in a remote desert corner of New Mexico. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: 'For Bob, hope the forensics pass muster.'. ISBN: 0-345-379306.

New York: Ballantine, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, set in contemporary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where seven previously unknown Georgia O'Keefe paintings have reportedly been discovered. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-387848.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003). The third mystery novel featuring blind sculptor Mo Bowdrez; a film company is making a movie on location on tribal lands in New Mexico. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-28628.

New York: Ballantine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery novel introducing blind sculptor Mo Bowdrez and his Anglo-Hopi girlfriend Connie Barnes. Set in New Mexico. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345379284.

Waco, TX: WRS Publications, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful introduction to the work of this artist, a mestizo of Spanish and Yaqui Indian ancestry, born in Laredo, Texas, and living in New Mexico. Full color, full-page reproductions of forty-four of Pena's evocative paintings of the people and landscape of the Southwest, with his comments about the inspiration and thoughts behind each painting. Printed signature on the title page. Oblong format. 96 pp. ISBN: 1-56796-0618.

Tucson: University of Arizona - Arizona Educational Materials Center, (1982.). First edition - Stories of the Spanish conquest of the southwest, including California, and of the people involved. Also includes some discussion of culture change, then and now. Illustrated with maps and photographs. viii, 150 pp.

El Paso, TX: Bravo Press, (1998). SIGNED first edition - A history of the town of White Oaks, New Mexico, from its founding through its boom years as a mining town - the cover calls it "A True Western American Story . A Town Called Hearts Desire" Illustrated throughout with watercolors in full color (including one of Billy the Kid), maps, many drawings, reproductions of vintage photographs and modern photographs. SIGNED on the first page by the author/illustrator Bill Rakocy with the words 'from Old White Oaks' and dated in 2003. Oblong format. 175 pp. ISBN: 1-888711019.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1936. Hardcover - A rather hard to find stand-alone novel by the author of the Dorothy series, the story of two children, twins, living on a ranch on the border of old Mexico and New Mexico. The manuscript was originally titled ÒChildren of the Refugio" when it was sold by Stratemeyer to Penn, who first published it in 1909. Illustrated by Sarah A. Shreve with a glossy frontispiece. 333 pp.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Robert S. Cauthorn; introduction by Reed Way Dasenbrock. 13 essays, some quite brief, on U.S. Mexico borderlands and its influence on writers. Among the writers whose work is discussed are Rudolfo Anaya, Harvey Ferguson, Mary Austin, Miguel Mendez and more. Notes, bibliography, 147 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-12701.

New York: Macmillan, 1928. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Chapters on the missions, the 'Indian question,' irrigation, art, the animals and plants of the area, and much more. Illustrated with photographs by the author. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Index 558 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Tonatiuh International Inc., 1976. First edition - Novel of Gypsies and Payasos that wandered through the mountains of northern New Mexico. Illustrated with drawings by Dennis Martinez. ISBN: 0-89229-003x.

Costa Mesa, CA: Quality Words in Print (QWP), (2003.). First edition - Poet's account of her attempt to deal with grief and to move on in her own life, when her husband, Robert, a Zen priest, died of colitis at the age of 36. The title refers to a Buddhist teaching story. 207 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, the second mystery featuring Joshua Croft, set in New Mexico and the Southwest. SIGNED on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-312-042604.

New York: Pocket Books, 1998. First edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans reporter/sleuth Samantha Adams mystery, but set in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

New York: Pocket Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring New Orleans reporter/sleuth Samantha Adams mystery, but set in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-671-897535.

Albuquerque: Intrigue Press, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 5th mystery featuring Albuquerque CPA and private eye Charlie Parker. As Charlie is cleaning out the attic prior to her fiance's arrival, she discovers a cryptic notebook left by her father - and begins to realize that his death in a plane crash years before was suspicious. SIGNED by author on title page. ISBN: 0-964316110.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., nd (ca 1919). Hardcover - Originally published as a title in the Lucky Series, this is set against the backdrop of World War I on the border of New Mexico and Mexico, where the Germans are trying to persuade Mexico to declare war against the US, and other nefarious acts. Illustrated with 4 drawings on plain paper and illustrated endpapers by Neil O'Keefe. An unfortunate example of the worst in juvenile series, with poor writing and characterization , overt racism, and very cheaply produced, even for Whitman. 124 pp. small format, stapled text block printed on gray paper in illustrated paper-covered boards.