New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - North Dakota-born author's second novel, one with stories within stories, with settings ranging from Vietnam to Paris, from 1930's New York to Algeria in its fight for independence, one which "sifts through the legacy of a legendary blues singer - her music, her passions, her gifts for self-creation and self-destruction, as it charts the efforts of her son, a photojournalist specializing in war, to find his unknown father." 254 pp. ISBN: 0-394-558790.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, set on the Great plains where the construction of a golf course in 1972 unearths a forgotten frontier cemetery. While the remains of the white settlers are laid to rest, the skeleton of the lone Sioux girl found there is sent to a museum, igniting the 20 year long Bones War. SIGNED on the half title page. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-679425071.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition - North Dakota-born author's second novel, one with stories within stories, with settings ranging from Vietnam to Paris, from 1930's New York to Algeria in its fight for independence, one which "sifts through the legacy of a legendary blues singer - her music, her passions, her gifts for self-creation and self-destruction, as it charts the efforts of her son, a photojournalist specializing in war, to find his unknown father." 2548 pp

New York: International Publishers, (1949). First edition - Fourth collection of poems by this radical North Dakota-born author (in 1953, he was dismissed from his teaching post in California for being an unfriendly witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities). 32 pp.