Del Mar, CA: Kumquat Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A humorous children's tale of perserverance and courage set 'long, long ago in Castle Rock, Colorado." Whistle pig is the name given to marmots. Illustrated in full color by Jim Harris, Includes 2 pp of cowboy lingo. Large oblong format, unpaginated.(32 pp.). ISBN: 1887218009.

Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the Southwest of empty motels, atomic test sites and love affairs in road-strung desert towns. DJ praise from James Crumley and Stephen Dixon, among others. 347 pp. ISBN: 1878448625.

Aspen, CO: MacMurray & Beck, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel set in the Southwest of empty motels, atomic test sites and love affairs in road-strung desert towns. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from James Crumley and Stephen Dixon, among others. 347 pp. ISBN: 1878448625.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young man's search for his father and a city coming to grips with the complexities of modern urban development. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-13590.

New York: Century, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - Classic work on New Mexico by this Illinois-born author, who migrated to California where she lived first in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and later in the Carmel area (where the writers Jack London and George Sterling also lived and wrote,) and who finally moved to Santa Fe as a result of her work on this book A lovely book illustrated with full page and smaller en texte drawings and chapter headpieces by John Edwin Jackson. Quotations, glossary. ix, 459 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1989.). A collection of poems rooted in the American Southwest by this award-winning writer. Glossary. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11029.

New York: New Directions, (1989.). First edition - A collection of poems rooted in the American Southwest by this award-winning writer. Glossary. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-11029.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book (her first won the Tony Hillerman Prize), a mystery set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, featuring Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-312-593503.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a mystery set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, introducing editor Lucy Newroe and Detective Sergeant Gilbert Montoya. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-312-385544.

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.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of modern-day crime and violence set in the border area between southwestern New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Foreword by Max Evans. vii, 280 pp. ISBN: 0-826331947.

New York: Harmony, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a New York husband-and-wife team's 182-day, 2580-mile walk along the Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada. Maps, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-517-588048.

n.p. [Los Angeles:] [The Symposium Press,] n.d. [1988.]. SIGNED first edition - A slightly oversized chapbook containing one long poem. Cover photo of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon by Paul Logsdon. SIGNED inside the rear cover.While Bowers published relatively few poems during a long career, in his obituary Arthur Mortenson comments that "there are few, if any, American poets in the last fifty years who have produced work of such tender and thoughtful elegance." 8 pp. ISBN: 0-936576146.

New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1970. Hardcover - Originally published in 1934, so "present time" refers to the early 1930s. When it was published, it was the only extensive listing of Arizona literature. Arranged topically - adventurers, novels, poetry, biography, legends, translations from Spanish, etc - this includes brief biographical notes on each author and a selection from their work. Index, 574 pp. ISBN: 0-838311687.

New York: Pocket Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised legal thriller set in San Antonio,Texas (the author is a former district attorney in San Antonio.) Edgar nominee. SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-671-702602.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition - Author's seventh novel - she has been nominated for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award - set in the Arizona border town of Bowie in the early 1900s - 'a Western epic drawn in delicate nuances of character and theme.' SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's seventh novel - she has been nominated for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award - set i n the Arizona border town of Bowie - "a Western epic drawn in delicate nuances of character and theme." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-395-59300X.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an account of his four years in the Border Patrol, between 2008 to 2012, and afterwards - a book which reveals the violence our border and policies wreak on both sides. The son of a park ranger, Cant grew up in the southwest and when he joined the Border Patrol, he became a witness to the stark realities of the desert, where the obligations of his job weighed heavily against his sense of humanity. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp.

Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, (1972). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects fifty poems which depict the natural beauty of the desert high country, each accompanied by a full page drawing by Joe Rodriguez. SIGNED by Vada Carlson on the title page with "Sincerely." vii, 100 pp plus final drawing. Square format. ISBN: 0-873581016.

Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist's first book, a collection of 42 striking black and white photographs most rooted in the American southwest and west, printed one to a page each with a blank facing page, and interspersed with selections from her journals. Introductory essay by Estelle Jussim. Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-960564667.

Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Libraries, (1989). Hardcover first edition - An oral history - a memoir - by a man who came to Phoenix in 1926 as a 13 year old boy, riding the rails with his 14 year old brother, and who became an important figure in the growing city - Among other things, he owned radio and television stations in Phoenix and Tucson (he bought the radio station KPHO in Phoenix with his friend, the cowboy star Gene Autry, in he first of several such joint ventures) and was an influential collector of Arabian horses. Illustrated with photographs. ix, 214 pp. ISBN: 0-96119328X.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel inspired by the life of artist Georgia O'Keefe. SIGNED on the title page. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-87905-3631.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1990.). First edition - A novel inspired by the life of artist Georgia O'Keefe. 325 pp.

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

New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement - one which presents "his beliefs and experiences as a former goat raiser, naturalist, activist, and Quaker whose wanderings have led him to many locations in the United States and Latin America. [He] describes the brutality he has witnessed as an activist in the sanctuary movement.. and expounds upon human rights and civil disobedience in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Saul Alinsky, and Gandhi." (Library Journal)" Review copy with publisher's material, including a photograph of the author laid in. xi, 237 pp. ISBN: 0-670828467.

Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard Publishers / Charles T. Dillingham, (1882.). Hardcover first edition - The third and final volume in the Young Trail Hunters series as Hal Hyde and Ned Brown search for silver mines in Arizona and Mexico. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece, and 10 inserted plates. Although born in Massachusetts, Cozzens was for a time a district judge in Arizona, so this account is based on his own first hand experiences in the Southwest, and presumably he is the "judge" who narrates this tale. 343 pp plus 8 pp publisher's advertisements.

New York: Harper & Row, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel which begins in the concentration camps of World War II when an American Quaker ambulance driver meets a Dutch girl, the survivor of three years in the camp, and brings her to the American Southwest. 443 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0109955.