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OCCUPIED AMERICA: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper Collins, (1980, c 1972). A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of the Southwest to remember the Alamo in Texas, to California and the Delano strike, the deportations of the 1930s and more. Notes, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-06380350X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88552More details Price: $18.00 -
ROCKET CITY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5096More details Price: $16.50 -
ROCKET CITY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59318More details Price: $28.50 -
ALBURQUERQUE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87086More details Price: $21.50 -
THE LAND OF JOURNEYS' ENDING.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in yellow cloth illustrated in red and black with black lettering. Some toning to the endpaper, but otherwise an unusually clean and attractive copy, bright covers, lacking the dj. Uncommon in the first edition, especially in this condition.
Book ID: 37305More details Price: $80.00 -
BLACK MESA POEMS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Good overall -some creasing to the covers, contents clean.
Book ID: 65650More details Price: $9.50 -
BLACK MESA POEMS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and tape-reinforced spine, but otherwise tight and clean
Book ID: 50469More details Price: $13.50 -
THE REPLACEMENT CHILD.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like fine dustjacket (embossed seal of prev owner.)
Book ID: 65408More details Price: $18.00 -
THE NEW WOLVES.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80209More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GHOST OCEAN.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63591More details Price: $18.50 -
WHERE THE WATERS DIVIDE: A Walk Along America's Continental Divide.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket.(remainder line)
Book ID: 52958More details Price: $17.50 -
GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87323More details Price: $45.00 -
CHACO CANYON.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 48248More details Price: $30.00 -
INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF A CACTUS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 73069More details Price: $25.00 -
ARIZONA IN LITERATURE: A Collection of the Best Writings of Arizona Authors from Early Spanish Days to the Present Time.
Edition: Reprint.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in turquoise boards with gilt lettering on the spine (upper corner bumped).
Book ID: 79846More details Price: $20.00 -
FADE THE HEAT.
Edition: First printing.
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.) E d g a r n o m i n e e . SIGNED on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0 - 6 7 1 - 7 0 2 6 0 2.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 47034More details Price: $25.00 -
CUTTING STONE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60251More details Price: $30.00 -
CUTTING STONE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (preliminary pages are loosely laid in)
Book ID: 60250More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: Dispatches from the Border.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73052More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGH COUNTRY CANVAS.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76867More details Price: $16.50 -
NATURAL CONNECTIONS: Photographs by Paula Chamlee Accompanied by Selections from her Journals.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, a bit of sunning to the dj)
Book ID: 82997More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LIGHT POSSESSED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1990.). First edition - A novel inspired by the life of artist Georgia O'Keefe. 325 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50499More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LIGHT POSSESSED.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50476More details Price: $25.00 -
EAST BY SOUTHWEST
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, poems set within the stark desert terrain of Arizona and New Mexico.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (edgewear to top of dj.)
Book ID: 7575More details Price: $30.00 -
GOATWALKING: A Guide to Wildland Living.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 84216More details Price: $50.00 -
SIX MILES TO ROADSIDE BUSINESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a tiny settlement in the Utah desert, in a place which got its name "Roadside Business" from a highway sign. Ravel's father was a soldier on atomic test sites and, cancer-ridden, he "walked into the light" during a test and disappeared, and a strange cult developed around his disappearance. With his life and marriage disintegrating, Ravel had left Utah and now after several years, he has returned, walking across the desert. INSCRIBED on the title page. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394-581067.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81992More details Price: $30.00 -
SIX MILES TO ROADSIDE BUSINESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in a tiny settlement in the Utah desert, in a place which got its name "Roadside Business" from a highway sign. Ravel's father was a soldier on atomic test sites and, cancer-ridden, he "walked into the light" during a test and disappeared, and a strange cult developed around his disappearance. With his life and marriage disintegrating, Ravel had left Utah and now after several years, he has returned, walking across the desert. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-394-581067.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (little crinkling to top edge of dj.)
Book ID: 35541More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SHAMAN'S LAUGHS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel in the highly praised mystery series featuring the 'amiable, outsized Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon and his irrascible shaman aunt Daisy Perika.' Set in Southern Colorado. INSCRIBED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-312136013.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (some rubbing to the dj at the corners and light edgewear)
Book ID: 87425More details Price: $28.50 -
THE SHAMAN'S BONES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the highly praised mystery series featuring the 'amiable, outsized Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon and his irrascible shaman aunt Daisy Perika.' Set in Southern Colorado. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-380-97424x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87673More details Price: $21.50 -
THE AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1983.). A revised and enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1975 - a comprehensive one volume look at the culture and history of the various groups who settled in the Southwest - the Athabascans, the Utes and Paiutes, the Pueblo and Rancheria peoples and more. Illustrated with photographs. bibliography, index.. xxvii, 5 pp maps, 285 pp. ISBN: 0-826307043.
Condition: Very good in yellow glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 54292More details Price: $12.50