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MEAN TIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a novel set in a small Southwestern town where three people - an ex-convict murderer, his wife, and a snake-charmer / hired-hand - are entangled in a deadly triangle. Cover praise from Reynolds Price and Mary Gordon. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525574.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58743More details Price: $17.50 -
CHILD OF A RAINLESS YEAR.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005). First edition - A fantasy novel shot through with the magic of the Southwest. After her foster parents die, middle-aged Mira Fenn learns that she still owns the Las Vegas, New Mexico house where she spent the first years of her life before her mother disappeared. Travelling back to New Mexico, she finds the house painted in innumerable colors on the outside - and things get stranger still.. . "The silent women reappear. Even as Mira begins to suspect the power to which she may be heir, the house itself appears to be waking up"." 400 pp. ISBN: 0-765315130.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 83547More details Price: $14.50 -
THEFT: A Novel
Edition: Trade paperback original - 5th printing.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, recipient of The Dana Award for a novel-in-progress. Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle remorse. SIGNED on the title page. List of resources about the Mexican wolf. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1582438191.
Condition: Very good (edges of textblock bumped, crease to upper corner of rear cover)
Book ID: 81081More details Price: $16.50 -
A GUIDE TO GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS OF THE YUMA AND LOWER COLORADO REGION: Tumco, Castle Dome, Fortuna, Kofa, Polaris, Picacho.
Edition: Revised edition.
Yum, AZ: By the author, (1988. c 1980). Detailed information about the old mining camps of Kofa, Polaris, Castle Dome, Picacho, Tumco, Fortuna with with maps and photographs of each, and a short list of some sidelights in the area. 32 pp.
Condition: Fine in stiff stapled illustrated gold wrappers,
Book ID: 82936More details Price: $16.50 -
EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Community Histories.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1998). First edition - Articles by Dino Cinel, David M. Emmons, Dean L. May and others on several different types of immigrant communities: Southestern Indians, Spanish Missions; Swedish Settlement of Dakota; English Mormon Migration to Alpine, Utah; Italians in San Francisco; Irish Miners in Montana; Women of Block, Kansas 1868-1940; Czech Farmers & Mexican Laborers in South Texas 1880-1930 and more. Introduction by Luebke. Notes, select bibliography, index. xix, 198 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-19920.
Condition: Very good in printed wrappers (a few corners dog-eared)
Book ID: 58424More details Price: $15.00 -
ALIBI CREEK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, (2016). First edition - The author's first novel, published as a trade paperback original, set on a small family ranch in New Mexico. "Following a two-year prison stint, charming and wily Walker returns to his family's New Mexico ranch, where his pious older sister Lee Ann is busy caring for their mother, raising two sons, and grappling with unethical workplace demands." 274 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66481More details Price: $18.00 -
PAINTED TURTLE: Woman with Guitar.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel about Painted Turtle, a Zuni folk singer, who first appeared in 'My Amputations.' 159 pp. ISBN: 1557130028.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 58112More details Price: $13.50 -
THE KISSING CAMELS: Dromedarious And Camela.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Clermont, FL: Jawbone Publishing Corporation, (2006.). SIGNED first edition - This story of two young camels, who run away together in the American Southwest conveys a lot of information about the geography, history, and Indian culture. Ends in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Illustrated in full color by Jose Marquez. INSCRIBED on the title page by the illustrator. ISBN: 1590941152.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 47935More details Price: $16.00 -
DEATH OF AN EVANGELISTA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post on the 'frontera' - in Presidio County, Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, a series steeped on the history of the area. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-198531.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52526More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH OF A MYTH MAKER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery featuring Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post on the 'frontera' - in Presidio County, Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, a series steeped on the history of the area. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-312-252412.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52528More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH OF A HEALING WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery featuring Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post on the 'frontera' - in Presidio County, Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, a series steeped on the history of the area. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-145810.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (peeled spot on back cover of dj.) .
Book ID: 52579More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH OF A HEALING WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first mystery featuring Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post on the 'frontera' - in Presidio County, Texas, just across the Rio Grande from Mexico, a series steeped on the history of the area. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-145810.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52883More details Price: $30.00 -
FOREVER FRONTIER: The Gila Cliff Dwellings.
Edition: Fourth printing, a slim trade paperback.
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico, 1967 (1991). A study of the Gila Cliff Dwellings in the Mogollons in New Mexico and of the civilization that resided there. Photographs, bibliography and Index, 62 pp. ISBN: 0-961535903.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 59905More details Price: $11.50 -
THE JUDAS JUDGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring New Mexico police chief Kevin Kerney. SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0- 525-945474.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83001More details Price: $30.00 -
SERPENT GATE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring former rancher and now deputy chief of the New Mexico state police, Kevin Kerney. Third novel in this highly praised series. SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684-850761.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81964More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BIG GAMBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring New Mexico police chief Kevin Kerney SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 4 0 6 31.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (4 numbers written on endpaper.)
Book ID: 50087More details Price: $25.00 -
DEATH SONG.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Kevin Kerney, set in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780525950363.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50132More details Price: $25.00 -
UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-525-946047.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 50133More details Price: $30.00 -
SLOWKILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94799x.
Condition: Good only in a fine dustjacket. (binding cracked before title page, but otherwise tight and clean.)
Book ID: 50135More details Price: $20.00 -
HERMIT'S PEAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the m y s t e r y series featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94799x.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket (some sunning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 50136More details Price: $18.50 -
EVERYONE DIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94799x.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 50138More details Price: $24.00 -
THE BIG GAMBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring New Mexico police chief Kevin Kerney. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 4 0 6 31.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps.)
Book ID: 51289More details Price: $24.00 -
THE JUDAS JUDGE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring New Mexico police chief Kevin Kerney. INSCRIBED on the title page "for -- All the best." 274 pp. ISBN: 0- 525-945474.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 51399More details Price: $25.00 -
MEXICAN HAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Kevin Kerney, ex Santa Fe chief of detectives and ex-rancher. A story of poachers, murder, militias, and family secrets set in the picturesque Gila wilderness of southwestern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. Dust jacket art by Peter de la Fuente, a fourth generation artist in the W. C. Wyeth family. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 4 0 6 31.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52175More details Price: $35.00 -
HERMIT'S PEAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the m y s t e r y series featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94799x.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj).
Book ID: 52394More details Price: $28.50 -
TULAROSA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Kevin Kerney, ex Santa Fe chief of detectives and ex-rancher. SIGNED on the title page. 304 pp. Dust jacket art by Peter de la Fuente, a fourth generation artist in the W. C. Wyeth family. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 39226.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52417More details Price: $40.00 -
UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - M y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-525-946047.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52980More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BIG GAMBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The seventh m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring New Mexico police chief Kevin Kerney. SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 4 0 6 31.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56488More details Price: $30.00 -
MEXICAN HAT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second m y s t e r y n o v e l featuring Kevin Kerney, ex Santa Fe chief of detectives and ex-rancher. A story of poachers, murder, militias, and family secrets set in the picturesque Gila wilderness of southwestern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 316 pp. Dust jacket art by Peter de la Fuente, a fourth generation artist in the W. C. Wyeth family. ISBN: 0- 3 9 3 -0 4 0 6 31.
Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (spine slightly cocked.)
Book ID: 56815More details Price: $25.00 -
HERMIT'S PEAK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in the m y s t e r y series featuring Santa Fe police chief, Kevin Kerney. Great New Mexico setting. SIGNED on title page. 315 pp. ISBN: 0-525-94799x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60055More details Price: $30.00
