New York: Scribner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel (sixth book) by this prize-winning writer, set in a small town in the Texas panhandle, an area which has witnessed the death of the great cattle ranches and now it is "feed lots, hog farms and ever expanding drylands." 361 pp. ISBN: 0-684-813076.

Tucson: The Palo Verde Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first separate publication of this excerpt of perhaps the most interesting section of a work originally published in 1870 - that is a description of Pumpelly's 8 months in Arizona, including his harrowing stagecoach ride to Tucson and his efforts along with Charles Poston to develop mines in Southern Arizona - at Santa Rita and elsewhere. Preface by Will Rogers Jr. Introduction and annotations by Andrew Wallace. Photographs, doublepage map, index. xii, 141 pp Illustrated endpapers.

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.

Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 1986. First edition - Feminist poet, writer, photographer and activist's account of her re-adjustment to life in the United States after 25 years of voluntary exile and work among women in Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua. In 1985, the INS denied her resident status because of her writings. Illustrated with many of her photographs. INSCRIBED on the title page 'For Sandra, in struggle.' 350 pages. ISBN: 0-919573-533.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - "Nine miles down a primitive trail, over hills of sand and rock, across ankle-deep streams, and around mires of quickmud lies Kiet Seel, a thirteenth-century ancestral Puebloan ruin. This is the place, ancient and enduring, from which Margaret Randall begins her meditations in Stones Witness.. . Her words and photographs take us from the paintings surviving on the walls of Kiet Seel to the paintings preserved on the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With her we visit red rock canyons, touch ancient stones, and feel the ebb and flow of the natural world." SIGNED on the first page and dated March 13, 2010. A beautiful book, a collection of poems, prose-poems and full color photographs. Notes, 180 pp. ISBN: 9780816526437.

Boston: Little Brown, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a thriller set in the Arizona desert, one which "explores the shadowy borderlands between cyncism and amorality.. . this is a rattlesnake of a book" (Barbara Kingsolver). 208 pp. ISBN: 0-316746568.

New York: Bantam, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Edgar-winning author's 3rd mystery, set in San Antonio featuring Tres Navarre, tequila drinker, tai chi master and unlicensed P.I, and the first one in the series to be published in hardcover. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-553-801562.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (2006.). SIGNED - An interrelated series of poems by this award-winning Arizona poet - they tell of a lifelong love story that unfolds along the Mexican-American border. His poems trace the lives and loves of an elderly couple - Clemente and Ventura - through their childhood and courtship to marriage, maturity, old age, and death. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon thus. 115 pp. ISBN: 9781556592591.

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: Janos Gat Gallery, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Introductory essays by Ronald Kuchta and James Mann, curators of the Las Vegas art museum. Illustrated with full color photographs in which the dramatic and striking sculptures of Ross float against the equally dramatic and sculpted red rocks and blue sky of the southwestern desert - the photographs are from Valley of Fire State Park and Red Rock Canyon in Nevada. Large format, unpaginated, printed on heavy glossy stock. ISBN: 0-967840422.

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book on the wild horses of the West - Little Pinto is only three weeks old, so will he be able to escape the danger of the planes that round up the mustangs? Includes an afterword on the history of the mustangs and the laws which were designed to protect them and a glossary. INSCRIBED by the illustrator, Daniel San Souci, on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated. Oblong format. ISBN: 0-763615544.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1993.). The first major English language interpretation of Charreria: "a complex tradition of parades, competitions, costumes, music, and social events celebrating the Mexican horseman. A uniquely New World celebration that rivals rodeo in its extraordinary levels of sophistication and performance, it offers those of Mexican descent a source of pride in their heritage....describes the evolution of this equestrian tradition, highlighting the role of horsemen and women throughout Mexico's history." Photographs. Notes, glossary, references, index. xix, 344 pp. ISBN: 0-816513465.

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.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1971.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the 1970 US award at the International Poetry forum. A collection of 47 poems, most set in the desert-mountains of Southern Arizona. INSCRIBED and dated on the page opposite the title page. "For -- an old book from an old writer." 73 pp. ISBN: 0-8229-32121.

Philadelphia: Intrigue Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Ben Pecos mystery, set in New Mexico, involving the crash landing of a fighter stealth plane on the reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 1-890768413.

New York: Norton, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set among the American Indians in the Southwest by this Edgar-nominated writer who is himself half Pueblo. Basis of the movie of the same name. Map endpapers of the Painted Desert of Arizona. 255 pp. Dustjacket illustration by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-393-087832.

Chapel Hill, NC: Professional Press, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Three novellas set in three different fictional desert oases - Covington's Cave, Cave Springs near Death Valley and Anasazi Canyon. SIGNED on the illustrated title page with the word "Enjoy." x, 298 pp. ISBN: 978-1570878039.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of the frontier in the 1850s, and of two ornery, strong-willed individuals - one a woman homesteading on her own, the other a drifter and claim-jumper - yoked together in the most unlikely of undertakings - that is, acting as "homesman" and escorting four women who have gone mad from the isolation back to the East. Basis for the 2014 film of the same name directed by Tommy Lee Jones and starring Jones and Hilary Swank. 239 pp. ISBN: 1-555842356.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-1590588147.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-312-333854.

Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, part-time history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 206 pp. ISBN: 1-590583183.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring David Mapstone, former history professor, now a consultant and deputy in the Sheriff's department, working on cold cases that become very hot. SIGNED on the title page. This series is especially interesting for the picture it paints of modern Phoenix, a city which literally exploded in size from a city of 100,000 in 1950 to over 4 million now. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-312-304048.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1924.). Hardcover - The adventures of a young collie on a sheep ranch in the Southwest. Frontipiece. An afterword in which Terhune describes the real dog from Sunnybank who served as his inspiration and model for Treve. 312 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Aspen Books, 1992. First edition - First solo book by Thayer and first mystery featuring the 'inimitable, middle-aged, supersleuth' Minnetonka Howard. Set in a small Utah town by this author who was born in Logan, Utah, raised in Layton, and living in Provo at the time this was published. 244 pp. Cover art by Judith Mehr. ISBN: 1-56236-3050.

Salt Lake City, Utah: Aspen Books, 1992. First edition - First solo book by Thayer and first mystery featuring the 'inimitable, middle-aged, supersleuth' Minnetonka Howard. Set in a small Utah town by this author who was born in Logan, Utah, raised in Layton, and living in Provo at the time this was published. 244 pp. Cover art by Judith Mehr. ISBN: 1-56236-3050.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small town in Arizona - in a thinly disguised Bisbee, Cochise County. The third novel featuring victim advocate Chloe Newcomb. Great atmosphere. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-280416.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery set in a small town in Arizona - in a thinly disguised Bisbee, Cochise County. Fourth novel featuring victim advocate Chloe Newcomb. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-312-333194.

New York: St Martin's, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Sister Agatha mystery, set in a small town in New Mexico. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-312-36737.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth Sister Agatha mystery, set in the small town of Bernalillo in New Mexico. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-312-36737.