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BLOOD RETRIBUTION: A Lee Nez Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Native American Lee Nez, a Navajo vampire and New Mexico State Policeman. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-765304422.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41245More details Price: $15.00 -
OF CHILES, CACTI, AND FIGHTING COCKS: Notes on the American West.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching landdevelopment , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. Nicely INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For --- something here maybe to help keep you warm. .. " and dated in Santa Fe in the year of publication. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 57682More details Price: $30.00 -
OF CHILES, CACTI, AND FIGHTING COCKS: Notes on the American West.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on the survivors of the old West - the wild horses (the battle to save them is still going on, years later), the saguara cactus and ever-encroaching land development , chiles and chili (including a recipe for Basic Texas Red Chili), the history of the Basques in Nevada mostly, and more. A combination of oral history and personal observations. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-86547-4281.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (lower corner of textblock bumped, some short tears to dj)
Book ID: 82161More details Price: $17.50 -
MIDNIGHT AT THE CAMPOSANTO.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a "Taos Festival mystery," set in Northern New Mexico. 258 pp. ISBN: 1890208302.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54323More details Price: $15.00 -
IN SEARCH OF SNOW.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52162More details Price: $35.00 -
IN SEARCH OF SNOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (second book) a picaresque story set in Arizona's racially-mixed society in the mid 1950's. Cover praise from Ursula Le Guin who calls it a 'very funny and tender novel....War, prize-fighting, drinking, macho hunkery, all end in a busted head and a life of grief. His luckless and endearing heroes, Mike and Bonifacio, won't ever get anywhere or do anything, but they have kind hearts and great souls. True romantics, cowless cowboys...always searching for snow in the desert, sometimes even finding it.' SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0170891.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59972More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGH NOON IN LINCOLN: Violence on the Western Frontier.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A case study in Western violence - the two year war in Lincoln county in New Mexico - often considered as part of the legend of Billy the Kid, this book looks at the deeper roots of the violence. "In research, writing, and interpretation, "High Noon in Lincoln" is a superb book. It is one of the best books (maybe the best) ever written on a violent episode in the West." (Richard Maxwell Brown) Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. xiii, 265 pp. ISBN: 0-82630981X.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner, some comments on half title page)
Book ID: 82825More details Price: $21.50 -
THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. SIGNED first edition - The third Neil Hamel mystery, set as spring is returning to Albuquerque, New Mexico. A relatively uncommon early advance issue. SIGNED on the title page.
Condition: Near fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 9877More details Price: $75.00 -
DITCH RIDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175133.
Condition: Very good- in near fine dust jacket (binding cracked before title page, rem line.)
Book ID: 17366More details Price: $19.00 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 24179More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOLF PATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168048.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder line bottom edge.)
Book ID: 27097More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WOLF PATH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168048.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 27098More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27099More details Price: $30.00 -
HOTSHOTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and southern Colorado where several young firefighters had perished in a fire. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175125.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the dj)
Book ID: 38308More details Price: $25.00 -
DITCH RIDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175133.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 45750More details Price: $25.00 -
THE OTHER SIDE OF DEATH
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Neil Hamel mystery - and spring is returning to Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-06-0165812.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 50478More details Price: $35.00 -
HOTSHOTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and southern Colorado where several young firefighters had perished in a fire. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175125.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51904More details Price: $30.00 -
NORTH OF THE BORDER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
London: Virago Press, (1990.). The first Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 170 pp. ISBN: 1853812471.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual light toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 57400More details Price: $10.00 -
LAND OF BURNING HEAT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Signet, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - A bibliomystery set in New Mexico featuring librarian and rare books expert Claire Reynier. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7394-32346.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61977More details Price: $13.50 -
THE LIES THAT BIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth Neil Hamel mystery, set in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0177055.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65880More details Price: $17.50 -
LA MARAVILLA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a nine-year-old boy struggling to find his place in the world - his mother has fled the old ways for life in California, his grandfather is a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother a Spanish curandera with a passion for the music of Duke Ellington. Set in 1958 in the desert outside Phoenix on Buckeye Road, an area of adobes, tar paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and an indomintable spirit symbolized by la maravilla - the blanket of marigolds laid upon graves in Mexican cemeteries. INSCRIBED (in Spanish) on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935886.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54738More details Price: $30.00 -
DESERT RAGE: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery set in Arizona, featuring private investigator Lena Jones. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1464203107.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 69219More details Price: $25.00 -
DESERT WIVES: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring private investigator Lena Jones, who helps thirteen year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound in a desolate area straddling the Utah - Arizona border. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note 300 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69229More details Price: $25.00 -
DESERT NOIR: A Lena Jones Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first mystery introducing Scottsdale private investigator Lena Jones, a survivor of dozens of foster homes, who becomes involved in investigating the murder of a gallery owner. SIGNED on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 1-590580303.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69355More details Price: $25.00 -
FOOD, DIET, AND POPULATION AT PREHISTORIC ARROYO HONDO PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press, (1986). First edition - Includes additional reports - Ethnobotanical Pollen by Vorsila L. Bohrer and Artifacts of Woody Materials by Richard W. Lang. Arroyo Hondo Archeological Series, Volume 6. Illustrations and tables. Notes, references. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-933452160.
Condition: Fine in glossy white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75849More details Price: $25.00 -
ARIZONA NIGHTS.
Edition: Vintage reprint - first thus.
Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, (1937) dj. Hardcover - A substantial collection of stories set in the plains and desert lands of the Southwest, originally published in 1907. Divided into three parts - Arizona Nights, The Two Gun Man and The Rawhide. Glossy frontispiece and dj art by L. C. Wyeth. 351 pp.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with orange lettering on spine (gift inscription on rear endpaper in a worn dust jacket with some loss at the ends of the spine, overall edgewear. Uncommon in dust jacket even on reprint editions. Dust jacket now protected by an archival cover.
Book ID: 86107More details Price: $35.00 -
DISTANT BUGLES, DISTANT DRUMS: The Union Response to the Confederate Invasion of New Mexico.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2006). First edition - A look at an almost unknown episode in the Civil War from the Union perspective. Based on diaries, letters and contemporary newspaper accounts, this account describes the recruitment of 1,000 men in Colorado, their epic march to Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, and their triumph over 3,000 Confederate (mostly Texan) soldiers. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Notes, bibliography. xix, 278 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80128More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SALAZAR GRANT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Rinehart, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, a mystery set in the old mining towns of New Mexico. 253 pp. Dust jacket design by Bill Feder.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (tanning to the pages, edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 45079More details Price: $18.00 -
SHAMAN'S CIRCLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collaboration between the Santa Fe poet, novelist and photographer Nancy Wood and the artist Frank Howell, who is known for his stunning paintings of Native Americans. In this book, written for older children, "poetry and paintings follow the cycle of nature and human life as seen through the traditional beliefs and rituals of the Taos Indians of the American Southwest. " Large format. Index, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-385309279.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper)
Book ID: 83560More details Price: $21.50 -
NOT OF WAR ONLY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Tom Doherty Assoc, 1994. First edition - Epic novel of the Mexican Revolution of 1914; blurbs by Tony Hillerman among others. Author has won the Golden Spur award twice.
Condition: Very good (crease on front cover) in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 2184More details Price: $14.50
