- Keyword = southwestern writers and the southwest
-
FORTY-SEVENTH STAR: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A definitive and readable look at why it took more than 60 years (from 1848 to 1912) for New Mexico to finally become a state. Photographs, map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xix, 362 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59273More details Price: $21.50 -
THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear to top edge of front cover, creasing to front flap of dj)
Book ID: 84441More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HEROIC TRIAD: Essays in the Social Energies of Three Southwestern Cultures.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Heinemann, (1971.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A return to the area of Horgan's Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winning work "The Great River" - the Rio Grande - and the peoples who lived near it: Hispanic, Indian, and Anglo. Bibliography, index. Map endpapers. xii, 256 pp. ISBN: 0-434-478202.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35128More details Price: $18.00 -
THE RETURN OF THE WEED.
Edition: First thus.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1980. dj. Hardcover first edition - A very attractive reissue of this collection of 6 short stories originally published in 1936. One of the stories in this book - 'The Hacienda' - is considered Horgan's most memorable story. Includes a new introduction by W. David Laird and the frontispiece is a serigraph by Mark Sanders, with the design repeated on the dustjacket. Includes a checklist of Horgan's major Southwestern writings. The first title in Southwestern Classics series. 100 pages. ISBN: 0-87358-1849.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18787More details Price: $30.00 -
THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his "Richard" series, which follows his young protaganist through the years. Set in the 1920s, Richard leaves college when his father becomes ill and is sent to Albuquerque for his tuberculosis. Meanwhile, after concern about his own health, he goes to work on a ranch to "toughen" himself up. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-374274665.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (small nick at top of spine of dj, rubbed spot to fold of front flap. .
Book ID: 80568More details Price: $18.50 -
THE COLLECTED STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1985_ dj. Hardcover first edition - The first complete collection of this writer's powerful short stories - includes twenty-two stories, many set in the Depression-era Texas of his youth. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-29400x.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (remainder spray bottom edge.)
Book ID: 21493More details Price: $21.50 -
PROUD FLESH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The matriach of a Texas country family - notorious for their clannishness and their excesses and violence - is dying and the entire family gathers around. Humphrey's third novel, winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award. 328 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394-466373.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (fading to the edges of the boards, binding a bit shaken, spine slightly sunned)
Book ID: 63611More details Price: $20.00 -
THE COLLECTED STORIES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Delacorte, (1985_ dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first complete collection of this writer's powerful short stories - includes twenty-two stories, many set in the Depression-era Texas of his youth. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-29400x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80888More details Price: $35.00 -
ADOBE AND IRON: The Story of the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma.
Edition: 2nd printing, just one year after the first, a trade paperback.
La Jolla, CA: Prospect Avenue Press, (1970.). A complete history of this prison from the time was it was first occupied by 15 felons in 1876 to its abandonment 34 years later. Illustrated throughout with photographs. 113 pp.
Condition: Very good in gold illustrated wrappers (light crease on front cover.)
Book ID: 56040More details Price: $12.00 -
NEW MEXICO WOMEN: Intercultural Perspectives.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1986.). SIGNED first edition - The first work to focus on the rich and varied historyof the women of New Mexico from colonial times to the modern era. This includes thirteen essays ranging from Native American women, the women who accompanied the conquistadores, the correspondance of an upper class Hispanic family, the lives of army followers and prostitutes, of farm wives, and in more modern times, of those women who are writers and artists. Illustrated with many photographs. Notes at the end of each chapters, sources and index. 409 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-08279.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the dedication page by BOTH editors (and contributors) and uncommon thus. Fine in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 43654More details Price: $25.00 -
DESERT TIME: A Journey Through the American Southwest.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts a journey of over 25,000 miles through American deserts from the Black Rock Desert of Oregon to the Mexican border, with discussion about things like plate tectonics, botany and the animals that live in the deserts, but especially about the people she encounters - Navaho weavers, Hopi silversmiths, children on a reservation, an old prospector and gold miner, a cattleman and a missionary and more. Illustrated with drawings. xvi, 262 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-316482986.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68015More details Price: $17.50 -
THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN: A Journey to the Southwest.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A combination of meditation, travel writing, history, reportage and description about the American Southwest from the Rockies to the Mexican border - looked at with a fresh eye by this Australian writer. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, Introduction by Jan Morris. A title in the Destination series. Double page map. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-671-761048.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (corners of a few pages creased).
Book ID: 53396More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUE RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169443.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 25594More details Price: $25.00 -
BLUE RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. INSCRIBED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169443.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 50682More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUE RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169443.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 50683More details Price: $24.50 -
BLUE RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169443.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 29344More details Price: $28.50 -
BLUE RODEO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0169443.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64244More details Price: $30.00 -
ALONG CAME MARY.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004.). A Bad Girl Creek novel. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-24620.
Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages, prev owner's initials.)
Book ID: 57422More details Price: $11.50 -
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1993.). The first volume of the Border Trilogy - McCarthy's breakthrough novel that won both both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-679-744398.
Condition: Good condition (crease to front cover and first few pages.)
Book ID: 46848More details Price: $11.50 -
CITIES OF THE PLAINS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume 3 of the Border Trilogy - a 'masterwork... a miracle in prose' (Robert Haas.) 292 pp. ISBN: 0-679-423907.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot, some sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 73398More details Price: $18.50 -
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1993.). The first volume of the Border Trilogy - McCarthy's breakthrough novel that won both both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the movie of the same name. ISBN: 0-679-744398.
Condition: Very good condition.
Book ID: 40853More details Price: $12.50 -
THE CROSSING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Volume 2 of the Border Trilogy, set in New Mexico in the years before World War II. 426 pp. ISBN: 0-394-574753.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (bit of dampstaining to top edge of dj, not very noticeable)
Book ID: 51340More details Price: $23.50 -
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 DESERT ROSE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1985.). A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl, who raises peacocks by day - in the new introduction for this novel, McMurtry talks about how this book came to be and how he was able to write it so quickly. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-637215.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41543More details Price: $9.00 -
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO BE STRANGERS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). Novel originally published in 1972 with a new preface by McMurtry and an afterword by Raymond L. Neinstein. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-671681036.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 42350More details Price: $9.00 -
THE EVENING STAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to 'Terms of Endearment.' 637 pp. ISBN: 0-671-685198.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (crease to flap of dust jacket.)
Book ID: 46730More details Price: $12.50 -
SOME CAN WHISTLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of a successful writer who has returned to his native Texas and finds his life dramatically changed when a daughter he has never met - herself the mother of two young children - calls him. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-671-642677.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46731More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DESERT ROSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl, who raises peacocks by day. Dust jacket praise from Hunter Thompson among others. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-461435.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light stain to dj, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 49674More details Price: $20.00 -
BUFFALO GIRLS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of the epic life and times of Calamity Jane - from the mountain men who first made their way into Montana to the buffalo hunters who destroyed the great hordes to the gunfighters like Wild Bill Hickock. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-671-68518X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61822More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Book of the Month Club, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Attractive hardcover edition of this novel originally published in 1966, and set in a small dying town in the midst of the vast plains of Texas in the 1950s. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Basis for the movie of the same name. Illustrated title page. 280 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Kathleen McCutcheon.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (hint of toning to the pages)
Book ID: 60086More details Price: $175.00
