Chicago: Follett, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel for older children by this prize-winning author. Although the characters and events in this story are fiction, they are based on real people - the author's mother and father - and the life they led on a ranch in Texas in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Illustrated in black and white by George Roth.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Texas author's first novel, following a highly praised collection of short stories. Two feisty aging brothers and their housekeeper take a road trip to Mexico, to their past and into the history of their family. 357 pp. ISBN: 9780316159692.

New York: Henry Holt, (2023) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which traces today's 'patriot' movement back to the spark that ignited it - the FBI's two month siege of Koresh and the Branch Davidians in 1993. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-1250840523.

New York: Faber & Faber, (1992). Hardcover first edition - "Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home - a magnificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows to day-to-month construction of that home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to reality." 195 pp. ISBN: 0-571129072.

New York: Faber & Faber, (1992). "Novelist Joe Croomer was living in a small converted garage with his wife Heather when he undertook to build their first real home - a magnificent Queen Anne Victorian. As Joe built, so he wrote. This book follows to day-to-month construction of that home, from foundations to fretwork, through the long Texas days of shovel to earth, hammer to nail, dream to reality." 195 pp.

Boston: Faber & Faber, 1992. SIGNED - Coomer's eccentric 4th novel, darkly funny. Set outside Fort Worth, Texas. INSCRIBED on half title page to collector Larry Owens. 201 pp. ISBN: 0-571-198236.

New York: Anchor Books, 1998. Author's third novel, historical fiction set in Texas at the end of the Civil War and in Georgia during Reconstruction. ISBN: 0-385-487053.

New York Bloomsbury, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of the adventures of an intrepid young woman and her 19 year old cat who take a road trip accross the US. Color photographs. Map endpapers. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-58234-0544.

Tucson: Dennis McMillan, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of the books which came out of his ten years living in El Paso, Texas, where he began writing crime fiction. It was still too literary to garner a wide readership, but he loved it, and he always said that's the reason he wrote: to satisfy himself. This features a teacher in a university on the border between Mexico and Texas, who is also the author of paperback crime novels known as "slasher" novels. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-939767376.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Among the trails and cities covered are the Osage Trail, Chisholm Trail, Abilene, The Texas Road, Texas Fever, Dodge City, California and Goodnight Trails, and more. Also contains information on Wild Bill Hickok and on Billy the Kid, the Earps, John Wesley Hardin, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Ben and Bill Thompson, and the Talbot gang, the slaughter of buffalo and it ends with the last of the trails - The Oregon and Northern. Illustrated with photographs, maps, notes, index. Top edge tinted red. xii, 274 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York SOHO Press, (c.1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of law school drop out considering pursuing his lifelong dream of being in a country-western band. ISBN: 1-56947-0219.

Fort Collins, CO: Capital Crime Press, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Set in Texas and Oklahoma, this is the third novel in this hard-boiled 1950s thriller series, featuring poolshark-turned-PI Kristin Van Dijk (aka Baby Shark.) SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0979996023.

Fort Collins, CO: Capital Crime Press, (2006). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this screenwriter, and the first in this hard-boiled 1950s thriller series, introducing 17 year old Kristin Van Dijk (aka Baby Shark) for whom revenge for the murder of her father and a brutal sexual assault by a motorcycle gang who left her for dead is the only alternative to a lifetime of hiding and fear . SIGNED on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0979996023.

Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A major biography of Carter (1879-1955), the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a major force in politics both in Texas and nationally, and a tireless promoter of Fort Worth. "During the 20s and 30s, he personified the image of the Texas cowboy in the national mind: an uninhibited story-teller, gambler, and drinker, generous with his money and quick to draw his six-shooters.: (wikipedia) Photographs. Index. 520 pp. ISBN: 0-836301552.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover - The author's third book, second novel, set in the early years of the last century. The story follows the life of two characters in Alabama, E. O. Smonk and the prostitute Evavangeline, and the adventures they find themselves in. 251 pp. ISBN: 978-006084681.

New York: Harper Collins, (2022). First edition - The author's highly praised first novel, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, set in Texas in the 1970's and 1990s, the story of a fierce woman and the partner-in-crime she can't escape. Janet Fitch called this a "mesmerizing Texas backroads thriller, a twisty story of a runaway girl who finds a home and a desperate love on the road with an opportunistic criminal." 402 pp.

By the author, (2012). First edition - The first novel featuring deputy Margarita Ricos - she is "not just any deputy. Shes smart. Shes courageous. Shes a twenty-five-year-old Chicana with attitude who grew up on the edge of the United States in Terlingua, Texas. There, the peoples and cultures of two countries are blended, more than separated, by the once-fierce Rio Grande. Terlingua is an unincorporated settlement built around a mercury mining ghost town of the same name." 269 pp. ISBN: 978-1470192846.

New York: Dutton, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second novel , a story of the darker side of Texas - "a hardhitting lowlife thriller. . . a disturbing picture of a many tentacled underworld and of a man unable to escape from a life of crime." SIGNED on the title page. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-525247284.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "When beautiful heiress Nancy Dillard Lyon was rushed to the hospital, . . . and died there in agony, the wheels were set in motion for an investigation, arrest, sensational trial, and conviction that would give a candid close-up of the lifestyles of the Texas rich." INSCRIBED on the half title page, Photographs. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937102.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When beautiful heiress Nancy Dillard Lyon was rushed to the hospital, . . . and died there in agony, the wheels were set in motion for an investigation, arrest, sensational trial, and conviction that would give a candid close-up of the lifestyles of the Texas rich." Photographs. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937102.

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of short stories (dustjacket blurbs from James Crumley and Madison Smartt Bell, among others.) This is a title in the 'Southwest Life and Letters' series designed to publish outstanding new fiction and nonfictionabout Texas and the American Southwest.

Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughan Co., 1968. dj. Hardcover - Facsimile edition of the 1913 biography of Cuney, a local politician and black leader in Texas from 1870-1898. Written by his daughter. 230 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth Holmes on the Range mystery - a sequel to Hockensmith's Edgar nominated novel - the crime-solving cowboy brothers, 'Old Red' and 'Big Red' Amlingmeyer, devotees of Sherlock Holmes' methods of 'detectifying' tackle some old business back in San Marcos, Texas. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-312-379420.

New York: The Viking Press, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this women who was one of a small group of insiders, counselors to President George W. Bush, but who left the White House to put her family life in Texas first. Photographs, index. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-670-033057.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's second book about the Angel family who live in a small Texas town on the Rio Grande - and on the border between cultures - between the Anglo and the Hispanic and between the Hispanic and the Indian. Dustjacket praise from James Merrill, Denise Levertov, and Adrienne Rich. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated endpapers. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-688-074103.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book about the Angel family who live in a small Texas town on the Rio Grande - and on the border between cultures - between the Anglo and the Hispanic and between the Hispanic and the Indian. Dustjacket praise from James Merrill, Denise Levertov, and Adrienne Rich. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated endpapers. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-688-074103.

New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book about the Angel family who live in a small Texas town on the Rio Grande - and on the border between cultures - between the Anglo and the Hispanic and between the Hispanic and the Indian. Dustjacket praise from James Merrill, Denise Levertov, and Adrienne Rich. Illustrated endpapers. 247 pp. ISBN: 0-688-074103.