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THE FLOWER IN THE SKULL.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel (third book) by this Mexican American writer which begins in the Sonoran desert of Mexico in the 1870s, and following the stories of three generations of women. SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-19167.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82786More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FLOWER IN THE SKULL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1998). SIGNED first edition - Second novel (third book) by this Mexican American writer which begins in the Sonoran desert of Mexico in the 1870s, and following the stories of three generations of women. SIGNED on the title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-19167.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82787More details Price: $28.50 -
FROG MOUNTAIN BLUES.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book about the Southwest and the environment, focusing on the uses - and abuses from mining to lumbering, cattle ranching and vacation resort development - of the Catalina Mountains on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona. The highest peak, now known as Mt Lemon, was called "Frog Mountain" by the native Tohono O'odham people. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs by Jack Dykinga. Double page map. Bibliography. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-816509298.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (inconspicuous stamp on front endpaper).
Book ID: 88841More details Price: $25.00 -
DESTINY ROAD: The Gila Trail and the Opening of the Southwest.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - The Gila Trail stretched from Texas to San Diego, and linked the newly acquired California territory to the rest of the country. Over this route came the Overland Mail, the gold-seekers of '49, cattle drives, wagon trains, Civil War armies, and eventually the Southern Pacific railroad. Illustrated with maps and vintage photos. Notes, bibliography, index. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-195017102.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65741More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BEAN TREES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kentucky-born author's very highly praised debut novel which tells the story of Taylor Greene, a young woman who after having grown up poor in rural Kentucky, buys an old car and heads west, where she winds up part of an extraordinary household in Tucson, Arizona. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0158638.
Condition: Very good- in very good+ dust jacket (rust colored stain and a little crinkling to upper corner of textblock, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45101More details Price: $85.00 -
DETACHMENT FAULT.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The second mystery feauturing geologist Frankie MacFarlane, set in the Southwest. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-89672-5200.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Promotional material laid in.
Book ID: 52264More details Price: $18.00 -
NAKED PUEBLO: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harmony, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of short stories featuring the "misfits of the new frontier." Set in Tucson, Arizona and the surrounding desert. . Cover praise from Larry McMurtry, Madison Smartt Bell (who called these stories "speedy, witty, degenerate, wicked and hugely entertaining") and others. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-609604473.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37861More details Price: $25.00
