New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1960). Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of the author's time on the icebound seas along the coasts of Alaska - and especially of the years he spent aboard whaling ships. Illustrated with both line drawings by the author and photographs. 256 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Scribner, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first work of nonfiction in many years - a tribute to the land she loves. "Bird Cloud" is the name Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 978-0743288804.

New York: Random House, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, named one of the best books of the year by Time, Washington Post and many others. Set in "the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary livesunfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her lifeher husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after an explosive argument." 324 pp plus additional material for this special Barnes and Noble edition, including an essay by the author on the origins of this book and a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-00593133606.

New York: Lyons and Burford, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - HIs fourth book, a collection of sixteen stories by this Montana author, stories set in the American West about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The title story was the basis for a short film starring James LeGros and Nathan Gamble215 pp. ISBN: 1558215549.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Houston takes us through his native state, traversing its length and breadth, by car and on foot, through river valleys, forests, film studios, big cities, and border towns. Includes notes. map endpapers. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-505581.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Houston takes us through his native state, traversing its length and breadth, by car and on foot, through river valleys, forests, film studios, big cities, and border towns. Includes notes. map endpapers. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-505581.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1840's, on the Western frontier featuring a young phrenologist who travels from town to town giving readings. Cover praise from James Dickey (who calls this 'rowdy, boisterous, bold and it flows over with comic energy, Our hero is that great American figure, the philosopher-rogue.'), A. B. Guthrie, Tom O'Brien and others. 288 pp. Great dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-395346401).

New York: Bloomsbury, (2003.). First edition - The author's first book, a collectionof stories set in California and the West - spare stories of 'subdued desperation.'