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THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) .
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Contains 63 selections, including 33 poems, 12 essays and 18 short stories by many authors, including Cynthia Ozick, David Plante, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jorie Graham, Al Young, Carol Muske, W. P. Kinsella, and more. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-103.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (sunning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 60470More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Tenth anniversary edition with an introduction by George Plimpton. Poetry Editors: Stanley Plumly, William Stafford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at "The Secret Lion." Poetry, essays and short stories by 53 other authors, including Tim O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, William Kittredge, Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Russell Banks, Doris Lessing and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxiv, 499 pp. ISBN: 0-916366375.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 60035More details Price: $45.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Richard Ford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "What She Had Believed All Her Life." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Rick Bass, Sharon Olds, Francine Prose, William Kittredge, Tess Gallager, Stephen Dunn, Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxvii, 475 pp. ISBN: 0-916366529.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 60089More details Price: $45.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Tess Gallager. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "Incident at Imuris." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Alistair MacLeod, Marilyn Hacker, Julian Barnes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Brenda Hillman, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Doty, Lorna Goodison and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 534 pp. ISBN: 0-916366588.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed. A contributor's copy with a SIGNED letter laid in from Bill Henderson.
Book ID: 73037More details Price: $60.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE V: Best of the Small Presses, 1980 - 1981 Edition (with an index to the first five volumes) .
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Contains 63 selections, including 33 poems, 12 essays and 18 short stories by many authors, including Cynthia Ozick, David Plante, Seamus Heaney, Charles Wright, Jorie Graham, Al Young, Carol Muske, W. P. Kinsella, and more. INSCRIBED by Carol Muske at her poem "Idolatry." Index to the series, notes on contributors. 608 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-103.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (sunning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 69888More details Price: $40.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE VI: Best of the Small Presses, 1981 - 1982 Edition (with an index to the first six volumes) .
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. SIGNED by Leslie Marmon Silko at her story 'Coyote Holds a Full House in Her Hand.' Contains 52 selections, including poems, essays and short stories by many authors, including Raymond Carver, Louise Gluck, Daniel Halpern, Sharon Olds, William Stafford, Elizabeth Spires, Derek Walcott, C.K . Williams and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 539 pp. ISBN: 0-91636612X.
Condition: Near fine in very good-dust jacket. (some wear to the ends of the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 53025More details Price: $40.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE VII: Best of the Small Presses, 1982 - 1983 Edition (with an index to the first seven volumes) .
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. SIGNED by two authors: by Pollitt at her poem "Turning Thirty" and by Soto at "Mexicans Begin Jogging." Includes 32 poems, 9 essays and 16 short stories by many authors, including Wendell Berry, Derek Walcott, C.K. Williams, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Robison, Jorie Graham and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 568 pp. Endpapers illustrated with engravings by Michael McCurdy of Penmaen Press. ISBN: 0-916366154.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket. (corners somewhat bumped, severe sunning to spine of dj, minor edgewear.)
Book ID: 72656More details Price: $40.00 -
THE MYSTERIOUS WEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of 20 stories set in today's West by Marcia Muller, Wendy Hornsby, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dana Stabenow, Bill Crider, Robert Campbell, J. A. Jance, M. D. Lake, William J. Reynolds, Karen Kijewski, Lia Matera, Linda Grant, Rex Burns, D. R. Meredith, Susan Dunlap, Ed Gorman, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Harold Adams, John Lutz and Bill Pronzini. Setting range from Alaska to the Oregon coast to Death Valley, from a trailer park in Arizona to a Texas cowtown to Las Vegas. SIGNED by FIVE authors at their stories: Marcia Muller, Dana Stabenow, Lia Matera, Susan Dunlap and Bill Pronzini. 392 pp. ISBN: 0-060177853.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 67017More details Price: $45.00 -
CALIFORNIA UNCOVERED: Stories for the 21st Century.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (2005.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of stories and excerpts by those who lived and wrote in California, ranging from John Steinbeck to Khaled Hosseini - SIGNED by Luis Rodriguez at "My Ride, My Revolution": Among the other contributors are Yxta Maya Murray Maxine Hong Kingston, Chitra Divakaruni, Paul Beatty, Joan Didion, Gary Soto, Richard Rodriguez, James D. Houston, , Robert Haas, David Mas Masamoto, Robinson Jeffers and more. Each story is preceded by a photograph of the author and brief notes. Reading guide and thematic table of contents. Published by the California Council of Humanities. xv, 379 pp. ISBN: 1-89077197X.
Condition: Near fine in glossy black wrappers (usual light toning to the pages). Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 57496More details Price: $24.00 -
VINTAGE WESTERNS 2014 CALENDAR.
Edition: First printing.
Wilmington, DE: Asgard Press. (2013). First edition - "The spirit of the wild west comes to life with this amazing collection of pulp covers from popular magazines during the Golden Age of the early 1920s - 1950s. . . Asgard Press has been creating and publishing archival quality calendars, books, and stationery since 1999." This includes a dozen exhibition quality prints that are perforated and can be easily removed to fit standard frames. Measure approx. 15" tall and 11" wide. ISBN: 978-1603689021.
Condition: Fine (a new copy, in original publisher's shrink wrap.)
Book ID: 78879More details Price: $20.00 -
BITTERSWEET.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.
Condition: Very good. Review copy, with stamp stating this on first page. Light creasing to corners of cover, no creases on spine. Although this has been reprinted since, it is rather uncommon in this first softcover edition, published by a small women's press.
Book ID: 31085More details Price: $40.00 -
BITTERSWEET.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
San Francisco: Spinsters - Aunt Lute Books, (1989.). SIGNED - Barr's first novel, the story of two women, determined to stay together, in a frontier outpost in remote northern Nevada. Originally published in 1984. SIGNED on the title page. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-933216-645.
Condition: Very good minus (reading crease on front cover, no creases on spine.) Although this has been reprinted since, it is rather uncommon in this first softcover edition, published by a small women's press.
Book ID: 40358More details Price: $28.50 -
THE SKY, THE STARS, THE WILDERNESS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin - Mariner Books, (1998). Three short novels, all rooted in the land - one set in the frozen winter North, another on a ranch in Texas and one in the Appalachian foothills. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-395-717582.
Condition: Very good (noticeable tanning to the pages.)
Book ID: 56417More details Price: $11.50 -
THE SKY, THE STARS, THE WILDERNESS.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Three short novels, all rooted in the land - one set in the frozen winter North, another on a ranch in Texas and one in the Appalachian foothills. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-395-717582.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80582More details Price: $18.50 -
DEVILS UNTO DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83847More details Price: $30.00 -
NEVER COME DOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Frisco, Colorado: Wolf Moon Press, (1996). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, a novel of modern and historic Colorado, in which a ghost town high in Tenmile Canyon holds a century-old secret. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the CIPA Award for fiction. 300 pp. Cover art by Ann T, Weaver. ISBN: 0-9658014-03.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 61084More details Price: $21.50 -
LONG SON: A Gabriel DuPre Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth Montana mystery featuring Gabriel duPre, a Metis Indian rancher and cattle brand inspector, fiddler and reluctant sleuth. Old family secrets come to light when the son of one of the valley's oldest ranching families decides to auction off the cattle. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-312-199171.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 38530More details Price: $20.00 -
ASH CHILD: A Gabriel DuPre Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth Montana mystery featuring Gabriel duPre, a Metis Indian rancher and cattle brand inspector, fiddler and reluctant sleuth. In this, wild fires are raging through the Wolf Mountains. SIGNED on the half title page. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312-288506.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76140More details Price: $35.00 -
DEVIL ON THE WALL.
Edition: First printing.
Waxahachie, TX: McLennan House, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the intertwined lives of four men - frontier hero Davey Crockett, knife figher Jim Bowie, Mexican General Santa Anna and the Anglo colonist commander in the Alamo, William Barrett Travis - and culminating in the battle at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, were General Antonio Lopes de Santa Anna, in command of some 5000 soldiers, has bottled up a hundred-odd Yankee rebels in the old Alamo Mission. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-918865093.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (stamp on front endpaper)
Book ID: 83434More details Price: $20.00 -
CUTTING STONE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition - Author's seventh novel - she has been nominated for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award - set in the Arizona border town of Bowie in the early 1900s - 'a Western epic drawn in delicate nuances of character and theme.' SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (preliminary pages are loosely laid in)
Book ID: 60250More details Price: $30.00 -
CUTTING STONE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's seventh novel - she has been nominated for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award - set i n the Arizona border town of Bowie - "a Western epic drawn in delicate nuances of character and theme." SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-395-59300X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60251More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CHILDREN OF THE DUST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Random House, 1995. A sweeping epic novel set in Oklahama in the 1880's during the land rush. Historically accurate it tells the stories of the dispossessed Indians and the newly freed blacks, by an author who was himself the son of a half-Cherokee father and born on the Choctaw reservation in Oklahoma.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 23446More details Price: $15.00 -
TEXAS RANGERS MAGAZINE, January 1957, Volume 65, Number 2.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
New York: Better Publications, 1957. Cover features a scene from 'Panhandle Slaughter', a Jim Hatfield novel by Jackson Cole in this issue.
Condition: Slight chipping to the edges of the covers where they extend beyond the textblock, crease to corner of back cover, closed tear to top edge of front cover, slight spotting to front cover, overall very good- condition.
Book ID: 16789More details Price: $12.00 -
THE DIARY OF MATTIE SPENSER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, the story of a "young woman finds herself traveling via covered wagon to Colorado in search of a new start, with only her reticent husband and her personal journal to keep her company." 229 pp. ISBN: 0-312155158.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 66771More details Price: $15.00 -
WHAT FALLS AWAY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, third book, winner of the 1994 Associated Writing Programs Award. Set in an isolated military community in the Nevada desert - one where underground testing explosions still shatter the night, and where the ground has been poisoned by years of testing. Cover praise from Elizabeth Cox, Rosellen Brown and Garrett Hongo. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-393038378.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36352More details Price: $18.00 -
UNHOLY UPROAR.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather uncommon later novel by the author of "The Annointed." A story of good and evil in a Western cow-town, complete with dance halls, gambling joints and a jail. 254 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, minor edgewear to dj, original price of 3.50 still present.)
Book ID: 86046More details Price: $45.00 -
CALIFORNIA UNCOVERED: Stories for the 21st Century.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (2005.). SIGNED - An anthology of stories and excerpts by those who lived and wrote in California, ranging from John Steinbeck to Khaled Hosseini. SIGNED by TWO authors: Gary Soto and Luis Rodriguez. Among the other contributors are Yxta Maya Murray Maxine Hong Kingston, Chitra Divakaruni, Paul Beatty, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, James D. Houston, Robert Haas, David Mas Masamoto, Robinson Jeffers and more. Each story is preceded by a photograph of the author and brief notes. Reading guide and thematic table of contents. Published by the California Council of Humanities. xv, 379 pp. ISBN: 1-89077197X.
Condition: Very good in glossy black wrappers.
Book ID: 60353More details Price: $25.00 -
CALIFORNIA UNCOVERED: Stories for the 21st Century.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (2005.). First edition - An anthology of stories and excerpts by those who lived and wrote in California, ranging from John Steinbeck to Khaled Hosseini. SIGNED by TWO authors: Gary Soto and Luis Rodriguez. Among the other contributors are Yxta Maya Murray Maxine Hong Kingston, Chitra Divakaruni, Paul Beatty, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, James D. Houston, Robert Haas, David Mas Masamoto, Robinson Jeffers and more. Each story is preceded by a photograph of the author and brief notes. Reading guide and thematic table of contents. Published by the California Council of Humanities. xv, 379 pp. ISBN: 1-89077197X.
Condition: Good only in glossy black wrappers (remainder line, pencil markings and some highlighting).
Book ID: 69675More details Price: $21.50 -
MAMAW: A Novel of an Outlaw Mother
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the remarkable woman who was the mother of the James boys. Frontispiece portrait. Author's afterword. 350 pp. ISBN: 0-670-821802.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 22618More details Price: $17.50 -
SWEET THUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1920s Butte, Montana, where Morrie Morgan has been drawn back by a quirky bequest which leads to his becoming the editor of 'The Thunder' the fledging union newspaper daring to stand up to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. 305 pp.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68841More details Price: $18.50