Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1988. Hardcover - Novel set in Texas by this popular Western fiction writer. ISBN: 0-89621-2017.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the birth of California through the experiences of a young woman who was widowed on the trek overland in the early 1840s, and wound up at Sutter's Fort in Sacramento at a time when California was still -but not for much longer - a province of Mexico. Map frontispiece. While Holland has written many historical novels, this is her first one to be set in America. Author's note. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-395488869.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the birth of California through the experiences of a young woman who was widowed on the trek overland in the early 1840s, and wound up at Sutter's Fort in Sacramento at a time when California was still -but not for much longer - a province of Mexico. Map frontispiece. While Holland has written many historical novels, this is her first one to be set in America. Author's note. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-395488869.

New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First book - a collection of 12 stories set in the West and in Alaska - by this writer who was born in New Jersey but who was a part-time river guide and hunting guide at the time this was published. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-393-030776.

New York: Norton, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - First book - a collection of 12 stories set in the West and in Alaska - by this writer who was born in New Jersey but who was a part-time river guide and hunting guide at the time this was published. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-393-030776.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1993.). SIGNED - First book - a collection of 12 stories set in the West and in Alaska - by this writer who was born in New Jersey but who was a part-time river guide and hunting guide at the time this was published. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-671-793888.

New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1993.). SIGNED - First book - a collection of 12 stories set in the West and in Alaska - by this writer who was born in New Jersey but who was a part-time river guide and hunting guide at the time this was published. SIGNED on the title page. 171 pp. ISBN: 0-671-793888.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1950). Hardcover first edition - Authorized Edition. Illustrated throughout by Andrew Benson, illustrated endpapers. Bound in tan cloth with red lettering and red and blue decorations. 250 pp.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., (1952.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Original Story Featuring Gene Autry, Famous Motion Picture, Radio, and Television Star as Hero." Bound in illustrated green boards, illustrated endpapers, wraparound dust jacket art.

New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007). First edition - The first in a series of collections of the best contemporary writing to come from the American West; it includes twenty stories, five appearing for the first time in print. Both the work of so-called traditional Western writers, such as Max Evans and Elmer Kelton, and the literary contingent,like William Kittredge and Valerie Miner, are represented. Other contributors include Sherman Alexie, Melanie Rae Thon, Luis Alberto Urrea, Elmore Leonard, John Sayles and more. 316 pp.

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in a small ranching community in Wyoming. Highly praised: James Crumley called it "a jewel of a novel," Rick Bass said it was "an erie and beautiful book," and Gretel Ehrlich described it as a "heartbreaking short novel of a woman on the run in the ranching West."

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1990. First edition - Author's first novel, set in a small ranching community in Wyoming. Highly praised: James Crumley called it "a jewel of a novel," Rick Bass said it was "an erie and beautiful book," and Gretel Ehrlich described it as a "heartbreaking short novel of a woman on the run in the ranching West." An uncommon advance issue. 144 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular Netflix series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.

New York: Penguin, (2006.). SIGNED - The second mystery featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire. SIGNED on the title page. 271 pp. plus an excerpt from the third novel and a reader's guide with an interview with Johnson and more. ISBN: 978-0143038382.

New York: Penguin, (2014). SIGNED - Seventh mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis for the television series, Longmire. SIGNED on the title page. 312 pp. ISBN: 978-0143125464.

New York: The Viking Press, (2019.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the A&E series. Longmire has returned to Wyoming. " When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be suicide. But the shepherd's connection to the Extepares, a powerful family of Basque ranchers with a history of violence, leads the sheriff into an intricate investigation of a possible murder." SIGNED on title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522508.

New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular A&E series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.

New York: The Viking Press, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 978-0670023516.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1918). Hardcover - A story of the RNWM Police by one who had been a member of the force. Glossary. 318 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Henry Holt, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, one which tells the stories of the myths of the settling of the West - a young girl kidnapped by Indians in Texas in 1852, toddlers who fell off a buckboard in 1859 raised by coyotes, a young brave in 1874 who has a vision that he is invincible and so will lead his people to disaster and more - and de-mythologizes them. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-805061487.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first novel (preceded by short fiction, essays and a memoir) - one which "stretches over the 20th century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it. Rossie Benascos horseback existence begins when he's 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than two hundred head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary, through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, across virgin wilderness, failed homesteads, ghost towns, squatters' camps, and Indian settlements." SIGNED on the title page 339 pp. ISBN: 1400040973.

St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 13 stories by this Western writer. Barry Lopez calls "stories of laconic isolated men and prodding women. .. genuine, unflinching and tender." SIGNED on the title page. 220 pp. ISBN: 1555973841.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - His first novel (preceded by short fiction, essays and a memoir) - one which "stretches over the 20th century, from the settlers, cowboys, and gamblers who opened up this country to the landholders and politicians who ran it. Rossie Benascos horseback existence begins when he's 15 and culminates in a thousand-mile drive of more than two hundred head of horses through the Rockies into Calgary, through Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, across virgin wilderness, failed homesteads, ghost towns, squatters' camps, and Indian settlements." 339 pp. ISBN: 1400040973.

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 THREE contributors: by William Kittredge at "Agriculture; " T. C, Boyle at "The Hector Quesadilla Story" and by Alberto Rios at "The Secret Lion." Poetry, essays and short stories by 53 other authors, including Tim O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Russell Banks, Doris Lessing and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxiv, 499 pp. ISBN: 0-916366375.

San Andreas: Old Scoundrel Books, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Suspense novel set in Mountain Ranch in California's Calaveras County. "Three boys find themselves trapped between the evil of the past and the terror of the present, and to survive they must unravel the 140 year old Mystery of Haddock's Gold." Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author on the title page and dated in 2002. 412 pp. ISBN: 9780971553101.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1997. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes an article on Wright Morris's Plains Song and the annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature. Book reviews, index to volume 31. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1996. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Guthrie's The Big Sky, Edward Abbey and poetry of the American West. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1987. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Texas in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Walter van Tilburg Clark's The Track of the Cat, and Thomas Savage. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1989. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the 'Western holdup play' and the annual bibliography of studies in Western American literature. Book reviews, index to volume 23. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1980. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Gary Snyder, Ruth Suckow, Chicano literature, and Thomas Berger's 'Little Big Man.' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.