Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1989. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on McMurty and Cadillac Larry, the frontier myth on stage, Rolvaag's 'Peder Victorius; ecology, and one by Ann Ronald on the wilderness experience in 'Why Don't They Write About Nevada?' 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, 1990. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on ecology, John Van Dyke's 'The Desert,' and Dan O'Brien's 'Spirit of the Hills.' 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, 1988. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on the myth of Quetxalcoatl by Anaya, on Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper's influence on Karl May and the Indian myths they created, and on recently discovered letters by Willa Cather. 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, 1997. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Special issue with a sampler from the forthcoming book 'Updating the Literary West' - includes articles on American Indian autobiography, Raymond Carver, James Welch and Ella Leffland. Essay review by Rick Bass and other book reviews, bibliographies and notes, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976.) dj. First edition - The author's first published novel - a romantic suspense story set on a remote ranch in the Colorado mountains. ISBN: 0-684-145561.

Pacific Bell, (1986.). First edition - Novel based on the experiences of a young doctor and his friends during the California Gold Rush. Photographs,. 223 pp.

New York: Cosmopolotan Book Corporation, 1926. Hardcover first edition - A seven year old boy is stranded alone on the Alaska coast, when the ship on which he and his mother were passengers is wrecked and the lifeboat is overturned. Three black and white illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops, including a double page center spread. 297 pp.

Fredericksburg, Texas: Shearer Publishing, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - After years of an empty marriage, a 43 year old woman walks away from the wagon train heading to Pike's Peak with her gold-seeking husband and begins to make plans for her own life. Historical afterword, bibliography. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-940672294.

New York: Dutton, (1986) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this Western writer - 13 stories notable for their range in approach and in subject - from a homicidal rancher to a young girl facing motherhood and the childless old. SIGNED on the title page. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-525244603.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of the epic life and times of Calamity Jane - from the mountain men who first made their way into Montana to the buffalo hunters who destroyed the great hordes to the gunfighters like Wild Bill Hickock. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-671-68518X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the American west in the 1870's - a 'sport western' - by an author who has been a runner and Olympic coach. ISBN: 0-671-642448.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Montana writer's very highly praised first novel (Kingsolver says she "writes with a slow burning brilliance); set in a small-town in the 1960s, this is a look at life in the West from a woman's point of view. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165235.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Montana writer's very highly praised first novel (Kingsolver says she "writes with a slow burning brilliance); set in a small-town in the 1960s, this is a look at life in the West from a woman's point of view. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0165235.

Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2022.). SIGNED first edition - The eighth novel in this award winning series of historical mysteries set in the old West., featuring Inez Stannert, former saloon owner in Leadville, Colorado, now striving to succeed as a reputable business owner in 1882 San Francisco and to make a home for the teenage daughter of a local fortune teller who was orphaned by her mother's murder. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note and related readings. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-1464214943.

Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2020.). SIGNED - The seventh novel in this award winning series of historical mysteries set in the old West., featuring Inez Stannert, former saloon owner in Leadville, Colorado, now striving to succeed as a reputable business owner in 1881 San Francisco. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note and related readings. 426 pp. ISBN: 978-1492699484.

Phoenix, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, set in Leadville in the Colorado Rockies in 1879 at the height of the silver boom. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Map. Author's note. 410 pp. ISBN: 1590580729.

Phoenix, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, (2006.). SIGNED - Author's first novel, set in Leadville in the Colorado Rockies in 1879 at the height of the silver boom. SIGNED on the title page (in silver, of course). Finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Map. Author's note. 410 pp. ISBN: 1590582780.

Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2016.). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in this award winning series of historical mysteries set in the old West., featuring Inez Stannert, who has returned to Leadville, Colorado where she is one of three partners in the Silver Queen Saloon. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note and related readings. 395 pp. Promotional bookmark laid in. ISBN: 978-1464206252.

Boston: Lee & Shepherd, 1905 (c 1898). Hardcover - Author and artist's first book and apparently his most popular title. Like all of his book, this is illustrated with his drawings - in this case, there are 35 illustrations ranging from full pages to chapter headers and footers and decorative initials. Parker was born in New Jersey, but married and worked most of his life in Kansas - this adventure story for boys is set in Indian territory in the West. All four of Parker's books seem to be very hard to find in the original editions. 335 pp plus13 pp publisher's advertisements.

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., (c 1909.). Hardcover - The first book in this series of boys' adventure stories set in the West, featuring 4 boys, who, with their guardian, spend the summer in the saddle, Frontispiece. 213 pp..

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., (ca 1945, c 1924). Hardcover - Boys' adventure story set in the mountains of Alaska, where there is reputed to be an unknown claim of rich gold ore , Illustrated with a frontispiece and interior drawing on plain paper.. The final book in this series. One of over 200 books written by Patchin both under his own name and under various pseudonyms and house names for the Stratemeyer syndicate. 212 pp..

Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1987. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on Hemingway's Hidden West and the Mormon experience. Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.

Waterville, Maine: Five Star, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes twelve stories by women writers ranging from Mary Austin to Dorothy Scarborough, Janice Holt Giles, Marcia Muller and Gretel Ehrlich. Edited and with a foreword by Piekarski. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-786227362.

New York: Scribner, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth novel (sixth book) by this prize-winning writer, set in a small town in the Texas panhandle, an area which has witnessed the death of the great cattle ranches and now it is "feed lots, hog farms and ever expanding drylands." 361 pp. ISBN: 0-684-813076.

Toronto: The Westminster Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - A tale of the northwest frontier and of the Canadian mounties by this prolific and very popular author. Gordon was a Presbyterian Minister who bacame a missionary in Western Canada, giving him first hand knowledge of the scenes he wrote about. Printed many times, this is rather uncommon in the first Canadian edition, Basis of the 1921 silent film, "Cameron of the Royal Mounted." 454 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Platt & Peck, (1908). Hardcover - The fifth book in this series which "tells the adventures of Jim, Jo, and Tom Darlington, first in their camp wagon as they follow the trail to the great West in the early days. . . Historically these books present a true picture of a period of our history as important as it was picturesque, when the nation set its face toward the vast unconquered West and conquered it." Glossy frontispiece by S. Schneider. 250 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads. Lists to #11 in both the front of the book and the ad in the rear.

New York: A. L. Chatterton Co., (1909). Hardcover - The eighth book in this series which "tells the adventures of Jim, Jo, and Tom Darlington, first in their camp wagon as they follow the trail to the great West in the early days. . . Historically these books present a true picture of a period of our history as important as it was picturesque, when the nation set its face toward the vast unconquered West and conquered it." Illustrated by S. Schneider with a frontispiece and three internal plates. Lists through #9 at the front of the book. An uncommon copy in the original edition. 259 pp.

New York: A. L. Chatterton Co., (1908). Hardcover - The first book in this series which "tells the adventures of Jim, Jo, and Tom Darlington, first in their camp wagon as they follow the trail to the great West in the early days. . . Historically these books present a true picture of a period of our history as important as it was picturesque, when the nation set its face toward the vast unconquered West and conquered it." Illustrated by S. Schneider with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. Lists through #8 in the ad at the back of the book. An uncommon copy in the original edition. 258 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Toronto / Chicago: McClelland and Goodchild / A. C. McClurg & Co., n.d. [1913]. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel of old California by this popular author, actress and Indian activist who went to live among the Hopi Indians in 1909. Illustrated with a sepia toned frontispiece and three inserted plates by Hanson Booth. This very uncommon Canadian edition is published from the US sheets, in the same binding, but has McClelland and Goodchild added to the title page and stamped on the base of the spine. 424 pp.

New York: Crowell, (ca 1914, c 1909). Hardcover - A story of life on a Western ranch - the Bar B Ranch is described as being 75 miles from the railroad in the Rocky Mountains. Illustrated by Charles Copeland with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. Lists to #6, the last title in this series, in the ads in the back. 386 pp plus 3 pp publisher's ads.