New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief...to love the damaged world and do what you can to help it thrive.. . On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all." Photographs. 299 pp. ISBN: 978-0393241020.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1992.). The story of the August 5, 1949 fire in Mann Gulch, Montana, which left 12 smoke-jumpers dead within hours after they leaped from the plane. Maclean, the author of "A River Runs Through It," was obsessed by this fire and spent years researching it. Published posthumously. Illustrated with photographs, maps. Publisher's note, xiv, 301 pp. ISBN: 0-226-500616.

New York: Viking, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the most important firefighting efforts in American history, as wildfires swept across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps. This also illustrates the larger story of how American bureaucracies, railroads, political scandal, pioneering, and ideas collided with nature. Photographs, notes, sources, index. xiii, 322 pp. ISBN: 0-670899909.

New York: Norton, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a collection of nine linked stories, set in a Los Angeles of "seismic geologic change, of racial unease, of parched desert landscapes littered with the detritus of urban ambition." A New York Times Notable Book, and a Los Angeles Times 'Best Book of the Year.' SIGNED on the title page. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-393020037.

Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted poet on "a wide range of topics, from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation, like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg, and meditates on art, labor, and the making of families, houses, and homesteads." 167 pp. ISBN: 978-1593761370.