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PARADISE VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Cassie Dewell, a deputy sheriff in Grimstad, formerly a small quiet town, then booming as the oil capital of North Dakota, and now facing unemployment and half-finished houses. When a sting goes bad, and several deputies are killed, she is forced to resign her position, but takes on the job of trying to find a missing boy, a friend of her son. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1250051042.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 77909More details Price: $30.00 -
NATURAL CONNECTIONS: Photographs by Paula Chamlee Accompanied by Selections from her Journals.
Edition: First printing.
Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist's first book, a collection of 42 striking black and white photographs most rooted in the American southwest and west, printed one to a page each with a blank facing page, and interspersed with selections from her journals. Introductory essay by Estelle Jussim. Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-960564667.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, a bit of sunning to the dj)
Book ID: 82997More details Price: $30.00 -
OUT OF THE FLAMES: Poems.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Moose, Wyoming: Blue Bison Press, 1996. SIGNED first edition - The author's first collection of poems, many inspired by Yellowstone National Park and the northern Rocky Mountain area. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication, Cover praise from Terry Tempest Williams. ISBN: 0-9655247-01.
Condition: Very near fine in purple wrappers.
Book ID: 43121More details Price: $12.00 -
CUBBY IN WONDERLAND.
Edition: Reprint.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1953. dj. Hardcover - Mama Bear and Cubby plan a trip to Yellowstone National Park. A title in the National Parks and Monuments series, originally published in 1932. Illustrated with line drawings. 140 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with black lettering and small illustration on front cover, in an edgeworn dust jacket with several small chips, a triangular tear on front cover with tape repair to interior, original price of $2.00 still present.
Book ID: 88417More details Price: $20.00 -
WILDFIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth thriller and the second novel featuring Henry Lightstone, an undercover cop for the Fish and Game Department - while running a covert operation, he stumbles across the activities of a vicious professional assasin. At the time this was published, Goddard was the director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Oregon, so he writes from experience. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-312854242.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85281More details Price: $17.50 -
LAMBS IN MARCH and Other Essays.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Century Co, (1928). Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten essays, including an account of her childhood in England in the 1880s, others on animals (one of taking their cat on the train with her daughter). Perhaps most noteworthy are two essays on Yosemite (one on sketching there and the other on Clouds Rest) and another called "Attempting Yellowstone." Ironically, considering the fact that several of these essays are about her life as an artist, this is illustrated with small drawings - decorations - by Katharine E Gray and not Greene herself. 274 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in sage green cloth with navy blue lettering, gilt bands on front cover (bookplate, corners slightly bumped and frayed)
Book ID: 61079More details Price: $30.00 -
AN UNFORTUNATE PRAIRIE OCCURRENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town bordering Yellowstone Park. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-62602.
Condition: Just about fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 15529More details Price: $18.00 -
AN UNFORTUNATE PRAIRIE OCCURRENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Blue Deer mystery, featuring Jules Clement, the sheriff of this small town bordering Yellowstone Park.SIGNED on the half title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-62602.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 60934More details Price: $30.00 -
CELINE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First edition - A novel inspired by the life of Heller's mother, an iconoclastic private eye, this is the story of a woman who has made a career of tracking down missing persons. "When a young woman, Gabriela, asks for her help, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela's father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling, but his body was never found. Now, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowstone National Park, investigating a trail gone cold, it becomes clear that they are being followed--that this is a case someone desperately wants to keep closed." 334 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper edge slightly bumped). With an announced first printing of 100,000 copies, this advance issue is surprisingly uncommon.
Book ID: 86081More details Price: $18.00 -
BLUE WOLF: An Alix Thorssen Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery novel featuring Alix Thorssen, Wyoming art dealer and on-call expert witness for the FBI and other agencies, one which draws on her Nordic background and her knowledge of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. October is usually a quiet month, but Alix is asked to look into a questionable shooting of a wolf on ranch land and a death that occurred 25 years earlier.SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-33522.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88225More details Price: $35.00 -
ASHEN WINTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood, (2012). SIGNED first edition - The second novel in the highly praised Ashfall series for young adults, set after the eruption of the Yellowstone super volcano. The first book was praised for seamlessly weaving details about science, geography, agriculture, and slaughter into the story, creating a fully immersive and internally consistent world much too close to reality. This novel follows 16-year-old Alexs journey with tough Darla through the ash and snow of a postvolcanic, dystopian Midwestern world. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6-6-12, in the year of publication. 376 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82353More details Price: $30.00 -
ENGINEERING EDEN: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Crown, (2016). First edition - Using the civil trial which attempted to recover damages after 25 yearold Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, this book becomes a larger account of the history of the environmental movement in the US and "the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. . . virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management." Focusing on Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, this book looks at the paradox of our natural parks which have a dual obligation to provide services and recreation for visitors and to preserve nature. Notes, 362 pp.
Condition: Just about fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 81599More details Price: $20.00