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La Jolla, CA:: Prospect Avenue Press,, (1970.). Very good in gold illustrated wrappers (light crease on front cover.). 2nd printing, just one year after the first, a trade paperback. A complete history of this prison from the time was it was first occupied by 15 felons in 1876 to its abandonment 34 years later. Illustrated throughout with photographs. 113 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1989.). Near fine.. First thus- a trade paperback. Novel originally published in 1972 with a new preface by McMurtry and an afterword by Raymond L. Neinstein. 296 pp.

New York:: Vintage Books,, (1993.). Very good condition. . Trade paperback. The first volume of the Border Trilogy - McCarthy's breakthrough novel that won both both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the movie of the same name.

New York:: Vintage Books,, (1993.). Good condition (crease to front cover and first few pages.). Trade paperback. The first volume of the Border Trilogy - McCarthy's breakthrough novel that won both both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the movie of the same name.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2004.). Very good (usual light toning to the pages, prev owner's initials.). 1st trade paperback printing. A Bad Girl Creek novel. 370 pp.

New York:: Permanent Press,, 1991.. Good condition.. Trade paperback. Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992.

New York:: Permanent Press,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992.

New York:: Permanent Press,, 1991.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. . First printing. Author's second novel, short-listed for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award in 1992. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp.

New York:: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1984.). First edition -. Very good+ in glossy brown wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Essays about the desert, the Coloroda River, the Sea of Cortes, Alaska and more - an introduction to some special pockets of wilderness still remaining. 203 pp.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.). First printing. Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. INSCRIBED on the title page. 318 pp.

New York:: HarperCollins,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.). First printing. Second novel by this highly praised writer, set in a small town in New Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 318 pp.

New York:: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment." 293 pp.

Reno & Las Vegas:: University of Nevada Press,, (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of essays which depict the author's Southwestern journey from "greenhorn to old-timer, from tourist to committed defender of the land and the human communities that share it. She writes of exploring the deserts, forests, canyons, mountains, and river rapids of the Southwest, and of her passionate love for this austere and ravishing landscape; of family, friends, and lovers, a woman's wary passage into middle age, the discovery of peace and balance in the execution of mundane chores and in the close observation of natural surroundings; of the ways that development is destroying the Southwest's fragile beauty, and of the greed and spiritual emptiness that motivate much of this development." A title in the Environmental Arts and Humanities Series. 168 pp.

New York:: Poseidon Press,, (1989.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine (toning to edges of textblock and pages) in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. INSCRIBED on the first page to the Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp.

New York:: Poseidon Press,, (1989.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's fourth novel: "A sprawling saga of love and money in the American West -- the story of 'the world's richest Indian.' In 1917 oil was discovered on David Copperfield's land in Oklahoma -- and overnight the Kiowa ferryman, a.k.a. Went on a Journey, became a millionaire" - a story of the conflict between the clash of Kiowa and white cultures in the early 20th century. Dust jacket art by David Montiel. 429 pp.

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (1990.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. 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.

New York:: Time-Life,, (1973.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in illustrated boards with a black cloth spine, issued without a dust jacket (corners slightly bumped.).. First edition. A title in The American Wilderness Series- the credits describe Abbey as 'a self-proclaimed desert rat." Beautifully illustrated with many full color and black and white photographs, including some double page ones. Slightly oversized format. Index. 184 pp. True first printing with the hourglass on the last page.