Eugene, OR: Oregon Council, Inc of the Federation of Fly Fishers, Inc., 1997. First printing. Spiral Bound. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 94 pgs, b&w photos. Instruction manual on how to tie different kinds of flies. Signed by Gretchen Beatty. More
Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1989. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 238 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. A comprehensive manual on how to avoid accidents on the river and what to do when they happen. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 552 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. Covers from the earliest Spanish explorations in fhe 16th century to the present. More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1947. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 304 pgs. This is the fifth book in the Golden Tales series. With contributions by many authors, including Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Frederic Remington, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Jack London, Andy Adams and more. Parents' gift inscription on inside of..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1974. Second edition. Hardcover. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, 290 pgs, index, foreword by W.W. Newcomb. Focuses on a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston and once inhabited by the poorly known and much maligned Karankawa Indians. More
New York: Doubleday, 1989. Third printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 189 pgs. The author, a doctor, describes his search to make a new life and find meaning for himself after contracting polio and become a quadriplegic. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 346 pgs, color frontispiece by J.N. Marchand. The girl ran the "Polka" saloon on a California mountainside, during the heydey of the Gold Rush. The entire population of the mining camp fell in love with her, particularly and deeply..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 193 pgs. The story of three generations of Cherokee women, as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, a woman who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of her rootless, impoverished upbringing. When..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 8 x 11, 126 pgs. The author encourages women of all ages to use writing, doodling and downright scribbling for getting to know themselves. Her "lean in close" techniques brim with layers of self-discovery. "There's nothing better than finding a piece..... More
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2001. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 108 pgs. The author, living in Pecos, New Mexico, spreads her joy of home repair; kitchen-table philosophy, leavened with truth, seasoned with sharp observations and a generous helping of comedy. Great reading. More
Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1965. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 64 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos. All you need to know to breed and train this sighthounds. More
Austin, TX: Texas Folklore Society, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 115 pgs, b&w photos. The author was a young man in 1894 when he wrote this work; he was a little hesitant to see it published - which first happened in 1943. He worked mostly for the Figure..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1943. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 181 pgs. A great poem recollecting the spirit and the beginnings of America. A classic! More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 355 pgs, bibliography, section of color illustrations. A collection of stories and essays about humankind's growing away from the cradle of Earth. More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1909. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 453 pgs, 4 color illustrations. "The true narrative of one Dr. John Robinson and of his love for the fair Senorita Valois." More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. Paperback. 7 x 10, 14 pgs, reprinted from the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Volume 2, Number 4, Winter 1946. More
Las Cruces, NM: New Mexico State University, 1966. Paperback. 6 x 9, 70 pgs. "A Symposium held during the forty-second annual meeting of the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science." May 4, 1966. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1980. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 307 pgs, index, b&w photos of writers. Twelve interviews with the likes of Larry McMurtry, John Graves, Elmer Kelton, Tom Lea, Leon Hale and others. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. '6 x 9, 412 pgs, index, b&w photos, fold-outs, ephemera tipped in. An anthropological study of the Tarahumara. More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1950. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 135 pgs, b&w and color photos and b&w illustrations. Includes glued in Index, at back cover, for the second edition. A classic! More
Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press, 2000. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 298 pgs, index, references, b&w illustrations. A selection from the author's humor column in the "American Entomologist" professional journal, this also contains many other pieces. It talks about how entomologists see insects, including their view of a US government..... More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981. Sixth printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 281 pgs. Twenty-four cultural and agricultural essays stress the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. More
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. Fifth Printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 192 pgs. "A measure of the health of the planet is economics - the health of its households." More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1891. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 320 pgs, index, b&w photos, decorated endsheets. The author brings the Canadian past alive with true stories of mystery and romance, tragedy and heroism, from the piracy of Bill Johnston, scourge of the St. Lawrence, to the weird saga..... More
Toronto: Doubleday, 1995. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 440 pgs, three sections of b&w photos. "Berton tells the stories behind the stories. Berton has lively anecdotes about such figures as John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney, and his television show guests, from Lenny Bruce to Malcolm X. He watches the Berlin..... More