Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. University of Texas Press Edition. Paperback. 334pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; black and white wraps. Foreword by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. More
Literature
Blues for Cannibals; The Notes from Underground
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 293pp. 8vo. The second outing in the author's proposed trilogy which began with Blood Orchid. More
Blues for Cannibals; The Notes from Underground
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 293pp. Octavo [23 cm] 1/2 cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. The second part of the author's proposed trilogy begun with Blood Orchid. Blues For Cannibals continues the author's quest to discover the headwaters of the sickness..... More
Dakotah: The Return of the Future
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 184 pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark grey paper over boards. Silver stamped title on spine. "When award-winning author [Charles] Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. 'Dakotah' marks the landmark publication of the first of..... More
Desierto: Memories of the Future
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 225pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/2 brown cloth with cream-colored paper over boards. The spine ends are bumped, and the bottom fore edge corner of the front cover is a little abraded. The dust jacket has a number of faint..... More
Desierto: Memories of the Future
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. First University of Texas Press Edition. Paperback. 235pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; black and white illustrated wraps. Lannan Charles Bowden Publishing Project. Foreword by William DeBuys. --- From publisher website: A forerunner of Charles Bowden’s acclaimed books about the harsh life in the Southwestern borderlands, Desierto offers seven essays..... More
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Later Printing. Hardcover. 433pp. Octavo [24.5cm]; brown quarter cloth boards with tan paper and gilt stamped title on spine. From dust-jacket flap: Down by the River is the tale of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all..... More
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
New York; London; Toronto; Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED: 433pp. Octavo [24.5cm]; quarter cloth brown and tan paper; gilt title on spine. Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to..... More
Down by the River; Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. 433 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Remainder mark at bottom edge. Charles Bowden was one of the premier writers on social issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. In Down by the River, he turns his critical, lyrical pen to the "War..... More
Down By the River; Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First edition thus. Paperback. Trade paperback, 448pp. with notes and index. Includes a new afterword not found in the hardbound edition. Charles Bowden was one of the premier writers on social issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. In Down by the River, he turns his..... More
Frog Mountain Blues
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. Second printing. Paperback. 165pp. New afterword by the author. Color photographs by Jack Dykinga.The author's fourth book . The Catalina Mountains on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona are called "Frog Mountain" by the native Tohono O'odham people. Bowden is the most fearless writer working..... More
Frog Mountain Blues
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. Second printing. Paperback. 165pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Glossy printed wraps. New. Color photographs by Jack Dykinga. The Catalina Mountains on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona are called "Frog Mountain" by the native Tohono O'odham people. Bowden's fourth book. More
Killing the Hidden Waters
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 174pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with a black ink stamped title on the backstrip. Book is in near fine condition with slight shelfwear. Price-clipped dust jacket shows some shelfwear and typical rubbing to rear panel, with lighter rubbing..... More
Mezcal
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 152pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Full blue cloth. Spine titles and cover device in a metallic red. The author's fifth book continued his relentless and fearless examination of life in the United States in the twilight years of the 20th century. More
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
New York: Nation Books, 2011. Julian Cardona [Photographs]. Later printing. Paperback. 328pp. Octavo [21 cm] Pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border city, it now resembles a failed state and has the highest murder rate in the..... More
Red Line
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. First University of Texas Press Edition. Paperback. 198pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; photo illustrated wraps. Foreword by James Galvin. --- From publisher website: One of Charles Bowden’s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge—and decaying at its center. Bowden’s quest for..... More
A Shadow in the City; Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
Orlando, FL: Harvest Book, 2005. First paperback edition. Paperback. 326 pp. [20 cm]; yellow, black and red illustrated wraps. 326pp. "Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug..... More
A Shadow in the City; Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
Orlando, FL: Harvest Book, 2005. First paperback edition. Paperback. 326 pp. [20 cm]; yellow, black and red illustrated wraps. 326pp. "Joey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug..... More
Some of the Dead are Still Breathing: Living in the Future
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. University of Texas Press Edition. Paperback. 227pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; black and white wraps. Foreword by Scott Carrier. More
Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. Richard Younker. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. The bottom edges of the covers are very lightly edgeworn, and the surface of the dust jacket is mildly rubbed. Photographs by..... More
Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. Richard Younker. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 198pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Photographs by Richard Younker. Foreword by William Appleman Williams. This provocative and beautifully written book will challenge every one of your assumptions..... More
Texas Canyon, Arizona: An Eloquence of Stone
Dragoon, AZ: The Amerind Foundation, Inc., 1987. Cy Lehrer. Paperback. Thin square octavo [20 cm] Stapled gray, black and white illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are lightly rubbed and creased. "This place makes no sense. A whale like boulder balances on an undulating ocean of stone, a tiny shrub..... More
Arizona Highways January 1988, Volume 64, Number 1 (Charles Bowden content)
Phoenix: Arizona Department of Transportation, 1988. Original edition. Paperback. 48pp. Thin quarto [30 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very lightly rubbed and creased. Contains the article, A Canyon Called Paria, by Charles Bowden. This is where Bowden spent 6 winter days tracing the steps of John D...... More
The Secret Forest
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 141pp. Small quarto [25.5cm]. Glossy pictorial wraps. As New. Signed by author on the title page. Photographs by Jack W. Dykinga. 141pp. Oversize trade paperback. Only edition issued. Where the Sonoran desert ends and the tropical forests begin; up..... More
The Charles Bowden Reader
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2010. First edition. Paperback. 297pp. Octavo [23cm]; pictorial wraps. From the publisher: From his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, to his most recent, Murder City: Cuidad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, Charles Bowden has been sounding an alarm about the..... More