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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. 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 against the backside of the fabled Sierra Madre Mountains..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 219pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Dark grey paper over boards. Silver stamped title on spine. "The terror comes not from the question of violence spilling across the border. It comes from that word, border. Borders must be gone. I will have..... More
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
Tucson: The Southwest Center, University of Arizona. Paperback. 222pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Early Grosset reprint. Hardcover. 293pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Orange cloth over boards. The spine and boards are moderately edgeworn, and the fore-edge of the front board is just a bit stained and faded. In a dust jacket, with toning, and sporadic small closed and..... More
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, 1967. Nederlandse vertaling (Dutch translation). Paperback. 233pp. Octavo [20 cm] Casebound pictorial wraps. Literaire Reuzenpocket 226. A Dutch-language edition of Two Serious Ladies. More
Stockholm: Gebers, 1967. Swedish edition. Hardcover. 277pp. Octavo [21 cm] Red cloth-effect paper over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Very good, in a very good dust jacket, with mild rubbing and soiling to the surface. A Swedish edition of this 1943 modernist novel. More
Vienne: Gallimard, 1969. "Du Monde Entier" edition. Paperback. 269pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] White wraps printed in black and red. In the "Du Monde Entier" series. A French edition of this 1943 modernist novel. More
New York: The Ecco Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 108pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/2 black cloth with matching paper over boards. Illustrated. Very good. The spine is a touch rolled back. In a very good dust jacket, with light surface wear, and a creased front flap. "Paul Bowles has opened..... More
ecco, 2014. Later printing. Paperback. 327pp. Octavo [20cm]; illustrated wraps. Paul Bowles hypnotic masterpiece about foreign cultures being destroyed because of their mystery, printed here as a 65th anniversary edition by ecco. More
New York: Random House, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 406pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth over boards with gold lettering on blue and green ink stamped panels on the spine and front cover. Publisher's pale blue top stain. The spine ends and corners of the covers are moderately bumped, and..... More