New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over matching boards. Very Fine. Very Fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. The author's brillant and disturbing meditation on America and what it has become. The first..... More
New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 298pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth over matching boards. Very Fine. Very Fine in dust jacket. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. The author's brillant and disturbing meditation on America and what it has become. The first..... More
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First paperback edition. Paperback. 298pp. Octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. "In this ground-shaking, breathtaking cri de coeur, Bowden digs with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brace New World. The figures he casts before us - from Pancho Villa..... More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 175pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full blue cloth with gilt title on backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. In 'Blue Desert', Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to..... More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 175pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a copper stamped title on the backstrip. Very good plus, with a short, thin mark on the bottom edge of the text block. In a very good dust jacket, with..... More
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
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
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
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
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
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 152pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Full blue cloth. Spine titles and cover device in a metallic red. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's fifth book continued his relentless and fearless examination of life in the United States..... 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
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Signed by author and photographer 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..... More
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Gray paper over boards, with title stamped in silver on spine. In this sixth and final installment of his "Unnatural History of America" series, journalist Charles Bowden contrasts the intractable violence of man with the enduring beauty..... More