Description
Daughter of the Earth: Collecting Mary Austin
From time of her birth Mary Austin was an outsider. She was the oddball sister, the daughter who didn’t conform to Mother’s idea of femininity. She grew into a writer who was admired by some of the foremost minds of her time for her bold, self-assured prose. H. G. Wells once called her “the most intelligent woman in America.”
Mary Austin: A Selected Checklist of First Editions
Surprisingly, most of Austin’s books can found in collectable condition.
States of “Great”
Tony Hillerman’s book The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs, first published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1973, contains nine essays and was Hillerman’s first nonfiction book. Even so, it’s something of a mystery.
A Wild and Wooly Bunch of Eccentric Westerns
In popular culture Westerns fall into distinct, clearly defined classifications with easily recognizable conventions. We select a group of novels that challenge these limits and expand the form, showing that the Western genre is as flexible as an author’s imagination.
Previously in Firsts
May 1995 – Wallace Stegner, Alan LeMay; June 1995 – James M. Cain; May 2005 – Connie Willis, Daniel Keyes; June 2005 – John Le Carré, Graham Greene
Antiquarian Notes
Thinking About Poe, Again