The text of a specch in which Lawrence Clark Powell pays tribute to the cultural development of El Paso, Texas, and the central role of that city's library.

With articles on Dobie, Jeffers, "Street of the Second-hand Bookshops," "A Southwestern Bookseller" and others.

The author of this enchanting, exuberant book has been called "America's most vocal and provocative bookman," as well as the "most literate, readable, and perhaps most controversial librarian." His unique gift for communicating his enthusiasm for books, music, and travel in these warm, lively essays opens new worlds to the reader. Powell's earlier books have been about the Book (the little package), book collecting and reading, and the Southwest....

The author's memoir of the years 1906-1966, relating to his boyhood, Occidental, Dijon, UCLA.

This is the first full-length biography of Robinson Jeffers. He wrote of impassioned people with a vigor and beauty of imagery almost unsurpassed by any other poet writing in English. His life and his development as a poet is ably chronicled by Melba Berry Bennett, who has had access to letters and documents not otherwise available. Her intimate friendship with Jeffers, his wife Una and his twin sons, Garth and Donnan, extended over the last thirty-five...

More than 100 photographs of the Southwest by the renowned artist, including views of the national parks such as the Grand Canyon, Zion, Death Valley, and Joshua Tree, among others; as well as images of Navajo Mountain, Hopi Buttes, Taos Pueblo, saguaro cactus, gravestones, and other varied subjects.