Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1950. Folio. [2] leaves, 8 leaves of plates in portfolio [Harvest, The Spring, Dona Ascensione, Taos Indian woman, House in the sun, New Mexico village under snow, Rachos de Taos Church, Moonlight, the miner.] Each lithograph is tilted and signed in facsimile below each..... More
Silver City, NM. (2001): High Lonesome Books. First Edition. Octavo. Dan Tucker was the classic lawman during the violent frontier period of the Southwest New Mexico and was said to be a better lawman, but more dangerous than Wyatt Earp or Wild Bill Kickok.191pp., bound in blue cloth, spine lettering..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967. Quarto. 119p. Beautifully illustrated with the drawings of artist-illustrator, Lorence Bjorlund, who here depicts fifty-four individuals capturing the essence of each character--cowboy, rancher, stagecoach bandit, vaquero, marshal riverboat captain, peddle gunsmith, mountain man, wagon cook misisonary and more. More
Sante Fe: E. Brevooort, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 176 pages. Brevoort was a speculator who in the era wrote one of the earliest locally printed histories and the definitive work of its period, based on information furnished by early settlers and the author's own residence of 24 years. He already..... More
(Santa Fe, NM, 1988): Clear Light Publishers. First Edition. Octavo. 269pp. Illustrated by photograph. Well-traveled Santa Fe Trail couldn't help drawing a few bad men. The angry citizens of Las Vegas, NM had a running feud with outlaws, and more than a few were jailed or hanged in that fine..... More
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 249 pp. Western Frontiersman Series v. XVI. 19 illustrations, 5 maps. unopened. Aubrey was no obscure petty trader on the frontier. From 1846 to 1854 he was the busiest, most effective merchant on the Saint Louis-Santa Fe-Chihuahua-California routes. He spent money..... More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. 183p. index. bibliography. map on endpapers. Inscribed by Frances Gillmor. A leading Southwest archaeologist has produced the definitive literary portrait of Netzahualcoytl, Aztec poet king, who lived half a century after Cortez. It is thoroughly documented by the author and..... More
New York City;: The Press of the Pioneers, Inc, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. A history of Taos, New Mexico and the people who made history through out time in Taos. Apparently rebound, but handsomely done in blue cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy. More
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1950. First Edition. Octavo. 375p. The author presents a comprehensive view of New Mexico's history from the days of the Conquistadores to the arrival of Colonel Doniphan's army in Sante Fe. An interesting discussion of everyday colonial life from a variety of primary sources..... More
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1966. First Edition. Quarto. 341pp. Text. Index. map endpapers. Errata taped to verso of front free endpaper. The history of the settling of New Mexico and rediscovering how man found his way. Bound in maroon cloth lettered in gray, spine lettering gray and..... More
New York; (1940): Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author, The author tells an unusual story which dramatizes the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. He gives a picture of the Southwest, the land where he lives of which no one quite captures like he..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 247(1) pp., illustrated in color by Awa Tsireh and others. Awa Tsireh was a famous artist of San Ildefonso and has her illustrations in several well known museums and galleries. The Indian stories are usually told in the Winter's evening..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico; (1945): The Rydal Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies, [Howes, k-37] One of the Adams One-Fifty, Most Important Books on Western Outlaws and Lawmen. p.50 #87. Adams states this book is a very scholarly and a dependable source which can be used for material..... More
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 293pp. index. B&W photographs. Reminiscences of early Albuquerque by the author as a telegraph operator, newpaper reporter and lawyer. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Illustrated Edition. Octavo. 310 pages. The author's appreciation for the people with whom he lived with was reviewed as disgusting by many of the original readers in 1893 but the illustrations help to see the point though the penitente ceremoniest of the crucifixion..... More
New York (1925): The Century Co. Octavo. 517pp., folding map and illustrated with nearly 100 photographs by the author and others, of which one is of Thomas Moran at age 85. Lummis has written several books on the Southwest as he traveled and studied the land and its people. Bound..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press, 1961. First Edition. Folio. No pagination. Chiefly thirty three sketches and floorplans of adobe buildings followed by notes and how adobe plans were laid out. There was a cheap reprint done in 1986. William Lumpkins was an architect in La Jolla but in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, 245 pages. One of the finest travel guidebooks to the Southwest in the early 20th Century. Ernest Peixotto was known not only as a fine artist especially with superb pen and pencil work but for an astute view of..... More
Notre Dame, IN. [1999]: The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. First Edition. Quarto. 400pp. Many full page color plates along with several smaller color and black & white illustrations and photographs. A scholarly treatise on the development of Taos, New Mexico as an artist colony, and the..... More
Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at the Plantin Press, 1955. First Edition. Small Quarto. 42p. index of titles. Inscribed by LCP to Henry E. Starr on flyleaf. While the late Lawrence Clark Powell was a marvelous writer on the history of the book, his literary passion focused on..... More
Chico, California: Hurst & Yount, 1958. Limited Edition. Octavo. . 78 pages. Signed by W.H. Hutchinson and numbered 329 in a limited edition of 500 copies. Drawings by James Bodrero. Originally, this was part of a series in the Saturday Evening Post began on August 13, 1910. Although violence had..... More
Tucson, Arizona; (2005): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 261pp. Illustrated text, with chapter notes. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Drawing on both archaeological and historical sources, the author analyses the various levels of economic activity that developed; Production of items in colonial households, exchanges between households, and..... More
Albuquerque:(1987): University of New Mexico Press, First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 265 pp. This is the most detailed and most engaging narrated history to date of the legendary two year face down and shootout in Lincoln, N.M. Bound in 1/4 brown cloth over beige paper covered boards. spine lettering black..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 246pp., This story is of romance and adventure, faithful to historical fact, and accurate in its detailed presentment of the New Mexican scene as it was a century ago. 246pp., bound in red cloth decorated in black, spine lettering..... More
Snata Fe, NM: (the Lightening Tree), 1985. Limited Edition. Octavo. Signed Sincerely, F. Stanley. 97(1)pp. First biography of southwestern historiographer, Father Stanley Louis Crocchiola, who began writing about often ignored people and communities in the southwestern parishes which he began serving soon after his ordination in 1938 A fine copy..... More