New Mexico from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

New York; (1916): Dodd, Mead. Octavo. 490pp., Illustrated with interesting black and white photographic images. The author's years of knowledge of the Pueblo Indians went into this fascinating portrait of pueblo life before the advent of the white men. Bound in dark brown cloth deaccented in black depicting the desert mountains and yellow sky and river, spine lettering yellow.… Read more about this item

Albuqueque; (1966, 1970, 1977 and 1984): University of New Mexico Press. First Editions. Octavo. In 4 volumes: V. I: 462 pp., 528 pp., V. 3: 702pp., and V. 4: 785pp. and signed by editor Charles H. Lange. illustrated with photographs, maps and numerous drawings by Adolph Bandelier. This work is comprised of a day-to-day field notebook, as well as… Read more about this item

New York; (1964): The Viking Press. First Edition. Large Octavo. 2nd printing. Signed and inscribed by White Bear. 347 pages, with Hopi glossary, illustrated with photographic images. The drawings and source material recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Thirty elders of the Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona met to offer these accounts. The first two parts deal with the… Read more about this item

Norman, Oklahoma; (1958): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages, index. Illustrated One of the finest histories by one of the Southwest's premier historians of the Mescalero Apaches from their history to their betrayal by the Spanish, Mexicans and the Americans. A fine copy bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering in dark brown and yellow, in… Read more about this item

Kansas City, Mo.; (1948): Burton Publishing Co. First Edition. Quarto. 487 pages, special signed limited edition. #109 of 200 copies. Lambert was a pioneer of Cimarron, New Mexico where he was a deputy sheriff, a mounted policeman, and member of the U.S. Indian Service. The book has more than 700 pen and ink drawings, pages 470-485 have a glossary… Read more about this item

Denver; (1966): Alan Swallow. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 300pp., Story of the work at Los Alamos contrasted with a woman nearby developing her own psychic powers while showing a cast of remarkable characters ranging from an atomic physicist, a bookseller and an anthropologist. Bound in gray cloth, spine lettering gilt, some toning to board edges. A very good… Read more about this item

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. Stories are not told during Spring or Summer as… Read more about this item

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 pivotal role that patrons and artists had there in… Read more about this item

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 which originally led to death or severe crippling now… Read more about this item

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 bound in yellow cloth lettered in red, … Read more about this item

Warwick, England: Helicon, 2019. Large Octavo. 475 pages. index. Inscribed by the author also with a letter laid in on University letterhead from the author. Illustrated. This is the definitive history of the Victorio Campaign in 1880. It is expertly written and lavishly supplemented with photographic plates, complex charts and graphs, with complete analysis including the politics… Read more about this item

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 1961 he went back to his earlier work in… Read more about this item

Flagstaff; (1964): Northland Press. Quarto. 144 pages. 23 illus., 14 color plates. Life of Russian-born painter who traveled in France, Tibet and eventually moving to Taos, NM. This edition has an added 30 pages not found in earlier issue. This copy notes it was given to Sharon and Joe Beeler from Pat and Max Shriver who… Read more about this item

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 materials illustrated with drawings and maps.… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1896. Quarto. p. 599-613. This guide was published two years before the fourteenth annual report of the BAE was issued. Harriet Koenig in her Acculturation in the Navajo Eden: New Mexico, 1550-1750 notes that while Winship was a Professor at Harvard, he prepared these notes for a seminar on American History that would not… Read more about this item

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 already been introduced to the American… Read more about this item

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 had substantial interest in land grants he had purchased… Read more about this item

(Thorp Springs Press, Austin, TX. 1984). Octavo. 136 pages. Signed by the author on the half title page. As Paul Foreman writes: this work is worthy of the others such as Masked Gods, Man Who Killed the Deer and Book of the Hopi. It is a novel of a search for gold: both the… Read more about this item

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 picturesquely illustrated by Ola Apenes… Read more about this item

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.