Villa Alvaro Obregon: Banco Internacional & Miguel Angel Porrua, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing ltd to 6,000 copies. 4to buckram (heavy thread cloth). Three gilt-stamped, leather labels (title & publisher on cover; title on spine) affixed by publisher on the covers. 429pp. Illustrated with understated gray woodcuts & photos.....
Hermosillo, Mexico: no publisher cited, 1963. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. 1/4 sheep & gilt-stamped cloth with gilt-stamped label on spine. Tall 12mo. 676pp. Brands pp 11-531; Indices pp 535-676. Printer: Litho-Fatima. A nice looking brand book in near fine, unused condition. Light soiling to spine.
NY: McGraw-Hill, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 408pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Map. Decorated endpapers. The 6th volume in the American Trails Series. Carter... "tells of the Royal Road proper, as it stretched north and east from Saltillo and Monclova, New Spain (Mexico), to cross the Rio Grande, heading.....
El Paso: McMath, 1949. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial card wraps with overlapping flaps. 100pp. Illustrated with vintage photos. ffep has three line gift inscription not from author, & underneath is signature of author. Quite scarce. Vg.
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Small 8vo pictorial cloth. 31pp. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Decorated endpapers. "The Mexican legend about the flower now known as the poinsettia is the basis for this beautifully told and handsomely illustrated story." Some edge browning to boards, else.....
College Station: Texas A & M, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 152pp. Illus. Appendix (Statistical Tables). Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj.
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 218pp. Illus. Index. Warm, one-half page presentation signed by Monaghan to Helen C_______. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. The author's memoir of his adolescence "in the Old West and Mexico". He spent time in Colorado, Wyoming, & Utah. Material on.....
San Antonio: Naylor, 1960. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Copy #617 of ltd edition of 1,000. Cloth with vivid titles. 222pp. Illus. Inscribed in 9 lines to Dr. George Cohen by Procter. Foreword by Luz C. de Villa (Mrs. Pancho Villa). Binding glue from the boards has bled into the paste downs resulting.....
San Francisco: Dewey Publishing, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Pictorial cloth. In one volume titled JOURNEYS OF OBSERVATION are what might be considered two books: AMONG THE MINES OF MEXICO (255pp) & ACROSS THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS (130pp). The first is described: "Being the record of a journey from.....
Ft. Collins: Old Army Press, 1985. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Edition ltd to 500 copies. Fine burgundy & cream cloth. 109pp. Illus. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Charts. Endpaper maps. Signed by both authors. Volume I, Source Texana Series. Fine. No dj as issued.
San Antonio: Naylor, 1935. Limited/Numbered. Soft cover. Copy #236 of ltd edition of 500. Pictorial wraps. 128pp. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Map. Pencil comment apparently by former owner above chapter 1 heading. Fine.
San Diego: Univ. of California, San Diego, 1990. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of this issue, Vol. II, No. 2, of Critica. Printed wraps. 268pp. There are just a few illustrations. This book includes, after the Intro memorizing Dr. Sommers, who died in 1979, approximately 24 articles and essays.....
El Paso: Texas Western, 1965. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. (map by Jose Cisneros). 31pp. Illust. Fine.
Phila: G. B. Zieber & Co., 1845. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Printed wraps. 164pp + 4pp. Condition fair: original front cover corners chipped most of the way to the black & partially decorated printed border. Couple of small stains to front cover. Rebound using original front cover &.....
NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1945. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. 436pp. Bibliography. Index. No edition stated. Inscription inked out on ffep. Light spotting to edges of covers; vg in edgeworn dj.