THE MEXICAN PROBLEM
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Small 8vo gilt-stamped cloth. 136pp. Illus. Map. Vg copy; no dj. NOT ex-lib.
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REVOLUCION MEXICANA Y CONSTITUCION DE 1917 --- 1876 - 1938 (Documentos para la Historia Mexico Independiente)
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.....
MARCAS Y SENALES PARA IDENTIFICACION DE GANADO Estado Do Sonora 1963.
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.
ENSAYOS SOBRE INDIGENISMO (Signed)
Ninos Heroes, Mexico: Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. Printed wraps. 272pp. Two portraits. Signed on the cover by the author. Prologo de Manuel Gamio. Former owner's name stamp top of front cover. Browning at edges. Top of spine peeled but reglued. Good copy.
EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS IN TARAHUMARA
Berkeley: Univ of California, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. 276pp. Illust. Fldg map. Fine in pc dj with a narrow edge chip on the bottom of the front panel.
DIARIO DE EXPLORACIONES EN ARIZONA Y CALIFORNIA EN LOS ANOS DE 1775 Y 1776
Mexico: Universidad nacional autonoma de Mexico, 1968. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Apparently the first printing of this 1968 UNAM edition in Spanish, the first being in 1854. Pictorial glossy wraps. 103pp. Map. Folding map. Indice. Mildly ex-lib with two ex-libris stamps from the Academy of American Franciscan History. Call number.....
PANCHO VILLA AND THE COLUMBUS RAID (Signed)
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.
THE CHRISTMAS FLOWER
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.....
CALEXICO!: True Lives of the Borderlands (Signed)
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial trade wraps. 211pp. Signed (signed only) by Laufer on dedication page. Small but noticeable when opened compression bump to text block top front corner. Essays by the author featuring various residents of this border town east of.....
BULLFIGHT MANUAL FOR SPECTATORS
San Carlos: Nourse, 1949. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Colorful pictorial wraps. 24pp. Illustrated with fine drawings by Lea. Perhaps a bit soiled or slightly dark at the cover edges, but near fine.
THE NORTH MEXICAN CATTLE INDUSTRY, 1910-1975 : Ideology, Conflict and Change
College Station: Texas A & M, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 152pp. Illus. Appendix (Statistical Tables). Bibliography. Index. Fine in dj.
HISTORICAL DATA concerning the Mining District of Taxco de Alarcon, State of Guerrero. Prepared by Order of a Committee of Miners of said District, for the purpose of Exhibiting the same at the St. Louis Exposition
St. Louis: Mexican National Commission, 1904. First Edition. Soft cover. Original edition. Small printed wraps with overlapping edges. 38pp. Contains info on the political situation, geographical situation and climate, geological formation and mineralization, etc. Upper front cover has oil-type stains that have bled through to first few pages, with very.....
FORTY YEARS AT EL PASO 1858-1898
El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1962. First Thus. Hardcover. 1st printing of the Hertzog edition of book first published in 1901. Black cloth with gilt owl on front cover, as also had the 1901 edition. 121pp. Illus. Wonderful drawings by the incomparable Tom Lea. Index. Appendices. Intro & Notes by Rex.....
SCHOOLBOY, COWBOY, MEXICAN SPY (Signed)
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.....
GUARACHA TRAIL: Adventures of an American Doctor Battling for a "Lost" Silver Mine in the Bandit Country of Northern Mexico
NY: Dutton, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 251pp. I've read a few pages of this book and it's a real good read. Fine in vg dj with a couple of short tears/snags. Unusual. Reprinted in paperback but scarce in the first edition.
MINING IN THE NEW WORLD
NY: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 239pp. Illus. Chronological Table. Extensive bibliography. Index. Sponsored by the Spanish Institute, Inc. Fine in near fine dj. Quite a sweeping and scholarly study.
PANCHITA Saga of the daring women who smuggled guns across the Rio Grande for Pancho Villa (Signed)
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.....
JOURNEYS OF OBSERVATION (inclusive of two titles: AMONG THE MINES OF MEXICO & ACROSS THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS
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.....
ROLL CALL AT THE ALAMO
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.
OLD ROUGH AND READY ON THE RIO GRANDE with The Mier Expedition and The Last Battle of the Civil War (Signed)
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.
CRITICA: A Journal of Critical Essays: SPECIAL ISSUE IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH SOMMERS
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.....
THE GOVERNORS OF MEXICO
El Paso: Texas Western, 1965. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. (map by Jose Cisneros). 31pp. Illust. Fine.
THE PRISONERS OF PEROTE, containing A Journal Kept by the Author, etc.
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 &.....
TIMELESS MEXICO
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.
THE BOYS FROM MEXICO: A Season Chasing the American Dream (Signed)
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 225pp. Signed (signed only) by Wilson. Fine, like new in dj.