Illustrated History of New Mexico
by Read, Benjamin M
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Printing Company. Good. 1912. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition numbered 159/500 copies, with an author stamp on the limitation page. Purpled blind embossed boards with gilt imprint. Some light sunning of edges and spine, soil, and bowing of front board. Rubbed and bumped edges and corners, spine shaken. Purple patterned endpapers with a small bookseller's label on the first free endpaper, some inked notes on second endpaper. Light soil on text block edge and some pages. Laid in errata sheet. Author Benjamin M. Read engaged in numerous disagreements over the history of New Mexico and who had the authority to write about it. First English-language publication, based on the authors's second Spanish edition, and translated into English by Eleuterio Baca. Howes R-90, Graff 3430. ; 10" x 7"; 812 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010658js
- Title
- Illustrated History of New Mexico
- Author
- Read, Benjamin M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- New Mexican Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe, NM
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- New Mexico, Western Americana
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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