Landmarks of New Mexico by Hewett, Edgar L. and Wayne L. Mauzy - 1953

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press / School of American Research. Very Good+. 1947. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. "Hewett's interest in Frijoles Canyon was timely, for ethnologist Adolph Bandelier had just started to describe, through both scientific papers and his novel The Delight Makers (1890) , prehistoric life on the Pajarito Plateau. Hewett came to know Bandelier and consider him his mentor in his own studies. By 1896 Hewett himself was conducting field work on the Plateau, although he continued to defer to Bandelier's expertise on the region for many years. Hewett rapidly came to believe that the Plateau's archaeological sites constituted a national resource that should be preserved,… Read More

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico. VG/G. 1947. 2nd. Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 204 pp., Dj rubbed, tears in edges .

[Albuquerque, NM]: University of New Mexico Press, 1940. First edition. Octavo. (12), 13-200pp. Numerous photo illustrations. Black cloth gilt stamped on spine. Very good in illustrated beige dust jacket with edgewear.