A Taos Mosaic: Portrait of a New Mexico Village

Description

Author: Morrill, Claire (1898-1980)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1973 (First edition)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  This was a retirement gift to Unknown, and the front pastedown and ffep are covered with well-wishes to Unknown on his or her retirement.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  Price-clipped.  Lower front edge has an approx. 1/2″ mended tear.  Upper front edge near spine head has approx. 1/2″ tear.  Chipping to spine head.  Smudging to rear cover.

Notes: Morrill had been a part owner and managing editor of the Midland (TX) Republican (boy, that says a lot) when she and her partner came to Taos, New Mexico and opened the Taos Book Shop in 1957.  She was friends with Mabel Dodge Luhan, Frieda Lawrence, and Dorothy Brett, and knew members of the Taos Society of Artists.  In this volume she writes about what makes Taos so, well, Taos.  If D.H. Lawrence and Dennis Hopper lived there, you have to figure there was more to Taos than the Taos Hum.  Photographs in the volume by Laura Gilpin.