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On Nature: Nature, Landscape, and Natural History

Editor: Halpern, Daniel  (1945-) Publisher: North Point Press (San Francisco, CA) Pub Date: 1987 (Second printing) Binding: Hardcover Condition:  Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Inscribed by one author on half-title page.  Signed by two authors.  Light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped.  One…

Houses in Time: A Tour Through New Mexico History

Author: Harris, Linda G. Photographer: Porter, Pamela Publisher: Arroyo Press (Las Cruces, NM) Pub Date: 1997 (First edition) Binding: Hardcover Condition: 2 copies.  Both copies Fair to Good.  Bindings tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Copy 1 warmly inscribed author and signed by photographer.   Copy 2 only signed by the author.   Dust Jackets NOT price clipped. …

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers

Author: Waugh, John G.  (1929-) Publisher: Warner Books Pub Date: 1994 (Fourth printing) Binding: Hardcover Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Signed by the author near lower corner title page.   Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Upper front cover corner has a small stain (?).  Upper front cover corner has an…

The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

Author: Church, Peggy Pond (1903-1986) Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub Date: 1960 (First printing) Binding: Hardcover Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight, but there is an approx. 2″ upper front gutter split.  Bookstore label on bottom front pastedown, and previous owner’s address label size bookplate on upper front pastedown.  The upper 2″ of the…

Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security

Author: Fukuoka, Masanobu  (1913-2008) Publisher: Chelsea Green (White River Junction, VT) Pub Date: 2012 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Book:  Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped.  Very light edge and corner wear. Notes:  Fukuoka was the author of the agricultural classic The One-Straw Revolution (Rodale Books, 1978), a…

The People: Indians of the American Southwest

Author: Trimble, Stephen (1950-) Publisher: School of American Research Press (Santa Fe, NM) Pub Date: 1993 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Signed by the author on second endpaper/half-title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Two approx. 1/2″ tears along upper front…

New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology: Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the North American Southwest

Editors: Roth, Barbara J.; Gilman, Patricia A.; and Anyon, Roger Publisher: University of Arizona Press  (Tucson, AZ) Pub Date: 2018 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Fair to Good.  Without dust jacket (as issued?), printed boards.  Signed by one of the editors on the title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused. Notes: Conference papers.  From…

The Marine Officer’s Guide and More Than A Few Good Men (2 volumes)

Authors: The Marine Officer’s Guide: Thomas, General G.C. (Gerald Carthrae) (1894-1984) : Heinl, Col. R.D., Jr. (Robert Debs) (1916-1979); and Ageton, Rear Adm. A.A.  (Arthur Ainslie) More Than a Few Good Men:  Driver, Lt. Col. Robert J, Jr. (1933-2023) Publisher: Naval Institute Press (Marine Officer’s Guide) Mariner  Publishing (More Than a Few Good Men) Pub Date: …

The Fabulous Frontier: Twelve New Mexico Items

Author: Keleher, William A.  (1886-1972) Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub Date: 1962 (Revised and Enlarged edition) Binding: Hardcover Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Inscribed and dated (Christmas Day, 1962) by the author on the half-title page.  Slight wear to lower corners and spine foot.  Map endpapers.  Dust Jacket:…