WALTHER PISTOLS.
Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press, 1951. Third printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 94 pgs, b&w photos. Good history of these pistols. More
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A FLORA OF NEW MEXICO; Volume 1 and 2
Germany: J. Cramer, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 2591 pages total. b&w maps and illustrations. The senior author was affiliated with the Univ. of New Mexico and the junior author taught at a, local high school. Excellent reference. Not common. Consists of dichotomouskeys to the families..... More
ROME ETERNAL.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First printing, limited 255/350. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 196 pgs, b&w photos. A panorama in words and pictures of four periods of Rome's history - Pagan, Early Christian, Renaissance and Modern. This collection of photos was originally shot as motion pictures for a...... More
CALL OF THE HOUNDS.
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2016. Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 280 pgs, b&w photos. A life-long hunter and guide relates the mysteries of the mountains and reveals facts about lions and bears, secrets of scent and successful hound training and breed philosophies. More
BEN LILLY'S TALES OF BEARS, LIONS AND HOUNDS.
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2016. Fourth printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 224 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. Ben Lilly left behind enough writings to fill a book - this is it! Includes Ben's hunting diaries, magazine articles, an interview, personal letters, etc. More
A MODERN HERBAL.; Two Volumes.
New York: Dover Publications, 1971 (1931). Second edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 902 pgs, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1931, the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs and trees with all their modern scientific uses. More
WYATT EARP; Frontier Marshall
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 392 pgs, index, section of b&w historical photos. Frontier days come to life in this vivid, colorful biography. Here are real men, real fights, real adventures that outrun the novelist's imagination. More
BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO.
Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Department of Game & Fish, 1928. Limited edition, 304/350. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 807 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos, and color plates. A classic, exhaustive study of the birds of New Mexico including distribution, value of birds to the state, refuges, location of collections, etc...... More
COCHITI.; A New Mexico Pueblo, Past and Present.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 618 pgs, index, biblio, section of b&w photos. An in-depth look at this Indian Pueblo, the effects of 400 years of contact with Spanish and American cultures, and the complexities of social & cultural change in a...... More
GARRETT AND ROOSEVELT.
College Station, TX: Early West, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 180 pgs, index, biblio, b&w historical photos, decorated endsheets. Based on correspondence between Pat Garrett and Teddy Roosevelt, dating from Garrett's appointment as Collector of Customs until his dismissal. Still in shrinkwrap. More
LUCKY SHOT.; Favorite Hunting Stories of an Arizona Sportsman.
Haverford, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2002. First edition. Paperback. I5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 205 pgs, b&w photos. Hunting for mountain lion, Coues deer and other big game in the great Southwest. Authentic hunts. Lots of good hound work. More
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LION HUNTING.
California: Privately Printed, 1980. Reprint. Paperback. 5 x 8, 195 pgs, illus/photos. Authentic lion hunting book by one of the great living houndmen. More
CHAVEZ; A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM: William Gannon, 1989. Paperback. 7 x 10, 146 pgs, illustrated. Fray Angelico Chavez conducted extensive geneological research in the course of his writing career, and in the conclusion he comments on the value or possible unimportance of tracing heritage. Still in shrinkwrap. More
MEXICO MARCHES.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 386 pgs. Pre-war political and social history of our nearest neighbor to the south. More
THE STORY OF PALO DURO CANYON.
Canyon, TX: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1979. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 226 pgs, b&w photos and maps. Color folding photo attached to inside front cover and both folding maps in rear pocket. Includes articles on the geology, archeology, fauna, paleontology and its creation as a state park of Texas. Also..... More
'SWEET WAIST OF AMERICA'; Journeys Around Guatemala
London: Hutchinson, 1990. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 249 pgs, index, mapped endsheets. More than a travel book, a work of history and philosophy, set in a land that is exciting, bemusing, dangerous, and like nowhere else on earth. More
LOS HISPANOS; New Mexico Series 1
Denver: Sage Books, 1947. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 32 pgs, b&w illustrations. Five essays on the folkways of the Hispanos as seen through the eyes of one of them. More
ARTHUR T. HANNETT; Governor of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1950. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 34 pgs. A study of Hannett's gubernatorial term in New Mexico in the 1920s. More
A PORTRAIT OF BRONSON CUTTING THROUGH HIS PAPERS, 1910-1927.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1959. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 39 pgs. A study of Cutting's role in early New Mexico politics. More
SMALL POULTRY FLOCKS.
Clemson, SC: Clemson University. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 30 pgs, illustrated. Everything you need to kow to start and operate a small number of chickens on your homestead. More
PICTURE-WRITING OF TEXAS INDIANS; Lake Buchanan, 1936-1937, The Fall Creek Sites, and Additional Buchanan Lake Sites
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1938. Volume II. Paperback. 7 x 10, 490 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations of Texas rock art. This is Study No. 27. A masterwork on this subject. Previous owner's name neatly stamped on cover. More
ANNUAL REPORT OF WPA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH; Lake Buchanan, 1936-1937, The Fall Creek Sites, and Additional Buchanan Lake Sites
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1932. Volume III, No. 1. Paperback. 7 x 10, 153 pgs, index, b&w photos. Three anthropological papers from the University of Texas Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences. This is Study No. 26. The impending construction of a dam on the Colorado River..... More
THE NATURALIST IN LA PLATA.
New York: Dutton, 1922. Sixth edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 394 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A classic on natural history in South America. More
NOTES ON WESTERN RANGE FORBS; Cruciferae through Conpositae
Washington DC: US Department of Agriculture, 1966. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 365 pgs, b&w illustsrations throughout. Agriculture Handbook No. 293. A scientific study of range weeds. More
THE WRITINGS OF J. FRANK DOBIE:; A Bibliography
Lawton, OK: Museum of the Great Plains, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 258 pgs, index. Considered the best of the J. Frank Dobie bibliographies, comprised of his books, contributions to the books of others, magazine articles and stories, pamphlets, reprints, etc., and Sunday newspaper columns. More