southwest

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, color photos. Terry Falke's wry, lyrical photographs center on the terrain of the American Southwest and the ubiquity of humanity s imprint on it. The images in Observations in an Occupied Wilderness both honor and subvert the grand tradition of western landscape photography, conveying the bleak splendor of the land and Falke's sheer love of looking. Gorgeous, sardonic, and playful, Falke's work emphasizes beauty and incongruity, and is as much about human nature as it is about the land. Shot with a large-format camera, the resultant images are personal and provocative, raising as many questions than they answer. This remarkable debut monograph is a shrewd exploration of our last wild places.

Softcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, color photos. The end of the twentieth century represents an unsettled time, and the contemporary Southwest, as seen by Virgil Hancock III in these fifty-two exquisite color photographs, is a strange place full of omens and signs. His images peer beyond the scenery, beyond the tourism-council view of this region as a storied land of golf courses and climate-controlled shopping centers. He gets at the soul of the Southwest, of the nation, and, in his best photographs, at the human condition itself, seizing on the accidental symbols that speak to our yearnings and shortfalls: skyward-pointing arrows and crosses and dreams just beyond reach at Indian casinos, failed department stores, retirement cities. He photographs signs of the violence that has been endemic to the region and shows us ruins, not of the Anasazi or Spanish missions, but of commercialization, scarcely twenty years old, already gone belly-up.

1930, Book: Very Good, Color painting of galloping pony express rider by Maynard Dixon. 9 X 12" very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1930, Book: Very Good, Color painting of freighting wagons by Maynard Dixon. 9 X 12" very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 245 pages, b&w illustrations by Peixotto throughout, gilt decorated cover, titles and top edge. Minor corner bumps and spine edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Descriptions of the old Spanish Missions and settlements of Arizona, New Mexico and along the Texan border.

Hardcover. Albany NY, J. Munsell, 1st, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in brick red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 272 pages. Brown endpapers. Front hinge lightly cracked. Several early pages have foxing. A previous owner numbered in the margin, in light pencil, each sketch, ending with 429, and also noted with small light pencil lines, several men listed in "Names of Soldiers". Still a very nice copy of a first printing, 1867. A fascinating account of the first century of Pawlet, Vermont, a small farming community in southwestern Vermont. Memories of the Civil War were still fresh when this bountiful history was written. The first half of the book contains material on early settlement, the American Revolution (including some military correspondence, accounts of Burgoyne's defeat at Bennington, and a list of Revolutionary soldiers who settled in Pawlet), the War of 1812 (with a list of Pawlet soldiers), an extensive list of men who fought in the Civil War and brief histories of the local militia and Civil War regiments. Chapters are included on local government and politics (including lists of names of officials), emigration, customs and observances, names of merchants, physicians and lawyers, census figures, anti-slavery sentiment, railroads, church histories and other subjects, replete with names and dates. The second half of the book consists of family histories, presented as an alphabetical series of biographical sketches. These short narratives often note date and place of birth, occupation, spouse, children, military service, age and cause of death.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white phots throughout. In the early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly 1,000 photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners. Lost until recently in archives far from the Southwest, most of these photos have never before been published. The authors of this book have assembled a selection of Collieri? 1/2 s Navajo photographs showing the changes in post-World War II reservation life.

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Over 100 etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and serigraphs by New Mexicans or relating to New Mexico, are accompanied by a review of the art over the past century. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carol Nay. Some light library stamping and notation - endpapers and at bottom right corner of page 25. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Handsome woodcuts are the highlight of this rhyming story about the boomtown of Rhyolite, which sprang up almost overnight in 1904 after two men discovered gold in southwestern Nevada. The population quickly reached 10,000, then dwindled to almost nothing in a few years, following a financial panic. Frampton's woodcuts, more intricate than much of his previous work, suit the historical tale with their rustic feeling and glowing palette of oranges, browns, and golds. Small school stamp to bottom of title page, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. B&W and color plates. Illustrates beautifully the contemporary Southwest on canvas with vibrancy and refreshing perspective. Light blue pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minor wrinkles and smudges. Dust jacket folded off-center, otherwise a nice, clean and tight copy. "This comprehensive, expanded volume on Stefan and his work contains forty full-color reproductions of oils along with numerous black-and-white drawings, a panorama of the Southwest and a tribute to a fine painter."

Softcover. Montrose, Western Reflections Publishing Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 259 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Introduction by N. Scott Momaday. Color photography throughout. Clean copy.

Softcover. Houston, Art Magazine Publishers, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 178 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Articles and art by Joe Beeler, Frank Tenney Johnson, Don Mieduch, others. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur's arrival and his reception in Melbourne and a flight with the daring Dutch flier Capt. Hans Smits. More frequently, Lardner wrote about the ordinary day and the average person. Traveling throughout the country, in Southwest Passage Lardner offers a glimpse of Australia in the 1940s and generates warmth and admiration for World War II fighters in the Pacific, whether Australian, New Zealander, aboriginal, or American. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. A survey of the most original Southwestern Indian jewelers -- from traditional and contemporary silversmiths to exquisite lapidary artists to metalsmiths who create wearable art and objects.. Color photos by Addison Doty.

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2nd pr, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Foreword by George Kubler. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 127 pages. 81 artists interpret this masterpiece of 19th century Spanish Franciscan architecture. Map of Taos laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small tape repair, 805 pages. The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795. Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s. Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west, and including the histories of the Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Ute, and Wichita peoples. Within this region, from Texas to New Mexico, the Comanches played a key, formative role, and no less compelling is the story of the Hispanic frontier peoples who weathered the precarious, often arduous process of evolving coexistence with the Indians on the northern frontier of New Spain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A book devoted to the various forms of folk art that have developed in Texas. Includes over 200 illustrations, approximately half of which are in color. Also contains biographical notes on the various featured artists. Very good condition, some wear to the edges and spine of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Texas A&M University Press;, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Tom Lea was a realist who painted things as they are, but just happened to see more of what they are than most of us do. A muralist, painter, book illustrator, World War II artist-correspondent, historian, novelist, and humanist, Lea died in 2001 after creating in some sixty years a corpus of work that has captivated those who know it. This volume makes available the full range of his vigorous work. Old admirers of Lea's talents will delight in this presentation, and a whole new generation will be awed by the unique contribution he has made. A Southwesterner from multicultural El Paso, Lea gave new vision to the misunderstood lands often thought of as barren wastes. As Kathleen G. Hjerter says in her foreword, in his paintings "the desert's melded colors are vibrant under many subtle gradations of light; the mesas and mountains reach up to a sky enormous enough to hold everyone's soul."But it is not just the southwest. its life and lore that Lea knew. Any subject he portrayed in picture or words (he wrote several outstanding books, including The Wonderful Country) he first researched minutely. Thus, he brought marvelous detail to his portrayal of the Mexican bullfighter, the Australian ranches and Texas cattle of the King empire, and the Indians, pioneers, and ranch hands of his own corner of the world. In the Second World War, as an artist-correspondent for Life magazine, he captured both the weaponry and the emotions of war. On assignment in China he developed a love for that land that gave him not only many subjects for paintings but also his favorite and, in later years, most characteristic medium: Chinese ink applied with a fine brush. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, horizontal format, 264 pages with b&w illustrations plus 14 pages of vintage packaging labels in rear. Chronicles the world's greatest concentration of salmon and canneries and their influence on Native and non-Native people in southwestern Alaska. This book documents long abandoned canneries, and those still in use, during the hey-day in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with maps, historic photographs, and first hand accounts that give the reader an impression of the unique Bristol Bay way of life. Also offers a view of life upriver, during the winter, along the length and breadth of the three great salmon rivers in the Bay, The Nushagak, the Kvichak, and the Naknek. Historic photographs document a variety of cabins, houses, caches, and some of the people who built them and relied on them for shelter and storage. NOTE: front cover is missing so title page serves as cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy of this scarce regional history.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 3rd Pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages including appendices, bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Superb images, portraits of individuals and family groups, and their arts, convey a quality of intimacy and serenity. Scenes of daily activity show many details of the way the Navajos life has been lived. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book, Inc, 1970, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, ads, reviews. Articles include No Laughter in Heaven by Lloyd Alexander, Three Times Lonely: The Plight of the Mexican Child in the American Southwest, The Art of Elizabeth Enright, others. Light stamp to front wrapper, otherwise clean.