![Item #793 Ho! To the Land of Sunshine. A Guide to New Mexico for the Homeseeker [cover title]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB793_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565781345)
Albuquerque: 1909. 52,[2]pp. plus folding map, 19 x 16 inches. Narrow octavo. Original brown printed wrappers, stapled. Covers detached, some light chipping and soiling. Internally clean with minor wear. Tenth Revised Edition of this guide published by the state’s Bureau of Immigration. The guide contains general information on the state..... More
[Santa Fe: ca. 1920]. [12]pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Light chipping and wear to wrappers, internally clean. An ephemeral brochure for Santa Fe, with a map and numerous local ads for tourists to the area. The text provides a brief history of the city highlighting the Plaza, the Palace..... More
Eureka, NM: February 17 & 20, 1881. Two manuscript letters, totaling [3]pp. Previously folded. Light tanning and minor edge wear. A pair of manuscript letters that shed light on negotiations for the purchase and transport of lumber wholesale from Antioch, California, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. In the letters, dated February..... More
[Santa Fe? 1884]. [4]pp. on a bifolium. Brittle and tanned, chipping at edges, a few closed tears. An ephemeral survivor of the Republican political campaign in New Mexico in 1884. Herein, William Breeden, the territory's attorney general, pleads with voters to nominate L. Bradford Prince as the territory's congressional representative..... More
Albuquerque: 1951-1952. Thirty-six leaves, illustrated with 133 black-and-white photographs between 2.75 x 3.75 inches and 3.25 x 5 inches, all in corner mounts, plus seven loose photographs laid in. Oblong folio. Contemporary red leatherette with inset design on front cover, string tied. Minor edge wear, corners bumped, front cover detached..... More
Topeka: Highway Map Co., [ca. 1920s]. Folding map, approximately 17 x 28 inches. Light wear and dust soiling along folds. Light tanning. Scare dual highway maps of New Mexico and Arizona, printed on each side of the sheet. The publisher, Highway Map Company of Topeka, published a series of slightly..... More
Tikeras, N.M. El Comite para Reformar y Preservar las Tierras de la Merced de Chilili, [1977]. [10]pp., plus 11 x 8 broadsheet. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very minor creasing and old horizontal fold to broadsheet. Two ephemeral, bilingual pieces on a land struggle between New Mexico developers and local Chicano..... More
Roswell, N.M. 1914. 21,[1] leaves. Brad-bound at top edge, with cloth backing. Lower right corner of cover page chipped away. Moderate wear at edges, central closed tear from foot of initial leaves. Even tanning, minor soiling. Interesting, early 20th-century title abstract for a land parcel comprising 160 acres south of..... More
[Santa Fe, N.M. 1884-1906]. 15pp. of manuscript text, plus over sixty pages of newspaper clippings pasted in. Quarto. Contemporary red leather backstrip and marbled paper-covered boards, printed label of the U.S. Military's Quartermaster "Headquarters District of New Mexico" on front cover, with added manuscript notation, "John Ayers Santa Fe N.M...... More
[N.p. 1901]. [12]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce promotional for this early 20th-century New Mexico oil venture. The text contains an amusing if dangerous sounding origin story for the company, in which the founding officer ignites a brook covered in a "peculiar..... More
![Item #6311 Tucumcari, N.M. Aug. 1913. [caption title]. New Mexico, Photography](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6311.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775051761)
[Gallup, N.M. P. Clinton Bortell, 1913]. Panoramic photograph, approximately 10 x 48.25 inches. Minor dust soiling and patches of light staining. Two short, closed tears at lower edge, not affecting image. An attractive panoramic image of the town of Tucumcari in eastern New Mexico, taken by professional photographer Pearl Clinton..... More
![Item #796 Farming Lands Under Irrigation. Colfax County, New Mexico [cover title]. New Mexico, Water](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB796.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567080197)
Denver: [ca. 1900]. Folding pamphlet, 8.75 x 18 inches. Light tanning. Scarce promotional pamphlet for irrigated lands north of Springer, New Mexico, in Colfax County, courtesy of the Maxwell Land Grant Company. The "Springer Ditch System" drew its water from the Cimarron River, and irrigated the southern portion of the..... More