[Oakland]: Daireikyo Kenkyujo, 1950. [14],336,[2],59,[1]pp., plus one two-sided plate. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in black, blue, red, and white, blue cloth backstrip with titles printed in yellow. Some scuffing and chipping to extremities, moderate sunning and rubbing to spine. Front hinge somewhat tender. Internally clean. The important first volume of..... 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

[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

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

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

[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

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