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The Fabulous Frontier, Twelve New Mexico Items
by Keleher, William A
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- first
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Santa Fe, New Mexico; (1945): The Rydal Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies, [Howes, k-37] One of the Adams One-Fifty, Most Important Books on Western Outlaws and Lawmen. p.50 #87. Adams states this book is a very scholarly and a dependable source which can be used for material on Billy the Kid, Pat Garret, Jim Miller and other New Mexico gunmen. It also includes much pertaining to the Mescalero Apaches, the Utes, Navajo, the great mining booms, the railroad and much more. 117pp., a nearly fine copy bound in blue cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, endpapers are maps, from the library of Earl Vance, a close friend of R.C. Gorman and who owned the famous Ranch Kitchen Restaurant in Farmington, New Mexico along route 66, with his bookplate, in unclipped cream dust jacket lettered in red and black, chipping to spine ends and edges. A very nice copy.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019363
- Title
- The Fabulous Frontier, Twelve New Mexico Items
- Author
- Keleher, William A
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Rydal Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe, New Mexico; (1945)
- Keywords
- Rydal Press First Edition Limitd Edition Billy the Kid Mining Towns New Mexico
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; New Mexico;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Octavo
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- Gilt
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