The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776 by Kessell, John L - 1980

University of New Mexico Press, 1980. First edition. Unabridged.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. like new but for missing jacket, First Printing No ownership marks. 288 p.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press for Cultural Properties Review Committee, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Goldenrod buckram, lettered/illus. in red and black. Minor soiling to cover cloth, slight binding lean. Lacks dust jacket. xii,276 pp. Stated 1st ed..

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hard cover very good condition, 1st edition. . 275 pp. Published for the Cultural Properties Review Committee. 223 B/W photos. 23 colored plates, biblio, index, notes.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 8" X 10 3/4. 276 pages. Indexed. Beautiful book in near flawless condition. Dust jacket has very minor edgewear with a couple of very small tears on inside flap, very small, light water stain on spine DJ. Bright white dust jacket. The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776 an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony. The Missions of New Mexico, 1776, impeccably translated and edited by distinguished historians Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angelico Chavez, is a single source like no other that reveals life in raw and remote, late-eighteenth-century New Mexico. Dispatched from Mexico City as canonical inspector of the missions of New Mexico, the meticulous Father Dominguez stepped… Read More

Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1980-06. Hardcover. Good.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1980. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 8" X 10 3/4. 276 pages. Indexed. Beautiful book in fine condition, clean and tight, pages very lightly tanned. Dust jacket has very minor edgewear with a couple of very small tears and one slightly larger one which i have repaired so it wldn't go further, the dust jacket is white so it has some light marking esp where it folds over the book, nothing is intrusive however, the d j still looks very good, it does have a crease on the back cover beneath the photo of the author. The Yellow hardcover with the beautiful decorations looks great, but it does have some very minor corner bumps, which again are non obtrusive.