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LEA, TOM. The Hands of Canti. LITTLE BROWN, 1964, 1964.

Price: US$2.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Dust jacket and edges shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

Price: US$12.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description:

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Description: Wonderful pen and ink illustrations by the author. Very good with gently bumped edges Good with a inch by inch section missing from rear and edges with short closed tears and a few small chips Mustard Cloth with red lettering

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. Hands of Cantu: The Gifted Hands of the Best Horsemen Ever Seen in New Spain. Little Brown, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1 3/4 x 1 1/4" stain on dust jacket's rear cover at foot of fold, small price stamp on rear cover. Full page b/w illustrations throughout. 244 pages; 6 1/2 x 9 "; 244 pages.

Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands Of Cantu. Little, Brown And Company, 1964.

Price: US$18.86 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and tears.

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 244 pp. Yellow cloth boards, light soil, full color frontispiece, B&W illustrations by Tom Lea throughout, minimal wear. White pictorial covers, chips and tears; a mylar cover.

Seller: TheBookEater, Pueblo, CO, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, 1964.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket.

Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown And Company, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: NF/VG, book corners slightly bumped. DJ price clipped, head/foot of spine and corners lightly worn and creased, rear panel slightly rubbed. Overall a tight solid sound copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; 8vo, yellow boards, top edge pages tinted dark red, DJ, color frontis, 244pp. Illustrated by Author

Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. THE HANDS OF CANTU. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, hardcover. 244 pages. Illustrated by the author. Very good with head of spine bumped, bottom 3/8" of spine faded, and botom corners lightly bumped, in a fair, mylar-covered dust jacket with foxing to spine, long tear to front fold, chipping with paper loss to head/tail of spine, several tape repairs to tears, and general edgewear. SIGNED by author on half-title page.

Seller: Ziebarth Books, Coal Valley, IL, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The hands of Cantú. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1964.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm, ; yellow full cloth, brown and red spine lettering ; dj. Tape stains on eps and boards. 5"x1" stain (lib pocket involvement?) on ffep. Newspaper clipping laid in reporting Lea's death and funeral in 2001.

Seller: Old Bookie, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$23.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1964 stated first edition. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Seller: BookResQ., West Valley City, UT, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Stated first edition, published by Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1964., 1964.

Price: US$24.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped at bottom of spine and along top edges with three short tears at top edges of 1/2 inch or shorter. 244 pages with illustrations by the author.

Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Inscribed "with i Saludos! to xxxx from El Paso del Rio del Norte and from" and SIGNED by author on half-title. Hardcover. Illustrated. Fine in good+ jacket. Jacket has minor wrinkling at tips, lettering on spine and a 3/4" wide strip down front near spine is faded, in mylar cover.

Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown, Boston, MA, 1964.

Price: US$29.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Light wear to cover edges. Smudging (minor stains) to cover edges; may be foxing. No markings or other noteworthy defects.; B&W Illustrations; 244 pages

Seller: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, U.S.A.

Tom Lea (and illustrator). The Hand of Cantu (1st Edition). Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket covered with BrodArt Mylar. Stated First Edition. Top page edges are tinted brown. Frontispiece is the color illustration from the DJ. The black and white illustrations are beautifully drawn. Previous book seller sticker New Mexico attached inside front pasted endpaper.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, U.S.A., 1964.

Price: US$31.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition, Second Printing. SIGNED by the author on the Half-Title Page. Hardcover is in very good condition (text block is stained, bumped on the top and bottom of the spine and on all four corners, stained and yellowed). Dust jacket is in good condition (multiple tears, price-clipped, yellowed, stained and edge wear). Brodart protected. 244 pages with black and white illustrations. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Elegant story and breathtaking artwork. This book is about the best horseman ever seen in New Spain, Don Vito Cantu.

Seller: Lotsa Books, Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, 1964.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover in jacket quarter-sized chip and browning. Price-clipped. Inscribed by Lea in his wonderful script.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, 1964.

Price: US$32.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Edge wear and couple tape repairs to jacket.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. THE HANDS OF CANTU. Little, Brown, and Co., 1964.

Price: US$32.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable mylar sleeve. ; The fine art of horsemanship. Illustrated by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages

Seller: The Story Shop, Elwood, IN, U.S.A.

LEA Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu (illustrated by the author). Little Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto, 1964.

Price: US$34.88 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Like new hardcover copy with dustjacket and mylar overlay, signed by Tom Lea, 244 pp, 2 4/C illus, 28 B/W illustrations.

Seller: Olana Gallery, Brewster, NY, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Stated first edition, signed by Tom Lea on blank page opposite his list of published works. Very good book with lightly bumped upper corner in good jacket with a 2.5" tear along rear joint of spine, starting at the head, and some wrinkling to front panel.

Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown & Co., 1964.

Price: US$38.71 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition stated, First Printing. VG+/VG. Hardcover, mustard colored cloth with red & brown titles, DJ, 244 pp, b&w illustrations by Tom Lea, color frontispiece, brown topstain, slight edgewear to price clipped DJ which has been internally mended, small discoloration spot to crown and previous owners gift inscription on back of front cover, else a clean and crisp copy. Protected in a Brodart cover.

Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

LEA, TOM. THE HANDS OF CANTU. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND CO 1964., 1964.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: F/VG+. ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR D.J. HAS A VERY SMALL BIT OF CORNER AND SPINE-END WEAR WITH A TINY TEAR WITH LIGHT ASSOCIATED CRUSH AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL NEAR THE SPINE. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Illustrated. Fine in good jacket. Jacket has small tears around edges, lettering on spine is faded, in mylar cover.

Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1964. First Edition stated. Near fine book in a very good jacket. This book appears unread. Lovely copy! (CK)

Seller: The Last Book Store, Tyler, TX, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu Signed by Author. Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed and inscribed by author; 244 pages; Signed by Author

Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hand of Cantu. Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 2 small black marks on flyleaf; Jacket in mylar; 1St Edition

Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Inscribed. First edition, stated on the copyright page. Minimal wear and creases to the jacket. Pages are tanning.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hand of Cantu (1st Edition). Little, Brown, 1964.

Price: US$67.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only.no inscription) on front blank end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and rubbing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown & Co., Boston. MA, 1964.

Price: US$68.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 244 pages. Color title page illustration with numerous full page black and white illustrations. Yellow cloth in color illustrated dust jacket. A classic story of a horseman of the Southwest, written and beautifully illustrated. Clean

Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu-Signed. Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Signed by Author

Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, 1964.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: There was a time when men rode north before there was a west. Here are the scenes of those times rendered by the talented brush of author-artist Tom Lea. These were the days when a man was judged by his mettle and his quality was best mesaured by his conduct in the saddle. A time when the noble horse was not only a usefull animal in daily service but a weapon of conquest. This is a great book for the horse lover many of the old spanish training methods are covered. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown & Company, 1964.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. Almost like new. Beautiful first edition. Crisp, clean, unmarked with virtually no shelf wear. Stunningly illustrated by the author. Rare hard to find book in beautiful condition. Perfect for any collector. Library of Congress Card Catalog No. 64-17481. Excellent rare book!

Seller: Boston Book World, Swampscott, MA, U.S.A.

Tom Lea (AUTHOR SIGNED). The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1964.

Price: US$85.72 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1964. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Inscribed by the author to the former Dean of Agriculture at NMSU on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight shelfwear to board edges; several splash stains on the textblock fore edge; light dust soiling to textblock top edge. DJ: Very Good + ; Price Clipped; small moisture stain on the tail of the DJ spine. Yellow cloth boards and spine with red and brown lettering and decorations on the spine. Tinted textblock top. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 244 pp 8vo. This is the author's fifth book which takes place in Mexico in the 16th century. 30 Chinese ink drawings by the author illustrate the book. This is a beautifully written novel of life on a great Spanish hacienda (Acuichal) in Northern Mexico. It is a story of strong men and strong horses told with restraint and power. The “Hands of Cantu” refers to hands of Don Vito Cantu, the finest horseman in New Spain, into whose hands is put custody of a young Toribio de Ibarra who Cantu turns into one of the finest horsemen in Mexico. Together they make a journey into the Southwest in search of Indians with Spanish horses and of the "true Quivera". A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu' - SIGNED COPY. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$89.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Several small open/close tears along with some light creases and/or wrinkles along the DJ edges and tips. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers. Minor discoloration to pages and to DJ covers.

Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto, 1964.

Price: US$90.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Illustrated with 30 of the author's drawings, including frontis in color. Original yellow cloth lettered in red and brown. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Slight spotting to rear cover of jacket. A novel of the early Spaniards and their all-important horses in the conquest of Mexico in the sixteenth century.

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hand of Cantu (1st Edition). Little, Brown January 1964, 1964.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Local Independent Bookstore. All Orders ship within 2 business days. Author Signed Copy. 1st Edition/1st Printing. No markings, highlighting, or tears to pages. Very Minor Shelf Wear. DJ in mylar. Previous owners bookplate on FFEP

Seller: 417 Books, Branson, MO, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom.. The Hands of Cantu.. Boston. Little, Brown. 1964., 1964.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Signed by Tom Lea on a special tipped-in leaf. Very good plus in woven orange-brown cloth stamped in red on the spine. In a very good edge-rubbed, lightly worn dust jacket with a few closed tears. First Edition.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. The Hands of Cantu. Little Brown, Boston, 1964.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Uncorrected Advance Proof. Unpaginated. Tall format, in plain manila stapled wraps. With publisher's label front cover: "An 'A' Book to be considered at the next meeting." Spine pulling away from textblock, another label with pub info front cover is torn otherwise clean and intact. Proofs of this author's works scarce.

Seller: 12th Street Books, ABAA, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Tom Lea. The Hands of Cantu. Little, Brown and Company, 1964.

Price: US$925.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s. Daugherty, who at the time was also the vice-president of State National Bank in El Paso, oversaw the acquisition of many of Lea's works for the bank, which constituted a major Tom Lea collection.

Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Lea, Tom. THE HANDS OF CANTU. Little, Brown & Company: Boston, 1964.

Price: US$1092.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Illus. by author, 9.5 x 6.5", finely bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston, raised bands, teg, gilt inner dentelles, silk ribbon, slipcase with paper label, 244pp. Covers have light rubbing/scratches else fine, slipcase has light rubbing, soiling and spotting. "THIS AUTOGRAPHED EDITION IS LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. THIS IS NUMBER 57. INSCRIBED WITH BEST WISHES TO JACK BONNY. TOM LEA AT EL PASO DEL DORTE DAY OF SAN MIGUEL ANNO DI 1964". Gorgeous book. Lacks loose signed print.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

tom lea. hands of cantu (limited edition). little brown, 1964.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: dj: none but the slipcase is as new. book: as new. leather cover. #39 of 100 printed. signed by author. with a signed sketch "young lope" laid in & apparently signed.

Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.