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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Signed by Hillerman on a half-title page. Book designated VG because it has a couple of tiny faint spots to page edges. Dustjacket has a small chip which becomes a close tear at bottom and a tiny chip at the front bottom. Some fading to dustjacket. First state dustjacket with one image on rear.
Seller: Trip Taylor Bookseller, Boise, ID, U.S.A.
Price: US$83.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This first edition of 147 pages is tight and clean with no names or markings. Signed on a card affixed to fep. The spine ends are lightly bumped. It is very good in a price-clipped dust jacket with minor edgewear and two small tears at the edge. Second issue dust jacket with two photos on rear panel.
Seller: George Kent, Bookseller, Silverhill, AL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 147 Pages. Tan boards with black lettering and decorations to front and spine. Very light rippling to bottom edge of back board. Barely noticeable. There are two half-inch closed tears to the cover. One at the top of the spine and another to the lower spine area. The $5.95 flap price is not clipped. What is New Mexico? Of the many writers who have tried to answer that question, we think Tony Hillerman comes closest to answering it without romanticizing this desert country. He is not a historian, not a guidebook-writer; his book, as he says, is "not intended to convert the Lubbock-Jersey City philistia, or to please any chambers of commerce." The essays that make up The Great Taos Bank Robbery tell of a wide variety of incidents, characters, and places that "offer insights into the mystique of this high, dry tag-end of the American Rockies." We hope, with the author, that one could send it away to a literate friend and have him understand a little better the hold this country has on many who live here. Among the tales and sketches in this book are "The Great Taos Bank Robbery"-an examination of the nature of Taos, as exposed by the community's reaction to the efforts of a pair of inept bad men to rob the First National Bank and to the subsequent comic opera manhunt. "The Very Heart of Our Country"-a look at the Holy Land of the Navajos and its mythic landmarks. "We All Fall Down"-the Pecos high country visited on a tense hunt for the foci of bubonic plague bacilli which had already killed two men. "The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda"-the peculiarities of Santa Fe considered in terms of their impact on a Nigerian political editor. "The Hunt for the Lost American"-a profile of the excavation of a Folsom Man hunting camp on the Llano de Albuquerque. "Quijote in Rio Arriba County"-a study of the gentle mystic radical Reies Lopez Tijerina and his Land Grant movement. "Othello in Union County"-how a closed- minded physical anthropologist and a black scholar-cowboy made Folsom, New Mexico famous. Contents in Nine Chapters: The Great Taos Bank Robbery The Navajo Who Had So Many Friends He Couldn't Get No Wire Strung, The Very Heart of Our Country The Mountain on the Guardrail at Exit 164B, We All Fall Down The Messenger Birds, The Conversion of Cletus Xywanda The Apache Who Wouldn't Be Missed, The Hunt for the Lost American How Quemado Got Quemado, Las Trampas Black Jack Ketchum and the Sixteen Faithful Bartenders, Othello in Union County The Committee and the Mule Deer, Quijote in Rio Arriba County Keeping Secrets from the Russians, and Mr. Luna's Lazarus Act.
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed 1st edition bound in tan cloth with black lettering and pictorial end pages - signed on the half-title page. Complete in 147 bright crisp pages. Slight dust jacket edgewear with 2 photos on rear panel of jacket. Top edge of jacket flaps with toning. --- From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven (1948-2019). Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature!
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Hillerman, Tony. The Great Taos Bank Robbery. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1973.
Price: US$189.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Very Good Jacket, chips , stains, single photo to rear panel, Signed and inscribed in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by author on the title page. The dust jacket shows some fading on the spine. One image on rear. There are no chips or tears. Slight curving to top edges of endflaps. Pages show slight tanning and discoloration on bottom edge near the spine. Hardly detectable creasing of corners of the first several pages.
Seller: A. Carter Books, Salinas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing in the first state dust jacket with the $5.95 price on the front flap and a single image on the rear panel. Inscribed by Hillerman on the half-title. Classic collection of essays about life in New Mexico. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with black stamping. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 147pp.; HB lt.gray w/blk.; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ yellow w/brwn.; slight rub w/spine sunned. Essays about New Mexico that "offer insights into the mystique of this high, dry tag-end of the American Rockies." illus. signed by Hillerman
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of the book, in the second issue of the dust jacket, which has been price-clipped. Signed by the author on the half title. Near fine to fine in near fine dust jacket. Book tries to answer the question "What is New Mexico?"
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hillerman, Tony. The Great Taos Bank Robbery (Signed second state). Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1973.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition 1st printing, Near Fine, unread book, with slight soiling page edges; in a Near Fine jacket with light edge and corner wear, touch of soiling, tiny closed tear at top of front flap fold, mild sun fade to spine. This copy has been signed by Hillerman on the title page. This is the correct, SECOND state of the book and jacket as verified by the books designer and illustrator, Dan Stouffer, who worked at the Press. This correct, second state jacket has ONE photograph of Stouffers drawing of Shiprock on the back panel and book and jacket are significantly different than the correct first states. The states of this book and jacket have been confused by booksellers for many years - see article Two States of Great in May-June 2015 issue of Firsts Magazine, or ask me questions about the issue.
Seller: Squid Ink Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$374.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A square solid tight clean unread copy. The PC jacket has some light rubbing wear, some light soil, some lightish edge wear and two closed tears. First state jacket with a single image on the rear panel. Nice copy semi-rough jacket. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Hillerman, Tony. The Great Taos Bank Robbery. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1973.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET. 1ST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 147 pages. EXCELLENT, COLLECTIBLE COPY!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$1050.00 + shipping
Description: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the first of his nonfiction books, according to the Hieb bibliography, there are two states, this is the second listed state, Hieb C1a2 with a grayish yellow binding with a two illustrations on the back panel of the dust jacket, this copy Signed by Hillerman, it also includes a full-page Signed original color illustration by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin that is the representation of the aftermath of a robbery, showing bags of loot (Bank of Taos, New Mexico) and a gun in the desert, with slipcase, only a handful of this title were so illustrated by Franklin. Fine.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.