Mas Antes Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley Tapa blanda - 1997

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997. First PB Edition. . Trade Paperback. As New/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Printing of PB Edition; Trade PB in photo wraps. As New and unread. Folklore of New Mexico's Rio Puerco Valley, collected and translated by Nasario Garcia. xi, 187pp inc. Appendix; illustrated in photos, frontis map. Bilingual edition. 224 p.

Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Santa Fe, New Meico: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 187 Pages. Previous owner's name label is on the front endpaper. There is a small round stamp of New Mexico on the top page edges. Noted folklorist Nasario García has long devoted himself to preserving the abandoned today, but the richness of the valley's people and their folklore, intermingling with history, memory, and the tragedy and erosion of time, forms the heart of García's Más Antes. Recorded in English and regional New Mexico Spanish, this compilation of the oral and written culture of the Río Puerco includes dichos (sayings), adivinanzas (riddles), stories, love quatrains, letters, ballads, and songs within the context such forms were used by a society that, while modest in its means and largely uneducated, presented almost a formal gentility in the manner of its interactions.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Pr, 1997-10-01. Paperback. Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed. Signed by author on half-title page in black ink, Near Fine, looks unread, tight clean unmarked with bright white pages, no creases in spine, no slant.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997. 1st . Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 187pp.; SC gray&blue w/blk.-photoscover; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. New Mexico folklore. Text in English and New Mexican Spanish. illus. signed.

Paperback / softback. New. A comprehensive companion guide to medicinal plants found in the deserts and canyons of the West and Southwest.

New. Crisp, clean, unmarked, tight binding.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press. Good. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0890133239 . Signed by Garcia, "To Barbara & Jack/Best wishes to two wonderful friends of years gone by/Nasario Garcia/Pueblo, CO/July 3, 1999." Creasing to the top corner and page edges. Illustrated. ; Trade PB; 187 pages; Signed by Editor .

Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997-08. Paperback. Used: Good.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0890133239 . "Oral narratives of life in this remote area" of New Mexico which is near Chaco Canyon. Bilingual text in Spanish and English. Glossary in the rear. Remainder dot on bottom edge, else nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. Dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings; there is a light scratch to the front wrapper.; B&W Illustrations & Map; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 266 pages .