University of New Mexico Press, Date: 1974. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1974. University of New Mexico Press ISBN 082630334X 9780826303349 [US]

University of New Mexico Press, Date: 1974. Hardcover. Good. 1974. University of New Mexico Press ISBN 082630334X 9780826303349 [US]

University of New Mexico Press, Date: 1974-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x7x1. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases, light soiling & small tears in a mylar cover. 1974. University of New Mexico Press ISBN 082630334X 9780826303349 [US]

Albuquerque, New Mexco: University of New Mexico Press - A Coyote Book, Date: 1974. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 7 3/4" x 10 1/4. 272 Pages. Beautiful red boards with lettering to spine and front. No defects noted. Although we were truly Hispanic in blood, language, religion, and customs, we were no longer Spaniards, writes Fray Angelico Chavez, describing his boyhood in northern New Mexico. Nor were we really Mexicans, as our North European-derived neighbors chose to call us. The differences were a matter of cultural and linguistic development from a parting of the ways with both Hispanic Europe and Hispanic Middle America down three centuries and a half. This unusual book, Fray Angelico Chavez's personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he feels, grows out of its dry mountain terrain, whose hills and valleys resemble those of Spain and of ancient Palestine. Just as this kind of landscape helped the Hebrew shepherd Abraham to find his God, so, in Fray Angelico's view, have New Mexico's mountains kept her people very close to their God. In evoking this special closeness between the divine and the human, the author returns repeatedly to the Penitentes of New Mexico-the societies of men who scourge themselves and replay the Crucifixion each Holy Week to share the sufferings of their Savior. A Franciscan mission padre for ...

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Date: 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 272pp; HB red w/gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/blk.; some rub&soil; sun on spine w/chips&tears; corner-cut. Spanish & New Mexican history&culture. signed 1974. University of New Mexico Press ISBN 082630334X 9780826303349 [US]