This Is New Mexico by George Fitzpatrick (editor), dust jacket — dust jacket

This Is New Mexico by George Fitzpatrick (editor), inscribed title page — inscribed title page

This Is New Mexico by George Fitzpatrick (editor), jacket flap and endpaper map — jacket flap and endpaper map

This Is New Mexico by George Fitzpatrick (editor), back of the jacket — back of the jacket

George Fitzpatrick was for many years the editor of New Mexico Magazine, and This Is New Mexico gathers articles from that magazine into one book. The jacket calls it an anthology based on articles that appeared in New Mexico Magazine over the past thirty years, running from prehistoric New Mexico to the Atomic Age, with a foreword by Greer Garson Fogelson. The contributors listed on the back of the jacket include Fray Angelico Chavez, J. Frank Dobie, Harvey Fergusson, Peter Hurd, Conrad Richter and Lawrence Clark Powell.

This copy is the Horn & Wallace edition published in Albuquerque in 1962, a revised and enlarged version of the book the Rydal Press first issued in Santa Fe in 1948. Fitzpatrick inscribed the title page and dated it 10/10/62, and the two publishers, Calvin Horn and William S. Wallace, signed below him. A highway map of New Mexico fills the endpapers.

1962 revised and enlarged edition, inscribed

The title page carries the Horn & Wallace, Albuquerque imprint, and the editor's inscription is dated 10/10/62. Library catalogs record the 1962 Horn & Wallace book as a revised and enlarged edition; the anthology was first published by the Rydal Press in Santa Fe in 1948.

Author	George Fitzpatrick (editor)
Publisher	Horn & Wallace
Year	1962 (revised and enlarged edition; first published 1948)
Edition	1962 revised and enlarged edition, inscribed
Signed	Yes. Inscribed and signed by editor George Fitzpatrick on the title page, dated 10/10/62, with the signatures of publishers Calvin Horn and William S. Wallace.
Condition	Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, water staining on the jacket's back panel.
Topic	New Mexico Magazine anthology

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