Hall Emlen (46 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good.

Condition: Very Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition (stated). First Edition stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in gray cloth w/green spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Near Fin e DJ w/small tear front edge. 291pp inc. Index; illustrated in photos, graphs. 291 p. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. The 291 Pages Indexed. Two lines of names and page numbers on title page. Owner's name label plus date on first title page and label is also on some interior pages. No other marks or stamps noted and interior is faultless. While High and Dry focuses on clashes of principles and personalities, especially in the courtroom, it remains very much a story about a river and its world in an arid region. There are irrigators here, including the leading old families of southeastern New Mexico, and there is nature here, including the vampires of the West, the rapacious salt cedars relentlessly sucking up the precious Pecos stream flow. But beneath them all is the author, inviting readers to see how tiny gardens grown for the soul are as crucial to the overall story as the adjudication of water rights. Hall gives a masterful summary of the legal and scientific parts of the story, but he excels in letting us feel and care about water in the same manner as do the people who use it to grow crops. Contents in Nine Chapters: Flying Court, The Tracys' Dream of Carlsbad, Royce J. Tipton Mismeasures the Pecos, Morgan Nelson's Pecos River World, Leave It to Steve, Jean Breitenstein Tackles the 1947 Condition, The Presumption of Charles J. Meyers, New Mexico Stumbles and The Value of Water Inch by Inch Row by Row. Plus Preface, Abbreviations, and Notes.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. This very fine soft cover assumed first edition is inscribed on the half title page. The book is tight, bright, and clean, free of names and markings. Several photographs supplement the text. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover book (291 pages) illustrated with b/w photographs/reproductions. Light rubbing on covers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-11-Middle-R) rareviewbooks.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: As new. Signed on the half-title page by the author, this paperback is clean, fresh, uncreased: like new. 291 pages, illustrated, on western water.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original hardcover in jacket, 1st edition, 367 pages, index, a few b + w maps. Condition: some rubbing to the jacket, light reading wear to book. Very nice in protective mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxii,367. Stated First Edition, 1984. Small stamp at the bottom edge. Pencil markings on the half-title. Minor ordinary shelfwear to the covers and edges. Light discoloration at the spine. Otherwise fine. Pages are entirely unmarked. Spine is tight, uncreased and uncocked; binding sound. If you order this from outside the United States, we will almost certainly request an additional payment to help cover the postage. Please feel welcome to message us with any questions, or a request for photographs. Every order includes tracking and is wrapped and robustly packaged with care in Tucson, AZ. ~Mesquite Booksellers. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is clean with a square, tight binding. Exterior covers show some shelf wear and scuffing. Some staining to exterior page edges and small red stamp on bottom page edges, interior text remains clean with no apparent markings. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Remnants of a price sticker on back cover. New Mexico lawyer and historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell best described the complicated history of the Pecos Pueblo grant when in 1923 he told a U.S. Senate Committee, "As I have stated all along there are so many things in connection with this entire business that twenty King Solomons can not unravel the knot." Yet in this book Hall does sort through the conflicting claims of land owners and the numerous reversals of opinion by lawyers, administrators, and courts to explain the legal history of the grant under three sovereigns. In the process Four Leagues of Pecos reveals much new and valuable information about the political and economic events in which the history of Pecos is entwined. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor wear on both covers, spine and spots on page edges that are difficult to see in the scans. The Rio Grande was ancient long before the first humans reached its banks. These days, the highly regulated river looks nothing like it did to those early settlers. Alternately viewed as a valuable ecosystem and life-sustaining foundation of community welfare or a commodity to be engineered to yield maximum economic benefit, the Rio Grande has brought many advantages to those who live in its valley, but the benefits have come at a price. This study examines human interactions with the Rio Grande from prehistoric time to the present day and explores what possibilities remain for the desert river. From the perspectives of law, development, tradition, and geology, the authors weigh what has been gained and lost by reining in the Rio Grande. The book you see in the image is the actual book we have for sale. When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A lovely, crisp, uncracked, unmarked softcover in very good condition; light rubbing and edge wear to cover. We are a brick-and-mortar store and sell our own inventory.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. Book may have light wear and tear due to storage and age. May have old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. No other marks or writing noted unless specified. None of the defects detract from the readability! From a non-smoking environment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. Book may have light wear and tear due to storage and age. May have old price on inside cover. May be price clipped. Spine is intact, in good condition, clean. Pages are intact, in good condition, clean. No other marks or writing noted unless specified. None of the defects detract from the readability! From a non-smoking environment.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by all three authors, original hardcover in jacket, this is the first printing. Section of full-color plates; additional b + w plates throughout. 252 pages, index, bibliography. Condition: there is very light fading to jacket; minor reference wear. Book is quite bright and solid. Very nice. Inscribed by Author.…

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

PF. Condition: New.