A Taos Mosaic: Portrait of a New Mexico Village

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" x 10 1/4. Stouffer, Dan - Design. 176 Pages. White cloth very light spots that may or may not be part of the cloth binding and the very slightest of bumps on spine that are difficult to see in the scans. Dust jacket has some light spots on the spine, but remains bright white and a small bump to bottom back corner that does not translate to book. Interior pages are bright and are free from any apparent marks. The $10.95 price is unclipped. Thirty-seven black and white illustrations in two sections primarily photographs People from all walks of life, from all parts of the country, have visited Taos; New Mexico, in search of relief from the creeping unpleasantness of the twentieth century. Those who find inner peace in the village stay permanently, or until they move on refreshed. The author of this book has been there for more than twenty-five years as co-owner of the Taos Book Shop. In this charming recollection of her life in Taos, she captures the unique quality of the town and its inhabitants. The peace and quiet of the little mountain community have long attracted artists and writers in search of an environment conducive to creative work. Miss Morrill has known many such people, and here she gives us her personal impressions of them. She writes about Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence, the trio of women who were associated with the town's most famous resident, D. H. Lawrence; of Spud Johnson son, the newspaperman who was the conscience of Taos; about artists like Ernest Blumenschein, Oscar Berninghaus, and Andrew Dasburg; about Dennis Hopper, the best known of the young people who made Taos newly famous in the 1960s. She writes, too, of the town's lesser known characters, free spirits who give the place its eccentric personality, and of the customs and folkways that have intrigued her and become familiar over the years: the mysteries of building with adobe, the Indian dances, even the witches who still practice their magic in the backcountry of New Mexico. If you have never been to Taos, this book will make you want to go there; if you are a Taosenio, in spirit or in fact, you will treasure Claire Morrill's portrait of the town, with its handsome photographs by Laura Gilpin, New Mexico's most renowned photographer. The sifting of people, places, and backgrounds through a civilized mind like Claire Morrill's makes this a distinguished book. - From the dust jacket flap. Contents in 19 Chapters: The Time for Staying Still, The Eagle, The Indispensable Bookman, Part of the Earth, The Land Grant Curse of New Mexico, Inside a Poverty Pocket, Dark Age Past, Two Revolts, The Indian is the Deer, The Peyote Cult, The Penitentes, The Prevalence of Witches, The Non-Artists's Life, Three Women of Taos Mabel Brett Frieda, Taos in D.H Lawrence, Figures in a Mountain Landscape, Taos Observed, Taosiana, and Pinon Smoke. Plus Notes and Bibliography. 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. Please be aware that if you request any shipping service other than Media Mail Standard Shipping, we may have to ask for more than quoted to ship this large heavy item.