Welcome to Acequia Booksellers!

Acequia Booksellers is an independent, used bookstore specializing in Used, Out
of Print and Rare Books in most fields. We are located in a hundred year old
adobe building located on Albuquerque's historic route 66. Our website contains
over 9500 titles, less than half the total inventory in the store. With a major
focus on books in Literature, Arts and the Humanities, we have strong
collections in the areas of Music including Jazz, Folk, Classical and World
Music; Dance, Drama, Southwest History, and Western and General Americana,
Anthropology and Archeology (including a large selection of Mayan and Meso-
American studies), Travel, Folklore, Native American Arts and History, Classical
Studies including books in Greek and Latin, Eastern and Western Religion,
Metaphysics, Philosophy, Science and Mathematics, Architecture, and many rare
titles in various other subject areas. Within our Art section, we have large
subsections dealing with Art History, Regional Art, Art Monographs, Art
Catalogs, Art Biographies, Avant-garde, Art Criticism and Art Technique. Within
out Literature section, we have large subsections of Poetry (one of the best
collections in the Southwest), Literary Magazines and Chapbooks, Hardbound
Fiction, Paperback Fiction, Essays and Criticism, Literary Biography, Mysteries,
Modern First Editions and Signed editions. We also have large collections of
Natural History and Cookbooks. For that special gift, we also carry many special
editions, including Folio Society, Limited Editions Club and Easton Press. We
are always happy to look at books which you might be interested in selling,
whether you have one book or a collection. We are open Tuesday-Saturday from
10:30am-4:30pm. Come by and visit. Booklovers are always welcome!

Featured Items

One of 500 bound in English buckram, signed by both poet and illustrator. Not numbered. 4to, 105 pp. Spine slightly cocked, a couple of specks to top edge. Jacket priceclipped, with light dustsoiling and a few specks.

Great Kiva, The: A Poetic Critique of Religion
Kloss, Phillips. With Etchings by Gene Kloss
Santa Fe Sunstone 1980 One of 500 bound in English buckram, signed by both poet and illustrator. Not numbered. 4to, 105 pp. Spine slightly.. more
Price: $150.00

8vo, 829 pp. Front free endpaper and first few pages thumbed, rear hinge cracked. Jacket priceclipped, sunned, handled, worn and torn.

History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Gilson, Etienne
New York Random House 1955 8vo, 829 pp. Front free endpaper and first few pages thumbed, rear hinge cracked. Jacket priceclipped, sunned, handled, worn and.. more
Price: $50.00

12mo, 266 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Light wear to crown and chipping at heel of spine, light bottom edge shelfwear, page edges tanned, top edge dusty. Jacket priceclipped, dustsoiled and darkened, scuffed and chipped at spine and folds, with 3" closed tear at rear edge of spine panel.

Some American People
Caldwell, Erskine
New York Robert M. McBride 1935 12mo, 266 pp. Inscribed and signed by author. Light wear to crown and chipping at heel of spine, light bottom.. more
Price: $200.00

430pp, This is one of the best publications on the Aztecs, a major historical source that is accessible and fascinating. Includes color folios of plates from the codex. Very Scarce.

Essential Codex Mendoza, The
Berdan, Frances F. and Anawalt, Patricia Rieff
Berkeley University of California 1997 430pp, This is one of the best publications on the Aztecs, a major historical source that is accessible and fascinating... more
Price: $250.00

Wide 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Head of spine and corners bumped, very light dustsoiling to wrappers.

Hermit Poems (Writing 8)
Welch, Lew
San Francisco Four Seasons Foundation 1965 Wide 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Head of spine and corners bumped, very light dustsoiling to wrappers. .. more
Price: $70.00

Fifteen Poems
Hawkins, Bobbie Louise
Berkeley Arif 1974 8vo, pp. unnumbered. .. more
Price: $30.00

First Printing. 12mo French-folded wrappers. General age-toning to covers. Non-authorial gift inscription (1954) on front fly-leaf. Piece of paper laid in with Creeley's name and address in Mallorca.

Gold Diggers, The
Creeley, Robert
Palma de Mallorca Divers Press 1954 First Printing. 12mo French-folded wrappers. General age-toning to covers. Non-authorial gift inscription (1954) on front fly-leaf. Piece of paper laid.. more
Price: $75.00

Very nice First Printing of McMurtry's first novel, the basis for the film Hud. Early inscription by McMurtry on front flyleaf. This copy in a fine (facsimile) dj. Some light foxing at the top of the front flyleaf and end paper, otherwise a very bright, handsome copy.

Horseman, Pass By
McMurtry, Larry
New York Harper & Brothers 1961 Very nice First Printing of McMurtry's first novel, the basis for the film Hud. Early inscription by McMurtry on front.. more
Price: $900.00

4to, 119 pp. Wrappers foxed and worn, page edges lightly stained and foxed, corners bumped, small dampstain to bottom of fore-edge affecting page corners throughout.

Difficulties, The, Vol. 3, No. 2: Susan Howe Issue
Beckett, Tom, editor. Susan Howe, Janet Ruth Falon, Stephen Ratcliffe, Janet Rodney, Paul Metcalf, Maureen Owen, Joel Lewis, Stephen-Paul Martin, Bruce Andrews, Peter Quartermain, Charles Bernstein, Bruce Campbell, Linda Reinfeld, Dennis Barone
Viscerally Press 1989 4to, 119 pp. Wrappers foxed and worn, page edges lightly stained and foxed, corners bumped, small dampstain to bottom of.. more
Price: $75.00

Third printing of the author's first book. 8vo, 57 pp. Covers lightly rubbed at edges, slight toning to page edges. Jacket edgeworn, sunned, lighlty dustsoiled.

Death of a Naturalist
Heaney, Seamus
London Faber & Faber 1966 Third printing of the author's first book. 8vo, 57 pp. Covers lightly rubbed at edges, slight toning to page edges... more
Price: $350.00

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