Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico (WITH HAND-WRITTEN LETTER, SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PREVIOUS OWNER ETHEL MURRAY QUIGG, WIFE OF THE NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN, TIPPED IN)

Prince, L. Bradford, LL.D.

Published by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1915

About this Item

Holding together well, though the mull (webbing) is visible at a number of page junctures, and one bottom corner is rubbing through. 1915 date to title page matches copyright; no later printings mentioned; does not appear to be the book-club edition. Tipped-in May 22 letter signed by the author to previous owner Ethel Murray Quigg, wife of New York Congressman Lemuel Ely Quigg, mentions a party scheduled for "the heroine of Columbus -- the telephone girl" -- a likely reference to Pancho Villa's March, 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, probably dating this letter to 1916. (Author Prince sends his regards to Mr. Quigg, a former member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune who served as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1896, 1900, and 1904, and who was to die in 1919.) Author Bradford Prince (1840-1922) took his law degree from Columbia University in 1866. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1876, where he supported Rutherford B. Hayes over Roscoe Conkling. He turned down an appointment as territorial governor of Idaho, instead becoming chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court in 1878, a position he held until 1882. President Benjamin Harrison appointed Prince governor of New Mexico Territory from 1889 to 1893. During this time, he and his wife Mary resided in the Palace of the Governors and held social functions there. Prince was a member of the New Mexico Territorial Council in 1909 and a delegate to the New Mexico State Constitutional Convention of 1911. He served as president of the New Mexico Historical Society from 1883, and was also a member of the Society for the Preservation of Spanish Antiquities, the New Mexico Archaeological Society, the Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Episcopal Church. He also wrote "E Pluribus Unum: The Articles of Confederation vs. the Constitution" (1867), "The General Laws of New Mexico" (1880), "Historical Sketches of New Mexico" (1883), "The Money Problem" (1896), "The Stone Lions of Cochiti" (1903), "Old Fort Marcy" (1911), and "A Concise History of New Mexico" (1912). Mrs. Quigg's bookplate to front pastedown, and she has additionally signed to an early blank. 373 pp., reduced from $850.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico (WITH HAND-WRITTEN LETTER, SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PREVIOUS OWNER ETHEL MURRAY QUIGG, WIFE OF THE NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN, TIPPED IN)
• Publisher: The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• Publication Date: 1915
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: With 62 B&W plates
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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