THE LAND OF POCO TIEMPO by Charles Lummis [SOLD]

THE LAND OF POCO TIEMPO by Charles Lummis

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons

Hardback, First Edition published in 1893. This second printing 1923

310 pages, brown hardback cloth cover with gold lettering.

Numerous photographs, illustrations by the author.

EXCERPTS FROM CHAPTER 1

“Sun, silence, and adobe—that is New Mexico in three words.  If a fourth were to be added, it need be only to clinch the three.  It is the Great American Mystery—the National Rip Van Winkle—the United States which is not United States.  Here is the land of poco tiempo—the home of ‘Pretty Soon.’   Why hurry with the hurrying world? The ‘Pretty Soon’ of New Spain is better than the ‘Now! Now!’ of the haggard States.  The opiate sun soothes to rest, the adobe is made to lean against, the hush of day-long noon would not be broken.  Let us not hasten—mañana will do.  Better still, pasado mañana.

 “New Mexico is the anomaly of the Republic.  It is a century older in European civilization than the rest, and several centuries older still in a happier semi-civilization of its own.  It had its little walled cities of stone before Columbus had grandparents-to-be; and it has them yet.  The most incredible pioneering the world has ever seen overran it with the zeal of a prairie-fire three hundred and fifty years ago; and the embers of that unparalleled blaze of exploration are not quite dead to-day.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 I.     The Land of Poco Tiempo

II.     “Lo” Who is Not Poor

III.    The City in the Sky

IV.     The Penitent Brothers

V.      The Chase of the Chongo

VI.     The Wanderings of Cochiti

VII.    The Apache Warrior

VIII.   On the Trail of the Renegades

IX.     New Mexican Folk-Songs

X.      A Day of the Saints

XI.     The Cities that were Forgotten  

Condition: Cover in very good condition with slight fading to cover spine.  “Merry Christmas Hughes” written in ink on inside cover.  Very good condition overall.