A Time We Knew; Images of Yesterday in the Masque Homeland

Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the half-title by Allard to fellow photography Ray Lustig, with an additional signed Christmas card from the Allard's to the Lustigs. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faded a shade on the spine, lightly bumped at the edges. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. In this work, Laxalt's writing and Allard's photography "capture forever the way it once was in the homeland of the Basques: village market days filled with aniimals and farm folk, handball and jai alai, courtings and song; the sound of tiny bells as the valley flockes wend their way in spring to grassy slopes above the timberline.