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First edition thus. TC 762. Originally published as a series in The Victoria Advocate, February 27-April 1, 1966. $60.00 587. GRIMES, Roy. Goliad, 130 Years After.... Victoria: Advocate Printing, 1966. Another copy. Wraps, edges, and flyleaves foxed, otherwise very good. Signed by author and dated October 7, 1966 on front flyleaf. $50.00 588. GRIMES, Roy. Goliad, 130 Years After.... Victoria: Advocate Printing, 1966. Another copy, not signed. Wraps, edges, and flyleaves foxed, otherwise very good. $40.00
TC 765. $85.00 590. WHARTON, Clarence. Remember Goliad. Houston: McCurdy-Young, 1931. [10] 61 [1, blank] pp., maps, illustrations. 8vo, original three-quarter brown cloth over brown marbled boards gilt. Slight shelf wear, edges foxed, endpapers browned, otherwise near fine. Inscribed by author to J. Frank Dobie on front free endpaper. First edition, limited edition (100 copies). CBC 1957. Howes W300. $425.00 591. WHARTON, Clarence. Remember Goliad. Glorieta, New Mexico: Rio Grande Press, 1968. [4] xi [1, blank], [10] 1-61 [1] 1-36 [16] pp., maps, illustrations, folding map tipped onto rear pastedown. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Fine aside from slight shelf wear. Reprint edition of preceding item, with added preface, appendices, index, and map. TC 773. TLH, p. 31. $25.00 Gonzalez County 592. DeWITT, Edna N. (compiler). Lest We Forget. Gonzalez: Gonzales Inquirer, n.d. 88 pp., 8 plates. 8vo, original turquoise pictorial cloth. Spine light, binding lightly shelf-worn, edges and endpapers foxed, some foxing to plates and adjacent pages, overall very good. First edition. CBC 1961. Howes D307. $45.00 593. JARRAT, John Littlefield, Sr. Leesville Cemetery and Historical Notes on the Leesville Community, Gonzales County, Texas. N.p., 1966. [40] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original light blue printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by author on title page, correction in ink to p. [36]. $20.00 594. PATTERSON, C.L. Nixon (Gonzales County) Texas: A Progressive Diversified Agricultural Haven. San Antonio: Sid Murray & SonPrinters, 1938. 32 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly rubbed and soiled, occasional notes in ink and pencil to text, otherwise very good. J. Frank Dobie’s copy, with his ink ownership inscription on upper wrap. First edition. CBC 1981. TC 780. $75.00 595. PATTERSON, C.L. Nixon (Gonzales County) Texas.... San Antonio: Sid Murray & SonPrinters, 1938. Another copy. Fine. $50.00 Grayson County 596. ANDERSON, Ed. (compiler). History and Business Guide of Sherman and Grayson County, Texas. N.p., 1940. [72] pp., ads. 12mo, original olive wrappers with brown cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. CBC 1998. $85.00 597. [DENISON, TEXAS]. Denison, Texas Centennial, 1872-1972 [wrapper title]. Denison: Heath Printing Company, n.d. (ca. 1972). 92 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic), ads. 4to, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling to wraps, small tear in spine, otherwise very good. TC 792. $30.00 598. LUCAS, Mattie Davis & Mita Holsapple Hall. A History of Grayson County, Texas. Sherman: Scruggs Printing, 1936. 209 [3] pp., map, plate. 12mo, original green cloth. Slight shelf wear to binding, edges faintly foxed, text lightly browned adjacent to plate and map, otherwise near fine. First edition. CBC 2025. TC 795. $65.00 599. McMAHON, Aileen. A History of Grayson College. N.p., 1940. [6] 137 folios, facsimiles, 5 plates. 4to, original textured brown wrappers with black cloth backstrip. One corner bumped, endpapers browned, otherwise fine. Cf. CBC 2026 (Shows this title as author’s M.A. thesis, Southern Methodist University, 1940, although this copy is not labeled as such). $60.00 600. SHUMARD, George G. A Partial Report on the Geology of Western Texas...with an Appendix Giving a Detailed Report on the Geology of Grayson County. Austin: State Printing Office, 1866. vii [1] 145 [1, blank] pp., geological sections (some folding). 8vo, original salmon printed wrappers. Fragile wraps brittle, detached and tattered, text browned and brittle with large chips to blank margin of first four leaves (not affecting text). First edition. CBC 2041: “Some history as well.” $200.00 Greer County 601. MOORE, Webb Leonidus. The Greer County Question. San Marcos: Press of the San Marcos Record, 1939. 108 pp. 12mo, original blue cloth. Fine aside from slight shelf wear, spine a bit light. Inscribed by author to Dudley R. Dobie on title page. First edition. CBC 2057. TC 803. p. 5: The “Greer County Question” is an expression applied to the long dispute, 1843 to 1930, between, first, the United States and Texas and later, between Oklahoma and Texas, involving the boundary line which was to determine whether the territory known as Greer County, Texas, lying between the North and South Forks of Red River, on the east and south, and the one hundredth meridian on the west, was a possession of the United States or of the State of Texas. $85.00 602. SWISHER, John M. Title of Greer County Investigated...with Opinions of Ex-Gov. E.M. Pease, and Major Wm. M. Walton [wrapper title]. Austin: American Sketch Book Publishing House, 1883. 16 pp. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and small split to spine, lower wrap lightly creased, top and bottom edges slightly gnawed (not affecting text). Despite these flaws, very good. First edition. CBC 2065. $850.00 603. SWISHER, John M. Title of Greer County Investigated.... Austin: American Sketch Book Publishing House, 1883. Another copy, rebound. 8vo, later half maroon cloth over grey boards with typed adhesive label on upper cover, over original printed blue wrappers. A little insect damage to spine, boards, and lower wrap, inside of upper board with ink-stamped seal of the State of Texas, wraps and text with light vertical crease, otherwise very good. $750.00 Gregg County 604. NORTHCUTT, W.D. (chairman). Longview, Texas Centennial: The Long View of a Hundred Years, 1870-1970. Longview: Hudson Printing, 1970. 1-44 [8] 45-76 pp., many illustrations (mostly photographic), facsimiles. 4to, original beige pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very fine. First edition. TC 809. TLH, p. 32. $30.00 605. TEXAS HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. Inventory of the County Archives of Texas. No. 92. Gregg County (Longview). San Antonio: Texas Historical Records Survey, 1940. [6] 179 [1, blank] pp., map, chart of governmental organization, plans of courthouse. 4to, original blue wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine aside from a little foxing to edges. First edition. CBC 2078. $15.00 606. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 92. Gregg County, January 23, 1872-January 31, 1939. Gregg County, Texas, 1940. [6] pp., 48 folios, map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. CBC 2077. TC 805 (referring to recent reprint). $15.00 Grimes County 607. ALLEN, Irene Taylor. Saga of Anderson: The Proud Story of a Historic Texas Community. New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1957. 322 pp., 8 plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light shelf-wear to binding, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise very good in rubbed and browned d.j. with a few small chips. First edition. CBC 2904. TC 814. $90.00 608. BLAIR, E.L. Early History of Grimes County. [Austin], 1930. x, 253 [1] blank pp., map, facsimiles, 2 errata slips laid in. 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt. Tiny area of silverfish damage to bottom edge of text block, edges and endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise very good in tattered d.j. First edition. CBC 2095. TC 811. History of Austin’s colony and the beginning of Anglo-American settlement with a chapter on the regional Indians (Bidai, Kickapoo, and Alabama-Coushatta). Biographies of the 64 original grantees are included, along with other primary documentation, such as Civil War muster rolls. $225.00 609. DAVIS, Wallace. My Home Town: The Bedias Story. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1953. 231 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 16 plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Fine. First edition. CBC 2098. TC 812. $40.00 610. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Grimes Co. Texas. [below title and scale] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office, State of Texas, certify this to be a true and correct copy of the map now in use in this office and compiled from official data. W.C. Walsh [facsimile signature]. N.p., n.d. [St. Louis: Gast, ca. 1880]. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, overall sheet size: 70.7 x 40.8 cm. Map sheet trimmed at top and bottom, removing neat lines, surface rubbed and soiled, with staining from adhesive used in mounting to poster board, light, scattered insect damage and a few small stains. $375.00 Guadalupe County 611. FITZSIMON, Rev. L.J. History of Seguin [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 56 pp. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from light browning to wraps and a few scattered spots. Inscribed by author to Dudley R. Dobie and dated January 30, 1949. Typed letter, signed, from author to Dobie laid in. Cf. CBC 2117. Reprinted from 1938 Seguin, Texas City Directory. Accompanying letter to Dudley R. Dobie notes that this is one of 100 copies printed at the author’s own expense, some time after the publication of the original directory. $55.00 612. GUADALUPE COLLEGE. Annual Catalogue of Guadalupe College, Seguin, Texas, for the Session 1910-11, and Announcement for 1911-12, Founded 1884 by Guadalupe Baptist Association and State Convention. Seguin: Enterprise Print, n.d. 47 [1, blank] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Staples rusted, short tear to blank margin of first leaf, otherwise fine. $50.00 613. [GUADALUPE COUNTY, TEXAS]. Facts, for Business Men, About Seguin and Guadalupe County, Texas. [Seguin, 1893]. 10 pp. 8vo, original printed brown wrappers. Remarkably fresh and fine aside from uneven browning to upper wrap. First edition. CBC 2116. Promotional pamphlet. $250.00 614. GUADALUPE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION. Third Annual Guadalupe County Fair, September 24-25-26, 1919, Seguin, Texas. Seguin: Zeitung Print, 1919. [100] pp., illustrations, ads. 8vo, original grey pictorial wraps, stapled. Wraps soiled and lightly worn, text age-toned, pp. 49-52 detached from staples, occasional marks in pencil to ads, overall very good. $50.00 615. GUADALUPE STOCK AND FAIR ASSOCIATION. Seventeenth Annual Fair, Guadalupe Stock and Fair Association, Seguin, Texas, September 20th, 21st, and 22nd, 1900. N.p., 1900. 37 [1] pp., ads. 8vo, original pink printed wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and soiled, first and last few leaves pulling away from fasteners, otherwise very good. $50.00 616. GUADALUPE STOCK AND FAIR ASSOCIATION. Eighteenth Annual Fair of the Guadalupe Stock and Fair Association. Opens Oct. 10, Closes Oct 12. Competition Open to Guadalupe and Adjoining Counties. Seguin: Seguin Enterprise, [1901]. 31 [3] pp., ads. 8vo, original pink printed wrappers. Fine aside from light wear and browning to fragile wraps, “1901” written in pencil on upper wrap. $50.00 617. LUTHERAN COLLEGE. Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas, 1914-1915. Seguin, [1914]. [1] 3-32 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 9 photographic plates. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Light wear and browning to fragile wraps, occasional foxing to text and plates (especially adjacent to wraps), faint offsetting from plates, overall very good. $50.00 618. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS. The Church News, Diamond Jubilee Edition, Presenting the Diocese of West Texas of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1874-1949. Seguin: Department of Promotion for the Diocese of West Texas, 1949. 36 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). Small folio, original white pictorial wrappers printed in black, red, blue, and gold. Fine. Issued as The Church News 7:1 (January, 1949). $25.00 619. SCHUTZE, Albert (compiler and publisher). Directory of Guadalupe County, Texas, for 1921-22.... San Antonio, n.d. 76 pp. Narrow 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Spine worn and chewed with large voids at head and tail, lower wrap mostly detached, a few stray marks to wraps and text, overall good condition. $35.00 620. [SEGUIN, TEXAS]. The Seguin City Schools, Seguin, Texas, Session 1900-01 and Announcements for Session 1901-02. [Seguin, 1900]. 14 pp., illustrated title page. 8vo, original pink pictorial wrappers. Fair condition only: Spine insect damaged, wraps stained and soiled, a few scattered stains to blank margins of text, an ugly but functional copy, text largely unscathed. $25.00 621. TEXAS HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. Inventory of the County Archives of Texas. No. 94. Guadalupe County (Seguin). San Antonio: Texas Historical Records Survey, 1939. [6] 393 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, maps, charts of governmental organization. 4to, original blue printed wrappers. Small chip to spine, scattered light insect damage to wraps, otherwise near fine. First edition. CBC 2119. $15.00 622. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 94. Guadalupe County, March 22, 1846-August 11, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Project, 1941. v [1, blank], 69 [1, blank] pp., map. 4to, original blue wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. Assorted notes relating to an offering by the Jenkins Company in Spring, 1968, of two sets of Texas Historical Records Survey volumes clipped to lower wrap. First edition. CBC 2118. TC 816 (referring to recent reprint). $15.00 623. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 94. Guadalupe County, March 22, 1846-August 11, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Project, 1941. Another copy. Fine. $15.00 Hale County 624. BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WONEN’S CLUB & PLAINVIEW RODEO ASSOCIATION, INC. Souvenir Program, Twentieth Annual Pioneer Roundup and Rodeo, 1948.... [wrapper title]. N.p., 1948. [100] pp., photographic illustrations, ads. Small 4to, original beige pictorial wrappers, staples. Staples rusted, a few tiny spots to wraps, one corner bumped, else fine. Printed sheet with rodeo program laid in. Ink ownership inscription of Dudley Dobie on front cover. $85.00 625. COX, Mary L. History of Hale County, Texas. Plainview, 1937. xi [1, blank] 230 pp., frontispiece, 5 plates, tables. 8vo, original orange pictorial cloth. Slight shelf wear, some foxing to endpapers, plates, and adjacent pages, overall very good in tattered glassine d.j. First edition. CBC 2140. Herd 595. TC 824. $65.00 626. Hale County History 7:1 (February, 1977). Plainview: Hale County Historical Commission, 1977. 59 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear, soiling, and a few tape stains and scattered fox-marks to wraps, otherwise very good. Mailing label of DAR Library, Southwest Texas College, San Marcos, Texan on lower wrap. Ink presentation inscription from the Mary McCoy Baines Chapter of DAR, Plainview, Texas, on p. [60]. Issue with articles focusing on the Snyder Mennonite community of Hale County. $20.00 627. MORRIS, C. Gwin. Plainview: A Pictorial History. Volume 1The Development of the Downtown Business District, 1887-1912. Plainview, Texas, 1975. 13 [26, photographic illustrations (mostly full-page)] [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned and lightly edge-worn, Otherwise very good. First edition. TC 825. TLH, p. 33 (giving date of 1971, but OCLC shows only copies dating 1975; probably a typo). $30.00 Hall County 628. BAKER, Inez. Yesterday in Hall County, Texas. Memphis, Texas, 1940. [10] 219 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in silver. A little shelf-wear, sunning, and faint foxing to binding, edges lightly foxed, otherwise very good in browned and foxed d.j. First edition. CBC 2154. Herd 196: “Much on cattle, cowboys, and ranch life.” TC 832. $40.00 Hamilton County 629. [BILLY THE KID]. The Hico Legend of Billy the Kid. Hico: Hefner Printing, 1996. [78] pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, comb bound. Fine aside from tiny smudge to upper wrap. Tenth anniversary revised edition. Examines the claim that O.L. “Brushy Bill” Roberts of Hico, Texas was in fact outlaw “Billy the Kid.” $10.00 Hardeman County 630. NEAL, Bill. The Last Frontier: The Story of Hardeman County. Quanah: Quanah Tribune-Chief & Hardeman County Historical Society, 1966. [2] ix [1] 276 [10] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic), brands. 4to, original blue pictorial cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn and browned, endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise fine. First edition. TC 838. TLH, p. 34. $60.00 Hardin County 631. OWENS, William A. Boom in Batson: The Birth of an Oil Field [caption title]. N.p., n.d. [4] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, unbound folded sheet. Foxed and lightly worn, otherwise very good. Reprinted from Drilling Magazine, December 20, 1957. $10.00 632. BLOCK, W.T. Sour Lake, Texas: From Mud Baths to Millionaires, 1835-1909. Liberty: Atascosito Historical Society, 1995. 224 pp., 16 plates, endpapers illustrated with maps, facsimile, and photograph. 8vo, original dark green cloth lettered in silver. Fine in sunned and slightly worn d.j. $35.00 633. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 100. Hardin County, September 9, 1867-March 18, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Project, 1941. [4] pp., 24 folios, map. 4to, original blue wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine First edition. CBC 2187. TC 847 (referring to recent reprint). $15.00 Harris County 634. AGATHA, Sister M. The History of Houston Heights, 1891-1918. Houston: Premier Printing, 1956. 133 pp., frontispiece portrait on half-title verso, folding map, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original yellow cloth. Edges lightly foxed, endpapers browned, otherwise near fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. CBC 2194. $85.00 635. ALLEN, O.F. The City of Houston From Wilderness to Wonder. Temple: Dr. O.F. Allen, 1936. [8] 55 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, errata tipped onto front free endpaper, publication information tipped onto title page. 12mo, original grey stiff cloth. Binding lightly worn and moderately soiled, edges and endpapers foxed, a few pages with tiny dog-ears (not affecting text), otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 2195. $275.00 636. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, NORTH HARRIS COUNTY BRANCH (publisher). The Heritage of North Harris County. N.p., 1977. [8] 109 [3] pp., maps (1 folding), illustrations. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly worn and soiled with a few scattered fox-marks, otherwise near fine. First edition. $30.00 637. BAINES, Mrs. W.M. (editor). Houston’s Part in the World War; Edited November 11, 1919, One Year from the Signing of the Armistice. Houston, 1919. 204[2] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Fine aside from a little foxing to edges. First edition. CBC 2198. TC 911. $75.00 638. BLANDIN, Mrs. I.M.E. History of Shearn Church, 1837-1907. Houston, J.V. Dealy Company, Printers, 1908. 229 [1], blank pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Binding lightly shelf-worn, hinges cracked (but holding), small dog-ears to frontispiece and first 10 leaves (not affecting text), otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 2201. $50.00 639. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. The Houston Story: A Chronicle of the City of Houston and the Texas Frontier from the Battle of San Jacinto to the War Between the States, 1836-1865. Houston: Frontier Press, 1951. 240 pp. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, endpapers browned, a few leaves very carelessly opened, affecting text of pp. 189-192. Author’s signed inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Bunting on front flyleaf. Note from Dudley R. Dobie laid in: “Some ‘moron’ vandalized this once mint copy. See pp. 25, 189, etc.” First edition. CBC 2200. $25.00 640. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. The Houston Story.... Houston: Frontier Press, 1951. Another copy, variant binding, not signed. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine aside from slight shelf wear and a little foxing to edges, in rubbed and foxed d.j. with worn edges. $15.00 641. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. The Houston Story.... Houston: Frontier Press, 1951. Another copy, second printing, in wrappers. 8vo, original orange pictorial wrappers. Spine sunned and lightly worn, title page pulling away from staples, text browned due to cheap paper stock, otherwise very good. First edition, second printing (September, 1951). TC 913. $10.00 642. BYRD, Sigman. Sig Byrd’s Houston. New York: Viking Press, 1955. [6] 250 pp. 8vo, original tan cloth, top edge dyed violet. Binding lightly shelf-worn, endpapers browned, otherwise very good in lightly worn and soiled d.j. with a few fox-marks to flaps. First edition. CBC 2211. $75.00 643. CARROLL, B[enejah] H[arvey] (editor). Standard History of Houston Texas, From a Study of the Original Sources. Knoxville: H.W. Crew, 1912. [3] 10-402 pp., frontispiece portrait, 4 plates. Large 8vo, original blind-stamped and gilt dark brown pigskin, marbled endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed, edges foxed, front free endpaper abraded (probably from removal of bookplate) and with ink ownership inscription and Texas Centennial stamp on verso, frontispiece tissue guard torn (others present and intact), frontispiece, plates, and adjacent pages foxed, overall very good. First edition. CBC 2213: “A number of the chapters were researched by Dr. S.O. Young.” Rader 603. $100.00 644. CENTRAL HOUSTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. A Program for Revitalizing Property Values in the Business District of Houston. Houston: Central Houston Improvement Assn., n.d. (ca. 1946). 16 pp., map, photographic illustrations. 4to, original white printed wrappers, stapled. Fair condition only: wraps foxed, margins of text water-stained. Not in CBC. $25.00 645. COLER, W.N. & CO. $200.00,000 Bonds, the Entire Issue for Road and Bridge Improvement, Houston City, Texas, Ten Per Cent. Dated February First, 1872. Due First Day of January, 1902. Redeemable, at the option of the City, on the First Day of January, 1879. Interest and Principal Payable at the National City Bank of New York, on the First Days of January and July.... [wrapper title]. New York: Corlies, Macy & Co., Stationers, 1872. 16 pp. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers. Fair condition only: lower wrap absent, upper wrap worn and soiled with small chewed area, stains to wraps and blank margins of text. Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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