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865. CAZNEAU, Jane Maria Eliza McManus (pseud. of Cora Montgomery). Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border. New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. 188 [4] pp., advertisements, printed endpapers. 12mo, original printed off-white wrapper, stitched. Wrapper stained and worn (but complete), text foxed and stained with light water damage. Very good. Howes C251. Rader 642. Number 18 of Putnam’s Semi-Monthly Library for Travellers and the Fireside. $185.00 866. CAZNEAU, Jane Maria Eliza McManus (pseud. of Cora Montgomery). Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border. New York: George P. Putnam, 1852. 188 pp. 8vo, original blue embossed cloth with spine decorated in gilt. Spine and corners rubbed and bumped, endpapers and text browned, title page loose, else good. Howes C251. Rader 642. Part of Putnam’s Popular Library. Bound with Joseph W. Fabens’ A Story of Life on the Isthmus. $100.00 867. CAZNEAU, Jane Maria Eliza McManus (pseud. of Cora Montgomery). Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1966. [10] 194 pp., endpaper maps. 12mo, original teal cloth with gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. Slight bump to foot of spine, else very fine in lightly rubbed green pictorial d.j. Reprint edition. TC 1264. $50.00 868. [EAGLE PASS, TEXAS]. An eclectic collection of documents, photographs, and printed materials related to Eagle Pass. A highlight of the collection is a voluminous file of late-nineteenth-century business papers of L. de Bona, an Eagle Pass merchant. Included is an extensive file of photographs assembled over years of scouting and research by Ben Pingenot. Printed materials on the history, architecture, military presence in Eagle Pass, and area development round out the collection. Examples of materials in the collection include: DE BONA, L. (Eagle Pass Merchant). Approximately 500 business letters, invoices, and other business papers addressed to L. De Bona at Eagle Pass. Dates range from 1889 to 1895, but virtually all are from 1889. The correspondence embraces the usual business concerns—orders, receipt and non-receipt of goods, payment and non-payment of invoices, threats of legal action, etc. A voluminous record of a year’s business in Eagle Pass. De Bona dealt in foodstuffs, tobacco, coffee, and similar commodities. Correspondents are mostly from Texas and nearby Mexico, but a few are from as far away as the Atlantic seaboard. EAGLE PASS FLOOD. Portfolio of 21 photographs of the Eagle Pass flood of June 1954, when the normally knee deep Rio Grande rose past the 45 foot mark. The pictures range from small snapshots to large format professional photographs. A few are stamped on the reverse “Rojas, Eagle Pass, Texas.” EAGLE PASS VIEWS. A gathering of almost 100 postcards of Eagle Pass: homes, street views, business, office, and bank buildings, schools, an Armistice Day Parade float, International Bridge, Post Office and Custom House, “Mexican Generals” [Pancho Villa and companions], Mexican side of the border, U.S. Army troops and encampments, etc. Mostly black-and-white, a few hand-colored, and some early printed color. The cards are largely unused, used cards bear postmarks from the first three decades of the twentieth century. The group includes a fan-fold card “Views of National Guard on the Rio Grande” with 18 photographs (dated 1917) and a “Souvenir Folder of Eagle Pass” with 10 photographs. EAGLE PASS BUSINESS DISTRICT PLAN. SOUTH/WEST PLANNING ASSOCIATES. Eagle Pass Comprehensive Plan: Central Business District Plan. Bryan, Texas, 1972. [8] 19 pp., plans (some folding), charts, tables. 4to, beige pictorial wrappers, spiral bound. A comprehensive plan for the Eagle Pass business district to carry the city forward to 1991. MAVERICK COUNTY IRRIGATION PROJECT. Four folders containing over 300 photographs of large-scale engineering project in the early 1930s. All photos are 4”x6” and subjects include equipment, landscapes, and personnel. An unusual look at the project that brought the Quemado Valley land under extensive cultivation for the first time. SELLERS, Rosella R. The History of Fort Duncan, Eagle Pass, Texas. El Paso, 1960. 134 leaves. 4to., orange wrappers. Master’s thesis presented to the Graduate Council of Sul Ross College. FICTION. DODGE, Louis. Children of the Desert. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917. [8] 312 pp. 8vo, original green cloth stamped in gilt. Good. FICTION. STANDISH, Hal. Fred Fearnot’s Quick Work! Or The Hold Up at Eagle Pass. New York: Frank Tousey, 1915. 30 [2, ads] pp. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Remarkably fine. Published as an issue of Work and Win; an Interesting Weekly for Young America, no. 876, September 17, 1915. Frontier adventure and pulp fiction at its finest. U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES. Wings Over America. [Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Co. of Louisiana, ca. 1943]. 100 pp., photographic illustrations and portraits. Large 4to, blue pictorial cloth embellished with the coat of arms of the Army Air Forces Flying Training Command and embossed with a resplendent American eagle. A profusely illustrated graduation “yearbook” for a large class of World War II cadets at the Army Air Forces Advanced Flying School (Single Engine) at Eagle Pass Army Air Field. Among the graduates are 36 cadets of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. MILITARY MENUS. Two 16mo holiday menus for U.S. Army troops stationed in Eagle Pass: (1) Machine Gun Company, 3rd U.S. Infantry. Thanksgiving Day Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen. Eagle Pass, 1916. Original beige gilt pictorial wrappers. (2) Christmas 1927. Troop “G” Fifth Cavalry. Eagle Pass, 1927. Original cream wrappers decorated with a Christmas holly border. CALDERÓN, Roberto, R. (compiler). South Texas Coal Mining: A Community History. [Eagle Pass: Ramirez Printing, 1984]. 152 [10] pp., photographic illustrations, map. 4to, original tan pictorial wrappers. Fine. A comprehensive work on the bituminous coal industry of Maverick County. BORDERLANDS ARCHITECTURE. Report on the Architectural Survey of Villa Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Texas, United States. N.p., 1973-76. vi, 80 pp., maps, 55 plates of architectural drawings + [3] [230, architectural survey sheets] pp. 2 vols., 4to, original wrappers. Excellent study of historic borderlands architecture, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and an international cooperative effort involving the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Texas Architectural Foundation, and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. Volume I has excellent architectural drawings of historic structures in the area of the study. Volume II publishes architectural survey sheets, with photographs, for the entire village of Guerrero. Plus approximately 20 additional pamphlets and other ephemera related to the history and development of Eagle Pass. $750.00 869. EAGLE PASS INTERNATIONAL FAIR. Premium List, First International Fair, Nov. 8-11, 1940. Eagle Pass, 1940. 104 pp., photographic and text illustrations, ads. 8vo, original tan wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Staples rusted, wrappers and text lightly soiled, else very good. $25.00 870. FITCH, W.A. A Brief History of My Efforts in the Promotion of the Eagle Pass Irrigation and Power Projects [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 73 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original olive printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned, pencil marks on upper cover, spine missing at tail, fore-edges discolored, else very good. $25.00 871. MYERS, John C. Little Town Near the Rio Grande. Eagle Pass, 1965. [6] [2, blank] pp. 16mo, original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers sunned and scuffed, else fine. $20.00 872. PINGENOT, Ben E. Historical Highlights of Eagle Pass and Maverick County. Eagle Pass: Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce, 1971. [2] 21 [5] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original yellow printed wrappers, stapled. Small spot on bottom wrapper, wrapper sunned, else fine. Signed by author. First edition. TC 1256. TLH, p. 54. $45.00 873. SUMPTER, Jesse. Paso del Águila: A Chronicle of Frontier Days on the Texas Border as Recorded in the Memoirs of Jesse Sumpter. Austin: Encino Press, 1969. xxv [1, blank], 152 [2] pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, half brown cloth over mustard pictorial boards, printed paper spine label. Corners bumped, binding rubbed, fore-edges lightly foxed, else fine. Signed by editor Ben Pingenot. First edition. Sumpter, an Eagle Pass rancher, was appointed customs inspector for the Confederacy and later became Maverick County’s first sheriff. Edited by Ben Pingenot. $70.00 McCulloch County 874. GRAVES, William L. & Wayne Spiller. First Christian Church of Brady, Texas: A Brief History, 1882-1982 [wrapper title]. New Brady, n.d. (ca. 1983). [3] 36 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original printed cream wrappers. Wrappers smudged, fore-edges browned, else fine. Signed by Wayne Spiller. $20.00 875. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. McCulloch Co. [upper left] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office do hereby certify that this Map of McCulloch County is a true and correct copy of the Original Map now in use in this Office compiled from official data. [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh Commissioner [upper right] Copyright 1879, W.C. Walsh Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas [lower right] Lithographed by August Gast & Cos New Process, St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, overall sheet size: 62 x 45.2 cm. Tape stains to right margin, some affecting map image, stains to map sheet from adhesive used to mount sheet to poster board, small water stain to bottom blank margin, annotations to map in ink and red pencil. $375.00 876. SPILLER, Wayne. Handbook of McCulloch County History, Volume 1. Seagraves: Pioneer Book, 1976. x, 618 pp., photographic illustrations, charts, map. 4to, original buff cloth, black-lettered spine and upper cover. Binding rubbed and spotted, fore-edges foxed, else fine. First edition. TC 1207. TLH, p. 51. $150.00 877. THE BRADY STANDARD (comp.). Brady: Prosperity’s Playground. The Heart of Texas. Brady: The Brady Standard, n.d. [52] pp., text and photographic illustrations. Oblong 8vo, original white pictorial upper cover, stapled. Upper wrap rubbed and creased, missing small piece (not affecting text), text browned and creased, small tears to some pages. Good. $30.00 McLennan County 878. APPERSON, Henry Milton. A History of West, Texas, 1836-1920: Conflict of Conservative Cultures. Waco: Texian Press, 1969. vi, 71 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece map, 12 plates (mostly photographic), facsimile. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. $25.00 879. BARNES, Lavonia Jenkins. Old Homes of Waco and the People Who Lived in Them. Waco: Heritage Society of Waco, 1955. [44] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original buff pictorial cloth. Binding soiled, minor foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, very good. CBC 3106. TC 1221. $15.00 880. BARNES, Lavonia Jenkins. Early Homes of Waco and The People Who Lived in Them. Waco: Texian Press, 1970. xvi, 229 [1, blank] pp., color frontispiece, photographic illustrations. 4to, original brick red cloth decorated in gilt. Minor rubbing to binding, slight foxing to endpapers, else very in lightly worn pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1209. TLH, p. 52. $15.00 881. BOYNTON, Luella Conger (comp.). St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Waco, Texas, 1863-1963: A Hundred Years’ Witness. N.p., (ca. 1963). 44 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original white wrappers with photographic illustration. Wrappers rubbed, endpapers and fore-edges mildly foxed, else fine. $25.00
883. CENTRAL TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (comp.). McLennan County, Texas, Cemetery Records, Volume I. Waco: Central Texas Genealogical Society, 1965. iv, 228 pp. 4to, original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Mild rubbing to binding, endpapers foxed, else fine. TLH, p. 52. $20.00 884. CONGER, Roger N. The First Presbyterian Church of Waco, Texas: A Memorial History, 1855-1955. [Waco, 1955]. [96] pp., numerous photographic illustrations. 8vo, original light blue printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers discolored at staple locations, fore-edges foxed, fine. CBC 3119. $30.00 885. CONGER, Roger N. Highlights of Waco History. Waco: Hill Printing & Stationary, 1945. 95 [1, blank] pp., photographic and text illustrations, deckled fore-edge. 8vo, original orange printed wrappers. Wrapper smudged and sunned, text browned, else very good. Inscribed by author to Dudley Dobie. First edition. CBC 3120. TC 1213. $65.00 886. CONGER, Roger N. Highlights of Waco History. Waco: Hill Printing & Stationary, 1945. Another copy, unsigned. Wrapper chipped and torn, else good. $50.00
First edition. $25.00 888. EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Introducing the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Waco, Texas. N.p, (ca. 1964). [11] folios, with laid in program for Dioceses of Malawi-Texas. 4to, original blue printed cover sheet, stapled. Cover smudged, text brown, very good. $25.00 889. HARRISON, Guy Bryan, Jr. The Texas Collection of Baylor University. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1940. x [2] 75 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Near fine. The Baylor Bulletin 44:4, Dec. 1940. $20.00 890. KELLEY, Dayton. The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas. Waco: Texian Press, 1972. [15] 307 [7] pp. 4to, original cream cloth with brown-lettered spine. Binding lightly bumped, fore-edges mildly browned, else fine in sunned and rubbed pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1212. TLH, p. 52 $25.00 891. SLEEPER, William M. & Allan D. Sanford. Waco Bar and Incidents of Waco History. Waco: Hill Printing & Stationery, [1941]. 235 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned and smudged, fore-edges foxed. Fine. First edition. CBC 3153. $75.00 McMullen County 892. MCMULLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE (comp.). Stringfield Massacre: Thomas and Sarah Stringfield Killed by Indians, Sept. 28, 1870 [wrapper title]. N.p.: McMullen County Historical Survey Committee, 1970. [20] pp., portrait of Thomas W. Stringfield. 8vo, original blue wrappers, stapled. Wrappers discolored, else very fine. With two items: (1) newspaper clipping (Pleasanton Express, June 3, 1970) announcing the erection of historical marker; and (2) mimeographed Moses W. Hindes pamphlet. $50.00 Medina County
Cf. CBC 3260. TLH, p. 54. $25.00 894. LAWLER, Ruth Curry. The Story of Castroville: Its People, Founder and Traditions. N.p., 1968. 96 pp., photographic illustrations. 12mo, original glossy white wrappers with photographic illustrations. Wrappers foxed, endpapers and title page foxed, else fine. Signed by author. Cf. TC 1277. $25.00 895. McMEANS, Lula Lee (ed.). Historical Sketches Concerning LaCoste, Macdona, Idlewilde, Rio Medina, and Castroville. LaCoste: LaCoste Ledger, 1946. 32 pp. 12mo, original red printed wrappers. Wrappers sunned, light foxing. Offsetting of laid in flyer for Centennial Festival. Fine. CBC 3265. Sketches written by members of the Junior Class at LaCoste High School. $30.00 896. Peachtree Village Hall, Dedicated by John Henry Kirby as a Memorial to the Memory of His Father and Mother. Houston: Rein & Sons, 1914. 73 [3, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. Oblong 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Binding bumped and rubbed, minor smudges to lower cover, endpapers and margins foxed, few signatures loose. Very good. $40.00 897. SAATHOFF, W.A. Medina County Public Schools, 1923-24 [wrapper title]. Medina County Department of Education, n.d. (ca. 1923). 80pp., photographic illustrations, advertisements. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers foxed and smudged, upper wrapper with ink ownership marks, insect damage to fore-edges, fore-edges and margins foxed. Very good. Not in CBC. Rare historical survey of the schools of Medina County. $30.00 898. WAUGH, Julia Nott. Castro-ville and Henry Castro, Empresario. San Antonio: Standard Printing, 1934. [8] 97 [4] pp., frontispiece portrait, 2 plates, chart. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly sunned, fore-edges browned, else fine. First edition. CBC 3272. History of the French empresario who established Castroville in 1844. Rader 3591. TC 1269. $35.00 Menard County 899. BIERSCHWALE, Margaret. Fort McKavett, Texas: Post on the San Saba. Salado: Anson Jones Press, 1966. 134 pp., frontispiece of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, photographic illustrations, facsimiles, maps, endpaper maps, text illustrations by author. 4to, original pictorial cloth. Unopened. Very fine. Tipped in leaf with author’s signature. First edition. TC 1280. TLH, p. 54. $150.00 900. DUNN, William Edward. “Missionary Activities Among the Eastern Apaches Previous to the Founding of the San Saba Mission” from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 15:3, 1912. Pp. 186-200. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly chipped, else fine. Unopened. Offprint. $25.00 901. DUNN, William Edward. “The Apache Mission on the San Saba River: Its Founding and Failure” from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 17:4, 1914. Pp. 379-414, folding map. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Wrappers mildly worn, edges lightly foxed, else near fine. Unopened. Offprint. $25.00 902. HUNTER, John W. Rise and Fall of the Mission San Saba, to Which is Appended a Brief History of the Bowie or Almagres Mine, Also a Sketch of Summerland and Its Builders. N.p., 1905. 84 pp., photographic illustrations, folding map. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Wrappers browned, stained, and chipped, endpapers and margins foxed, overall good. First edition. CBC 3283. Howes H817. $125.00 903. HUNTER, John W. Rise and Fall of the Mission San Saba, to Which is Appended a Brief History of the Bowie or Almagres Mine, Also a Sketch of Summerland and Its Builders. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1935. [4] 84 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers foxed, endpapers and margins foxed, else fine. Reprint edition. CBC 3283 (referring to 1905 edition). Howes H817 (referring to 1905 edition). $75.00 904. LUCKENBACH, Marjorie Russell. Spur of Death. Menard: Western Advertising, 1975. [4] 177 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original red cloth. Near fine in torn (but complete) d.j. Newspaper review laid in. Inscribed by author of front free endpaper. Mystery-suspense novel with strong local history content. $35.00 905. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Menard County, Texas. [below title] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner General Land Office do certify that the above Map of Menard County is a true and correct copy of the Map now in use in this Office compiled from official data. [upper right] Lithographed by August Gast & Cos New Process, St. Louis [upper left] Copyright 1879. W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the Genl Land Office of the State of Texas. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, overall sheet size: 46 x 61.4 cm. Small tears to right blank margin (repaired with tape on poster board verso) and at lower center of map, tape stains to blank margin of upper right corner, surface of map stained from adhesive used in mounting to poster board, notations in ink and pencil to map. $400.00 906. [SAN SABA PAINTING]. Brochure illustrating the untitled painting of the destruction of the Franciscan mission of San Saba in the Province of Texas, ca. 1760. Austin: David Holman at Wind River Press for Dorothy Sloan, November 1989. Small oblong folio brochure with large color illustration of painting and two pages of text with Spanish and English versions of the legends on the painting. New, as issued. Limited edition (500 copies). Documents “the most important Texas historical painting extant” (Goetzmann). $15.00 907. WEDDLE, Robert S. The San Sabá Mission: Spanish Pivot in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. 13 [3] 239 pp., map, text illustration. 8vo, original brown cloth. Other than mild foxing to endpapers and fore-edges, a fine copy in lightly worn pictorial d.j. CBC 3294. TC 1286. $35.00 908. WINSLOW, Edith Black. In Those Days: Memoirs of Edwards Plateau. San Antonio: Naylor, 1950. ix, 184 pp., 4 plates. 12mo, original blue cloth. Top edge bumped, endpapers lightly foxed, else very fine in sunned and torn d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. Herd 2546. $85.00 Midland County 909. GRIFFIN, John Howard. Land of the High Sky. Midland: First National Bank of Midland, 1959. [4] xv [3] 212 pp. 8vo, original green cloth. Spine bumped, off-setting of d.j. onto endpapers, otherwise very good in a chipped, discolored, and price-clipped d.j. CBC 3300. TC 1288. TLH, p. 55. $25.00 910. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. SYMONDS, H.G. (photographer). Photograph of Midland, Texas with approaching sandstorm in background. Glossy collodion print mounted on card. In white at lower left of image: “Sand storm passed over Midland Tex. | Febry 20th 94 6 P.M. | H.G. Symonds Photor.” Image: 15.6 x 21 cm; Card: 20 x 25.3 cm. N.p.: H.G. Symonds, 1894. Card stained, spotted, and chipped, image with light crease in lower left-hand corner, slightly rubbed, and with a few scratches. Despite these flaws, a striking, clear image. $100.00 911. WENDORF, Fred, Alex D. Krieger & Claude C. Albritton. The Midland Discovery: A Report on the Pleistocene Human Remains from Midland, Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1955. viii, 139 [1] pp., numerous photographic and text illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth. Fine in lightly-worn d.j. CBC 3307. $25.00 Milam County 912. PERRY, George Sessions. My Granny Van: The Running Battle of Rockdale, Texas. New York: Whittlesey House, 1949. x [2] 223 [1, blank] pp., text illustrations by Reginald Marsh. 12mo, original red cloth. Light shelf wear to binding, endpapers discolored, fore-edges foxed. Fine copy in soiled, chipped, and price-clipped pictorial d.j. Not in CBC. $15.00 913. TEXAS HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. Inventory of the County Archives of Texas. No. 166. Milam County (Cameron). [San Antonio]: Texas Historical Records Survey, 1941. [12] 131 [1, blank] pp., map of Milam and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Light wear to fore-edges. Fine. 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