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| 54. OLD SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION OF BELL COUNTY. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Reunion of the Old Settlers’ Association of Bell County, Held at Belton, Texas, September 27th, 1902.... [Belton]: Journal-Reporter Print, 1902. [40] pp. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Wraps lightly foxed, small areas of insect damage to spine, pages pulling loose from staples, otherwise good.
First edition. CBC 247. TC 112. $50.00 55. OLD SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION OF BELL COUNTY. Proceedings Fifth Annual Reunion of Old Settlers’ Association of Bell County, Held at Belton, Texas, September 4th 1903, and Papers Read at the Reunion. Belton: The Belton Journal-Reporter, 1904. 62 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wraps browned, spine torn and chipped, otherwise good. First edition. CBC 248. TC 114. $50.00 56. OLD SETTLERS’ ASSOCIATION OF BELL COUNTY. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Reunion of the Old Settlers’ Association of Bell County, Held at Belton, Texas, November 5, 1904, and Papers Read at the Reunion. N.p., n.d. 34 pp. 8vo, original gray wraps. Wraps browned with rust stains from staples, first and last pages browned from contact with wraps, otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 249. TC 115. $50.00 57. RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. The Way It Was, Volume I [of 2]. Belton: Retired Senior Volunteer Program of the Central Texas Council of Governments, 1975. [6] 188 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers. Wraps a bit shelf worn and lightly soiled, one corner bumped, “R.D. Holt” written in ink on title page, a few notes in pencil and ink to text, overall very good. First edition. Book compiles recollections of Central Texas old timers, many describing daily life, foodways, remedies, etc. $10.00 58. TEMPLE-BELL RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE. History of Bell County Public Schools, 1854-1976. Bell County: Bicentennial Committee of the Temple-Bell Retired Teachers Association, 1976. [10] 430 [2] pp., many illustrations (mostly photographic). 4to, original tan pictorial wrappers. Light wear, browning, and a few tiny spots to wraps, small tear at foot of spine, else very good. Second printing. $30.00 59. TYLER, George W. The History of Bell County. San Antonio: Naylor, 1936. [2] xxiii [3] 425 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 16 plates, 2 folding maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, endpapers browned, some foxing to leaves adjacent to frontispiece and plates, first map stuck inside binding and impossible to unfold, overall good in tattered and water-stained d.j. First edition. CBC 263. Guns 2256: “Scarce.... Contains some material on Sam Bass, Bill Longley, and other Texas outlaws.” Herd 2348: “Some copies were issued without the maps.” Edited by Charles W. Ramsdell. TC 102. Edited by Charles W. Ramsdell. $85.00 Bexar County 60. ADAIR, A. Garland and M.H. Crockett, Sr. Heroes of the Alamo: Accounts and Documents of William B. Travis, James Bowie, James B. Bonham, and David Crockett, and their Texas Memorials. New York: Exposition Press, 1957. 94 pp., frontispiece, illustrations, facsimiles. 8vo, original slate blue cloth. Endpapers browned, otherwise fine in price-clipped d.j. (light wear, a little foxing, spine sunned). Second edition. Not in CBC. $35.00 61. AIKEN, Riley. “La Plaza: A Student Eases His Nostalgia for Things Mexican in the Plaza of Out-Door Kitchens in San Antonio” in Texas Monthly (June 1930). Pp. 617-620. 8vo, original orange printed wrappers. Spine sunned, small tear in pp. 617-618 (not affecting text), else fine. $25.00 62. [ALAMO]. The Alamo and its History, San Antonio, Texas, March 6, 1836 [wrapper title]. Houston: Sunset Route, n.d. 12 pp., photographic illustration. 16mo, original printed white self-wrappers, stapled. Staples rusting, small stain on lower wrap, otherwise near fine. Not in CBC. Small complementary pamphlet from the Sunset Route. $35.00 63. [ALAMO]. The Alamo: The Missions and the City of San Antonio [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Eagle Publishing, n.d. 32 pp., illustrations, map inside upper wrap. 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Poor condition (tattered wraps split and detached, text intact). Not in CBC. $25.00 64. ALAMO CITY STREET DIRECTORY AND BUSINESS GUIDE. Alamo City Street Directory and Business Guide. Formerly Appler-Klappenbach-Levinson. San Antonio: Alamo City Street Directory and Business Guide, 1964. 256 pp. maps. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Lower wrapper stained, title page creased, otherwise very good. $10.00 65. ANIOL, Claude B. San Antonio: City of Missions. New York: Hastings House, 1942. [1] 57 pp., numerous photographic illustrations by author, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original olive cloth. Water stain in lower blank margin of pp. 41-44 (not affecting text), otherwise very good in good price-clipped d.j. First edition. CBC 268. $10.00 66. ANIOL, Claude B. (photographer). This is San Antonio. San Antonio: Claude B. Aniol, 1948. [24] pp., numerous photographic illustrations, maps. 4to, original tan pictorial wrappers. Business card of bookseller Norman Brock stapled to lower wrap, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 269. TC 214. Attractive volume with photographs of San Antonio landmarks. $10.00 67. BERETTA, J.W. The Story of Banco Nacional de Texas and 136 Years of Banking in San Antonio de Bexar 1822-1958. San Antonio: J. W. Beretta, 1959. [20] pp., facsimile, illustrations. 8vo, original orange pictorial wrappers. Library stamp of Sul Ross State College and notes in ink and pencil on upper wrap, tiny abrasion and one erasure to upper wrap, otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 284. Based on research and data compiled by Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda. Editing, copy preparation, and art layout by Claude Aniol and Associates, Advertising. Published by the author upon his retirement from management of the First National Bank of San Antonio. $15.00 68. BARR, Amelia E. Remember the Alamo. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1888. [4] 431 [1, blank] pp. 12mo, original blue cloth gilt. Shelf-slanted, moderate shelf wear, corners bumped, endpapers browned, hinges and text block cracked (but holding), otherwise good. Bookplate and contemporary gift inscription on front pastedown. $10.00 69. BERRY, Viola Riley. The Alamo and Other Poems. Denton: News Publishing Company Printers, 1906. 153 [7] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt. Moderate shelf wear, corners bumped, hinges cracked (but holding), half-title or flyleaf absent, a few stray pencil marks to endpapers and text, otherwise good. $10.00 70. BOWSER, David. City of Mystery and Romance: 15 True Stories from San Antonio’s Past. N.p.: David Bowser, 1993. [2] pp. [iii] iv-vi folios, 40 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original off-white pictorial wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by author to Ben Pingenot on title page and dated Dec., 1994. Autograph letter from author to Pingenot laid in. First edition. $20.00 71. [BROCK, NORMAN]. McGRATH, Jack. Love Affair with Books [caption title]. San Antonio: Brock Book Store, n.d. [1] p., folded sheet, portrait. Photocopy of article from San Antonio Express-News, March 22, 1970, with added address of Brock Book Store and two printed business cards laid in. A few scattered fox-marks, otherwise very good. $5.00 72. BROUSSARD, Ray F. San Antonio During the Texas Republic: A City in Transition [wrapper title]. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1967. 40 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Very fine, in original mailing envelope addressed to Dudley R. Dobie. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph, no. 18. Lowman 213. $15.00 73. BUCKHORN CURIO STORE. Untitled folded pictorial brochure: [recto]: The Buckhorn Curio Store (Museum).... [verso]: The Buckhorn (Buckhorn Museum, Interior view). “Sunny” San Antonio Texas, where the Sunshine Spends the Winter, One of the Healthiest Cities in the U.S. Albert Friedrich, Founder. San Antonio: Buckhorn Curio Store, 1939. Illustrations, map. Folded: 15.9 x 8.7 cm; Unfolded: 30.2 x 34.9 cm. Very fine. Attractive pamphlet. The Buckhorn Saloon was founded in the late nineteenth century by Albert Freidrich, and remains in operation as the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum. See Handbook of Texas Online: Buckhorn Saloon. $10.00 74. BUSHICK, Frank H. Glamorous Days. San Antonio: Naylor, 1934. [4] vi, 308 pp., frontispiece portrait of author. 8vo, original blue cloth. Binding lightly shelf worn with a few small dark spots, edges slightly foxed, small area of light water damage to front pastedown, else very good in very good price-clipped d.j. (browned and lightly soiled, a little wear to extremities of spine). First edition. CBC 294 (gives date of 1940). Guns 349: “Touches upon many western outlaws, with chapters on King Fisher, Ben Thompson, and John Wesley Hardin.” Herd 384. From dust jacket blurb: “Mr. Bushick takes you on an excursion into the past presenting a panoramic pen picture of heretofore unwritten incidents of folks and places when San Antonio was the wide-open town of the gay 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.” $150.00 75. CATER, Guy (compiler). The Amended Charter of the City of San Antonio [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Passing Show Printing, n.d. (ca. 1915). 38 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Staples rusting, cancelled stamp and address in ink on upper wrap, a little staining to wraps, along with small hole penetrating the first few leaves, mild uniform age toning to text, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $35.00 76. CHABOT, Frederick C. The Alamo: Altar of Texas Liberty. San Antonio: Naylor, 1931. xii, 141 [3] pp., maps, illustrations. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear to fragile wraps, else fine. Not in CBC. $75.00 77. CHABOT, Frederick C. The Alamo: Altar of Texas Liberty. N.p., 1931. xii, 141 [3] pp., maps, illustrations. 8vo, original half black cloth over tan boards. Boards foxed and lightly shelf-worn, corner bumped, endpapers and half title browned, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $75.00 78. CHABOT, Frederick C. The Alamo: Mission, Fortress, and Shrine...History of the Altar of Texas Liberty. San Antonio: Frederick C. Chabot, 1936. 66 pp., frontispiece, 2 plates. 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt. First and last leaves browned from contact with binding, adhesive and paper residue on lower pastedown, else fine. Limited edition (#5 of 100 copies). “Centennial edition.” CBC 300 (referring to 1935 Leake Company edition with 53 pages). Rader 644 (referring to 1935 edition).TC 122. $25.00 79. CHABOT, Frederick C. The Alamo: Mission, Fortress, and Shrine.... San Antonio: Frederick C. Chabot, 1936. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps and text browned, otherwise near fine. $10.00
Not in CBC. TC 158. Number three in Chabot’s San Antonio Series. $30.00 81. CHABOT, Frederick C. Mission La Purissima Concepcion.... San Antonio: Naylor, 1935. x, 51 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, plate, map, facsimile, decorative initials and text ornamentation. 12mo, original orange printed wrappers. Fragile wraps lightly worn and soiled, leaf with half-title detached, text browned, otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 303. Rader 645. $25.00 82. CHABOT, Frederick C. Presidio de Texas at the Place Called San Antonio with a Description of the Comandancia or the Governors’ Palace. San Antonio: Naylor, 1929. 42 [2], map, decorative initials and text ornamentation. 12mo, original brown pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear and a few tiny tears to fragile wraps, else fine. First edition. CBC 302. TC 175. $30.00 83. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio and its Beginnings, Comprising the Four Numbers of the San Antonio Series with Appendix. San Antonio: Naylor, 1931. [4] 130 pp., frontispiece, illustrations, text decorations. 12mo, original half black cloth over grey boards. Binding lightly browned and shelf worn, a few fox marks to edges and endpapers, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, Texas centennial stamp on half title, otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 304. Rader 646. TC 194. $50.00 84. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio and its Beginnings.... San Antonio: Naylor, 1931. Another copy, wrappers issue. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Spine lightly browned, edges foxed, otherwise fine. $25.00 85. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio and its Beginnings.... San Antonio, Artes Graficas, 1936. [2] 99 [1, blank] pp., illustrations, text decorations. 8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers. Light wear to fragile wraps, text browned, half title creased, otherwise fine. TC 196. $20.00 86. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Antonio of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries: A Chronology of Her Romantic Past. San Antonio, 1929. 16 pp., illustrations. 12mo, original grey and gold silk-screened pictorial wrappers, stapled. Small area of insect damage to blank margin of title page, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 305. $25.00 87. CHABOT, Frederick C. San Fernando: The Villa Capital of the Province of Texas, with Illustrations; And with an Account of the Present San Fernando Cathedral and Other Landmarks, as well as of the Settlers Themselves. San Antonio: Naylor, 1930. 31 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Eleanor Onderdonk. 12mo, original cream pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. CBC 306. TC 202. Number four in Chabot’s San Antonio Series. $45.00 88. CHABOT, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio: Genealogies of the Early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families with Occasional Biographies, Each Group Being Prefaced with a Brief Historical Sketch and Illustrations.... San Antonio: Privately Published [printed by Artes Graficas], 1937. [14] 412 pp., plates, illustrations. 8vo, original maroon and silver textured cloth. A little water staining to head of spine and upper left corner (not affecting text), endpapers browned, offsetting from plates, otherwise near fine. Signed by author on half title. First edition. BTB 222:IV: “Noteworthy source book on early families and prominent Texans of the San Antonio region, with extensive quotations of original documents.” Not in CBC. TC 222. $200.00 89. CHABOT, Frederick C. With the Makers of San Antonio.... San Antonio: Privately Published [printed by Artes Graficas], 1937. Another copy, not signed. Light foxing and small area of water staining to fore edges, offsetting from plates, otherwise fine. $150.00 91. CLAIBORNE, Arie M. The Story of the Alamo. San Antonio: Johnson Bros., n.d. (ca. 1901). 45 [1, blank] pp., colored decoration on title page, illustrations. 12mo, original cream printed wrappers. Wraps foxed and worn with notes in pencil and ink, wraps with 6 cm split at base of spine, text age toned, otherwise good. First edition. CBC 309. Rader 825. $10.00 92. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED OF THE BI-CENTENNIAL OF SAN ANTONIO. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Municipal Government of San Antonio.... San Antonio: Alamo Printing, 1931. [16] pp. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, tied with silk cord. Light wear and a little foxing to fragile wraps, otherwise near fine. First edition. CBC 490. $20.00 93. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History. San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. vi [2] 166 [27, ads (some illustrated)] [1, blank] pp., maps, plates, front pastedown with photographic illustration of the Menger Hotel, back pastedown with map of central San Antonio. Large 8vo, original gilt-decorated maroon cloth, beveled edges. Fair copy only: binding shelf-worn, spine light, label of Texas Business College library on front free endpaper, text block cracked in several places (but holding). In the deluxe binding, with extra gilt and beveled edges. First edition. Agatha, p. 71: “Today a rare item for the book collector because of the historical sketch by Sidney Lanier.” Bradford 1076. CBC 312. Graff 878. Guns 498. Howes C778. Raines, p. 55: “A mass of authentic information...the best which has yet appeared relative to San Antonio.... The maps and ground plans of old San Antonio, the Alamo, and the four missions were especially made for this work, and constitute the only permanent record of the original lines of this interesting town and its mission establishments.” Schoelwer, Alamo Images, p. 190. TC 192. Contains extracts from the memoirs of Mary A. Maverick (see Herd 1460), illustrated plate of sketches of ranch life, section on the resources of West Texas with statistics on livestock and touting the region as excellent for grazing, description of San Antonio stockyards, etc. $75.00 94. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. Large 8vo, original gilt-decorated turquoise cloth. Binding moderately shelf-worn and soiled, text block cracked near hinges (but holding), otherwise good. $75.00 95. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. Large 8vo, original gilt-decorated red cloth. Binding moderately shelf-worn and soiled with light insect damage, contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise very good, interior clean and bright. $90.00 96. CORNER, William (ed.). San Antonio de Bexar.... San Antonio: Bainbridge & Corner, 1890. Another copy, variant binding. Large 8vo, original gilt-decorated olive green cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn and soiled, front hinge cracked with several leaves nearly detached, overall fair. $75.00 97. COX, Isaac Joslin. William Belcher Seely: Founder and First Principal of the San Antonio Academy. A Joint Tribute from his Family, his Students, and his Former Associate, Isaac Joslin Cox. San Antonio: Naylor, 1948. x, 108 pp., frontispiece, 8 plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine in d.j. with water damage to spine and small tear. Not in CBC. $35.00 98. CROOK, Cornelia E. San Pedro Springs Park: Texas’ Oldest Recreation Area. San Antonio: Privately printed, 1967. [14] 102, x pp., Illustrations by Alice Naylor. 8vo, original navy blue pictorial cloth decorated in silver. Binding mildew stained, else very good. Signed by author on limitation page. First edition, limited edition (#112 of 500 copies). TC 203. $45.00 99. CURTIS, Albert. Fabulous San Antonio. San Antonio: Naylor, 1955. ix [1, blank] 298 [2] pp., 32 plates. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Light insect damage to binding, a few spots to edges, endpapers browned, otherwise very good in water stained and lightly worn d.j. First edition. CBC 315 (gives date of 1954). Guns 535: “Tells of the killing of Ben Thompson and King Fisher.” $10.00 100. CURTIS, Albert. Military San Antonio [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Standard Printing, n.d. (ca. 1943). 64 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue and white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light foxing to wraps and adjacent leaves, otherwise near fine. Cf. CBC 316. $15.00 101. DeBRUEYS, John L. Ben Milam: Hero of the Alamo City. Houston: Ben Milam Hotel, 1936. 27 [1] pp., illustrations. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wrappers, text mildly foxed, else very good. $30.00 102. DRISCOLL, Clara. In the Shadow of the Alamo. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; London: Knickerbocker Press, 1906. v [1, blank] 205 [1, blank] [4, ads] pp., frontispiece, text illustrations. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth., t.e.g. Binding a bit shelf-worn, corners bumped, upper hinge cracked (but holding), ownership inscription on front free endpaper, endpapers, preliminary pages, and ads foxed, occasional light foxing to text, otherwise good. First edition. “Miss Driscoll is best remembered for her part in preserving as a historic shrine the Alamo Mission in San Antonio” (Notable American Women, p. 523). Schoelwer, Alamo Images, p. 191: “This collection of stories includes the author’s memoir on how she saved the Alamo, a history of the Alamo shrine, and a short fictional tale.” Winegarten, Texas Women’s History Bibliography, p. 96. $15.00 103. EVANS, Augusta J[ane]. Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. New York: W. I. Pooley, 1864. 298 pp. 8vo, original green cloth gilt with beveled edges. Extremities and corners of binding worn, lower corner missing from front free endpaper, early owner’s inscription on title, otherwise good. Early edition (originally published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1855). Author’s first book, written at age fifteen. Gaston, pp. 226-7, Schoelwer, Alamo Images, p. 200n. See also BAL (22979), Raines (p. 78), Handbook of Texas Online: Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans, and Notable American Women (III:625-26). $20.00 104. EVANS, Augusta J[ane]. Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1895. 298 [8, ads] pp. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. Fragile wraps a bit worn, text browned and brittle, otherwise very good. Rare in original wrappers. Later reprint edition. Dillingham’s Palmetto Library No. 1. $25.00 105. EVANS, Augusta J[ane]. Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. New York: F. M. Lupton, n.d. [4] 202 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original maroon cloth, t.e.g. Binding rubbed, hinges and text block cracked (but holding), owner’s ink stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise good. Later reprint edition. $20.00 106. EVANS, Augusta J[ane]. Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. New York: Street & Smith, n.d. 255 [1, ad] pp. 12mo, original white pictorial wrappers printed in dark blue and red. Fragile wraps worn and chipped with old cellotape repairs, text browned and brittle due to cheap paper stock. Later reprint edition. Street & Smith Select Library Series No. 35. $20.00 107. EVERETT, Donald E. Trinity University: A Record of One Hundred Years. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1968. [8] 276 pp., 16 plates. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Edges lightly foxed, otherwise fine in water-stained d.j. First edition. Published in celebration of the Trinity University Centennial Year, 1969. TC 215. TLH, p. 6. $10.00 108. FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT. WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION. AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES. San Antonio: An Authoritative Guide to the City and its Environs. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Texas. San Antonio: Clegg, 1938. [2] 106 pp., maps (including 1 folding map), photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers, comb bound. A little foxing and soiling to wraps, interior fine and bright. Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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