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1301. [BASS, SAM]. True Story of Sam Bass the Outlaw [wrapper title]. Round Rock: Sam Bass Cafe, [1929]. 11 [1] pp., photographic illustration. 16mo, original white printed self-wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly browned and soiled, otherwise near fine. Guns 164. $20.00 1302. Baylor Geological Studies, Bulletins 1-10. Waco: Baylor University, 1961-1966. Maps (including pocket with folding maps inside back cover), illustrations, charts. 4to, olive green buckram over original pictorial wrappers. A few small marks to covers, browning and foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good. $75.00 1303. BEDICHEK, Roy. Karánkaway Country. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. xxiii [3] 290 pp., frontispiece, endpaper maps. 8vo, original buff cloth, top edge dyed green. Slight sunning to extremities of spine, endpapers browned, ink gift inscription on recto of frontispiece, otherwise very good in d.j. (sunned, edges worn, extremities of spine chipped, 2 cm tear in lower panel). Signed by author on title page. First edition. Not in CBC. $35.00 1304. BEDICHEK, Roy. Karánkaway Country. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Another copy, not signed. A few scattered fox-marks to binding, otherwise near fine in d.j. (lightly worn, spine sunned). First edition. $25.00 1305. BEISELE, Rudolph Leopold. The History of the German Settlements in Texas, 1831-1861. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1930. viii, [4] 259 [1, blank] pp., maps (some folding), 17 plates. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Binding with light shelf wear and mild to moderate insect damage, especially to lower cover, edges lightly foxed, otherwise good. First edition. BTB 15: “This monograph remains one of the best scholarly studies of the German migration into Texas.” CBC 4936. $110.00 1306. BENDBOW, Hesper. More Than She Could Bear: A Story of the Gachupin War in Texas. A.D. 1812-13. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872. 439 [1, blank] pp. 12mo, original green cloth gilt and stamped in blind. Binding shelf-worn with tips of boards and extremities of spine exposed, lower hinge cracked (but holding), text lightly age-toned, otherwise very good. First edition. $250.00 1307. BENEDICT, Carl Peters. A Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water. Austin: Texas Folklore Society; Dallas: University Press, 1943. [8] xiii-xviii 115 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 3 plates. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth. Fine in glassine d.j. with a few short tears. First edition, limited edition (550 copies). Herd 238. Lowman 1943. Printed by Carl Hertzog. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. $325.00 1308. BENTON, Jesse James. Cow by the Tail. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. xii [2], 225 [1, blank] pp., 2-page illustrated title. 8vo, original blue cloth. A little foxing to binding, text browned, scattered foxing throughout (mostly confined to blank margins), overall very good in d.j. (lightly browned). First edition. Guns 202. Herd 251. Lowman 21. $45.00 1309. BENTON, Nat. Two Decades of Educational Progress in South Texas. Corpus Christi, 1923. 46 pp., photographic portrait on title page verso. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Spine worn, a few creases to lower wrap, wraps browned and detached from text block, small area of insect damage to blank margin of first two leaves (not affecting text), overall good. First edition. $25.00 1310. BERRYMAN, Opal Leigh. Pioneer Preacher. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1948. vi, [2] 248 pp. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Light shelf wear and a little insect damage to binding, endpapers and text lightly browned, otherwise good in d.j. (browned, spine sunned, light wear, insect damage to bottom edge). First edition. CBC 253: “Life among the cowboys of West Texas.” $5.00 1311. BIECIUK, Hank & H.G. “Bill” Corbin. Texas Confederate County Notes & Private Scrip.... N.p., 1961. 112 pp., photographic illustrations of currency. 8vo, original off-white pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and soiled, otherwise very good. First edition. $20.00 1312. BIGGERS, Don H. Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts...Introduction by A.C. Greene. Biography by Seymour V. Connor. [Austin: W. Thomas Taylor for] Book Club of Texas in Association with Texas Tech University Press, 1991. xix [1, blank], 241 [3] pp. frontispiece map, 16 photographic plates, portfolio with 16 duotones printed by David Holman at Wind River Press. 2 vols, 0blong 8vo, original half brown cowhide gilt over tan decorated boards; original grey wrappers with pocket. New, as issued, in publisher’s plain board slipcase. Limited edition. (260 copies, signed by A.C. Greene and W. Thomas Taylor, in a special Binding, and with the extra suite of photographs). Howes B440. A combined reissue of Pictures of the Past (Colorado City, 1902) and History that Will Never be Repeated (Ennis, 1901), two of the rarest pieces of printed Texana dealing with the evolution from buffalo range to cattle industry in the Panhandle and West Texas. $200.00 1313. BIGGERS, Don H. Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire.... [Austin: W. Thomas Taylor for] Texas Tech University Press, 1991. xix [1, blank], 241 [3] pp., frontispiece map, 16 photographic plates. Oblong 8vo, original half brown cloth gilt over tan decorated boards. Very fine in lightly rubbed d.j. Trade edition of preceding item. $15.00 1314. BIGGERS, Don H. From Cattle Range to Cotton Patch: A Series of Historical Sketches dealing with tho [sic] Industrial, Social, and Commercial Evolutions that have Taken Place in Western Texas from the Beginning of the Buffalo Slaughter to Date of First Publication in 1904 [wrapper title]. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1944. 80 pp. Small 4to, original green printed wrappers. Wraps browned with a few tiny chips, spots, and rust stains from staples, first and last pages pulled away from staples, text browned due to poor paper stock, overall very good. Reprint edition. CBC 4248, Graff 297. Herd 258. Howes B439. $135.00 1315. BIVINS, Mrs. J.K. Memoirs. N.p., n.d. [4] 138 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth. Edges, endpapers, and title page foxed, otherwise very good. Author’s signed inscription on front free endpaper, dated Oct. 15, 1945. Herd 216: “A privately printed book with a chapter on Cullen Baker, an early Texas outlaw.” $350.00 1316. BLANKENSHIP, Mary A. The West Is for Us.... Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1958. [2] 125 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original tan cloth. Fine aside from slight shelf wear to tail of spine. First edition. $50.00 1317. BOATWRIGHT, Mody. Gib Morgan, Minstrel of the Oil Fields. El Paso: Carl Hertzog for Texas Folk-lore Society, 1945. xi [1, blank], 104 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations by Betty Boatwright, endpaper diagrams of drilling equipment. 8vo, original orange pictorial cloth. Slight shelf wear, a little foxing to edges, otherwise near fine in chipped and torn glassine d.j. First edition. Lowman 28: “The edition consisted of 1000 copies.” Texas Folk-lore Society publication number XX. J. Frank Dobie, general editor. $35.00 1318. BODE, Elroy. Elroy Bode’s Texas Sketchbook: A Sheaf of Prose Poems. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1967. x, [2] 182 [2] pp., illustrations by José Cisneros. 8vo, original olive cloth, top edge dyed green. Fine in d.j. Signed by author, illustrator, and designer Carl Hertzog on front flyleaf. First edition. Lowman 212. $50.00 1319. BODE, Elroy. Elroy Bode’s Texas Sketchbook: A Sheaf of Prose Poems. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1967. Another copy. Fine in d.j., signed by Carl Hertzog above his device on title page verso. $35.00 1320. BODE, Elroy. Elroy Bode’s Sketchbook II: Portraits in Nostalgia. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1972. x, [2] 165 [3] pp., illustrations by Frank O’Leary. 8vo, original rose cloth. Fine in d.j. (spine lightly browned). First edition. Typography by Carl Hertzog. $25.00 1321. BOLLAERT, William. William Bollaert’s Texas. Chicago: The Newberry Library; Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. xxiii [1, blank], 423 [1, colophon] pp., map, 8 plates. 8vo, original red and blue cloth lettered in silver, top edge dyed black. Light shelf wear, a few scattered fox-marks to endpapers, otherwise near fine in rubbed and price-clipped d.j. with short tear and a little insect damage. First edition. BTB 18: “The most entertaining book on the Republic of Texas, this is also one of the most perceptive.” Edited by W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler. $20.00 1322. BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. Athanase de Mézières and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1768-1780.... New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970. 351 [1, blank], 392 pp., folding map, facsimiles. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine. Reprint of 1914 edition, combining volumes I and II. $50.00 1323. BOSWORTH, Allan R. New Country. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962. xiii [3] 334 [2] pp., 8 plates, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original olive cloth gilt and decorated in blind. Spine and top edge of binding sunned, endpapers browned, otherwise fine in rubbed d.j. with a few short tears. First edition. $25.00 1324. BOWMAN, Bob. This Was East Texas: An Anthology of Ghost Towns. Diboll: Angelina Free Press, 1969. [20] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original brown pictorial wrappers, stapled. One corner bumped, otherwise fine. Signed by author on upper wrap. First edition, third printing. $20.00 1325. BOWMAN, Bob. This Was East Texas: An Anthology of Ghost Towns. Diboll: Angelina Free Press, 1969. Another copy, not signed. Fine. $15.00 1326. BRETT, Bill. The Stolen Steers: A Tale of the Big Thicket. College Station & London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. 116 pp., frontispiece and text illustrations by Michael Frary. 8vo, original mustard cloth. Very fine in d.j. (light wear to top edge). First edition. $10.00 1327. BREWER, J. Mason. The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. xv [1] 109 [1, blank] pp. title page illustration, 5 plates, and illustrated endpapers by Ralph White, Jr. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, top edge dyed black. Fine in browned and lightly worn d.j. Signed by author on half-title. First edition. Foreword by J. Frank Dobie. $45.00 1328. BREWER, J. Mason. The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. xv [1] 109 [1, blank] pp. title page illustration, 5 plates, and illustrated endpapers by Ralph White, Jr. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, top edge dyed black. Fine in price-clipped d.j. (lightly worn, spine a bit light). First edition, second printing. $20.00 1329. BROOKER, William H. Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic. From Most Approved Sources. Columbus, Ohio: Press of Nitschke Brothers, 1897. 100 pp., frontispiece portrait, 21 plates. 8vo, original pictorial red cloth printed in silver, edges dyed red. Poor to fair condition: binding worn and stained, hinges cracked, front endpaper through frontispiece detached, text browned, occasional foxing to plates. First edition. $75.00 1330. BROOKS, Charles Mattoon, Jr. Texas Missions: Their Romance and Architecture. Dallas: Dealey & Lowe, 1936. [16] 154 [42, maps and photographs] [10, index] pp., endpaper maps. Large 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Slight shelf wear, small spot on top edge, otherwise near fine in d.j. (lightly worn and soiled, spine light). Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition, limited edition (#59 of 200 autographed copies). Rader 500. Not in CBC. $45.00 1331. BROWN, George Rothwell. The Speaker of the House: The Romantic Story of John N. Garner. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. v [1, blank], 162 pp., frontispiece portrait, 7 plates. 12mo, original mustard cloth. Slight insect damage to binding, light foxing to edges, endpapers and pages opposite plates browned, overall very good. First edition. $15.00 1332. BROWN, John Earl. Yesteryears of Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1936. x, 157 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 2 plates. 8vo, original pictorial maroon cloth. Top edge foxed, a few scattered fox-marks to plates and adjacent pages, otherwise very good in price-clipped d.j. with several small tears and chips. First edition. Herd 344. $75.00 1333. BRUNE, Kenneth, Arlene Brune, Mary Anne Pickens, Cynthia Pickens, & W.R. Pickens. Forty Years on the Trail: A History of the Texas Trail Riders Association, 1955-1994. Alleyton: Show Me Type & Print, 1994. [6] 82 pp., map, photographic illustrations, facsimiles. 4to, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from a little soiling to lower wrap and light crease to blank margin of first two leaves. First edition. $25.00 1334. BRYANT, Claude W. Lumbering Along in Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1960. ix [1, blank], 201 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 8 plates. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Ex-lib, with several related markings and remnants of pocket on lower pastedown, binding lightly shelf-worn, edges and endpapers foxed, overall good. First edition. Not in CBC. $10.00 1335. BRYSON, J. Gordon. One Hundred Dollars & a Horse: The Reminiscences of a Country Doctor. New York: William Morrow, 1965. xvi, 272 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original half white cloth over red boards. Spine foxed, a few fox-marks to blank margins of frontispiece and adjacent title page and half-title verso, otherwise very good in lightly worn d.j. First edition. Introduction by Joe B. Frantz. $10.00 1336. BUCK, Samuel M. Yanaguana’s Successors: The Story of the Canary Islanders’ Immigration into Texas in the Eighteenth Century. San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. ix [1, blank], 272 pp., 3 plates, a few text illustrations. 8vo, original orange cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, corners bumped, top edge foxed, a little foxing to plates, otherwise very good in worn d.j. with several chips and tears. First edition. Not in CBC. $40.00 1337. Bunker’s Monthly: The Magazine of Texas II:4 (October, 1928). Fort Worth: Bunker Publications, 1928. x, [2] 433-576 pp., 1 plate, ads. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps, offsetting and browning from plate to page opposite, otherwise fine. $25.00 1338. BUREAU OF MUNICIPAL RESEARCH. Units of Local Government in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1941. 221 pp., many maps. 4to, original blue pictorial wrappers. Wrappers browned and lightly rubbed and soiled, a little foxing to endpapers and title page, overall very good. First edition. Not in CBC. $20.00 1339. BURNS, Annalee. Gone Are the Days. San Antonio: Naylor, 1960. xvi, 95 [1, blank] pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original black pictorial cloth gilt. Binding lightly shelf-worn, gilt dull, edges and front endpapers foxed, occasional fox-marks to text, otherwise very good. Author’s signed inscription, dated Jan. 9, 1963, on front free endpaper above additional ink gift inscription from Mrs. J.C. Cox. First edition. $15.00 1340. CAGE, James C. The Court Martial of Henry Ossian Flipper. El Paso: El Paso Corral of the Westerners, 1981. 47 [1, blank] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 4to, original beige pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly rubbed and soiled, notes in pencil to text, else fine. First edition. Published as Buffalo Chip Gazette 2:3 (Fall 1981). $10.00 1341. CAMPION, William J. The Lore and Legend of the Texas Hill Country. N.p., n.d. [4] 59 [3] pp. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Upper joint cracked (but holding), otherwise very good. $25.00 1342. CARLSON, Paul H. Texas Woollybacks: The Range Sheep and Goat Industry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982. xiv, 236 pp, maps, 12 plates, tables. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. with illustration by Joe Belt. First edition. $15.00 1343. CARROLL, H. Bailey. Nolan’s “Lost Nigger” Expedition of 1877. Austin, 1940. 23 [1] pp., illustration. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from slight browning and wear to wraps. Reprinted from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. XLIV (July, 1940). $35.00 1344. CARROLL, J.M. Just Such a Time: Recollections of Childhood on the Texas Frontier, 1858-1867. Austin: Kairos Press, 1987. [4] 65 [3] pp., woodcut illustrations by Barbara Whitehead (including frontispiece). 8vo, original half brown leather over yellow boards. Very fine in plain dust wrapper. Limited edition (150 copies). $150.00 1345. CARROLL, H. Bailey. Texas County Histories: A Bibliography. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1943. xxxii, 200 pp., frontispiece, folding map. 8vo, original buff cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn and soiled, otherwise very good, unopened. Author’s signed inscription, dated April 29, 1943, on front free endpaper. First edition. CBC 4947: “The best basic work, thorough for the years prior to 1942, now very scarce.” $100.00 1346. CARROLL, H. Bailey. Texas County Histories: A Bibliography. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1943. Another copy, not signed. Fine, unopened. $75.00 1347. CARROLL, H. Bailey & Milton R. Gutsch. Texas History Theses: A Check List of the Theses and Dissertations Relating to Texas History Accepted at the University of Texas, 1893-1951. Austin: Texas Historical Association, 1955. [14] 208 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original olive cloth, top edge dyed red. Fine, in publisher’s salmon board slipcase with printed cover and spine labels (sunned and lightly shelf-worn, spine label browned and edge-worn). First edition. CBC 4948. $45.00 1348. CARSEY, Dorothy Ogden. Foraminifera of the Cretaceous of Central Texas. Austin: University of Texas, 1926. 53 [19] pp., 8 plates. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Light wear and browning to wraps, light crease to one corner of upper wrap and first 30 pages, overall very good. $10.00 1349. CARTER, Kathryn Turner. Stagecoach Inns of Texas. Waco: Texian Press, 1972. xvii [1, blank], 230 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original red cloth gilt. Top edge foxed, light browning to margins of text, otherwise very good in d.j. (rubbed, spine sunned). First edition. $35.00 1350. CARTER, William T., Jr. & George N. Coffey. Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Central Gulf Coast Area of Texas. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. 75 pp., sketch map, large folding map printed in color, 8 plates. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wraps rubbed and soiled with moderate wear to spine, folding map browned, overall very good. First edition. Cf. CBC 56, plus many additional entries. $50.00 1351. CARTER, William T., Jr. & George N. Coffey. Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Panhandle Region of Texas. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. 59 pp., large folding map printed in color, sketch map, 6 plates. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wraps browned and soiled, water stain to lower wrap, last two plates stuck together, folding map browned. First edition. Cf. CBC 78, plus many additional entries. $35.00 1352. CASEY, Robert J. The Texas Border and Some Borderliners: A Chronicle and a Guide. Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950. 440 pp., frontispiece, 20 plates, endpaper maps, 33 p. stapled guide tucked into rear pocket. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Spine sunned, light shelf wear, gilt dull, front hinge cracked (but holding), overall very good. Signed by author on “Lone Star Edition” leaf. First edition, “Lone Star Edition.” Guns 392. $25.00 1353. CHABOT, Frederick C. (ed.). Texas Letters. San Antonio: Yanaguana Society, 1940. 188 pp., illustrations, facsimiles. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Spine a bit light, slight shelf wear, light offsetting from facsimiles, a few pages dog-eared, otherwise very good. First edition. BTB 222:V. Yanaguana Society Publications vol. 5. $135.00 1354. CHEESEMAN, Bruce S. Perfectly Exhausted with Pleasure: The 1881 King-Kenedy Excursion Train to Laredo.... Austin: W. Thomas Taylor for Book Club of Texas, 1992. 41 [3] pp., frontispiece and 10 plates printed by David Holman at Wind River Press (included in pagination). Oblong 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (450 copies). $65.00 1355. CISNEROS, José. Faces of the Borderlands: Twenty-one Drawings...with Text by the Artist. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1977. [52] pp., full-page illustrations (one in color). 8vo, original tan and red pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by Cisneros on p. [3]. Carl Hertzog’s bookplate inside upper wrap. First edition. $65.00 1356. CISNEROS, José. Riders of the Border: A Selection of Thirty Drawings...with Text by the Artist. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971. 64 pp., full-page illustrations by Cisneros with descriptive text on facing pages. 8vo, original orange printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. First edition. Southwestern Studies Monograph No. 30. $15.00 1357. CLARK, Amasa Gleason. Reminiscences of a Centenarian as Told by Amasa Gleason Clark, Veteran of the Mexican War, To Cora Tope Clark. San Antonio: Naylor, 1972. xiii [1, blank] 84 pp., 12 plates. 8vo, original salmon pictorial cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j. Signed by Mrs. Charles L. (Bessie Clark) Schmidtke, daughter of Amasa Clark, April 7, 1972, on front free endpaper. Reprint (originally published Bandera, 1930). $25.00 1358. CLARKE, Mary Whatley. David G. Burnet. New York & Austin: Pemberton Press, 1969. 303 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, folding map, illustrations. 8vo, original red and grey cloth. Slight shelf wear to bottom edge of binding, a few scattered fox-marks to edges, otherwise fine in rubbed d.j. with a few short tears. First edition. $45.00 1359. The Coming Country 3:8 (September, 1906). St Louis, 1906. 32 pp., photographic illustrations, ads, map inside lower wrapper. Small 4to, original white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fragile wraps worn and browned, splitting at spine, light vertical crease through entire issue, text lightly age-toned, overall very good. Publisher’s order form laid in. Agricultural magazine with several articles on Texas. $40.00 1360. Community Progress: Crockett, Huntsville, Conroe, Trinity, Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., 1946. 56 pp., photographic illustrations. Small 4to, original white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned and slightly worn, small tear to blank margin of pp. 23-34, overall very good. Booklet promoting several Texas cities. $25.00 1361. CONLEY, James K. Memorabilia: An Album of Early West Texas. Abilene: Reporter Publishing, 1971. [80] pp., many photographic illustrations. Oblong 4to, original cream wrappers printed in brown and black, stapled. Fine aside from slight foxing to wraps. Signed by author on title page. Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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