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First edition. $35.00 1362. CONLEY, James K. Memorabilia: An Album of Early West Texas. Abilene: Reporter Publishing, 1971. Another copy, not signed. Fine. $30.00 1363. CONNOR, Seymour V. The Evolution of County Government in the Republic of Texas [caption title]. N.p., 1951. 163-200 pp., maps. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Staples rusting, light wear and a few faint stains to wraps, otherwise very good. Signed by author on upper wrap. Cf. CBC 4950. From The Southwestern Historical Quarterly LV:2 (October, 1951). $15.00 1364. CONNOR, Seymour V. The Peters Colony of Texas: A History and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1959. [16] 473 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, maps, endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in lightly browned d.j. with one short tear. First edition. CBC 68, plus many additional entries. BTB 32: “Best study of one of the largest land grants in Texas history, totaling 16,000 square miles of North Texas, an area now including some 26 counties and one-fourth of the Texas population.” $150.00 1365. COOMBES, Z.E. The Diary of a Frontiersman, 1858-1859. Newcastle, 1962. [4] iv 84 pp. 8vo, original white printed wrappers. Wraps browned and lightly worn, with one small stain, notes in red and black pencil to margins of text, otherwise very good. Signed by editor Barbara Neal Ledbetter on title page. First edition. $65.00 1366. CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER TIMES (publisher). 100 Years of Ranching: King Ranch. Corpus Christi, 1953. 143 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original tan pictorial cloth. Tape stains to endpapers, title page, and last leaf of text, otherwise good. First edition. CBC 3529. $25.00 1367. CORY, V.L. Catalogue of the Flora of Texas [wrapper title]. [College Station]: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1937. 130 pp., map (upper wrap included in pagination). 8vo, original printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps detached, heavily worn and torn with tape repairs, browned, and foxed, interior with a few small dog-ears and light age toning. First edition. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin no. 550. $15.00 1368. COTTLE, H.J. Studies in the Vegetation of Southwestern Texas [caption title]. N.p., 1931. 105-155 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, charts. 8vo, original plain white wrappers, stapled. Light wear, soiling, and spotting to wraps, one corner lightly bumped, overall very good. From Ecology XII:1 (January, 1931). $15.00 1369. COX, Mike. Red Rooster Country: A Ragtag Collection of Stories About a Hunk of the Lone Star State Bigger Than Ohio. Hereford: Pioneer Book Publishers, 1970. xii, 114 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 4to, original mustard pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, a few pages near end opened carelessly, otherwise very good. First edition. TC 2027. TLH, p. 90. $15.00 1370. CRAVENS, John Nathan. James Harper Starr: Financier of the Republic of Texas. Austin: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1950. xiv, 194 [1, illustration] [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 5 plates, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt, top edge dyed orange. Gilt dull, endpapers browned, a little foxing opposite plates, otherwise very good in lightly rubbed and soiled d.j. First edition. $20.00 1371. CROCKER, Leah. Rachel Sprouls Story. San Antonio: Fotolith Corp., 1952. [2] 50 pp., 2 tiny maps, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by author on title page. First edition. Not in CBC. $95.00 1372. CROSS, F.M. A Short Sketch-History from Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in Central Texas. N.p., 1910. 118 pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original orange printed lizard-textured wrappers with orange cloth back strip. Wraps worn, scratched, and soiled, frontispiece lightly foxed and with stain to blank margin, one corner of last 25 or so pages creased, overall good. Third edition. CBC 231, 697, 1091, 1140, 2162, 2919, 3319 (all referring to Brownwood, 1912 edition). $175.00 1373. CROWDER, Eleanor McElheny. Nursing in Texas: A Pictorial History. Waco: Texian Press, 1980. ix [1, blank], 184 pp., many photographic illustrations. Small 4to, original blue cloth gilt. Fine in d.j. with 4.5 cm tear to upper panel. $15.00 1374. CUNNINGHAM, Eugene. Famous in the West. El Paso: Hicks-Hayward Co., 1926. [6] 23 [1] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps and text browned, otherwise fine. First edition. Guns 529: “Exceedingly rare.” Rader 999. $400.00 1375. DALE, Edward Everett. The Cross Timbers: Memories of a North Texas Boyhood. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1966. [12] 186 pp., two-page illustrated title and text illustrations by John Biggers. 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, top edge dyed pink. Fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. TC 1944. $25.00 1376. DALY, Lorraine & Pat Reumert. The Padre Island Story. San Antonio: Naylor, 1962. xii, 52 pp., 24 plates, chapter heading illustrations, endpaper maps. 12mo, original blue pictorial cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, faint offsetting from another book on back cover, check mark in ink on front free endpaper, first signature bound out of order, some plates with fingerprints in ink, plates numbered in ink in blank margins, overall good. First edition, second printing. Not in CBC. $5.00 1377. DALY, Lorraine & Pat Reumert. The Padre Island Story. San Antonio: Naylor, 1964. xii, 52 pp., 24 plates, map inside upper wrap. 12mo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and browned, edges foxed, otherwise very good. Revised edition. TC 2008. $5.00 1378. DALY, Lorraine & Pat Reumert. The Padre Island Story. San Antonio: Naylor, 1969. xii, 52 pp., 24 plates, map inside upper wrap. 12mo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Fine aside from a little foxing to half-title. Revised edition, fourth printing. $5.00 1379. DANIEL, Price Jr. Texas and the West: Catalogue No. 15, Featuring C.W. Raines and his Bibliography of Texas [wrapper title]. Waco: Price Daniel Jr., Bookseller, n.d. [20] pp., illustration. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Typography by Carl Hertzog. Not in Lowman. $15.00 1380. DARTON, N.H. “Texas, Our Largest State” in The National Geographic Magazine xxiv:12 (December 1913). Pp. 1330-1360. 8vo, original white and yellow printed wrappers. Spine absent and repaired with cellotape, wraps faded with large chip in upper wrap. $10.00 1381. DAY, James M. (comp. and ed.). Post Office Papers of the Republic of Texas, 1839-1840. Austin: Texas State Library, 1967. iv, [2] 239 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Fine aside from foxing and tiny stain to edges. $45.00 1382. DEAREN, Patrick. A Cowboy of the Pecos. Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1997. v [1] 266 pp., map, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original orange pictorial wrappers. As new. $10.00 1383. DELONY, Lewis S. 40 Years a Peace Officer: A True Story of Lawlessness and Adventure in the Early Days in Southwest Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. [4] 61 [1, blank] pp., photographic portrait of author. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear to spine, staples a little rusty, small tape stain on upper wrap, otherwise near fine. First edition. Guns 580: “Scarce.” Howes D246. $500.00 1384. DE SHIELDS, James T. Border Wars of Texas.... Tioga: Herald Company, 1912. 400 pp., frontispiece, 37 plates (including 2 maps), text illustrations. 8vo, original three quarter maroon sheep over maroon cloth gilt. Spine chipped with top two thirds detached, binding rubbed with boards exposed at tips, internally fine. First edition. Graff 1063. Howes D277. Rader 1125. $175.00 1385. DESPREZ, Frank. Lasca: The Story of a Texas Cowboy—Down by the Rio Grande. Waco: Davis Brothers for Roger N. Conger, 1980. [8] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original off-white pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from a little browning to wrappers. Signed by Conger on p. [8]. Limited edition (#175 of 300 copies). Facsimile of 1931 edition. $50.00 1386. DEXTER, Samuel. Report of Burial of Col. James W. Fannin’s Men. N.p., n.d. [4] pp., map. 8vo, folded sheet, not bound. Fine aside from light age-toning. $5.00
First edition. CBC 1059 plus many other entries. $75.00 1388. DIXON, Sam H. The Poets and Poetry of Texas.... Austin: Sam H. Dixon, 1885. 360 pp. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Poor condition: binding heavily worn, spine nearly detached, hinges and text block cracked, browning and occasional foxing to text. First edition. $60.00 1389. DOBIE, Dudley R. Adventures in the Canyon, Mountain, and Desert Country of the Big Bend of Texas and Mexico. San Marcos, 1952. [4], 29 pp., frontispiece, photographic illustrations (not included in pagination). 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from browning to wraps. First edition. $50.00 1390. DOBIE, J. Frank. Divided We Stand [wrapper title]. Detroit: U.A.W.-C.I.O., n.d. 11 [1] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original printed white self-wrappers stapled. One corner lightly bumped, otherwise fine. Pro-union pamphlet. $30.00 1391. DOBIE, J. Frank. John C. Duval: First Texas Man of Letters.... Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965. 105 [1, blank], frontispiece and text illustrations by Tom Lea. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Gilt a bit dull, otherwise fine in d.j. Second edition. $30.00 1392. DOBIE, J. Frank. Two Treasure Tales [caption title]. Dallas: Texas Folklore Society, 1964. 57-64 pp. 8vo, disbound, stapled. Fine. From Texas Folklore Society Publications XXXIII, A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune. $10.00 1393. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Legends of Texas. Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1924. x, [2, blank] 279 [1, blank] pp., maps. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Browning, light wear and insect damage, and a few scattered-fox-marks to wraps, ink ownership inscription on upper wrap, overall very good. First edition. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society Number III. CBC 1116, 2355, 2824, 3311. Rader 1158. $95.00 1394. DOBIE, J. Frank (ed.). Texas and Southwestern Lore. Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1927. 259 [1] pp., printed music. 8vo, original light grey pictorial wrappers. Wraps worn with a few tears in spine, spine and lower wrap browned and foxed, spine detached from text block, ink ownership inscription on upper wrap, overall good. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society Number VI. Rader 1161. $45.00 1395. DOUGHERTY, E. The Rio Grande Valley 1867. Brownsville: Runyon Brothers, 1955. [8] 39 [1, blank] pp., facsimile title page. 8vo, original cream wrappers with printed label, stapled. Fine aside from a few fox-marks to fore-edges. Reprint edition. CBC 821, 2412. Howes D431 (both referring to 1867 first edition). $35.00 1396. DOUGLAS, C.L. “Cattle Kings of Texas: A Buffer State between Two Nations Was the King Ranch” in The Cattleman 22:10 (March 1936). Pp. 65-66, 68-71, photographic illustrations. 4to, original white pictorial wrappers. Staples rusted, wraps beginning to pull away from staples, otherwise fine. First printing. Guns 619. Herd 719. Howes 434 (all referring to separate Dallas, 1939 edition). Portion of work which appeared serially in The Cattleman. $20.00 1397. DRESEL, Gustav. Gustav Dresel’s Houston Journal: Adventures in North America and Texas, 1837-1841. Translated from a German Manuscript and Edited by Max Freund. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. xxx, 168 pp., frontispiece portrait, 8 plates. 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in green, top edge dyed green. A little foxing to edges, plates, and adjacent pages, otherwise near fine in lightly worn and soiled d.j. with a little foxing to flaps. First edition. BTB 46: “One of the most revealing accounts of Texas written by a German, this is also the best translation from German of any Texas text.” $30.00 1398. DUKE, Cordia Sloan & Joe B. Frantz. 6,000 Miles of Fence: Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. 231 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 32 plates. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth, top edge dyed red. One corner of lower cover and text block badly bumped, otherwise very good in d.j. First edition, first printing. CBC 121, plus additional entries. TC 2051. $60.00 1399. DUKE, Cordia Sloan & Joe B. Frantz. 6,000 Miles of Fence: Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. 231 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 32 plates. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth, top edge dyed red. Fine in lightly worn d.j. Signed by both authors on half-title. First edition, second printing. $45.00 1400. DUKE, Cordia Sloan & Joe B. Frantz. 6,000 Miles of Fence.... Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. Another copy. Slight shelf wear, otherwise fine in d.j. (spine browned, mild to moderate wear). Joe B. Frantz’ signed presentation inscription to Fred and Pachita Pike, dated 22 July 1962, on front free endpaper. $45.00
Dun & Bradstreet state reference book for Texas. $65.00
Dun & Bradstreet state reference book for Texas. $50.00 1403. DUNN, William Edward. Spanish and French Rivalry in the Gulf Region of the United States, 1678-1702: The Beginnings of Texas and Pensacola. Austin: University of Texas, 1917. 238 pp., folding map. 8vo, original white printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished, wraps browned, chipped, and fragile, upper wrap nearly detached, small stains to lower wrap and upper margin of last 15 pages. First edition. Rader 103: “Published also as thesis (PhD)—Columbia University, 1917.” Not in CBC. University of Texas Bulletin No. 1705 (January 20, 1917). $60.00
From The Southwestern Historical Quarterly XIX:4 (April, 1916). $35.00
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First edition. $50.00 1410. EL PASO PUBLIC LIBRARY. A List of Books on the Southwest [wrapper title]. El Paso, n.d. 12 pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers scuffed, creased where formally folded, light foxing to text, else good. $10.00 1411. ELKINS, John M. Indian Fighting on the Texas Frontier...Written for Captain Elkins by Frank W. McCarty. Amarillo: Russell & Cockrell, 1929. 96 pp., 4 plates. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Edges of fragile wraps worn, a few scattered fox-marks to plates and adjacent pages, note in ink on p. 52, otherwise very good. First edition. Rader 1292. $135.00 1412. ELLIOTT, Claude (comp. & ed.). Theses on Texas History: A Check-list of Theses and Dissertations in Texas History Produced in the Departments of History of Eighteen Texas Graduate Schools and Thirty-three Graduate Schools Outside of Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1955. xi [1, blank], 280 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original olive cloth, top edge dyed red. Fine in publisher’s salmon board slipcase with printed cover and spine labels (light shelf wear, spine label browned with one corner peeling). First edition. CBC 4960. $30.00 1413. EMERY, Emma Wilson. Aunt Puss & Others. Austin: Encino Press, 1969. viii, [2] 101 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Extremities of binding sunned, top edge foxed, otherwise near fine in d.j. (light wear to edges, spine slightly sunned). First edition. TC 1958. Texas Folklore Society Paisano Books, number 3. Book design by William Wittliff. $15.00 1414. EMMETT, Chris. Shanghai Pierce: A Fair Likeness. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. xiii [1, blank], 326 [2] pp., maps, 8 plates, 2-page illustrated title and text illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer. 8vo, original brown cloth, top edge dyed yellow. Near fine aside from light shelf wear, in water-stained and lightly rubbed d.j. with a few scratches and small tears. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Carl Hertzog’s bookplate on front pastedown. First edition. BTB 56: “This is one of the best biographies of a Texas cattleman.” Guns 678. Herd 764. $85.00 1415. EMMETT, Chris. Texas As It Was Then: A Conspectus of the Adventures of Cabeza de Vaca and La Salle in Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1935. viii, [2] 54 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original maroon printed wrappers. Wraps pulling away from text block, text browned due to poor-quality paper stock, a few pencil notes, overall very good. $25.00 1416. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Texas. N.p.: Gulf Printing, n.d. 53 [1, colophon] pp., illustrations (many photographic). 4to, original black printed wrappers, spiral bound. Light wear and a little soiling to wraps, edges foxed, otherwise very good. Mimeographed sermon, photocopied broadside, and ALs from Rev. Carlton E. Permenter dated December 31, 1964 laid in. $20.00 1417. ERATH, George Bernard. Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath, Dictated to and Arranged by Lucy A. Erath. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1923. [4] 105 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Spine warped in vicinity of text block staples, endpapers browned, otherwise near fine. First separate edition. BTB 58: “Erath’s memoirs provide one of the most important sources on the Texas Revolution and on pioneer days in the 1830s and 1840s.” Reprinted from The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXVI, pp. 207-233, 255-280; XXVII, pp. 27-51, 140-163. $75.00 1418. ERATH, George Bernard. Memoirs of Major George Bernard Erath.... Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1923. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original white printed wrappers. Fine aside from light wear and a few tiny chips to spine. $85.00 1419. ERATH, George Bernard. The Memoirs of Major George B. Erath, 1813-1891, as Dictated to Lucy A. Erath. Waco: Heritage Society of Waco, 1956. viii, [4] 105 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red pictorial cloth. Spine light, slight shelf wear, otherwise near fine. Second edition. BTB 56A. Facsimile reprint of 1923 first edition, with additional foreword and illustrations. $75.00 1420. ERICKSON, John R. Through Time and the Valley. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. xxiv, [2] 230 pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original orange cloth. As new in d.j. Later edition (first edition 1978). $5.00 1421. ERSKINE, Michael. The Diary of Michael Erskine, Describing His Cattle Drive from Texas to California, together with Correspondence from the Gold Fields, 1854-1859. Midland: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, 1979. 173 [1, colophon] pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations (some in color). Small 4to, original beige pictorial linen. Fine. Carl Hertzog’s bookplate on front pastedown. First edition, limited edition (975 copies). Edited and with an introduction by J. Evetts Haley. Designed by William R. Holman, printed letterpress by David Homan. $65.00 1422. EVANS, Joe M. A Corral Full of Stories.... El Paso: McMath, 1939. x, 66 pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo, original pink stiff pictorial wrappers. Light wear to edges of wraps, otherwise near fine in pictorial d.j. (light wear to edges, a few fox-marks, price crossed off in pencil). First edition. Herd 774. $20.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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