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| 1423. FEATHERSTON, Edward Baxter. A Pioneer Speaks. Dallas: Cecil Baugh, 1940. xvii [1, blank], 239 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 20 plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original orange pictorial cloth. Binding rubbed, corners bumped, partially effaced price in ink on upper cover, light insect damage to edges, rear endpapers with abrasions and adhesive residue, d.j. panel affixed to recto of frontispiece, overall good condition. Inscription in front free endpaper: “Donated by C H Featherston the Pioneer’s Son.”
First edition. CBC 2534, 4150. Herd 796. $40.00 1424. FELPS, Jettie. Is This the Solid South? Burnet, n.d. [2] 24 pp., title page portrait of author. 16mo, original brown printed wrappers, stapled. Fine, with a few corrections in pencil to text. Signed by author on title page. $75.00 1425. FENLEY, Florence. Oldtimers of Southwest Texas. Uvalde: Hornsby Press, 1957. 318 [2] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original red pictorial cloth. Tiny spot to top edge, otherwise fine in d.j. (sunned, a few tiny holes and slight insect damage). Author’s signed inscription, “Best wishes from the author,” dated March 23, 1960 on front free endpaper. First edition. Not in CBC. $175.00 1426. FENLEY, Florence. Oldtimers of Southwest Texas. Uvalde: Hornsby Press, 1957. Another copy, not signed. A few scattered fox-marks to top edge, two leaves trimmed incorrectly (not affecting text), light age-toning to text, otherwise very good in d.j. (sunned, a few tiny stains and spots, light wear and insect damage). $125.00
First edition. CBC 1426, plus many additional entries. Herd 799: “Scarce.... True stories of real cattlemen. Privately printed in a small edition and new becoming scarce.” $90.00 1428. FIELDS, F.T. Texas Sketchbook, Vol. I. Houston: Humble Oil, 1952. 43 [1, blank] pp., Illustrations by E.M. Schiwetz, illustration of Mission San José by Avery Johnson tipped onto p. [4]. 4to, original green pictorial wrappers. Fine. Reprints articles previously published in The Humble Way, a magazine published by the Humble Oil & Refining Company of Houston. $10.00 1429. FIELDS, F.T. Texas Sketchbook: A Collection of Historical Stories from the Humble Way [wrapper title]. Houston: Humble Oil, 1958. 104 pp., many illustrations by E.M. Schiwetz, some in color. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps foxed and moderately worn, light wear to edges of text block, overall good condition. Revised edition. $5.00 1430. FINNEGAN, John P. “Preparedness in Wisconsin: The National Guard and the Mexican Border Incident” in Wisconsin Magazine of History 46:3 (Spring, 1964). Pp. 199-213, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Very good aside from light wear, soiling, and browning to wraps. $10.00 1431. FISHER, Lee William. Live Trapping Texas Antelopes [caption title]. N.p., 1942. Pp. 231-236, 4 plates, illustration. 8vo, original white printed self-wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from a little browning to upper wrap (p. 231). From The Journal of Wildlife Management 6:3 (July, 1942). $10.00 1432. FITZHUGH, Lester N. (comp.). Texas Batteries, Battalions, Regiments, Commanders, and Field Officers, Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. Midlothian: Mirror Press, 1959. [4] 33 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original light grey printed wrappers, stapled. Spine and top edge of wraps and text block water-stained (not affecting text), wraps browned, small red smudge on upper wrap, otherwise very good. First edition. Not in CBC. $50.00 1433. FLANAGAN, Sue. Trailing the Longhorns: A Century Later. Austin: [Designed by Ward Ritchie for] Madrona Press, [1974]. xix [1, blank], 209 [2, blank] [1, colophon] pp., frontispiece, numerous photographic illustrations, illustrated maps by Cisneros. 4to, original dark brown calf over orange linen, spine gilt-lettered, photographic label of longhorn drive on upper cover. Mint, in publisher’s slipcase with original wrapping and packing box. Suite of prints by José Cisneros is absent. First edition, limited edition (#131 of 250 copies). Foreword by Wayne Gard. The author focuses on three major trails: Goodnight-Loving, Chisholm, and Western. The history of these trails is enhanced by excellent contemporary documentary photographs of surviving trail landmarks. $100.00 1434. FORTUNE, Jan & Jean Burton. Elisabet Ney. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. [10] 300, v [1, colophon] pp., frontispiece, 6 plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear to binding, top edge foxed, occasional foxing to frontispiece, plates, and adjacent pages, otherwise very good in price-clipped d.j. (lightly worn, spine browned, a little insect damage). First edition. $10.00 1435. FRANKS, J.M. Seventy Years in Texas: Memories of the Pioneer Days, Indian Depredations, and the Northwest Cattle Trail. Gainesville, 1924. 133 [1] pp., photographic portrait of author. 8vo, original light grey printed wrappers. Wraps lightly browned, small tear to lower wrap and blank margin of last four leaves, overall near fine. First edition. CBC 233, plus additional entries. Graff 1408. Guns 759: “Scarce.” Herd 839: “Scarce.” Howes F339. Rader 1466. $150.00 1436. FRANKS, J.M. Seventy Years in Texas.... Gainesville, 1924. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, original dark grey printed wrappers. Upper wrap and title page creased, ink ownership inscriptions to upper wrap and title page, title page foxed, small tear to margin of pp. 125-126, overall very good. $125.00 1437. FRARY, Michael (artist) & William A. Owens (author). Impressions of the Big Thicket. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1973. 112 pp., frontispiece, map, many illustrations (most full-page, many in color). 4to, original green pictorial cloth gilt. Light shelf-wear, gilt a bit dull, edges foxed, occasional scattered foxing to text, overall very good in lightly rubbed and foxed price-clipped d.j. with one small tear. First edition. $5.00 1438. FRIEND, Llerena. Sam Houston: The Great Designer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. xiv, 394 pp., frontispiece portrait, 16 plates. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, top edge dyed blue. A little foxing to edges, otherwise fine in d.j. (spine light, lightly rubbed, a few scattered fox-marks). Signed by author on half-title. First edition. BTB 66: “The first 1,000 copies were issued in red cloth.... The most scholarly biography of Sam Houston, this is also one of the most interesting.” $40.00 1439. FULCHER, Walter. The Way I Heard It: Tales of the Big Bend. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959. xxvii [1, blank], 87 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait, 20 plates, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original orange cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, edges browned, ink ownership and gift inscriptions, otherwise very good in d.j. (insect damage, browned, a few small stains and tears). First edition. Guns 780. Edited by Elton Miles. $10.00 1440. FULCHER, Walter. The Way I Heard It.... Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. xxvi, 87 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 20 plates, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original orange cloth gilt. Fine aside from ink gift inscription to blank leaf following half-title, in d.j. (browning, slight wear and insect damage) Second edition. $10.00 1441. FULMORE, Z.T. The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names. Austin: Press of E.L. Steck, 1915. ix [1, blank], 312 pp., map, illustrations, facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. A little insect damage and light shelf wear to binding, corners bumped, printed bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, overall very good. First edition. CBC 4963. Rader 1508. TC 2061. $100.00 1442. FULMORE, Z.T. The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names. Austin: S.R. Fulmore, 1926. [4] vii [1, blank], 225 [5] pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations, facsimiles. 8vo, original brown cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn and soiled, with a few spots, endpapers foxed, 1933 gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper, overall very good. Revised edition. CBC 4963a. $85.00 1443. FULMORE, Z.T. The History and Geography of Texas as Told in County Names. Austin: Steck, 1935. [2] ix [3, blank] 312 pp., map, illustrations, facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Light wear and insect damage to binding, top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very good. Facsimile of 1915 first edition. $75.00 1444. GALLEGLY, Joseph. Footlights on the Border: The Galveston and Houston Stage Before 1900. The Hague: Mouton, 1962. 262 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original navy blue cloth gilt. Bottom corners bumped, edges, frontispiece, and title page foxed, endpapers browned, otherwise very good in lightly rubbed and sunned d.j. Inscribed by author to Dudley Dobie on front free endpaper. First edition. $35.00 1445. GANNETT, Henry. A Gazetteer of Texas. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 177 [1, blank] iii [1, blank] pp., maps. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Fair condition only: fragile wraps worn, stained, and with a little insect damage, staining and a little insect damage to text. Second edition. Rader 1528. TC 2059 (both 1902 ed.). Not in CBC. $15.00 1446. GATSCHET, Albert S. The Karankawa Indians, the Coast People of Texas. Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1891. 103 [1, blank] pp., map. 8vo, plain cream wrappers. Fine. First edition. Rader 1552. Not in CBC. Published as Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum I:2. $125.00 1447. GEISER, Samuel Wood. Scientific Study and Exploration in Early Texas: A Check-list of Published Books, Papers, and Notes on the History of Science, and Biographies of Naturalists of Texas, October, 1928 to July, 1944. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1944. [4] pp. Folded sheet, not bound. Light wear and a few fox-marks, else near fine. Brief pamphlet succinctly listing 60 of the author’s own publications on the topic of the history of science in Texas, including some of potential local history interest. The author generously states that “any productive scholar in the field of History of Science may secure on request any desired paper, if reprints have been issued. Another list will be issued when the accumulated titles appear to justify it” (p. [2]). $5.00 1448. GENERAL LAND OFFICE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. Treasure Tempest in Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. [6] pp., 18 numbered leaves with photographic illustrations on versos, map printed in color. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers, stapled. Map lightly foxed, otherwise near fine. $10.00 1449. GIBSON, Joe A. Forts and Treasure Trails of West Texas. San Angelo: Educator Books, 1969. 120 [2] pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Light wear and a few fox-marks to wraps, spine browned, otherwise very good. Signed by author on front flyleaf. First edition. $45.00 1450. GILES, L.B. Terry’s Texas Rangers. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1967. [12] 105 [1, blank] [14] pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original yellow cloth. Light shelf wear to extremities of spine, otherwise fine in d.j. (light edge wear, lower panel a bit rubbed and soiled) Facsimile of 1911 edition with added introduction and index. BTB 75A. $125.00 1451. GILLETT, James B. Six Years with the Texas Rangers. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925. xvi, 259 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 10 plates. 8vo, original black cloth gilt. Binding lightly shelf-worn. Browning to endpapers and opposite plates, ink ownership inscription and abrasion to front free endpaper, overall very good. Printed bookplates of Edward R. Sargent and Carl Hertzog on front pastedown. Second edition. BTB 76A: “Giles’ short narrative is one of the best memoirs of the famous 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, better known as Terry’s Texas Rangers.” Graff 1553 (1921 ed.). Howes G177n. Rader 1591n. $55.00 1452. GILLILAND, Maude. Horsebackers of the Texas Brush Country: A Story of the Texas Rangers and Mexican Liquor Smugglers. N.p., 1968. 175 [1, blank] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original blue cloth. Spine lightly browned, otherwise fine in d.j. Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. $225.00 1453. GILLILAND, Maude. Rincon (Remote Dwelling Place): A Story of Life on a South Texas Ranch at the Turn of the Century. Brownsville: Springman-King Lithograph, 1964. xvi, 105 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original green cloth. Binding, edges, endpapers, and first and last few leaves foxed, otherwise very good in foxed and lightly worn d.j. Author’s signed inscription to Dudley R. Dobie, dated Jan. 30, 1965, on front free endpaper. First edition. Guns 830. $200.00 1454. GILLILAND, Maude. Rincon (Remote Dwelling Place): A Story of Life on a South Texas Ranch at the Turn of the Century. Brownsville: Springman-King Lithograph, 1964. Another copy, not signed. Fine aside from a little foxing to endpapers, in d.j. (light wear, a little scattered foxing). $135.00 1455. GLASSCOCK, Lucille. A Texas Wildcatter: A Fascinating Saga of Oil. San Antonio: Naylor, 1952. ix [1, blank], 126 pp., frontispiece portrait, 8 plates. 8vo, original brown cloth. Near fine aside from a little foxing to top edge. frontispiece, plates, and adjacent pages, in good price-clipped d.j. First edition. $30.00 1456. GLASSCOCK, Sallie. Dreams of an Empire: The Story of Stephen Fuller Austin and His Colony in Texas. San Antonio, Naylor, 1951. x, 213 [1, blank] pp., 12 plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Slight shelf wear, edges foxed, front hinge starting, otherwise very good in d.j. (browned, light wear, 3 cm chip at head of spine, small tear in front panel). Signed by author on inserted “Texas Empire Edition” leaf. First edition, first printing, “Texas Empire Edition.” $25.00 1457. GLAZENER, W.C. Food Habits of Wild Geese on the Gulf Coast of Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., 1946. Pp. 322-329, map. 8vo, original white printed self-wrappers, stapled. Fine. From The Journal of Wildlife Management 10:4 (October, 1946). $10.00 1458. GOODWYN, Frank. Life on the King Ranch. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1951. [10] 293 pp., frontispiece portrait, 14 double-page photographic plates by Toni Frissell, drawings by Bruce Marchin, endpaper maps. 8vo, original half yellow over brown cloth gilt, top edge dyed yellow. Edges foxed, a little foxing adjacent to plates, otherwise near fine in price-clipped d.j. (lightly worn, spine a bit sunned). First edition. Herd 905. Not in CBC. $20.00 1459. GRACY, David B. II. Littlefield Lands: Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912-1920. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1968. x, [4] 161 [1, blank] pp., 16 plates, maps. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, top edge dyed red. Fine aside from a little scattered foxing to text, in very lightly worn d.j. First edition. $25.00 1460. GRAHAM, Philip. The Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1938. xiv, 332 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original teal cloth gilt. Top edge foxed, endpapers browned, a little foxing to title page, otherwise very good in price-clipped d.j. (lightly worn, a few short tears). Limited edition (#712 of 1,000 copies). $45.00 1461. GRAVES, John. From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas. New York: Knopf, 1980. xv [1, blank], 228 [6] pp., frontispiece and full-page text illustrations by Glenn Wolff. 8vo, original half white linen gilt over white boards stamped in blind. Fine in d.j. (a few chips and small tears, lightly rubbed and soiled). Carl Hertzog’s copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Signed Christmas card from author and photocopy of Hertzog’s review of the book for The El Paso Times, March 8, 1981, laid in. First edition. $35.00 1462. GRAVES, John. Goodbye to a River. New York: Knopf, 1960. [10] 306 [2], map, illustrations by Russell Waterhouse. 8vo, original pink pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, corners slightly bumped, tape stains to endpapers, otherwise good in torn, soiled, and tape-stained price-clipped d.j. First edition. CBC 2477, 3658, 3693, 4113. Lowman 121. Typography and book design by Carl Hertzog. $25.00 1463. GRAVES, John. Goodbye to a River. Austin: [W. Thomas Taylor for] Book Club of Texas, 1989. [12] 237 [3] pp., folding map, photographic illustrations, decorative initials printed in brown. 4to, original half maroon cloth over marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Very fine. Signed by author at end of preface. Limited edition (550 copies). $275.00 1464. GRAVES, John. Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land. New York: Knopf, 1974. [2] xi [1, blank] 267 [5] pp., maps. 8vo, original yellow cloth gilt, top edge dyed green. Fine in d.j. (wear to edges). Bookplate of Carl Hertzog on front pastedown. First edition. $20.00 1465. GRAVES, John. Texas Heartland: A Hill Country Year. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975. 40 [2] 64 color photographic plates and frontispiece by Jim Bones, Jr. 4to, original brown cloth gilt. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise fine in d.j. (price-clipped, small tear, small area of insect damage). Author’s signed inscription and illustrator’s signature on half-title. $35.00 1466. GRAVIS, Rev. Peter W. Twenty-five Years on the Outside Row of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference...with an Introduction and Notes by T.R. Havens, Professor Emeritus of History, Howard Payne College, and James M. Day, Director of State Archives, Texas State Library. Brownwood: Cross Timbers Press, 1966. xiii [3] 67 [3] 69-145 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, facsimiles. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine in d.j. (lightly rubbed, spine sunned with tiny area of insect damage.). Signed by James M. Day on title page. Limited edition (1,000 copies). Facsimile reprint of 1892 edition of author’s autobiography with introduction and substantial notes by Havens and Day. $40.00
First edition. Herd 919. Not in CBC. $165.00 1468. GREEN, Paul. Texas: A Musical Romance of Panhandle History. N.p., 1970. [52] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic), ads. Folio, original yellow pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine aside from light wear to wraps, 2-page program sheet (creased) laid in. $15.00 1469. GREENE, A.C. A Personal Country. New York: Knopf, 1969. [12] 328 [6] pp., illustrations by Ancel Nunn. 8vo, original beige pictorial linen, top edge dyed red. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise near fine in very lightly worn d.j. Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. $15.00 1470. GREENE, A.C. A Personal Country. New York: Knopf, 1969. Another copy, not signed. Fine aside from small spot to top edge, in lightly worn d.j. Carl Hertzog’s bookplate on front pastedown. $10.00 1471. GREENE, A.C. The Highland Park Woman. Bryan: Shearer Publishing, 1983. [10] 195 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original white linen. Top edge lightly foxed, otherwise near fine in d.j. (lightly soiled, upper panel sunned) First edition. $10.00 1472. Gulf Coast Magazine III:1 (1907). Corpus Christi: Wm. Doherty, 1907. 107 [21] pp., illustrations, ads. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Tail of spine and bottom edge and corner of first few leaves chewed (not affecting text), wraps browned and edge-worn, stapled rusted, slight insect damage to final page. $50.00 1473. GUNTER, Pete. The Big Thicket: A Challenge for Conservation. Austin & New York: Jenkins; Riverside, Connecticut: Chatham Press, 1971 [copyright 1972 on title page verso]. xvii [1] 172 pp, numerous photographic illustrations by Roy Hamric, some full- and double-page. 4to, half green over olive cloth gilt. Fine in lightly worn d.j. Lengthy gift inscription from Senator Ralph Yarborough to Dudley R. Dobie, dated August 16, 1972, on half-title. First edition. $25.00 1474. HAAS, Oscar. A Chronological History of the Singers of German Songs in Texas. New Braunfels: Published by the author, 1948. 73 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original cream and gold textured wrappers printed in red and black, stapled. Fine aside from browning to text. Signed by author on half-title. First edition. Not in CBC. $35.00 1475. HADLOCK, Adah. My Life in the Southwest.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1969. xviii, [2] 113 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 12 plates. 8vo, original violet pictorial cloth. Very fine in d.j. (small chip and a few stains to lower panel). Signed by author and Carl Hertzog on half-title. First edition. Lowman 239. $30.00 1476. HADLOCK, Adah. My Life in the Southwest.... El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1969. Another copy, not signed. One leaf trimmed incorrectly (not affecting text), ink stamp of Texas Western Press on front pastedown, otherwise fine in slightly worn d.j. $20.00 1477. HAISLET, John A. (ed.). Famous Trees of Texas. N.p.: Texas Forest Service, 1970. vi, 193 [1, blank] pp., many full-page color photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 4to, original color photographic boards. Binding slightly rubbed and soiled, small mark to front cover, otherwise fine. First edition. $10.00 1478. HALEY, J. Evetts. Earl Vandale on the Trail of Texas Books. Canyon: Palo Duro Press, 1965. 44 [2] pp., frontispiece, facsimiles. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Very fine. First edition, limited edition (500 copies). Lowman 191. $200.00 1479. HALEY, J. Evetts. Men of Fiber. El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1963. 39 [1] pp., drawings by José Cisneros, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original plain purple wrappers, stapled. Fine in edge-worn d.j. with a few short tears to head of spine. Lowman 163, variant binding. Title page and colophon match the “Rawhide” edition of 700 copies, but this copy does not have the imitation rawhide binding. Biographical sketches originally published in The Shamrock by Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation. $35.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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