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First edition. CBC 267. Brewer 797. $45.00 109. FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT. WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION. AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES. Old Villita. San Antonio, 1939. 22 [2] pp., bird’s-eye view, illustrations. Folio, original white pictorial wrappers printed in green, glassine flyleaves, stapled. Wraps slightly worn and soiled, otherwise near fine. Second edition, limited edition (3000 copies). $25.00 110. FEHRENBACH, T. R. The San Antonio Story: A Pictorial and Entertaining Commentary on the Growth of San Antonio, Texas. Tulsa: Continental Heritage, 1978. 240 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs, some in color. 4to, original brown cloth gilt. Fine in sunned and water-stained d.j. $10.00 111. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SAN ANTONIO. San Antonio and Your First National Bank through the Years, 1866-1953 [wrapper title]. San Antonio: First National Bank of San Antonio, 1953. [38] pp., illustrations. Tall 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. CBC 445. $30.00 112. FORD, John S. Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836. San Antonio: Johnson Brothers, 1894. 33 [1, erratum] pp. 8vo, original black pictorial wrappers. Wraps badly worn and chipped, lower wrap detached, title page chipped and with ink stamp of Tejas Club library, text browned and brittle, overall poor condition. First edition. CBC 340 (gives date of 1895 and page count of 97). Cf. Raines p. 84. $50.00 113. FORD, John S. Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836. San Antonio: Johnson Brothers, 1894. Another copy, variant wrappers. 8vo, dark brown pictorial wrappers. Wraps badly worn and chipped, rodent damage to upper wrap and first few leaves, text browned and brittle with some chipping, overall poor condition. $50.00 114. FORD, John S. Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836. San Antonio: Johnson Brothers, 1895. 39 [1] pp., 6 plates (including frontispiece). 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers. Fragile wraps lightly worn and browned, a little dog-earing to edges of text block, else near fine. CBC 340. Rader 1427. Raines p. 84. $100.00 115. FORD, John S. Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836. San Antonio: Johnson Brothers, 1896. 39 [1] pp., 6 plates (including frontispiece). 8vo, original goldenrod pictorial wrappers. Fragile wraps lightly worn and browned, volume lightly creased, otherwise fine. Second printing of preceding item $75.00 116. FORD, John S. Origin and Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836. San Antonio: Johnson Brothers, 1900. [2] 39 [3] pp., 2 plates. 8vo, original salmon pictorial wrappers. Fragile wraps lightly worn and soiled with a few small chips and one short tear, small fragment of upper wrap adhered to title page, a few scattered fox marks to text, otherwise very good. TC 170, TLH, p. 5 (both referring to 1980 reprint). $50.00 117. GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS. Historical Data of San Antonio [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Texas Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, n.d. [16] pp. Narrow 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned and lightly worn, illegible ownership inscription on upper wrap, occasional underlining in ink to text, overall very good. Not in CBC. $15.00 118. GOULD, Stephen. The Alamo City Guide [caption title]. [New York: Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, ca. 1882]. [3] 4-142, [143]-151 (“San Antonio Advertisers’ Directory” and “Index”) [1, ads] pp. + 13 inserted leaves of ads (some colored and many illustrated) pp., numerous text engravings. [With prospectus]: The Alamo City Guide. San Antonio, Texas. Being a Historical Sketch of the Ancient City of the Alamo, and Business Review; with Notes of Present Advantages, together with a Complete Guide to All the Prominent Points of Interest about the City, and a Compilation of Facts of Value to Visitors and Residents. N.p., n.d. [New York: Appleton, 1882 (copyright on title verso dated 1882 with rights to Stephen Gould]. 4 pp. 2 items, 8vo, unbound. The prospectus is very fine. The book lacks the upper wrapper, frontispiece, and title page. Old tape repairs and reinforcements on p. [3] and spine. Recto of p. [3] browned and chipped at lower right (small loss of text). Otherwise, the interior is very fine. Newspaper clippings laid in and heavy contemporary revisions in ink. A unique survival of a book very rare in commerce. First edition of an early guide to San Antonio, preceded by Mooney & Morrison’s General Directory of the City of San Antonio (San Antonio, 1877) and Goff’s San Antonio and Its Environs (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1881). The author in his preface states: “He who writes the history of San Antonio writes the history of Texas, and although many writers have dealt with separate events, no one has yet presented a complete history of the city.” CBC 352 (calling for 142 pp. in error). By the mid-1800s San Antonio was called “The Alamo City,” when the enduring moniker began to appear in book titles. The book appears to be the author’s copy, copiously marked for revision, including such notes as instructions to rewrite certain sections, correct typos, cancel ads, etc. One note on p. 67 next to the wood-engraved text illustration of Wolfson & Co.’s Store states: “This cut is not straight.” Apparently, however, no other edition ever appeared. Thus, the corrections are revisions for a projected second edition and likely survive only in the present copy. The many text-engravings are almost all buildings and scenes. In at least one instance (p. 111, “Crockett Block”) the architect is identified in the image as Alfred Giles. On p. 28 is a full-page composite view of the missions done by Bushnell after the work of noted early Texas artist Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. The engravings are not noted in Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey in Engraved Prints of Texas, 1554-1900. Early military encounters during the Texas Revolution are covered, and the account of the battle of the Alamo is well reviewed, as would be expected. He states that Crockett survived the battle and was then executed. Todd Hansen in The Alamo Reader notes on p. 312-313 (1.10.2.6) that this work contains the first published record of Brigidio Guerrero, who claimed he was present at the battle of the Alamo and survived. “His story is that he was one of the soldiers under Colonel Travis, and continued to fight until the enemy had entered the enclosure. Seeing that further resistance was useless he entered the room in which were the women, and was concealed by them under some bedding, where he remained until night, and then made his escape. Although he has steadfastly maintained the truth of this story since 1843, his veracity is doubted by many of the early inhabitants. At any rate, the evidence he offered the court was so strong that he was placed on the pension list, and to the present writing has received aid from the State” (pp. 21-22 in Gould’s book). Much interesting and unusual information is found in this book. For instance, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink states that by the 1880s references to enchiladas were beginning to make their way into regional books across the Southwest and refers to Gould’s book as describing enchiladas as one of the dishes being served in the Alamo Plaza (p. 207). $750.00
Third printing. CBC 354 (referring to 1940 first edition). $10.00 121. HANDY, Mary Olivia. History of Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio: Naylor, 1951. vii, 111 [1, blank] pp., 10 plates. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth. Edges foxed, otherwise fine in lightly browned d.j. with split along upper joint. First edition. CBC 356. $50.00 122. HARRIS, Ethel Wilson. San José, “Queen of the Missions” [wrapper title]. San Antonio: International Printing, 1946. [34] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original yellow stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly worn with a few tiny spots, otherwise near fine. Fifth printing. CBC 359 (referring to 1942 first edition). $20.00 123. HEAVENHILL, W. S. Siege of the Alamo: A Mexico-Texan Tale [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Schultz & Schott, 1888. [2] 29 [1] pp. 12mo, original salmon pictorial wrappers. Spine lightly water stained, otherwise fine. First edition. Not in Raines. $50.00 124. HEUSINGER, Edward W. A Chronology of Events in San Antonio, Being a Concise History of the City Year by Year, from the Beginning of its Establishment to the End of the First Half of the Twentieth Century. San Antonio: Standard Printing, 1951. [8] 111 [1, blank] pp., map. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fine in water-stained and lightly soiled d.j. First edition. CBC 361. $25.00 125. Historical San Antonio [wrapper title]. San Antonio: Nic Tengg, n.d. (ca. 1930?). [12] folios, photogravures of San Antonio missions and other landmarks. Oblong large 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers tied with silk cord. Fragile wraps worn at edges, lightly browned and soiled, and with a few small spots and stains, light uniform age-toning to leaves, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $50.00 126. HORD’S HOTEL. Letterhead on ruled stationary. 1 sheet, 26.7 x 20.4 cm. Fine, with an illustration of the hotel in upper left-hand corner and with an August 17, 1879 letter written by Shelton Dowell, A G.W. Littlefield nephew, from the hotel in San Antonio, to “My Dear Lizzie,” which mentions a visit to San Pedro Springs: “the whole place was lined with Gentlemen, Ladies, and Children all of whom seemed to be having a very happy time, Our principal amusement was target shooting.” $40.00 127. HOUSE, Boyce. City of Flaming Adventure: The Chronicle of San Antonio. San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. [2] ix [1, blank] 214 pp., frontispiece, woodcut text illustrations, pictorial endpapers. 8vo, original green cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, otherwise fine in worn and water-stained d.j. Signed by author. First edition, “fiesta edition” with author’s signature on printed recto of frontispiece. CBC 368. Guns 1039. Herd 1074. TC 179 (referring to 1968 revised edition). $20.00 128. HOUSE, Boyce. City of Flaming Adventure.... San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. Another copy, recto of frontispiece blank and lacking author’s signature. Fine in d.j. (light insect damage). $15.00 129. HOUSE, Boyce. City of Flaming Adventure.... San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. Another copy, recto of frontispiece blank and lacking author’s signature, alternate binding. 8vo, original green and tan cloth. Binding lightly browned, a few small splits to upper hinge, otherwise near fine in torn and water-stained d.j. (fragment from upper panel laid into book). $15.00 130. ILG, Rev. John. San Jose, Queen of the Missions. San Antonio: {Artes Graficas for} Franciscan Fathers, 1937. 66 pp., photographic illustrations by H.L. Summerville. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. CBC 371 (showing publication date of 1940) $10.00 131. JAMES, Vinton Lee. Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio and West Texas. San Antonio: Artes Graficas for the author, 1938. 210 pp., 9 plates. 8vo, original textured red cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, a little foxing to edges and pages adjacent to plates, ink smudge on pp. 30-31, otherwise near fine. First edition. CBC 376. Guns 1157: “Rare.” Herd 1149. Much on Southwest Texas from San Antonio to Del Rio. Very scarce borderlands book. $325.00 132. JEFFRIES, C.C. Lights of the Alamo. Dallas: John E. Rosser, 1946. 21 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white wrappers with gilt Republic of Texas seal, stapled. Wrappers lightly rubbed and foxed, otherwise near fine. CBC 379 (referring to 1921 edition). $15.00 133. JOHNS, E.B. Camp Travis and its Part in the World War. New York: E.B. Johns, 1919. 337 [1, blank] pp., many photographic illustrations, ads. 4to, original olive pictorial cloth. Covers mildew stained, edges spotted, light water damage throughout text, fair condition only. Not in CBC. $10.00 134. KEMP, L.W. The Burial Place of the Alamo Heroes [caption title]. N.p., n.d. [13] folios. Folio, unbound stapled sheets. Creased where formerly folded, lightly browned, otherwise near fine. $20.00 135. LOCHBAUM, Jerry (ed.). Old San Antonio: History in Pictures. [San Antonio]: Express Publishing, 1965. 56 pp, many photographic illustrations. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Spine sunned, small stain to upper wrap, a little browning to last page, otherwise very good. TC 166. $25.00 136. LOCHBAUM, Jerry (ed.). Old San Antonio: History in Pictures. [San Antonio]: Express Publishing, 1968. 56 pp., 4 plates. 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine Later printing of previous item, with addition of two leaves of color plates. $25.00 137. LOMAX, Louise. San Antonio’s River. San Antonio: Naylor, 1948. ix [3, blank] 95 [1, blank] pp., 16 plates, inserted “fiesta edition” leaf. 8vo, original silver cloth. Light shelf wear to binding, edges foxed, otherwise fine in water-stained and lightly worn d.j. Signed by author. First edition, “Fiesta edition.” CBC 390. $50.00 138. LORD, Walter. A Time to Stand. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. 255 [1] pp., maps, 16 plates, endpapers with bird’s-eye view of the Alamo. 8vo, original black cloth, top edge dyed red. Fine in lightly-worn d.j. (a few small tears and chips). Signed by author on half-title. First edition. Not in CBC. TC 213 (1978 reprint). $30.00 139. MACKENSEN, Bernard. The Trees and Shrubs of San Antonio and Vicinity: A Handbook of the Woody Plants Growing Naturally In and About San Antonio. San Antonio: Published by the author, 1909. 51 [1] pp., 12 plates. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Light wear to fragile wraps, foxing to leaves near wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 394. $50.00 140. MADLEM, Wilma. San Jose Mission: Its Legends, Lore, and History. Story of “The Queen of Missions”. San Antonio: Naylor, 1934. [2] 22 pp., 4 plates. 12mo, blue cloth boards gilt over blue printed wrappers. Binding lightly rubbed and soiled, endpapers and text browned, ink ownership inscription of J.C. Ingram on front free endpaper, label of Harris County Historical Society on front pastedown, otherwise very good. Newspaper clipping on “Penitenties” practicing secret rites at San Jose Mission laid in. First edition. CBC 395. Rader 2329. $15.00 141. [MAP]. SOUTHWELL MAP COMPANY. City Map of Greater San Antonio with New City Limits Line. San Antonio: Southwell Map Co., n.d. Folding street map: Open: 71 x 53.2 cm.; Folded: 23.8 x 10.7 cm. Pamphlet printed in black on two sides: Recto with large street map of San Antonio, verso with index, illustrations of landmarks, and smaller business section map. Fine. $10.00 142. MATTOX, J.W. Fall of the Alamo [wrapper title]. Winnsboro, n.d. [4] pp., illustrated. 8vo, single folded sheet. Minor tears to edges, text foxed and browned, else good. $35.00 143. MAVERICK, Jane Maury. Mission San Jose, San Antonio, Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. [8] pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original cream printed self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling to wraps, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $20.00 144. MAVERICK, Mary A. The Fall of the Alamo [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. [8] pp., text illustrations. 8vo, original cream self-wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly browned with small split at head of spine, otherwise near fine. Not in CBC. $20.00 145. MAVERICK, Mary A. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, Arranged by Mary A. Maverick and Her Son, Geo. Madison Maverick, Edited by Rena Maverick Green. San Antonio: Alamo Printing, 1921. 136 pp., frontispiece, 15 plates. 8vo, original tan pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear, foxing, and soiling to wraps, lower wrap and last few leaves lightly creased, edges foxed, otherwise very good, interior fresh and bright. Signed by Rena Maverick Green on title page. First edition, first issue, line 5 on p. 63 ending “of the blacksmith shop” continuing p. 69, line 24, beginning “in the yard.” Adams, Herd 1460: “Gives the history of her husband’s experiences in his cattle venture, and the true origin of the term ‘maverick’ as applied to unbranded cattle.” BTB 140: “One of the most interesting and important narratives of life in Texas during the 1830s and 1840s.... The memoirs are engrossing and colorful.... Insights into the lives of famous Texans are numerous.” Campbell, p. 94. CBC 351. Dobie, pp. 57, 62: “Essential.” Eberstadt, Texas 162:529. Graff 2727. Howes M443: “First woman from the States to settle in San Antonio.” King, Women on the Cattle Trail, p. 17: “Good account of early days in the Austin and San Antonio area.” Tate, The Indians of Texas 2089: “Includes eyewitness account of the 1840 Council House Fight in San Antonio, description of the Tonkawas, and a ranger fight with Comanches.” Winegarten, Finder’s Guide to the Texas Women: A Celebration of History Exhibit Archives, p. 132; Texas Women’s History Project, p. 40. Handbook of Texas Online: Mary Ann Adams Maverick: Mary Maverick (1818-1898), pioneer and diarist, whose published memoirs chronicle her pioneer experiences in Texas, was born on March 16, 1818, in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, the daughter of William Lewis and Agatha Strother (Lewis) Adams. Adams was a lawyer. Mary grew up on the family plantation three miles north of Tuscaloosa, where she received schooling. On August 4, 1836, at her home, she married Samuel Augustus Maverick, who had participated in the Texas Revolution. After extended visits to relatives in Alabama and South Carolina, the couple moved to Texas at the beginning of 1838. The Mavericks searched for years for a permanent home along the unsettled Texas frontier. They located first in San Antonio, where Sam wished to spend his time speculating in West Texas land; then, during the Runaway of ‘42, an exodus of families from San Antonio at the news of approaching Mexican soldiers under Adrián Woll, they set up a home on the Colorado River near Gonzales. They moved to Decrows (Decros) Point on Matagorda Bay in 1844 and remained there until October 1847, when they returned to San Antonio. Most of Mary Maverick’s energies during these early years in Texas went into the raising of her family. She bore ten children in twenty-one years; four died of illness before they reached the age of eight, leading their mother to seek solace in the spiritualism and alternative medical treatment so popular in mid-nineteenth-century America. As her surviving children grew up, she became increasingly active in the public sphere. During the Civil War, when she had four sons in the Confederate Army, she was active in San Antonio relief efforts. She also devoted much of her time to church work. A devout Episcopalian, she was instrumental in establishing and developing St. Mark’s Church in San Antonio and served as president of the Ladies’ Parish Aid Society for over twenty years. After her husband’s death in 1870, as San Antonio grew and thrived, Mary Maverick made efforts to see that the pioneer past was not forgotten. She was a prominent member of the San Antonio Historical Society and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She helped promote the annual Battle of Flowers celebration, and she served as president of the Alamo Monument Association for many years, during which she kept before the public the need for restoration of the historic site. Her watercolor sketch of the mission, completed during her first residence in San Antonio, is often referred to by historians, and in 1889 she wrote a brief account of the fall of the Alamo. Mary had kept diaries of her frontier experiences, and in 1880 she shaped them into memoirs. Fifteen years later, with the help of her son George Madison Maverick, she published a limited number of copies. The memoirs have since been reprinted and provide a vivid picture of life on the Texas frontier. Mary Maverick’s work, particularly her eyewitness account of the Council House Fight in San Antonio in 1840, has often been cited in studies of Texas pioneer life. She died on February 24, 1898, and was buried beside her husband in City Cemetery No. 1, San Antonio. $75.00
Not in CBC. Small pamphlet describes National Youth Administration project to restore the original “little Spanish town” of San Antonio. $15.00 148. MAVERICK, Samuel Augustus. Notes on the Storming of Bexar in the Close of 1835, Written by Samuel Augustus Maverick, Who Spent Part of that Time in the Town of Bexar, Being Detained by the Mexicans; and Part, in Action Against the Mexicans. San Antonio: Artes Graficas for Frederick C. Chabot, [1942]. 30 [2] pp., 3 plates, map. Large 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Binding slightly warped with faded area on front cover, a bit of foxing to plates, otherwise very good. Signed by editor on title page. First edition, limited edition (#72 of 100 copies). Edited by Frederick C. Chabot. Not in CBC. $200.00 149. McLANE, Hiram H. The Capture of the Alamo: A Historical Tragedy, in Four Acts, with Prologue. San Antonio: San Antonio Printing, 1886. 103 [1, blank] pp., text illustrations. 12mo, original pictorial green cloth. Insect damage and shelf wear to binding, ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper, text block detached from binding, p. 31 soiled, overall poor condition. First edition. $65.00 150. MENCHACA, Antonio. Memoirs. San Antonio: Yanaguana Society, 1937. 31 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Spine a bit light with some water spotting, edges foxed, occasional browning of blank gutter (not affecting text), otherwise very good. First edition, limited edition (#120 of 500 copies). BTB 222:II. Not in CBC. TC 162. Yanaguana Society Publications volume 2. $60.00 151. MEYERS, L.F. San Antonio at a Glance. San Antonio: L.F. Meyers, 1895. [2] 32 [2] pp., photographic illustrations. Oblong 12mo, original blue pictorial boards gilt. Boards rubbed and a bit soiled, endpapers browned, text block detached, poor to fair condition only. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Not in CBC. Small promotional guide to San Antonio published by L.F. Meyers’ Mexican Art and Curiosity Store. $35.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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