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1101. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Throckmorton County, General Land Office, March, 1880. [below title, left of ornamental star] Copyright 1879, W.C. Walsh Commission of the General Land Office of the State of Texas [below title, right of ornamental star] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office, do hereby certify that this Map is a true and correct copy of the Original now in use in this Office compiled from official data [facsimile signature] W.C. Marsh Commissioner. [bottom right above neat line] Lithographed by August Gast & CoS New Process St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 58.8 x 46.4 cm; overall sheet size: 67.6 x 52.3 cm. Insect damage and scuffing to margins. $400.00 Titus County 1102. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Titus County. [lower left above neat line] Lithographed By A. Gast & Co’s New Process St. Louis. [lower center above neat line] I, Wm. C Walsh Commissioner of General Land Office State of Texas Certify this to be a true and correct copy of the map now in use in this office and compiled from official data. Austin Oct 1880 [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh [lower right above neat line] Copyright 1880. Wm. C Walsh Commr Genl Land Office State of Texas. St. Louis: Gast, 1880. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 55.2 x 34.4 cm; overall sheet size: 61.6 x 43.2 cm. Surface of map stained from adhesive used in mounting. $400.00
First edition, limited edition (400 copies). CBC 4301a. TC 1643. $135.00 1104. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 225. Titus County, September 18, 1893-December 15, 1938. San Antonio: State-wide Records Indexing and Inventory Program, 1942. [4] pp., 32 folios, map of Titus and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Wrappers slightly smudged and faded, else fine. CBC 4296. TC 1645. $15.00 Tom Green County 1105. FAULK, Odie B. “General Tom Green: A Fightin’ Texas” in San Angelo Standard-Times (Sunday, December 30, 1962). 23 pp., photographic illustrations, advertisements. Folio, unbound. Near fine. Special section of newspaper. $15.00 1106. HARDEMAN, Dorsey B. Dedication of Monument to General Tom Green, Courthouse Lawn-San Angelo, November 2, 1963. San Angelo: W.E. Blanton, 1963. [2] 10 pp., illustration of Tom Green. 8vo, original tan wrappers. Wrappers stained, else fine. $20.00 1107. GREGORY, J. N. Fort Concho: Its Why and Wherefore. San Angelo: Newsfoto Publishing, 1962. 39 [1, blank] pp., map, illustrations, 2 folding maps in pocket attached to lower wrapper. 8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wrappers, else fine. Second printing. CBC 4309. TC 1649. TLH, p. 72. $10.00 1108. HALEY, J. Evetts. Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier. San Angelo: [Carl Hertzog for the] San Angelo Standard-Times, 1952. [12] 352 pp., map, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers. 8vo, original rust cloth. Light wear, else fine in chipped and rubbed pictorial d.j. In slipcase, with special bookmark laid in. Signed by author. First edition, limited edition (#75 of 185 copies of the “San Angelo Edition.”). BTB 83A: “This is one of the best books about any of the vital string of federal forts established in West Texas to tame the frontier.” CBC 4310. Lowman 79. $425.00
First edition. $125.00 1110. THORNE, Ruth. San Angelo Marches On. N.p., 1940. 108 pp, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original dark green limp cloth. Cloth rubbed and discolored, endpapers foxed and starting to detach from binding, else good. First edition. CBC 4331. $40.00 1111. Visit Old Fort Concho and the Museum [wrapper title]. San Angelo, n.d. [8] pp., photographic illustration, map. 16mo, original white and grey pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good. $5.00 1112. We Believe in San Angelo: Health, Recreation, Opportunity [wrapper title]. San Angelo: San Angelo News, 1936. [14] pp., text and photographic illustrations, advertisements. 4to, original white and black wrappers, stapled. Wrapper and text creased and insect-damaged, else good. Not in CBC. $15.00 Travis County 1113. ADAIR, A. Garland. Austin: It’s Place Under Texas Skies. Austin: [Von Boeckmann-Jones for] Texas Information Service, 1946. 160 pp., photographic illustrations, advertisements. 8vo, original orange wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Spine tail torn, wrappers stained, text lightly browned, else good. Ink notation on title page: “No. 3–AGA”. CBC 4335. $20.00 1114. ADAIR, A. Garland. Austin: It’s Place Under Texas Skies. Austin: [Von Boeckmann-Jones for] Texas Information Service, 1946. Another copy, variant wrapper. 8vo, original burnt orange wrappers with photographic illustration, stapled. Wrappers shelf worn, text foxed, else good. $20.00 1115. ADAIR, A. Garland & E.H. Perry. Austin and Commodore Perry. Austin: [The Steck Co. for] Texas Heritage Foundation, Inc., 1956. xiv, 234 [6, index] pp., 29 photographic leaves (not in pagination). 8vo, original orange cloth. Minor shelf wear, light stains to endpapers, else fine in a chipped and rubbed d.j. First edition. CBC 4334. $20.00 1116. ADAIR, A. Garland. Texas Pictorial Handbook. Austin: Texas Heritage Foundation, 1957. 77-140 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original beige wrappers with photographic illustration. Wrappers foxed, library stamp on upper wrap, else very good. Souvenir publication featuring the history of the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, written by Elisabet Ney. $25.00 1117. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK. The American National Bank, Austin, Texas. Chicago: Charles A. Lawes, n.d (ca. 1910). [28] pp., 16 tipped-on photographic illustrations with glassine tissue guards. Small 4to, original tan pictorial wrappers, olive cord tie. Wrappers stained, internally near fine. Not in CBC. $100.00 1118. ANDREWS, Fanny M. Miss Fanny. Austin: Walter E. Long, 1964. 28pp., portrait of Fanny Andrews, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original off-white printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly browned at spine, uncut, internally fine. Signed by publisher. Not in CBC. $40.00 1119. AUSTIN BOARD OF TRADE (comp.). The Industrial Advantages of Austin, Texas, or Austin Up to Date. Austin: Akehurst, 1894. 91 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Upper wrapper stained, chipped and detached, fore-edges stained, text lightly browned. Good. CBC 4409. $75.00 1120. AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Austin in a Nutshell. Austin, 1942. 16 pp., map, text and photographic illustrations, charts. 8vo, original brown pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Staples rusted, wrappers lightly creased, text browned, else very good. CBC 4350. $30.00 1121. AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Progressive Austin. Austin: Baldwin & Sons, n.d. [20] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue gilt-stamped wrappers. Wrappers scuffed and worn, text brown with occasional staining, good. $50.00
1123. AUSTIN-TRAVIS COUNTY COLLECTION, AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY. Austin & Travis County: A Pictorial History, 1839-1939. Austin: [The Encino Press for] Friends of the Austin Public Library, 1975. [6] 160 pp., photographic illustrations. Oblong 4to, original brown cloth. Fine in shelf-worn pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1677. TLH, p. 73. $25.00 1124. BARKLEY, Mary Starr. History of Travis County and Austin, 1839-1899. Waco: Texian Press, 1963. vii [1, blank], 388 pp., 20 photographic plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Cloth rubbed, fore-edge foxed, else very good. First edition. CBC 4361 (mistakenly dated 1964). Guns 139. TC 1711. $65.00 1125. BROOKS, Mrs. V.L., Augusta Anderson & Dr. Frederick Eby. The First Baptist Church of Austin, Texas, 1847-1947. Organized July 1847, Robert Hay Taliaferro, Pastor. N.p., 1947. 76 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown gilt stiff wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly worn, gilt dull, slight insect damage to one corner (not affecting text), text with light uniform age-toning, otherwise good. $25.00 1126. BUSINESS MEN’S LEAGUE. Austin Souvenir [wrapper title]. Austin: Austin Printing, [1908]. 32 pp., photographic illustrations. Oblong 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers, rebound in half maroon cloth over tan boards. Very good. $100.00 1127. CARPENTER, EDNA TURLEY. Tales from the Manchaca Hills: The Unvarnished Memoirs of a Texas Gentlewoman, Mrs. Edna Turley Carpenter, as Edited and Recorded by Jane and Bill Hogan. New Orleans: Hauser, 1960. x, [6] 221 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 22 photographic plates, text illustrations. 8vo, original grey cloth. Corners bumped, tape residue on front free endpaper, text block crimped near lower spine, else good in chipped pictorial d.j. First edition. CBC 4406. TC 1746. $45.00 1128. CARVER, Virginia (comp.). A History of the Austin, Texas Post Office 1939-1965. Austin: Steck, n.d. 21 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original yellow wrappers. Near fine. TC 1707. $20.00 1129. CASTLE, Melissa A. Austin Through a Century [wrapper title]. Austin, 1939. 3-26 pp., maps, photographic and text illustrations. 12mo, original white printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers stained and worn, internally fine. CBC 4378. $40.00 1130. COLEMAN, James M. Aesculapius on the Colorado: The Story of Medical Practice in Travis County to 1899. Austin: [The Encino Press for] Friends of the Austin Public Library, 1971. [8] 122 pp., text illustrations. 8vo, half green cloth over green boards, printed paper label. Other than minor shelf wear, a fine copy. First edition. TC 1668. TLH, p. 73. $10.00 1131. COOK, Frank W. (publisher). State Employees’ Directory. Austin, Texas. Austin: Frank W. Cook, n.d. [16] pp., advertisements. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers browned and shelf-worn, text stained. $30.00 1132. DUNNING, Ruby (publisher). State Employees’ Directory. Austin, Texas. 1941. Austin: W.A. Whatley, 1941. 64 pp., advertisements. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Very good. $30.00 1133. FRANK, Abe. Souvenir of Austin Texas: Capitol of the Great Lone Star State [wrapper title]. Austin, n.d. [16] pp., colored illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good. Postcard-style illustrations of significant locales and buildings. $115.00 1134. GIDEON, Samuel E. Historic and Picturesque Austin. Austin: Steck, 1936. [2] 34 leaves, text illustrations. 4to, original tan pictorial stiff wrappers. Wrapper edges bumped and chipped, internally fine. CBC 4393. TC 1707. $100.00 1135. GIDEON, Samuel E. Landmarks in Austin Texas. N.p., 1925. 10 leaves, text illustrations. 4to, original tan printed stiff wrappers, brown silken cord. Light wear to wrappers, else very good. Rader 1581. $55.00 1136. GREENHILL, Sharon. Historic Austin: A Collection of Walking/Driving Tours. Austin: Heritage Society of Austin, 1981. 52 pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 12mo, original tan wrappers with photographic illustration. Very good. $15.00 1137. HANEY, Lewis H. & George S. Wehrwein. A Social and Economic Survey of Southern Travis County. Austin: University of Texas, 1916. [2] 149 [1, blank] pp., charts, 11 photographic plates. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers. Wrappers browned and chipped at tail, text browned, very good. CBC 4400. University of Texas Bulletin 65. $50.00 1138. HARPER, Perle Perkins. 1000 Facts and 100 Appreciations of Austin on Her 100th Birthday (1839-1939). Austin: Firm Foundation, 1939. [6] 78 pp. 12mo, original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers gently worn and discolored, internally very good with a few inked corrections to text. Signed by author. CBC 4402. $35.00 1139. HARRIS, Patricia Howard (comp.). An Austin Scrapbook of John F. Kennedy. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1964. [126] pp., facsimiles of newspaper articles, photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 4to, original red cloth binding. Very good in lightly rubbed pictorial d.j. $45.00 1140. HILL, S.B. Souvenir of Austin from Photographic Views [wrapper title]. Austin: Eugene Von Boeckmann, [1893]. [38] pp., 15 plates (included in pagination), map. Oblong 8vo, original off-white wrappers, rebound in half maroon cloth over tan boards. Very good. $125.00 1141. HOTEL GREETERS’ OF AMERICA CHARTER. Official Hotel Greeter’s Guide. Austin Texas, Vol. 11, No. 17 [wrapper title]. Austin: Cook Printing, 1946. 20 pp., photographic illustrations, map, advertisements. 12mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Very good. $25.00 1142. HOTEL GREETERS’ OF AMERICA CHARTER. Official Hotel Greeter’s Guide. Austin Texas, Vol. 11, No. 18 [wrapper title]. Austin: Cook Printing, 1946. 20 pp., photographic illustrations, map, advertisements. 12mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Very good. $25.00 1143. HOWARD, Will & Carol Howard (compilers). The Austin Almanac and Guide to Central Texas. Austin: Winter Wheat House, 1981. [6] 55 [27] pp., illustrations, calendar. 8vo, original salmon cloth. Very good aside from foxing to spine. 1982 edition. $15.00 1144. JOHNSON RUBBER COMPANY. Capitol Directory. Austin, Texas. Austin: Forum Printing, 1921. [12] pp., advertisements. 4to, original off-white printed self-wrappers, stapled. Fragile wrappers chipped and soiled, upper wrapper detached at lower staple, text foxed, else fair. A rare survival. $50.00 1145. LIVELY-HAMER, Marcelle. The Governor’s Mansion of Texas and Its Furnishings. Austin, 1937. [13] [3, blank] pp., photographic illustration. 8vo, original white wrappers with photographic illustration. Light foxing to wrapper, else near fine. $30.00 1146. LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. Austin, n.d. Folding pamphlet. Overall size: 23 x 60 cm; folded: 23 x 10.2 cm., photographic illustrations, map. Near fine. $10.00 1147. Official Directory and Illustrated Souvenir of the Texas Capitol, Austin, Texas. Austin: Ben C. Jones, n.d. 27 [5] pp., photographic illustrations, advertisements. 8vo, original yellow printed wrappers, staples. Wrappers sunned and chipped, else good. $75.00 1148. OWENS, James Mulkey (comp.). Travis County in Stone, Bronze and Aluminum. Austin: Texas State Historical Survey Committee, n.d. (ca. 1971). vii [1, blank], 126 pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown gilt-lettered cloth. Gilt faded, else near fine. Signed by compiler. TC 1750. $25.00 1149. SHEFELMAN & HARRIS (eds). Austin Community Renewal Program: Architectural Studies for the City of Austin, Texas. Austin: City of Austin Community Renewal Program, n.d. 252 pp., numerous photographic illustrations, text illustrations, maps. 4to, original off-white printed wrappers, spiral bound. Very good. $15.00 1150. SKAGGS, Wm. E. (ed.). Central Texas Business and Professional Directory. Austin: Centex, n.d. (ca. 1960s). 400 [1] [7, index] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original brown vinyl blind stamped. Spine and corners rubbed, lower hinge cracked, endpapers browned, text with occasional foxing, else good. $35.00
CBC 4460. $115.00 1152. SMITH, Henry Nash. The Controversy at the University of Texas, 1939-1945: A Documentary History. Austin: University of Texas Student Committee for Academic Freedom, 1945. 34 pp. 8vo, off-white printed self-wrappers. Gentle wear and light foxing, else very good. First edition. $30.00 1153. SMITH, Henry Nash, Horace Busby & Rex D. Hopper. The Controversy at the University of Texas, 1939-1946: A Documentary History. Austin: University of Texas Student Committee for Academic Freedom, 1946. 34 pp. 8vo, off-white printed self-wrappers. Gentle wear and light foxing, else very good. Third edition. $30.00 1154. SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY. Telephone Directory. Austin, Texas. Austin, 1926. 80 [4, ads] 1-12 pp., advertisements. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers, stapled. Staples rusted, wrappers well worn with multiple hand-written marks, lower front corner heavily bumped, else good. $45.00 1155. ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL. One Hundred Years [wrapper title]. Austin: Best Printing, n.d. [50] pp., photographic illustrations, some with glassine tissue guards. 4to, original blue velvet wrappers. Very good. $35.00 1156. SUMNER, Jane (comp.). Some Early Travis County, Texas Records. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1979. [12] 160 [29, index] pp. 8vo, original green gilt-lettered cloth. Other than minor shelf wear, a fine copy. $25.00
Not in CBC. $75.00 1158. TEMPLEMAN & REISSIG. Austin, Texas: The City of the Violet Crown. Austin: E.L. Steck, n.d. [94] pp., numerous photographic illustrations. Tall 8vo, original off-white wrappers with tipped-on photograph, string tie. Wrappers chipped and torn, text foxed. “Gammel’s” sticker on title page. Very good. $135.00 1159. The Daily Texan 31:163. Austin: University of Texas, April 11, 1930. Folio, seven sections. Heavily chipped and very brittle. Fair. $10.00 1160. TRAVIS COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION. One Hundredth Anniversary of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. N.p., 1940. [44] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cream wrappers with photographic illustrations, stapled. Fine. $25.00 1161. WRITER’S PROGRAM OF THE WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION IN THE STATE OF TEXAS (comp.). St. David’s Through the Years. Austin: St. David’s Episcopal Church, 1942. 94 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Shelf-worn, foxing to endpapers and title page, occasional spotting, else very good. CBC 4457. TC 1738. $25.00 1162. ZONING COMMISSION, CITY OF AUSTIN. Zoning Ordinance of the City of Austin, Texas. N.p., 1931. [4] 46 [2] a-g pp., errata slips attached throughout. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Shelf-worn, ink signature on upper wrapper, text browned, else very good. $25.00 Trinity County 1163. BOWLES, Flora G. A History of Trinity County Texas: 1827 to 1928. Groveton: Groveton Independent School, 1966. 152 pp., frontispiece portrait (included in pagination), photographic illustrations, folding panoramic photograph of Trinity County Lumber Company staff. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth. Spine rubbed, some foxing to cloth, endpapers foxed, page 123 set upside down, else good. First edition. Cf. CBC 4481 refers to master’s thesis by the same author, also titled A History of Trinity County, published in 1928. TC 1760. $55.00 1164. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 2285. Trinity County, Dec. 12, 1872-Dec. 13, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Project, 1941. [4] pp., 23 folios, map of Trinity and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Wrappers slightly smudged and faded, else fine. CBC 4486. TC 1762. $15.00 Tyler County 1165. ALAN SHIVERS MUSEUM. The Alan Shivers Museum, Woodville, Texas. N.p., n.d. Folding pamphlet. Overall size: 21.3 x 27.8 cm; folded: 21.3 x 9.3 cm., photographic illustrations, map. Very good. $5.00 1166. CALLAN, Austin. Reunion of the Crow School Held at Peach Tree Village, July 12th and 13th, 1929 [wrapper title]. N.p., 1929. 128 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Wrapper lightly worn overall and chipped at spine tail, else very good. $75.00 1167. TYLER COUNTY DOGWOOD FESTIVAL. It’s Dogwood Time in Tyler County. N.p., 1961. [105] pp., photographic illustrations, numerous advertisements. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers gently worn with label “Tyler County” affixed, text browned and lightly foxed, else good. $25.00
1168. BAIRD, G.H. A Brief History of Upshur County. [Gilmer]: Gilmer Mirror, 1946. 76 pp. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers sunned and lightly foxed, else near fine. First edition. CBC 4495. TC 1768. $45.00 1169. LOYD, Doyal T. A History of Upshur County, Texas. Gilmer: Gilmer Mirror, 1966. xiii, 136 pp., map, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Fine in sunned and lightly chipped pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1770. $50.00 Upton County 1170. EAGLETON, N. Ethie. On The Last Frontier: A History of Upton County, Texas. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1971. xiv, 125 [1, blank] pp., 24 photographic plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Very fine in fine pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1773. $50.00 1171. HENDERSON, Jeff (comp.). The Treasure Legends of Castle Gap [wrapper title]. Alpine: Mayo Cleveland, 1965. [6] 1-37 [1, blank], 38-39 [1] pp., photographic and text illustrations. 12mo, original gloss white wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by compiler. First edition. $25.00 Uvalde County 1172. BATES, Irene Hart. A History of Sabinal Christian College. N.p., n.d. 103 [1] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original light blue wrappers. Wrappers foxed, else very good. Cf. CBC 4508 (Master’s thesis). TC 1778. $15.00 1173. EL PROGRESO CLUB (publisher). A Proud Heritage: A History of Uvalde County, Texas. Uvalde: El Progreso Club, 1975. 496 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original maroon cloth. Fine. TC 1782. $125.00 1174. FENLEY, Florence. Oldtimers: Their Own Stories. Uvalde: Hornby Press, 1939. [8] 254 pp., frontispiece map, text and photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth. Other than minor shelf wear, a near fine copy in pictorial d.j. Inscription to Dudley Dobie from the author on front free endpaper. Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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