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| 1241. NORVELL, Estelle Mae (comp.). Students’ History of Williamson County. N.p., [1915]. 42 pp., photographic illustrations, map. 8vo, original buff printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly worn, text browned, else very good.
CBC 4821. $85.00 1242. SCARBROUGH, Clara Stearns. Land of Good Water, Takachue Pouetsu: A Williamson County, Texas, History. Georgetown: Williamson County Sun, 1980. xiii [1, blank], 530 pp., photographic and text illustrations, folding map laid in, endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth with design stamped on upper cover in brown, spine lettered in brown. Fore-edges spotted, else near fine in chipped and price-clipped d.j. Third (revised) edition. TC 1882. TLH, p. 79. $60.00 1243. TAYLOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. A Few Facts About Taylor. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1936). Folding double-sided pamphlet; overall: 23.8 x 20.4 cm; folded: 21.5 x 10.2 cm. Dog-eared, browned, else very good. $15.00 1244. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases Filed in Texas. No. 246. Williamson County, October 16, 1848-December 27, 1938. San Antonio: Texas State-wide Records Project, 1941. [6] 78 pp., map of Williamson and surrounding counties. 4to, original blue printed wrappers, black cloth back strip, stapled. Wrappers slightly smudged and faded, else very good. CBC 4815. $15.00 1245. The Emancipator 1:4. Georgetown: John C. Granbery and May C. Granbery, December 1938. 16 pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Foxed and browned, lightly chipped, creased twice where formerly folded, else good. $25.00
The Centennial Edition reviewing one hundred years of education at Southwestern University. Not in CBC. $25.00
Second edition. CBC 4852. Howes B3. Rader 223 $350.00 1253. CATES, Cliff D. Pioneer History of Wise County: From Red Men to Railroads-Twenty Years of Intrepid History. Saint Louis: Nixon-Jones, 1907. 471 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece plate of Henry A. Wise, photographic and text illustrations. 8vo, original buff wrappers. Lower wrapper absent, upper wrapper torn and missing portions, frontispiece with tear, spine with hand-written title, text browned. First edition. CBC 4854. Herd 431: “Rare.”. Howes C238. Rader 627. $200.00 1254. GREGG, Rosalie (comp.). Do You Know....About Wise County? Decauter: Messenger, n.d. [40] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly soiled and foxed, text foxed, else very good. $25.00
First edition. TC 1908. TLH, p. 80. $55.00 1256. TERRELL, C.V. The Terrells: Eighty-Five Years Texas from Indians to Atomic Bomb. Dallas: Wilkinson Printing, 1948. 336 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Gilt faded, cloth rubbed, fore-edges foxed else very good in a foxed and chipped d.j. with small tears and a photographic illustration. First edition. Not in CBC. Guns 2190: “Reminiscences of an old-timer.” Herd 2241. TC 1907. $35.00 Wood County 1257. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Wood Co. [below title] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land Office, do certify that above Map of Wood Co. is a true and correct copy of the Map now in us in this office compiled from official data [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh Commissioner [bottom left above neat line] Lithographed by Aug. Gast & CoS St. Louis New Process [bottom center above neat line] Copyright 1879. W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the Genl Land Office of the State of Texas. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 39 x 40.7 cm; overall sheet size: 45.5 x 46.6 cm. Mild spotting and paste stains. $400.00
CBC 4867. TC 1915. $15.00 Young County 1259. CROUCH, Carrie J. A History of Young County, Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1956. xiv, 326 pp., 15 photographic plates, brands, endpaper maps. 8vo, original white and burnt orange pictorial cloth. Light shelf-wear, else fine. First edition. CBC 4879. Herd 619. TC 1919. $90.00 1260. CROUCH, Carrie J. Young County: History and Biography. Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1937. [16] 339 [5] pp., frontispiece, 18 plates (mostly photographic), brands. 8vo, original red textured cloth gilt. Other than minor shelf-wear and light foxing to fore-edges, a fine copy. First edition. CBC 4880. Guns 517: “Tells the story of the Marlow brothers and their desperate fight with a mob.” Herd 620. Howes C926. $225.00 1261. FORT BELKNAP SOCIETY. A History of Fort Belknap: Outpost of the Texas Frontier [caption title]. Fort Belknap, 1962. Folding double-sided pamphlet with small printed two-color map, photographic illustrations, facsimile, and textual descriptions of this historical locale; overall: 22 x 13.6 cm; folded: 22 x 9.4 cm. Light wear. Fine. Includes mailing envelope addressed to Dudley Dobie. $10.00
1263. JONES, Lucille. History of Mineola, Texas: Gateway to the Pines. Quanah: Nortex, 1973. [6] 137 [1, map] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine. First edition. $20.00 1264. LEDBETTER, Barbara Neal. Civil War Days in Young County, Texas, 1861-1865 [wrapper title]. Newcastle: Self-published, 1965. [2] 19 [1] pp., author photograph. 8vo, original white wrappers, stapled. Fine. Not in CBC. $30.00 1265. LEDBETTER, Barbara Neal. The Fort Belknap of Yesterday and Today, 1851-1963. Newcastle, Texas: Self-published, 1963. [14] 93 [6, photographs on recto] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cream wrappers, stapled. Wrappers shelf-worn, staples rusted, interior fine. Signed by author on title page. Not in CBC. $40.00 1266. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Map of Young County [below title] General Land Office [bottom left 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 September 1st 1880. [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh [bottom center above neat line] Lithographed By A. Gast & Co’s New Process St. Louis [bottom right above neat line] Copyright 1879 Wm C Walsh Commissioner General Land Office State of Texas. St. Louis: Gast, 1880. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, neat line to neat line: 54.4 x 49.8 cm; overall sheet size: 59.4 x 53.6 cm. Staining from adhesive mounting map sheet to poster board, a few scattered spots, scratches, and areas of soiling. $400.00 1267. YOUNG COUNTY HISTORICAL SURVEY COMMITTEE. Graham Centennial History: 100 Years of Progress from Salt Works to Space Age, 1872-1972. Quanah & Wichita Falls: Nortex, 1972. [8] 86 pp., photographic illustrations, facsimile. 4to, original red pictorial cloth. Fine. First edition. TC 1918. TLH, p. 81. $35.00 Zapata County 1268. LOTT, Virgil N. & Mercurio Martinez. The Kingdom of Zapata. San Antonio: Naylor, 1953. xiii [1] 254 pp., frontispiece portrait of Henry Redmond, plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Other than light shelf-wear and foxing, a fine copy in a chipped and price-clipped pictorial d.j. First edition. CBC 4901. TC 1924. $65.00 Zavala County 1269. HOLDSWORTH, John B. The Birds of Zavala County (Texas). N.p., n.d. [4] 54 [12] pp., signed, plates, text and photographic illustrations. 8vo, original illustrated cream wrappers, stapled. Wrappers smudged, else near fine. Signed by author. $30.00 1270. HOLDSWORTH, Ernest. A History of Zavala County Under Spanish and Mexican Flags [caption title]. N.p., n.d. 20 pp. Legal size, mimeographed sheets, stapled at head. $45.00 1271. [MAP]. TEXAS. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Zavalla County [left below title] I, W.C. Walsh, Commissioner of the General Land [sic], do hereby certify, that this Map of Zavalla County is a true and correct [sic] of the Original Map now in use in this Office compiled from official data. [facsimile signature] W.C. Walsh Commissioner. [right below title] Copyright 1879, W.C. Walsh Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas. [lower right] Lithographed by August Gast & Cos New Process. St. Louis. St. Louis: Gast, 1879. Uncolored lithograph map mounted on poster board, overall sheet size: 53.4 x 67.4 cm. Map sheet with multiple large tears, chips, and tape stains, browned and soiled, and with notations in pencil. $275.00 1272. ZAVALA COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. Now and Then in Zavala County. [Shelton Press for] Zavala County Historical Commission, 1986. v [1] 439 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 4to, original maroon cloth gilt. Fine. First edition. $65.00 Texas General 1273. AARTS, Dorothy. Ghost Towns of the Republic of Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., 1939. 22 pp. 8vo, original white printed wrappers, stapled. Fair condition only: wraps and text water-stained, p. 22 adhered to lower wrap. Embossed seal of Sons of the Republic of Texas on upper wrap. First edition. CBC 4921. James Monroe Hill Texas History Essay Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1939. $20.00 1274. ABERNETHY, Francis E. (ed.). Tales from the Big Thicket. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1966. 244 pp., many photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, top edge dyed pink. Fine in d.j. (light insect damage, spine sunned). First edition. $10.00 1275. ADAMS, C.F. Forty Years a Fool: Facts, Figures, and Fun. Sonora, Texas: Published by the author, 1914. [2] 100 pp., frontispiece portrait, illustrations by Ruskin Callan. 12mo, original pink printed wrappers. Spine chipped and fragile with cellotape repairs, wraps browned and worn, internally fine. First edition. Rader 40. $35.00 1276. AIKMAN, Duncan (ed.). The Taming of the Frontier...by Ten Authors. New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1925. xv [1, blank], 319 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 9 plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Light shelf wear, 6 cm stain on back cover, small chip to blank margin of frontispiece, otherwise very good. First edition. Guns 20: “One chapter tells the story of El Paso, Texas in its six-gun days.” Herd 21. Rader 65. Includes chapters on El Paso by Owen White, and San Antonio by Dora Neill Raymond. $15.00 1277. ALEXANDER, Frances. Orphans on the Guadalupe. Quanah & Wichita Falls: Nortex, 1971. [8] 88 pp., drawings by Lucille Alexander. 8vo, original brick red cloth. Fine in d.j. (lightly worn, spine sunned). First edition. $25.00 1278. ALLEN, Ruth A. East Texas Lumber Workers: An Economic and Social Picture, 1870-1950. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. x, 239 [1, blank] pp., folding map, 12 plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine, in lightly worn price-clipped d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. $25.00 1279. ALLHANDS, J[ames] L. Boll Weevil: Recollections of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway. Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1946. [14] 279 [1, blank], [8] 1-12 [1] 15-16 [4] 1-18 [1] 2-3 pp., frontispiece, 12 plates, facsimiles, endpaper maps. 8vo original orange pictorial cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, edges and endpapers foxed, otherwise near fine in lightly worn and soiled d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. $125.00 1280. ALLHANDS, James L. Looking Back over 98 Years: The Autobiography of James L. Allhands. Malibu: Pepperdine University, 1978. ix [1, blank], 382 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original maroon cloth gilt. Small dents to bottom edge of binding, otherwise near fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. $125.00 1281. ALLHANDS, J[ames] L. Railroads to the Rio. Salado: Anson Jones Press, 1960. 213 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, maps, facsimiles, photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. A little foxing to top edge and endpapers, otherwise fine. Signed by author and dated 1960 on front flyleaf. First edition, limited edition (1,000 copies). Not in CBC. $100.00 1282. ALLHANDS, J[ames] L. Uriah Lott. San Antonio: Naylor, 1949. xiii, 187 [1, blank] pp., 2 folding maps, 8 plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Edges and endpapers foxed, otherwise very good in d.j. (light wear, a little foxing). First edition. Not in CBC. $45.00 1283. ALMON, Millard H. The Five States of Texas. Dallas: Five States of Texas, Inc., 1961. 624 pp., maps, 80 plates. 8vo, original white pictorial cloth. Binding browned and lightly soiled, top edge foxed, otherwise very good. First edition. Not in CBC. $10.00 1284. ANDERSON, Jan H.S. (ed.). Texas in Pictures [wrapper title]. Austin: Texas in Pictures Co., n.d. (ca. 1940s). [56] pp., many photographic illustrations. Small 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good aside from light wear to wraps. Not in CBC. $25.00 1285. ANDERSON, T.J. & Jos. Hellen. Along the Rio Grande: Scenes on the Line of the Southern Pacific-Sunset Route in West Texas. N.p.: Southern Pacific-Sunset Route, n.d. 47 [1, ad.] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). Oblong 8vo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Aside from slight wear to spine and small tear to lower wrap, near fine. $100.00 1286. ARMBRUSTER, Henry C. The Torreys of Texas: A Biographical Sketch. Buda: Citizen Press, 1968. 88 pp., illustrations by Connie Armbruster, illustrated endpapers by Carol Rogers. 8vo, original pictorial brown cloth gilt. Very fine. First edition. $35.00 1287. ARMES, George A. Ups and Downs of an Army Officer. Washington, 1900. xix [1, blank], 784 pp., frontispiece, facsimiles, illustrations. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth stamped in silver and blind. Binding moderately shelf-worn, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Graff 86. Howes A316. Rader 171. $250.00 1288. ARTHUR, Stanley Clisby. Jean Laffite, Gentleman Rover. New Orleans: Harmanson, 1952. [8] 282 [8] pp., frontispiece, 1 plate, facsimiles, endpaper maps. 8vo, original stiff beige pictorial wrappers printed in red and black. Light wear to wraps, edges foxed, otherwise very good. First edition. Not in CBC. $20.00 1289. ASHLEY, Carlos. These Texas Hills. N.p., 1941. [8] 21 pp., illustration. 12mo, original red velvet wrappers lettered in gilt, stapled. Gilt dull, one corner lightly bumped, else fine, with printed paper band. First edition. $35.00 1290. ATEN, Ira. Six and One-half Years in the Ranger Service: The Memoirs of Ira Aten, Sergeant, Company D, Texas Rangers. Bandera: Frontier Times, 1945. [2] 64 pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original grey pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and foxed, text browned, otherwise very good. First edition thus. Guns 91: “A separate reprint of a series which ran in the Frontier Times.” Herd 179: “Scarce.” $125.00 1291. BAKER, Elma W. The Rugged Trail: Where the Cowards Never Started and the Weak Died along the Trail. Volume III. Dallas: Metcalf Printing, 1973. [12] 381 [1, blank] [12] pp., photographic illustrations. 4to, original brown cloth gilt. Light shelf wear to binding, corners bumped, one page dog-eared, otherwise very good. Signed and dated 1973 by author on front flyleaf. $85.00 1292. BAKER, William M. The Life and Labours of the Rev. Daniel Baker, D.D., Pastor and Evangelist. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1858. 560 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Extremities of spine worn, some discoloration and staining to binding, occasional foxing to text, otherwise good. $35.00 1293. BANTA, William & J.W. Caldwell, Jr. Twenty-seven Years on the Texas Frontier...Re-written from an Original Copy, and Revised by L.G. Park. Council Hill, Oklahoma: L.G. Park, 1933. [10] 224 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait. 12mo, original orange printed wrappers. Wraps slightly worn, spine a bit light, else fine. Originally published in 1893. Not in CBC. Howes B109 (1893 ed.) $60.00 1294. BARKER, Eugene C[ampbell]. The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836: A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People. Nashville & Dallas: Cokesbury Press, 1925. xv [1, blank], 551 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original blue boards with white spine and corners, spine label ruled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise very good, unopened, in chipped, foxed, and soiled d.j. with price on spine partially effaced. Signed by author on limitation page. First edition, limited edition (#47 of 250 copies signed by the author). BTB 7B: “This is the most praised of all Texas biographies.” Howes B137. Rader 259. $275.00
First edition. Introduction by Leon Hale, Foreword by Ann Holmes. $20.00 1296. BARR, Amelia E. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography; The Red Leaves of a Human Heart. New York: D. Appleton, 1913. vii [5] 527 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt and decorated in blind, t.e.g. Binding lightly rubbed, gilt dull, title page lightly browned, otherwise very good, pp. 525-[528] unopened. First edition. $25.00 1297. BARRON, Hal (ed.). ...And Celia Was Her Name. Lubbock: Boone Publications, 1970. 64 [2] pp., many photographic illustrations (some in color). 4to, original color photographic wrappers. Fine. First edition. $20.00 1298. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. 800 Texas Ghost Towns. Fort Davis: Frontier Book Publishers, 1971. 105 pp. (pagination includes lower wrap), folding map laid in. 8vo, original blue pictorial wrappers. A little browning and slight wear to wraps, former owners ink stamp inside upper wrap, title page partially detached, otherwise very good. Signed by author on title page. First edition. $35.00 1299. BARTHOLOMEW, Ed. The Encyclopedia of Texas Ghost Towns. Fort Davis, 1982. 112 pp. 8vo, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Spine a bit light and slightly askew, a few notes in ink inside upper wrap, otherwise very good. First edition. TLH, p. 86: “Lists over 1,750 ghost sites in Texas.” $40.00 1300. [BASS, SAM]. Life and Adventures of Sam Bass, the Notorious Union Pacific and Texas Train Robber Together with a Graphic Account of His Capture and Death-Sketch of the Members of His Band, with Thrilling Pen Pictures of Their Many Bold and Desperate Deeds.... Dallas: Dallas Commercial Steam Print, 1878 [actually Austin: John A. Norris, ca. 1905]. 89 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Fine. Second edition. The rare first edition was published in Dallas in 1878 with 110 pages (Adams knew of only two copies of the 1878 edition; see Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books, p. 14). Adams, One-Fifty 5n. Guns 162n: “Exceedingly rare.... Said to have been written by a Dallas newspaper reporter named Morrison.” Howes B227. Bass (1851-78) began his slide down the slippery slope of outlawry in 1876 when he and Joel Collins gathered up a herd of cattle of questionable title which they drove to northern Kansas. The author discusses how Bass, in habits and attire, typified cowboys of the period. $45.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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