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1480. HALEY, J. Evetts. Men of Fiber. El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1963. Another copy, variant binding. 8vo, plain white wrappers with maroon cloth back strip, sewn. Very fine. This copy has “Rawhide Edition” title page and colophon, but lacks imitation rawhide binding. $30.00 1481. HALEY, J. Evetts. The XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. xiv, 258 pp., folding map, 32 plates. 8vo, original green cloth, top edge dyed grey. Fine in lightly rubbed d.j. Revised edition (originally published Chicago, 1929). BTB 82A: “Haley’s first book, this is nevertheless one of the best examples of his scholarship.” CBC 121a, plus additional entries. Graff 1718 (1929 ed.). Guns 894n. Herd 969n. Howes H39n. Rader 1371 (1929 ed.). TC 2056 (1929 ed.), 2057 (1978 reprint). TLH, p. 90. $135.00 1482. HALLENBECK, Cleve. The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza. Dallas: University Press, 1949. [14] 115 [3] pp., calligraphic title page, map, illustrations, and initials by José Cisneros. 4to, original brown cloth gilt-lettered and decorated. Gilt slightly dull, a little darkening to joints, endpapers browned, otherwise near fine, unopened, in d.j. (lightly worn, one small tear). Invoice for this book from University Press to J. Frank Dobie laid in. First edition. $95.00 1483. HALLENBECK, Cleve. Spanish Missions of the Old Southwest, with 119 Half-tone and 11 Line Illustrations. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926. viii, [2] 184 [2] pp., maps, illustrations, many photographic plates. 4to, original three-quarter blue cloth over violet boards, printed paper spine label, t.e.g. Binding shelf-worn and sunned with a few tiny stains and light soiling, light foxing to edges, frontispiece, title page, first plate and facing blank page foxed, text block cracked (but holding) at beginning of section of plates, overall good. First edition. CBC 4969. $40.00 1484. HARDINGE, Sarah Ann Lillie. Views of Texas, 1852-1856: Watercolors by Sarah Ann Lillie Hardinge, Together with a Journal of Her Departure from Texas, with an Introduction and Captions by Ron Tyler. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1988. 76 pp, many full-page color illustrations. Oblong 4to, original white wrappers printed in color. Fine. First edition. $25.00 1485. HARLAND, Frank R. The Rose of Sharon. El Paso: Texas Western College Press, 1960. 21 [3] pp., illustrated title. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. First edition. Lowman 123. Designed by Carl Hertzog. $20.00 1486. HARVEY, J. Edwin. Portrait of Beulah [wrapper title]. San Benito: Published by the author, 1967.[24] pp., map, many photographic illustrations. 4to, original beige pictorial wrappers, stapled. Near fine. First edition. $20.00 1487. HATHCOCK, Louise. Legends of East Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1957. xiii [1, blank], 156 pp., illustrations by Walter A. McKinney. 8vo, original tan pictorial cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed price-clipped d.j. First edition. $40.00 1488. HAWKINS, Wallace. The Case of John C. Watrous, United States Judge for Texas: A Political Story of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Dallas: University Press, 1950. ix [1, blank], 109 [1, colophon] pp., folding facsimiles, illustrations. 8vo, original tan cloth decorated in gilt. Very fine in d.j. First edition, limited edition (1200 copies). Lowman 68. Designed by Carl Hertzog. $10.00 1489. HAWLEY, C.A. Life Along the Border: A Personal Narrative of Events and Experiences Along the Mexican Border Between 1905 and 1913. Ephrata, Washington, 1955. 165 [1, blank] pp., photographic portrait. 12mo, original grey cloth gilt. Slight shelf wear to binding, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise fine. Signed by author on front pastedown. First edition. $60.00 1490. [HAYS, JACK]. Jack Hays: The Intrepid Texas Ranger [wrapper title]. Bandera: Frontier Times, n.d. 63 [1, blank] pp., illustrations. 4to, original blue printed wrappers. Spine with multiple chips and splits, wraps browned and with a few stains, top right corner of upper wrap and first few leaves chewed, text browned due to poor-quality paper used, water staining to bottom blank margin, a few leaves dog-eared, fair condition only. $75.00 1491. HELLEN, Jos. East-Southeast Texas on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. Houston: Cumming & Sons, Printers, n.d. 124 [4, ads] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white wrappers printed in color. Spine worn and chipped, wraps with mildew spots and slight insect damage, internally clean and fresh. Not in CBC. $65.00 1492. HENLEY, Dempsie. The Big Thicket Story. Waco: Texian Press, 1967. xiii [1, blank], 274 pp., facsimiles, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Fine aside from a few tiny fox-marks to edges, in d.j. (lightly rubbed, spine sunned, tiny tear to head of spine, a little foxing to flaps). Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. $15.00 1493. HENSELL, John (comp.). Chronicles of a Germany Family, or Heiners of Germany, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Texas. Houston, n.d. 72 pp., map, facsimile, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers gilt, stapled. Spine rubbed, gilt dull, wraps darkened at margins with a few stains, title and last page lightly foxed, otherwise good. $30.00 1494. HIGHLAND LAKES TOURIST ASSOCIATION. Top Spot for Fun: Highland Lakes in Central Texas. Austin, n.d. [16] pp., maps, photographs, ads. Small 4to, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled and folded in half vertically. Fine. Colorful promotional pamphlet. $10.00 1495. HILL, Kate Adele. Home Builders of West Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1938. xviii, [2, blank] 108 pp., photographic illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original green cloth. Binding lightly shelf-worn, top edge foxed, otherwise very good. First edition, second printing. CBC 4973. Herd 1037. $15.00 1496. HITTSON, Jack Homer, Sr. The Brazos Broncbuster’s Scrapbook. Mineral Wells: Brazos Books, 1971. 191 [1] pp., 2 photographic illustrations. 12mo, original blue pictorial wrappers. Spine sunned, wraps lightly rubbed and with a few spots, title page lightly browned, overall very good. Signed by author on title page. First separate edition. Reprints articles originally appearing in the Palo Pinto County Advance between 1969 and 1971. $30.00 1497. HOBBS, Richard Gear. Glamor Valley: Down in Texas on the Rio Grande. San Benito: Cameron County News & Farm Journal, n.d. 96 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed and with a few tiny spots, faint oval impressions in upper wrap, top edge foxed, overall very good, internally very fine. First edition. $10.00 1498. HOGAN, Warren L. (ed. & comp.). Hurricane Carla: A Tribute to the News Media: Newspaper, Radio, Television. Houston: Leaman-Hogan, 1961. 192 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Binding lightly shelf-worn, endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise very good in price-clipped d.j. (lightly rubbed and soiled, a few scratches). First edition. $20.00 1499. HOGAN, Warren L. (ed. & comp.). Hurricane Carla.... Houston: Leaman-Hogan, 1961. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original red pictorial wrappers. Spine sunned, wraps lightly rubbed and soiled, a little foxing to edges, inside wrappers, and adjacent pages, lower hinge cracked (but holding), overall good condition. First edition. $10.00 1500. HOGNER, Dorothy Childs. South to Padre. Boston & New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1936. 232 pp., frontispiece, full-page text illustrations, and illustrated endpapers by Nils Hogner. 8vo, original orange cloth. A bit of shelf wear to extremities of spine, edges foxed, otherwise very good in d.j. (lightly browned and worn, one tiny tear). First edition. $15.00 1501. HOLDEN, William Curry. A Ranching Saga: The Lives of William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1976. [12] 289 [1, blank] + [8] 291-568 [2] pp., illustrations, frontispiece, and endpapers by José Cisneros. 2 vols., small 4to, original grey cloth. Spines sunned, otherwise near fine in publisher’s slipcase with printed paper label (sunned). Carl Hertzog’s printed bookplates on front pastedowns. First edition. $200.00 1502. HOLWORTHY, Sister Mary Xavier. Diamonds for the King. N.p., 1945. ix [3] 129 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt. Binding lightly rubbed, gilt discolored, endpapers lightly browned, first and last few leaves abraded where formerly stuck together, overall good condition. First edition. $25.00 1503. HORLACHER, James Levi. A Year in the Oil Fields. Lexington, Kentucky: Press of the Kentucky Kernel, 1929. 68 pp. 12mo, original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. $75.00 1504. HOUSE, Boyce. Oil Boom: The Story of Spindletop, Burkburnett, Mexia, Smackover, Desdemona, and Ranger. Caldwell, Ohio: Caxton Printers, 1941. 194 pp., frontispiece, illustrated title page, 34 plates. 8vo, original black cloth gilt. Gilt turning green, top edge foxed, a little foxing opposite plates, otherwise very good, accompanied by dust jacket (chipped, in 3 pieces). First edition. CBC 1465. $60.00 1505. HOWARD, Rex Z. Howard King’s [pseud.] Texas Tourist Travel Guide; Tex-A-Tour; Interesting Attractions in Texas; What to See [wrapper title]. Grand Prairie: Lo-Ray Co., 1948. 138 [6] pp., maps, photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and blue. Edges foxed, foxing to inside of wrappers and adjacent pages, and a few interior pages. First edition. $20.00 1506. HOWARD, Rex Z. Texas Guidebook: Authentic Information about the Wonders of Texas. Grand Prairie: The Lo-Ray Co., 1954. [2] 324, 400-408 [9] pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, gilt a bit dull, text lightly age-toned, overall very good. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Ink stamp on p. 324: “Notice: Latest copies of TEXAS GUIDEBOOK omit advertising pages 324 to 400.” Second edition, “Special Library Copy.” $25.00 1507. HOWARD, Rex Z. Texas Guidebook: Authentic Information about the Wonders of Texas. Grand Prairie: The Lo-Ray Co., 1954. [2] 324, 400-408 [9] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown and green. Fine. Second edition. $20.00 1508. HOWARD, Rex Z. Texas Guidebook.... Grand Prairie, The Lo-Ray Co., 1962. [4] 356 [10] pp., map, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers printed in green and brown. Fine aside from a little browning to wrappers and a very few scattered fox-marks to text. Fourth edition, “Special Library Copy.” $15.00 1509. HOWARD, Rex Z. Texas Guidebook.... Amarillo: F.M. McCarty Company, 1970. [4] 306 [8] pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original white wrappers printed in color. Wraps lightly rubbed, with a little foxing, tiny abrasion to upper wrap, edges and pages adjacent to wraps foxed, overall very good. Fifth edition. Edited my F.M. McCarty. $10.00 1510. HOXIE, H.M. & Allen McCoy. Homes in Texas on the Line of the International & Great Northern R.R. 1880-’81. International (Lone Star) Route. Buffalo: Printing House of Matthews Bros. & Bryant for International & Great Northern R.R., 1880. 135 [1, blank] pp., large folding map, illustrations. 8vo, original green pictorial wrappers. Upper wrap detached and with tape repair, lower wrap heavily spotted, insect damage to lower wrap and last few pages, title page with offsetting from map, text age-toned, musty odor. $750.00 1511. HUBBARD, Louis H. Recollections of a Texas Educator. Salado, 1964. [14] 285 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Binding sunned and with light scratches on lower cover, otherwise very good. Signed by author on blank leaf opposite frontispiece. First edition, limited edition (#518 of 1000 numbered and signed copies). $15.00 1512. HUBBS, Barney (comp.). Robert Clay Allison: Gentleman Gunfighter, 1840-1887. Pecos: West of the Pecos Museum, 1966. [40] pp., illustrations (mostly photographic, some full-page). Small 4to, original yellow pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by compiler on title page and dated 10-8-66. First edition. Guns 1058: “A short but fairly well-done biography of Clay Allison with some previously unpublished photographs and plates.” $35.00 1513. HUDGINS, Charles D. The Maid of San Jacinto, The Bride of the Orient, and Other Poems. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1900. [5] 12-134 pp. 12mo, original red pictorial cloth stamped in black and silver. Binding moderately rubbed, soiled, and with a few small spots and stains, previous owner’s ink stamp on front free endpaper, text lightly age-toned with a few smudges, overall very good. $55.00
First edition. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society number XXXVI. $15.00 1515. HUGHES, Alton. Pecos: A History of the Pioneer West. Seagraves: Pioneer Book Publishers, 1978. vi, 401 [1, blank] pp., maps, photographs. 4to, original blue pictorial cloth. Spine a bit light, a little shelf wear and foxing to covers, top edge foxed, otherwise very good. First edition. $85.00 1516. HUGHS, Fannie May Barbee. Legends of Texas Rivers and Sagas of the Lone Star State: An Historical Interpretation of the Folklore together with the Part Played by the Old Landmarks in Modern Industrial Development. Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937. xvi, 252 pp., frontispiece map, illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Light shelf wear, joints foxed, gilt dull, otherwise very good in d.j. (browned, lightly soiled, slight insect damage). First edition. $75.00 1517. HUNT, Richard S. & Jesse F. Randel. Guide to the Republic of Texas: Consisting of a Brief Outline of the History of its Settlement.... New York: J.H. Colton, 1839. 63 [1] [1, ads] [1, blank] pp. 12mo, original green cloth gilt-lettered and decorated in blind. Binding rubbed, a few spots to fore-edge, lower free endpaper torn, endpapers and text foxed, upper hinge cracked, text block cracked between signatures 1 and 2. Map absent. First printing. Graff 2017. Howes H809. Rader 1980. Raines, p. 122. Streeter 1348: “The first general guide to Texas...it must have been a useful book for intending settlers, and its contemporary account of existing conditions makes it a valuable book now.” $875.00 1518. HUNTER, Gladys Nevins. Discord, Texas on Camp Creek and Other Stories. N.p., n.d. 94 pp., map, illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original red cloth gilt. Binding slightly shelf-worn, old price in ink on front free endpaper, otherwise fine. Signed and dated 1976 on front free endpaper by author. Related news clipping laid in. $35.00 1519. HUNTER, J[ohn] Marvin, Sr. Peregrinations of a Pioneer Printer: An Autobiography. Grand Prairie: Frontier Times Publishing House, 1954. [4] 244 [6] pp., errata slip laid in. 8vo, original pictorial blue cloth gilt. Spine sunned, gilt dull, text browned, otherwise very good. Signed by author on label attached to front free endpaper. First edition, limited edition (one of the first 300 copies printed and signed by author). Guns 1082: “Makes some mention of Scott Cooley, Thurman Skeeter Baldwin, John Wesley Hardin, George Scarborough, and Jeff Ake.” $55.00 1520. HUNTER, John Warren. Adventures of a Mier Prisoner: Being the Thrilling Experiences of John Rufus Alexander, Who Was with the Ill-fated Expedition which Invaded Mexico [wrapper title] Bandera: Frontier Times, 1912. [14] pp. 4to, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned and lightly worn, margins of upper wrap foxed, oval impressions in lower wrap, text browned due to poor-quality paper stock, otherwise good. $75.00 1521. HUNTER, Lillie Mae. The Book of Years: A History of Dallam and Hartley Counties. Hereford: Pioneer Book Publishers, 1969. x, 206 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 4to, original gold pictorial cloth. Fine aside from a little browning to endpapers. First edition. $80.00 1522. HUTCHISON, Rev. J.R. Reminiscences, Sketches, and Addresses Selected from My Papers during a Ministry of Forty-Five Years in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Houston: E.H. Cushing, 1874. 262 pp. 12mo, original maroon cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Moderate shelf-wear and insect damage to binding, hinges starting, overall good, interior clean. Second issue, enlarged. Graff 2033. Howes H856. $85.00 1523. INGLIS, Jack M. A History of Vegetation on the Rio Grande Plain. Austin: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1964. [3] 122 [1, blank] pp., maps (including 3 folding maps in rear pocket), illustrations.8vo, original brown pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear to wrappers, wraps tearing free from bottom staple, overall very good. First edition. $20.00 1524. INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. Seventy-five Years of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas. Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations 1893-1858 and Publications of Latin American Interest 1941-1958. Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, n.d.. 67 [1, blank] pp., facsimiles (frontispiece and title page verso). 8vo, original white pictorial wrappers printed in green. Small stain to upper wrap and first few leaves (not affecting text), bottom right corner lightly creased, overall very good. $25.00 1525. ISCOE, Louise Kosches. Ima Hogg, First Lady of Texas: Reminiscences and Recollections of Family and Friends. N.p.: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1976. [4] 47 [3] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. Oblong 8vo, half green cloth over green boards with printed paper label on front cover. Slight shelf wear, a few fox-marks to cover label, a little adhesive residue on bottom edge and associated small abrasions to blank margin of last few leaves and lower endpapers, overall very good. First edition. $10.00 1526. JARRAT, Rie. Gutiérrez de Lara, Mexican Texan: The Story of a Creole Hero. Austin: Creole Texana, 1949. xii, 67 [1, colophon with Carl Hertzog’s device] pp., frontispiece, map, illustrations by José Cisneros and Van Dorn Hooker, Jr. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Endpapers foxed, otherwise near fine, unopened, in chipped and torn glassine d.j. First edition. Lowman 65. $90.00 1527. JEFFERSON, John. Hunters’ Guide to Texas. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1969. ix [1] 248 pp., maps, photographic illustrations. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Wraps browned and with a few tiny abrasions and light creases, otherwise very good. Author’s signed inscription to David N. Smith on dedication page. $15.00 1528. JENKINS, John H. Cracker Barrel Chronicles: A Bibliography of Texas Town and County Histories. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965. xv [13] 509 [1, blank] pp., facsimiles. 8vo, original beige linen. Lower hinge cracked, overall good in d.j. (spine sunned, a few small chips and tears to edges), interior fine. First edition. Introduction by Dorman Winfrey. $150.00 1529. JENKINS COMPANY. A Catalogue of Over 1400 County and Town Histories of Texas. Austin: Jenkins Company, n.d. [2] 77 [7] pp., facsimiles. 4to, original blue pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned, small area of insect damage to upper wrap, a few fox-marks to first page, price and occasional item number circling in pencil, overall good to very good. Publisher’s ads for Cracker Barrel Chronicles and An Abstract of the Original Titles of Record in the General Land Office laid in. $25.00 1530. JONES, William M. Texas Testimony: Carved in Stone. Houston: Scardino Printing, 1952. viii, 234 pp. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly worn and browned, edges foxed, otherwise very good. First edition. $20.00 1531. KARLING, Eva Hill LeSeur. Leaves from Ancient Oaks. Dallas: Dealy & Lowe, 1936. [12] 109 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece. 12mo, original tan pictorial cloth. Binding rubbed and a bit soiled, boards exposed at tips, upper hinge loose, child’s pencil scribblings to endpapers and several pages, including frontispiece and title. First edition. $45.00 1532. KELSEY, Anna Marietta. Through the Years: Reminiscences of Pioneer Days on the Texas Border. San Antonio: Naylor, 1952. xii, 179 [1, blank] pp., 18 plates (including frontispiece). 8vo, original tan cloth. Slight shelf wear, foxing to top edge of binding and text block, otherwise very good in sunned d.j. First edition. CBC 1269. $40.00 1533. KELSEY, Mavis P., Sr. The Making of a Doctor: Early Memoirs from 1912 to 1949. Houston: Published by the author, 1995. [10] 288 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, 30 plates. 4to, original red cloth gilt. Very fine. Inscribed by author with additional signature of author on limitation page at rear of book. First edition, limited edition (#93 of 100 copies). $20.00 1534. KELSEY, Mavis P., Sr. Twentieth-Century Doctor: House Calls to Space Medicine. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 1999. xiii [1, blank], 408 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Very fine in d.j. Inscribed by author. Author’s personal advance copy, with associated letter from publisher laid in. First edition. $10.00 1535. KELSEY, Mavis P., Sr. & Donald H. Dyal. The Courthouses of Texas, a Guide.... College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. [2] v-ix [1], 331 [1, colophon] pp., map, many color photographic illustrations. 8vo, original color photographic wrappers. New, as issued. First edition. $15.00 1536. KENNEDY, William, Esq. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. In One Volume. Fort Worth: The Molyneaux Craftsmen, 1925. xlviii, 939 pp., maps (2 folding). 8vo, original maroon cloth gilt, top edge dyed maroon. Joints and edges of binding rubbed, gilt dull, upper hinge cracked (but holding), ink stamp on front pastedown, “Ex Libris Tejas Club,” small tear to blank margin of first folding map, overall very good. Reprint of London, 1841 second edition. BTB 117F: “This is the most comprehensive account of Texas published during its decade as an independent nation, and a work of such profound influence that it was a key factor in gaining English recognition of Texan independence.” CBC 103n, plus many additional entries. Graff 2308 (1841 edition). Howes 92n. Rader 2159 (1841 ed.). $100.00 1537. KENNEY, Nathaniel T. “Big Bend: Jewel of the Texas Desert” in National Geographic 133:1 (January, 1968). Pp. 104-133, photographs by James L. Stanfield. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers. Near fine aside from light wear to wraps. $5.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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