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| 1538. KILMAN, Ed. Cannibal Coast. San Antonio: Naylor, 1959. xv [1, blank], 294 pp., illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original turquoise pictorial cloth. A bit of insect damage to binding, top edge foxed with a few small spots and stains, overall good in worn, torn, and browned d.j. (ca. 3.5 cm void in upper panel). Author’s signed inscription to Gene Whitmore on half-title, related unsigned typed note to Whitmore laid in, with an unknown third party apologizing to Whitmore for not previously mailing the book on the author’s behalf.
First edition. Dust jacket design by E.M. Schiwetz. $25.00 1539. KING, Dick. Ghost Towns of Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1953. xiii [1, blank], 140 pp., 12 plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Foxing to top edge, endpapers, and plates and adjacent pages, otherwise very good in d.j. (rubbed, a few small chips and tears). First edition. CBC 4984. Guns 1235: “Scarce.” $25.00 1540. KING, Edward [author] & J. Wells Champney [illustrator]. Texas: 1874. An Eyewitness Account of Conditions in Post-Reconstruction Texas. Houston: Cordovan Press, 1974. vi, 160 pp., many illustrations. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers printed in black and pink. Fine. Reprint edition. Edited by Robert S. Gray, introduction by Joe B. Frantz. $10.00
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First edition. $50.00 1545. KRIEGER, Alex D. Culture Complexes and Chronology in Northern Texas, with Examples of Puebloan Datings to the Mississippi Valley. Austin: University of Texas, 1946. [2] 366 pp., folding map and 3 folding charts in envelope tipped in at rear of book, many plates (included in pagination). 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. A little soiling and wear to wrappers, rear flyleaf lightly foxed, tiny tear to envelope flap, a little adhesive residue on blank verso of one folding chart, otherwise very good. First edition. $85.00 1546. LASSWELL, Mary Lubbock. In Way of Progress [caption title]. Austin, 1958. [4] pp., photographic illustration. Folded sheet: closed: 22.9 x 15.3 cm; open: 22.9 x 30.6 cm. Fine. Pamphlet protesting the proposed bulldozing of the Governor Francis R. Lubbock house, on the southwest corner of Congress Avenue and Fifteenth Street in Austin, Texas. $5.00 1547. LASSWELL, Mary [Lubbock] & Bob Pool. I’ll Take Texas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1958. [8] 376 pp., illustrations by Jo Alys Downs. 8vo, original half tan cloth over brown boards, top edge dyed purple. Light shelf wear, a few water spots to top edge, endpapers browned, otherwise very good in d.j. (lightly worn and soiled, spine with two slashes). Third Printing. $15.00 1548. LATHROP, Barnes F. Migration into East Texas, 1835-1860: A Study from the United States Census. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1949. x, 114 pp., maps (including frontispiece), tables, figures. 8vo, original light green cloth. Binding sunned and lightly foxed, slight foxing to endpapers, frontispiece, and title page, overall very good. First edition. CBC 906, 924. $30.00 1549. LAXSON, Dorothy McNallie & Rosemary McNallie Turner. To Texas in a T-Model: One Family’s Experiences. N.p., 1979. [6] 41 [1, blank] pp., illustrations. 4to, original beige wrappers, stapled, with green cloth tape back strip. A little adhesive residue to upper wrap, otherwise near fine. Author Rosemary Turner’s signed gift inscription, dated March 20, 1983, on title page, signed by both authors on title page verso. First edition, limited edition (#35 of 50 copies). $50.00 1550. LCRA News 2:4 (April 1945). Austin: Lower Colorado River Authority, 1945. [2] 22 pp., illustrations. 4to, original blue pictorial wrappers, stapled. Staples rusted, wraps and top edge foxed, small stain to front edge, overall very good. $10.00 1551. LEA, Tom. The King Ranch. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1957. [14] 467 [3] + [14] 469-838 [4] pp., maps and illustrations by author (some in color). 2 vols., square 8vo, original half beige over maroon cloth. Very fine in publisher’s black board slipcase with printed paper labels. First edition. BTB 121: “...the best account of the most famous ranch in the world.” CBC 2785, plus additional entries. Herd 1318. Lowman 99. $125.00 1552. LEAKEY, John. Grandad and I: The Story of a Grand Old Man and Other Pioneers in Texas and the Dakotas, as Told by John Leakey to Florence Fenley. Leakey: Published by the author, 1951. 179 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original beige cloth. Fine, in lightly worn and soiled d.j. (small chip to upper panel). Signed by the author below his portrait on p. [4]. First printing. $125.00 1553. LEFTWICH, Bill. “Thats [sic] My Ruling”: Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. N.p.: Pecos Press, 1959. [24] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers, staples. Staples rusted, a very few scattered fox-marks to wraps, else fine. First edition. $10.00 1554. LEHMANN, Valgene W. Habitat Improvements for Quail: Tested Methods for Raising Quail in their Native Territories by Providing Suitable Food and Cover [wrapper title]. Austin: Texas Game, Fish, & Oyster Commission, 1941. 12 pp. 8vo, original printed white self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear to spine, lower wrap stained, a few small stains to interior, overall good. Bulletin no. 17, October 1939, Revised February, 1941. $10.00 1555. LEWIS, Tracy Hammond. Along the Rio Grande. New York: Lewis Publishing, 1916. [10] 215 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece and 10 plates by Oscar Frederick Howard. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth gilt. Slight shelf wear, small stain to bottom edge (not affecting text), endpapers browned, tiny split in upper hinge, text block cracked (but holding), overall very good. First edition. Guns 1330: “Scarce.” $40.00 1556. LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas, Illustrated. Chicago, New York & Los Angeles: Lewis, 1907. [2] x [2, blank] 504 + [2] iv [2, blank] 538 pp., map, 125 photographic plates. 2 vols., small 4to, three-quarter brown leather over black cloth, spine gilt-lettered, edges and endpapers marbled, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, hinges of both volumes cracked (but holding), overall very good. First edition. Herd 2280: “Scarce.” TC 2015. Not in CBC. $750.00 1557. LINDHEIM, Milton. The Republic on the Rio Grande. Waco: W.M. Morrison, 1964. [4] 17 [1, blank] pp., portrait. 8vo, original purple pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine Limited edition (200 copies, 175 regular [including this copy] and 25 deluxe). $85.00
First edition. Guns 1339: “Has some information on Pat Garrett, not as a gunman but as a builder of irrigation ditches, as well as material on John Chisum.” $65.00 1559. LINN, John J. Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1883. 369 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 3 plates, errata tipped onto p. 369. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth gilt-lettered and stamped in blind. Binding rubbed, corners bumped, lower hinge and text block cracked (but holding), interior foxed, blank inner margin of plate of San Jacinto monument cracked, pp. 147-148 pierced with metal pin, occasional notes in pencil and ink, overall fair condition. First edition. Goliad plate with pasted-on corrected caption mentioned by Howes and BTB. BTB 127: “...one of the best sources on the revolutionary period.” CBC 4990: “Much on Texas coastal history.” Graff 2503. Howes 363. Rader 2239. $375.00 1560. LINN, John J. Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas. Austin: Steck, 1935. [2] 369 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece portrait, 3 plates. 8vo, original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Slight wear and a few tiny spots to binding, a few scattered fox-marks to fore-edge, otherwise very good. Facsimile of 1883 edition. BTB 127A. $80.00 1561. LITTLE, R.H. A Year of Starvation Amid Plenty, or, How a Confederate Soldier Suffered from Hunger and Cruelty in a Prison of War During the Awful Days of the Sixties. Waco: Texian Press, 1966. [6] 40 pp. 16mo, original cream cloth gilt. Binding foxed, otherwise very good. Facsimile reprint. $30.00 1562. LONG, Walter E. Flood to Faucet. [Austin]: Steck, 1956. [10] 116 pp., illustrations (mostly photographic). 8vo, original blue cloth. Spine and margins of binding sunned, endpapers browned, text lightly age-toned, otherwise very good. Author’s signed inscription on title page verso, dated 1-1-1965. Mimeographed statement of limited edition from author laid in. First edition, limited edition (1,000 copies). $60.00 1563. LOWMAN, Al. “Aldus in the Desert: Reflections on a Texas Printer & His Books” in Book Club of California Quarterly News Letter XLIII:4 (Fall 1978). Pp. 87-104. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers with Carl Hertzog’s device on upper wrap, stitched. Fine, gift inscription in ink inside lower wrap. $10.00 1564. LUKES, Edward A. De Witt Colony of Texas. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1976. 269 [1, blank] pp., maps (including frontispiece), charts. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine in very lightly rubbed d.j. First edition. $275.00 1565. MADISON, Virginia and Hallie Stillwell. How Come It’s Called That? Place Names in the Big Bend Country. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1958. [12] 129 [1, blank] pp., 8 photographic plates, endpaper map. 8vo, original buff cloth. Edges discolored, else fine in sunned pictorial d.j. First edition. CBC 657, 2613, 3781. $15.00 1566. MADSEN, William. Mexican-Americans of South Texas. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto & London: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1965. xii [4] 112 pp., map, 2 plates. 8vo, original orange pictorial wrappers. Wraps lightly rubbed, ink ownership inscriptions, a little browning to last page, overall very good. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, General Editors George and Louise Spindler, Stanford University. $10.00 1567. MAGUIRE, Jack (ed.). A President’s Country: A Guide to the Hill Country of Texas. Austin: Alcade Press, 1964. 80 pp., text and photographic illustrations, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original rust cloth. Very fine in pictorial d.j. First edition. Drawings by Mac Tatchell. $10.00 1568. MAGUIRE, Jack (ed.). A President’s Country: A Guide to the Hill Country of Texas. Austin: Alcade Press, 1964. Another copy, wrappers issue. 8vo, original grey pictorial wrappers. Very fine. First edition. $5.00 1569. Manufacturer’s Record 117:7 (July, 1946). Charlotte: Manufacturer’s Record Publishing Company, 1946. 252 [2] pp., photographic illustrations, ads (wrappers included in pagination). 4to, original color printed wrappers. Wraps lightly worn with small tear to spine, a few notes in ink to upper wrap and text, text browned, overall very good. Contains unsigned article, “Texas, the Lone Star State” (pp. 106-164) and multiple Texas-related advertisements. $15.00 1570. MARCY, Randolph B. Adventure of Red River: Report on the Exploration of the Headwaters of the Red River...Edited and Annotated by Grant Foreman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1937. xxxi [1, blank], 199 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of Randolph Marcy, 7 photographic plates, folding map. 8vo, original green cloth, printed paper spine label. Upper edge lightly foxed, else fine in lightly worn pictorial d.j. BTB 135C: “This is one of the most interesting accounts of an original exploration of unknown parts of Texas.” Graff 2675n. Howes M276n. Rader 2346. $75.00 1571. MARTIN, George C. Some Texas Stream and Place Names. San Antonio, 1947. 15 [1, blank] pp., tipped-on map. 8vo, original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Near fine. Not in CBC. $50.00 1572. MARTIN, Howard N. Folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians. Livingston, 1946. [8] 75 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly spotted, mild foxing to upper edge, else fine. Signed by author. First edition. Not in CBC. $40.00 1573. MARTIN, Madeleine. More Early Southeast Texas Families. Quanah: Nortex, 1978. [4] 200 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt-lettered. Fine in a sunned and chipped pictorial d.j. First edition. TC 1973. $30.00 1574. MARTIN, Roscoe C. The People’s Party in Texas: A Study in Third Party Politics. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1970. 280 pp., folding map. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Lightly worn, remainder ink mark on lower edge, else near fine. Reprint. Originally published as University of Texas Bulletin, No. 3308: February 22, 1933. BTB 137B: “The best book on any Texas political party.” $20.00 1575. MASON, Herbert M., Jr. with Frank W. Brown. A Century on Main Plaza: A History of the Frost National Bank. San Antonio: Frost National Bank, 1968. [8] 85 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original orange cloth. Fine. $15.00 1576. MASSENGILL, Fred I. Texas Towns. Terrell, 1936. 222 [2] pp. 12mo, original blue cloth decorated in green. Moderate wear to cloth, endpapers browned, edges and text mildly foxed, else very good. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. CBC 4995. $60.00 1577. MASSENGILL, Fred I. Texas Towns. Terrell, 1936. Another copy, not signed. Light wear to cloth, endpapers browned, edges mildly foxed, else near fine. First edition. CBC 4995. $50.00 1578. MAXWELL, Helen. A Guide for the Big Bend: What to See and Do in Big Bend National Park. Marathon: Big Bend National Park, 1950. 80 pp., photographic illustrations, map. 8vo, original wrappers with full photographic illustration. Upper wrapper covered in self-adhesive Mylar, general wear, else a very good copy. Signed by photographer Peter Koch. First edition. $10.00 1579. MAXWELL, Robert S. Whistle in the Piney Woods: Paul Bremond and the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. Houston: Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, 1963. [8] 77 [1, blank] pp., 8 plates, map, facsimile. 8vo, original beige printed wrappers. Wrappers discolored and lightly smudged, else near fine. Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association Publication Series, 7:2 (November 1963). $35.00 1580. MAXWELL, Ross A. Mineral Resources of South Texas: Region Served Through the Port of Corpus Christi. Austin: University of Texas, 1962. [8] 5-140 pp., charts. 8vo, original light blue wrappers. Wrappers sunned, else fine. The University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, No. 43. $10.00 1581. McCALEB, Walter F. The Spanish Missions of Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1954. xiv, 121 [1, blank] pp., 8 photographic plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Bump to rear lower corner, light foxing to upper edge, else fine in pictorial d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. $35.00 1582. McCULLOUGH, William Wallace, Jr. John McCullough, “Grandfather”, 1805-1870: Pioneer Presbyterian Missionary and Teacher in the Republic of Texas. Galveston, 1944. 66, i-xviii folios, 22 plates (photographic and facsimiles). 4to, bound in black report folder with white cover label. Very good. $35.00 1583. McDANIEL, Ruel. Vinegarroon: The Saga of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos. Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1936. 143 [1, blank] pp. 12mo, original tan cloth decorated in brown. Light wear to cloth, edges browned, else near fine. First edition. $10.00 1584. McLEOD, Claude A. The Big Thicket of East Texas. Huntsville: Sam Houston Press, 1967. v [1, blank], 33 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustration, color map. 8vo, original white wrappers with photographic illustration. Wrappers lightly spotted and scuffed, else near fine. $15.00 1585. MELLARD, Evelyn. Spur Ranch and Other Circles of Time. Salado: Anson Jones Press, 1977. 10 [2] 206 [1] pp. 8vo, original white cloth. Cloth lightly soil, else near fine. First edition, limited edition (1 of 500 copies). $55.00 1586. MENN, Alfred E. Texas As It Is Today. Austin: Gammel’s, 1926. 239 [1] pp., 36 photographic plates. 8vo, original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Endpapers and text browned, edges mildly foxed, else very good in chipped and lightly soiled d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. Rader 2380. $20.00 1587. MILLER, Thomas Lloyd. The Public Lands of Texas, 1519-1970. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. xxii, 341 [1, blank] pp., maps, 24 plates (included in pagination). 8vo, original grey cloth. Corners bumped, a little foxing to top edge of binding, small water stain to top edge of text block (not affecting text), occasional fox marks to text, check mark in ink on p. 274, overall very good in lightly worn d.j. (spine sunned). Lengthy inscription from foreword author Ralph W. Yarborough to Dudley Dobie on front free endpaper and half title and signed by him on title page. First edition. BTB 144n. $85.00 1588. MILLER, Townsend. A Letter from Texas. Dallas: [Printed by Carl Hertzog for] Neiman-Marcus, 1939. [16] pp., illustrated title page. 8vo, original buff cloth. Endpapers mildly soiled, sticker remnant on front pastedown, else very good in smudged pictorial d.j. First edition, limited edition (limited to 315 copies). Lowman 14. $125.00 1589. MILLER, W. Henry. Pioneering North Texas. San Antonio: Naylor, 1953. xi [1, blank], 303 [1, blank] pp., endpaper maps, frontispiece, 6 plates. 8vo, original mustard cloth stamped in brown. Other than mild browning to edges, a fine copy in a pictorial d.j. First edition. CBC 4998. Herd 1496. $125.00 1590. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas with Its Millions of Acres of Unoccupied Lands.... St. Louis: Missouri Pacific Railway, 1889. 93 [1] pp., text illustrations. 12mo, wrappers absent. Edges lightly chipped, title page detached, text browned, else fair. Lacking map. CBC 5022. $60.00 1591. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. Statistics and Information Concerning the State of Texas with Its Millions of Acres of Unoccupied Lands.... St. Louis: Missouri Pacific Railway, 1890. 93 [3] pp., text illustrations. 12mo, original orange printed wrappers. Wrappers tattered on edges, back wrap loose (with small detached section, present), spine and hinges repaired with brown tape, some leaves with corners folded, pencil marks, else fair. Lacking map. Seventh edition. CBC 5022n. $65.00 1592. MONTGOMERY, Julia Cameron. A Little Journey through the Lower Valley of the Rio Grande: The Magic Valley of Texas. Houston: Southern Pacific Lines, 1928. 64 pp., photographic illustrations, colored map. Small 4to, original printed green wrappers. Wrappers gently worn, else very good. First edition. Not in CBC. $95.00 1593. MONTGOMERY, Whitney (ed.). The Road to Texas. Dallas: The Kaleidograph Press, 1940. 206 pp., endpapers with illustrations by Ruth McCauley Thorne. 8vo, original burlap cloth with printed paper spine label, edges dyed red. A bit shelf-slanted, binding, spine label, and endpapers browned, a few spots to fore-edges, upper hinge starting, text block cracked (but holding), uniform age-toning to text, overall good. First edition. Collection of poems about Texas. $25.00 1594. MOORE, Harry Estill. ...and the Winds Blew. Austin: University of Texas, 1964. xv [1] 221 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, charts, maps. 8vo, original turquoise wrappers with photographic illustration. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, else near fine. First edition. $35.00 1595. MOORE, Harry Estill. Tornadoes Over Texas: A Study of Waco and San Angelo in Disaster. Austin: University of Texas, 1958. xxiii [1, blank], 334 pp., charts. 8vo, original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Very fine in fine pictorial d.j. First edition. CBC 3145, 4318. $40.00 1596. MORFI, Juan A. Excerpts from the Memorias for the History of the Province of Texas.... San Antonio: Privately printed, 1932. xxii, 85 [2] pp., plates (some photogravures), maps. 4to, original brown cloth boards with fore-edge flap. Cloth moderately worn, flap detached, but present, minor foxing, else very good. First edition (first printing of any part of Morfi’s manuscript memoirs), limited edition (#184 of 200 numbered copies). BTB 145A: “Limited to 200 copies, but actually 300 printed...some copies have no limitation notice.... This is the best contemporary eighteenth-century history of Texas.” CBC 301. Howes M792: “First complete publication in any language of this contemporary manuscript; most complete history of Spanish Texas in its early period.” Rader 2443. $175.00 1597. MORFI, Juan A. Excerpts from the Memorias for the History of the Province of Texas.... San Antonio: Privately printed, 1932. Another copy, alternate binding. 4to, dark brown cloth. Minor wear to spine, light foxing to edges, else fine. First edition, limited edition (no limitation notice in this copy). $175.00 Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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