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Second edition, revised. Not in CBC. TC 211 (referring to third revised edition, 1936). $45.00 211. ZAVALA, Adina de. History and Legends of the Alamo and Other Missions in and Around San Antonio. San Antonio: Adina de Zavala, 1917. 219 [5] pp., color frontispiece, plans, illustrations. 12mo, original maroon pictorial cloth. Binding lightly rubbed and spotted, corners bumped, endpapers browned, child’s scribbles in pencil on front free endpaper and frontispiece, otherwise very good. Unrelated news clipping reporting a giant condor carrying away a baby laid in. First edition. CBC 508. $75.00 212. ZAVALA, Adina de. History and Legends of the Alamo and Other Missions in and Around San Antonio. San Antonio: Adina de Zavala, 1917. Another copy, wrappers issue. 12mo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Fragile wraps lightly browned and soiled with small tears and voids at extremities of spine, light foxing to edges, frontispiece and title page foxed, overall very good. $75.00 213. ZAVALA, Adina de. The Story of the Siege and Fall of the Alamo: A Résumé. San Antonio, 1911. [20] pp, map. Oblong 12mo, original tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fragile wraps browned and chipped, lower wrap and final leaf detached, a little insect damage to blank margin of title page (not affecting text), pages adjacent to wraps browned, occasional light scattered foxing to text, overall fair condition. Not in CBC. TC 210 (referring to 1984 reprint). $40.00 Blanco County 214. BLANCO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION. Annual Blanco County Fair and Rodeo: August 17 and 18, 1973, Johnson City, Texas [wrapper title]. Johnson City: [Blanco County Fair Association], 1973. 96 pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original yellow pictorial wrappers. Fine. First printing. Blanco County’s 43rd annual fair and rodeo program, catalog, and prize list. $20.00 215. BLANCO HIGH SCHOOL. Twenty-fifth Annual Catalogue, Blanco High School, Session for 1908-09, Announcement for 1909-10. Johnson City: The Enterprise Printers, [1908]. 37 [13, ads] pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. wraps worn and stained with small voids in spine, ownership inscription in pencil on upper wrap, browning, occasional soiling, and one small tear to text. Includes historical sketch of Blanco High School, rules and regulations, an overview of the curriculum (first grade through four years of high school), and a list of alumni, as well as numerous advertisements for area businesses. $30.00 216. MOURSUND, John Stribling. Blanco: A County History. Burnet: Nortex, 1979. ix [1, map] 612 [2] pp. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. A little light mildew spotting to spine, light water stain to top edge of text block (not affecting text) otherwise very good in water-stained and lightly worn d.j. First edition. TLH, p. 6. $90.00 217. SPEER, John W. A History of Blanco County...Edited by Henry C. Armbruster, Illustrations by Connie Armbruster. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1965. [2] 73 [8] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Light water staining to bottom edge of upper cover and first few leaves, tape stains on endpapers, otherwise very good in water-stained and lightly worn d.j. Signed by editor on half title. First edition. CBC 517a. TC 230. The author’s family moved to Blanco County around 1859. $45.00 Bosque County 218. McDEARMON, Ray. Without the Shedding of Blood: The Story of Dr. U.D. Ezell and of Pioneer Life at Old Kimball. San Antonio: Naylor, 1953. xii, 81 pp. 8vo, original orange cloth. A little light foxing to edges, otherwise fine in water-stained and abraded d.j. First edition. Not in CBC. Guns 1399. Herd 1390. TC 246. Tells the story of Kimball, Texas, largely through interviews with Doctor Uberto Desaix Ezell. Handbook of Texas Online: Kimball, Texas: “Kimball was near State Highway 174 twenty miles northeast of Meridian and forty-six miles north of Waco in northeastern Bosque County.... By 1939 its estimated population had fallen to twenty, and it was reported at that level until the community was abandoned upon the completion of the Lake Whitney dam. In the 1980s the townsite was a park on the shores of Lake Whitney; at that time the ruins of several buildings were still standing.” The town was situated at the point where the Chisolm trail crossed the Brazos River. $60.00 219. POOL, William C. Bosque County, Texas. San Marcos: San Marcos Record Press, 1954. [8] 74 [2] pp., 4 plates with maps, illustrations by author. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers. Fine. Signed by author on title page. First edition. CBC 539. $65.00 220. POOL, William C. Bosque Territory: A History of an Agrarian Community. Clifton: Chaparral Press for Bosque Memorial Museum, 1964. [2] 205 [1] pp., many illustrations, illustrated endpapers. 4to, original dark brown buckram over tan textured pictorial cloth. Back cover sunned, lower right corner of binding and text block water stained, otherwise good. Signed by author on front free endpaper. First edition. CBC 537. $60.00 221. POOL, William C. Bosque Territory: A History of an Agrarian Community. Clifton: Chaparral Press for Bosque Memorial Museum, 1964. Another copy, alternate binding, not signed. 4to, original dark brown cloth. Boards slightly warped, edges lightly foxed, tape stains to endpapers, otherwise very good. $45.00 222. RADDE, Rebecca D. Bosque Primer: An Introduction to the History of Bosque County. [Meridian, Texas], 1976. viii, 61 [1] pp., map, drawings. 8vo, original navy blue cloth gilt. Small water stains to endpapers, else fine. Order form and Bosque County Historical Commission pamphlet with map laid in. TC 240. $20.00 Bowie County 223. CHANDLER, Barbara Overton and J. Ed Howe. History of Texarkana and Bowie and Miller Counties, Texas—Arkansas. Shreveport: J. Ed Howe, 1939. 375 [3] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original tan linen. Small pen mark on edges, endpapers and title page foxed, otherwise very good in water-stained and lightly worn d.j. $65.00 224. ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH. A.D. 1894—A.D. 1919. Silver Jubilee. 25th Anniversary of St. James Episcopal Church, Texarkana, Texas, Sunday and Monday, June Eighth and Ninth [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d.[44] pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers printed in silver. Fragile wraps worn at edges and browned with a few spots, first and last leaves foxed, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $35.00 225. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 19. Bowie County, February 10, 1883—June 11, 1940.... San Antonio: State-wide Records Indexing and Inventory Program, 1940. [8] 101 [1] pp., map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine other than a few tiny water spots to covers. First edition. CBC 562. $15.00 226. Texarkana Centennial Historical Program, 1873-1973 [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. 30 [16] 31-57 [3] pp. (wrappers included in pagination), map, photographic illustrations. 4to, original pictorial tan wrappers, stapled. Ink ownership inscription on upper wrap, small water spot and light crease on lower wrap, else fine. TC 253. $30.00 Brazoria County 227. ALLEN, Dr. O.F. General Sam Houston’s Inaugural Address After Being Sworn In as President of the Republic of Texas before the First Session of Congress at Columbia, Texas [wrapper title]. Temple, 1936. [6] 6 pp., photographic illustration. 12mo, original light gray printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and browning to wraps, small mark on upper wrap, overall near fine. Not in CBC. $20.00 228. BRAZORIA COUNTY CENTENNIAL CLUB. Velasco in Texas History [wrapper title]. Angleton: Brazoria County Centennial Club, 1936. 19 [1] pp. Narrow 8vo, original blue wrappers printed in silver, stapled. Staples a bit rusty, otherwise very fine. Signed by contributing author Ernest Dean Dorchester on upper wrap, centennial celebration program laid in. First edition. CBC 619. $25.00 229. BRAZORIA COUNTY CENTENNIAL CLUB. Velasco in Texas History [wrapper title]. Angleton: Brazoria County Centennial Club, 1936. Another copy, not signed. Fine other then a little light wear to bottom right corner. $20.00 230. BRAZORIA COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS. History of Brazoria County [wrapper title]. N.p.: Brazoria County Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1940. [2] 61 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Aside from a few tiny spots to wraps, fine. First edition. CBC 596. $60.00 231. CREIGHTON, James A. A Narrative History of Brazoria County. N.p., Brazoria County Historical Commission, 1976. xii, 533 [1] blank pp., drawings by Zella McDaniel, photographs, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt. Slight shelf wear, two corners lightly bumped, small water stain to top edge of text block (not affecting text), otherwise very good. Bicentennial edition, second printing. TC 165, TLH, p. 8 (both giving date of 1975) $50.00 232. HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. Inventory of the Colonial Archives of Texas, 1821—1837...No. 3, Municipality of Brazoria, 1832—1837 (Brazoria County Courthouse, Angleton, Texas). San Antonio: Historical Records Survey, 1937. [10] 120 [1, blank] pp., map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with grey cloth backstrip. Wraps a bit faded, a bit of foxing to edges, otherwise very good. First edition. CBC 600. TC 262 (referring to recent reprint edition) $15.00 233. ROGERS, Mary Nixon, Abner J. Strobel, and T.L. Smith, Jr. (respectively). A History of Brazoria County, Texas; The Old Plantations and their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas; Steamboats on the Brazos. N.p.: T.L. Smith, Jr., 1958. 92 pp, illustrations. 8vo, original red printed wrappers, stapled. Spine and first and last few leaves water stained (not affecting text), tape stains on flyleaves, else very good. Signed by T.L. Smith, Jr. on preface. Combined reprint containing three essays on Brazoria County history. CBC 611. TC 259. See following item. $40.00 234. STROBEL, Abner. The Old Plantations and Their Owners of Brazoria County, Texas. Houston: Union National Bank, 1930. 50 [2] pp. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly worn and soiled with a few fox-marks and light creases, otherwise near fine. Revised edition. CBC 615. TC 267. TLH, p. 8 (referring to 1979 reprint of 1926 edition) $125.00 235. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 20. Brazoria County, March 30, 1832-October 29, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Indexing and Inventory Program, 1942. vi, 67 [1, blank] pp., map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. CBC 629. $15.00 236. [VELASCO, TEXAS]. THE CITY CLUB. Plain Facts about Velasco and Surrounding County. Some Things Velasco Wants. Velasco: The City Club, n.d. (ca. 1896). 10 pp. 12.4 x 7.2 cm, cream folding pamphlet with page numbers printed on panels. Fine. Not in CBC. Small promotional pamphlet focusing on farming in the Velasco area. $60.00 237. WAIT, J. Russell. Survey Report to Brazos Harbor Navigation District by J. Russell Wait, May 1, 1950 [cover title]. Houston: Alpha Law Brief Co., 1950. [10] 199 [1, blank] pp., maps, drawings, tables, and charts, photograph. 4to, original green buckram. Fine aside from a little light shelf wear. Not in CBC. $65.00 Brazos County 238. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS. Bulletin of Information, Session 1925-26. [College Station]: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1925. 44 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps lightly shelf-worn and foxed, otherwise near fine. Bulletin of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, third series, Vol. 11, No. 3. Provides general information concerning educational objectives, admission, and courses of study. $20.00 239. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS. Fifteenth Annual Rodeo and Pageant of A. and M. College. N.p., 1933. [12] pp., ads. 8vo, original cream pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps with light wear and insect damage and a few spots and stains, text browned, overall very good. $25.00 240. NANCE, Joseph Milton. The Early History of Bryan and the Surrounding Area. N.p.: Hood’s Brigade-Bryan Centennial Committee, 1962. [64] pp., maps, photographs, ads. 4to, original white pictorial wrappers. Foxing and some light wear to wraps, occasional scattered foxing to text, else near fine. Unsigned presentation inscription in ink on title page, manuscript annotation to p. [63] in same hand. First edition. CBC 632. $40.00 241. PERRY, George Sessions. The Story of Texas A and M. New York, Toronto, and London: McGraw-Hill, 1951. xiv [2] 264 pp., 32 plates, photographic endpapers. 8vo, original red cloth. A bit of foxing to edges, endpapers browned, light foxing to plates and adjacent pages, otherwise very good in lightly worn d.j. with sunned and water-stained spine. First edition. CBC 633. TC 280. $15.00 242. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 21. Brazos County, April 26, 1841-March 1, 1939. San Antonio: State-wide Records Indexing and Inventory Program, 1941. iv [2] pp., 49 folios, map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. CBC 629. $15.00 Brewster County 243. CASEY, Clifford B. Mirages, Mysteries, and Reality. Brewster County Texas: The Big Bend of the Rio Grande. Hereford: Pioneer Book Publishers, 1972. x, 485 [1] pp., map, illustrations by Ron Reynolds, photographs. 4to, original lime green pictorial cloth. Very fine. Limited edition (un-numbered copy of 1,500). TC 294. TLH, p. 9. $100.00 244. COFFIN, Edwin F. Archaeological Exploration of a Rock Shelter in Brewster County, Texas. New York: Museum of the American Indian, 1932. xii, 72 pp., folding map, photographic illustrations. 16mo, original tan printed wrappers. Fine aside from light abrasion to spine. First edition. CBC 650. Rader 865. Published as Indian Notes and Monographs No. 48. $35.00 245. DAVIS MOUNTAIN FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS. The Big Bend of Texas [wrapper title]. [Brooklyn: Albertype, ca. 1928]. [80] pp., numerous sepia-tone photogravures. Oblong 16mo, original cream printed wrappers with photograph of Fort Davis on upper wrapper, map on lower wrapper, string tie. Very fine, sealed in original mailing envelope. Very scarce. First edition. CBC 647, 2600, 3771. Dobie, Big Bend Bibliography, p. 6. According to the preface, the prime mover behind this project was Mrs. O. L. Shipman (see BTB 184 and Herd 2062 & 2063). This superb guidebook contains descriptive text and excellent photogravures, including Gage Hotel, Rancho Valle la Cienega (“the first dude ranch ever established in Texas”), Brite Ranch, Jones Ranch, Fort Stockton, Alpine, Presidio-Ojinaga, and other landmarks of the region. A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process, which was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century, is rarely used today due to the very high cost. Photogravure prints have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. $400.00 246. GLASSCOCK, Mr. & Mrs., James W. (publishers). Brewster County Diamond Jubilee, 1887-1962. Alpine, 1962. 1B-8B, 1C-8C, 1D-16D, 1E-16E, 1F-16F pp., photographic illustrations, ads. Folio, original white pictorial wrappers printed in blue and red, stapled. Fragile wraps browned and with small chips and tears to edges and spine, text browned due to poor-quality newsprint stock, overall very good. First edition. CBC 644. Published as The Alpine Avalanche 70:39 (June 28, 1962). $25.00 247. McCARTY, F.M. A Guide to Big Bend Country and Chihuahua al Pacifico: A Dream Come True. Amarillo: F.M. McCarty, 1968. [2] 1-63 [1] 1-63 [3] pp., maps, many photographic illustrations in color. 8vo, original tan cloth. Fine in lightly worn color pictorial d.j. Reprint edition of two books by author in one binding. $15.00 248. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. [BIG BEND]. 27 gelatin silver prints of scenery in the Big Bend area including the Chisos Mountains, Rio Grande, and Boquillas and Santa Elena Canyons. Most prints approximately 27 x 16 cm, with a few larger prints. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1937]. Prints affixed to 36 x 55 cm sheets of heavy red paper bordered with brown paper tape, with stab holes along left edge, probably formerly bound together in album form. Top sheet with 4 impressions of rubber ink stamp of Benjamin Franklin Berkeley, and inscribed “Alpine, Texas, 1937” in two places in ink at top of sheet, many photos labeled in ink in blank margin or adjacent area of sheet. Damp staining to top sheet and affixed images, some photographs faded, yellowed, and/or exhibiting silver mirroring, one print with a few tears and cracks, most prints in good condition. $250.00 Brooks County 249. Brooks County Golden Fiesta, July 1-2-3-4, 1961, Falfurrias, Texas [wrapper title]. N.p., 1961. [72] pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 4to, original yellow pictorial wrappers printed in green. A little light wear, foxing, and faint staining to wraps, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 672. $25.00 250. [FALFURRIAS, TEXAS]. Three items folded into printed mailing envelope labeled “Facts from Falfurrias, Texas, the Land of ‘Heart’s Delight’”: JOHN, Herbert F. “A Model Agricultural Community”. Reprint from The American Monthly Illustrated Review of Reviews XXXIII:193 (February, 1906). 33-36 pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, folded into original white wrappers printed in green and red. Wraps browned, wraps and text with chip to margin (not affecting text.), creased where folded for mailing. FALFURRIAS IMMIGRATION CO. Falfurrias, “The Land of Heart’s Delight” in Semi-Tropical South Texas. Falfurrias: Falfurrias Immigration Co., n.d. [4] pp., map, photographic illustrations. 8vo, folded sheet. Creased where folded, small tear, otherwise fine. CBC 768. Promotional item for agriculture in Falfurrias. More Facts from Falfurrias, Reprinted from Falfurrias Fasts of July 12, 1906. Falfurrias: Falfurrias Immigration Co., n.d. Broadside: 40.2 x 14.3 cm. Creased where folded, browned with a few chips to blank margins, otherwise fine. $40.00
251. HAVINS, T. R. Something about Brown (A History of Brown County, Texas). Brownwood: Banner Printing, 1958. [8] 208 pp., 8 plates. 8vo, original burnt orange cloth. Slight foxing to edges and endpapers, else fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition. CBC 706. Guns 945. TC 313. $35.00 252. BROWN COUNTY CENTENNIAL ASSOCIATION. Memories: Brown County, 1856-1956, Official Centennial Program [wrapper title]. N.p., Brown County Centennial Association, 1956. 52 pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 4to, original light blue pictorial wrappers, stapled. Wraps browned and lightly worn, with a few light creases,. Light foxing to edges and adjacent to wraps, otherwise very good. Not in CBC. $15.00 253. SMITH, Tevis Clyde. Frontier’s Generation: The Pioneer History of Brown County with Sidelights on the Surrounding Territory. Brownwood: Greenwood Press for the author, 1931. [2] 63 [1, blank] pp., frontispiece, 2 plates, photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original tan printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. CBC 718. Herd 2100. TC 309. TLH, p. 9 (referring to later reprint edition). $30.00 254. SMITH, T[evis] C[lyde], Jr. Pecan Valley Days. Brownwood: T.C. Smith, 1956. 69 [1, blank] pp., photographic illustrations, ads. 8vo, original textured grey printed wrappers. Small stains to lower wrap, a few scattered fox-marks to text, otherwise fine. First edition. CBC 720. TC 311. $20.00 255. TEXAS HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY. Inventory of the County Archives of Texas...No. 25: Brown County (Brownwood). San Antonio: Texas Historical Records Survey, 1940. [6] 147 [1, blank] pp., map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. CBC 710. $15.00 256. TEXAS STATEWIDE RECORDS PROJECT. Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 25: Brown County, November 19, 1878-November 7, 1938. San Antonio: State-wide Records Indexing and Inventory Program, 1941. v [1] 81 [1, blank] pp., map. 4to, original blue printed wrappers with black cloth backstrip. Fine. First edition. Not in CBC. $15.00 257. WHITE, James C. The Promised Land: A History of Brown County, Texas. Brownwood: Brownwood Banner, 1941. 123 [1, blank] pp. 12mo, original orange pictorial wrappers. Light insect damage to upper wrap, A little foxing to edges and pages adjacent to wraps, otherwise near fine. Download 2.53 Mb. Share with your friends:
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