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New York; (1928): Row, Peterson & Company. First Edition. Octavo. xi [I], 687, xxxvi pp. illustrated by Dorothy Handsaker in color and in black and white, with maps. Dorothy Sloan's copy had bumped corners and lacked the publisher's letter to Dobie. This copy has Dobie's ownership signature on the front fly leaf and the following letter to Dobie from… Read more about this item

[Austin, 1951]. Octavo. A Christmas Keepsake. Reprinted from Texas Folklore Society Publication XXIV. The Healer of Los Olmos and Other Mexican Lore, Dallas, 1951. Bound in light green paper wraps lettered in dark green. A Christmas Remembrance, Bertha and Frank Dobie, 1951. Some toning to edges. A very good copy. [McVicker-D43].

Van Nuys, California: J.E. Reynolds, Bookseller, 1961. Octavo. J.E.Reynolds tells of his meeting with Ross Santee in Tucson. A very delightful tale as he asks Santee's permission to devote a catalog to him and he received a seven-page typed letter. After his study in the Chicago Art Institute, he spent a year in New York with no money, happily… Read more about this item

Dallas, TX: Southwest Review/Southern Methodist Univ. Press, 1955. Octavo. 10 pages (unnumbered) offprint from the Southwest Review (Winter, 1955), drawings by Hal Story. One of the masterful ways different traditions about the Comanche and their enemy the rattlesnake is combined to show how folklore has variations even within the same region. A scarce Dobie item. Staple bound in light… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: The Texas folk-Lore Society, 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 279pp. Publications of the Texas Folk-Lore Society. It took Dobie over three years to compile all the legends he could find, from newspaper, manuscripts, other books and of course, the people of Texas. He says this work is not exhaustive and could have used more help in finding other… Read more about this item

Denver: Brand Book of the Denver Posse, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 10 pages. folded map. A remarkable man who fought for the Confederacy, served in the Texas State Legislature, required prisons to teach a man a trade, and in general did not believe in courts. He said: any man who can't defend his own property,… Read more about this item

Dallas, Texas: Southwest Review, 1950. Octavo. A Christmas gift- With wishes to you for/a good Christmas and good books/ Bertha and Frank Dobie/1950. Reprinted from the Winter, 1951 issue of Southwest Review,.8pp. bound in light green paper wraps printed in dark green. Only minor light fading to edges.

Austin, Tx;: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1927. Octavo. 49p. From the library of Mrs. J. Frank Dobie,[Bertha McKee Dobie] with her address plate. This was reprinted from the Texas and Southwestern Lore, publication number VI in 1927. Bound in tan wraps printed in black, chip to lower front corner, early clear tape mend to spine.… Read more about this item

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 850 copies numbered and signed by the author, 57pp., to the reader laid in before colophon, bound in pale gray paper covered boards backed in black cloth, paper spine label, in original mylar torn and chipped, housed in publisher's very good slipcase.

Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State College Press, 1940. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by J. Frank Dobie to his brother as a birthday gift. lix, 285, lxxxi pp.illsutrated, bound in green cloth pictorially stamped in brown and yellow, spine lettering brown over yellow.

Washington, D.C.: Potomac Corral, The Westerners, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. The Great Western Series No. 1, Limited to 250 copies signed by the author and by Jeff Dykes, 16pp., with a foreword by Jeff Dykes, illustrated, bound in light tan paper covered boards lettered and decorated in dark brown. A lovely copy, nearly fine. The Potomac Corral of the… Read more about this item

[Austin, Texas, 1963]. Octavo. A Christmas Keepsake. Bertha and Frank Dobie. 14pp., Reprinted from the Southwest Review, Summer, 1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas. Bound in blue pictorial wraps stamped in bright blue designed by William D. Wittliff. Near fine with just a hint of toning to edges of covers. [McVicker, D84].

[Austin, The Adams Publication] 1948. Octavo. A Christmas Remembrance from Bertha and Frank Dobie. A new printing of the address made at the unveiling of A.P. Procter's monument. Notes below title in Dobie's hand referring to the address change and dated May 31, 1948 Staple bound in green pictorial paper wraps lettered in black, A few minor nicks to… Read more about this item

[Dallas ?, 1953]. Octavo. A Christmas keepsake, Bertha and Frank Dobie. (1), 12pp., Reprinted from Southwest Review, Spring, 1953, Dallas, Texas. Bound in buff stapled paper wraps, design simulating leather, lettered in brown. Previous owner's name. Near Fine.

Dallas, Texas, Spring, 1953: Southwest Review. Quarto. VOl. XXXVIII, No. 2. pp. 89-100. Bound in green paper wraps lettered in white with yellow wrap around band advertising "Read....the beginning of J.Frank Dobie's autobiography "A Plot of Earth"....in this issue". A near fine copy with a couple of short closed tears to band. (McVicker-C359a). Very scarce.… Read more about this item

Texas. 1972: The Texas A & M University Press. Quarto. Limited edition of 500 copies. A talk given by Mrs. J. Frank Dobie on the presentation of "MY Dobie Collection" by Jeff Dykes and Martha Dykes Goldsmith to the University Library, Texas A&M University. Herewith reproduced from Mrs. Dobie's handwritten manuscript. Introduction by Mr. Jeff Dykes, 8pp. bound in… Read more about this item

Waller Creek, Austin Texas , Christmas 1956: Np. Octavo. Inscribed by Dobie. A Christmas greeting reprinted from Southwest Review, Summer, 1956, Dallas, Texas. 15pp., staple bound in yellow wraps printed in red. A very nice, scarce Dobie item.

Austin, Tx.(nd But ca.1941): University Co-Operative Society. Octavo. no pagination, (16)pages with text and (19) photographic illustrations of longhorns, staple bound in pictorial wraps printed and illustrated in brown with the rear inside cover giving s short biography of J. Frank Dobie and order form on rear panel. A near fine copy.

Dallas, Rx. 1962: Southern Methodist University Press. Limited Edition. Quarto. 10 pp. Signed by author. Limited to 300 copies. reprinted from Southwest Review. Staple brown paper wraps printed inblack. [McVickers, D-810].

Dallas, Texas [ca.1938]: Methodist Publishing House/Cokesbury Book Store. 3 1/2 " X 5. Separate printing, reprinted from the October, 1936 issue of Texas Outlook. This copy, a variant issue, not found in McVicker or Dykes. It was possibly printed for Texas Institute of Letters Awards which held its third meeting in Dallas in 1938 which took place in… Read more about this item