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The Bats of Texas
by Schmidly, David J
College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. BR1 - Book has some light smudge on the front, tanning on the back, some stains on the page edges, and light shelf wear otherwise very good. Includes a laid in Assembly Instructions for Bat Conservation International's Macrobat Dwelling. Stated First Edition. Number Eleven of The W. L. Moody, Jr., Natural History Series. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Stetter, Christine. 4to - over...
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€11.82
Will Henry's West
by Walker, Dale L
El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 208pp., Signed by Will Henry and Dale Walker. Illustrated. Numerous motion pictures have drawn on the 50 historical novels, essays and stories authored by Henry Wilson Allen or "Will Henry". The author examines the need to protect both the myth and reality of the Old West. A near fine copy bound in 1/4 brown cloth over white cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, in near fine pictorial dust jacket showing minor wear to head.
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€37.81
Exceedingly Rare Document Signed by the Original Residents of Texas
by de CROIX, Carlos Francisco & RODRIGUEZ, Manuel
Mexico, 1768. unbound. 2 pages in Spanish (roughly translated), 16.5 x 12 inches, A Royal Proclamation: El Marquis de Croix, March 9, 1768, ordering the mine owners to make concessions and increase wages, in small part: "...A decline in mining...the mines have the common enemy of water, which has flooded them...the excessive construction cost of which the Kingdom has no wealth. Is the relief moderation the price you ask as the best mines are completely uninhabited and desolate? Send my fatherly...
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€5,671.20
A Great Civil War
by Russell E. Weigley
Indiana University Press 2000. Book and mylar protected DJ are like new.
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€16.54
Sam Houston Scouts
by Minor S. Huffman
Houston, Texas: Sam Houston Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, 1985. F4 - A collector's edition (1 of 3000) hardcover book in good condition that has some bumped corners, lightly bowed, some scattered chipping, scuffing, dents and light stains on the cover, some scattered light foxing, stains and soiled patches on the page edges, scattered foxing and some light stains on the endpapers, tanning, and shelf wear with no dust jacket. This copy of SAM HOUSTON SCOUTS is Number ____ COLLECTOR'S...
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€18.89
Black Flag
by Thomas Goodrich
Indiana University Press 1995. Book and DJ are like new.
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€23.16
Front Rank
by Glenn Tucker
North Carolina Confederate Centennial Commission 1962. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and bindings are strong. Light edge wear. No DJ.
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€28.36
Stirring Prose: Cooking With Texas Authors
by Deborah Douglas
College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. BP2 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by 15 contributors - Jay Brandon, Anita Richmond Bunkley, Norma Elia Cantu, Liz Carpenter, Elizabeth Crook, John Erickson, Kinky Friedman, Stephen Harrigan, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Elmer Kelton, Larry L. King, Naomi Shihab Nye Laurence Parent, Joyce Gibson Roach, Bryan Wooley, on the contents pagein very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book...
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€18.89
Hard Country
by Paul Christensen
Austin, Texas: Thorp Springs Press, 2005. AQ4 - A first edition (stated) paperback book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition that has label on the front and light shelf wear. Hard Country is the book of poems by English Professor Paul Christensen that won the Violet Crown Award for the best book of poetry for 2005 from the Writers’ League of Texas. 9"x6", 94 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo...
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€14.17
Texas Libraries. Fall 1963. Volume 25, Number 3
by (Webb, Walter Prescott)
Austin: Texas Library Assoc., 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [73-124] pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. 'Walter Prescott Webb: The Life of a Texan' and other articles in this issue focusing on Webb.
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€14.18
On a Mexican Mustang Through Texas; from the Gulf to the Rio Grande
by Sweet, Alex E. And J. Armoy Know
London: Chatto & Windus, 1905. Octavo. A New Impression. Frontispiece, vignette title page, 672 pages, publisher notes: "with 265 illustrations". Alex E. Sweet was the most famous Texas humorist of the 19th Century. While he has been compared with Twain as a humorist, he does give a very accurate account of Texas in the last half of the Century. A very good copy bound in red pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in black, spine lettering gilt, some scattered foxing to top edge, all others uncut.
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€61.44
Curtain Call: The History of the Theater in Austin, Texas 1839 to 1905
by Manry, Joe Edgar
Texas: The Waterloo Press of the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, 1985. H6 - An ex-library hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition that has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), some bumped corners, lighly moisture soiled on the last pages, some light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. 11.5"x8.75", 122 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket....
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€47.26
From Rattlesnakes to Road Agents: Rough Times on the Frio
by Farris, Frances Bramlette (edited and Introduction By C. L. Sonnichsen)
Fort Worth, TX; (1985): Texas Christian University Press. First Edition. Octavo. 137pp. Illustrated. Number three in the chisholm trail series. Coming-of-age memoir of south Texas in the troubled times of Bigfoot Wallace, Sam Bass, and Frank James, written by a woman who spent her earliest years as a tomboy. Bound in brown cloth,spine lettering black, near fine in near fine pictorial dust jacket with a small blue stain to front panel. Very nice.
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€37.81
The Crabs of Texas
by Sandra Pounds Leary
Austin,Texas: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1967. R5 - A stapled booklet in very good condition that has some scattered wrinkling, chipping, and crease, light tanning and shelf wear. Bulletin No. 43, Series VII, Coastal Fisheries. 8.75"x6". 57 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Stapled Booklet. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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€4.72
The Best from Cross Country News
by Tony Page, Editor and Publisher
Fort Worth TX: Cross Country News, 1958 Collection of humor -- cartoons, jokes, etc., some gently risque, mostly airplane-related. Inscribed to previous owner by the editor. 80 pages, includes ads. Cross Country News (1945-1981) was published at Meachum Field in Fort Worth, TX. Antoinette (Tony) Page worked there first as a writer, then as editor and publisher. Stapled wraps.
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€14.18
The Texas Art Journal (Manuscript edition)
by Updike, John
Dallas, Texas; (1977): The Texas Arts Journal, Cameron Northouse. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 22 copies, 109pp., illustrated, folder contains a typed manuscript from page 34 of Updike's play and is signed. The Texas Arts Journal is published only four times a year with contributor's such as William Saroyan, John Updike, Morse Peckham, George Garrett, James Purdy and Glyn Jones. Fine and housed in a custom slipcase.
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€363.90
Perpetual Jeopardy: The Texas Gulf Sulphur Affair, a chronicle of achievement and misadventure
by Patrick, Kenneth G
NYC: Macmillan, 1972 A case study of the Texas Gulf Sulphur discovery of a new mine in Ontario, frantic trading in TGS stock, and the SEC's investigation of insider trading and disclosure of corporate information. It became a landmark case in securities frauds. Edgeworn dust jacket.
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€9.45
Figures in a Landscape (signed)
by Horgan. Paul
New York; (1940): Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author, The author tells an unusual story which dramatizes the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. He gives a picture of the Southwest, the land where he lives of which no one quite captures like he does. 284pp., bound in gray cloth, spine lettering gilt and black, some toning to edges, a very good copy with previous owner's inscription, in chipped and edge worn dust jacket.
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€75.62
Combat in the Air
by Maude Owens Walters
Appleton-Century 1944. Olive green boards are sturdy, some edgewear at spine. Text is clean unmarked. Previous owner's name on front end page. No DJ.
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€37.81
A Stove-Up Cowboy's Story, with an Introduction By John A. Lomax
by McCauley, J.E
Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1943. Limited Edition. Octavo. 73 pages, limited to 700 copies and the type melted. Illustrated by Tom Lea with designs by Carle Hertzog and an introduction by James Emmit McCauley. One of the most authentic accounts of the hard life of the cowboy in the 1880's and 1890's. Jim McCauley was a tenant farmer's son who replied to a bully with a knife through the ribs, forcing him to leave home as a fifteen-year old becoming a horse wrangler who despise having virtually no...
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€118.15
Tascosa; Its Life and Gaudy Times
by Nolan, Frederick
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. First Edition. Quarto. 361p. index, bibliography, notes. "The ranching boom of the 1880s made the Texas Panhandle town of Tascosa known as 'the cowboy capital of the world." Here is a beautiful publishers edition with brown leather over cloth in the original binding and the slipcase. A pristine copy.
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€170.14
Through Pathless Skies To The North Pole" and "The Discoverer," in The National Geographic Magazine. Volume Llll, No. 1-6, January-June, 1928
by (National Geographic Society). Wyeth, N. C
Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, 1928. First edition. Half red leather over cloth boards. A copy, worn, leather split at rear hinge, still tight, some creasing to first plate.. 766 pp. Illus. with color & b/w photos & drawings & maps. 8vo. The two fold-out murals by N. C. Wyeth plus articles on Lindbergh, Dalmatian Days, Bird Banding, adventures on the 'Islander', Algiers, Siam, Michigan, Bali, Archeology by Air, Umbria, Tuscany, Iceland, Bogota, Mount Vernon, English manor houses,...
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€28.36
Captains of the Old Steam Navy
by James C. Bradford, Editor
Naval Institute Press 1986. Book is like new. Mylar covered DJ shows very light edge wear.
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€14.18
The Southwest. Essays on Southeast New Mexico and West Texas
by Harris, Jim
Hobbs, NM: Hawk Press, 2000. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.. 76 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. 26 essays on Women, Men, Families; Lea County Towns; West Texas Towns; Roads Rivers, Birds, Books.Jim Harris was president of the Texas Folklore Society and is the publisher of Hawk Press in Hobbs, N.M. Uncommon.
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€47.26
