Category: Texas

Ling: The Rise, Fallk, and Return of a Texas Titan.

By: Brown, Stanley H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York; Atheneum, 1972.

Seller ID: 05023scs

Signed by the Author. Octavo, grey cloth, (hardcover), gilt letters, viii, 308 pp. Fine (As New).
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After the Alamo -- San Jacinto. From the Notes of Doctor Nicholas Decomps Labadie.

By: Courntey, Jovita.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York: Vantage Press, (1964). First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 1760gls

Signed by the Author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 138 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: This dramatic book, taken directly from the notes of Dr. Nicholas Descomps Labadie, Army surgeon and dedicated adoptive son of Texas, is a unique first-hand account of the Texas Revolution which freed American settlers from Mexican tyranny, a revolution which came to a triumphant climax with the historic Battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836. And it is a story of the high-spiri...
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The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, The Texas Ranger and Hunter. With Portrait and Engravings.

By: Duval, John C.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas: Facsimile by Steck-Vaughtn Company, (1947).

Seller ID: 9920gcs

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations to spine, 291 pp. Good, with former-owner gift inscription, speckling to endpapers, light soiling to page edges. From Preface: ÒBig Foot WallaceÓ is better known throughout Texas, as an Indian-fighter, hunter, and ranger, than any one, perhaps, now living in the State; which is saying a good deal, when the great number who have acquired more or less notoriety in that way is taken into consideration. Few men now living, I am confident, have witness as many stirring incidents, had more ÒHair-breadth escapes,Ó or gone through more ...
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Alamo Defeders. A Genealogy: The People and Their Words.

By: Groneman, Bill.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Austin, TX; Eakin Press, (1990). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2204gls

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (stiff, slick, illus. blue wrappers), 185 pp + [xii] pp.
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Alamo Defenders. A Genealogy: The People and Their Words.

By: Groneman, Bill.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (1990). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2641qs

Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, softbound (slick, stiff, illus. wrappers), xiii + 185 pp + [x] pp.
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The Jewish Texans. Texians and the Texans Series.

By: Hewitt, W. Phil.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, (1996).

Seller ID: 4128bda

Second Edition, third printing. Quarto, paperbound (stiff pictorial wrappers), stapled, 24 pp. Photgraphs. Near-Fine.
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A Century of Service: The Concise History of Vicotira Bank & Trust Company.

By: Johnson, Laurence S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Victoria, Texas: Victoria Bank & Trust Company, 1979. First edition.

Seller ID: 3057bd

Signed by the Author. Quarto, brown fabricoid, vii, 72 pp. Potraits, photos., illus. Fine.
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San Antonio, St. Anthony's Town. Leah Carter Johnston, Narrator. Material Compiled by Staff of San Antonio Public Library. Illustrations by Eduardo Cardenas.

By: Johnston, Leah Carter.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, (1976). Third Edition, Bicentennial Issue.

Seller ID: 2636qs

Octavo, brown illus. cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, xiv + 181 pp. Fine, in a Good dust jacket with sunning to spine and edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The unique beauty that comprises this captivating city was developed over a period of almost three centuries. It is a blend of art and industry, past accomplishments and future plans, historical museums and modern structures -- but most of all, it is the result of the influence of both Latin and Anglo cultures -- of heritage of the people of San Antonio for the past three centuries. From its early beginni...
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Honor at Daybreak: A Novel of One Town's Battle for Justice.

By: Kelton, Elmer.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Doubleday, (1991). First Edition.

Seller ID: 3343bd

Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 390 pp. Near-Fine in dust jacket.
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Marlin's Public Schools from the 1840s to 1960 of Marlin Independent School District, Marlin, Texas. Compiled by Marlin Ex-Students Association.

By: Marlin Ex-Students Association.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Marlin, Texas: Marlin Ex-Students Association, 1961. First Edition.

Seller ID: 3192qsl

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 133 pp + iv pp. Very Good+, with slight rubbing to edges.
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Texas Stories. Tales of the Lone Star State from Davy Crockett, Georgia O'Keefe, Don DeLillo, Moly Ivins, Jack Kerouac, Genaro Gonzalez, Larry McMurty, Ann Richards, John Steinbeck. Introduction by Barry Gifford.

By: Miller, John and Kristen; Editors.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [1995].

Seller ID: 00077s

Octavo, softcover, cover flaps, 238 pp. Fine (As New). ÒGet your own dose of Texas with this rollicking, rambunctious anthology of writing about the Lone Star State. Including essays, stories, novel excerpts, and poetry, Texas Stories collects the best writers on the grand landscape, the peculiar sensibiliteis and the violent history of the biggest state in the lower forty-eight...A fascinating, diverse, often funny collection, Texas Stories is a wild ride on the range.Ó
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My Odyssey.

By: Montgomery, Rosalis.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas: Nortex Press, (1997). First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: 12442scs

Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), vi, 175 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: The distance between Llano and Marlin, Texas and New York not only spans miles but lifetimes. Llano, located in the Texas Hill Country, was a cowtown...Marlin was an extension of the Old South where cotton plantations and stately mansions still reflected its ante-bellum past. At the insistence of her iron-willed mother, Roalis was uprooted and replanted in New York City at the age of fourteen. She was never able to escape her mother's dedicated pursui...
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Grand Ol' Erath: The Saga of a Texas West Cross Timbers County.

By: Perry, H. G. (Grady).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Stephenville, Tex.: By the Author, 1974.

Seller ID: m1991

Volume I (all published). 1st edition. Quarto, cloth-backed stiff illustrated wrappers, stapled, x, 230 pp. Photos, plans. Fine.
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The Caruths -- Dallas' Landed Gentry.

By: Sanders, Barrot Steven.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Irving, Texas: Sanders Press, (1988). First Edition.

Seller ID: 4134bd

Octavo, gold boards (hardcover), 326 pp. [text], [96] pp. [photos, mostly portraits]. Very Good; endpapers, front and rear, are wavy as though from dampness, otherwise clean and tight in a nice dust jacket.
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History of Texas.

By: Steen, Ralph W.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas: The Steck Company Publishers, (1939).

Seller ID: vita5515

Octavo, gold illustrated cloth (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, ix, 495 pp. Very Good; stain to title page. Contents: Texas as a Province of Spain: Spain Explores Texas, Settlement Begins, Spain Reoccupies Texas, Failure of the Missions, Life in Spanish Texas; Texas as a Province of Mexico: Americans Begin to Settle, American Settlements Expand, Background of Independence, The Road to War, Texas Wins Independence; Texas as an Independent Nation: Problems of the Republic, International Relations, Life in Early Texas; Fifteen Years of Statehood: Problems of Statehood, A Period of Great ...
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1947 Horned Frog: Texas Christian University.

By: Texas Christian University.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University, 1947.

Seller ID: es4066

Quarto, illus. fabricoid (hardcover), b&w map illus. endpapers, unpaginated. Very Good+, with signatures & inscriptions.
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The Day of San Jacinto.

By: Tolbert, Frank X.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, The Pemberton Press, (1959).

Seller ID: 4149bd

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), 269 pp. Very Good, with light soiling to covers, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgwear that includes light chipping, and sunning to the spine. From dust jacket: Texas had no business winning the Texas Revolution, and more particularly, the battle of San Jacinto. But the Mexicans deserved to win even less. Sam Houston had the quality of leadership, but he had little to lead. And he had a civilian populance wihtout patience for anything but immediate victories, and a government more interested in self-preservation than in constructive plan...
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Category: Texas