Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. ix,56pp. Original pictorial boards. Fine. Edited and with an introduction by Wilson M. Hudson. From an edition limited to 750 copies. Signed by the editor on front fly leaf. The first publication of this early work, predating Adams' first book.
Boston. 1907. 384pp. Portrait. Original pictorial cloth. Vertical crease through front cover, not too bad. Else clean and very good.
Boston. 1904. 355pp. plus illus. Frontis. Original pictorial cloth. Some wear to extremities, fore-edge of some leaves rather ragged due to careless opening, else very good. Fictional reminiscences of a cowman in Texas and the Southwest.
[Boston: Published at the Emancipator Office, 1842]. 35,[1]pp. Dbd. Old ownership signature on titlepage. Else very good. Adams' speech on the situation with Mexico, the question of annexing Texas, and on the potential escalation of conflict to include the United States and England on opposing sides. Also prints speeches by.....
[Dallas. 1937]. [4]pp., printed on a folded quarto sheet. Minor soiling, upper outer corner chipped. Still, very good. A program for a Depression-era theatrical performance of Eugene G. Hafer's 1924 courtroom drama, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE, by an African-American theatre company, performed at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas.....
New York. 1884. [4],227pp. Frontis. Later gilt buckram. Ex-lib. with rubberstamps. A good, sound copy. The author read Samuel N. Townsend's letters from the West and decided to head ranchward. From 1877 to 1884 he lived on ranches and travelled in western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. Aldridge was.....
Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
Washington. 1854. viii,851pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Toe of spine frayed. Overall very good. The Senate issue, published a year after the House issue, of Andrews' extensive report on trade between the United States and Canada, with information on internal improvements in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida.....
[Washington]. 1844. 3pp. Dbd. Very good. Sen. Doc., 28th Cong. 2d Sess. Correspondence dated from April through December, 1844.
[Washington. 1845]. 23pp. Dbd. Good. 29th Cong., 2d Sess. The committee, in a last ditch stand, recommends opposing annexation.
[New York]. November 25, 1870. [3]pp. on a folded octavo sheet. Old folds. Very faint adhesive remains at left corners of first page. Near fine. A brief letter in which John Jacob Astor III modestly declines to join the board of directors of the Southern Transcontinental Railway Company. Astor writes.....
[San Felipe de Austin: Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1829]. Printed document, 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, completed in manuscript. Signed by Samuel M. Williams. Small tear along old fold, slightly affecting a few letters of printed text, else very good overall. In a half morocco and cloth box. A.....
Houston, Tx. Sanborn & Warner, [1888]. 48pp., plus black & white folding map with borders in red measuring 14 x 10 3/4 inches laid in. Narrow 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers separated from textblock, wear and some loss to front wrapper due to previous owner excising the map from the.....
New York. [ 1935]. vii,248pp. Frontis, illus. Cloth. Very good. A biography of Stephen F. Austin, "for young people." Illustrated by W.R. Lohse.
Bellefontaine, Oh. Hubbard & Brother, 1858. 176pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Some scattered foxing, else very good. "Private Edition Published by the Author." A galloping epic in seven cantos, much of it relating to events on the border, fights with the Apaches, and similar stuff. Two of the cantos relate to.....
Paris. 1802-1803. Three volumes total. viii,382pp. plus folding map; [2],xvi,414,[1]; [4],410,[1]pp. Lacks folding table in third volume. Half title in each volume. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges cracked and worn, head and foot of each spine chipped. Some light scattered foxing to first volume.....
Paris. 1802. viii,382pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary calf backed boards, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges rubbed, slight chip at top of front joint, an occasional trace of foxing. Near fine. One of the classic early views of Louisiana at the beginning of the 19th century. It has been.....
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Illustrated with plates from engravings, lithographs, photographs, and other early sources; frontispieces; folding maps. [6]ppp. printed prospectus for the series laid into first volume. Original red cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes lightly rubbed. Bookplate.....
New York: Published for the Author by Lange, Little & Co., 1875. 314pp. Publisher's green cloth, spine gilt. Moderate edge wear, some rubbing to boards, corners worn. Light foxing. Very good. An excellent history of Walker's Texas Division, the largest single unit of Texas troops in the Civil War. According.....
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1914. Two volumes. 351; 392pp., including illustrations and folding map. Frontispiece in each volume. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Slight wear to covers, corners bumped. Very good. Prints important documents for the history of the Southwest never before published.
Lancaster, Pa. 1932. Two volumes. New Spain: xii,333pp. Anglo- American West: 267pp. Cloth. Internally fine, unopened. Tissue paper jackets. In rubbed slipcase with loose top. Documents collected to honor Herbert Bolton who studied and taught in both fields. Many important contemporary sources contained herein relating to the Spanish borderlands...
Houston. 1871. 104,[1]pp. plus folding map. Small errata slip pasted to inside front wrapper. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to wrappers, vertical split along front wrapper neatly repaired. Text evenly tanned. Splits along map folds neatly repaired on verso. Very good. A rare promotional pamphlet providing a favorable description.....
[Austin, Tx. 1905]. [8],258pp. manuscript. Folio. Light soiling, confined primarily to exterior leaves. Some light age toning. With authorial corrections throughout. Very good. In a brown half morocco box. Original draft of the novel, written when Clint Brown was an undergraduate at the University of Texas. Brown's conceit is that.....
New York: J. Disturnell, 1847. Folding map, 29 1/2 x 24 inches. In a 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt- stamped front board. Boards with minor soiling. Ownership inscription at verso left margin and on rear pastedown. Several separations along folds, some discoloration where tipped into covers. Printed color bright and.....
Washington. 1857. Two volumes. 775; 572pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Extremities moderately frayed, unobtrusive internal library marks, else very good. Extremely fine material on Indians of the West, from Canada to Mexico, with a wealth of information on Pacific Northwest Indian problems, and all manner of documents from the Commissioner of.....
