Search Results: an early history of fayette county by weyland leonie rummel

LeGrange TX: Privately printed at the LaGrange Journal Plant, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 383pp. Index. 1 page of two portraits. Many lists of names. Potential interest in the non-authorial inscriptions on both the front paste down & the ffep. They say, in part, "Round Top, Texas 'The James Dick Banquet of Arks" and then a cryptic note. On the ffep, in part, "To the gentleman with ferment intelligibility and sublime noises Harold C Schonberg" and then a couple of lines in a foreign language and then signed "Valentine Stein Sunday 24 - June - 1973 (from Salina, Kansas)." Fayette County lies southeast of Austin & Bastrop. Fine copy. Possibly no dust jacket issued. Very scarce.

[LaGrange, Texas: Printed At The LaGrange Journal Plant, 1936]., 1936. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, [4], 383 pp., foreword, illustrated, portraits, chapter endnotes, index. The inked name and date of former owner Dr. W. E. York, dated Aug 29, 1941 appears on the front fly leaf. Laid-in to this copy is a letter on Sisters of St. Francis Hospital, Brenham Texas stationery dated July 10, 1951, to Dr. W. E. York, Giddings, Texas, advising him of the progress for the renovation of the hospital. The letter is signed by Sister M. Seraphia, Superintendent. One of the many histories of a Texas county with much on the Texas revolution and the Republic, Indian depredations, German and Czech settlements and citizens, etc. Small ink page notations on front pastedown sheet, former owner's name and date on front and rear fly leaves, a bit of underlining and notation to a few pages, else a very good, tight copy