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San Antonio: Pearson Newcomb, [printed by the] Standard Print. Co., [1926]. 154 pages. Illustrated with portraits and historic photographs in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gold. [20.4 cm.] Near fine. Binding shows slightest evidence of rubbing. A nice, bright copy. FIRST EDITION.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1938]. [40] pages. Original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in red and green. [16.7 cm.] A good plus copy in like dust jacket. Moderate foxing to cloth, but internally clean. Early owner's inscription dated 1942 on front free endpaper. Jacket has several small tears and short repairs on verso with archival tape (minimal loss, not affecting lettering), a small abrasion to front panel, and some light soil. Early printing of the author's first book. [It is more commonly found under the imprint, "Gentry Press, New York," dated 1938, which appears to have priority. Comparison of the title page with a bookseller's photo of the Gentry issue suggests that only the imprint was reset.] Illustrated with wood engravings in the text by Willard Clark, most of which are printed in color. A charming children's book set in San Antonio, describing the traditional Christmas miracle play, "Los Pastores." Janette Sebring Lowrey (b. 1892) was a… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1970]. 278 pages, plus plates reproducing historic photographs. Original cloth. [23.5 cm.] A fine copy in very good plus dust jacket. Jacket shows light rubbing to spine panel, slight bumps to ends of spine panel, and soiling to rear panel. FIRST EDITION. A first-person account of ranch life on the "Staked Plains," the vast tablelands of eastern New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. The author moved to the Llano Estacado in 1887. His wrote extensively about his experiences as a cowboy in newspapers and periodicals under the pen name, "Ol' Waddy.