Ranching/The West from Texas Star Books

Kingsville, TX: King Ranch, Inc., 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Edited, Annotated with an Introduction and Commentary by Bruse S. Cheeseman. Signed by him on half title page. Hiram Chamberlain was a Presbyterian minister who brought the first protestant church to the lower Rio Grande region of Texas.… Read more about this item

Dallas, Texas: H. H. Halsell/Wilkinson Printing Co., 1948. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on front free end paper with encouraging words, "Ride on, brave lad.". Born in 1860, Halsell worked as a cowboy and rancher most of his life. Cited in Adams' "Thundering Herd" #979. 253… Read more about this item

Lubbodk, TX: National Ranching Heritage Center, 2004. Second Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spiral-bound publication of The National Ranching Heritage Center, Lubbock, TX. Oblong format, 12-1/2" W X 9-1/4"H. 124 pp. Illustrated boards - no dust jacket. Crisp and bright copy. First title page has small smudge at top edge near… Read more about this item

Burnet, TX: Eakin Press, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Letters written by Archibald John Marjoribanks as co-manage the Rocking Chair Ranche in the eastern Panhandle of Texas from 1883 to 1893. Transcribed by Estelle Tinkler from the Panhandle-Plains Museum collection, Canyon, TX. 169 pp. Brown marbleized finish boards… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hilda Wilcox Phelps. Ex-Library copy with presentation inscription to previous owner from Sister M. Agatha, Incarnate Word Academy Houston, Texas July 29, 1957. Fort Worth Public Library pastedown, The Abby Moran Collection, previous owner. Library card pocket,… Read more about this item

Canyon, TX: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cited in Herd #2051. Designed by Carl Hertzog. End papers have map of Texas Panhandle showing The White Deer Lands and the J.A. Ranch. 322 pp. Crisp and tight with clean interior.Tan cloth boards have a… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Schiwetz, E. M.. Signed and inscribed by Ethel Matthews Casey, daughter of the author, matriarch of an iconic Texas ranching family. Inscription dated Nov. 19, 1974.This is the 3rd Edition, Number 13 in the M. K. Brown Range… Read more about this item

Roswell, NM: Chaves County Historical Society, 1978. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Editors Fleming and Huffman signed this copy on page opposite title page - with credit to Chaves County Historical Society. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. Bottom edge of both title page and page opposite it have a… Read more about this item

Dallas, TX: GLA Press, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg. Large format, 8 3/4"W X 11 1/4"H, 209 pp. Bright, crisp copy with top of spine and rear board having almost indiscernible damp stain. Book has slight… Read more about this item

Canyon, TX: Panhandle Plains Historical Society, 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. H. D. Bugbee. Inscription on preface page by Haley explaining the origin of the book and how Carl Hertzog, designer and typographer, and Harold Bugbee, illustrator, turned it into "this beautiful book" . Rampaging Herd #962. Large… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1957. 1st Ed., 2nd. Ptg. . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Compilation by writers including Walter Prescott Webb, Ramon Adams, Stanley Vestal and Wayne Gard. 248 pp. Adams' Rampaging Herd #1079 & Six Guns and Saddle Leather #1051. EX-LIB copy from USAF Base library with usual but… Read more about this item