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NYC: Hyperion, 2011. First Edition. VERY GOOD/very good. Printed with sustainable forestry initiative certified fiber sourcing. 4to red boards, cactus green endpapers, silver spine titles with silver boots, full page color photographs illustrate the 125 recipes and Texas landscape photographs illustrate thru-out, glossy color dj price unclipped, date on first free endsheet In 2006 Lisa Fain, a seventh-generation Texan, started the blog Homesick Texan to share Texan food with fellow expatriates and the site immediately connected with readers worldwide, Texan and non-Texan alike. This is her long-awaited cookbok bringing the comfort of Texan home cooking to you. Each recipe offers a true taste of the Lone Star State. Includes pork tacos Dallas gas station style, tomatillo jalapeno jam, and much more.

Tulsa: McFarlin Library; University of Tulsa, 1980. First Edition. Portfolio. FINE. With cover letter from David Farmer and additional reproduction of promotional material for the original "Shakespeare and Company" ULYSSES by James Joyce. Includes prospectus, and card announcing Ulysses, photograph of Sylvia Beach (book store owner) and James Joyce (reproduction) facsimile letter all laid inside paper folder fade line, titled Adeste Fidelis, Keepsake Number 5 and designed by John E. Cruncleton Jr. Strickland, Rennard and Guy Logsdon. CHICKASAW STOCK ASS'N BRANDS. Tulsa, Ok: McFarlin Library, 1981, First Edition. 17 x 22 in. illus. broadside first published in Muskogee, Indian Territory, 1884, together with "The Indian Cowboy" single page, by Rennard Strickland and Guy Logsdon. FINE. Portraying an aspect of the native American as rancher in Indian Territory and the long connection between the idea of the cowboy and the Indian as early symbols of the American West.

NY: Macmillan, 1968. Second Printing. FINE/very good. State map endpapers, no names, no writing, 76lpp., index, bibliographical notes and suggested reading, price unclipped dj in archival mylar cover. Contains the 10 page bibliography not in the first printing. Insisted on by the publishers though the author didnot see it was necessary, he did go back and reconstruct this one which he calls "bibliographical notes and suggested further reading." Interestingly, this printing is less often seen than the first; though it was reprinted many times and those editions are still available. Nice clean giftable copy. Has been widely considered the most intelligent history of any state published and a particular favorite of Texans. "Mr. Fehrenbach wrote in a grand, sweeping manner reminiscent of epic histories of the West by Francis Parkman and Bernard DeVoto. His florid style borrowed elements from the 18th-century cadences of Edward Gibbon — whose “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”… Read More

N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. FINE/fine. Illustrations, 557pp. plus 14pg. index, color illustrated dj, price unclipped in archival mylar cover. Substantial research; excellent plates drawn from Curtis, Catlin, et al. Difficult to find especially in this very nice condition.

Brownsville: Springman King, 1976, . 1st edition. Hardcover. GOOD. 327pp., index, photos, maps, no dj, blue boards, owner's name, spine rubbed. A port 17 miles from the sea which many doubters were certain could never prove successful, its history includes violent partisan elections, the wars fought there, the age of steamboats and the years of struggle in the development of the Rio Grande Valley.

N.Y.: Grossman, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DJ./fine. TIL award (1974) winning Texas author's first novel about a Mexican-American ranch hand in West Texas. Scarce. Another copy in wraps. $10.00

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. dust jacket in mylar cover. One of McMurtry's best historical and often comical portraits. In a fine price un-clipped dust jacket with mylar protector.

Midland: Texas Center for Writers Press, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. VERY GOOD Condition.. 200pp., illustrations. Includes Beverly Lowry story "One of Life's Small Necessities." And 3 poems by Vassar Miller. Printed 2 color white french fold wraps.

N.Y.: Doubleday, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. first printing, SIGNED with author's presentation. DJ price unclipped inside archival mylar cover. Austin novelist, Bird was selected as writer of the year by the TEXAS WRITER'S PROJECT.

NY, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DJ./fine. Partially set in 19th Century San Antonio. "Vliet's writing is close to being a national treasure." - Malcolm Cowley. TIL Award.

Austin: Steck , 1935 . Reprint. Hardcover. VERY GOOD.. By one of the few survivors of Fanning's (sic) Command (at Goliad). 59pp. Gilt-stamped red cloth. Includes the first account of the taking of San Antonio in Dec. 1835 by the Texans. He was with the survivors who surrendered to Urrea at Goliad and because he was a surgeon he was ordered to attend the Mexican wounded and escaped the mass execution ordered by Santa Anna a few days after Fannin's surrender. One of the Steck Original Narratives of Texas History and Adventure Series.

NY: Grolier Club, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club from Dec. 10, 1997 - Feb. 21, 1998. Printed at the Allethaire Press, 71pp., photographs, references, 4to cloth backed color boards.

NY: William Morrow, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DJ./very good. Clean, tight no names, no writing, price unclipped dj in mylar cover. Faint fade area on upper board otherwise a fine bright sharp copy. One of Dallas' wealthiest and most celebrated citizens, murdered in 1983 leaving a 22 million dollar estate.

Wa. D.C.: Smithsonian, 1911. 1st edition. Hardcover. FAIR . 672pp., index, folding map of reservation, 65 plates, photographs of many tribal members, 132 illus. thru-out with text drawings, photos of artifacts, tribal names. Gilt-stamped green cloth, 4to (over-size). Covers heavily flecked with loss of color to cloth especially spine. Some water stains. No ownership names, tight binding and hinges are tight contents clean.

Dallas: Forney Historic Preservation League, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Map and photo endpapers,318pp., index, 100s of sepia photographs and illustrations, 4to maroon cloth with gilt spine titles and gilt titles to upper board Published in commemoration of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Forney and the 150th anniversary of the formation of Kaufman County. Includes the Muster Roll of Mustang Rangers No. 1 Organized 8 July 1861.

Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. SIGNED by the artist. Map, 113pp., index, oblong 4to color wraps. Full page color photographs with the color pastel painting made by Winton on the opposing page. Photographer and artist join their efforts in bringing the panorama of the Texas Plains canyons from obscurity."People who have lived in West Texas all their lives often merely move back and forth along the main-traveled roads; they have no inkling that canyon visions possessing both delicacy and majesty are there to be seen and wondered at, often only a few miles from their long-familiar routes..a little visited but compelling world." - Larry McMurtry

Weatherford, Tx: Published by the Author, 2004. First Edition. FINE. Unpaginated, (approximately 300ppp.) alphabetical list of contributors,Red bandana patterned wraps.

Dallas: Tardy, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. . 408pp., 12 illustrations, preface by Joseph Sartor. Gilt titles on blue cloth, spine and edge of boards with mottled loss of color.

Pasadena, Texas: Chisos Mt., 1985. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. Author's SIGNED presentation to former owner on title page, illus. by Bob Bell, photos, 83pp, 4to, pictorial white wraps. Near fine. Located along the Rio Grande opposite Presidio on the Comanche War Trail. This is also the story of John D. Burgess and historical events from 1847 to 1875.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. GOOD IN VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Previous owner's name, in several places, tape off-set to endpapers, ow clean tight bright and very good in gilt-stamped red cloth, 345pp., footnotes, maps, index, appendix, 71 illustrations including photographs. Bright pictorial red/yellow dj in mylar cover. Information on Quanah Parker, Satanta, Fort Griffin, Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, from the 1860s thru 1890s.