Search Results: Authors starting with N from Maggie Lambeth

Austin: UTP, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 750pp, index, 4 maps, 16 illus, bibliography. No names, light foxing to endpapers, dj in archival mylar cover. BASIC 149. Early San Antonio and South Texas events during the days of the Republic. With significant information on the area that would be known as "Nueces Strip." Activities involving various ranches

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. First Edition. Wraps. FINE.. Previous owner's name, otherwise new. 270pp., index, notes, bibliography First full length study, Hickerson an anthropologist proposes these elusive people were a distinctive tribe and draws on extensive primary sources.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DJ./fine. 228pp., index, bibliography, small 4to. No names, no writing, dj in archival mylar cover. All 54 wild orchids in color photographs with descriptions of each that discuss blooming season, pollinators, typical habitats and range. The species are grouped by genus with a general introduction to each and also listed by color, county and habitat.

College Station: A&M, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. illus., 653pp. Lacks dj. With 523 species of native, introduced and adventive grasses, Texas has by far the most diverse grass flora of any of the fifty states. Dr. Gould's full and systematic treatment was in preparation for over twenty years and remains the one definitive guide to this vast and complex subject. No longer available in hardback and quite difficult to get hold of. The illus. are excellent for good identification. Dr. Gould was the expert in grass systematics, and for many years was a professor at Texas A&M where he cataloged some 150,000 types of grasses. He spent 20 years preparing this volume .

College Station: A&M, 1995. Second Printing. Wraps. VERY GOOD. Drawings by Keith Westover, 325pp., index, 4to green wraps. Clean and tight, excellent research copy. Previous owner's name.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Fair. 125pp., illus., folding plates, from the collection of author Lois Burkhalter, clean, tight. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Publication of the Plant Research Institute with drawings by Clare Y. Whaley. DJ with pieces missing. "First U.T. Press publication to win entry in the (National) Fifty Books of the Year competition." -Lowman PRINTING ARTS

Austin: Useful Wild Plants, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Ex-Reference-Library with stamps inside. No markings on bindings. Volume I, 568pp., illus., excellent color photos, index, maps, references, gilt-stamped brown title panels on 4to blue cloth. Volume II, first edition, 2000, index, 598pp, color photos. Matched set. Printed on coated stock. Bright clean tight set with uncirculated library stamps inside. For example the Acer has 29 pages and states "our native acers (Maple, boxelder) are among the most easily recognized of all our Texas woody plants when they bare fruits. ". These encyclopedias are loaded with useful interesting information, excellent color photographs help with identification. Rare.

College Station: A&M, 2005. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Cover. FINE. 246pp., index, glossary, color plates, resources. Stiff glossy wraps. A field guide to more than 125 species with color photos of each entry.

College Station: A&M, 1975. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FAIR DJ/fair. 653pp. , index to plant names, 330 detailed illustrations. DJ torn in archival mylar cover. With 523 species of native, introduced and adventive grasses, Texas has by far the most diverse grass flora of any of the fifty states. Dr. Gould's full and systematic treatment was in preparation for over twenty years and remains the one definitive guide to this vast and complex subject. Presented here are keys to and botanical descriptions of all grasses in Texas that grow regularly or occasionally out of cultivation.

BRITISH GUNMAKERS THEIR TRADE CARDS, CASES AND EqUIPMENT 1760-1860 by W. Keith NEAL & D.H.L. BACK hard cover in dj with archival mylar cover. First Editionm 166pp., index, gilt spine titles, crimson cloth, color dust jacket, pictorial navy endpapers. An essential reference for gun aficionados and those with a real interest in the makers of British arms and their accoutrements.

Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 349pp., 33 illustrations and 9 maps, including a double page map of the route of exploration made by Neighbors through West Texas in 1854, index, footnotes, biblio, brown cloth, gilt spine titles, price unclipped dj spine faded, in mylar. Neighbors arrived in Texas at the age of 20 during the revolution and was assassinated in the line of duty in his forty-fourth year. He took part in the most important developments, he served as an officer in the army of the Republic of Texas, as a Texas Ranger and prisoner of war in Mexico for two years, he was appointed commissioner to organize the counties of West Texas an an Indian Agent for Texas and the U.S. His progressive Indian policies would cost him his life.

Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/good. Volume I and II. Very good in faded dj and Volume II blue boards no dj. 4to blue/grey hardcovers.Vol. I ix + 278 [&] Vol II ix + 326pp. Both volumes.

Norwalk, Ct.: Easton, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE.. Illustrations by Charles Ripper and Virginia Savage, 449pp., index, color plates, b/w drawings. Pictorial gilt-stamped green leather, all edges gilt, green silk ribbon page marker. Part of the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides series.

Dallas: Southern Methodist, 2007. First ed. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/fine. SIGNED and dated on title page by the author. Forword by Ron Tyler with personal reminiscences by Mary Vernon and Frances Bearden. 185pp., 5 color, 34 b/w reproductions, and 22 b/w photographs, 115 illustrations, bibliography, index. Oblong 4to, silver-stamped sand silk cloth. DJ in archival mylar cover. Inside front cover shows publisher's glue along gutter. All else like new. First comprehensive overview of Bywaters prints and printmaking career. Art historians and collectors will find it an invaluable reference as it includes the early Dallas art scene and the pivotal role he played.in popularizing regional art.

San Antonio, Tx: Privately published by the author, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE.. Designed by Carl Hertzog. 25pp., 2 portraits. Gilt-stamped white leather backed taupe boards. Plain mylar dust jacket as issued. Lowman 195A. Rare. Only 300 copies printed. Olive Read Nixon was an active partner with her San Antonio doctor-husband in the buildng of an outstanding private library which was given to Trinity University. (Also issued in wraps).

Mollie Bennett Lupe Memorial Fund,, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE. 507pp., index, extensive bib. No owner's names. Two color printed paper labels on spine and upper board. Superior copy in every way. Interesting chapter on Indian medicine, appendix of several hundred early Texas doctors. A graduate of Johns Hopkins in 1909, Dr. Nixon practiced medicine in Texas for 56 years and he covers much more here than his professional interest in medicine of his day, as well as Native Indian medicinal practices, the Spanish period, French Doctors, early Mexican period 1821-1836 and the Republic. BASIC 153. HOWES N161.

Mt. Pleasant, Tx: Thompson and Sons Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. 256pp., photos, 4to brown printed pictorial white wraps. No names, no writing.

Dallas, Tx: Taylor Publishing, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. 783pp., index, 100s of photographs, 4to maroon leatherette, embossed upper board, silver spine titles. No names, no writing. Many of these families are of Native American descent. Rare.

Austin: Encino Press, 1970. First Edition. Original print, SIGNED lower left. image size: 14 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, plus wide linen mat and gold frame. Overall 24 x 22 inches.Some damage associated with age and moisture, would benefit from modest restoration. From a Portfolio of Six Paintings by Ancel Nunn with a foreword by A.C. Greene. Sticker on back reflects it has once been in the collection of the First City National Bank of Austin and was framed by the Country Store in Austin, Texas. Fischer's is in Comal County on the Devil's Backbone and home to an annual music festival. Fischer Dance Hall was built in 1895 and continues to be operated by descendants of the original family who built it. Like many of the community halls that were built in Texas during this period Fischer Dance Hall was the social and civic center of the town. The interior of the hall is amazing with beautiful old hand-hewn beams and rafters.

NY: Greenwillow, 1999. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Stated First Edition, number line showing 10-4. Grey endpapers, silver spine titles on coral cloth backed grey boards, slightly over size, illustrated with b/w photographic portraits by Michael Nye, 205pp., index to poets, poems, notes on the contributors, dj. No names, no writing. Hardback. FINE. in a FINE DJ. Collection of poems by various authors, selected by San Antonio writer Naomi Nye.