Search Results: Authors starting with O from Maggie Lambeth

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. A two volume set, without slipcase and blank bird bookplate. 530pp., 5311069pp., 36 color plates, 74 illus. by Louis Aagassiz Fuertes, 4 maps, folio, lacks slipcase. 4to green cloth. Clean and tight, no names, bright with sharp corners. Lower corner bumped. Slipcase bright with crack beginning along portion of bottom edge.Careful packing. BASIC 155 "The original manuscript weighed over 100 lbs. Oberholser died before the project of "paring down" was finished and it was Edgar Kincaid who agreed to continue the project without compensation." Fuertes (1874-1927) skill in painting these wonderful creatures so that they look alive, is much admired by birders today most of whom do not care for the melodramatic actors in feathers of Audubon.

Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 309pp., index, bib., photos, notes No pon. Cloth backed linen boards. DJ in mylar. After the Alamo, this little mission at Goliad is important for its part in the fight for the Republic. Roll of Fannin's Command, quotes from the German boy Erenberg's journal. Mrs. O'Connor was influential in the Mission's eventual restoration following more than 100 years of abuse and abandonment.

Baton Rouge, La: Claitor's Publishing, 1985. Second Printing. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN GOOD DJ./very good. Previous owner's neat name on free front endsheet, otherwise fine in good dj with piece missing and in mylar cover. Oblong 4to Pictorial printed brown and black on tan cloth. 565pp., bibliography, index, illustrated drawings.

Portland, Or: Timber Press, 2007. Second Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. SIGNED by the author, printed on coated stock, 100s of color photos, 396pp., index, dj. With many recommendations for Texas, the author's home state.

Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Ctr., 1989. First Edition. Paperback. FINE. 166pp., photographs. Contributions by various authors. 4to color pictorial white wraps.

Dallas: DeGolyer Library, 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. FINE.. One of 500 copies. Edited with an introduction by Randolph B. Campbell, xxi, 321pp., index, statistical appendix, bibliography, notes, reproduces "A Letter to a Southern Friend" not found in some earlier editions.Illus. with 6 text maps. Bound in gilt-stamped green silk backed boards with facsimile newspaper print. Author traveled on horseback through the Hill Country and was very much interested in the native flora and fauna. He was the landscape architect for Central Park in NYC. BASIC 157 50 BEST 23 HOWES O79 CLARK 481 GRAFF 3097 RAINES p159 Greene- 50 BEST Number Eight in the Library of Texas Series. Olmsted studied at Yale College became a nationally famous landscape gardener and distinguished writer of technical works and travel books. His book on Texas is a model of clearness, accuracy, and intelligence. - Payne

Austin: U.T. Press, 2003. Second ed. Wraps. NEW. Drawings by Clemente Guzman III, 228pp., color plates, references, index, seasonal distribution.

Fredericksburg: Shearer, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DJ./fine. 384pp., all color photographs, 4to red boards with silver spine titles. Difficult to find. Interesting details not found in other field guides. Best photographs and habit details.

Austin: Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1926. Soft Cover. GOOD. Vol. XXIX, No. 3, entire issue 161-248pp. Upper wrap torn. contents clean and tight. Includes The Significance of the Jacksboro Indian Affairs of 1871 by C. C. Rister; Supplementary Documents Relating to the Chamuscado Rodriguez Expedition.

Port O'Connor, Texas: Port O'Connor Community Service Club, 1978. FINE. Includes a 2pg. history by Kathryn Sharrp Harrison and Rae Beth Girard, 206pp. plus hints, index, advertisements, etc. Plastic comb binding Recipes give the name of the contributors.

Austin: UTP, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. Paintings by Michael Frary, foreword by John Palmer Leeper, 112pp., color plates, folio. Signed copy by the author