Search Results: Titles starting with G from Maggie Lambeth

Hildburgnausen, Germany: Meyer's Universum, 1856. Original extracted from larger volume. Flat. Fine. This important view depicts the wharves with many structures, half sunk sail boat and dock workers. Very detailed. Kelsey & Hutchison Fig. 4.123 pg. 93; PINCKNEY - Painting in Texas p. 153.

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.

Orange, Tx.: Heritage House Museum of Orange, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD.. Limited edition printed by David Holman at Wind River Press in an edition of 1,000 copies, Austin, Texas, 261pp., index, bibliography, appendix, historic photographs, maps, illust. Oblong 4to, white cloth backed green photographic boards, green paper spine label has tiny chip and rubbing. Beautiful production with several hundred historic photographs. Paper is beginning to deteriorate along the edges with tiny holes and some minor rubbing exposing the boards and the white cloth spine is soiled. This scarce history is clean, tight and rhw contents are fine. Wear to the boards noted. Rare to find this county history. Its contents include early Natime Americans, Spain and France, "The Runaway Scrape," Social Violence, Slavery, Slave Trade, Developing Black Culture, Civil War. Oil Boom, and Ship Building among other interesting topics by one of the county's most well respected historians.

Dallas: Valley House Press, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. VERY GOOD. SIGNED with author's presentation, 200pp., illustrated, pictorial white sq 4to wraps. Well known Dallas, Texas artist and gallery owner.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. FINE. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Color frtspc. "Comanche Chief", 127pp., index, bib., 60 illus. plates, 11 figures including a Map of South Texas 1844-1846. folio green cloth, gilt spine titles, mustard endpapers, no names, color illus. dj in mylar cover. Born in France in 1820, he came to Texas with Henri Castro in 1844 and lived in Castroville where he became acquainted with the Indians of the area by walking from Castroville to San Antonio. He resided in San Antonio until his death in 1906. Pronounced Jonteel. Paintings include El Alamo in 1844; Fandango ; Spanish Dance, San Antonio; Camp of the Lipans, Comanches on the War Path.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Revised Edition. FINE/fine. 158pp., new photographs coordinated by Lisa Hardaway, foreword to the original 1968 edition by Louis Kahn. 4to black boards, gilt spine titles, black color photographic dust jacket. Previous ownr's stamp on bottom edge. Revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. The b/w photographs are the heart of the book as they illustrate geometric forms used in historic and modern buildings.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Revised Edition. VERY GOOD/fine. 158pp., new photographs coordinated by Lisa Hardaway, foreword to the original 1968 edition by Louis Kahn. Previous owner's name. All else like new. Revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era to another. The b/w photographs are the heart of the book as they illustrate geometric forms used in historic and modern buildings.

Wa. D.C.: National Gallery, 1987. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 306pp., illus with 120 full page color plates, and b/w, photographs. Folio color printed white wraps.Few cover creases.

Denton: University of North Texas, 2001. First Edition. FINE IN FINE DJ/fine. Photographs, 303pp., index, notes, bibliography, black titles on red cloth, red yellow & black photographic dust jacket. Using a newly discovered cache of Wagner family letters, the author examines the lives of the brothers as they sought to make better futures for themselves and raises the question whether the U.S. is a collection of separate immigrant cultures or whether those cultures become assimilated in the famous "melting pot." With much on San Antonio, New Braunfels, Robert Kleberg, early homesteads at the Twelve-Mile-Coto Creek, between Steiner's Settlement and Myersville where Kleberg and Julius Wagner were close friends.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD /very good. Presentation copy signed by the author, photos, 304pp. dj. Washington veteran who was a trend setting heroine of her time as vice-presidential aide to Lyndon Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird, she played a flamboyant part in Washington's social and political life for more than three decades. Carpenter was born in historic Salado in southern Bell County, Texas in1936, her 24-room residence there was declared a state historic monument. Wonderfully anecdotal story of life at the top, and the first woman to be vice-president of the student body at the University of Texas. She sets an old-fashioned, Texas-style heck of an example to us all.- Publisher

University of North Texas Press, 1991. First Edition. Soft Cover. FINE. Illustrations, index, wraps. Includes chapter on visit to Mexico in late 1890's.

Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. In cooperation with Thomas Gilgrease Institute of American History and Art, 400pp., index, no dj. No names. An annotated bibliography of materials on the Five Civilized Tribes as well as a broad range of 17th and 18th century memoirs, travel accounts and 19th century western materials. Includes CHEROKEE, CHICKASAW, CHOCTAW, CREEK and others.

Crosbyton, Tx: Published by Crosby County Historical Commission., 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Typescript format. Includes a list of obits on file with the county.

Decorated red, green & yellow paper over boards, printed yellow label to upper board. Endsheets discolored, spine darkened with fractional surface loss from head and heel, minor toning toward edges. One of 400 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. In addition to providing the introduction, Graves was responsible for the selection of poems. Ransom dedicated the collection to Graves.

Fort Worth: TCU, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. SIGNED by 8 authors. Photographs, 308pp., index, Contributors Biographies 4to gilt-stamped tan cloth, peach endpapers, dj in archival mylar. Various contributors including Joyce Williams - Frontier Women; Ranch Women, Cowgirls and Wildcatters by Judy Alter; Duchesses with Hearts of Love and Brains of Fire by Ruth Karbach; Mudholes, There's Nothing So Useless as a Showgirl by Jan L. Jones; Braving the Smok by Cindy C. Smolovik, Cracking the Glass Ceiling by Carol Roark; The North Side, La Fundicion, and el TP by Sandra Guerra-Cline; High-Heeled Times in the Newsroom by Katie Sherrod and includes the lives of 100s of community women from the past and present.

Denison, Texas: Grayson County College Fdn., 2004. First Edition. FINE/fine. SIGNED by both authors on bookplate fixed to front endsheet, also SIGNED with presentation on title page by McLeRoy. 288pp., historic photographs, bibliography, 3 appendices, index, chapter notes, 4to dark purple cloth, color pictorial dj. Winner of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913) Texas horticulturist who developed over 300 varieties of new grapes especially for south and southwest. It was Munson who saved the French grapes from phylloxera epidemic of the late 19th c.

College Station: Welder Wildlife Fdn., 1965. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with b/w photographs and detailed line drawings, 189pp., index, small 4to. green cloth, with gilt titles and black drawing. Edges rubbed corners worn, clean and tight.

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.

Hardcover. FINE/fine. 336pp., 408 color photos, 6 illustratins, 1 map. Due in May. Catalogs 250 taxa, representing 9 subfamilies, 15 tribes and 88 genera. Detailed descriptions accompanied by color photographs cover 175 native species and 75 that were introduced. Covers grasses that occur in 31 counties, the extensive ranges of many represented species also make this a useful reference for other areas of the state, the American Southwest and the Great Plains, and northern Mexico.

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 .