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Item #623474 1925 Photograph of a Young Texas Cowboy

1925 Photograph of a Young Texas Cowboy

(Dallas, Texas): 1925. Unbound. Sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph. Approximately 4¼" x 7½". Creases on the corners and rubbing on the edges, very good. Full length image of a young boy, perhaps nine or ten, standing sideways and pictured in full cowboy rig, his hat-band is emblazoned with the word "Dallas"..... More

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Item #624326 [Carte de Visite]: African-American Caregiver with a White Baby

[Carte de Visite]: African-American Caregiver with a White Baby

[No place - Texas? circa 1875]. Unbound. Gelatin silver carte de visite photograph. Image measuring approximately 2¼" x 3¾" on a slightly larger card mount. Neither the subjects or the photographer is identified, but obtained with a group of images from Texas, and likely from the same location. Small, very..... More

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Item #621846 The James Franks Site (41DT97): Excavations at a Mid-Nineteenth Farmstead in the...

The James Franks Site (41DT97): Excavations at a Mid-Nineteenth Farmstead in the South Sulpher River Valley, Cooper Lake Project, Texas

Denton, Texas: Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, 1989. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 276pp. Maps, illustrations. Spiral bound printed illustrated wrappers. Owner name on front wrap and first leaf, else very near fine. More

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Item #622173 [Snapshot]: Four Children with African-American Caretaker in Lorena, Texas

[Snapshot]: Four Children with African-American Caretaker in Lorena, Texas

Lorena, Texas: [circa 1900?]. Unbound. Snapshot (a Real Photo Postcard, trimmed at the right and left sides). Measuring 3¾" x 3½". Captioned "Ruth and Allien [sic] in Lorena Tex.," with stars noting the two older children. Trimmed as mentioned, removed from an album with paper and adhesive residue on the..... More

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Item #508154 Folk Art in Texas. Francis Edward ABERNETHY
ABERNETHY, Francis Edward, edited by

Folk Art in Texas

Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. viii, 202pp. Illustrated from photographs. Slight spotting on topedge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing. 28 essays devoted entirely to Texas folk art, including references to African-American folk artists in Texas. More

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ISBN: 0870742108

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Item #577806 The Texas Quarterly – Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1968. James AGEE, Harry H. Ransom
(AGEE, James, and others). Harry H. Ransom, edited by

The Texas Quarterly – Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1968

(Austin, Texas): University of Texas Press, 1968. Softcover. Vol. XI, No. 1. Tall octavo. 229pp. Perfectbound. Illustrated from black and white plates. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, near fine. Subscription form tipped in. Notable contributors include James Agee, Hector Bolitho, James Morris, Juan Jose Hernandez, Ulrich Troubetzkoy, and others. "Agee..... More

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Item #625096 The Texas Quarterly – Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1968. James AGEE, Harry H. Ransom
(AGEE, James, and others). Harry H. Ransom, edited by

The Texas Quarterly – Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1968

Austin: University of Texas, 1968. Softcover. Vol. XI, No. 1. Tall octavo. 229pp. Owner name and stamp on the contents page, a bit of wear including a very short creased tear on the rear cover, and the white spine titling evenly tanned, very good or better. Prints material on James..... More

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Item #613307 The Quest of Jubal Kane. Doug BOWMAN
BOWMAN, Doug

The Quest of Jubal Kane

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1999. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Fine in fine dust jacket. More

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ISBN: 0312865465

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Item #621142 The Life of John Wesley Anderson in Verse. J. Mason BREWER
BREWER, J. Mason

The Life of John Wesley Anderson in Verse

Dallas: Clyde C. Cockrell & Son, 1938. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 108pp. plus 20 pages of photographic plates printed in green, plus frontispiece frontispiece portrait of the subject. Original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Gilt very tarnished, near fine. A biography of a noted Texas African-American physician rendered..... More

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Item #603693 The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. J....
BREWER, J. Mason

The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1953. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by J. Frank Dobie. Illustrations by Ralp White, Jr. Octavo. 109pp. Red cloth stamped in black. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. J. Mason Brewer was a poet, noted scholar, and the first African-American member of..... More

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Item #603529 Honkytonk Gelato: Travels Through Texas. Stephen BROOK
BROOK, Stephen

Honkytonk Gelato: Travels Through Texas

New York: Atheneum, 1985. Hardcover. First American edition. 283pp. Near fine in a slightly rubbed very good dust jacket with a 1 ½" v-shaped tear on the front panel, modest edgewear and a partially sunned spine. More

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ISBN: 068911639X

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Item #513300 Texas Childhood. Evelyn Miller CROWELL
CROWELL, Evelyn Miller

Texas Childhood

Dallas, Texas: The Kaleidograph Press, (1941). Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. ix, 91pp. Green cloth gilt. Covers a trifle splayed and spine titling dulled, a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. More

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Item #542590 Katherine Anne Porter's Women: The Eye of Her Fiction. Jane Krause DeMOUY
DeMOUY, Jane Krause

Katherine Anne Porter's Women: The Eye of Her Fiction

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1983). Hardcover. First edition. 228pp. A few pages with minor pen underlining in text and writing in the margins, foxing on topedge, a bit of faint spotting on boards, still about near fine in a very good or better dust jacket with a couple short..... More

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ISBN: 029279018X

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Item #608035 Publications of The Texas Folk-Lore Society. Number IV. J. Frank DOBIE
DOBIE, J. Frank, edited by

Publications of The Texas Folk-Lore Society. Number IV

Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, May 1925. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 133pp. Printed wrappers. Faint stains and tiny nicks and tears on the wrappers, very good. A collection of Southwestern essays and stories, including an article by Dobie. More

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Item #621216 Cattle Kings of Texas. C. L DOUGLAS
DOUGLAS, C.L.

Cattle Kings of Texas

Austin: State House Press, (1989). Softcover. Trade paperback edition. Octavo. 386pp. Illustrated glossy wrappers. Small owner name on front wrap and titlepage, overall near fine. More

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Item #621152 [Cover Title]: History Of The Lake Jackson State Archeological Landmark Site, Lake...
FEW, Joan

[Cover Title]: History Of The Lake Jackson State Archeological Landmark Site, Lake Jackson, Texas

Lake Jackson, Texas: Texas Archeological Society, 1995. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Serially paginated by chapter. With several maps. Comb-bound wrappers. Archeologist Amy C. Earls' copy with her name on the front cover. Title neatly written on the spine in marker (two letters smudged) else fine. More

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Item #509226 Reflections of a Black Man. Efton F. GEARY
GEARY, Efton F.

Reflections of a Black Man

San Antonio: The Naylor Co., (1972). Hardcover. Second printing, first printing was published in 1970. Octavo. 36pp. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Poetry by a Black decorated Vietnam War vet from San Antonio. More

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Item #628016 The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues: Focus Houston. Alan GOVENAR
GOVENAR, Alan

The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues: Focus Houston

Houston: Rice University Press, (1990). Hardcover. First edition. Slim quarto. 87pp. Edges a trifle foxed, still fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear. More

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Item #605591 Looking 'em Over: Tales of a Texas Sports Writer. Lloyd J. GREGORY
GREGORY, Lloyd J.

Looking 'em Over: Tales of a Texas Sports Writer

(Austin: Steck-Warlick Co. / Lloyd Jefferson Gregory, 1968). Hardcover. First edition. Thin octavo. 115pp. Illustrated. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a modest snag tear on front panel. Warmly Inscribed by the author. More

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Item #607374 A Time to be Human. John Howard GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN, John Howard

A Time to be Human

New York: Macmillan, (1977). Hardcover. First edition. 102pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Glue stains on endpapers, very good in a near fine dust jacket with interior stains on the flaps. More

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Item #618500 National Youth. Vol. I, No. 2-4 (three issues). Louis M. GRIFFIN, John Held Jr
GRIFFIN, Louis M. (John Held, Jr.)

National Youth. Vol. I, No. 2-4 (three issues)

Fort Worth, Texas: Louis M. Griffin, October - December, 1937. Softcover. Tabloid. Small quartos. 6; 8; 11pp. Illustrated. Three issues. Each has a tidy horizontal crease, cheap newsprint pages are toned but stable, very good or better. A presumably short-lived periodical associated with the American and United Amateur Press Association..... More

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Item #621262 Memories of Ninety Six. Oliver HANCE
HANCE, Oliver

Memories of Ninety Six

New York: Vantage Press, (1992). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. vii, 71, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Vanity-published autobiography of growing up with a foster family in rural 1930s South Carolina. Hance would go on to serve in WWII and work as a pastor and school..... More

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ISBN: 0533096189

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Item #621167 From the Gulf to the Rio Grande: Human Adaptation in Central, South, and Lower Pecos...
HESTER, Thomas R., Stephen L. Black, D. Gentry Steele, Ben W. Olive, Anne A. Fox, Karl J. Reinhard, and Leland C. Bement

From the Gulf to the Rio Grande: Human Adaptation in Central, South, and Lower Pecos Texas

San Antonio [etc.]: Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio / Texas A & M University / Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1989. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. 178, [1 appendix, laid in] pp. Illustrated. Archeologist Amy C. Earls' copy with her owner name on the front cover and..... More

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Item #621169 From Clovis to Comanchero: Archeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains. Jack...
HOFMAN, Jack L., Robert L. Brooks, Joe S. Hays, Douglas W. Owsley, Richard L. Jantz, Murray K. Marks, and Mary H. Manhein

From Clovis to Comanchero: Archeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains

Oklahoma [etc.]: Oklahoma Archeological Survey, University of Oklahoma / Louisiana State University / Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1989. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. 286pp. Illustrated. Archeologist Amy C. Earls' copy with her owner name on the front cover and first page. Printed wrappers with a toned spine and very light soil..... More

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Item #625093 Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-38 [in] The Texas Quarterly – Vol. VII,...
(HOLLEY, Mary Austin). Harry H. Ransom, edited by

Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-38 [in] The Texas Quarterly – Vol. VII, No. 2, Summer 1965

Austin: The University of Texas, 1965. Softcover. Vol. VII, No. 2. Tall octavo. 144, [15 illustrations] pp. Owner name and white spine titling the tiniest bit tanned else fine. Prints an introduction to the diary by J. P. Bryan, the three-year diary reproduced in its entirety, notes on the diary..... More

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