(16) Books: Texas & Southwestern History

Lot description

(lot of 16) Texana books, including: (1) "Money, Marbles and Chalk," Jimmy Banks, Texas Publishing Company, Inc., 1971, signed by author on front free endpaper, (1) "The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family 1887-1906," edited by Virginia Bernhard, Texas State Historical Association, 2013, signed by the editor on title page, (1) "Lone Star Nation," H.W. Brands, Doubleday, 2004, first edition, signed by author, Rick Perry et al., (1) "The Last Boom," James A. Clark, Michel T. Halbouty, Random House, New York, 1972, first edition, (1) "The King Ranch Quarter Horses," Robert Moorman Denhardt, University of Oklahoma Press, 1970, first edition, ex-library copy, (1) "Wildcatter: The Story of Michel T. Halbouty and the Search for Oil," Jack Donahue, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979, (1) "6,000 Miles of Fence: Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas," Cordia Sloan Duke, Joe B. Frantz, University of Texas Press, (1) "The Flamboyant Judge," James D. Hamlin, a biography as told to J. Evetts Haley and Wm. Curry Holden, Palo Duro Press, 1970, (1) "Yesterday in the Texas Hill Country," Gilbert J. Jordan, Texas A&M University Press, 1979, first edition, (1) "Death of a Texas Ranger," Cynthia Leal Massey, TwoDot, 2014, signed by the author with personalized dedication at title page, (1) "The Eagle and the Raven," James A. Michener, State House Press, 1990, first trade edition, (1) "Great Roundup: The Story of Texas and Southwestern Cowmen," Lewis Nordyke, William Morrow & Company, New York, 1955, special edition for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, (1) "Big Spring: The Casual Biograph of a Prairie Town," Shine Philips, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1942, fourth printing, signed by author with personalized dedication on front free endpaper, (1) "Ashbel Smith of Texas," Elizabeth Silverthorne, Texas A&M University Press, 1982, first edition, (1) "An American Original: The Life of J. Frank Dobie," Lon Tinkle, Little, Brown and Company, 1978, first edition, (1) "God Save Texas," Lawrence Wright, Vintage Books, 2019; largest book: approx 10.25"h, 7.5"w, 22lbs total