PETER HURD: THE LITHOGRAPHS.
Lubbock, TX: Baker Gallery Press, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 9 1/2 x 12, pages numbered (about 200), b&w art reproductions, introduction by Andrew Wyeth. Beautiful lithographs. More
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AZUELA AND THE MEXICAN UNDERDOGS.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8 x 10, 233 pgs, bibliography, b&w illustrations. Presents the version of Los de abajo, a novel Mariano Azuela wrote while in Chihuahua and El Paso which was close in episode and feeling to the turbulent months of 1915 when the revolutionary troops..... More
HIDALGO; Mexican Revolutionary
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 6 x 8, 161 pgs, index. The author brings this charismatic leader to live and examines the ill-fated revolution he led. More
MEXICO IN A NUTSHELL; And Other Essays
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 145 pgs.Translated by Charles Ramsdell, foreword by Arthur Torres-Rioseco. A series of passionate and intelligent essays by a Spanish American. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
B. TRAVEN; An Introduction
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 184 pgs, index, notes, bibliography. Explores the anarchist influiences on the author best known for Treasure of the Sierra Madre. More
WITTER BYNNER; A Bibliography
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1967. Paperback. 6 x 9, 112 pgs, index. Witter Bynner was a prolific author, as this Bibliography will attest. More
THE LOST LAKES; A Story of the Texas Rangers
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 176 pgs, monotone illustrations, decorated endsheets. On this expedition of the Texas Rangers, Chett Roberts, only fourteen, is permitted to ride with with Texas Ranger father for the first time in search of the legendary Lost Lakes. This..... More
JOHN CHISUM; Jinglebob King of the Pecos
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 170 pgs, index, endnotes, bibliography. Contains some information on the Chisum women and a chapter on Billy the Kid. One of the first to drive his cattle from Texas to New Mexico on the Goodnight Loving Trail. Includes..... More
PHANTOM CROWN; The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico
Mexico: Ediciones Tolteca, S.A., 1960. Hardcover. 5 x 7, 443 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. This is the second, Mexican edition. The first editon (Mexican) was published seven years earlier in 1953. More
QUAKING LEAVES.
Dallas: Kaleidograph Press, 1940. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2, 78 pgs. A nice collection of Texas poetry. Signed by the author. More
MERRYVALE BOYS ON THE FARM.
New York: The New York Book Co., 1916. Hardcover. 5 x 7, 64 pgs, color illustrations. Sweet old childrens' book. More
PANCHO VILLA, RAYO Y AZOTE.
Mexico: Populibros "La Prensa" 1955. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 191 pgs. All in Spanish. Very rare. More
PINTO BEN AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Britton Publishing, 1919. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 95 pgs. Three old west short stories; two by the actor William Hart and one by his sister Mary. Great foreword by the author, too. More
MEMORIES OF MEXICO; A History of the Last Ten Months of the Empire
San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 7 x 10 1/2, 253 pgs. Translated by Hugh McAden Oechler. The author was the personal physician to Emperor Maximilian. More
ISAAC'S STORM; The Drowning of Galveston - 8 September 1900
London: Fourth Estate, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 8 1/2, 385 pgs. An historical account of the hurricane that claimed thousands of lives--and decimated Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900. More
TEXAS; The Lone Star State
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1953. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 460 pgs, b&w photos. Presents a history of Texas with roles played by Spanish priests and conqueroros, filibusters and empresarios, frontiersmen from Tennessee, and planters from Alabama. More
WITHOUT NOISE OF ARMS; The 1776 Dominguez-Escalante Search for a Route from Santa Fe to Monterey.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing, 1976. Hardcover. 11 x 9 1/2, 212 pgs, index, b&w maps and illustrations and color paintings. Spain's ultimate thrust of colonial energy into the New World: includes excerpts from Escalante's journal of the expedition, covering over 2000 miles of territory in the US Southwest in about..... More
SEASON AT THE POINT; The Birds and Birders of Cape May
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991. First printing. Pamphlet. 6 x 9, 290 pgs. "Jack Connor gives us an intimate view of the currents, counter-currents and passions of the naturalists whose lives revolve around Cape May's annual drama of migration."--Roger Tory Peterson. More
MEXICO UNDER CARRANZA; A Lawyer's Indictment of the Crowning Infamy of Four Hundred Years of Misrule
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1919. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 270 pgs. Venustiano Carranza Garza was one of the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution, whose victorious northern revolutionary Constitutionalist Army defeated the counter-revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta (February 1913 July 1914) and then defeated fellow revolutionaries..... More
IN AND OUT OF CENTRAL AMERICA; And Other Sketches and Studies of Travel
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1890. Hardcover. 5 x 7 1/2, 246 pgs, b&w historical photos and maps. Wonderful old travel book. More
THE CITY OF THE SACRED WELL.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 287 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The story of the discoveries & excavations of Edward Herbert Thompson in the ancient city of Chi-Chenitza; plus discussion of the art and architecture of the Mayan civilization. More
MEXICAN MAZE.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. Third printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 370 pgs, b&w illustrations by Diego Rivera, decorated endsheets. A neat old travel book. More
MY SEARCH FOR B. TRAVEN.
New York: Methuen, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 249 pgs. The author's personal adventures in Mexico seeking the personal and literary past of B. Traven. More
DON'T SETTLE FOR SECOND.; Life & Times of Cornelius C. Smith.
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1977. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 229 pgs, index, b&w photos, foreword by Barry Goldwater. The diaries and reminiscences of a professional soldier whose career spanned the years 1890-1920. He fought Indians in the West, receiving a Medal of Honor and went on to the Spanish..... More
O.P. MCMAINS AND THE MAXWELL LAND GRANT CONFLICT.
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1979. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 365 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w historical photos. The story of this Methodist minister who originally set out to bring the murderer of a fellow clergyman to justice but ended up leading a twenty-year battle against corporate capitalism..... More