New Arrivals
1973 OS RANCH STEER ROPING & ART EXHIBIT.
Post, TX: Exhibit Committee, 1973. Paperback Spiral Bound. 11 x 8 1/2, 90 pgs, b&w and monotone photos. Includes a short history of the OS Ranch and short bios of each of the many artists whose are was exhibited at this event. More
"OLD BRUIN" COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 492 pgs, index, bibliography. A fine biography of Perry, important 19th century naval officer and brother of Oliver, "hero of Lake Erie" by the great multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. More
THE INSECT MENACE.
London: D. Appleton and Co., 1931. First printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 347 pgs, index. Written for the lay public "to arouse such a public to an appreciation of a very real menace to humanity" More
LA CHINA POBLANA.
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 256 pgs, bibliography. An absorbing true story of the harem princess who became Mexico's national heroine. The 1600s Cochin China nobles chose a woman of the fisherfolk as the last bride of their Grand Mogul to provide him an heir..... More
THE GREYSTONE NATURE LOVER'S TREASURY.
New York: Greystone Press, 1948. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 796 pgs. Over 100 different nature stories and poems by over 80 authors including Carl Akeley, Steinbeck, Oscar Wilde, Seton and more. More
THE PEYOTE CULT.
Hamden, CT: The Shoe String Press, 1959. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 192 pgs. Anthropological study of peyote and the people who use it. More
THE SUNNY SLOPES OF LONG AGO.
Dallas: SMU Press, 1966. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 204 pgs, index. A collection of stories and esays on the West by noted writers, such as J. Frank Dobie, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Mody Boatright, and others. More
GRAND CANYON: AN ANTHOLOGY.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1978. Paperback. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 258 pgs. There have probably been more pictures than words published about The Grand Canyon. And while there are some photographs included in this book it a book of stories by 23 of the most talented authors about this..... More
ANSON JONES; The Last President of Texas
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 462 pgs, index, mapped endsheets, old news clipping book review. "Anson Jones came to Texas broke, many times a failure. Thereafter his story was the story of Texas - through Revolution, the hectic days of the Republic of Texas..... More
EMISSARIES TO A REVOLUTION; Woodrow Wilson's Executive Agents in Mexico
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1973. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 394 pgs, index. During the most violent phase of the Mexican Revolution (1913-1915), President Woodrow Wilson dispatched to Mexico eleven special executive agents in an attempt to influence the course of the revolution along lines that would..... More
COSTA RICAN NATURAL HISTORY.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 816 pgs, index, b&w photos. Includes a great insert on the editor. The editor, with 174 contributors, thoroughly covers Costa Rican natural history. More
US ARMY: INFANTRY TRAINING BRIGADE.
Ft. Benning, Georgia: undated. Hardcover. 9 x 12, unnumbered pages, about 60, color photos throughout. Previous owner, Col. Jerry Z. Ainsworth signed the book on January 9, 1996. More
MAURICE BARING RESTORED.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 444 pgs. Selected works of this English writer, 1874-1945. More
MEXICO'S DILEMMA.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 281 pgs, b&w photos and illlustrations. Mexican history. Inscribed and signed by the author. Includes a bit of newspaper ephemera. More
CRASSULAS IN CULTIVATION.
London: Blandford Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 78 pgs, b&w and color illustrations. Neat old book to help identify succulents. Beautiful illustrations. More
DIPLOMATIC DAYS.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1917. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 338 pgs, b&w historical photos. The author takes the reader into her intimate confidence as she tells of her many contacts with men and women who have played their parts in changing the course of world history and..... More
MEXICO EN 1911; Dibujos y caricaturas
Mexico: Liberia de Manuel Porrua, S.A., 1949. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 8, 116 pgs, b&w drawings. Rare book of caricatures of famous Mexicans. Some text, all in Spanish. More
LIFE OF MAXIMILIAN I., LATE EMPEROR OF MEXICO; With a Sketch of The Empress Carlota
New York: James Miller, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 5 x 7, 317 pgs. A quote from the preface: 'I gathered my materials and nearly completed the work while in Mexico, and was most diligent in my exertions to collect facts... I trust I shall not be charged with either vanity..... More
THE STORY OF SURGERY.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 425 pgs, index, b&w historic photos and interesting drawings."This book is not a text-book. That is one of the reasons it is so good. It is a history of surgery from the dawn of Man to the..... More
EL PASO; A Borderlands History
El Paso, TX: Texas Western Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 387 pgs, index, notes, bibliography, b&w historical photos. In this meticulously researched book the professor of history author focuses on the uniqueness of life of the US-Mexico border. Central to the work are the two cultural traditions..... More
MEXICAN GALLOP.
New York: Green Circle Books, 1937. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 248 pgs. Novel about a Gringo office worker who runs off to Mexico with a female Mexican soldier. Gregory Mason was a pseudonym of Doris Meek and Adrienne Jones. Richard Carroll was a screenwriter (1898-1959). Inscribed and signed by..... More
A RIGHT TO BE MERRY.
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1956. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 212 pgs, glossary. Inscribed and signed by the author. "The names of cloistered nuns and postulants used in this book are fictitious. Nothing else is." Life in a convent. More
EMINENT DOMAIN; The Louisiana Purchase and the Making of America.
New York: Charterhouse, 1973. Second printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 389 pgs, index, mapped endsheets. Fascinating account of the complex events on both sides of the Atlantic that ultimately conspired in America's favor. More
THE STORY OF PUEBLO POTTERY.
Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1951. Paperback. 6 x 9, 62 pgs, b&w photos. Interesting history of pottery of the southwest's pueblo Indians. More