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By: Athearn, Robert G. w/foreword By West, Elliott
Price: $16.15
Publisher: Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 034733
xii, 319 pp, grey cloth covered boards w/black lettering, dj silver w/red-black lettering w/black-and-white pictorial front panel. The author's eleven and last book. The author looks at how different developments shaped the modern West. View more info
Price: $24.95
Publisher: San Antonio, TX, The Naylor Company: 1953
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 038066
xx, 250 pp, yel-black cloth covered boards w/black lettering & black illustrated front panel and endpaper maps, dj brown-black w/black lettering & black illustrated front panel. The book provides the story of the Ameircan aborigine who roamed the prairies of Texas and the Southwest. It tells how he lived, worshiped his gods, fought his wars, his sciences, and his laws. reprint of Radar #198. dj small stain at bottom of the spine w/small chips along the top & bottom ed... View more info
Price: $68.00
Publisher: San Antonio, TX, The Naylor Company: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 039532
(16), 345 pp, yel cloth covered boards w/black lettering & black illustrated front panel and endpaper maps, bibliography p. 335-345. The book provides the story of the Ameircan aborigine who roamed the prairies of Texas and the Southwest. It tells how he lived, worshiped his gods, fought his wars, his sciences, and his laws. Rader #198. slight soiling to the boards, spine sunned, some discoloration to front & rear hinges. View more info
By: Atwood, E. Bagby
Price: $29.71
Publisher: Austin, TX, University of Texas Press: 1969
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 050889
xiii, 273 pp, red cloth boards w/silver letters. Vocabulary survey that was concerned primary with Texas and is to a great extent obsolescent. Many of the regional words reflect an era when most of the citizens were rural or knew something of rural life, before mechanization had become too commonplace. The word usages were collected in direct interviews w/men & women of the Southwest. dj small chips on top edge of the dj, sunning of the spine, dj price-clipped, prev ow... View more info
By: Austin, Mary H.
Price: $8.46
Publisher: Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press: 1986
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 049707
xx, 171 pp, light brown SC wraps w/dark brown illustrated front & rear panels w/blue-brown lettering on front & rear panels. This was Mary Austin's first book is considered classic of southwestern literature. She describes the plant, animal, and human life of the border region of Southern California and Arizona, land of the yucca, the coyote, and the buzzard, inhabited by miners, vaqueros, adn Shoshone and Paiute Indians. light sunning to the spine. View more info
Price: $29.75
Publisher: Austin, TX, University of Texas Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 034972
xiv, 257 pp, black cloth covered boards w/silver lettering, glossy black w/red-light yel-wht lettering w/whit illustration and gry-black pictorial on the front panel. The book researches the more than 1,000 animal, human and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru. The makers created lifelike images of monkeys, birds, and spiders with the giant drawings strectching across thousands of yards. View more info
Price: $9.78
Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Mabuhay Publishing Co.: 1973
Seller ID: 050414
190 pp, [2], orange-white SC wraps w/orange pictorial front panel & spine, rear cover white w/text. The book presents the stories and history of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. It has the story of the wreck of the Rio de Janeiro, Barney Gould's showboat, Alcatraz Island, Maritime Museum, the Balclutha, Benny Bufano's statue, Ghirardellis Square, the Cannery, and many others. It has information on the Italians, the Chinese, Enrico Caruso, Jack London,... View more info
By: Awbrey, Betty Dooley & Dooley, Claude and the Texas Historical Commission
Price: $11.01
Publisher: Houston, TX, Gulf Publishing Company: 1992
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 040658
x, 540 pp, glossy grey-black-light yel SC wraps w/pictorial front panel w/white-red lettering. By the time the second edition of Why Stop? was published there were almost 10,000 historical markers in Texas, and since 1985, approximately 1,000 markers ahve been added. More than 200 of these are located along state and federal highways and are included in thsi third edition of Why Stop? prev owner's name is on the top edge of the title page. View more info
By: Ayres, Thomas
Price: $9.14
Publisher: New York, NY, Bantam Dell: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051354
198 pp, quarterbound w/blue papercovered boards and blue cloth covered spine w/silver lettering on the spine. The book is a collection of fascinating and littlel-know facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America's rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians. View more info
By: B. Heller & Co.
Price: $40.38
Publisher: Chicago, IL, B. Heller & Co.: 1918
Edition: 6th Edition
Seller ID: 050315
154 pp, dark blue cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering on the front panel & spine. pages 134-154 color illustrated advertising pages for various products produced by B. Heller & Co. pages 10-24 black-and-white photos of company officers and various machines and offices of B. Heller & co. This book is a reference book to be used by the beginner and also the assistant to the expert and experienced ice-cream maker. The book contains numerous recipes for different ... View more info
By: Baber, D. F. as told by Walker, Bill
Price: $102.00
Publisher: Caldwell, ID, Caxton Printers Ltd: 1947
Seller ID: 051378
320 pp, light brown clothcovered boards w/gilt illustration on the front panel and spine, light-dark brown endpaper illustrations of map the portray the scene of the Johnson County War in Wyoming. The story of William Walker, cowpoke, trapper, scout, guide, and freighter, who knew his Western trails. It is the story of the Johnson County Cattle War - the conflict which marks the dividing line betweem the old West , under the rule of the big cattle kings and the new We... View more info
By: Bacque, James
Price: $74.80
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 036089
xxi, 248 pp, blu boards w/gilt lettering, glossy dark blue-light blu dj w/wht-red lettering. An investigation into the mass deaths of German Prisoners at the hands of the French and Americans after World War II. The author attributes the deaths of these German POW's at the hands of the French and the hands of the Americans to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. View more info
Price: $84.79
Publisher: Denton, TX, University of North Texas Press: 2001
Seller ID: 036688
xii, 821 pp, brown cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering, dj brown-wht-black w/pictorial front, spine, & rear panels. The book examines water transportation and natural and socioeconomic factors that affected it in Northwest Louisiana, East Texas and the Red River. The author explains how a natural logjam formed a continous waterbody west of Shreveport. View more info
By: Bahti, Tom
Price: $6.76
Publisher: Las Vegas, NV, KC Publications: 1974
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 022501
74 pp, wht SC wraps w/wraparound color pictorial. Book describes some of the ceremonials of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Papago, and Yaqui Indians. View more info
Price: $35.70
Publisher: New York, NY, The Wise-Parslow Company: 1928
Seller ID: 021729
96 pp, light yellow cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine & w/black illustration & lettering on the front cover, color illustrated endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text. The adventures of a young Hawaiian boy. prev owner address label on FPD, slight corner wear. View more info
Price: $28.05
Publisher: New York, NY, The Wise-Parslow Company: 1928
Seller ID: 021730
96 pp, red cloth covered boards w/black lettering on the spine & w/black illustration & lettering on the front cover, color illustrated endpapers, color illustrations throughout the text. The adventures of a young Hawaiian boy. worn & finish chipped on the edges. View more info
Price: $24.65
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman and Company: 1959
Edition: Revised
Seller ID: 025173
unpaginated, green cloth covered boards w/color pastedown illustration on front board, black lettering on the spine, dj light blu-dark blu-green-brown w/color wraparound illustration, color illustrated endpaper pastedowns. Book about the Volunteer State, one of the Deep South's progressive commonwealths. prev owner's name on title page, dj small chips at corners. View more info
Price: $9.35
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman and Company: 1950
Seller ID: 040170
unpaginated, green cloth covered boards w/color pastedown illustration on front board, black lettering on the spine, color illustrated endpaper pastedowns of the state flower. Book about the Lone Star State, sometimes called an inland empire becasue of its enormous size and great wealth. It has every kind of climate from almost tropical heat of the Rio Grane Valley in the south to the bracing cold on the plateaus of the northwest. prev owner's name on title page, ru... View more info
Price: $51.00
Publisher: Sarah Grace Bakarich: 1947
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 032741
153 pp, red SC wraps w/black lettering & illustration on the front cover, SIGNED by the author on the title page. The booklet is about the gunmen and outlaws of Tombstone, Arizona, the Earps and the Clantons. "It is crudely printed and full of typographical errors." Burrs - 16. " the author misspells the names of many of her characters." Six-Guns - 118. covers have water stain on back, remnants of bookplate on recto of rear cover. The front cov... View more info
By: Bakeless, John
Price: $29.75
Publisher: New York, NY, Wm. Morrow & Company: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 035919
xii, 498 pp, grey cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering, dj black-green-blu-brown w/color illustrated front panel & spine. Biography of two great explorers, who explorer the lands beyond the headwaters of the Mississippi in 1803. Most of the members of "The Corps of Discovery" kept diaries. They recorded not only the bold outlines of the trip with its Indian fights and other perils, bu also details, such as the number of buffaloes eaten, grizzly bears fought... View more info
