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THE BOOK OF NACOGDOCHES COUNTY, JULY 1, 1927.

By: Brown, Nugent E., Compiled By.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Houston, Minor Print: 1927

Seller ID: 028796

Binding: Paper

Condition: Good

Paper covers (front cover has stains on edges, missing 3" x 1/4" piece front edge), 95 pp., photos, many advertisements. A very scarce history of Nacogdoches County.
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DOWN WENT McGINTY. El Paso in the Wonderful Nineties.

By: Bryson, Conrey.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: El Paso, Texas Western: 1977

Seller ID: 027188

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Green cloth, 150 pp., photos, picture section by Millard McKinney, index. No d.j. A fine book on early El Paso and the McGinty Club. Contains Captain Jack Crawford's ode to the McGinty Club as well as many wonderful stories.
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UTOPIA CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR BOOK. Commemorating the Founding of Waresville 100 Years Ago.

By: Burns, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Uvalde, Uvalde Leader News: 1952

Seller ID: 025637

Binding: Paper

Condition: Good

Illustrated paper covers, stapled, 48 pp., photos, ads. 11" x 15". Cheap newsprint. Edges & spine worn with small tears. Many local articles of historic events and families. One major article by Morris Breazeale--The Magic Canyon Comes of Age--from pp. 33 to 47 which is a nice history. Very scarce.
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THE COURT HOUSES OF SMITH COUNTY.

By: Burton, Morris S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Tyler, Smith County Hist. Soc.: 1964

Seller ID: 028689

Binding: Stiff Pict. Paper

Condition: Fine

Chronicles of Smith County, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-15, illus., map. Also an article about When Smith County Printed Its Own Money, pp. 18-20 plus illus. of the money on the back cover. Probably limited to 500c.
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GLAMOROUS DAYS (In Old San Antonio).

By: Bushick, Frank H.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Naylor: 1934

Seller ID: 024962

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

D.j.(missing small pieces on spine), 308 pp., frontis & 17 illus. (mostly photos), appendix. First state d.j.--a light tan with various figures as background--and the original $2.50 price, and the first state blue-gray cloth binding (has 1" crack in front hinge). Much on King Fisher, Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, Sam Bass, Texas Rangers. Guns #349. Very scarce in first state d.j. & binding.
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GLAMOROUS DAYS.

By: Bushick, Frank H.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Naylor: 1934

Seller ID: 028804

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

D.j. (pieced together but missing most of the spine, front cover with green background with various figures on it with a tan background to the ace of hearts in red in the middle, chipped edges), ; orange cloth binding. Long SIGNED inscription on fly.. Much on King Fisher, Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, Sam Bass, Texas Rangers. Guns #349.
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THE FREE STATE OF BEJAR

By: Butterfield, Jack C.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Antonio, DRT: 1963

Seller ID: 026053

Binding: Stiff Dec. Wrs.

Condition: Fine

Stiff paper covers with illus. on front, 35 pp., ink sketches by Ronald Kolodzie, map, photo. Edited & arranged by Catherine McDowell. #30 of 500 copies, SIGNED. An account of how San Antonio de Bejar became the San Antonio of today.
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THE FREE STATE OF BEJAR

By: Butterfield, Jack C.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Antonio, DRT: 1963

Seller ID: 028716

Binding: Stiff Dec. Wrs.

Condition: Fine

Stiff paper covers with illus. on front, 35 pp., ink sketches by Ronald Kolodzie, map, photo. Edited & arranged by Catherine McDowell. #312/500 copies, SIGNED by author, editor, & illustrator. Account of how San Antonio de Bejar became the San Antonio of today.
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FOR 500 YEARS. THE SHACKLEFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

By: Caldwell, Shirley; Bob Green; & Reilly Nail

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Albany, Bright Sky: 2001

Seller ID: 024122

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

D.j., 120 pp., photos, index. Introduction by A.C. Greene. History of the courthouse built in 1883 and designed to last 500 years. Some county history and tales of the county.
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EL PASO'S MISSIONS AND INDIANS.

By: Calleros, Cleofas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: El Paso, McMath: 1953

Seller ID: 028806

Binding: Illus. Paper

Condition: Very Good

Paper covers, 55 pp., cover & several illus. by Cisneros, photos. Nice work on the missions and indian tribes of the El Paso area.
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A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY IN CRISIS. Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880

By: Campbell, Randolph B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Austin, TSHA: 1983

Seller ID: 016851

Binding: Quarter Leather & Marbled Bds

Condition: Fine

443 pp. & 8 full page monochrome plates, map, index. #2 of 75c bound in quarter brown morocco with marbled boards & SIGNED. Dedicated to Max Lale, his copy. A history of Harrison County pre-war, during the Civil War, and through Reconstruction. Letters laid in from Campbell & Tuffle Ellis, Director of TSHA.
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A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY IN CRISIS. Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880

By: Campbell, Randolph B.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Austin, TSHA: 1983

Seller ID: 022059

Binding: Quarter Leather & Marbled Bds

Condition: Fine

Slipcase, #46 of 75c bound in quarter brown morocco with marbled boards, 443 pp., 8 full page monochrome plates, map, index. SIGNED. A history of Harrison County pre-war, during the Civil War, and through Reconstruction.
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PLANTERS AND PLAIN FOLK: Harrison County, Texas, as a Test Case, 1850-1860

By: Campbell, Randolph B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Journal of Southern History: 1974

Seller ID: 017740

Binding: Wrs,

Condition: Near Fine

Offprint from the Journal of Southern History, Vol. XL, No. 3, Aug. 1974. Pp. 369-398. A study concerning the dominance of society by the planter aristocracy in the south prior to the Civil War.
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TEXAS COUNTY HISTORIES

By: Carroll, H. Bailey

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Austin, TSHA: 1943

Seller ID: 025711

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Buckram (some soil),xxxii + 200 pp., map, index. Frontis illus. of my great-grandfather E.L. Shettles by H.D. Bugbee and the book is dedicated to him, C.W. Raines, E.W. Winkler, & Earl Vandale. Printed on one side only except for the introductory pages & index. Foreword by Walter Prescott Webb. (BTB B37)
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A TIME TO PURPOSE. A Chronicle of Carson County.

By: Carson County Hist. Comm. Mrs. Ralph E. Randel, Ed.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Pioneer Publishers: 1966

Seller ID: 020491

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Four volumes in blue cloth. Vol. 1-336 pp., photos, illus. Former owner name on fly. INSCRIBED by editor & several others; Vol.II-376 pp., photos, illus., index. Minor water damage to last few pages; Vol. III-pub. in 1972, 496 pp., photos, illus. Name on endpaper; & Vol. IV-pub. 1972, 430 pp., photos. All illus. in each vol. by Floyd Scott.
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A TIME TO PURPOSE. A Chronicle of Carson County.

By: Carson County Hist. Comm. Mrs. Ralph E. Randel, Ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Pioneer Publishers: 1966

Seller ID: 020525

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Four volumes in blue cloth. Vol. 1-336 pp., photos, illus. (minor browning on front endpapers); Vol. II- 376 pp., photos, illus., index.; Vol. III - pub. in 1972, 496 pp., photos, illus.; & Vol. IV-pub. 1972, 430 pp., photos. All volumes illustrated by Floyd Scott. History of Texas Panhandle county in very nice condition.
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CENTURY OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS 1856-1956. Minutes of the Cat Spring Agricultural Society.

By: Cat Spring Agricultural Society

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Lone Star Printing Co.: 1956

Seller ID: 025968

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Tan cloth (speckled), 455 pp. Companion volume to THE CAT SPRING STORY. A centennial history of the official Austin County Landwirth-schaftlicher Verein (Austin County Agricultural Society) formed in 1856. Up to 1942, all minutes were recorded in German.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF WISE COUNTY.

By: Cates, Cliff D.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Decatur, Wise Cty. Hist. Comm.: 1971

Seller ID: 026884

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Mylar cover, 471 pp., photos. First reprint of the very scarce 1907 history of North Texas county. Fine.
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PIONEER HISTORY OF WISE COUNTY.

By: Cates, Cliff D.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Nixon-Jones Prtg. Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 026918

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth w/gilt letterin, 471 pp., photos. Spine ends very worn, one corner worn through & others bumped, inside front hinge cracked about one inch. Former owner name on fly dated 1908. Subtitled From Red Men to Railroads---Twenty Years of Intrepid History. Contents very nice. Very scarce to rare first edition
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CHEROKEE COUNTY HISTORY.

By: Cherokee County Historical Comm.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Crockett, Cherokee County Hist. Comm.: 1986

Seller ID: 025891

Binding: Sim. Leather

Condition: Very Good

Red simulated leather w/gilt lettering & decoration, 748 pp., photos, index. Large book 9.5" x 12" x 2.5". Family histories from pp. 117-609. History of East Texas county.
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