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TIRE SHRINKER TO DRAGSTER.

By: Hudson, Wilson M.,ed.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, Encino Press: 1968

Seller ID: 028350

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

D.j., 248 pp., index. Tx. Folklore Soc. Vol. XXXIV. Designed by William Witliff. Texas folklore---articles from The Tire Shrinker, The Folksay of the Drag Strip to Irish storytelling, the penny dreadful, treasure tales, etc.
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SO, INDIAN LEGEND ABOUT THE BLUE BONNET.

By: LaVanture, Pauline.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Naylor: 1941

Seller ID: 026346

Binding: Bds.

Condition: Very Good

D.j. (clipped, edges tanned), (22) pp. Illus. by author. A nice children's book.
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ADVENTURES WITH A TEXAS HUMANIST.

By: Lee, James Ward.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ft.Worth, TCU: 2004

Seller ID: 017307

Condition: Fine

284 pp., index. INSCRIBED. Lee's landmark book brings together his strengths as a literary & cultural critic, a folklorist, and a humorist.
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MYTHS & FOLKTALES OF THE ALABAMA-COUSHATTA INDIANS OF TEXAS.

By: Martin, Howard N.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Austin, Encino Press: 1977

Seller ID: 008328

Condition: Fine

114 pp., woodcut illus. by Barbara Whitehead on d.j. & title pp, index.. 46 stories collected in the 1930's by author from older members of tribe.
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A STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY.

By: McCauley, J.E.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas Folklore Soc.: 1943

Seller ID: 011043

Condition: Fine

73 pp., drawings by Tom Lea. Introd. by John Lomas. Design & typo. by Hertzog. McCauley, a tenant farmers son, stabbed a man, kissed his mother goodbye & headed West. Reese-SIX SCORE #75-"One of the most forceful & expressive autobiographies of the range country. McCauley lived hard." Ltd. 700c.
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A STOVE-UP COWBOY'S STORY.

By: McCauley, J.E.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas Folklore Soc.: 1943

Seller ID: 001425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

73 pp., drawings by Tom Lea. D.j. chipped edges, some soil, darkened spine, name inside front cover. Design & typo. by Hertzog. McCauley, a tenant farmers son, stabbed a man, kissed his mother goodbye & headed West. Reese-SIX SCORE #75-"One of the most forceful & expressive autobiographies of the range country. McCauley lived hard." Ltd. 700c.
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THE WRITINGS OF J. FRANK DOBIE. A Bibliography.

By: McVicker, Mary L.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Lawton, Museum of the Great Plains: 1968

Seller ID: 017445

Condition: Fine

258 pp., frontis., photo, illus., index. First trade edition. Only complete bibliography of Dobie's works.
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TEXAS FOLK SONGS.

By: Owens, William A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas Folklore Soc.: 1950

Seller ID: 025817

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

D.j., 302 pp. Words, music, index. Name on title page. Musical arrangements by Willa Mae Kelly Koehn. Probably the best book on the subject. Tx. Folklore Soc. Vol. XXIII.
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A WORD-LIST FROM EAST ALABAMA. Bulletin #123 of the Univ. Of Texas.

By: Payne, Leonidas W., Jr.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Austin, U. Tx.: 1909

Seller ID: 027680

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Black pebbled cloth w/wrappers bound in, pp. 279-391. 3 pp. prefactory note. This is the first edition of the reprint from the complete Bulletin. A list of the colloquial or dialect words of the locality especially related to Texas.
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SCURRY COUNTY STYLE. Stories from below the Cap Rock and beyond.

By: Payne, Viola M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, U. Of Tx.: 1967

Seller ID: 010699

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

D.j. (clipped), 189 pp. Nineteen stories of people and events in the arid land of West Texas.
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SCURRY COUNTY STYLE. Stories from below the Cap Rock and beyond.

By: Payne, Viola M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, U. Of Tx.: 1967

Seller ID: 016451

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

D.j., 189 pp. Nineteen stories of people and events in the arid land of West Texas.
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THE LOBLOLLY BOOK.

By: Sitton, Thad, Ed. By.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas Monthly Press: 1983

Seller ID: 020615

Binding: Stiff Wrs.

Condition: Very Good

Stiff green paper covers w/white lettering, 250 pp., some photos. Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, Grandma's moral tales & other affairs of Plain Texas Living. Folktales, reminiscences, & oral history giving us a sense of old-time Texas.
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LEGENDS OF WICHITA COUNTY

By: Smedley, Betty

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Austin, Tx. Folklore Soc.: 1930

Seller ID: 026541

Binding: Paper

Condition: Fine

Paper covers, 7 pp. Reprinted from Tx. Folklore Soc. Vol. VIII, 1930. Author met Belas Carter while living in Wichita Falls and he told her a story of treasure in Wichita County. Also contains other stories. She wrote this story and read it at TFS meeting.
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AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SPANISH FOLKLORE IN NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHERN COLORADO.

By: Tully, Marjorie F. & Juan B. Rael.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, U. Of N. M. Press: 1950

Seller ID: 026685

Binding: Paper

Condition: Very Good

Paper covers, 124 pp., subject index. Univ. of New Mexico Publications in Language & Literature, No. 3.
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GREAT TEXAS CHRISTMAS LEGENDS.

By: Zeplin, Zeno.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Wimberley, Nel-Mar Enterprises: 1985

Seller ID: 025741

Binding: Stiff Paper

Condition: Fine

Stiff red paper covers, 121 pp., illus. Five Texas Christmas Legends--The Elf's Cap, The Charge of the Elf's Brigade, Whee-Who The Whistle, Feathers and Bells, and The Great Christmas Turnabout.
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SECRETS OF SILVER VALLEY.

By: Zeplin, Zeno.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Wimberley, Nel-Mar Enterprises: 1985

Seller ID: 027986

Binding: Stiff Paper

Condition: Fine

Stiff green paper covers, 86 pp. SIGNED. A Christmas story.
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