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  • In addition there are now 2,000 quality used books in lower price ranges, undiscovered rarities under market value in many fields. For some suggestions, see categories in the left column.
  • New inventory added daily- most recent acquisition of 500 books on art, costume, textiles, needlework and photography in fine condition from museum curator collection.
  • 1,000 foreign language and linguistic books from a  Vanderbilt scholar's library. Most were published before World War II in Italian; German; Spanish; French  - many rarities not found anywhere else in the U.S.!
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24 x 36 inches, printed on high quality coated stock. Shipped rolled in heavy tube. Condition is as new. Blood Meridian featured on Poster for Texas Writers Month.
McCarthy, Cormac.
Austin: Texas Writers Project, May, 2000. 24 x 36 inches, printed on high quality coated stock. Shipped rolled in heavy tube. Condition is as new. .. more
Price: $65.00
263pp., 344 entries, described & illustrated with photographs in color and b/w. 4to, gilt-stamped brown linen with color plate on front cover. EARLY TEXAS FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS.
Steinfeldt, Cecilia and Donald Lewis Stover.
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1973. 263pp., 344 entries, described & illustrated with photographs in color and b/w. 4to, gilt-stamped brown linen with color plate on.. more
Price: $750.00
Signed Limited Edition by David Pratt, Library of Congress & Robert E. Abrams, Abbeville Press. Folio measures 750 x 380mm (25x20 inches). A stunning facsimile of the New York 1845 edition of 25 plates & 6 additional plates from the London 1844 not included in the American edition; Both of these volumes are in the possession of the Library of Congress. The plates of this facsimile are printed in collotype by Jaffe Lithographers of Vienna, Austria on acid-free paper. Fine press binding by Ernst Ammering of Ried im Innkreis, Austria, after a design by Renee Khatami in the style of the period. The Portfolio case is 3/4 red leather beige linen boards and lined in marbled paper. Still in original shipping carton. CATLIN'S NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO. HUNTING SCENES AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND PRAIRIES OF AMERICA. FROM DRAWINGS AND NOTES OF THE AUTHOR, MADE DURING EIGHT YEARS' TRAVEL AMONGST FORTY-EIGHT OF THE WILDEST AND MOST REMOTE TRIBES OF SAV
Catlin, George.
NY: Abbeville, 1989. Signed Limited Edition by David Pratt, Library of Congress & Robert E. Abrams, Abbeville Press. Folio measures 750 x 380mm.. more
Price: $975.00
Volumne I complete in original 4to (over-size) blank embossed decorative black cloth, all color and b/w plates present, including the important large folding map of the area West of the Mississippi. by Lt. Michler. Includes Part II Geology with 21 steel engraved plates of PALAEONTOLOGY. 258pp. + plates, 174pp. + plates. Complete as issued. Clean, tight, no names, unfoxed but with some off-set from steel engraved plates to opposite page and short nick to lower front edge of spine. Archival mylar dust jacket. REPORT OF UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY. (Volume I, Parts I & II) House Executive Document No. 135
Emory, William H. Major First Cavalry and U.S. Commissioner.
Wa. D.C.: Cornelius Wendell, 1857. Volumne I complete in original 4to (over-size) blank embossed decorative black cloth, all color and b/w plates present, including the.. more
Price: $1,150.00
Übersetzung von H. Möller-Bruck. Ausstattung von Friedrich Stabenau. Mit zwölf farbigen und siebzehn schwarzweiß Illustrationen. Clean, front hinge beginning to crack, text tight, no names, no writing. 345pp., complete with all 12 full page color plates bright and clean and 17 full page b/w by Arthur Rackham. Gilt-stamped black cloth, titles bright on cover and dulled on spine. Corners bumped and worn. Interior exceptionally clean no foxing. A better than average and nearly very good copy. No date but probably 1935 German language edition with Rackham illustrations. Rackham died four years later. Geheimnisvolle und phantastische Erzählungen.
Poe, Edgar Allan
Leipzig,: H. Schmidt & C. Gunther, 1935. Übersetzung von H. Möller-Bruck. Ausstattung von Friedrich Stabenau. Mit zwölf farbigen und siebzehn schwarzweiß Illustrationen. Clean, front hinge beginning to.. more
Price: $50.00
SIGNED by Kelton, designed by Marc English, 24x36 inches, full color on heavy coated satin finish paper. TEXAS WRITERS' POSTER - 2001 "ELMER KELTON".
SIGNED by Kelton, designed by Marc English, 24x36 inches, full color on heavy coated satin finish paper. .. more
Price: $50.00
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