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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
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
two volumes, 530pp., 5311069pp., 36 color plates, 74 illus. by Louis Aagassiz Fuertes, 4 maps, folio, slipcase. Clean and tight, no names, bright with sharp corners in repaired slipcase (edges re-inforced due to splitting) THE BIRD LIFE OF TEXAS.
Oberholser, Harry Church.
Austin: UTP, 1974. two volumes, 530pp., 5311069pp., 36 color plates, 74 illus. by Louis Aagassiz Fuertes, 4 maps, folio, slipcase. Clean and.. more
Price: $200.00
Original cowgirl pictorial sheet music with girl in a big cowboy hat with the Texas star on its brim. 10 ½ x 13 inches and is printed in sepia and blue ink. A period piece with Texas spelled out across the top in large white letters. Very good with 1 chip, short edge tear and red stain on back cover. TEXAS - Sheet Music.
Edwards, Ed.
NY: Jos. Morris Co., 1910. Original cowgirl pictorial sheet music with girl in a big cowboy hat with the Texas star on its brim. 10.. more
Price: $75.00
Signed by David Pratt, Library of Congress & Robert E. Abrams, Abbeville Press. Folio measures 750 x 380mm (25x20 inches). FINE Condition. A stunning facsimile of the New York 1845 edition of 25 full color plates & 6 additional plates from the London 1844 edition which were 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 is 3/4 red leather beige linen boards and lined in marbled paper. Still in original shipping case. 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.
New York, N. Y.: Abbeville, 1989. Signed by David Pratt, Library of Congress & Robert E. Abrams, Abbeville Press. Folio measures 750 x 380mm (25x20 inches)... more
Price: $1,075.00
Gilt-stamped decorative spine with four raised bands, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, 408pp. in custom archival mylar dust jacket. Text clean and fine, tiny bit of foxing on blank pages. A handsome copy with rubbing to the boards at edges and corners. Account of authors trips in 1815 - 1817 to Jamaica on behalf of his slaves gives a vivid account of plantation life. Sabin 40821 JOURNAL OF A WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR, KEPT DURING A RESIDENCE IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA
Lewis, Matthew Gregory
London: John Murray, 1834. Gilt-stamped decorative spine with four raised bands, 3/4 leather over marbled boards, slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, 408pp. in custom archival.. more
Price: $275.00
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