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• Chief Red Horse Tells About Custer The Battle of the Little Bighorn -  SIGNED by the author -------- See Native American History and also American History / Americana

• The Politics of Diplomacy by James A. Baker III, Inscribed / Signed by the author. -------------See Politics / Political Thought 

• Assassins At Large, Being a fully documented and hitherto unpublished account of the executions outside Russia ordered by the GPU by Hugo Dewar.---------See World History

• Old Circus Parade Wagons - Evelyn Curro's Americana Printbook #5------------- See Art and Artists

• Historical Almanac of the United States Senate, A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress by Bob Dole, United States Senator,  SIGNED by Senator Dole------------- See Politics and also Americana

• Paké Patch Growing Up In Old Hawaii: A Novel by Emmie Shigezawa. Signed by the Author.  A first-hand account of life in Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor. ------ See Bio and also Americana

• Byron Nelson The Most Remarkable Year In The History Of Golf, by John Campaniotte. Chronicle of the 1945 season.  Byron Nelson simulated signature on Bookplate to Abilene Christian University - given to the University by the Nelson family.-----See Sports

• The Ulster Clans O'Mullan, O'Kane and O'Mellan by Rev. T. H. Mullin & Rev. J. E. Mullan. Includes histories, maps, genealogies of Northern Irish clans ----------See World History

• Beadland to Barrrow A History of Barrow County, Georgia From the Earliest Times to the Present , by C. Fred Ingram, Editor, 1978.  Barrow County Historical Society --------------- See Americana / American History

• Pictorial Review of Barrow County, Winder, Georgia, by the Barrow County Historical Society. Full of pictures from the history of Barrow County, Georgia--------------- See Americana / American History

Classics / Literature (CLICK HERE to see book details and pics in this category)

• Nothing So Strange (James Hilton, 1947 1st Edition)

• In Cold Blood (Truman Capote, 1965 Book of the Month Club edition. Stated First Printing.  Capote referred to this as a "non-fiction novel" A true account of a multiple murder in 1959, where two men savagely killed four members of a family for no apparent reasons.) 

• The Complete Humorous Sketches and Tales of  Mark Twain (by Mark Twain, 1961 Doubleday edition)

• The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell, 1958, Stated First American Edition)

• Odds Against (Dick Francis, 1965.  Book Club Edition of this early Dick Francis work. Sid Halley, an injured jockey, becomes a private eye and carries out some work for his father-in-law, who believes a man is trying to financially ruin Seabury racecourse, so that it can be sold to property developers.) 

• Nerve (Dick Francis, 1964, Book Club Edition. Francis' third book. Rob Finn is beginning to make his mark as an up-and-coming steeplechase rider. A thrilling, suspenseful story from the master writer of horse racing novels.)

• The Clergyman's Daughter (George Orwell, 1960, First American Edition)

• Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut, Book Club Edition, 1973)

• West Side Story (Arthur Laurents, 1958 5th Printing of 1st Edition)
  

• Lasher (Anne Rice, 1993,  4th printing of 1st edition. Signed / inscribed by the author  )  

• Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice, 1976. Book Club Edition assumed with none stated. The author's first book.)

• My Pretty Sister (Evadne Price, pen name of Helen Zenna Smith, 1952 1st Edition - a very rare and HTF book)

• Rue Plays the Game (Josephine Blackstock, 1948 1st Edition - illustrated by the author - a very rare and HTF book)

• Old Farm (Ettie Stephens Prichard, 1934. The author projects a child's perspective as she tenderly relates the story of an exciting season on a bountiful and nostalgically described farm located near Bushnell in Western Illinois in the 1870s.)

• In the High Valley (Susan Coolidge, 1st US Edition, 1891.  Her childhood and adolescence provided the background for her most famous work, the five book of the "Katy" series. This is the last in the series.)

• The Windy Hill  ( Helen Partridge, 1936. The author was the wife of author Edward Bellamy Partridge, and corresponded regularly with John Cheever In this contemporary romance, a love triangle upsets the lives or two couples who became involved in the same business venture. First Edition)

• Joshua Beene and God (Jewel Gibson, 1948. SIGNED  / Inscribed First Edition. A humorous novel about a cantankerous old-time religious leader in a Texas village. Joshua summons God to come down and advise him on the best way to rid the town of the Baptists, Holy Rollers and back-sliders from his own church.)  

• The Boys of Axelford (Charles Camden, 1880 scarce first edition. An anthology of fictional stories about several boys at the Axleford school for boys.)

• Chagall: Burning Lights (Bella Chagall, with 36 Drawings by Marc Chagall, 1963. Twenty-five wonderful stories of the warm world of Russian Jewry written by Bella Chagall. Illustrated in 36 drawings, many full page, by her husband, the renown artist, Marc Chagall.)

• The Husband's Story (David Graham Phillips, 1910 First Edition.  From the 1910 New York Times: David Graham Phillips's "The Husband's Story" is a portrait of an American wife that will not make friends for the artist)

• The Fatal Marriage / The Lost Heiress ( Mary E. Braddon / H. W. Taylor, published 1896 - Two Victorian novels in one edition. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a well known, prolific writer in the later half of the 1800's.)

• A Man Called Paladin (Frank Robertson, 1st Edition HC. Four exciting new adventures of this knight errant of the Old West written by one of the best known Western authors.)

• Manhunt Trail (Westmoreland Gray, 1934. The story of two rollicking, fearless cowboys. Happy-go-lucky Johnny Malone and his riding partner, grizzled old Rawhide Mullins, come loping into a little Western town looking for fun - or trouble.)

• Mr. Zip (H. Allen Smith, 1952 First Edition Thus. A Novel of a Western Movie Hero Who Longs to Be a Real Cowboy.)

• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls  (Robert Heinlein, 1985 First Edition. Follow Col. Colin Campbell, a character in the fine Heinlein tradition of philosopher/soldier/rogue. Here are imaginary places at once familiar and strange, real and fantastic, that only this master storyteller could create.)

• The Smoky God (Willis George Emerson, 1974 edition of 1908 book.  Norwegian fiction about a sailor who finds a hidden civilization when he enters the Earth's interior at the North Pole.)

• Pebble in the Sky (Isaac Asimov, 1971 Sidgwick & Jackson edition. A truly ingenious tale of the far-distant future by one of the greatest names in science fiction. A Chicago man steps through time, into a future Earth, where Earthlings are galactic outcasts)

• The Other Side of the Sky (Arthur C. Clarke, 1958 1st edition. A wonderful collection of short stories from the master sci-fi storyteller)

• The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (Edited by Hans Stefan Santesson, 1960.  Includes 19 tales of science fiction, including early works by: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #2, The Doomsday Affair (Ace books, 1965 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #3, The Copenhagen Affair (Ace books, 1965 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #4, The Dagger Affair  (Ace books, 1965 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #5, The Mad Scientist Affair (Ace books, 1966 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #6, The Vampire Affair  (Ace books, 1966 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #10, The Assassination Affair (Ace books, 1967 paperback)

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. #11, The Invisibility Affair (Ace books, 1967 paperback)

• Star Trek #7 (James Blish, Bantam Books, 1972 paperback, a collection of stories from the TV series)

• Star Trek #8 (James Blish, Bantam Books, 1972 paperback, a collection of stories from the TV series)

• Karlsson-on-the-Roof (Astrid Lindgren , illustrated by Jan Pyk,  1971 edition.  Early work by the author of the Pippi Longstockings series.) 

• The Bad Mrs. Ginger (Honor C. Appleton, 1902. A little girl, Anne, stands up to the bad cat, Mrs. Ginger, after Mrs. Ginger tries to hurt Anne's animal friends. 16th of the "Dumpy Books for Children" series. First American Edition)

• Babar and His Children (Jean De Brunhoff, 1966)

• Tumbleweed Tales (by Jennie George Curry - 1st edition, Signed / inscribed by the author)

• Chums of the Prairie (St. George Rathborne, 1902. Juvenile adventure writer, prolific American dime novelist and series book author. The second volume in Rathborne's Ranch and Range series)

• Sunhelmet Sue (Erick Berry -psued. for Mrs. Evangel Allena Champlin Best. Sue dons her pith helmet and has an adventure in Africa in this Juvenile adventure book)

• The Classic Fairy Tales, (Iona and Peter Opie, 24 of the best-known fairy tales in their original written form, with commentary and background by the authors.)

• Eight Fairy Tales (Edited by Watty Piper, Verses by Kate Cox Goddard, 1938. Beautifully illustrated throughout in brilliant full color. Fairy tales include: Peter Pan, Cinderella, Dick Whittington, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Three Little Bears, and Tom Thumb)

• One Hundred Folktales, (edited by Stith Thompson, drawings by Franz Altschuler. This is the collection of tales edited by Thompson, and includes tales mostly from European sources.)

• The Road to Oz (L. Frank Baum, Illus. by Neill, John, early 1970's soft cover reprint of 1909 work)

• The Magic of Oz  ( L. Frank Baum. Reproduction of the 1919 original, circa 1950's - 1960's. "A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz."

• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Roald Dahl, Illus by Joseph Schindelman, Stated 1st Edition)

• Klein Goldhaar (Little Goldenhair, by N. van Hichtum, in German, undated. Stories out of distant countries told by N. van Hichtum translated from Dutch by Herman Hefele)

• The Boy in the Alamo (Margaraet Cousins. Ages 4-8. Soft cover. The classic story of the siege of the Alamo, as told for young readers. Originally published in 1958, thousands of children each year enjoy this story from the unique point of view of twelve-year old Billy Campbell.)

• Og, Boy of Battle (Irving Crump, undated.  This thrilling story of prehistoric times follows the adventures of Og of the Hairy People.  Gripping and packed with action is this vivid tale of a boy hero who roamed the prehistoric forests hundreds of thousands of years ago.)

• Historical Almanac of the United States Senate, A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress (Bob Dole, United States Senator, 1989 SIGNED by Senator Dole.  The history of "The Greatest Deliberative Body", filled with photographs and illustrations.)

• Are You An American? (1944 - WWII era patriotic pamphlet)

• "The Day Kennedy Died" (Dan Wise and Marietta Maxfield, 1964 Pre-Publication numbered limited edition)

• Mark Twain in Elmira, (Robert Jerome and Herbert Wisbey, 1977. Inscribed & Signed by both authors, as well as their typist. The history of Twain's time living in Elmira, New York. The book comes with a newspaper article  with pictures of the authors at the introductory book signing.)

• In Cold Blood (Truman Capote, 1965 Book of the Month Club edition. Stated First Printing.  Capote referred to this as a "non-fiction novel" A true account of a multiple murder in 1959, where two men savagely killed four members of a family for no apparent reasons.) 

• Touched With Fire: Civil War Letters & Diaries of Oliver Wendell Holmes (By Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1946 1st Edition)

• Advertisement pamphlet for "The March of Democracy" (James Truslow Adams, 1942)

• Beadland to Barrrow A History of Barrow County, Georgia From the Earliest Times to the Present (C. Fred Ingram, Editor, 1978.  Barrow County Historical Society)

• Pictorial Review of Barrow County, Winder, Georgia (Barrow County Historical Society, 1981, Stated First Edition. Full of pictures from the history of Barrow County, Georgia) 

• The Fat of the Land (William C. Edmiston. "An unpretentious book written about people who lived in middle Tennessee around the turn of the century, their way of life, their loves, births, deaths, disappointments, and successes)

• Education and Military Leadership: A Study of the ROTC, (Gene Lyons and John Masland1960 Stated 2nd Printing of 1959 1st Edition)

• In Their Name Oklahoma City: The Official Commemorative Volume (Edited by Clive Irving, SIGNED by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating / Inscribed by Oklahoma First Lady Cathy Keating. Includes a laminated photo of Cathy Keating at the book signing. The official commemorative volume of the tragedy at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing on April 19, 1995.)

• History of Tennessee Illustrated Giles, Lincoln, Franklin and Moore Counties (Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., 1979 reprint of 1886 original. A detailed account of the history of 4 counties in Tennessee). 

• Colorado 1870 - 2000 Revisited, The History Behind the Images (Thomas J. Noel and John Fielder, 1st Edition SIGNED by John Fielder)

• Paké Patch Growing Up In Old Hawaii: A Novel (Emmie Shigezawa. 2002, First Edition, Stated First Printing. Signed by the Author.  This is the fictional story of a young girl growing up in Hawaii, but it is also a first-hand account of life in Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor. The author was born in an area of Hawaii called Paké Patch, a small Japanese neighborhood that bordered on rice fields.) 

• Young Folks' Uncle Toms Cabin (Adapted by Grace Duffie Boylan, 1942. The story this tells is mostly Stowe's, but when Boylan rewrites the ending and several other parts, it is a significant change from the original story).

• An Atheist Epic: Bill Murray, The Bible and The Baltimore Board of Education (Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 1970. The complete unexpurgated story of how Bible and prayers were removed from the public schools of the United States.)

• The Jew Store The Story of Family Business in God's Country (Stella Suberman, 1998.  In small town America, circa 1920, the small dry-goods store was often owned by Jews and known as "the Jew store", including Bronson's Low Priced Store. As told by Bronson's youngest daughter, an intimate family story that sheds light on a piece of American history, led by her father, a poor, Russian-born Jewish orphan.)

• First Across the Continent - The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis & Clark (Noah Brooks, 2003. Special Limited Edition. The author pieces together the diaries of Lewis & Clark with other research to weave a compelling historical account of the famous expedition.)

• Chief Red Horse Tells About Custer The Battle of the Little Bighorn - An Eyewitness Account Told in Indian Sign Language, (Jessie Brewer McGaw - SIGNED by the author)
   

 

• Texas History Movies (John Rosenfield, Jr. , Illustrated by John Patton, Limited replica edition - exact duplicate of the 1928 original edition - includes COA from the publishers)

• Pecos Tales (Paul Patterson,1967. Patterson grew up and worked in ranching country around the Pecos River. A superb folk tale teller, Patterson's book is interesting and entertaining. This book is grown out of his life in Pecos County.)

• Texas Hold'Em (Kinky Friedman, Stated First Edition, 2005. Signed by Kinky. The (future governor?) Kinkster's take on the state made famous by the Alamo, with provocative essays, profiles of famous Texans, and more, in his inimitable style.)

• Buck Chadborn: Border Lawman, (Bill James,1995 SIGNED by the author, numbered 1st Edition)

• Early Days at Salt Creek and Teapot Dome (Ed Bille, SIGNED by the Author. A pictorial history of two central Wyoming fields, one famous, one notorious)

• Two Particular Friends of Stephen F. Austin (L. Randall Rogers, 1990 1st edition, inscribed by author)

• Life on the Texas Range (Photographs by Erwin E. Smith, text by J Haley, 1952 1st edition, second printing. Images of the life of the range Cowboy)

• Land of the High Sky (John Howard Griffin, the author of "Black Like Me".  Pub by First National Bank of Midland.  The history of the oil-rich Permian Basin area of West Texas, centered around Midland Texas.)

• Lone Stars and State Gazettes - Texas Newspapers before the Civil War (Marilyn McAdams Sibley, Stated First edition - 1983.  An annotated reference to Texas newspapers from annexation to the Civil War )

• Sabers on the Rio Grande (Jerry Thompson, illustrated by Bruce Marshall, 1974 Limited edition. A fine military history on the Laredo and South Texas area from pre-historic times through the Civil War, with an emphasis on Hispanic history.)

• Where the Old West Never Died, The history and story of the  famous Meling cattle ranch in the Baja (Paul Sanford, 1968 first edition.  Saga of Baja California's famed Meling Guest Ranch. 121 pages, photos, map end-papers. Meling Ranch, also known as Rancho San Jose�, is the product of a marriage uniting two pioneering families - the Melings and the Johnsons. Both families settled in northern Baja California in the early 1900s.)

• From Hell to Breakfast, (Boatright and Day, 1969 facsimile of 1944 edition, Out in the cow country a man upon returning from a trip might say that he had traveled from hell to breakfast.)

• Colorado 1870 - 2000 Revisited, The History Behind the Images (Thomas J. Noel and John Fielder, 1st Edition SIGNED by John Fielder)

• Chihuahua Crossing, (Bill Leftwich, inscribed / signed.  A novel about Islamic fanatics who come across a real life Texas / Mexico border crossing, whose terrorist plot is foiled by a Texas rancher.)

• A Man Called Paladin (Frank Robertson, 1st Edition HC. Four exciting new adventures of this knight errant of the Old West written by one of the best known Western authors.)

• I Come Runnin' (Martha Emmons, Inscribed / Signed. Tall tales, ghost stories, humorous anecdotes, superstitions, folk saying, folk "cures", all from reminiscences of her early days, early friends black & white, along with stories from her own family & their quaint customs.)

• To Wear a City's Crown - Beginnings of Urban Growth in Texas 1836 - 1865 (Kenneth Wheeler, 1968.  This study of the early development of raw Texas towns into cities focuses on Houston, Galveston, Austin and San Antonio)

• Wave of the Gulf Ziegler's Scrapbook of the Texas Gulf Coast Country (Jessica A. Zeigler, 1938. History of the Texas Gulf Coast from 1824 to 1938 with a collection of historical & biographical articles on pioneers & settlers. Early history of Houston.)

• Three Years Among the Comanches, The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger. (Nelson Lee's 1957 reprinted story of how he survived hardship, cruelty and suffering for the three years in captivity by the Comanche Indians in the mid-1800's - 1957 FIRST EDITION).

• The XIT Ranch of Texas and the early days of the Llano Estacado (J. Evetts Haley, 1967. Not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in the eighteen-eighties, it became the largest single operation in the cow country of the Old West, covering more than 3 million acres.)

• Elm Fork Settlements - Farmers Branch and Carrollton (Georgia Myers Ogle, 1977. A detailed history of Carrollton, Texas and Farmers Branch, Texas on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Peters Colony Settlement from which they developed.)

• The Texas Senator (June Rayfield Welch, 1978. Author SIGNED.  Tells the stories of the men who have served Texas in the U. S. Senate, beginning with Thomas Rusk and ending with Lloyd Bentsen, providing historical perspective as well as insight into the lives of these men.)

• Heroes of Texas ( A Collection of Authors, 1979. Biographies of 9 of the men who were instrumental in the launching of the Republic of Texas. Paintings by C. B. Normann) 

• Old Ranches of the Texas Plains (Paintings by Mondel Rogers, 1976.  Eighty images, some color, some B&W, documenting the golden age of ranching and the development of ranch architecture on the West Texas Plains.)

• Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution - The battle of Medina, August 18, 1813 (Ted Schwarz, annotated by noted historian Robert Thonhoff, 1985.  The story of the bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three years before the Alamo and San Jacinto.) 

• San Antonio The Story of an Enchanted City (Frank W. Jennings, Cover art by Jane Digby, 1998. Signed by both Jennings and Digby. Historian and longtime resident Frank Jennings has captured the city's unique mixture of people and cultures that shaped the Alamo City.) 

• The Story of the Witte Memorial Museum 1922 - 1960 (Bess Woodford and Ellen Quillin, This is the story of the people who created a great educational and cultural institution in San Antonio, 1966)  

• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Isabella Bird, Soft cover. Contains letters written by Bird to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873.)

• Bordertown, the Life and Times of El Paso del Norte  (Frank J. Managan, Drawings by Fred Carter,1965 This book is about the people El Paso and surrounding. Pulling no punches, it describes what made El Paso part of America's last frontier giving the good and the bad.)

• Tales of the Big Bend (Elton Miles, 1976. The author chronicles over 350 years of the Texas Big Bend folk tradition, with tales that reflect the history and character of a land where three cultures - Indian, Mexican and Anglo - met, sometimes peacefully, sometimes with violence.)

• Jane Long of Texas 1798 - 1880 (Neila Skinner Petrick, 1995. Inscribed / signed by author. Includes letter from author to the recipient. A biographical novel based on the life story of Jane Long, who was a spy in the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico.)

• Navarro County History (Compiled by Wyvonne Putman, 1975. The history of Navarro County, Texas, beginning in the 1830's.  Includes history of notable families, as well as the towns of the county and significant events. First Edition thus)

• Roses and Locoweed The Life of a Cowboy's Wife (Freia J. Hooper-Bradford, 2005 Soft Cover. The author chronicles a life few wives have shared. Married to a cowboy as a young woman, she lived a life that wasn't all roses, there was lots of locoweed. Detailing vagabond ranch life, she accurately recounts the bad tough times as well as the good life in the romantic west of the second half of the 20th century.)

• I'll Take Texas (Mary Lasswell, 1958. Here is an intimate account of the history and people of Texas. This is the true story of a love affair between a woman and her homeland.) 

• The Boy in the Alamo (Margaraet Cousins. Ages 4-8. Soft cover. The classic story of the siege of the Alamo, as told for young readers. Originally published in 1958, thousands of children each year enjoy this story from the unique point of view of twelve-year old Billy Campbell.)

• Journal of Joshua Loper - A Black Cowboy on the Chisolm Trail, 1871 ( Walter Dean Myers, 1999. Signed by the Author. Myers chose to write about Joshua Loper because of the important role of black cowboys in American history, and because of the equality and freedom they shared with all cowboys.) 

• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Francis Parkman. The book is a first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.)

• Bonanza Towns Leadville And Cripple Creek (Amanda M. Ellis, SIGNED by the author, 1954 first edition soft cover. The story of the Colorado Gold Rush and the boisterous camps at Cripple Creek and Leadville)

• The Story of Custer's Last Fight - the Story of the Little Big Horn (Col. W. A. Graham, the story as made public in 1926 of the famous battle between Custer and the Indians)

• A Personal Country (A. C. Green, Illustrated by Ancel Nunn, 1969, SIGNED by the author.  Greene describes his recollections of a way of life that The New Yorker called "a masterly evocation of West Texas".)

• The Buffalo Head (Daniel T. Kelly, with Beatrice Chauvenet, 1972.  Signed by the author. The growth of the Southwest from the point of view of business, and the Gross, Kelley and Company mercantile firm.)

• First Across the Continent - The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis & Clark (Noah Brooks, 2003. Special Limited Edition. The author pieces together the diaries of Lewis & Clark with other research to weave a compelling historical account of the famous expedition.)

• The Frontiersmen (Allan W. Eckert, 1967. Based on seven years of extensive research. From personal letters, diaries, tribal records, military reports and more, the author documents an historical view of the American frontier)

• Twentieth Century Texas  An Economic and Social History  (Ralph W. Steen., 1942, The story of the first four decades of the Twentieth Century development of Texas.)

• A Texan At Bay (Paul Crume.1961.  Signed by the Author. Author re-creates the lost world of his boyhood on the West Texas plains.)

• Square Dance Hand Book (Raymond Smith, 1947, First Edition. From the Foreword: "The dances collected here are the ones most frequently called in our section of the country, with the patter I use in calling them and my explanation of the way in which the dances can be done.")

• A Bowl of Red (Frank X. Tolbert, 1972. Inscribed & Signed by the Author. An expanded edition of Tolbert's long unavailable chili bible.)

• Autumn's Mightiest Legions (Harold V. Ratliff, 1963.  Hard to Find in first edition. History of Texas Schoolboy Football. The definitive history of Texas' favorite sport.) 

Politics, Political Thought & Government (CLICK HERE to see book details and pics in this category)

• Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton (David Gergen. INSCRIBED by both David Gergen and former Clinton press secretary DeeDee Myers. Bestseller by Political Consultant and Advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton)

• The Politics of Diplomacy (James A. Baker III, 1995 First Edition. Inscribed / Signed by James Baker. Baker uses his unique perspective to take us inside decades of American foreign policy and history.. Baker served under Gerald Ford as Under Secretary of Commerce, under Ronald Reagan as Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff and Treasury Secretary, and under George H. W. Bush as Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff and Senior Counselor. Baker is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.) 

• Historical Almanac of the United States Senate, A Series of Bicentennial Minutes Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress (Bob Dole, United States Senator, 1989 SIGNED by Senator Dole.  The history of "The Greatest Deliberative Body", filled with photographs and illustrations.)

• Poverty (Robert Hunter, 1912.  Appalled by the misery of the depression of 1893, the author decided to become a social worker. His most important book was Poverty (1904), the first general statistical survey of America's poor. First person to establish a poverty income line)

• Texas Hold'Em (Kinky Friedman, Stated First Edition, 2005. Signed by Kinky. The (future governor?) Kinkster's take on the state made famous by the Alamo, with provocative essays, profiles of famous Texans, and more, in his inimitable style.)

• Belgian Episodes (Henri Moke and Alice Wilmere, 1861 First Edition.  Extremely Rare Volume of Flemish History)

• The Ulster Clans O'Mullan, O'Kane and O'Mellan (Rev. T. H. Mullin & Rev. J. E. Mullan. 1966. First Edition thus.  Includes histories, maps, genealogies of Northern Irish clans) 

• Assassins At Large, Being a fully documented and hitherto unpublished account of the executions outside Russia ordered by the GPU (Hugo Dewar, 1952, First Edition Thus. Political killings committed by Soviet agents in the "free" countries is here put on record and documented).

• Memoirs (David Ben-Gurion, First edition, 1970. Compiled by David Bransten, the book captures Ben-Gurion's life and impact on history, in the founding of Israel.  Autobiography and history combine in this one book by and about this statesman and scholar.)  

• A Peaceful & Working People - Manner, Morals and Class Formation in Northern Mexico, (William E. French, 1996 Stated 1st English Edition)

• The True Saga of Cleng Peerson (Alfred Hauge, INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author , Norwegian Society of Texas, 1982. Cleng (Kleng) Peerson was known as the 'Father of Organized Norwegian Migration to America.)
   

• Perillo, Artist of the American West (Gregory Perillo and Stephen DeLauro, 1981.  This is a limited edition artist book and plate, Plate is "The Apache Brave". Edition Limit to 3,000

• Illustrated History of Indian Baskets and Plates (Reprinted by Leo Brown, reprinted 1974 by Leo K. Brown, softcover, numbered copy 5920.)

• Chief Red Horse Tells About Custer The Battle of the Little Bighorn - An Eyewitness Account Told in Indian Sign Language, (Jessie Brewer McGaw - SIGNED by the author)

• The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes (Stan Hoig, Stated First Edition, 1980. Tells how the peace chiefs struggled to maintain the integrity of their people as they were trapped by history in impossible circumstances by the western movement of white civilization)

• Old Circus Parade Wagons (Evelyn Curro's Americana Printbook #5, 1954.  A book of 12 prints, easily removed for framing, of famous carved and gilded wagons dating from the early 19th Century. All 12 of the original prints are present, and are loose in the cover)

• Perillo, Artist of the American West (Gregory Perillo and Stephen DeLauro, 1981.  This is a limited edition artist book and plate, Plate is "The Apache Brave". Edition Limit to 3,000

• Anselm Feuerbach - Briefe und Bilder (Otto Fischer, 1922 presumed 1st Edition, in German, incl. 32 B&W plates)

• Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican - All the Sistine Chapel, the Stanzas and the Loggias (Special edition for the Museums and Papal Galleries)

• German Southeast in Exquisite Pictures - The Blue Book (pub. by Karl Langewiesche, 1937. The Austrian countries, German areas of Bohemia, to Transylvania and some language islands.)

• Chagall: Burning Lights (Bella Chagall, with 36 Drawings by Marc Chagall, 1963. Twenty-five wonderful stories of the warm world of Russian Jewry written by Bella Chagall. Illustrated in 36 drawings, many full page, by her husband, the renown artist, Marc Chagall.)

• Opera and Ballet Murals  (James Seeman Studios, One of a kind 1965 catalog from famous decorating studio. See listing for full description)

   

• It's Only a Game (Terry Bradshaw, 2001. SIGNED by Bradshaw  in Sharpie on the title page. Story of the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls, playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Covers not only Bradshaw's life, but also provides an intimate portrait into professional football.)

• Landry, The Man Inside (Bob St. John, Inscribed & Signed by the Author, 1979. This book gives some insights into the real Tom Landry. This is the full story of how Tom Landry rose from his boyhood in the dusty sandlots of Texas' Rio Grande Valley to defensive stardom and strategic genius with the New York Giants. Landry reveals what one of America's great coaches is really thinking about during a game.) 

• The Darrell Royal Story (Jimmy Banks, 1973 1st edition - Story of the legendary Univ of Texas at Austin football coach)

• My Wide World (Jim McKay, 1973 Stated First Printing.  Inscribed / Signed by the Author.  From the host of ABC's Wide World of Sports. Jim McKay covered more than 100 different sports in 35 countries. In this book, he tells of the summer of 1972, including the Indianapolis 500, the U.S. Open and British Open, Cathy Rigby's slip on the balance beam and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games, and much more.) 

• Syrian Yankee (Salom Rizk, 1943 First Edition - INSCRIBED by the author)

• Paké Patch Growing Up In Old Hawaii: A Novel (Emmie Shigezawa. 2002, First Edition, Stated First Printing. Signed by the Author.  This is the fictional story of a young girl growing up in Hawaii, but it is also a first-hand account of life in Hawaii before and after Pearl Harbor. The author was born in an area of Hawaii called Paké Patch, a small Japanese neighborhood that bordered on rice fields.) 

• Memoirs (David Ben-Gurion, First edition, 1970. Compiled by David Bransten, the book captures Ben-Gurion's life and impact on history, in the founding of Israel.  Autobiography and history combine in this one book by and about this statesman and scholar.) 

• Jesse - The Man Who Outran Hitler (Jesse Owens & Paul Niemark. A remarkable self-portrait of the black man who carried this country to greatness in the 1936 Olympics)

• How Count Tolstoy Lives and Works (P. A. Pasergyeenko, 1899 First English Edition - Yes, that Tolstoy)

• Mark Twain in Elmira, (Robert Jerome and Herbert Wisbey, 1977. Inscribed & Signed by both authors, as well as their typist. The history of Twain's time living in Elmira, New York. The book comes with a newspaper article  with pictures of the authors at the introductory book signing.)

• Roses and Locoweed The Life of a Cowboy's Wife (Freia J. Hooper-Bradford, 2005 Soft Cover. The author chronicles a life few wives have shared. Married to a cowboy as a young woman, she lived a life that wasn't all roses, there was lots of locoweed. Detailing vagabond ranch life, she accurately recounts the bad tough times as well as the good life in the romantic west of the second half of the 20th century.)

• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Isabella Bird, Soft cover. Contains letters written by Bird to her sister during her six-month journey through the Colorado Rockies in 1873.)

• The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (Francis Parkman. The book is a first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.)

• The True Saga of Cleng Peerson (Alfred Hauge, INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author , Norwegian Society of Texas, 1982. Cleng (Kleng) Peerson was known as the 'Father of Organized Norwegian Migration to America.)

        

• George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans (Tom Bethell, 1977 1st edition. The story of the man that was considered to be the father of the New Orleans style of jazz clarinet.)

• Jimi Hendrix, Note for Note (Richard Daniels, 1980 edition - Soft cover, oversized)

• The Beatles, An Illustrated Record (Roy Carr & Tony Tyler, 1978 revised / updated edition. A pictorial record of their lives and loves, quarrels and lawsuits, with over 200 illustrations)

Poetry & Plays (CLICK HERE to see book details and pics in this category)

• Eskside Lyrics (David Cuthbertson, 1878 First Edition, EXTREMELY RARE.  Very HTF book of early Scottish poetry.)

• Poems By Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Others Equally Distinguished Poets (undated - 1850's or 1860's likely. Includes 3 separate books bound together:  Songs of the Affections, by Felicia Hemans ,  Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and  Poems by Distinguished English Authors, including Shelley, Spenser, Burns, and many more.)

• Poetical Works of Robert Burns Chronologically Arranged - Volume First (Undated. Described in the preface as the "new popular Edition". An exceptional collection of the works of arguably one of the greatest poets in history.)

• In & Out (Tom Robinson, beautifully illustrated in b/w and color by Marguerite De Angeli, 1944 1st Edition, 2nd Printing)

• Callaloo, Vol 32, no. 1 - Celebrating Texas Writers (various authors, 2009. Includes: Poetry (predominately, the book is poetry), Non-fiction prose, Art, and more from Texas authors)

• West Side Story (Arthur Laurents, 1958 5th Printing of 1st Edition)

• Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism  (V. K. Chari, 1st edition. The author's attempt to give a consistent account of Walt Whitman's poetic thought and belief, wherein he discovers a unifying principle in the preoccupation with the problem of self.)

• Signature of the Sun Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 (Edited by Mabel Major & T. Pearce, Inscribed / Signed by Mabel Major. Includes poets from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

• The Full-Blown Rose and Other Poems (Eugene P. Mallary, Inscribed and signed by the Author)

• Timberline (Margaret Brenton, 1971, Softcover. Numbered and Signed Limited Edition. Beautifully illustrated in black and white by the author, whose etchings have been exhibited in National Print Annuals in NY, CA, KS and MO. Poetry inspired by forested mountains and the wilds)

• The Best Poems of 1923 (Edited by L. A. G. Strong, 1924. Very rare edition, Includes the first book appearance of a published poem of Ernest Hemingway, "Chapter Heading")

  
  

• Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Consciousness (A. D. Crane, 1947 1st Edition)

• Whitman in the Light of Vedantic Mysticism  (V. K. Chari, 1st edition. The author's attempt to give a consistent account of Walt Whitman's poetic thought and belief, wherein he discovers a unifying principle in the preoccupation with the problem of self.)

• Round the World With Stella  (Robert S. Marx, ca 1951. Inscribed / Signed by the Author.  The Story of a Journey over Seven Seas and Four Continents. An account of the author's trip aboard the Stella Polaris. A collection of letters the author sent to friends during the trip)
  

• It's Only a Game (Terry Bradshaw, 2001. SIGNED by Bradshaw  in Sharpie on the title page. Story of the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls, playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Covers not only Bradshaw's life, but also provides an intimate portrait into professional football.)

• Mostly Hunting & Fishing ( Henry Stowers. 1976, paperback. Inscribed by author. Introduction by HOF Dallas Cowboy Bob Lilly. A collection of the columns of Stowers, who was the Dallas Morning News' Outdoor editor, He captures the spirit and color of the places he describes visiting, hunting and fishing.) 

• On Any Given Sunday (Pat Toomay,  Inscribed / Signed 1st edition,  source of the Al Pacino movie by the same name)

• How to Play Baseball (M. G. Bonner, 1st edition, 1955)

• Byron Nelson  The Most Remarkable Year In The History Of Golf  (John Campaniotte, 2006. Chronicle of the 1945 season in which Byron Nelson won 11 PGA Tour events in a row, and 18 wins in the year, describing each tournament, exhibition matches and personal activities.  Byron Nelson simulated signature on Bookplate to Abilene Christian University - given to the University by the Nelson family.) 

• The Model Railway Encyclopedia (Ernest F. Carter, A comprehensive constructional and operational manual dealing exclusively with the smaller scale railway hobby.)

• Amateur Amusements (Professor Lorento, 1878 First Edition Thus. Subtitled: "Including almost every kind of play and sport suitable for parties and parlor recreations, giving full directions how to get up shadow pantomimes, gallantry shows, short comic plays.")

• Autumn's Mightiest Legions (Harold V. Ratliff, 1963.  Hard to Find in first edition. History of Texas Schoolboy Football. The definitive history of Texas' favorite sport.)
  
• Next Year's Champions : The Story of the Dallas Cowboys (Steve Perkins, 1969, Inscribed and Signed 1st edition)

• My Wide World (Jim McKay, 1973 Stated First Printing.  Inscribed / Signed by the Author.  From the host of ABC's Wide World of Sports. Jim McKay covered more than 100 different sports in 35 countries. In this book, he tells of the summer of 1972, including the Indianapolis 500, the U.S. Open and British Open, Cathy Rigby's slip on the balance beam and the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games, and much more.) 

Business (CLICK HERE to see book details and pics in this category)

• Retail Selling (Helen Norton, 1919 1st Edition - a most interesting book about retailing and customer service almost 100 years ago)

• Embrittlement of Metals (B. R. Queneau & G. A. Ratz, Signed by both authors, 1956 1st Edition)

• Odd Numbers (Herbert McKay,  1940 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. Odd and interesting analysis of the sheer beauty and order of mathematics and how it applies, unseen, to our daily lives.)

• The Canadians of Old ( Philippe Aubert De Gaspe, Translated by Charles Roberts, 1897. A French Canadian classic, it is a romantic historical novel set in Canada at the time of the British conquest (1760). A classic example of the 19th century French-Canadian novel.

• The Ways of Woman (Ida Tarbell, 1915. A series of essays offering opinions and ideas on the question: "What is the relation to society and the future of these common pursuits of the woman?" --- from a 1915 perspective of course)

• Steel Square Pocket Book (Dwight Stoddard, 1937 revised edition. "A practical handy reference book illustrating and describing the best methods of using the carpenter's steel square")

• German Southeast in Exquisite Pictures - The Blue Book (pub. by Karl Langewiesche, 1937. The Austrian countries, German areas of Bohemia, to Transylvania and some language islands.)

• Flying Saucers, Fact or Fiction? (Max Miller, 1957 soft cover. "Twelve Year Research of UFO's in our skies revealed by the top scientists, astronomers, air force personnel and technical observers.")

• Opera and Ballet Murals  (James Seeman Studios, One of a kind 1965 catalog from famous decorating studio. See listing for full description)

• Close To You (The Carpenters, Sheet Music, 1963)