Search Results: Texana from 64 Books

VG condition hardcover, lots of writing on endpapers, rubbed edges and corners, 270 pp.

Near fine condition hardcover, name written on front pastedown else clean and unmarked. 1981 yearbook with color and b&w photos, 224 pp.

Very good condition quarto hardcover, text appears unmarked. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, 216 pp.

Near fine condition quarto hardcover, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with many color photographs, 120 pp.

Five 2001 issues of Texas Knights magazine, the official publication of the Texas Chess Association. Very good to near fine condition stapled wraps softcovers with subscription labels, 20-32 pp each. Many annotated games in algebraic notation, tournament reports, black and white photographs and diagrams, etc.

Five 2002 issues of Texas Knights magazine, the official publication of the Texas Chess Association. Very good to near fine condition stapled wraps softcovers with subscription labels, 20-28 pp each. Many annotated games in algebraic notation, tournament reports, black and white photographs and diagrams, etc.

Near fine condition quarto hardcover, clean and unmarked. Color and b&w photos, 193 pp.

Fine condition hardcover in clear mylar dustjacket, 1967 first edition.

VG- condition quarto hardcover no dustjacket as issued. Slightly soiled edges and boards, with a small stain on the bottom edge.
Has the signature of Jack Jackson (Jaxon) on the ffep, along with a laid-in blank page with the letterhead of The Rip Off Review of Western Culture. Jaxon was a co-founder of Rip Off Press, so this book is possibly from his personal library.
An outstandingly well-illustrated tribute to 20th century comic art capturing the insights of ten leading international authorities on the subject. The text is in English, German, and French. Profusely illustrated, with color foldout sections.

VG- condition softcover with rounded and curled corners, a few pages creased, spine uncreased. Updated 2005 edition with new postscript and 16 pages of black and white photographs, 269 pp. On April 20, 1998, Jan Reid was shot during a robbery in Mexico City, where he had gone to watch his friend, the boxer Jesus Chavez, fight. In The Bullet Meant for Me, Reid powerfully recounts his ordeal, the long chain of life events that brought him to that fateful attack, and his struggle to regain the ability to walk and to be a full partner in a deeply satisfying marriage. Re-examining the whole trajectory of his life, Reid questions how much the Texan ideal of manhood shaped his identity, including his love for boxing and participation in the sport. He meditates on male friendship as he tells the story of his close relationship with Chavez, whose career and personal travails Reid details with empathy and insight. And he describes his long months in physical therapy, during which he drew on the… Read More

From the library of Jack Jackson, the author of Manuscript Maps Concerning the Gulf Coast, Texas, and the Southwest (1519-1836); VG- condition hardcover with foxing on edges in VG condition dustjacket. Handwritten notes by Jackson in text. The Texas coast remained for a long time one of the least-known stretches of the American Atlantic littoral, and Galveston Bay, the coast's most prominent feature, was not even shown by commercial mapmakers until 1799. The extensive cartographic collection of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston documents the development of cartography for this region. The Rosenberg holds maps that show Galveston Bay from 1725 on, as well as the rest of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and adjacent coasts. Its maps illustrate European exploration of the New World during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of Texas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This detailed guide to the important cartographic collection at the… Read More

VG condition softcover, clean and unmarked.
1986 collection of comic strips originally printed in the Daily Texan newspaper, 118 pp.

Signed on the title page by the author, near fine condition softcover, 352 pp.

Signed by the author on the title page. VG+ condition softcover. "Hardboiled, but hot as a door knob after a nuclear blast. Tim Bryant's work is blessed not only with originality, but with a kind of madness that makes it one of a kind and as special and surprising as a one eyed, three hundred pound toad with a picnic basket. I love this guy's stuff. Seems to me, his success is assured." -- Joe R. Lansdale. Part TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and part UGETSU, Bryant's DUTCH CURRIDGE examines the life of early 1950s Fort Worth from the bottom up. Alvis Curridge is an ex-employee of the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department. When he isn't found at Peechie Keen's Bar & Kanteen, drinking and swapping stories with buddies, he is busy trying to Keep things in line around Cowtown. Even if that means occasionally tangling with his former boss. In his spare time, he enjoys taking in the local music scene. He likes western swing and jazz music almost as much as he likes Ruthie Nell, the spunky writer for the Fort… Read More

Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket, first edition full number line, signed by the author with "Congratulations" on the title page, 320 pp. "Famous Writers I Have Known is the engaging story of an ingenious con-man who enters the world of Creative Writing with a mixture of innocence, nerve and talent. James Magnuson creates a character both cunning and warmhearted. He describes the Texan landscape with a loving and painterly eye, and he re-creates the world of writers and would-be writers with wit and knowledge and dark laughter." -Colm Tóibín

Near fine condition quarto softcover with a slight bump on front cover near spine, clean and unmarked, 176 pp.

VG condition softcover, slightly soiled fore-edge, else clean and unmarked, uncreased spine, 188 pp.
Malcolm Beck is known throughout the country as a leading authority and practitioner in the field of organic growing. Widely sought-after as a speaker on the subject, Beck's home-spun approach to farming and gardening is based on the belief that if you work with nature, nature will reward your efforts.

Signed on the title page by the author and inscribed by the author on the dedication page. VG condition softcover with corner creases on covers, 135 pp.
On June 23, 2011 a national reporter called Glen Maxey, the first and only openly gay state legislator in the history of Texas. Rick Perry was making noises about running for president, and the reporter asked about rumors that Perry possibly may have had homosexual sex. Glen had heard the rumors before but never investigated them. Now curious, Glen sent out messages to his wide network of gay and political contacts. Within hours, he received astonishing information from multiple sources. For the next five months, Glen's life was consumed with investigating the rumors and stories about Perry. Did Rick Perry have sex with men? Read this remarkable book and decide for yourself.

Near fine condition quarto softcover, light corner wear, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs, french folds, 168 pp.

Inscribed, signed and dated by Gary Cartwright on the title page. First edition, full number line.

Beginning with the candid admission, "Considering my raucous lifestyle and unrestricted appetites, nobody deserved a heart attack more than me," Cartwright takes readers back to his days as a young newspaper reporter in Texas, where the habits that nearly killed him were formed. For decades, Cartwright worked as a journalist, screenwriter and novelist, founding with writer Bud Shrake the "Mad Dogs," which recruited the likes of actors Howard Hesseman and Dennis Hopper and the woman who would be the governor of Texas, Ann Richards (who contributes a foreword here). After two divorces, Cartwright was still not deterred from his steady diet of alcohol, tobacco, drugs or spicy, fat-laden foods, while "one by one," as he recalls, "my old pals were hitting the wall." While several of Cartwright's friends suffered and died from emphysema, throat cancer, diabetes and liver damage, Richards and… Read More