from Maggie Lambeth

Columbus, OH: Long's College Book Co, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE. A facsimile of the original 1874 edition. Illustrated, 427pp., plus many old full page advertisements. Gilt-embossed decorative longhorn to upper board, gilt decorative spine titles. One of only ten copies bound in full crimson leather. Clear mylar dj. Promotional card laid-in. One of the "big four" cattle books,… Read more

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1888. Original. VERY GOOD. Full sheet extracted from larger volume, wood engraving with views of 1. Corraling Beef Steers for Market 2. In Camp with a "round-up": Supper-time. From photos by Kirkland, Cheyenne. News story on verso. One bottom margin stain. Age tone.

Austin: UTP, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/good. SIGNED by the author on free front end sheet. Photos, 279pp., index, bibliography, good DJ in archival mylar cover. Big ranching in Dimmit, San Patricio and Aransas Counties on the Gulf Coast. Number 5 M.K. Brown Range Life Series.

Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. Limited edition of 700 copies, design and typography by Carl Hertzog. Range Life Series Editorship of J. Frank Dobie, introduction by John A. Lomax, drawings by Tom Lea. 3 color dj in mylar cover, illustrated endpapers by Lea, brown saddle on buckskin colored cloth. Volume two in the Range… Read more

NY: Harper Bros., 1953 (1948). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. 216pp., green cloth backed boards. DJ in archival mylar with edge wear. The story of Ed "Fat" Alford cowhand from Ozona and Christoval about whom Gipson says in his foreword -"By Hollywood standards, Fat is a far cry from being a typical cowhand...it is very doubtful… Read more

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DJ. Illus. by Lorence Bjorklund, price clipped DJ tiny tears at crown and in archival mylar cover. Bookplate illus. by Charles M. Russell. SIX SCORE 50.

New Braunfels: Book Farm, 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. FINE.. Preface, 402pp., index of owners, arranged by counties, plus 50pp. of interesting local advertisements. Printed in a limited edition for the Book Farm in New Braunfels by Edwards Bros. Original edition was published in San Antoniio.1865. This is the Facsimile, Heartman's Historical Series No. 77. Circa 1950. Bump at head… Read more

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. Full page drawings by Bill Leftwich. 130pp., 4to, price unclipped dj with photos of author and artist on back panel. Not in Guns or Herd. In 1949 The People resisted American attempts to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease. The “cow killers” were the gringos of the Aftosa Commission… Read more

Pleasanton, Tx: Zabava Printing - The Brush Country Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. 172pp., red cloth, gilt titles. Experiences during late 1800s and early 1900s with ranching in Live Oak County, including a crooked sheriff; Blackstone and Slaughter Ranch, the Staked Plains raising horses on the Bledsoe Ranch.

Quanah: Nortex, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN VERY GOOD DJ.. Photos, 131pp. , dj age-toned, no names. Ranching when there were few fences other than the division of the Shoe Bars and the F Ranch and between Matadors and Mill Irons. Ranching in Motley County before 1920 includes J.A. Ranch and Quitaque, told by Owens daughter.

Lubbock: West Texas Museum Assn., 1969. First Edition. Wraps. Ex-Library. Full issue, 79pp., illus.,notes, photo port. of G. Herbert Aldous at Elm Creek valley, Collingsworth County. Includes The National Trail Issue and the Decline of Cattle Trailing by Jimmy Skaggs with information on the Matador Ranch; G. Herbert Aldous: An English Immigrant in the Texas Panhandle and A… Read more

NY: Carrick & Evans, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. Illustrated by F. Miller, 433pp., index, map endpapers showing the chief herd routes. Fore-edge spots. HERD 2462. 44&44 More: 29. Dykes - KID 269.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1936. First Edition. Soft Cover. VERY GOOD. . 74th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document 199. 620 pages with maps, charts and illustrations. Original printed green wraps. Pon stamp in several places, black cloth spine. One of the documents most vital to modern ranching, marking the first great wave of activity by the Soil… Read more

1931. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. Each volume contains four issues in original wraps bound-in blue cloth for each year (33 years, 33 consecquative volumes) General index. Gilt-stamped spines. 132 issues in all bound-in 33 volumes. About half with spotted loss of color to the spines. Color wraps and interiors are all fine and appear unread. These are the original… Read more