Search Results: Old West from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Austin, TX: H. P. N. Gammell and Co. Publishers, 1892. First edition. Hardcover, full cloth. Good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. "Printed and Bound/ by/ Eugene Von Boeckmann/ Austin Texas". Rebound in Light grey cloth with gilt lettering on a red leather label at spine. Pages browned as usual, but with very few small tears at edges and no major flaking. Includes the "Young Explorers", 253 p. w/list of the Men under Fannin at Goliad at end. A memoir of sort, detailing the Fanin expedition, the Battle of Coleto, the surrender and massacre of Fannin's command, and the author's escape. The author then details his memoir, in a partly fictionalized way, of his return to Kentucky, then return to Texas, visit to the Alamo, and his adventures involving the wilderness and Native Americans. Howes D603.

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1940. First edition. Cloth. Good octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing along edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of panels. Slight twist to spine. Scuffing to covers with browning along edges. Page edges are browned and lightly foxed. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Stain on page 191. 394 pages with illustrations, footnotes, glossary, and index.