Search Results: Authors starting with B from The Wright Collection

Tucson: Westernlore, 1997. D.j., 279 pp., photos, index. SIGNED. Ltd. 750c. Fine condition. A narrative of life and struggles in Tombstone, Arizona, during its turbulent years.. 1st.. Red Leatherette. Fine/Fine.

Austin: TSHA, 1991. D.j., 727 pp., index. BTB#5-reprint of the 1875 edition. A reference book on Texas history arranged into four sections: Historical, Biography, Miscellany & Statistical. Still a highly useful resource on early Texas. Baker settled in Austin in 1850. Still in shrink wrap.. As New/As New.

Austin: TSHA, 1991. D.j., 727 pp., index. BTB#5-reprint of the 1875 edition. A reference book on Texas history arranged into four sections: Historical, Biography, Miscellany & Statistical. Still a highly useful resource on early Texas. Baker settled in Austin in 1850. Still in shrink wrap.. As New/As New.

Austin: TSHA, 1991. D.j., 727 pp., index. BTB#5-reprint of the 1875 edition. A reference book on Texas history arranged into four sections: Historical, Biography, Miscellany & Statistical. Still a highly useful resource on early Texas. Baker settled in Austin in 1850. Still in shrink wrap.. As New/As New.

Austin: TSHA, 1991. D.j., 727 pp., index. BTB#5-reprint of the 1875 edition. A reference book on Texas history arranged into four sections: Historical, Biography, Miscellany & Statistical. Still a highly useful resource on early Texas. Baker settled in Austin in 1850. Still in shrink wrap.. As New/As New.

Austin: TSHA, 1991. D.j., 727 pp., index. BTB#5-reprint of the 1875 edition. A reference book on Texas history arranged into four sections: Historical, Biography, Miscellany & Statistical. Still a highly useful resource on early Texas. Baker settled in Austin in 1850. Still in shrink wrap.. As New/As New.

N. Y.: Coward-McCann, 1942. D.j. (tattered, repaired), 508 pp., endpaper maps. Bookplate. A fascinating story of the years preceding the Texas Revolution.. 1st.. Cloth. Very Good/Good.

Philadelphia: William S. And Alfred Martien, 1858. Cloth (very worn on spine ends & edges, badly spotted), 560 pp., frontis. Bookplate; pp. 361-364 badly stained. Presentation copy by the author. Life of Rev. Daniel Baker, a Presbyterian minister, who first came to Texas in 1840. He returned to the U.S. and then came back to Texas in 1848 as pastor of theFirst Presbyterian Church in Galveston. He organized the formation of Austin College in Huntsville in 1849 & became its president in 1853 until 1857, dying shortly thereafter.. 1st.. Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Coll. Sta.: Intaglio Press, 1987. Stiff pictorial paper covers, 112 pp., photos, index. A history of the city with many early photos from pp. 66 to pp. 100.. 1st.. Stiff Paper Covers. Fine/None.

Coll. Sta.: Intaglio Press, 1987. Stiff pictorial paper covers, 112 pp., photos, index. A history of the city with many early photos from pp. 66 to pp. 100.. 1st.. Stiff Paper Covers. Very Good/None.

Coll. Sta.: Intaglio Press, 1987. Stiff pictorial paper covers, 112 pp., photos, index. A history of the city with many early photos from pp. 66 to pp. 100.. 1st.. Stiff Paper Covers. Fine/None.

Bryan: Lone Wolf Press, 1997. 48 pp. Small. Reprint of rare cattle item, a Merrill Aristocrat, first pub. in 1883. #72/100 #ed copies. New preface by David Dary.. Wrs.. Fine.

Nashville: Cokesbury Book Store, 1925. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering & bust of Austin on front cover, 551 pp. (untrimmed), illus., folding & double-page maps, index. Gift inscription on fly. Basic Tx Bks #7(A) - "..the most praised of all Texas biographies. One of the greatest contributions to our understanding of Texas." A very nice copy.. 1st.. Cloth. Near Fine.

Austin: TSHA, 1971. 357 pp., illus., list of documents. Unusual mylar d.j. with reverse printing. Vol. 1. Vol. 2 published in 1973. Designed by William Holman. Hundreds of on-the-scene reports by French agents and related documents afford a vast store of Texana & an essential tool for research. Basic Tx. Bks #9. 1st.. Fine/Fine.

Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1968. 44 pp., bibliography. Southwest Writers Series #14. A short biography of Conrad Richter. . 1st.. Stiff Wrs.. Fine.

New York: Hill & Wang, 2000. D.j., 287 pp., photos, index. The examination of the trial of Captain Andrew Geddes at Fort Stockton in West Texas charged with conduct unbecoming a gentleman after he accused another officer of incest with his daughter. General William Tecumseh Sherman determined to have Geddes punished for his alleged crime.. 1st.. Cloth & Boards. Fine/Fine.

Austin: TSHA, 1961. Creme cloth w/black lettering, 34 pp., frontis. Only three copies known of the original 1885 edition. Rumored unsafe to own in Gainesville after the Civil War. One of two eyewitness accounts of the hanging of Union sympathizers in 1862. Very nice reprint of the rare first with new preface.. 1st. Of This Ed.. Cloth. Fine.

Austin: TSHA, 1961. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering, wrs. bound in, 34 pp., frontis. Only three copies known of the original 1885 edition. Rumored unsafe to own in Gainesville after the Civil War. One of two eyewitness accounts of the hanging of Union sympathizers in 1862. Very nice reprint of the rare first with new preface.. 1st. Of This Ed.. Cloth. Fine.

Houston: Frontier Press, 1958. Cloth spine & pictorial boards, 13.75" x 20.5", (76) unnum. pp. Bookplate of Dr. Richard C. Marohn. Lower corners bumped. Containing more than 1000 biographical entries with over 600 rare photos of the most famous sheriffs, outlaws, marshals, and celebrated personalities in the history of the western frontier. Oblong. Guns # 147. . 1st.. Dec. Brds. Very Good +.

N. Y.: Peter Smith, 1950. Blue cloth, 263 pp., illus., index. Reprint of the 1930 edition. No d.j. as issued. Very nice copy.. 1st. Of This Ed.. Cloth. Very Good/No D.j. Issued.