Search Results: Authors starting with L from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

HOW PANCHO VILLA DIED
[Pancho Villa] Elías L Torres. Como Murió Pancho Villa. México: El Libro Español. 1955. Color pictorial wraps. 17.8 cm. 188 [index][2][1] pp. Stated limitation of 2000 copies. Age toning, a few edge chips else very good.
OCLC shows 12 holdings (Cornell; NY Pub. Lib.; Stanford; UC-Berkeley; UC-Irving; LOC; So. Ill. Univ.; Univ. Pitt.; UT-Austin; UT-SA; & Flinders Univ.) The author negotiated the pacification of Francisco Villa. Conversations with Villa after he had been settled on the Hacienda of Canutillo and a copy of the memoirs Villa was dictating to his secretary were the principle sources for Torres' writings on Villa, originally published in the 1930s. "Here is Villa in all his glory and in all his violence … [These new editions include] Torres' description of his role in the negotiations leading to the pacification of Villa, represents historical material of the eyewitness variety." – Stanley Ross, Book Review in Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 38.… Read More

THE HEAD OF PANCHO VILLA
Pancho Villa] Elías L Torres. La Cabeza de Pancho Villa. México: El Libro Español. 1963. Color pictorial wraps. 17.5 cm. 126 [index][1][ad][2][1] pp. Stated limitation of 200 copies (perhaps a typo for 2000?) Cover wear, corner bumps, else very good.
OCLC shows 9 holdings (San Diego St.; UC-N. Reg. Lib.; Univ. NM; Univ. Pitt.; UT-Arlington; UT-Austin; UTEP; Col. De Mexico & Univ. Monterrey). The author negotiated the pacification of Francisco Villa. Conversations with Villa after he had been settled on the Hacienda of Canutillo and a copy of the memoirs Villa was dictating to his secretary were the principle sources for Torres' writings on Villa, originally published in the 1930s. "Here is Villa in all his glory and in all his violence … [These new editions include] Torres' description of his role in the negotiations leading to the pacification of Villa, represents historical material of the eyewitness variety." – Stanley Ross, Book Review in Hispanic American… Read More

LIFE & EXPLOITS OF PANCHO VILLA
[Pancho Villa] Elías L Torres. Vida y Hazañas de Pancho Villa. México: El Libro Español. 1962. Color pictorial wraps. 17 cm. 194 [index][1] pp. Stated limitation of 2000 copies. Very good.
OCLC shows 12 holdings (Ariz. St. Univ.; Cal. St. Univ.-Sacramento; Stanford; UC-Reg. Lib.; UC-Sant Barbara; Harvard; Univ. Mo.-Columbia; UTEP; Univ. Calgary; Ibero-AM. Instit.; Col. De Mexico & Biblio. Nac. Mexico). The author negotiated the pacification of Francisco Villa. Conversations with Villa after he had been settled on the Hacienda of Canutillo and a copy of the memoirs Villa was dictating to his secretary were the principle sources for Torres' writings on Villa, originally published in the 1930s. "Here is Villa in all his glory and in all his violence … [These new editions include] Torres' description of his role in the negotiations leading to the pacification of Villa, represents historical material of the eyewitness variety." – Stanley Ross, Book Review in… Read More

[Women] Bird, Isabella L A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: Putnam's. 1894. Later edition. Brown cloth with gilt illustration. 20 cm. Plates. 296 pp. Two library stickers on front endpaper and front free endpaper. No spine markings. Light foxing. Very good. Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her trek through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms. Bird. She has the distinction of being the first woman to become a member of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.

[California] S. Lang? Autograph letter, signed. San Francisco, California. June 16, 1852. To his wife. One sheet folded into four leaves. Some 450 words, around 350 on the voyage.
Describes his trip across Panama, including being thrown off his mule, to the amusement of the natives. Also a woman who was a passenger had her two infants being carried by Indian women and they were separated during a torrential downpour. When they had not come to Panama City by nine p.m. they went searching for them and found them at 4 a.m., some 10 miles away "asleep on the bodies of their natives." They stopped to load coal in Acapulco. The passage took 25 days, but he arrived in good health, because until they were within three day of arrival "one might imagine him left on the Hudson Bay River so very smooth was the sea." Nice, if relatively brief, first-hand account of an 1854 steamship voyage to San Francisco.

TOM LEA COMMEMORATIVE VOLUME
Lea, Tom. A Dog's Life. A Personal Record. Dallas: Somesuch Press. 2001. Maroon cloth spine with gilt. Patterned boards with printed label. Limited edition. 6.5 x 4.5 in. Illustrated. Publisher's note by Stanley Marcus. 39 pp.
One of an edition of 250 copies. Frontispiece illustration by Lea. A previously unpublished Tom Lea story, printed by Stanley Marcus as a tribute after Lea's death. Printed by Patrick Reagh and bound by Marina Blau. Signed and numbered by the printer. A beautiful production, long out of print and much sought.

[Fine Printing] Lea, Tom. Calendar of the Twelve Travelers through the Pass of the North. El Paso: Carl Hertzog. 1946. Limited edition. Illustrations by Tom Lea. [38] pp. Number 294 of 365 copies signed by Lea and with an extra inscription. Book has two small smudges on the first two pages, else near fine. Dust jacket is near fine. Hard to find in this condition, an exceptional copy.
Hinshaw 23G. Lowman Printer at the Pass 38 "Regarded by many as the greatest of all the Lea-Hertzog collaborations." – Lowman. This copy inscribed to Tom Prideaux "this small incentive to become, also, a Traveler to the Pass of the North. T. L. 5 March 1947." Prideaux was a senior editor of Life Magazine who worked with Lea when he was a war artist for Life. Lowman recounts that Hertzog wrote to his friend Dr. Pat Nixon: "My New York friend (55 years dealer in Americana) says we will live to see it sell for $100 – probably kidding me." – Lowman,
Printer at the Pass p. 21.

[Women] [Suffrage] Vote on the Woman Suffrage Ballot First
and be sure you vote Yes. [Fargo, North Dakota?] N. D. Votes for Women League. [Circa 1914] Small broadside. 15 x 22.5 cm. Near fine.
OCLC shows no holdings for this item, although the papers of the N. D. Votes for Women league are at North Dakota State Univ. Suffragists were unable to secure the right of women to vote in North Dakota in several early efforts. They continued to hold conventions, raise awareness, and form organizations. From 1901 to 1911, every session of the state legislature submitted a women's suffrage bill for consideration. The arrival of Sylvia Pankhurst a noted English suffragist, who visited Fargo, N.D. in February of 1912 stimulated the creation of more groups, including the statewide Votes for Women League. In 1914, there was a voter referendum on women's suffrage. The wording of the state constitution meant that the bill would pass only if the majority of the votes cast at that election were "yes" votes. Ballots… Read More

[Railroad][Mexico] Plumb, Eduardo Lee.
Ferrocarril Internacional.
Lithographed map. 21 x 27 cm. With promotional text in Spanish. Dated at end: México, abril de 1872. Includes map of portions of the United States and Mexico showing railroads from New York to Texas and proposed railroad route from Texas through Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and south to Mexico City.
OCLC shows 5 holdings (Newberry; Harvard; Mus. NM; SMU & UT-Arlington). A project to extend a railroad from Texas to Mexico. This is a promotional urging Mexico to approve the route which was to connect the Texas lines with Mexico, then to Presidio and thence to either the Pacific or to the Gulf of Mexico.

EARLY MAP OF WEST GALVESTON ISLAND
[Texas] [Cartography] Map of Galveston Island Lots. Galveston, Texas: Clarke & Courts. [1879-1900?] Map 55.4 x 33.2 cm on sheet 60.5 x 38 cm. Map Surveyed by Robert Trimble and William Lindsey. Fold splits, edge splits, stains, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. Rosenberg Library has a copy. Rare Book Hub has no auction or catalog listings. Morrison's Nineteenth Century Texana has no listings. The Texas General Land office has no information on this map. William F. Lindsey, surveyor and founder of San Marcos, was born on May 17, 1801 in Jefferson County, Georgia. He became a farmer and gold prospector and moved to Texas in 1836. While prospecting in Texas, Lindsey met Robert Trimble, and the two of them eventually became the surveyors of Galveston Island. The Texas Secretary of the Treasury, under the authority of the Congress of the Republic of Texas, had the responsibility of selling individual lots of land. The treasury hired Lindsey and Trimble to survey the… Read More

[Civil War] Bill of Lading. [New York?]: [Cromwell's New-York & New Orleans Steamship Line] November 21, 1863. One sheet 16.5 x 29 cm partly printed document with manuscript inserts. Very good.
The Union forces in May 1863 captured the city of New Orleans. By this document $10,000 of United States Treasury Notes are being sent to the City, in all likelihood to purchase cotton or other goods from the captured port. See for example, the New York Times for September 1863 describing a shipment from New Orleans of cotton and accompanied by U.S. Treasury notes, since the Confederate Currency would no longer be valid, people would need to finance purchase and sales with U.S. financial instruments. Interestingly, in February 1863 Congress rejected a provision in the banking bill that would have made interest-bearing Treasury notes legal tender. An interesting look at the practical issues in carrying on commerce during the Civil War.

[Nebraska] Loring, George B. Agriculture. A Masterly Review of the Wealth, Resources and Possibilities of Nebraska. Omaha, NE.: Republican Book and Job Printing House. 1883. First edition. 21 cm. Gray printed wraps. 8 pp. Very good.
OCLC shows 16 holdings (Autry Mus.; Yale; BYU; Va. Tech.; TAMU; SMU; UT-Austin; OU; Univ. SD; LOC; Misouri Hist. Soc. U. South Dak.; U. Neb.-Kesrney; U. Neb.-Omaha; U. Kansas; & City Lincoln) Not in Adams, Herd
or Graff. Scarce. An abstract of an address by Dr. George B. Loring given as a tribute to Congressman Edward K. Valentine. Contains references to cattle production in Nebraska.