Search Results: Titles starting with I from Maggie Lambeth

Edinburg, Tx: Images for Conservation Fund, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DJ./fine. 168pp., full page color plates representing the work of 17 of the world's finest nature photographers on 17 landowners hill country property to compete in the world's riches photographic tournament $160,000.00 shared by the photographer and landowner with the first grand prize of $64,000.00 being unprecedented. Gilt-embossed 4to forest green cloth, green endsheets, glossy full color DJ in archival mylar cover. Elevating land stewardship to paramount importance the ICF's purpose is to educte landowners and phtographers about the value of private lands photography, to stimulate the demand for private lands as a destination for nature photographers and to encourage the preservation natural habitat, creating income from nature's diversity. The Texas Hill Country was selected because of its natural beauty and biodiversity. The region is susceptible to drought, fires, and floods, making ranching income… Read More

Austin: TSHA, 1995. 1st trade edition. Hardcover. Fine /fine. 8 color maps, 272pp., index, biblio, El Alamo settlement at the time had about 500 population. This is the first English translation of the Pedro de Rivera diary of 1727 and the first publication of the heretofore-unknown Marqués de Rubí Diary of 1767. Written during military inspections of New Spain's far northern frontier, both documents are crucial for scholars and students of the Spanish presence in Texas. Annotated by William Foster. Illustrated with early maps. Contains many references to early ranching.

Austin: UTP, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. Paintings by Michael Frary, foreword by John Palmer Leeper, 112pp., color plates, folio. Signed copy by the author

College Station: A&M, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. SIGNED, dedicated to the memory of author Loula Grace Erdman, who died before finishing the text, 40pp. introduction by the artist and 63 full page color plates, 112pp., oblong folio. Author's signature on free front endpaper, no other names. Frary's work has been exhibited in the National Gallery of Art in Wa., D.C. his paintings are in public collections that include the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, McNay Art Institute of San Antonio, etc.

Austin: Encino Press, 1968. reprint. Hardcover. FINE /fine. SIGNED in brown ink and legible "Lr McMurtry" on the free front endsheet, tan endpapers, 4th printing with the letter C on c.r. page. Price unclipped grey DJ in mylar. Black spine titles on brown cloth. Copy of newspaper clipping with author's photo, extracted from Dec. 8, 1968 Dallas Morning News. A lengthy review by Lon Tinkle. "Though what follows is not a single essay, it is, I believe, continuous. My vision of existence is based almost entirely upon a prolonged scrutiny of West Texas and is probably too dry and flat...the attitude in the following pages belongs to me, not to my subject." - From the author's preface. WHALEY 38. Nice to have this classic in such fine condition as well as signed.

Seagraves: Pioneer,, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine /very good. SIGNED by the author on c.r. page. no other names. Covers the period from 1870-1880, photos, 116pp., biblio, index, 8 maps, yellow pictorial cloth, yellow dust jacket with panoramic photograph of buffalo herd, in archival mylar cover with numbers written on the lower panel. Marcy's Camp in Scurry County & Snyder, with chapters on Battle of Adobe Walls, Quanah Parker, General Nelson A. Miles, buffalo hunt, etc.

Chronicle, 1993. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 224pp., index, bibliography, sources. Full color dust jacket price unclipped, dark green endpapers, 100s of photographs Highlights the work of Gustav Stickley, L & J.G. Stickley, Charles Voysey, Greene & Greene, George Ohr, Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rohlfs, among others

University of Ca., 1995. First ed in paperback. FINE.. Various contributors including Becky Duval Reese, Director El Paso Museum of Art. 304pp., 277 color and b/w plates and many early photographs. 4to glossy color wraps. Chapter VII - Lone Star Spirits by Susan Landauer with Becky Duval Reese covers the work of Florence McClung, Mary Bonner, Eugenie Etienette, Coreen Spellman, Kathleen Blackshear, May Schow and many others.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1850s. Original. Flat. VERY GOOD. . Black and white steel engraving by C.K. Burt. Full sheet 9 x 12 inches extracted from larger volume. Printed image 6 x 7 1/2 inches, Pl. 16. Faint foxing. Extracted from larger volume. Shows ten Native Americans lifting a covered body onto a burial platform. Probably extracted from Mary Eastman' s book The American Aboriginal Portfolio (1853). Captain Seth Eastman was a career army officer and talented artist, widely appreciated today for his ethnographic detail. He set out to preserve a visual record of Indian life which was undergoing rapid change. See Howes H-17; Sabin 21682

Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN FINE DJ./fine. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, otherwise a fine bright copy in fine price unclipped dust jacket with mylar cover. 82 photographic plates in color and b/w on coated stock, 278pp., index, bibliography, appendix of places mentioned and list of Indian and Spanish terms. Folding maps. Printed orange linen. A village-by-village account of native costume, textiles, pottery and baskets with many detailed illustrations, including the meaning of the designs which the Indians may have forgotten long ago and the part that designs play in ceremonies.

San Angelo: Talley Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. SIGNED with author's presentation, 189pp., 5 illus., 4to tan leatherette, two color dust jacket in mylar cover. Presents a viewpoint long-lost to the modern reader. Kelton offers the reporting of news about the Indian in local newspapers from the 1840's to the 1890's. Some newspapers were even-handed in publishing Indian news. They were in the minority. The news reported from the rangers, forts & military personnel, to cities, towns and coummunity news with a main focus on Texas, but also information on New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma and other western states. Rare especially when signed.

Woodville, Tx: Dogwood Press, N.d. (1922). Facsimile. wraps. VERY GOOD. Edited with an Inroduction by Annie Heloise Abel. Notes, Texas Indians, 102(3)p. last 14pp. bound-upside-down to distinguish it from the rest of the text. Printed red wraps Originally published by the New York Museum of th American Indian, Heye Foundation and part of a series edited by F. W. Hodgeon American Aborigines.

Dallas, Tx: Taylor Publishing, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE. 783pp., index, 100s of photographs, 4to maroon leatherette, embossed upper board, silver spine titles. No names, no writing. Many of these families are of Native American descent. Rare.

Unknown, 1867. Original. Flat. FINE.. Wood engraving, image size 4 x 6 inches. Kelsey & Robinson Fig. 5.148 pg. 150: "In a canyon setting, a band of Apache Indians are on the ground attempting to read Harper's Weekly and other newspapers, the author comments that after the Apaches stole the San Antonio mail and killed the driver. "

San Antonio : Wings Press, 2007. First Edition. FINE. Introduction by Professor Louis Mendoza, Dept. of Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota. 82pp., color pictorial wraps. A collection of poems, most written in the late 1970s and 1980s. Texas Chicano poet.

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. ex-library binding. 460pp., notes, biblio, photos, oblong folio, orange buckram, dj. During this period Texas went from the Victorian era to its opposite the arts and crafts movement. Description of 296 photographs of interior views of specific homes between 1878 & 1920 and the things Texans bought and treasured. Appendix 2 Listing by date, structure, location, room and figure number. Some of the houses included are Edward Steves, San Antonio; Francis Newberry and Julia Macy Holbrook, El Paso; Jim Ned Ranch near Coleman; Thomas Newton Fleming, Victoria; Gustav Duerler, San Antonio; Alexander Rossy, San Antonio; many others.

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1958. Third Edition. FINE/very good. Illus. by E.M. Schiwetz, map endpapers 226pp., index, tan cloth, gilt titles, gilt brands to upper board, no names, no writing, dj price unclipped in archival mylar cover.

Fort Worth: Amon Carter, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. FINE/fine. 208pp., 132 color and b/w illus. are described, gilt titles on 4to brown silk cloth. Published by the Amon Carter to coincide with an exhibition by the same name. JANE MYERS is Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. She is the author and coauthor of several publications, including George Bellows: The Artist and His Liothographs (1998). The Fort Worth Circle was known as Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists, their work wrote art critic Dave Kickey, represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the western United States. This book represents their output during the 1940s. Some of these artists were Kelly Fearing, Bror Utter, Dickson Reeder, Veronica Helfensteller, Bill Bomar, Blanche McVeigh and Marjorie Johnson.

Very glean bright copy, clean endpapers, no names, no writing. Illustrated by the author. Recipes translated and adapted by Narcissa Chamberalin, White marbled boards, spine age-toned, modest surface soil and age-tone.
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Houston, Tx: Bayou Bend Collection, 2014. First Edition. Soft Cover. FINE.. 150pp., 30 paintings, 20 color photos, 50 b&w images, 25 drawings and prints, 4 maps, 9 tables. Includes five papers presented at the fourth Biennial David B. Warren Symposium: "American Material Culture and the Texas Experience." One of which was The Search for Early Texas Silversmiths by D. Jack Davis; plus Thomas Allen's Sketches and Paintings of Texas, 1877-1879 by Heather Elizabeth White.